16. Class 16 – Visions of the Future Age by Jim Dillingham 2014

16. Class 16 – Visions of the Future Age by Jim Dillingham 2014

This is the 16th class in the Cranston Rhode Island ecclesial Adult Sunday School Series under the theme Visions of the Kingdom Age. In our previous class we came to the understanding that it is complete harmony that is the Creator’s plan and certainly not mere unity, based on the toleration of diversity.

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Therefore it is harmony that should be our goal as well and not mere unity. Our concept of salvation should embrace our Creator’s vision and not be limited to ourselves. There is more to the Creator’s plan than simply saving people. This is one of the great tripping points in the endless challenges issuing from within the enlightened community down through time.

This presumption that everything is all about us. That is a philosophy that is instinctively appreciated by the instinctive heart-generated thought process. Selective scriptural expressions are often emphasized with a presumptuousness that suggests everything is about us. One of the most common is to hear the absolutely false statement that the primary reason Jesus died on the cross was for the forgiveness of our sins and that would be an absolute lie. But I hear it, or read that exact expression, from brethren in our community, at least two or three times per year. Certainly one of the benefits from the sacrifice of the Messiah is the forgiveness of our sins, it just wasn’t the most significant motivation for that sacrifice. We just aren’t that important to be number one.

The primary reason for our Messiah’s sacrificial death was to validate his Father’s righteousness. We are a side-benefit. A wonderful side-benefit, but we are not the main event. That would be a self-worshiping delusion. The main event is how everything in all of creation will have to perfectly project the eternal right-ness of the Creator. The final comments of that previous class were the scriptural testimony that salvation is about more than just creation’s appointed caretaker. We should beware the natural urge to inflate our own significance in our own eyes.

An obvious example of this lesson about salvation being about more than just people would be the 1st of the 3 salvation arks, Noah’s ark. I wasn’t just 8 people that were saved, that massive ark saved specific quantities of animals, separated in to 2 stages of divine acceptability, clean and unclean. We can see the same principle in how the sabbath laws of rest were not just for Israelites, or just for Israelites and the stranger in the land, but were extended to animals. We read in Ex 20, beginning at v 9-10, 6 days shall thou labour and do all thy work, but the 7th day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gate.

There is also the sabbath rest of the land in the sabbath year, the 7th year, there is also a reference to such a thing as holy ground, holy dirt, where Moses was instructed to remove his shoes so that there would be nothing separating his flesh from that holy ground. We see the promise of rest during the sabbath millennium extended to another geological application, the healing of the waters of the Dead Sea, and increasing the agricultural yield of the earth and creating new plant species to both eliminate hunger and to heal diseases. Christ’s victory and salvation is for the entire creation project, not just mankind. We are certainly a significant component but we aren’t exclusive, and when we imbalance our own significance we imbalance everything, as everything has to fit together perfectly, harmoniously.

Our Creator’s truths and principles are 3-dimensional, not simply linear. The benefits of the restraining of sin that facilitates this millennial sabbath rest from the effects of sin are extended to all of creation. We considered this before, how that rest from sin is enjoyed by mankind, animal life, even agriculture and geology. In the end it is all creation that will be saved not just mankind.The entire creation project must be validated and perfected, not just the caretaker. Everything is bigger than we are, this is why meekness, a circumcised heart is the absolute key to seeing eyes and hearing ears. When we make ourselves large in our own eyes, we make our Heavenly Father small in those same eyes. So the key observation here is that mankind is not the exclusive focus of the divine plan, we are highly significant, very certainly, but not exclusive. Jesus has more to do than just to save us.

His work was not finished 1,986 years ago, and it won’t be finished after our own prospective, and should never be presumed, immortalizing. This is why the restored kingdom will also see the restoration of a great deal of kingdom laws, temple worship, bloody animal altar offerings, sabbath observance, circumcision, feast weeks etc. There is still an anti-typical application for all of this, there will still be an educational value, an effective educational component that will still be valid until God will be all and in all. This is why Paul explains that even though we are not being currently required to observe kingdom law, rituals like sabbath observance and feast weeks that there is still and anti-typical fulfilment to these rituals. Paul explained that to the Colossians in Ch 2 starting to read from v 16. “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days. Which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ. These rituals like the sabbath are shadows of things yet to come. There are still educational value in these kingdom law rituals despite not having to be observed during the temporary educational stage of the ecclesial age.

