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Well said, Hannah. And we shall see the truth of that in what follows. Arapahoe, you have posed a very tough question, brother! This is the subject of much debate in theological circles. Some say it means "eternity" ... and others say it means "age" or "ages". All sides seem to be predisposed to their interpretation by their theological presuppositions. For example, depending on one's theological position you can translate εἰς ἡμέραν αἰῶνος ( eis hemeran aionos [please note that it is aionos—the masculine genitive form of the noun—not [I]aion ios—the masculine nominative form of the adjective]) which occurs in 2 Peter 3:18 as: "the day of the age" (Williams Literal Translation) which does not make a lot of sense to us; or "the day of eternity" (the NASB and the Darby translations) or "that eternal day" (the ISV translation) ... both of which latter two wordings at least make sense to us; or simply as "forever" (the KJV translation) which totally ignores the actual Greek wording and substitutes an interpretation of what the translators think was what was really meant by the idiom. The Greek words at the heart of this debate are αἰών ( aion - the noun) and αἰώνιος ( aionios - the adjective). Because the noun and the adjective are from the same root, it is argued that their meaning is essentially the same. And since the only way an adjective such as aionios can be used grammatically is to modify a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase, it cannot mean "age". For example, αἰώνιος ζωὴ ( aionios zoe) clearly has to mean "eternal life" because it would make no sense to say "age life". So, goes one argument, if the adjective ainios has to be translated "eternal", then the noun aion from which it comes has to be translated "eternity". Are you following me thus far? This is the fulcrum on which the argument of whether the Greek word aion means "eternity" or "age" swings. I have consulted some ancient Greek word studies to see if I can clarify any further but most of them do not even include this word! However, perhaps I can add just a little more background to help us move toward a correct understanding. But the argument that "if the adjective ainios has to be translated "eternal", then the noun aion from which it comes has to be translated "eternity" does not hold water. Adjectives typically stem from nouns (ie: the noun is conceived first and the adjectival form develops through later usage.) So since the adjective αἰώνιος ( aionios) stems from the noun αἰών ( aion), the fact that aionios means eternal cannot be used to deduce that aion means "eternity". However, we do have another place to look. The root of the noun aion is an obsolete primary Greek noun ἀεὶ ( aei) meaning "perpetually", "incessantly", "always", "ever". (Obsolete though it may be, it appears more than a half dozen times in the New Testament.) Now, if these be the meanings of the root aei, then it would not make sense for the noun derivative aion to necessarily mean "age". It is more likely to mean "eternity" or "forever" or some other expression of the concept of "always". Much credibility can be given to this argument from the fact that the adjective drawn from it means "eternal" or "everlasting". So, linguistically hammocked between aei and aionios, we apparently have a reasonably solid foundation for believing that the majority of verses that speak of the future and use the noun αἰών ( aion) are making a reference to "eternity". Note that I said "apparently" and "reasonably" solid foundation. The reason for my equivocation is that there are some places in the NT in which the noun aion is used in the plural. One occurence is in Ephesians 2:7— "That in the ages [αἰῶσιν - dative masculine plural noun] to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." The linguistic argument is that since "eternities" makes no sense "ages" has to be the correct translation. After all, by our definition of the word "eternity" there can only be one of them. Further, Colossians 1:26 says "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages [αἰώνων - genitive masculine plural noun] and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints." Again, using the logic above, it would make no sense to translate the noun aion as "eternities". Only "ages" would fit. Therefore, we are almost back where we started— lacking some firm rule by which to translate the word with certainty. After all, since there are places in the NT where the noun [I]aion[/] is used in the plural and therefore can NOT mean "eternity" (at least not according to the way we would understand the meaning of "eternity") it could only otherwise mean "age" or "ages". Now we need, at this point, to consider that perhaps we may be wrong in our conception of eternity. To us "eternity" is one endless time or space and therefore a plural "eternities" indeed makes no sense? But maybe it did to the Greeks. And when Paul wrote Ephesians 3:21, in the final phrase τοῦ αἰῶνος τῶν αἰώνων ( tou ainos ton ainon) was he thinking and meaning the "age of the ages" ... or "the eternity of the eternities"? That is something we have to at least consider. (BTW, the KJV does a terrible job here, as they have in other places, not even translating the words but substituting a paraphrase: "world without end" which wording in no way appears in any Greek manuscript.) Anyway, to the point, I do not think this line of pursuit would be productive because we have no corroborative literature that would indicate that the Greek culture conceived of "eternities" or, indeed, has a differing conception of eternity than do we. So, now you see why I said yours was a complicated question with a complicated answer. We appear to be back where we started. But now let me proceed to a conclusion. (I could have started with this, but I thought it important to allow you to see the various possible arguments.) I will now give a simple and accurate way to determine the meaning of the words. No, this is not Matt's wisdom. This is not my solution, it comes from Dr. Lawrence O. Richards. He is an eminent American theologian and a Greek scholar. And I love the way he explains it all! He takes a grammatical approach to this problem rather than an etymological one. And his method results in accurate translation and exposition. He writes: "The NT word aion retains the flavor of the OT Hebrew olam but has additional import. The noun aion, found some one hundred and two times in the NT, indicates a time of unspecified duration."OK, so that permits both the meaning of "ages" and "eternity". So which is correct? According to Richards both are. And he then gives us a means to determine which meaning belongs to the word in any given verse. In Greek, prepositions are extremely important in determining the proper meaning of words. So Richards goes on to give us the clue we need. He writes: "With a preposition like 'from' aion means 'from the beginning' or 'since the world began' (Acts 3:21; 5:18; John 9:32). With the preposition 'to' it is understood as 'forever' (Luke 1:33,55; Romans 1:25; 2 Corinthians 9:9)." What could be more elementary than that? That is the absolute simplest (indeed the only logical) way of determining the meaning of the word ... from its grammatical context. So, if you are studying and are confused on a given verse as to the proper meaning of aion simply go to a textual analysis reference for that verse and determine whether aion is in the genitive case following the preposition apo—in which case it means "from the beginning"; or whether it is in the accusative case following the preposition eis—in which case it means "eternity" or "forever". Outside of those two constructions it most likely means "age" or "ages". Anyway, bro, I know this has been tedious; but it is a worthwhile study in order to develop some confidence in the proper interpretation and meaning of Scripture and in order to be able to intelligently discuss it with others (as I have no doubt it will come up at some point in your future ministry). God bless. |
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THE AGES
The ages of time and the Prehistoric Angelic Conflict are skillfully defined by a dual meaning of the zodiac. The clock of ages in the heavens defines the ages of human history and pertinent ages before time began. The definition of the ages is necessary for a complete understanding of the mystery doctrine of the Church Age.
