22. Class 22 – Visions of the Kingdom Age by James Dillingham, 2014

22. Class 22 – Visions of the Kingdom Age by James Dillingham, 2014

This is the twenty second presentation in the series entitled visions of the kingdom age being presented to the Cranston Rhode Island adult Sunday School class.

We are at the stage in our considerations where we are plumbing the depths of the Sabbath nature of the approaching Millennial Kingdom age.

This will be the 7th millenium since creation. This will be the seventh millennium since creation, that seventh Divine Day paralleling the 7 days of the creation week when our Creator officially rested.

The prophetic nature of that rest

We considered the prophetic nature of that rest in the creator’s question and answer presented in Isaiah 66 addressing, Where the place of his rest can be found, that it wasn’t in the temples constructed by men but in those who tremble at his word. We considered that initial application in our 17th presentation, asking why Yahweh rested on that seventh day of the creation week, and serving as the foundation for all of these Sabbath laws in the first Kingdom Age, and will be the basis for the Sabbath nature of the restored kingdom expected very soon, due to the creator’s identification of the last generation of the ecclesial age, on the basis of witnessing the resurrection of the national firstborn son of God, the nation of Israel, over those twenty years from 1947 to 1967.

Jesus told us, just before his death and resurrection that this particular generation, our generation, witnessing the re-flourishing of the Jewish fig tree, would not pass away until all the things that he had prophesied in the Olivet prophecy will have been fulfilled.

In our previous classes we have reviewed the divine creational pattern of shadows, and how those creational rules perfectly parallel the scriptural rules of divine shadow testimony. How ritual and divine law shadows, define the true substance being shadowed by the terms of our creator’s eternal righteousness. This is based on the invariable divine communication pattern of intentional complexity based on the creator’s primary goal, the development of quality in the enlightened community and not the mistaken divine motivation of quantity.

We are about to consider our 6th application of the Sabbath-nature of the approaching kingdom age. In our last presentation we reviewed the challenging issue of how circumcision law contradicted Sabbath law when both rituals had to be observed on the same day, and how these rituals were based on the 7th day and the 8th day. We looked specifically at how and why circumcision overruled Sabbath observance, and how those two signature rituals of the mosaic and Abrahamic covenant project the last two stages in the divine plan. The Sabbath kingdom and the complete cutting away of all flesh in the 8th day after the end of the Sabbath kingdom.Our 6th focus on the Sabbath-nature of the Millennial Kingdom will be consideration of the extreme divine use of patterns of 7. As the Sabbath was the 7th day and its inspiration was that 7th day of the creation week.

We have already reviewed some of the examples of the frequent patterns such as the 50 years of each Jubilee, that, interestingly, demonstrates the same 7 and 8 pattern of the Sabbath and circumcision rituals as the Sabbath was the 7th day and circumcision was the 8t day. Each Jubilee was constructed with 8 Sabbath years there were the 7 Sabbath years that occurred every seventh year, and then there was the 8th Sabbath year that immediately followed the seventh Sabbath year completing the 50-year Jubilee set, each 50 year Jubilee set.

The 49th year was that 7th Sabbath year and the final and 50th year was the 8th Sabbath year in each set. In the same way we see the completion of the creator’s plan in that 8th time following the 7th time. The circumcision like cutting away of all that is cursed flesh in that 8th day, right after the conclusion of the 7th day, the Sabbath kingdom, when creation will enjoy only a rest from sin and the effects of sin for a 1000 years.

In the same pattern the time line of the 2 resurrection of Jesus, projects the same, the exact same pattern. Jesus was raised to mortality on the 7th day, a Sabbath day, three days and three nights, after his death on Passover afternoon, just before the beginning of the next day at sunset, that first day of the feast of unleavened bread. But he was not raised to immortality until a short while later on the next day, that first day of the week, but during the night. Not sunrise, most probably after he spoke to Mary about not having risen to the Father, but before he appeared to the disciples. And the two who had quickly returned from Emmaus and which is long before sunrise, on that first day of the week. We know it was long before morning because we’re told specifically in John 20 and 19, that this event took place in the night of the first day of the week, meaning that appearance in the locked room had to be well before the morning of the 1st day of the week, as the Jewish day begins at sunset and the day is half over before sunlight ever appears.

