24. Visions of the Kingdom Age Study 24 by Jim Dillingham, 2014

24. Class 24 – Visions of the Kingdom Age by Jim Dillingham 2014

This will be the 24th presentation on the series entitled Visions of the Kingdom Age having been offered to the Cranston, Rhode Island ecclesia.

It seems appropriate in our 24th presentation to consider why it is that our Creator has so very frequently identified the enlightened community and particularly the Saints with the number 12. The 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ are really just the start of this long list for the numerical identification of the Saints with the number 12.

This examination will be done in three stages. First we’ll review a number of these identifications just to recognize the emphasis Yahweh is making on this parallel presentation. When the creator of heaven and earth offers a significant emphasis in its testimony to those with hearing ears and seeing eyes, that emphasis should not be ignored. However it is not simply the structure of an emphasis that should limit our examination it is always the Why questions that address the greatest value. We want to know why Yahweh so frequently identifies the Saints with the number 12, what does this tell us in the context of the divine principles and exhortation in this pattern.

So stage 1 is to address the divine emphasis demonstrated in the repeated identification of the enlightened community and the Saints with the number 12. Any spotlighted centre stage level of significance from our Creator should be getting our attention. Perhaps since this association between the number 12 and and the enlightened community in particularly the Saints seems elementary and elementally true. But perhaps the weight of this divine evidence has not been measured.

The second step in our reasoning will be to consider the validity of the structural framework for any consideration of a spiritually assigned numerical value. We can demonstrate how our Creator uses the science of mathematics as one of his intentionally complex communication filters. And this particular issue has mystified the unenlightened scientific community for well over 2,000 years.

The third and final stage in our reasoning will be to answer our Why question. Anyone can see how Yahweh uses the number 12 in a particular rather restricted focus, but we want to know Why? What is our creator’s motivation in this communication exercise and what more can we see by answering this Why question.

If we are among those who truly love Yahweh our Elohim with all our heart and mind and strength in life then we will listen intently and look intently at divine communications for that more that Jesus Christ promised his disciples. The answers to Why questions in reference to our creator’s intentionally complex communications provides that more we are searching for.

So let us ask that question that first question about how our Heavenly Father emphasizes the relationship between the number 12 and the enlightened community and particularly the Saints all throughout scripture. A very obvious example would be the 12 sons of Jacob whose descendants constituted the twelve tribes of Israel. This was the 4th generation in the lineage of the promises. In each of the previous three generations only one man who was divinely chosen to receive those promises. Abraham was the only one from his generation given those promises. Isaac was exclusively chosen in the next generation as was Jacob in the next. But In the fourth generation we do not see that singular exclusivity we see twelve sons from four wives being extended those same promises constituting the community of the enlightened and projecting the Saints that would inherit those promises.

We see a number of applications where God emphasizes this number 12 identification like the 12 gems on the breastplate of the high priests representing those 12 tribes. And twelve stones taken from the Jordan as a memorial after those twelve tribes crossed the miraculously reversed flow of the Jordan River to enter the promised land under Joshua’s direction just before their second circumcision since Egypt and their second Passover since Egypt.

In similar fashion 12 Scouts from the enlightened community are sent to spy out the promised land that will eventually be separated into 12 Geographic divisions of inheritance under Joshua the Hebrew name for Jesus in that first kingdom age and of course under the greater Joshua Jesus Christ in the restored kingdom age that we are now anticipating.

The twelve tribes are divinely organized into a foursquare configuration in the wilderness. That is similar to the 12 bronze oxen that Solomon commissions to support the brazen sea in front of the temple that he constructs. The twelve lions on the 6 steps of Solomon’s throne parallel the two piles of six individual shewbread in the holy chamber of the tabernacle each week.

We see this association presented in Elijah’s showdown on Mt Carmel to save the enlightened community from the continuing corruption of their apostasy. With the twelve stones that formed the altar in the twelve barrels of water used to drench the offering and the altar.