The Fulness of Time
Introduction
The Lord Jesus Christ came in the "fulness of time" (Galatians 4:4). That means the high point of human history, or so we think. We can't possibly know because we don't know the time of the end of human history. So how can we say that Jesus Christ came at the high point, or middle, of human history. We obviously don't know as much about the simple phrase, "fulness of time" as we think. So what does it mean?
To answer the question requires understanding time, which had a definite beginning, and understanding the plan of the ages. An age might be defined as a long period of time, but some of the ages include time and some do not. In order to understand the "fulness of time," we must understand the ages. But it will obviously be impossible to start from the beginning of eternity, which has no beginning; so we will just dive right into the middle and use an inductive approach to fan out fore and aft. In other words, we will start with the "fulness of time" and then go back and forward into eternity.
It turns out that the Bible contains the clock of the ages, which can be easily learned. Once the clock is understood, the panorama of not only human history, but the ages before and after can be understood. Although this might appear to be a magnanimous task, the subject is not all that complicated to explain in general terms. And the result will greatly enhance our understanding of who we are. We will achieve a systemic perspective that covers both time and eternity. Further, a new outline of the Bible will emerge, which will enable us to understand the mystery doctrine of the Church Age on a much grander scale.
Clock of Ages
First, to understand the ages, we need a clock. God already thought of that. On the fourth day of Creation (actually re-creation), he put the clock of the ages in the heavens (Genesis 1:14-19). The tick marks on the clock are the constellations. There are twelve constellations that are separated by about 30 degrees each that form the 360 degrees of the clock. The clock is the zodiac, which was fully understood by Adam. The knowledge about it was passed down in the form of the Star Gospel. However, along the way astrologers became more inclined to listen to the devil's lies than pay attention to Bible Doctrine. So astrology got a bad name. This is not about astrology as it is used today. The constellations are in the heavens, and they beg to be understood. Anyone who wants to understand the Plan of God, need merely look up. After that he is without excuse.  The zodiac begins with Virgo, the virgin, and goes counterclockwise to Leo, the lion of the tribe of Judah. Jesus Christ was born of a virgin in the First Advent, and He will return as the lion of the tribe of Judah at the Second Advent to conquer the enemies of Israel. The meanings of all the constellations are defined in the Star Gospel. Those definitions are all for time, however. It turns out that the constellations are also useful for measuring ages. They have been used for that ever since Adam.
Every year at the Spring Equinox (Vernal Equinox) throughout human history people have looked up to see what constellation they are under. They discovered that about every 2150 years the constellation overhead slipped backward (clockwise) to the next one. The tilt of the earth on its axis results in the cycle of the precession of the equinoxes where one complete cycle is 25,800 years. The Equinox point moves backward along the zodiac clock at a rate of about one degree in 72 years, or one 30 degree sign in about 2150 years. When a new constellation is overhead it is time to reset the clocks and calendars; otherwise, over time, Christmas would come in July. When the age of Pisces appeared, the calendars were reset to 1 AD. Granted, the calendars weren't corrected until 525 AD when they were corrected to begin counting at the birth of Christ, but the birth of Christ was also the beginning of Pisces.2
Now, since the beginning of time, there have only been four ages, and there is only one additional one scheduled in the Bible, which will be the Millennium. After the Millennium, time, which started with re-creation, will cease. The Millennium is the millennial reign of the Lord Jesus Christ, not the beginning of 2001. Furthermore, no one, not even the Son of God, knows when the Millennium will start. So, don't bother to get out the calculators.
Fulness of Time
Now, Jesus Christ came in the "fulness of time." What does that mean? We know that Jesus was born of a virgin about 3 BC.2 Whereas, our calendar begins in 1 AD, according to the best evidence, the star of Bethlehem did not appear that year. What made the event so important to the Magi, who were astrologers, was that it coincided with the beginning of a new age, the Age of Pisces. The birth of Jesus Christ coincided with the beginning of the Age of Pisces, the two fish, one pointing toward heaven and the other toward earth, which symbolized the propitiation of God and reconciliation of mankind to God through the offering of Jesus Christ on the Cross.
So, we know where Jesus Christ was born on the clock of time. And we also know that the zodiac begins with Virgo. It turns out that Pisces is directly opposite Virgo, which makes it half way round the zodiac. The dashed line drawn on the zodiac from Virgo to Pisces points to the middle of the clock, or the fulness of time. Now that is what the "fulness of time" means. It means not just the fulness of time in human history, but the fulness of time on the zodiac, which includes the section from Virgo to Cancer when time had not yet begun.
The "fulness of time" not only refers to human history, but it also refers to the ages before time began. What happened before time began? For one thing, the earth was packed in ice during the last ice age, which was about 8000 BC. Since there was no time, the date of the ice age cannot be stated with certainty. We also know that there was an Eternal Life Conference in which God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit planned the details and schedule of human history. God the Father was the author of the Plan. God the Son was announced as the Savior. And God the Holy Spirit would be the source of energy. Everything decided was compatible with the Decree of God whereby He knew all the knowable simultaneously. During the Eternal Life Conference, the theological outline of Infralapsarianism (which will be explained later) emerged.
How long the Eternal Life Conference took is not known, since time did not exist. However, the major topics that were covered are known because they occurred under the signs along the zodiac. First, there was Virgo. It was decided that the Messiah would be born of a virgin.
“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:14, NAS)
Next there was Leo. Messiah would rule the world as King, the lion of the tribe of Judah.
For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;
And the government will rest on His shoulders;
And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6, NAS)
Jesus Christ would be the Savior. Peace on earth means the doctrine of Reconciliation whereby there is peace with God when man is reconciled to God and God is propitiated. Then there was Cancer, the crab, which symbolizes eternal security.
and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. (John 10:28, NAS)
Prehistoric Angelic Conflict
But why was the Eternal Life Conference necessary in the first place? Was it simply because God wanted to bring sons into glory? That was obviously part of the answer.
For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings. (Hebrews 2:10, NAS)
However, the other reason is that Satan had fallen when he sinned with arrogant ambition and tried to be like the Most High. Satan had led a third of the angels in Heaven to rebel with him. There had been a prehistoric angelic conflict followed by a trial in which Satan was judged and sentenced to the Lake of Fire. Satan had appealed the decision, and God had accepted the appeal. Human history was created to provide witnesses for the appeal trial.