The two resurrections of Jesus to mortality and to immortality fits the same pattern of 7 and 8 demonstrated in the two covenant rituals of the Sabbath and circumcision, and the subsequent 2 resurrection stages in the plan of God.
Saints resurrected in the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom, in the beginning of that 7th day, and the Saints resurrected just after the end of the Millennial Kingdom, in that 8th day.

We see the same 7 and 8 pattern in the corresponding 3rd and last harvest feast week, the Feast of Tabernacles, which is defined initially as a feast of 7 days, like the feast of unleavened bread, and the feasts of weeks, but an 8th day is added and it is defined as a High Sabbath, a day of holy convocation when no servile work could be done. The shadow patterns of 7 presented throughout Scripture, all extend from the same substance, that 7th day of rest the 7th divine day of a 1000 years in the creator’s plan, that Sabbath Kingdom. This understanding is demonstrated endlessly in the patterns of 7 demonstrated and presented and all throughout Scripture.

For example we have the ritual of the ashes of the red heifer. If one touched a dead body they would be unclean for 7 days. They would have to leave their family and the enlightened community encampment, living outside the camp for 7 days. They would have to participate in a sin offering on the 3rd and 7th days. This was being spattered with the ashes of the red heifer that had been mixed with what had been running water and applied with a hyssop plant. If they refused to participate they were to be expelled forever from the enlightened community without any possibility of return, projecting the perishing experienced by all who refused to submit to the terms of our creator’s righteousness.

Now although the ashes of the red heifer are described as a sin offering. twice in Num 19. it was not a transgression of the law to touch the dead, unless one was the high priest or a man or woman with a Nazarite vow. In fact touching the dead could actually qualify as an act of righteousness since it demanded that anyone hung to death had to be taken down and buried before nightfall, which was the start of a new day. This ritual identifies that other category of sin that isn’t related to transgressions of the law, identifying a very necessary cleansing from sin-nature, which assigns no guilt but still qualifies as a sin as our mortality, our sin-nature, was the righteous judgment of God upon mankind in the Garden of Eden for contagiously corrupting a previously “very good” creative order through that first guilty sin.

Obviously our Messiah is the substance casting that ritual shadow of the red heifer. It is His death that offers the necessary cleansing from sin-nature. The fact that the applications of the red heifer’s ashes were applied on the 3rd and the 7th day, is a projection of the two cleansing events, scheduled by the Creator, when the defilement of death will be eliminated in the enlightened community on the basis of our Messiah’s death. This shadow requirement of the 3rd day application is based on the 1st death defilement cleansing being scheduled for the 3rd Divine Day since the death of the anti-typical red heifer our Messiah.

Our specific generation is the last for that 2nd divine day, the 2nd millennium since the death and resurrection of Jesus almost almost 2,000 years ago, at the beginning of that 3rd day the 1st set of Saints will be cleansed from death defilement by being awarded immortality. Cleansed from the divine unacceptability of mortality or sin-nature that naturally generates contradictions to our creator’s righteousness. Unless of course those natural inclinations are faithfully resisted by denying that natural heart-generated instinctive thought process. This 3rd day application is validated in a number of similar “on the third day” applications. That 2nd cleansing with the ashes of the red heifer on the 7th day shadows that 2nd cleansing after the end of the 7th divine day, after the Sabbath kingdom ends. It will have been 7 days 7 millenniums, 7,000 years since the original righteous judgment of death for sin was imposed on mankind and all of creation. The seven day framework of the red heifer ritual of cleansing from death fits perfectly into the same 7 day Sabbath framework of the Millennial Kingdom

Another set of divinely designed rituals offering a 7 emphasis that highlights features of the kingdom age would be the 3 harvest feast weeks. I believe it was class number six in this series that considered in some detail how the 3 mandated harvest feast weeks in the first kingdom age calendar, shadowed in great detail the three immortalizationa in our creator’s plan, but the feast of unleavened bread being the shadow of our Messiah’s immortalization, his harvesting. The feast of weeks being a perfect shadow of the 2nd immortalization event at the beginning of the millennial kingdom and the feast of weeks being a detailed shadow of the third and last divine harvest of the final in gathering as it is called, just after the end of the Millennial Kingdom.