We see the obvious application of the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus during his ministry as well as miracles highlighting the number 12 like like the healing of the unclean woman who had suffered with a bodily issue for 12 years and the raising of the 12 year old daughter of Jairus and the 12 baskets of leftovers following the miraculous feeding of the 5,000.

This 12 emphasis accelerates in the prophecies of the Millennial Kingdom where we see that 4th altar in front of the fourth temple with its 12 square dimensions.

The immortalized Saints are identified with the symbolic number of 144,000 which is 12 times 12 times 1000. In revelation 21 and 22 we read the bride of the Lamb being identified as New Jerusalem with 12 gates and 12 angels at those gates 12 foundations 12 pearls, the city and the city’s dimensions of 12,000 furlongs by 12,000 furlongs. We see the trees lining the river of life producing 12 separate harvesting of fruit each year.

I would think these 24 examples should be sufficient for emphasizing the association between the number 12 and the community of the enlightened and particularly the Saints constituting the ecclesial Bride of Christ. That’s just the testimony of the written word of God. We certainly didn’t exhaust the potential examples of this pattern but we did stop at a total of 24 examples.

This is our 24th presentation. We also have the testimony of the 2nd witness of the spoken word of God, the terms of creation. Again we referred to the testimony of the terms of the creational order as the spoken word of God as that was the avenue for its existence and development. Now foundationally the six days of creative activity before that seventh day they have rest are identified by 12 timing components being 6 evenings and 6 mornings of creative activity. Extending from this would be how we separate each year into 12 months similarly each day is divided into two sets of 12 hours. Just as each day is divided into two by darkness and light.

We’ve noted before in these considerations how the operating structure of our universe is an exact match for the divinely appointed structure of the enlightened community in that first Kingdom age with that wilderness configuration. Just like night and day. Just like father and mother there are two layers to each structure. Just like the two layers of two generations in Noah’s Ark. There is both the wilderness configuration and our Universal operating structure. The divinely designed wilderness configuration of the enlightened community was a doubled Foursquare design.

Just like those for men and for women on the ark with their two generations like the Foursquare incense altar with the 4 equal incense ingredients constituting the incense to be burned. Like the Foursquare bronze altar of burnt-offering with the 4 categories of blood sacrifices like the 4 Cherubim with 4 faces and their 4 wheels within 4 wheels. And the list goes on and on, and on.

The outer Foursquare wilderness configuration had those 12 components. The 12 tribes with 3 tribes placed at each of the 4 quadrants. The inner Foursquare stage included the 3 Levite divisions and the priests. In the center of this configuration was the divine presence in the tabernacle. Licensing our examination of this exterior three-stage progression is a repeated interior three-stage holiness progression of the tabernacle itself with the courtyard the holy chamber and then the most holy chamber.

Further emphasizing this pattern is that each of these three holiness stages contains three components. First the courtyard has the bronze altar the bronze laver and the tabernacle itself. Second the holy chamber has the golden lampstand the golden table of show bread and the golden incense altar.

In the most holy chamber we only see the one golden Ark making a kind of 4th holiness stage but inside we see three deposits. First was the golden bowl of manna second was the covenant stones with those ten commandments and third was the high priest’s rod of resurrection.

One would presume that level of emphasis, consistent evidence validates our highlighting of these patterns of three within that outer four square configuration forming that pattern of 12. This is exactly the operating structure of creation from a scientific view of the universe extending out from our Creator we have 4 basic components to the operation of a universe of our universe.

There are four, there are no more, there are no less. These four components are time, space, matter and energy just like we’re taught in elementary school science class. Everything in our universe fits within those four categories. These four universal structure components parallel the Levite and priestly spiritual stage of the wilderness configuration. Now what is truly fascinating however is the perfect consistency of the 3rd stage in this scientific examination of the operating structure of our universe. There are exactly three subdivisions of each of these four foundational components of the universe. Just like the wilderness configuration designed by the same creator of the universe.

Space sub-divides into 3 spatial dimensions of width breadth and height no more no less. Matter subdivides into exactly three components of solids liquids and gases no more no less. Time subdivides into exactly three components, a past present and future no more no less.