That's how Adam and Eve wound up under Gemini. Gemini refers to two of a kind, which symbolizes a witness, as in court. The two people were Adam and 'Ishah, who weren't twins, but were two homo sapiens. They were the first two witnesses in the appeal trial.
Now, Satan's fall is symbolized by Capricorn, the goat. The goat was used for the sin offering for a leader. Thus, the goat represented the guilt of Satan. Satan was also symbolized by the satyr, a demon depicted as half-man/half-goat (Isaiah 13:21, 34:14; Leviticus 17:7; 2 Chronicles 11:15). The satyr is sometimes translated shaggy goat.
The Prehistoric Angelic Conflict was represented by Sagittarius, the archer, and Scorpio, the scorpion. Scorpio is the symbol of Satan, and Sagittarius represents a warrior, such as an Elect Angel. There was fighting in the heavens as Satan rebelled against God. The rebels had to be rounded up and put on trial. After Satan's fall the angels had a chance to choose where they would spend eternity. They already had Eternal Life, but they could choose for God or reject God and receive the Lake of Fire. When the decision making was over, Satan had convinced a third of the angels to follow him.
A trial was held in Heaven. Satan lost, and the Lord sentenced him to the Lake of Fire.
“Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels; (Matthew 25:41, NAS)
The trial was symbolized by Libra, the scales, for the Justice of God. However, Satan appealed the decision. His argument was something like, "How can a God of love sentence us to the Lake of Fire?" The Lord accepted Satan's appeal. The planning for the appeal was the Eternal Life Conference, and the appeal trial is human history.
The Mystery Revealed
If God did not want man to know about the ages before time, why did He put the signs in the heavens? Obviously, the signs in the heavens were bold explanations of events before time began. God obviously wanted us to know about these things. Not only are they written in the heavens, they are recorded in the scripture. And the two are in perfect agreement when Bible Doctrine is accurately interpreted. Satan has invested enormous amounts of effort in propaganda to discredit the truth of the zodiac. He invented an entire system of mythology (lies) to explain away the simple truth of God's redemptive Plan written in the stars.
The LORD told Job about the zodiac.
"Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,
Or loose the cords of Orion? (Job 38:31)
The LORD described the Pleiades as bound with chains like a bracelet with jewels or a bouquet of jewels. The word for chains is the Hebrew, tond^u^m^ (ma`adanoth), means chains, bindings or twistings, and was used for the knots at the end of a mat by which loosing, it comes to pieces. It was also used for the bands for fastening willow branches to make a booth (hut), and it was used for a bouquet of myrtle. Pleiades is the Hebrew hm*yK! (kimah). Pleiades is in Taurus. The chords of Orion refer to the bands or chords by which the constellation is symbolically dragged along in the heavens. The word for chords is the Hebrew tokv=om (mosheshkoth), and Orion is the Hebrew lys!K= (kesil).
"Can you bring forth the signs of the zodiac at the right time,
And guide the Bier with its children? (Job 38:32)
"The signs of the zodiac" is the Hebrew torZ*m^ (mazzaroth). Mazzaroth refers to the twelve signs of the zodiac, which were regarded by the Arabs as menazil, i.e. station-houses in which the sun took up its abode in succession during the year. The word is equivalent to the Hebrew tolZ*M^ (mazzaloth) (2 Kings 23:5). It is sometimes translated, constellations. Thus, the LORD referred to the signs of the zodiac for telling time, i.e. a clock.
The Bier is the Hebrew vy!u^ ('ajish), which the astronomers call Ursa Major, or the Great Bear. The Hebrew word, however, is and aphaeresis of a similar word, vu^n^ (na`ash), which comes from an Arabic word that means bier and is a pun for bear.13 The story that goes with the paronomasia is that the children were the attendants in the funeral procession of the bier of their father slain by Gedi, the pole star.6 The procession of children following the bier of their slain father was a common folk tale in Syria. When the Lord brought this up, He was chiding Job as a child. Furthermore, the Great Bier symbolizes the first Adam, and the Little Bier symbolizes the Second Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ.
"Do you know the laws of Heaven,
Or do you define its control on the earth? (Job 38:33)
The LORD reminded Job of the laws of Heaven, which is the word, heavens, but should be taken as singular. The laws of Heaven govern the physical laws of the Universe, including the laws of Newtonian mechanics that govern the interaction of heavenly bodies, but there is more implied. There are not only definitions like mass, distance, and velocity, but also laws that influence, or control, plant and animal life. Birds migrate and plants perform photosynthesis in the day. Animals sleep at night. The word that is translated, "control," is the Hebrew rf*v=m! (mishe tar), which means control, influence, authority, or rule. The root of the word is shoter, which was an official and came from scribe or secretary from the original meaning of an arranger or organizer. The laws of Heaven that have control over the earth go beyond Newtonian mechanics. The laws are part of God's overall Plan. Thus, the signs of the zodiac have meaning for the earth that goes beyond the physical. The signs have meaning because they are part of a bigger system, namely, the Plan of God.
Jesus Christ also spoke of the ages.
“And whoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age, or in the age to come. (Matthew 12:32, NAS)
The Greek word for age is aion, which refers to an age of time or eternity. It is sometimes translated, eon. This verse explains the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which is rejection of the gospel after it is clearly understood through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. A person who rejects the gospel message of the Holy Spirit cannot be saved and, therefore, cannot be forgiven of his sins. Although the sins were paid for on the Cross, they cannot be forgiven until a person accepts Christ as his Savior. The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit would not be forgiven in the current age of Jesus, the Age of Pisces, or in the age to come, the Age of Aquarius (the Millennium).
The phrase about this age and the age to come is repeated in Mark 10:29-30; Luke 20:34-35; Ephesians 1:21. And the Church Age under the Age of Pisces is described as the completion, or end, of the activities that were begun in the previous ages.
Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. (1 Corinthians 10:11, NAS)
Note that the word, "ends," is the literal translation of the Greek, telos, which is plural. It is good Greek to use a plural to modify multiple ages, but in English we would probably just say end of the ages. The conclusion of the stories that began under Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses as well as the ages before time, is occurring in the Church Age under Pisces.
The mystery doctrine of the Church Age was not revealed during the previous ages. The word, mystery, is the translation of the Greek, musterion, which means private knowledge only for the initiated.
Ephesians 3:8-9, NAS
8 To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things;
Believers of the Church Age are the recipients of the knowledge about the Plan of God that has been hidden through all the other ages (Romans 16:25; Colossians 1:26). Although God knew everything in eternity past, His Plan for dealing with Satan's rebellion was formulated during the Eternal Life Conference. Some of the Plan was revealed to angels, but other parts of the Plan were not announced until they happened in time. The Church Age and the calling out of the Royal Family of God was not announced beforehand. There are no signs on the zodiac for the Church, although we now know that it is occurring in the Age of Pisces. Similarly, we don't know the end date of the Church Age.