Each of these three harvest feast weeks are described in terms of being 7 days. Admittedly an eighth day is added to the Feast of Tabernacles, but initially it is defined as being 7 days. In Leviticus 23 we read, starting at verse 33, And the Lord spake unto Moses saying speak unto the children of Israel saying. The 15th day of the 7th month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for 7 days unto the Lord on the 1st day shall be an holy convocation. You shall do no servile work therein. 7 days you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. On the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you. You shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a solemn assembly and you shall do no servile work therein.

The fact that this 3rd and last feast, harvest feast, is defined with both 7 and 8 days is testimony to being a shadow of that 3rd divine harvest just after the end of the 7th day on the beginning of the 8th day when creation will witness its 3rd and last resurrection. The 3rd and last divine harvest. The final in gathering which is a description of that last harvest feast. Again the divine rituals miracles parables carefully worded historical events, prophecies centering on the number 7,. demonstrate a consistent application to that Sabbath nature of the kingdom age that we anticipate soon.

Just as there were 3 feast weeks highlighting a 7-day term, there were 3 sin offerings where the blood was spattered 7 times, on to, or towards the veil separating the holy chamber of the tabernacle from the most holy chamber. These were the sin offerings for the high priest and the nation found in Leviticus 4. And that blood of the red heifer from outside the camp from Numbers 19. Hebrews 10 defines the substance of this tabernacle veil as being the flesh of Christ. And reading there, starting at verse 19, Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way which he has consecrated for us through the vail, that is to say his flesh.

We should also be very careful to remember that it is the denial of the flesh of Christ which we were told that that vail represents, that John is inspired twice, to define as the signature doctrine of the Antichrist system. John writes, For many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an ant-christ. Look to yourselves that we lose not those things which we have wrought but that we receive a full reward.

Since that Tabernacle Vail is a shadow of the flesh, the cursed mortality of our Messiah, and it is the denial of the substance of that vail of shadow, that constitutes the signature doctrine of the Antichrist system, we had better be very careful, about our considerations of the substance casting that vail-shadow, and all of the related issues. There were two sin offering categories, I should say, being highlighted in these 3 sin offerings where the blood is spattered on or toward the vail 7 times. 1st is the transgressional sin for which we do bare guilt as seen in the sin offerings for the high priest and the nation, and 2ndly are unclean sin-nature for which we do not bear any guilt whatsoever for that sin category. But why? why would that sin offering blood be spattered on or toward the vail representing our Messiah’s mortal flesh, specifically 7 times and 3 sets of 7 times.

The answer is that the divinely appointed limit for sin is exactly 7 times, or 7 divine days and there will be exactly 3 formal applications of that sacrificial blood application at those 3 immortalization events, over those 7 divine days. That 7th millennium of the Sabbath kingdom will be the last divine day of sins reign permitted by Yahweh just after the end of the Millennial Kingdom following the Last Judgment and the last resurrection to immortality, death will be completely eliminated. Paul defines this as the “last enemy” in 1 Corinthians 15. With the elimination of death comes the elimination of sin, as there could be no sin if there can be no death. The wages of sin is death. Death was the righteous judgment for sin when Adam’s and Eve’s transgressional sin contagiously corrupted all of a previously very good creative order.

Sin in both its applications is limited to 7 millenniums, 7 divine days. It is the sacrificial blood of Jesus willingly offered in a body where the nature of sin existed from his birth from Mary, but no transgressional sin had even once been conceived during his 33 plus years. Jesus validated the righteousness of his father’s original judgment of death for sin throughout his life and perfectly in his voluntary death. The fact that there are exactly 7 of these blood spatterings covering both of the sin categories serves as a prophetic projection of the exact number and exact applications for the anti-typical sin offering of our Messiah.There was only 1 sin offering application that required no forgiveness whatsoever and that was our Messiah. He certainly benefited from his own offering for sin, as he was immortalized, but had nothing to be forgiven for. He broke the power of sin in his death by experiencing both the 1st and last maturing stages of sin, but not the second.