Like we have maintained, God’s truths and principles are 3-dimensional, not linear. Therefore those principles being partially projected by the Law of Moses are still true and will be true for eternity. Those rituals were temporary just as our ecclesial age rituals today are certainly temporary, but the principles that those rituals are shadowing are forever. However, those first kingdom laws and rituals are only part of the equation, not the full story, just like the laws and rituals of the ecclesial age are only part of the equation. Judgment, the educational focus of kingdom laws, and grace, the educational focus of ecclesial age laws, have to blend perfectly, they are both necessary for our Creator’s righteousness to be fully manifested in its completely mature, or perfect, application.

In the same way that baptism is a 2-stage ritual. That 1st stage is a voluntary burial in water, to join our Messiah in his death, validating the righteousness of our Creator’s judgment of death for sin, it was right. The 2nd stage is rising again from the water grave to project the wonderful gift of grace, that despite the righteousness of our death for sin, that God offers us re-birth on the basis of grace. Judgment and grace must harmonize as it will in the millennial kingdom, when kingdom law will be taught and policed in creation, thereby containing sin, and providing a rest throughout creation from the oppressive physical effects of sin.

Now let’s demonstrate this understanding of salvation being about more than just ourselves through another avenue. This understanding that there is an additional stage in the plan of our Creator beyond the 3 immortalizations of the appointed caretaker of mankind, Jesus Christ, and the two immortalization events at the beginning and end of the millennium kingdom. It is after that 3rd immortalization that we read about the elimination of the last enemy, death, and how Jesus delivers the kingdom to his Father. We read this in 1 Cor 15 starting in v 24 where Paul writes, Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power: for he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Jesus has more to do than just save people. He has to save his Father’s entire creation project, otherwise God can not be “all and in all.” There can be no contradictions to our Creator’s righteousness anywhere in the end, no decay, no maturing, no disease, no death, no rotting, no sin, which again constitutes any absence of our Creator’s right-ness whatsoever. This period after the last immortalization, is also described in Rev 20 and vv 11 and 15. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

We see several descriptions of this time at the conclusion of the millennial kingdom, which we see referenced before this same Ch 20 back in v7 when we read, And when the 1,000 years are expired Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go out to deceive the nations. And we read that heaven and earth disappear, we read that death and hell are cast into the lake of fire, which is interpreted for us as the 2nd death. This is a parallel prophecy to 1 Cor 15, where we read of that last enemy, death, being eliminated. Jesus then delivers the kingdom to his Father. That 2nd death is very easy to define, that’s perishing, and there are 2 death categories, temporary death and permanent death. The enlightened die temporarily as our presence will be demanded at the judgment seat, on the basis of the vindication of our Creator’s righteousness. Those who are unaccountable to Christ judgment as well as those who are rejected by the Son of God at the two judgments, will die permanently. That will in fact be the second death, for those who did participate in the resurrection to mortality, prior to judgment, but will not participate in the resurrection to immortality. They dye twice. The second death is permanent while their first death will temporary. So death and hell being cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death is permanent elimination of sin. The destruction of that last enemy of the Creator’s plan, death.

So we have the elimination of death. We have the last heaven and earth dispensation, this is the eighth day that is shadowed all through Scripture. The eighth day, the the eighth millennium after the Millennial Kingdom when all that all that is flesh is cut away in circumcision-like fashion on that eighth divine day. This is also the 4th salvation stage. This is the creational harmony stage beyond the 3 immortalizationa of the faithful the first of course was Christ and then the two sets of saints book ending the Millennial Kingdom and then all of creation has to be saved. That’s when Jesus delivers the kingdom to his father so the Creator can be all in all. When we say this is the 4th salvation stage this is the same concept as peace the presence of harmony, when literally everything that exists will have to be in perfect harmony with the Creator, without a single molecule or universal law of operation offering any contradiction to His eternal truths and principles, in other words his right-ness, His righteousness.

Now the recognition of this stage in the salvation process for the entire creation project is subtly but repeatedly shadowed all through Scripture in the context of a consistent pattern placed within the framework of salvation presentations. This is the presence of a consistent pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4 as well as a demonstration of the plus one pattern that Yahweh veils all through Scripture. The ultimate application would be these 3 immortalizations of faithful mankind and then a 4th salvation stage that eliminates all death and therefore all contradictions to our Creator’s righteousness everywhere in creation. So that the Creator will be in complete harmony with all of creation.

This pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4 is shadowed endlessly throughout Scripture. It is powerfully presented in the memorial name of God Yahweh. There are 4 consonants that make up that name YHWH but there are only 3 letters, a pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4. This pattern is doubled in the example of the first Salvation Ark, Noah’s Ark. As we’ve previously noted, there’s certainly 2 sets of 4 making up those 8 people saved on the Ark. Peter defines Noah, a name the means rest, as the eighth person, therefore identifying him with the with our Savior Jesus the man of eights those sets of 4 however, 4 men 4 women, but there is also this pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4, as we see that there is a father and 3 sons, and a mother-in-law and 3 daughter-in-laws.

Not only will we be able to see this frequently repeated pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4, we will often see it doubled, as we do in this Noah’s Ark account. That doubling is another significant feature as it is the two separate balancing features of all divine truths and principles that will sustain our course in our pursuit of the eternal benefits of understanding and maintaining and projecting our Creator’s righteousness. If we try to oversimplify divine principles into a single application, we imbalance those principles, creating a leavening effect that will only get worse unless corrected. We’ve reviewed this before. This is the principle demonstrated in cleaving from 1 to 2. The cleaving of the Red Sea to leave in order to leave Egypt the cleaving of the Jordan River in order to enter the promised land. The cleaving of the fountain rock at Rephidim, that saves the people, and the tearing of the temple vail, representing the flesh of Christ at the death of our Messiah, and the breaking of the memorial bread, and the 4 cloven hoof foundation of clean animals that’s emphasized, that is so emphasized, and the visions of the future glory of the Saints such as the cloven bronze hoofs of the Cherubim of the composite man seen by both Daniel and the Apostle John.

First it should be foundationally understood that the number 4 is powerfully identified throughout Scripture with the principle of God manifestation. God manifestation is the foundational motivation for the entire creation project, therefore it is appropriate to understand that there will be 4 salvation stages to complete the creation project, demonstrating that God manifestation. Just as we’ve noted how there were 4 letters in the Divine Name, YHWH presenting this pattern that we’re considering, this pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4.

Now I realize it has been commonly presented in our Brotherhood for a long time that the number 4 should be identified with the earth That is most definitely a mistake. Now this understanding originally comes from research that a European Anglican priest named Bullinger published back when Dr Thomas was alive. Bullinger was certainly an excellent pattern researcher when it came to Bible numerology, but there is no possible way he could ever correctly interpret the significance of those Bible number patterns. He was a Christian pagan, I mean as all apostate Christianity is just an extended version of the paganism that began at Babel. Bullinger believed in the serpent lie of the immortality of the soul, with all the diseased understandings that extend out from that contradiction of our creator’s righteousness. It would have been absolutely impossible for him to understand the spiritual significance of those number patterns that he researched and highlighted and how they testified of the truths and principles and plan of the Creator.

The number 4 is employed endlessly throughout Scripture in the direct frame of the principle of God manifestation. In other words the revealing, the manifesting of God, which is something that totally escapes every religious community outside the enlightened community.

This will begin to be demonstrated as we consider the incredible volume of this pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4, demonstrated throughout scripture. For example the divine hierarchy mandated in first Corinthians 11 presents a 4-step hierarchy. God is the head of Christ, who is the head of man, who is the head of the woman. 3 of these 4 are human beings with heads above them God is the exclusive one who has been from forever and will continue forever. He has no head above him, thereby creating a pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4 in the divine plan. Additionally 3 of these heads are male and one is female, another pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4.

If a brother prays with his head covered or a sister ever prays with her head uncovered they are ritually declaring the righteousness of that proclaimed hierarchy to be a lie. One wonders how that simple head covering ritual could be so frequently disrespected in our community, contradicting the terms of our creator’s righteousness, and yet somehow maintaining some presumption of confidence that one’s prayer will actually be heard, despite insulting the rightness feature of our Creator.

There were 4 men inside Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace but only 3 men were tossed into that furnace as it was a 4th that the witnesses defined as one like the Son of God. This snapshot of salvation presents this pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4, exactly the pattern we are considering, for the full range of the plan of our Creator. When God came to Elijah at Mount Sinai, he was not in the first 3 manifestations of his power, he was in the 4th. God was not in the wind, earthquake, or fire, but God was in that “still small voice,” a pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4, where Yahweh manifested or revealed himself to the prophet Elijah in his quest for divine judgment against Israel.

In the first 3 of the 4 generations of the enlightened community in covenant relationship with God there’s a single-person focus for God’s promises. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are chosen by God, yet in the 4th generation we have the promises extended out to 12 tribes. Nahor and Terah are not chosen, just Abraham. Ishmael and the other six sons of Abraham are not chosen, just Isaac. Esau is not chosen just Jacob, but then in the 4th generation, the Covenant promises are extended out to all the 12 sons of Jacob demonstrating a pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4, in the context of the enlightened community in a divine covenant relationship.