The Church Age, which was initiated with Christ's arrival in the fulness of time, is the high point of human history. There has never been an age in time like the Church Age, and there will never be an age in time after it that rises to its level. The Church Age believer, chosen to be royalty, has the greatest opportunity of human history. With the divine operating assets such as the Filling of the Holy Spirit and with the inheritance of the Escrow Blessings, the Church Age believer has equal opportunity to fulfill the greatest opportunities of the Spiritual Life of all the ages of time.
The Eternal Life Conference
Perspective
The Eternal Life Conference came about for two reasons: To bring many sons into glory and as an extension of the Prehistoric Angelic Conflict.
For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to complete (bring to maturity) the author of their salvation through sufferings. (Hebrews 2:10)
Satan had been judged and sentenced to the Lake of Fire (Matthew 25:41). Then Satan appealed the decision, and God accepted the appeal. Human history would be created to provide witnesses for the appeal trial.
As with any trial, there had to be rules of procedure and schedules. In the Eternal Life Conference, the members of the Trinity assumed their roles related to the trial. God the Father was the author of the Plan, which heretofore, had never been communicated to anyone. Charts were made to reveal certain aspects of the trial, such as procedures and schedules, to angels for the prosecution (God's side) and angels for the defense (Satan and the fallen angels). The Lord Jesus Christ was chosen as the presiding Judge. The Holy Spirit was chosen to perform the work of creation.
The planning and training to cover the thousands of years of human history and the billions of witnesses was extensive. The angels who would assist the Lord in the daily operations of human history had to receive extensive training. Boundaries were established for security and limitations of power were documented. The rules of the game were clearly published and explained to both the prosecution and the defense. For example, during the trial the angels would be allowed to come to earth, walk around and examine the evidence.
All these activities were accomplished during the Eternal Life Conference. We don't know how long it took, because there were no clocks. Time had not yet begun. The clock of time had not yet started ticking. But we do know the activities occurred because the signs of the zodiac and the scriptures record them.
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Salvation
At the Eternal Life Conference, mankind was given a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. God knew that mankind would be given the opportunity to sin and would need a Savior; so Jesus Christ was given the role of Savior. God the Father, the author of the Plan promised Salvation to all mankind as a demonstration of His Love, and the Lord Jesus Christ was named the Savior.
in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago, (Titus 1:2, NAS)
The hope of Eternal Life is more appropriately translated, the confidence of Eternal Life. Eternal Life was promised long ages ago, i.e. during the ages of the Eternal Life Conference.
The sign of Virgo designates the beginning of the Eternal Life Conference when it was decided the the Messiah would be born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14). Jesus Christ would also be the King from the tribe of Judah as represented by the sign of Leo, the lion of the Tribe of Judah. And Jesus Christ would be the Savior as represented by the sign of Cancer, the crab.
and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. (John 10:28, NAS)
When God decided to create witnesses for the appeal trial, He also decided to allow them to sin, and He decided to provide a Redeemer to pay for their sin. He decided to grant them Eternal Life and to exalt them to the highest level of any created beings. The least would be the greatest. Jesus Christ was to be the Savior to pay for the sins of the world.
Hebrews 9:25-26, NAS
25 nor was it that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood not his own. 26 Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
The "consummation of the ages" means that Jesus Christ fulfilled His purpose specified in the Eternal Life Conference to be the Savior of the world.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all mankind, (Titus 2:11)
The Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled His purpose and provided Salvation for all mankind.
but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God predestined before the ages to our glory; (1 Corinthians 2:7, NAS)
The mystery doctrine of the Church Age came from the Eternal Life Conference. God the Father planned to reveal the mystery doctrine at the Eternal Life Conference, which is called "before the ages." The preposition translated "before" in the Greek is pro, which means before or in front of. It does not have to be related to time. The ages of the Eternal Life Conference were before, or in front of, the ages of time on the zodiac, and the sign of Virgo was opposite (or in front of ) the sign of Pisces of the Church Age. Thus, "God predestined before the ages" means that the mystery doctrine which would be revealed in the Church Age was decided upon during the ages of the Eternal Life Conference.
The signs of Virgo, Leo, and Cancer were placed in the heavens to designate the major provisions of the Eternal Life Conference before time began. The Lord Jesus Christ accepted the role of Savior for the redemption of mankind to be accomplished at the fulness of time.
who gave Himself as a ransom, a substitute for all, the testimony to be given at the proper time to that person. (1 Timothy 2:6)
The Lord Jesus Christ became the Redeemer, "a ransom," for all mankind when He paid for the sins of the world on the Cross. Consequently, everyone in time will have the opportunity to receive the testimony of Christ's payment for sins. Those who are positive at God consciousness will be given the gospel at the proper time in life, and God the Holy Spirit will make the gospel real so that the person has a legitimate opportunity to choose Eternal Life.
The Book of Life
One of the products of the Eternal Life Conference was the Book of Life, which contained the names of every person who would be born in the human race. It did not include the names of aborted fetuses that were never born because human life does not exist in the womb. Human life is the human soul life that is given at the moment of birth outside the womb.
And all who dwell on the earth will worship him (the beast), everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. (Revelation 13:8)
The "foundation of the world" was the beginning of the re-creation of the earth to prepare it for human history. That was Genesis 1:3. The Book of Life was written before the foundation of the world, which means that it was written during the Eternal Life Conference. The Book of Life was written during the Eternal Life Conference in accordance with the Plan of God. This means that a person's name has special significance. In the Old Testament, people's names always came true. Even though, parents name children, the Plan of God works through them to fulfill his Plan. God not only knows all in His foreknowledge, He fulfills the child's name in life. The person's name in the Book of Life is his own unique identification code; so there is obviously something more than just the name there, since many people have the same name. Among the other things recorded somewhere in Heaven are even the number of hairs on the head (Matthew 10:30).
If a person dies without receiving Eternal Life, that person's name is blotted out of the Book of Life.
May they be blotted out of the book of life,
And may they not be recorded with the righteous. (Psalm 69:28, NAS)
This verse is part of an imprecatory prayer in Psalm 69 for destruction of enemies, which we should not pray. But in that prayer the author of the Psalm is praying for the names of his enemies to be blotted out of the Book of Life, which means that they would die and go to hell. The author is literally praying for them to go to hell. The decision to end a person's life is God's Sovereign decision alone, and we should not try to influence it.