James defines those three maturing stages as 1. temptation 2. the conception of sin maturing from that temptation and then 3. Death, the finally ordained answer for sin.

Jesus suffered with temptation, being tempted in all points like as we are as ourselves and in Hebrews 4, but without allowing that temptation, for which no guilt is assigned, to conceive into guilty sin. And Jesus also experienced that third maturing stage death. By experiencing the 1st and 3rd signature stages without the 2nd he effectively broke the power of sin, which is why we break the memorial bread to remember the value offered to us in the death of our Messiah, and why that vail represent our Messiah’s mortal flesh was torn from heaven to earth, immediately after his crucifixion. Jesus was that red heifer whose ashes cleanse from the defilement of death. For himself and for the two sets of faithful at two different times on that 3rd and 7th days.

Unlike the cleansing of Jesus through his sin-sacrifice the next two applications most definitely possess a sin forgiveness aspect. The immortalization, that death-cleansing of the saints at the beginning of the sabbath kingdom and just after the end of the sabbath kingdom, both absolutely require a guilty sin forgiveness component. This is why there were 3 sets of 7 sin offering, blood spatterings, on or toward that vail of our Messiah’s flesh, with one exclusively projecting that guilt-free aspect of sin, being human nature, and the other 2 being guilty sin forgiveness.

Sin’s power and literal existence is limited to 7 times. Sin and the divine answer for sin, being death, will cease to exist after 7 times. After the 7 millenniums in the creator’s plan. Just as there is a 7-day Sabbath nature to the Millennial Kingdom, there is a very common seven 7 -7 emphasis in scriptural shadows extending from that restored Kingdom. Emphasizing this focus on 7 and those 3 sets of 7 is how the timing between the actual sin sacrifice of our Messiah until the second application at the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom is expressed in the terms 3 sets of 7 stages.

John’s prophecy of his revelation on Patmos, defines the time until the introduction until the introduction of the millennial kingdom, in terms of 3 sets of 7 progressive stages. Those are defined as 7 seals, 7 trumpets and 7 bowls. Now currently we are in the 6th seal period which began in the early to mid 19th century with the drying up of the Ottoman Empire, and those three frog spirits began croaking their ungodly philosophies.

Just as we’ve seen the 3 sets of sin-offering blood, spattered 7 times at or toward the tabernacle vail, and the 3 sets of 7 sign profiles in Revelation of the 7 seals 7 trumpets in the 7 bowls and their prophetic measurement from the beginning of the ecclesial age or actually more appropriately the end of the first Kingdom age, to the beginning of the restoration of the restored Kingdom age, that Millennial Kingdom age, we also see 3 shadow records of the 3 immortalizations in the Divine Plan seen in the 7 joined in the cloud on the Mount of Transfiguration. That miracle took place 7 days after the promise. In Matthew and Mark we read that the Transfiguration prophetic shadow miracle played out after 6 days following the promise. That’s from Matthew 16, I think it’s verse 28 to chapter 17 verse 1 and in Mark 9 verses 1 – I believe it is. But in Luke’s account in chapter 9 the time stamp from the original promise to the miracle on the Mount is described as about 8 days. Therefore the time from the promise of witnessing the coming kingdom to the realization of witnessing the kingdom on the Transfiguration Mount was 7 days, for those 7 at this event, and those 7 were Jesus Christ Peter James and John Moses Elijah and the 7th was God. Speaking from the cloud and embracing all of them in that cloud, as Luke records it.