While there are certainly 4 Cherubim representing the immortalized Christ and the Saints, there are 4 separate faces on each Cherubim. 3 faces are animals, one is human. 3 faces represent the earthbound, while the eagle is associated with the heavens. 3 of the faces represent carnivores, meat-eaters, while the 4th, the Ox is an herbivore, eating only plant life, like grass and grain. There are several distinct patterns of 3 within a pattern of 4, in the faces of the Cherubim, which is a representation of God manifest forever in immortalized flesh and bone. There are 4 very definitive and progressive priesthood ages in our creator’s plan. Again a priesthood age is defined by a change in the priesthood, a change in the divine laws and rituals and these changes are always confirmed by a public outpouring of divine power to validate those appointed changes.

These 4 priesthood ages are the Patriarchal age, when the patriarchs were the priests building altars, offering sacrifices, judging the enlightened community. This was a Melchizedek-style priesthood. The 2nd priesthood age was the priesthood of the first kingdom age, the sons of Aaron. The 3rd priesthood age is the Ecclesial age, where we serve as priests being defined as a royal priesthood by Peter and serving at the altar of this age which is Jesus Christ.

The 4th priesthood age will be the Millennial Kingdom where there will be yet another change in the priesthood, a change in divine laws and rituals and the greatest of all outpourings of validating divine power. The first 3 priesthood ages are defined by mortal priests. The 4th priesthood age is different in that both mortal and immortal priests will serve in this age. The mortal priests will be the Jews. The immortal priests will be the Saints. This is another pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4 in the contextual frame of God manifestation.

Although there were 4 components to an Israelites door frame only 3 of those 4 had the blood of the Passover lamb painted on them. We know this from Exod 12 and verse 7, the two door posts and the lintel were to be covered in blood but definitely not the threshold. This is significant as we know that Jesus identifies himself as the door. This is in John 10 where he declares he is the door of the sheepfold, that blood stained door in Egypt separated the saved from death from the condemned to death,a pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4.

There are 4 progressive divinely appointed temples in God’s plan.The first temple was the Tabernacle in the wilderness. We know this was a temple as it is defined as a temple in 1 Samuel chapters 1 and 3. The 2nd temple was the one Solomon constructed and the 3rd was the post captivity temple that Jesus taught in. The 4th will be the temple in the millennial Kingdom. One of the 4 temples is mobile and 3 are immobile structures. The same is true of the 4 altars of burnt offering the first is mobile, with the staves and the rings used for transportation, while the last 3 altars are stationary structures. This temple and altar application of this pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4 suggests the next stage in our consideration, the doubling of this pattern.

One would think that those appropriately 8 examples of this pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4 would be sufficient to confirm its legitimacy. But let’s remember the anti-typical fulfillment of this typical pattern, that ultimate application of this pattern. The anti-typical application, will be those 4 salvation stages in the complete plan, but with the first 3 being different from the 4th. The first 3 salvation events are people. The 4th is all of creation, so a doubling of this pattern would take it from 3 in 4 to 6 in 8. Those 6 and 8 numbers should spark our memory as 6 is the number representing everything related to the curse of sin and death, while 8 is the number representing the blessing of immortality and eternity.

We should also remember how these 6 Greek letters in the name of Jesus meaning Savior added up to 888, 3 eights, the 3 immortalization events of the faithful. Therefore a doubled application of this pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4 certainly identifies this consistent pattern with salvation. This doubling of the extensive pattern we’re considering has a very significant qualifying understanding being projected in that doubling of the pattern. We’ve noted this invariable pattern of 2 balancing applications, to each divine truth and principle. Just as there are 2 categories of death, temporary and permanent, there are also 2 resurrection categories, a resurrection to mortality before judgment for the many, and a resurrection to immortality following judgment for the few.

There are the 2 categories of righteousness, imputed righteousness on the basis of faith, and personal righteousness on the basis of personally, individually, demonstrating our creator’s righteousness in our individual lives. The works and deeds that will be told we will be judged in accordance with. There are two categories of sin, transgressional sin for which we do bear guilt, and sin nature for which we do not bear guilt, but certainly do need purging or cleansing. There is a necessary fear of God that has two applications, respectful reverence, and actually being afraid of encouraging the displeasure of our Heavenly Father.