It is energy where we may at first feel challenged in this parallel between the divinely designed configuration of the enlightened community and the divine design of the universe. Scientists only tell us of two subdivisions of energy not 3. We can see energy in motion or kinetic energy and energy at rest which is passive energy. Now an example of passive energy would be a barrel of oil an example of kinetic energy would be a barrel of burning oil. But there’s a third category of energy that cannot be scientifically separated out for examination or experimentation and is completely invisible to the entire scientific community. That would be the power of the Holy Spirit which cannot be limited to either kinetic or passive energy, is totally unique as an energy component of the universe.

The Holy Spirit is the third category of energy making that 12th component extending out from the creator and designer of all things. The creator mapped out the wilderness configuration of the enlightened community in that first Kingdom age in the exact pattern he mapped out the configuration of his design of the universe, with that outer identification of 12 components in each configuration. Hopefully this volume and depth of the interrelated pattern of applications for our creator’s use of the number 12 in both his written word and his spoken word, will be sufficient to demonstrate an emphasized pattern that is silently shouted to those with seeing eyes and hearing ears. These examples will have to be sufficient for now. We have limited time to present the three phases of our evidence and our conclusion.

As God uses numbers in his communications it is never simple or easy. I mean just like the principle of multitudinous singularity, God manifestation. Synergy would be the scientific term, as presented in our previous considerations where every component to the whole has to fit together perfectly to create not only a complete harmony but a whole that is much greater than the sum of the individual parts. Just like music and singing therefore the explanation of the number twelve, or numbers eight, four, six, three, two or even one is not going to be simple, easy or elementary as that fleshly heart generated thought process works against the divine pattern of thought and our spiritual education process. We’re being invited to become more than we are more like our Heavenly Father more in his likeness so that we might also qualify to be in his image.

This complexity issue is why we see the number 12 sometimes comprised of different mathematical combinations. Like two sets of six to make it 12 such as the two piles of showbread in the Holy Chamber of the tabernacle and the six exterior gold covered surfaces of the Ark of the Covenant and the six interior services to make two sets of six paralleling the 6x exteriors and interiors gold coverings of the earth we have these six guilty sin offerings listed in Leviticus four five and the six sin offerings for physical cleansing where there has been no transgression all sin and no guilt. Again being leprosy recovery bodily issues recovery touching the dead a mother of gives birth the annual sin offering for the tabernacle and all its components and the seven days of sin offerings for the atonement of the bronze altar of burnt-offering at its dedication.

But two sets of shoes 6 isn’t the same as 6 sets of two demonstrated in the creation week where we see six evenings and six mornings being noted these are similar but also different we see twelve sets of one as in the twelve tribes and twelve apostles we also see four sets of three as in the wilderness configuration and the structure of the universe and the layout of the twelve breast brazen oxen holding the bronze sea in the courtyard of Solomon’s Temple.

So we’re not free to provide a symbol or wide-ranging exclusive answer. Whatever insights we might make into the mind of our creator concerning these patterns will have to blend together perfectly whether we consider the twelve patterns comprised of six twos or two sixes or twelve ones or twelve times twelve or four threes. Oversimplification is the absolute number one barrier to progressive education in the divine plan and understanding the divine perspective.

Our second stage of consideration will be D considered the framework for this question about the observation that our Heavenly Father uses numbers and particularly the science of mathematics in both avenues of his testimony,both the Bible the written words of our Creator and secondly the components and structure of creation which were produced and organized by his spoken words, his verbal summoning of the features and operating structure of creation, and therefore have to agree perfectly. This is why the unenlightened community cannot truly understand our environment because they don’t understand the written word of God the Bible. And therefore are very limited in their understandings of what they disrespectfully refer to as nature, as opposed to creation.