3 accounts for that immortalization prophetic shadow on the 7 day for the 7 witnesses. This was a miracle shadowing the resurrection to immortality. However we also have the record of a miracle where 7 witness a resurrection to mortality. Those seven were the dead twelve-year-old daughter of Jairus, her father and mother, Peter, James, John and of course Jesus Christ, being the 7th. The fact that this raising of the dead daughter qualifies as a resurrection is easily proven in many ways but quickly and easily by Paul in Hebrews 11 and verse 35 where we read, Women received their dead raised to life again and others were tortured not accepting deliverance, that they they might obtain a better resurrection

The dead children returned to their mothers alive again are referenced as a “resurrection,” but not the “best” resurrection. That there is a “better” resurrection we hope to obtain since the only one resurrected to immortality at that time was Jesus Christ, that can’t possibly be the reference point. How could we hope to obtain a “better” resurrection than our Messiah. That would be completely ludicrous, but we do hope to attain a better resurrection then the children raised only back to mortality, such as the widow of Zarephath’s son raised by Elijah. That you should mother’s son raised by Elishah and the daughter of the wife of Jairus raised by Jesus.

Just as we have a miracle depicting the resurrection to mortality witnessed by 7 and the little girl’s bedroom, so we also have a miracle depicting the resurrection to immortality being witnessed by 7 on the Mount of Transfiguration. It is these extensive and repeated patterns of patterns within divine laws, rituals miracles, historical records, parables prophecies and time lines that offer the”more” Jesus promises in Matthew 13 to those possessing hearing ears and seeing eyes within the enlightened community.

That “more” that is outside the comprehension of the uncircumcised in heart this “more” constitutes the depth of the glory of the knowledge of our Creator that will eventually saturate the earth as the waters cover the sea. When our Creator is vindicated in that 7th day, that Sabbath kingdom. When we correctly understand the features of our creator’s righteousness. What the New Testament calls “the truth” we can validate those truths in endless ways from every direction.

Another example of this pattern of a pattern, of three sets of 7, would be the 7 days of patient waiting required for the three different applications of divine uncleanness. 1 would be the 7 day cleansing procedure with that red heifer ashes from the defilement of the touch of death. 2nd a healed leper had to wait that same seven days from the priest’s examination for the four final ritual stages of His divine acceptability and 3rd the person waiting 7 days after being healed from a bodily issue.

Three sets of 7 days all shadow testifying about the recovery of the faithful from the physical effects of the curse of sin and death that was righteously and contagiously imposed on all of creation, in the Garden of Eden, for Adam and Eve’s sinful contradiction of the creator’s righteousness, almost six thousand years ago. Our generation of the enlightened community is at the edge the very border of that 7th time that 7th day when everything is going to change. The finality and completion projected in the divinely appointed 7 pattern is demonstrated in both the ritual of circumcision and the qualification of sacrificial acceptance at the altar. The uncircumcised baby boy remained uncircumcised for his first 7 days on the 8th day he had to be circumcised.

We read that in Leviticus 12 his un-circumcision state was limited to those 1st 7 days of his life. Just as the un-circumcision of mankind will be limited to 7 days. In the 8th millennium all flesh will be cut away with all mortal life being eliminated when death that last enemy is cast into the symbolic lake of fire. In the same pattern we see that each of the 3 sacrificial animal categories of bullock, sheep and goat were not acceptable at the altar of burnt-offering for the first 7 days of their life. It was on the 8th day they were acceptable at the altar. We read this in Leviticus 22 starting at verse 26, And the Lord spake unto Moses saying when a Bullock or sheep or a goat is brought forth then it shall be 7 days under the dam and from the 8th day and henceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

In the same sense the first altar of burnt-offering, that altar built for the tabernacle, that Christ’s altar, went through 7 days of sin offerings for its own atonement. This this bronze appliance, before it could be used on behalf of the people. We read this in Exodus 29 starting in verse 36, And thou shall offer every day a Bullock for a sin offering for atonement and thou shall cleanse the altar when thou hast made an atonement for it and thou shalt anoint it to sacrifice to sanctify it. 7 days thou shall make an atonement for the altar and sanctify it and it shall be an altar most holy.