Believers will not have their names blotted out of the Book of Life.
‘He who overcomes shall thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels. (Revelation 3:5, NAS)
The Prehistoric Angelic Conflict
Satan's Fall
Satan was the keeper of the Throne Room, the highest ranking angel of God until he sinned with arrogant ambition and rebelled. Satan's fall is portrayed by the fall of the king of Babylon, which is described in Isaiah. Although the description is not of Satan, it corresponds precisely to Satan.
Isaiah 14:12-14
12 "How you have fallen from heaven,
You star of light (morning star), sun of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have laid low the nations!
13 "But you said in your heart,
'I will ascend into heaven (throne room);
I will raise my throne above the stars (Elect Angels) of God,
And I will sit in the summit assembly
In the recesses of the north.
14 'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.'
Satan fell because he sinned and rebelled against God. He portrayed himself as the Morning Star, even though the Morning Star symbolizes the Lord Jesus Christ. When Satan was sent from Heaven, he was banished to the earth. Satan's ambition was to ascend to the Throne of God in the Throne Room where he worked. He was full of arrogant ambition and wanted to raise his throne (i.e. ascend the throne) above the other angels. He wanted to preside over the summit assembly, the convocation of angels over which the Lord presides. The throne of God is in the north. Satan's ambition was to make himself like the Most High God. He appealed to the woman in the Garden with the same argument. He told her that if she ate of the forbidden fruit that she would be as smart as God.
Satan's fall is also described in Revelation. When Satan rebelled he carried a third of the angels with him.
And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. (Revelation 12:9, NAS)
The fall of Satan is represented as Capricorn, the Goat, on the zodiac.
The Prehistoric Angelic Conflict
When Satan rebelled, there was war in Heaven between the Elect Angels of God and Satan and the fallen angels.
Revelation 12:7-8
7 And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. And the dragon and his angels waged war, 8 and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.
Satan and his angels were thrown out of Heaven down to the earth. They had their wings clipped.
The war in Heaven was the Prehistoric Angelic Conflict, which is depicted in the signs of the zodiac as Sagittarius, the Archer, fighting Scorpio, the Scorpion. Scorpio represents the devil while Sagittarius represents the Elect Angels of God.
Satan's Trial
Satan and the fallen angels were given an opportunity similar to the opportunity for Salvation, which they rejected. They already had Eternal Life. The only issue was where they would spend eternity, in Heaven or in the Lake of Fire. After the angels were given an opportunity to choose, Satan convinced a third of them to reject God's offer. The question has been asked, "Did they know they were going to the Lake of Fire if they rejected the offer?" The answer is obviously yes. They were no different than people today who know they are going to hell and yet continue to refuse the free gift of Salvation.
After God's offer was rejected, a trial was held for Satan and the fallen angels. They were prosecuted and sentenced to the Lake of Fire (Matthew 25:41). The trial is symbolized by the sign of Libra, the Scales, on the zodiac. After the sentence was passed, Satan appealed the decision, and God accepted the appeal. The human race was created to provide witnesses for the appeal trial.
The Creation
The Order of Creation
There was an order to creation. First, God always existed (John 1:1). Time does not exist with God. Then God created the Universe.
In a beginning God created (from something that never existed) the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)
The word, created, is the Hebrew ar*B* (bara'), which means to create from something which never existed. This was the original creation of the Universe. It occurred sometime in eternity past. God's creation was perfect. It was not a wasteland.
For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens
(He is the God who formed the earth and made it,
He established it and did not create it a waste place,
But formed it to be inhabited), "I am the Lord, and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:18)
The Lord created (bara') the heavens per Genesis 1:1. He did not create it a waste place. It was created complete with an environment to sustain life in the original creation. The earth was the garden of God during the Prehistoric Angelic Conflict. There were dinosaurs on the earth as well as prehistoric man (caveman) - not modern man. Then Satan fell and he was cast down to the earth. Satan soon destroyed the environment, and it had to be totally renovated for the appeal trial of human history.
Then God packed the earth in ice, which was the last Ice Age around 8000 BC, which is impossible to measure accurately since time did not exist. All life on the earth was destroyed. The earth was void and without form and darkness was upon the face of the deep (Genesis 1:2). Then the Spirit of God incubated the ice. The Hebrew word, [j^r* (rachaph), means to incubate as a hen brooding over eggs. The Spirit of God (Holy Spirit) incubated the waters (the ice pack).
However, Isaiah stresses that God did not create the earth a waste place as it was in Genesis 1:2. Isaiah also says parenthetically that God formed the earth. The word, "formed," is the Hebrew rx^y* (jatsar), which means to fashion, form, or shape as a potter shapes clay. That refers to the reshaping of the earth during the seven days of re-creation - not the original creation of the Universe. God also made the earth, which is the Hebrew hc*U* (`asah), that means to manufacture something out of something. That is also referring to the re-creation and not the original creation of the Universe.
The Lord spoke the Universe into existence.
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. (Hebrews 11:3, NAS)
After He created the Universe, He created the Angels.
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
And by the breath of His mouth all their host. (Psalm 33:6, NAS)
Here the Lord made the Universe, where the word, `asah, (to make) is used in the general sense to describe the creation of the Universe and the re-creation.
After Satan's fall the Lord prepared the earth during seven days for the habitation of man. That was not the original creation but a total renovation, or re-creation, for man. The Lord created man on the sixth day.
Beginning of Time
Time did not always exist. It was created. It had a beginning, and it will have an end. Even Einstein proved in his Theory of Relativity that time is a variable. Time did not exist for the angels in the Prehistoric Angelic Conflict. The angels had Eternal Life. They shared God's Life, which always existed independent of time. Time was created for human history. Satan's appeal trial was given a time limit.
"Then God commanded, "Light come into being, and light was in existence" (Genesis 1:3)
The word for God is 'Elohim, which is plural and refers to all the members of the Godhead, the Trinity. Here it refers to the Father as the author of the Plan and the Son, who is the speaking member of the Godhead. What the Father decreed, the Son executed. The phrase, "God commanded," contains the normal word, 'amar, for saying or speaking, but it is used as an imperative. Whereas, it is a Qal imperfect tense in the Hebrew, it is used in the statement as an imperative of command.
God commanded light to come into being. Light was obviously the visible light that we know because it will be used for day and night. However, the light had no apparent source. The Sun and Moon are not mentioned until the fourth day, verse 14. The light came from God Himself, and its origin was the Heavenly Control Room. The face of God is light.