There are two kingdoms of God, the original initiated at Sinai, and the second, soon to be initiated and Jerusalem. The list goes on and on, demonstrated also in the name and the title Jesus Christ, indicating the 2 aspects of our Messiah, the flesh and the spirit. The 2 comings of Jesus Christ, 1st for planting then for harvesting, for reconciliation and then for salvation. It is the same principle demonstrated in marriage and parenthood, 2 becoming one, a man and a woman. This is the only way to create new life, the joining of a husband and a wife to create children. The Saints will have to be born twice, once to mortality from a mortal mother, and then to immortality from an immortal father.

This balancing dual application pattern to all divine truths and principles is also demonstrated, in how the kingdom of God in all its 3 stages is always identified as both heaven and earth. Just as those who inherit the kingdom are identified in the same way, heaven and earth. And how the nature of the promises to Abraham are structured in that same balancing dual parallel of being compared to the stars of heaven and the sand or the dust of the earth. And how the construction of Adam is defined is just two components, a body made from the dust of the earth that’s filled with the breath from heaven. As we’ve always maintained when something is true it can be validated in endless ways because our Heavenly Father’s expressions are 3-dimensional. Therefore it is absolutely perfect consistency to see how that number 8 signifying salvation and immortality is often separated into two sets of 4 and also how those two sets of 4 frequently demonstrate a doubled pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4. We’ve already reviewed the double pattern of 3 with a pattern for application in relation to Noah’s Ark with the 4 men for women, but within those doubled 4s there are also the double patterns of 3 within pattern of 4, with father and 3 sons and the mother-in-law 3 daughters-in-law. Another example of this pattern in the context of the enlightened community tasked with manifesting Yahweh, would be the two configuration layers in the wilderness encampment, each projecting this sub pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4. In the outer political layer of the enlightened community in the wilderness we see that outer 4square pattern but with 3 tribes position in each of those 4 quadrants, satisfying the pattern of 3 within the pattern of 4 template. The inner spiritual 4-square design assigns the 3 Levite divisions to the south, west and north, while the 4th quadrant on the east, being assigned exclusively to the priests qualifying that to stage 4square wilderness configuration, as yet another doubled pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4.

Another example can be seen in the heaven and earth covenant between Yahweh and Abram in Genesis 15. We see 3 cleaved carcasses of earthbound animals, each 3 years old, with one each on each side, 3 cleaved carcasses of earthbound animals with one whole fowl of heaven, in each of the two parallel rows of sacrificial animals that’s of course, in Genesis 15, creating a doubled pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4 in the framework of a Salvation shadow, the heaven on earth covenant between God and man.

It isn’t just the first of the 3 salvation arks projecting this pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4. We’ve already noted how Noah’s salvation ark demonstrates this pattern with those eight men and women saved on that first ark, but this is also true of the 2nd and 3rd salvation arks. There were 4 components deposited within that golden Ark of the Covenant the 2nd salvation ark at 3 different times. 4 components, 3 deposits, to demonstrate this same pattern. Now although there were 4 components, one golden bowl of incorruptible manna, one resurrection rod, identifying the high priest and 2 covenant stones with the Ten Commandments there were only 3 deposits. And 3 separate component categories, the manna, the stones the rod.

Interestingly even the high priest’s resurrection rod demonstrates this pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4. We read that there were 4 stages of maturity highlighted on Aaron’s rod of resurrection they read and I quote “Behold the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi” – 1- was budded and 2- brought forth buds and 3- bloomed blossoms and 4- yielded almonds. That’s Numbers 17v8. Although there were 4 maturity stages on that rod demonstrated by the use of that term and there were only 3 separate structural categories as the buds are presented as both barely sprouting as well as fully formed. Therefore just like Noah’s Ark of salvation, the golden Ark of salvation also demonstrates a doubled pattern of 3 within a pattern 4 with the deposited items. The 3rd salvation Ark is the anti typical salvation Ark of our Savior Jesus Christ. Just as those 8 men and 8 women had to be inside Noah’s Ark to be saved and just like those 4 incorruptible deposits were placed inside the golden Ark of the Covenant, we too has to be in Christ in order to be saved.