And this is exactly the same pattern for the last altar before the last temple, that Omega altar in the Millennial Kingdom age. We read this in Ezekiel 43 starting at verse 25. 7 days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering. They shall also prepare a young bullock and a ram on a without blemish. 7 days shall they purge the altar and purify it, and they shall consecrate themselves, and when these days are expired it shall be that upon the 8th day and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar and your peace offerings and I will accept you saith the Lord God.

In the same sense there will be seven steps,leading into the entrance gates of the last temple. To be built in the Sabbath kingdom, that 7th divine day we read that in Ezekiel 40 I think it’s around verse 22 and verse 26. In the same sense we read how Naaman the leprous Syrian general was required to wash 7 consecutive times in the Jordan River in order to be healed and cleansed of his leprosy.

Also satisfying this pattern template are the seven times for Nebuchadnezzar’s beasts madness. The lesson learned by the reluctantly enlightened King was, That the most high rules in the kingdom of men, Just as that beasts madness was limited to seven times, so that serpent beast mentality of the sons of men, will only last seven times in the Creator’s 7 thousand year plan. The Serpent’s mentality chosen in Eden almost 6 thousand years ago will be completely eliminated from mankind after 7 times.

There is a great blessing promised to those who are wise enough to read and study John’s recorded revelations on the island of Patmos. Throughout this book of prophecies mapping out the time between the the end of the first kingdom age and the beginning of the restored kingdom age, that Sabbath kingdom, we see an extreme emphasis on these patterns of seven. In the 1st chapter we see the 7 lamps and the 7 Stars and 7 spirits. In chapters 2 and 3 we see the 7 ecclesias. We see that 3-fold progression of the 7 seals being broken the 7 trumpets sounding the 7 bowls being poured out, prophetically chronicling the events leading up to the millennial kingdom of the 7th day.

We see the seven plagues distributed by the seven angels. The red dragon in Chapter 12 with its 7 heads and 7 Crowns among the 7 heads of the Scarlet Beast in Chapter 17 representing the 7 hills surrounding Rome defined at the end of that chapter as the city that reigns over the kings of the earth. There is most definitely a scripture-wide emphasis identifying the nature, structure blessings and purpose of the Millennial Kingdom with the number 7 which validates our foundational identification of that kingdom as the Sabbath kingdom, when our Creator will take his rest and those who have trembled at his words, those who have circumcised their hearts and prepared themselves to be the places of the creator’s rest in the seventh day.

our seventh and appropriately last observation in this consideration of the Sabbath nature of the Millennial Kingdom is the divine mandate that even animals were divinely required to rest on a Sabbath day. We read this in Deuteronomy 15 starting in verse 12, Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee six days thou shalt labor and do all thy work but the 7th day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work that with a son or a daughter nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any of thy cattle nor thy stranger that is women thy gates, that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

Now the Apostle Paul makes it clear that laws about animals were not really about the animals but to educationally demonstrate divine truths to the Enlightenment community. We read in 1st Corinthians 9 starting at verse 9, For it is written in the law of Moses thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads out the corn. Does God take care for oxen or says he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes no doubt this is written. Yahweh didn’t make this rule about animals resting on the Sabbath for the sake of the animals. He certainly wouldn’t be a member of PETA an acronym for people for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. After all God gave mankind permission to eat animals after the flood and commanded the sacrificial slaughter of animals, so PETA’s philosophy is a complete contradiction of our creator’s righteousness.

So why would God make the specific distinction that the work animals offered in the agricultural and transportation processes, be given a rest on the Sabbath day. Well first we should remember from our beloved Dr. Thomas a quote frequently offered declaring that salvation is not about human salvation but about God manifestation. We human beings have a natural tendency to presume that everything is all about us. It isn’t. Everything is about God.

It isn’t just mankind that needs to be saved. We are not being saved in some distantly heavenly environment separate from the earth, like the like the pagan inspired Christian delusion of immortal souls, being transported away from earth to heaven after the body dies. Which is a direct extension of the original serpent-lie that we don’t really die.The entire creation project has to be saved not just mankind. In the same sense that animals were given a divinely mandated rest on the 7th day just like men and women.