An example of this confusion in the context of our mathematics application would be a book published a few years ago entitled, Is God a mathematician this book was written by dr. Mario Olivio a Jewish senior physicist associated with the Hubble space project in Maryland. He also had served in the Israeli army many years ago. Dr. Olivia has written several mathematics based books but this title intrigued me and so I read it. This book chronicles the curiosity that world-famous mathematicians have expressed down through time and as what is defined as the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in defining the features of nature, or as we in the enlightened community prefer to say creation. It has actually been emotionally unsettling for the mathematics elite for over 2,000 years to witness the consistency and perfection in the mathematical patterns that define our environment.

It is emotionally unsettling due to the logical prompt that everything around us therefore must have been intelligently designed in order to demonstrate this mathematically consistent foundation and interdependence as opposed to the supposedly more common presumption of an undesigned and random nature of chaos and accidental development.

We’ve repeatedly noted the unique divine communication pattern of intentional complexity. This intentional complexity pattern acts as a filter giving more to those with seeing eyes and hearing ears while simultaneously taking away from those without seeing eyes and hearing ears. We have noted the key to this capacity to hear divine communication and see with understanding eyes is the learned behavioral pattern of meekness. Exactly what that intentional complexity is supposed to develop, reversing our natural tendency to make God small and ourselves large which is the invariable thought pattern of the sons of men, and the instinctive heart-based thought process of our serpent-inspired nature.

This differential in perspective was very evident in the historical records of the musings of the mathematical elite. Sir Isaac Newton was presumably the greatest of history’s mathematicians he was also an eager Bible student and believer in the intelligent design of creation. This is of course as opposed to the presumption that nature accidentally progressed from simple chaos to an ordered interdependent complexity which is an understanding completely contradicted by our current natural order where only on the basis of our intelligent and ordered manipulation of our natural environment that we can delay decay and prevent our natural order from spiraling into chaos.

However Newton could not scientifically or mathematically explain the stability of our solar system. He suggested that the reason the planets do not spiral into the Sun or slingshot into deep space was the power of the creator miraculously and very unnaturally maintaining the balance of the solar system in some miraculous fashion. Newton’s reasoning suggested that because the creator’s works of creation were not perfectly balanced, well this somehow proved his existence. Despite Newton’s faith in the Creator, his underestimation of that creator somehow confirmed his confidence in the existence of a somewhat intelligent designer.

Well a little over a hundred years later the Marquis de La Place posted his research entitled celestial mechanics. This work answered the questions about the stability of our solar system without requiring magical tweaking by an almost omniscient an almost omnipotent creator.
La Place most certainly did not believe in an intelligent designer. His perturbation theory demonstrated how the stability of our solar system would extend for far longer than anticipated by Newton by bringing into the gravity stabilizing equation the presence of vast amounts of cosmic dust. La Place maintained with a significant amount of arrogance, that since nature was perfectly balanced needing no magical interfere, this somehow validated the absence of an intelligent designer.

Isn’t that fascinating. Both elite mathematical scientists employ their disrespectful impressions of a less than omniscient and omnipotent creator to validate their diametrically opposed reasoning. Newton promotes the concept that because the creator couldn’t get it quite right and had to magically and unnaturally tweak the features of creation for sustainability this somehow proves intelligent design and control.

Laplace promotes the concept that since the sustainability of the universe is perfectly right well in other words that the greater did a flawless job, that this somehow proves that there is no need for man to create some power higher than ourselves. That there’s no reason to divert our self-worshipping gaze away from the mirror.

Both men based their conclusions on the premise that our Creator cannot be as all-powerful and all-knowing as he claims. That at best he merely tweaks a universe that is supposedly greater than himself. This Creator-degrading presumption is extremely common.

The truth of the matter is it our Creator is not some mere manipulator of a universe greater than himself. Literally everything that has been made projects that divine truths and principles of our Creator right down to the finest subatomic detail the mathematics chemistry and biology disciplines offer the same patterns as scriptural expressions. The glory of the knowledge of our Creator is far more amazing then we can possibly understand with such limited mental capacities as we currently possess,no matter how smart we think we may be.