Being in Christ is a major theme throughout the apostolic writings therefore we’re certainly being invited to look for a pattern 3 within a pattern of 4 in the context of our Messiah’s saving assignment. We have 3 occasions where we see our Messiah choosing an inner circle of his disciples into a group of 4 which would of course include himself. We see Jesus specifically and exclusively choosing Peter, James, and John to join him inside the bedchamber of the 12 year-old girl that he would raise back to life in the presence of her father and mother this is from Mark 5v37. This miracle is a divine snapshot of the Resurrection to mortality. The one master with his 3 disciples forms that pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4 within the framework of the hope of salvation. The second application for this pattern would be the Transfiguration on the mount, projecting the second resurrection category, from mortality to immortality. Interestingly exactly seven present in each of those two miracles that were referencing. The first would be Jairus the father of the dead girl, his wife, Jesus of course, Peter James and John and the dead child. In the second application we have seven as well, with Jesus, Peter James, John of course, Moses and Elijah and then 7th God. In each case we see this inner circle with its pattern of 3 disciples with any pattern of for adding of course our Savior the Messiah. Now the third application is in the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus separates out Peter, James and John from the other 8 disciples, as of course Judas had already departed to lead the temple guard to Jesus.

Those 12 separate into a group of 8 and a group of 4. That group of 4 subdivides again into a group of 3 and just our Savior as he faces his temptation in the garden, just as Adam and Eve did over 4,000 years before. There is a definite pattern of 3 within a pattern of 4 within a Salvation framework that can be applied to our beloved Messiah, the 3rd and anti typical salvation ark. It is not just doubled but trebled but that’s yet another shadow pattern of our Heavenly Father hidden only for the witnessing of those within the enlightened community that have developed eyes that see and ears that hear and that application will be a future consideration.

The intended point of this observation and explanation of the extensive scriptural patterns of 3 within patterns of 4 was to demonstrate that there is another salvation stage beyond the 3 immortalization events when the faithful are immortalized. This 4th salvation stage is for all of creation when death and the grave suffer the second death, that forever death. This God being all in all in that 4th salvation stage explains the reason behind a great deal of initially confusing issues.

This is the final event, the final cutting away of all that is flesh, well mortal flesh anyway, and then 8 day in circumcision like fashion. This explains why the circumcision ritual had to be preferred above Sabbath observances, that a boy had to be circumcised on the 8th day even if he was born on the previous Sabbath. Sabbath law bowed to circumcision law just as 8 is greater than 7 and the Abrahamic covenant of faith for which circumcision was the appointed token is greater than the Mosaic Covenant of works for which Sabbath observance was the divinely appointed token. It wasn’t that one was eliminated for the other just that one was greater than the other both were necessary God doesn’t make mistakes. He teaches us in progressive stages.

It is inclusive not exclusive.

This recognition of the final salvation stage also explains why Jesus will be required to offer a sin offering for himself as well as the people during the millennial kingdom. We read this in a Ezek 45 starting in verse 21. In the first month in the 14th day of the month the Passover a feast of seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten and upon that day shall the Prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

This Prince can be no other than Jesus Christ. It is only the Prince that’s allowed to enter the temple from the east while all others are required to enter from the North or the South this Prince cannot be anyone other than the Son of God. In the same way David referred to himself as the Prince of the kingdom of God when he rebuked his wife Michal in respect to the understanding that Yahweh was the king.

So why will the Prince, Jesus Christ offer a sin offering for himself and the people at Passover during the millennial kingdom? Wasn’t the Passover completely fulfilled in the death of our Messiah? The definitive answer would be “No,” it wasn’t just the death of the firstborn of people that would die that night it was also the first born of the beast. In Exodus 12 and 12. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt both man and beast. The complete fulfillment of Passover for man and beast for all of creation will be in the 4th salvation stage when all of creation will be saved by Jesus after which he delivers the kingdom to his father. Jesus has more to do than just to save us.

Death will be passed over for the last time, consigned to the lake of fire, which is the second death, that forever elimination. This is why there will be a temple and altar and bloody animals offerings and Sabbath observance and circumcision and Passover and unleavened bread feast and the Feast of Tabernacles observance during the millennial kingdom. The saving work of Jesus Christ to eliminate sin, eliminate all contradictions of his father’s righteousness, has not been finished.

It will not be until the 4th salvation stage, that plus one application that’s been evident in so many divine shadow rituals like Jubilee law, the feast of weeks timing. Jesus still had applications of sin for which he is the only one possible to achieve these victories, there is no one else. He will have to defeat sin in the third immortalization and in the 4th phase. When death itself is eliminated. When there is no death there can be no sin, no contradictions to the creator’s righteousness. Jesus has sin defeating assignments for which he is the only possible champion.

Transcription by Fay Berry 2018