This principle of salvation encompassing more than just mankind, is also demonstrated in the fact that Yahweh required Noah to include animals on that first of the 3 salvation arks. While only a male and female of unclean animals were invited into that salvation ark, we see an appropriate seven clean animals being included. Just as animals were saved from the floods destruction so animals were unburdened and invited to rest on sabbath days.

In the same sense we see that all of creation will benefit from the rest from sin and the rest from the physical effects of sin that will be realized during the sabbath kingdom. We read more than once in Isaiah how violent carnivorous beasts and venomous reptiles will become harmless. Lambs will have no reason to fear lions. Wouldn’t the Sierra club and all the other organizations opposed to species extinction be incensed at the prospect of this development.

In the sabbath kingdom age we read that toddlers will be able to safely play by a formerly poisonous snake’s den. Desolate desert terrains will become lush gardens. There will be a new agricultural plant species for feeding the hungry and healing diseases. The earth will have a rest from war, from innocent blood saturating and defiling the dust of the earth during the Sabbath kingdom, the 1000 year rest.

There is another extended lesson in this animal rest, that has a sabbath kingdom application, from a divine perspective. There are three categories of mortal people on earth. There is the unenlightened and they will all die forever, but in the enlightened community there are two separate subcategories of people. There is the un-enlightened that will live forever after judgment, and then there is the enlightened that will die forever after being rejected at the Judgment.

These three categories of people are identified directly with three categories of beasts within the laws of the first kingdom of God, based on two issues. First is being clean or unclean beasts, similar to the enlightened or unenlightened people categories. 2nd is the division within the clean beasts category separating one group from the other, based on their blood being sacrificially acceptable at the altar, for domesticated animals, or their blood being limited to the dust of the earth, for wild animals.

This distinction parallels the two categories of en-lightened people, with one enlightened subgroup being ultimately and eternally acceptable to the Creator through Christ, through the altar, the Christ altar. and the other being ultimately and eternally unacceptable to God. What we will be able to see is that the presence of unclean beasts on Noah’s Ark of salvation, and beasts being included in each Sabbath rest, is a declaration that the rest of the Sabbath kingdom will include the unenlightened community as well as the enlightened community. Let’s review the divine precedence for this understanding.

1st there is the distinction between clean as opposed to an unclean beast, and this is determined by three conditions, one being the parted hoof 2. specifically a cloven hoof and 3. qualifying as a cud-chewing animal.These three distinctions separated clean beasts from unclean beasts like the divine distinction between the enlightened community of mankind and the unenlightened.

Other clean animal distinctions included sea creatures birds insects, but this is not the environment of mankind. We are not sea creatures or fowl flying through the skies or insects. Our environment is the environment of the beasts. Just as the clean beasts constituted the smaller group, this has correspondingly always been true of the quantity distinction between the unenlightened community and the always significantly outnumbered enlightened community. At least since the flood. Additionally there was a further distinction between clean animals just as there is with the enlightened community there were 7 categories of animals that were required to be offered on the altar of burnt-offering. These included the male bullock, the male and female goat, the male and female sheep, a turtledove or a pigeon, with the birds not defining any kind of gender specification. There was actually an 8th sacrificial animal category but it was not offered on the altar and was actually sacrificially offered outside the camp and that was of course the red heifer, the female counterpart of the male Bullock, that male blood being required for the sin offerings for high priests and the nation on the altar.

However there were many other clean animals, beasts that the enlightened community were permitted to kill and eat but whose blood was never allowed to be presented at the altar. Now these blood distinctions were absolute there were no exceptions. The blood of the altar acceptable clean animals had to always be offered at the altar. If anyone did not bring the blood of a sacrificial animal to the altar they were to be ostracized forever from the enlightened community. Additionally the blood of the clean but wild animal always had to be poured into the dust and never offered at the altar.