But we can witness an increasing measure of that carefully veiled glory now. We can leverage the power of that experience of seeing that hidden beauty and glory to fuel our faith and seal our resolve and develop a powerful hunger a longing for that “more” Jesus promises to those developing seeing eyes and hearing ears than the enlightened community. For seeing a progressively greater degree of that divine glory hidden away for the exclusive access of only those with those seeing eyes and hearing ears, those who as we read in Isaiah tremble at God’s words.

There is most definitely a creator-provided frame legitimizing our mathematically based examinations of our creator’s testimony. Even the wise in their own eyes among the sons of men who are exalted by their peers for the depth and application of their mathematical pursuits. These people can see that frame. They just can’t see the divinely provided patterns hidden within that frame for those who have emptied themselves, the poor in spirit the humble and contrite who tremble at the beauty the glory and the sheer power of God’s words.

So now we’re free to move on to stage three in our considerations, actually addressing that Why question, about Why Yahweh so frequently uses the number 12 to identify the enlightened community and particularly the Saints all through scripture. Let us return to our observation of how the divine design of the enlightened community in the first kingdom age perfectly parallels the divine operating design of our universe. Since our focus is the number 12 let us note that exterior construction of the twelve tribes into four separate encampment sections with three tribes in each of those four quadrants. This pattern perfectly matches another divine pattern that projects not only the hope of the faithful but the very process by which they can participate in that hope. This would be the four Divine sanctuaries, the four temples of God which are each divided into three holiness stages.

First let’s not make the mistake of presuming that there will only be three temples. Presuming the wilderness Tabernacle constructed and assembled under Moses’ direction did not qualify somehow as a temple that would be a simple but significant mistake that can be rather easily corrected. First that Tabernacle is actually identified as a temple on more than one occasion. In 1 Samuel 1 and 9 in chapter 3 in verse 3. we see how the tabernacle was called a temple in relation to the story of Samuel. One recent attempt to dismiss this association suggested that there actually was a building structure called the temple in the time of Eli and Samuel based on the presumption that we shouldn’t think of the divine sanctuary the tabernacle is one of the temples of God. Yet we read in Samuel that what is referred to as a temple is where the Ark of God rested. We could also hear God’s testimony to David that he had not dwelt in any house but only a tent. 2 Sam 7 starting at v 4.

And it came to pass that night that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan saying. Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me and house for me to dwell in, whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt even to this day and have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle. In all the places where I have walked with all the children of Israel, spake I a word with any of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying Why build ye me not a house of cedar? Yahweh declares that he does not dwell in any fixed housing structure, to that point, only a tent. Therefore the reference to his temple in Samuel where the ark of god resided, most definitely applies to the tabernacle, the first of the four temples or sanctuaries of God.

There is the tabernacle, Solomon’s temple,destroyed by the Babylonians, the post-captivity temple expanded by Herod and destroyed by Romans and of course the Millennial Kingdom temple in the age to come. The fact that there is a distinct pattern of three within a pattern of four in these temples is a demonstration of another very extensive mathematically expressed divine truth. There is one mobile divine sanctuary,the tabernacle, and three immobile building structures that served as a divine sanctuary. We address this subject of patterns of 3 within a pattern of 4 in our 16th presentation in this series and how it extended out from the foundational application of the very name of God with those 4 consonants spelling Yahweh, which has three separate letters in the 4 consonants of the memorial name of God.

This is not an isolated pattern and has a significant application in the context of how the number 4 is the number of the principle of God manifestation, within that context of the principle of God manifestation, demonstrated in the 3 letters expressed as 4 consonants in the name. We see how these 4 temples are shadows of the ultimate sanctuaries of our creator’s plan being Christ and the Saints. Now this is not a very difficult conclusion but is certainly validated in how God Himself makes that direct connection as we’ve already noted in Isaiah 66 where he asks the question, Where is the house that you build for me. All these things I have made but to this man will I look even him who is humble and of a contrite heart and trembles at my word. Therefore every dimension every component, every ritual associated with those 4 temples all testify through that intentional complexity filter of all divine communication about the terms and procedures of the principle of salvation, defining how we might become the resting places of the creator of the universe.