You have placed our lawless deeds before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your face. (Psalm 90:8)
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 Fibonacci numbers starts 0,1,1,2,3,5... Each term is the sum of the previous two. The Fibonacci sequence is most intimately related to the golden mean, 1.6180... and the inverse golden mean, .6180... The dividend of any two sequential Fibonacci numbers approximates the inverse golden mean, while the dividend of any two reverse sequential Fibonacci numbers approximates the golden mean. The fraction is simply inverted to yield its inverse. The larger the Fibonacci numbers, the more exact the approximation of the golden mean:
Thus 1/2 = .5 2/3 = .666... 3/5 = .6 5/8 = .625
But 8/13 = .615... 13/21 = .619... 21/34 = .6176... 34/55 = .6181818... |
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The dimensional properties that adhere to the ratio of 1.618 occur repeatedly in nature. Examples are as various as mollusk shells and the shapes of gallaxies containing billions of stars. When u sed in technical analysis, the golden ratio is most often translated into three percentages: – 38.2%, 50%, and 61.8%. However, other multiples can be used, such as 23.6%, 161.8%, 423%, and so on. The Fibonacci sequence is applied to finance to predict market movements.
Leonardo Pisano, better known by his nickname, Fibonacci, was an Italian mathematician born in Pisa in the 12th century introduced to Europe and popularized the Hindu-Arabic number system (also called the decimal system). He contributed greatly to number theory, and during his life published many important texts. He is also known for the Fibonacci Series, a numerical series found frequently in the natural world.
It is said that he first produced his discovery based upon observations of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh in Egypt.
The Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two numbers in the list together to form the next and so on and so on.(1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55...). Divide any number in the Fibonacci sequence by the one before it, for example 55/34, or 21/13, and the answer is always close to 1.61803. This is known as the Golden Ratio.Starting with 5, every second Fibonacci number is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with integer sides, or in other words, the largest number in a Pythagorean triple.
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Revelation 15:3 – King of the Ages
The Bible text Revelation 15:3 is a verse that clearly illustrates the ancient cultural war within Christianity between Gnosticism and Orthodoxy. The text tells us that seven angels held harps given to them by God. They sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb: “Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the Ages.” (New International Version 1984)
Some readers would find this text surprising, not just for the cosmic symbolism of seven angels celebrating God as King of Ages, but also because many translations do not contain this final word ‘Ages’ but replace “King of the Ages” with “King of the Nations” or “King of the Saints”. Indeed the current NIV has fallen into line with this alternate reading, changing its 1984 text and using “King of the Nations”, relegating “Ages” to a footnote which states “Some manuscripts ages”. But the extraordinary thing about this question is that ‘Ages’ is the original text, and it appears that ‘Nations’ and ‘Saints’ are later changes introduced by Church Fathers to reflect emerging orthodox dogma.
This small textual difference points to an immense political conflict within ancient Christian interpretation. My hypothesis is that an original Gnosticism saw God and Christ as revealed in the natural cosmos. By this view, the description of God as ‘king of the ages’ refers to the observed movement of the heavens measured in the slow precession of the equinox through the twelve signs of the zodiac over the course of the Great Year, forming a perpetual cycle of twelve Ages or Aeons. However, in the early church a usurping political orthodoxy suppressed the original natural vision that had linked God to the perceived structure of time, in favour of the supernatural Christian doctrine that separates spirit from nature. So, the dogmatists replaced the natural term ‘ages’, respecting the cosmic immensity and eternity of God, with the anthropocentric terms ‘nations’ or ‘saints’, emphasising their much more limited historical and political vision.
To justify this reading of Ages as the most likely original text, we can look to the discussion of this verse at a website promoting the inerrancy of the King James Version of the Bible. http://www.kjvtoday.com/home/saints-or-nations-or-ages-in-revelation-153 analyses the claims for the different readings. It notes that the Textus Receptus, the source for the King James Bible, shows Latin Church Father support for the reading of “King of Saints”. From this fundamentalist viewpoint “King of saints” and “King of the nations” are seen as “fitting titles for God in the context of Revelation 15:3”, with “King of the nations” found in CEV, ESV, HCSB, NASB, NIV 2011, NLT, TNIV.” The various translations can be compared at http://bible.cc/revelation/15-3.htm
Despite the common use of ‘saints’ and ‘nations’, the first very good reason why “Ages” has support is that it is the original text. As the supporters of the KJV acknowledge, “the problem, however, is that the oldest manuscripts have “King of the ages”. The two earliest extant manuscripts of Revelation 15:3 are Papyrus 47 (250 AD) and Codex Sinaiticus (350 AD), both of which have “King of the Ages”. The earliest manuscript for “King of the nations” is Codex Alexandrinus from 400 AD. This is an example where modern textual critics do not always follow the earliest manuscripts for any given passage if that early reading does not support their views. … King of the ages is a very ancient reading.”
As noted, ‘ages’ predates ‘nations’ by 150 years in the extant records, but does not support the views of ‘modern textual critics’.
The KJV inerrantists present the feeble argument that “ages” (αιωνων) and “saints” (αγιων) look very similar, and ages is a simple mistake in the earliest documents, despite the supposedly inspired status of the text. They add the letter gamma (γ) to aion to produce the KJV reading, removing a key Gnostic idea. These supporters of the KJV are explicit about their support for the altered text as a political move: “As for why scribes may have changed “King of the ages” to “King of the nations” … the meaning of “King of the Aeons” … may have given uncomfortable Gnostic undertones.”
What are these “uncomfortable Gnostic undertones”? Basically, it is that the Bible contains a theology grounded in accurate observation of nature, with the idea that events on earth are reflections of the observed cycles of the heavens. Contrary to the view of dogmatic supporters of KJV inerrancy, Gnostic ideas pervade the book of Revelations, and the Gospels. Suppression of this one mention of Ages does not remove the Gnostic cosmology from the canon. The idea of Ages promotes a natural cosmology, readily observable in ancient times, that explains the real framework of the Biblical understanding of time and space based on accurate long term observation of the precession of the equinox.
For example, the holy city described in Revelation 21 is totally Gnostic, with its twelve jewels representing the twelve Aeons of the Ages of the Zodiac, listed in reverse as per precession by old Babylonian tradition. The river of life in Rev 22 is the Milky Way galaxy, while the tree of life growing on both sides of the river, with its twelve fruits, one for each month, is the zodiac. The handing of ‘power, seat and authority’ from the dragon to the leopard-bear-lion in Rev 13 is an allegorical description of the precession of the North Celestial Pole over historical time. King of the Ages in Rev 15 fits perfectly with these Gnostic cosmic themes.