The accommodation Yahweh made when the Israelites inherited the promised land was to consider all their herds and flocks as wild beasts, that would not be offered at the altar. This wild or domesticated distinction between the two sets of clean beasts determined what happened to their blood, in other words the life of that representative beast. The destination of the blood of the clean animals is distinctive to its spiritual lesson. An Israelite was permitted to hunt kill and eat a wild clean beast like an antelope but had to pour out its blood, its life into the dust, and cover it with dust. The life the blood of the subservient domesticated beast the Bullock sheep goat or the appropriate bird was exclusively bound to the Christ altar however the life the blood of the clean but rebellious or wild beast was bound to the curse of the dust. That that curse being dust thou art and dust thou shalt return as God told Adam following that first creation corrupting sin.

Therefore there’s a perfect parallel distinction between beasts and people in divine laws. The two primary categories of people unenlightened and enlightened from a divine perspective parallel the two primary categories of beasts, clean and unclean. The two subcategories of clean beasts being exclusively acceptable at the altar or exclusively bound to the dust of the earth parallel the two subcategories of the enlightened community who will either live forever due to their divine acceptability or die forever due to their divine unacceptability.

The identification of beasts with people saturates Scripture. The Israelite had to personally execute their sacrificial beast as they placed one hand on the head of the beast, clearly identifying themselves, with the sacrificial beasts declaring the righteousness of the creator’s original judgment of death for sin, in that personal execution, of the clean beast whose blood was bound to the Christ altar.

We see beasts identified with both the enlightened and the unenlightened community in the Cherubim in prophecies like Daniel 7. Laws like Sabbath rest for the beasts, and the requirement that the ox could not be muzzled while treading out the corn, and not seathing a kid in its mother’s milk. As Paul points out more than once these laws were not for the beasts but for our considerations about the terms of our creators righteousness.

Therefore we are very safe in our understanding, that just as clean and unclean beasts were included and Noah’s Ark of salvation and beasts were directly included in the Sabbath laws of rest, so there will be unenlightened people enjoying the rest of the Sabbath kingdom. Now admittedly this is not an issue that was probably ever in doubt, the prophecies of the kingdom age certainly define the presence of a mortal unenlightened community during that global reign on earth of Christ and the immortalized Saints. And Christ will be a light to the Gentiles, those heathen Gentiles which is not the same as a Gentile faithful that are considered the spiritual children of Abraham on the basis of faith.

Christ will rule the nations indicating the unenlightened the unclean beasts of the earth these are all declarations of the same truth. However this exercise was also a demonstration of the 3-dimensional nature of all divine expressions. That when we have a correct understanding it can be proven through many different avenues. This is a significant realization in the context of the current powerful challenges from within the enlightened community as to concerning the terms of our creator’s righteousness his rightness, his truth, are they’re being increasingly challenged by corrupting influences from within the enlightened community.

Such as the two categories of sin being denied, reclassified as a single category of only transgressional sin. The principle of atonement is being diminished violently into nothing more than the forgiveness of sins. The requirement of demonstrating personal righteousness in the pursuit of Yahweh’s righteousness is being eliminated by suggesting that imputed righteousness is exclusive, which is baby stepping toward the doctrine of salvation exclusively based on faith, and having nothing to do with works. We see the highly inappropriate teaching that baptism is all about the forgiveness of our personal sins and not declaring God’s righteousness, in demanding death for sin. Suggesting that death preceded sin in the creation process and the Edenic judgment, such as theistic evolution imaginations.

These distortions of our creator’s righteousness, and more, are accelerating and the enlightened community in these last days of the last generation of the ecclesial age. We should be aware that any feature of our creator’s righteousness can be proven through multiple avenues, because our creators expressions, are three-dimensional, everything fits together perfectly at every point of consideration, when we have it absolutely right. That is the glory of the knowledge of God that will eventually cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.

The other issue being stressed in this examination of how the divine law for beasts enjoying a Sabbath rest projects how even the unenlightened community will enjoy the blessings of the Sabbath kingdom, demonstrates the Sabbath nature, of the Millennial Kingdom age, which is exactly what our educational theme has been for these last 3 presentations.

In our next class we will begin examining a different feature addressing the visions of the kingdom age.

Transcription by Fay Berry 2018