Therefore it must be significant that each of these four divine sanctuaries are subdivided into three sections defined by a progressive holiness. There’s an outer courtyard where we always find the altar burnt offering and the laver. This courtyard is open to all. But the second holiness stage is the holy chamber inside the sanctuary where only the priests would go to burn incense and replenish the lamp daily and attend to the showbread weekly.

The third and last section was the most holy chamber where only the high priest went and only once a year but entering three times for three rituals, the burning of the incense to save the life of the high priest, the spattering the Bullock blood east and west across to Mercy Seat and the spattering of the goat blood east and west across the mercy seat. Each of these four temples projecting those who will serve as the anti-typical sanctuaries of the Creator had three or will have three holiness divisions.

There were certainly differences between these sanctuaries, but this particular consistency begs further consideration as this design matches the wilderness configuration and the operating design of the universe. Further emphasizing the significance of these four sets of three holiness divisions is the cry of the immortalized saints of holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come. This cry of the four living creatures is similar to the thrice holy cry of another shadow projection of the immortalized saints, the Seraphim, which are defined as a projection of the glory of Christ comparing Isaiah 6 and 3 to John 12 and verse 41.

This divine framework for identifying the Saints in a repeated pattern of four sets of three silently shouts for the attention of those with hearing ears. Identifying the four applications of this divine equation. Well that’s really simple, as we’ve noted many times there is a very pronounced set of four divinely appointed stages in our creator’s plan. These are separate distinct maturing stages when our heavenly father shifts the educational procedures and focus for the development of the bride of his son, those who will constitute his places of sanctuary his places of rest. We mimic this divine pattern when we teach our children differently at different stages of their maturing development. We teach our babies differently than our toddlers and differently than our adolescents and differently than our teenagers. Those for divine ages are sharply bordered by a change in the divinely appointed priesthood and a change in divine laws and rituals. these changes are always validated by a very public display of miraculous divine power demonstrating an increasing intensity at each transition stage.

These for divine ages can be identified as the patriarchal age the first kingdom age the ecclesia age and the Millennial Kingdom age. There are four transitional generations that bridge the end of one age and the beginning of the next. Our specific generation is the third in this pattern of four. David Jeremiah Ezekiel and Jesus all testify how the restoration of the Jewish nation will identify that generation witnessing the restoration of the kingdom of God. Therefore we are the last generation of the glacial age. Each of the four transition generations witness a change in divine law and a change in priesthood structure that is always validated by extreme public demonstrations of divine power. The foundational understanding that must constrain all conclusions concerning the purpose of these divinely appointed changes is that the righteousness of Yahweh never changes. The truths and principle our Creator our eternal and change not. He simply teaches those who will be Saints the exact same truths in different ways and with a different focus at different points in this four-stage development of his human sanctuaries.

The laws and rituals of the first kingdom age testify to the exact same truths as the laws and rituals of the ecclesial age but from a different and certainly partial perspective. The first emphasises the condemnation of sin while the next emphasizes grace, but grace does not eliminate judgment. They have to be understood as balanced partners within the terms of our creators eternal rightness.

We cannot escape our Messiahs judgment where we’ll even be required to give a count for every idle word before our judge according Matthew 12 verse 36. Since we have 4 distinct development stages in the maturing of these human sanctuaries for the Creator,then by the authority of these repeated patterns of four sets of three, we are being invited to look for three progressively holier stages in the development of each of these four sets of portraits of the Saints in the creator’s plan. We’re not disappointed in this pursuit as this pattern is extensive and highlights a very distinct progression of three stages in the development of the Saints within each of those four ages. These three progressive stages in the development of the individual Saints, is 1. enlightenment 2 commitment and 3 performance.

If one pursues a personal participation in the eternal blessings of the Saints they will first have to come to understand the terms of our creator’s righteousness, what we call “the truth.” Then they will have to choose, or commit to that anti-instinctive, always socially contradictory, sacrificial and very humbling, divine rightness. Thirdly they, hopefully, we, will have to demonstrate that divine rightness in personal thoughts words and deeds. The shadow testimony for these three stages of development are so extensive we certainly don’t have the time remaining to even briefly reference them all or, at least the ones I personally have the capacity to reference and explain. Therefore let’s highlight one or perhaps two of these and we’ll leave the bulk of the evidence for our next follow-up presentation about this theme in our visions of the kingdom age considerations.