We see therefore that “Ages” was replaced by Latin scribes in ancient times to serve their secular theological agenda of promoting the miraculous and mysterious power of the church, favouring an alienated transcendental vision which required the church as the intermediary between community and God. The church was in conflict with Gnostics who promoted a natural theology, and saw discussion of aeons as a key marker for the debate over orthodoxy. Even though 1 Timothy had used the phrase King of the Ages, it sat uncomfortably with Orthodox views of canonical dogma.
This textual change raises the question of the extent to which such censorship was successful more broadly. How many ancient texts were originally far more natural and cosmic in intent like this one, only to be altered to make them acceptable to the supernatural doctrines of orthodoxy?
The fundamentalists say that King of the Ages does not fit the context. But consider the line “They sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb.” A Gnostic reading of the myth of Moses and the ‘song of the Lamb’ can readily support the idea of God as King of the Ages.
There is support for this argument from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, where verses 10:2-3 state that the Israelites “were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.” Paul’s idea of the pre-existence of Christ as a ‘spiritual rock’ in the time of the Exodus opens the spiritual idea of a mythical eternal Christ as the content of the song of Moses. The description in Numbers 21 of the snake on the pole, cited in John 3:14 as the model for the cross and basis of eternal life, provides further support for the Mosaic Gnostic idea of the cross as a cosmic symbol. For a Gnostic cosmic reading, this idea of the snake can readily be linked to the vision of the centrality of the north celestial pole concealed in Rev 13, and the idea of the four corners of heaven as marking the points of the cross and the four living creatures in Ezekiel 1 and Rev 4:6. And the seven angels who sang the song of Moses and the Lamb make good sense as referring to the sun and moon and five visible planets.
Church father Clement of Alexandria helped to explain the use of such natural symbols in scripture, saying: “All who have treated of divine matters have always hid the principle of things and have delivered the truth enigmatically, by signs and symbols, allegories and metaphors.” http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/clement-stromata-book5.html
The analysis therefore suggests that discussion of the song of Moses in Revelation is allegory for cosmic wisdom.
So too the ‘song of the Lamb’. Ancient astrology, well known to spiritual seers including the authors of Revelation, observed that the spring point, the position in the sky of the sun at the March equinox, moved out of its old position in the constellation Aries the Ram into the constellation of Pisces the Fishes at the time of Christ. Astronomical software shows that the precise date when the equinox crossed the first fish of Pisces was 21 AD, providing a marker for the New Age, the turning point at the beginning and end of time, at the purported time of the ministry of Christ. This date, and the decades around it, was a unique time when the constellations of the sky matched the seasons of the earth precisely, so that earth was in tune with the heavens, on earth as in heaven.
It is entirely fitting in Gnostic terms that this moment of cosmic attunement gave rise to the myth of the incarnation of the anointed saviour Jesus Christ. In terms of natural reason, the pre-existent logos described by Paul as appearing to Moses and the prophets indicated the time before the alignment of the seasons and the stars, while the moment of alignment indicates the descent of God from heaven to earth, mythologized as the incarnation of Christ.
The ‘song of the lamb’ described in Revelation can therefore be interpreted as both the beginning of each new year in the sign of Aries the Ram, and also the end of the previous age and Great Year in the Age of Aries. Jesus Christ as beginning and end, alpha and omega, is therefore a cosmic symbol who can be understood as the song of Moses and the lamb, pointing to the unity of father and son as king of the ages, within an entirely natural theology.
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When Gnosticism actually ceased to be a threat to orthodoxy is a very good question. On the surface you may be right that by the late fourth century Gnosticism was vanquished. However, if Gnosticism was the real origin of the Christ myth, and many people were aware of this suppressed fact, but hid their knowledge due to Christian tyranny, then the underground River Alph (which surfaced again with Coleridge) of Gnostic mysticism persisted as a voice of esoteric conscience which still had to be suppressed. It is analogous to how Trotskyism remained a bogey for Stalinist paranoia long after Trotsky was dead. The hydra has many heads.
Nigel: “Revelation was hardly established as a canonical text in the time when Gnosticism was an issue.”
Again, we have an extremely partial view of ancient culture around these topics, much of which was conveyed through secret mystery teachings. The process of writing Revelation could well have involved assumed knowledge of Gnostic ideas having very ancient provenance, going back to sources in Egypt, Babylon and further east. If the early Gnostics were either committed to solely oral transmission of teachings (cf The Apocalypse of Adam “the words they have kept of the God of the aeons were not committed to the book, nor were they written”), or if their writings were systematically hunted down and burnt, then we are likely now to have only distorted evidence about exactly when `Gnosticism was an issue’.
Nigel: “So no-one would have read “ruler of the emanations” and had a spack attack; “king of the ages” would have been read “eternal King”.”
Possibly, but if the successful suppression of overt Gnosticism still faced the need for sporadic mopping-up operations to deal with hidden defiance, then this spark of dissent in Rev 15:3 could have been seen as worth snuffing out. You can’t be too careful if you are paranoid. The authors of the Sinaiticus website are a bit ‘spacky’ in translating Aionon as Saints.
Nigel: “Orthodoxy asserted transcendence and immanence, so an assertion of transcendence was no threat to it.”
In my previous comment I was thinking of the rather complex idea of natural transcendence, as distinct from the absurd orthodox idea of supernatural transcendence. Natural transcendence looks to the pleromatic stability of the infinite eternal reality surrounding the visible world of the here and now. By contrast, supernatural transcendence invents imaginary entities. Supernatural ideas crept into later Gnosticism as a form of corruption seeping through from the pervasive orthodoxy. If the original enlightened framework was a vision of natural reality, then the available Gnostic texts, like the extant orthodox texts, should be assessed as a fragmentary reflection and distorted memory of this high wisdom.
Orthodox immanence only works by reference to a complementary entified transcendent being, who is beyond nature but displays finite unity and intentionality. This contradictory paradox of the finite infinite being helps reveal the absurdity of orthodoxy. Entities are finite, and the idea of God as an infinite entity is a contradiction in terms. The Gnostic sense of how the whole is revealed in the part is far more realistic and complex than the literal incarnation doctrine at the centre of the orthodox view of immanence.
Nigel: “But if “king of the ages” was so disagreeable, why wasn’t 1 Tim 1:17 fixed as well? “Now to the *basileus ton aionon*, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory etc…”"
There are many Bible texts with natural cosmic references for which the “fix” was not applied. These things have an element of accident. Just one scribe finding “Ages” offensive in Rev 15 would have been enough to open up the contrasting tradition by deftly adding the gamma. Perhaps Timothy lacked the surrounding Gnostic imagery of Revelation that the scribes thought needed a bit of toning down. Perhaps they wanted to protect the text by compromising the language to make it less vulnerable to fanatical bigots who wanted Revelation out of the canon.