An obvious example of this three-stage development pattern is demonstrated in the ordination of the priesthood during the first kingdom age. This new priesthood served as one of the validations of the new divine educational pattern, a new age. In the previous patriarchal age we know the patriarchs served as the priests of their families building altars offering sacrifices educating their families about Yahweh and judging their families. In the first kingdom age that priesthood was dramatically reduced to one family to the sons of Aaron. God’s counterintuitive appointment of the idolater, Aaron, who produced the golden calf. And the severely limited appointment of the priesthood prompted that that great equality rebellion led by the highly respected Korah Dathan and Abiram.

The decisive and violent judgments against these ecclesial corrupters and the subsequent 14700 plague deaths due to an ecclesial body refusing to understand, each serve to underline the significance of this limited priesthood assignment. And therefore the importance of the ordination ritual. Within that ordination ritual we have three applications of blood on the body on the body of each priest. Scripture repeatedly defines blood as representing life. That life blood is applied to the right ear the right thumb and the right toe of each priest applicant. It is quite simple to identify the purpose of each of these body parts as an ear hears. Our opposing thumb is used to grasp or choose. Our large toes serve as the rudders of our walk permitting our capacity to pursue a certain route.

These are the three stages and the development of those who desire to be immortal priestsin the restored kingdom of God hearing is all about enlightenment grasping is all about choosing and commitment. Controlling our walk is all about performance. Our Godlike walk through an enlightened and committed life demonstrating our creator’s rightness in everything we say and do.

We can demonstrate this three-stage maturing process of the Saints through a number of different applications including the three priestly rituals every morning and every evening. The three rituals performed at the door of one’s home the three blood stations in the ritual of the sin offering the three holiness stages in the sanctuary design. But we’ll have to examine these in the next presentation due to the available wealth of this evidence. Until that presentation can be supplied you may experience the joy of occurring examples of this enlightenment commitment performance pattern in your own spiritual meditations studies and daily readings.

There are four distinct divinely separated stages in our creators plan for developing those who will serve as his sanctuaries, his places of rest. Within each of these 4 divinely appointed stages there are the same three progressive maturing stages of enlightenment. commitment, and performance. This is why the creator has chosen the number 12 to identify the Saints throughout his intentionally complex testimony with its greater emphasis on quality than its emphasis on quantity. There are three divinely appointed filters being applied in each of the four divine divine appointed maturing stages in the creator’s plan. Out of the many unenlightened only a few become enlightened. We certainly know that all of the enlightened do not commit to the sacrificial and socially incompatible requirements of our creator’s righteousness.

We should also know that the many of the enlightened who have committed will not all be chosen for that immortal priesthood blessing. Jesus warns us at the conclusion of two separate judgment parables that many are called to judgment but only a few are going to be chosen. Sadly some in our community attempt to defensively deflect that frightening warning by suggesting that many that are called to enlightenment but only a few are chosen for enlightenment let’s actually a highly insulting corruption of our messiahs warning I mean we’re specifically told that God wants all men to be saved and to come to an ounce of the truth this is said in first Timothy two and five since God truly wants all men to come to a knowledge of the truth then suggesting he actually picks and chooses specific people just for enlightenment declares him to be a liar and a hypocrite, which is an extremely unwise insult to level against our Heavenly Father.

There are three filters in the maturing of the Saints through each of the four divinely appointed ages. The ecclesial age is no different in this respect than the two ages preceding us or the kingdom age that will follow. In our next presentation we will examine the wealth of evidence silently shouting this pattern to those within the enlightened community with hearing ears and seeing eyes. Now just as a side note if anyone has questions or challenges you are always invited to respond either in this public format or emailing me directly at Bible888.com.

Transcription by Fay Berry 2018