Nigel: “And if we’re working in Latin, why not say that “king of the saeculum” — the age and things of this world as distinct from the transcendent — connotes immanence?”
Good point, which opens up the ambiguity within the meaning of immanence. From a modern panentheist orthodoxy, the whole universe is immanent, present as material reality of general revelation, while God remains fully immanent only in the special revelation of Christ. My understanding is that from an ancient viewpoint, the sublunary world of historical change on earth was the locus of immanence, while the unchanging celestial spheres of the superlunary universe were transcendent. The transcendent does not have to be immaterial. The saeculum, commonly a human lifetime, is one thirtieth of a zodiac age of 2148 years, a period which serves as a bridge from time to eternity.
As I see it, the debate between Gnosticism and Orthodoxy turns significantly on the comprehensibility of transcendence. The original Gnosticism that I am postulating as the source doctrine for Christianity, a real Quelle, says that transcendence is in principle comprehensible, visible in the slow shift of the heavens. This was unacceptable to the essentially magical and supernatural outlook of pious orthodoxy, who insisted that transcendence could not be comprehended in any natural observation, no matter how vast.
This question of the nature of transcendence and immanence feeds into the contrast between King of Ages and King of Nations in Rev 15. The Gnostic idea of Ages supports an immense but still finite vision of God, stretching across thousands of years and the vastness of the visible stars. The Orthodox idea of Nations starts from the essential paradox of piety that an infinite God displays finite care. This paradox is not one of those word tricks like `the last shall be first’, but rather a genuine logical breaker for the coherence of Christian dogma. King of Nations requires the assertion that nature is not as seen by science, because it postulates a personal God for whom there is no evidence, whereas the Gnostic reading of King of Ages is compatible with a scientific understanding of God revealed in nature, deus sive natura.
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Haz hecho público que te gusta. DeshacerAnd this may be very much relevant to the 'twin date' of Oct. 25/26 - i.e. November 8/9. (See previous updates for explanation.) First, let me remind you that Bush ...
Well, take another look at the alien crop glyph. Does it not show only the right side of the face lit by light? The correspondence is unmistakable. This effect is even evident in the alien logo from the 'Watcher website' shown earlier... Can you say 'prophetic'?
Ah, but there is more. :)
So far we've analyzed two sets of dates, the March 20/March 7 paring and the August 27/August 14 paring. Now let us move on to another pair... October 25/26 and November 8/9. In the previous updates I explained in depth why these two dates are to be considered 'Mars days'. And, yes, they are separated by 13/14 days - making them calendarically equatable dates.
The significance of Oct. 25/26 derives from a combination of several things. First, there will be a Sun-Moon-Earth alignment (i.e. New Moon) on Oct. 25, meaning there will be a total 'blackout' of the Moon in the night sky. Second, the Sun-Moon conjunction will occur exactly at the spot where the Moon was positioned on March 20 and where the Earth was on March 7 (as seen from the Moon). This alone is enough to make Oct. 25/26 a 'Mars day'. Third, the causeway of the Great Sphinx (identifiable with Mars), angled approximately 14 degrees (or 13.5 deg.) south of due east, will align with the sunrise of Oct. 25/26. Fourth, on the same day (Oct. 25/26), Mars rises at the same point on the Giza horizon as the Sun. Fifth, Mars rising on the eastern horizon on Oct. 25, perfectly aligned with the Sphinx causeway, will coincide with the 2-hour window of the Sun-Moon conjunction which in turn will be occurring at the March-20 position of the Moon.
And here are a couple of additional coincidences I just discovered. When viewed from the general area of NYC, i.e. the 'Babylon city' that experienced the 9/11 attacks and the 8/14 blackout, the Sun-Moon alignment of Oct. 25 (a 'Moon blackout') will take place exactly when the Sun and the Moon are seen rising at the horizon! Not only that, the Moon's rising point will be ~14 degrees south of due east - i.e. the exact angle of the Sphinx causeway!
 There is no question that October 25/26 is a 'Mars day'. If you're not yet convinced, this should do it: On Oct. 25, there will be a conference held at the Univ. of Wisconsin called 'God, Man, and E.T.' which will deal with religious implications of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. The lecturers will include Richard Hoagland and David E. Flynn from the 'Watcher website', i.e. the website of the 'alien logo'!
Okay, now, moving 13/14 days forward from Oct. 25/26... bringing us to November 8/9. Like Oct. 25, there will be a 'blackout' event of the Moon on this date. This time not a New Moon, but a total lunar eclipse. In addition, there will be a very rare astrological configuration on Nov. 8/9, dubbed the 'Harmonic Concordance', that will coincide with the lunar eclipse. It's a perfect hexagonal form depicting the 'Star of David' - the star shown on Israel's flag.
In Endgame V, I discussed how the Star of David can be viewed as the two-dimensional representation of two interlocking circumscribed tetrahedrons - the geometric configuration from which derives the 'hyperdimensional number, 19.5°, i.e. the key number encoded into the layout of the 'monuments of Mars' in the Cydonia region according to Hoagland. This 19.5° angle is now widely considered the 'message of Cydonia'.
It could be said that the Star of David, or the interlocking tetrahedrons, represents a 'stargate/Babylon configuration'. And the date producing this astrological arrangement, Nov. 8/9, is quite clearly another 'Mars day'.
I might as well mention too that the Star of David symbolizes the Holy Grail, or 'Blood Royal', signifying the union of Jesus and Mary (Magdalene) or God and Goddess (masculine and feminine). The triangle pointing upward represents manhood and the one pointing downward represents womanhood. I believe many people are now aware of this symbolism thanks to The Da Vinci Code, the hugely popular book this year (still the #2 best-selling book at amazon.com).
What is not yet widely known, however, is that the 'Face on Mars', as well as the Sphinx, embodies the same theme. I presented this view in Endgame III written back in Nov. 2002. Endgame III even revealed how the 'Face' - actually a combination of the body of Virgo/virgin and the head of Leo/lion - was... mimicked by the Shroud of Turin, the sacred cloth on which is shown a shadowy image of a man widely thought to be Jesus himself. I even discussed the plausible idea that the Shroud was actually made by Leonardo Da Vinci and the image is that of his. Yes, Da Vinci as in The Da Vinci Code. [...]
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