30. Visions of the Kingdom Age Study 30 by Jim Dillingham 2018

 The Glory of the Knowledge

This will be our 30th commentary in our series entitled Visions of the Kingdom Age, presented as the adult Sunday School Class for the Cranston Rhode Island Christadelphian Ecclesia.  Our primary subject in this consideration is a repeated prophecy about the nature of the glory of the Creator that will eventually saturate the earth in the approaching Kingdom Age… in addition to the – apparently necessary – violence that will be the avenue for how this glory of the knowledge of the Creator eventually cover of the earth as the waters cover the sea.

In our previous presentation we considered the mountain nature of the restored Kingdom of God. In the context of the original prophecy prompting that theme we see the seed of our current focus.

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Is 1: 2-3 And it shall come to pass in the last days, That the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, To the house of the God of Jacob; And he will teach us of his ways, And we will walk in his paths: For out of Zion shall go forth the law, And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

This prophecy tells us that there will be an overwhelming global interest in being educated in the ways of God so that  people throughout the nations of the world will eventaully walk in the paths of God. That is absolutely unprecedented. Currently the societies of this world have absolutely no interest whatsoever in learning the ways – the truths – the principles – the right-ness of the Creator of this world. This is true in every individual category of that divine right-ness. The incredibly unscientific and divinely insulting delusion of evolution is propped up in opposition to any kind of submission to the consequnces of recognizing the far more scientifically accurate intelligent structure and operating design of our environment. Additionally, the societies of this world presume that the toleration of a great diversity of religious understandings is a morally superior platform than the extreme devisiveness resulting from submitting to any one universal truth. But this prophecy of the divine education of all mankind is a dominant feature of the prophecies of the Kingdom of God that we legitimately expect to be restored on the earth fairly soon… as we have seen the appointed sign identifying the last generation of this age… the political resurrection of the nation of Israel, where the exact descendants of the original residents have returned to reform that same nation, with the same geographical location, the same borders, using the same national identification of Israel, re-adopting the offical Jewish language … a formerly dead language that had not been spoken by any nation in over 1,800 years… and even using the same capitol city of Jerusalem… which is a policy opposed by pretty close to all other nations on earth. Jesus made it clear our generation will not pass away before he comes in the clouds with power and great glory.

But this anto-intuitive knowledge of the truths and principle of the Creator  is most definitely highly emphasized… repeatedly in the endless prophecies throughout the Bible of this approaching Kingdom restoration.  Another of Isaiah’s very detailed prophecies of this kingdom expresses this knowledge focus in Isaiah 11:9

​They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, As the waters cover the sea.

This prophecy of the earth being full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea – absolutely saturating the earth  – is in the context of Kingdom components like the absence of violence mentioned here, as well as how dangerous predators like wolves, lions, bears and venemous snakes will all become harmless, the vicious carnivores will become harmless herbivores. This biological change in formerly dangerous and life threatening beasts is repeated in another Isaiah prophecy of the Kingdom that decribes how crib deaths will be eliminated in Jerusalem and how mortal life will be extended to the degree that a man dying at 100 years old will have been mourned as dying far too young, like a child, as most of his life would have still been in front of him. The knowledge of God that is so vehemently resisted by our societies today will become the dominant pursuit in the Kingdom Age that is rapidly approaching.

The prophet Habbakuk also references this extreme global familiarity with the knowledge of the truths and principles of the Creator. In Habakuk 2:14 we read:

​For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,

​As the waters cover the sea.

Habakuk prophecies that this knowledge of the Lord will completely saturate the planet, resulting in a glory, an extreme appreciation and overwhelming respect for our Creator. This is exactly the opposite of the current highly disrespectful and dismissive attitude about the features of the knowledge of divine truths in the world today.   Fairly soon … enlightenment in the truths and principles and ways of the Creator of heaven and earth… will no longer be optional, when the Kingdom of God is restored … beginning at Jerusalem and expanding to embrace all nations on the earth.

Now this prospect seems nothing less than miraculous. Currently these nation’s all demonstrate nothing but disgust for the divine claim of a universal and exclusive right-ness for a supposed Creator of our evironment. In addition to the highly unscientific delusion of evolution and the divinely insulting pursuit of mere unity of the basis of the toleration of diversity is the false presumption that there is some truth and some goodness in all religions. This serves as the dominant ‘mis’understanding of what is fundamentally right. There absolutely is no respect for the principle of an ‘absolute’  and universal truth. In fact even suggesting the premise of an absolute truth that automatically renders all contradictory understandings as false is considered hateful and devisive. How in the world can the entire planet go from such a universal and highly disrespectful rejection of the knowledge of our Creator’s truths and principles … to an intense desire to study and learn the ways of God due to an exaltation of these exclusive truths? We are told in the Bible this is going to be accomplished in a single generation. How can that possibly be done?  The answer to that question will be the 2nd part of our consideration in this and the next address. We are going to have to answer that looming  HOW question… what will be the process by which this extreme, absolutely opposite universal frame of reference is going to be completely reversed in just a single generation? This will be the paradigm shift of all paradigm shifts.

First we need to understand the initial and continuing place of knowledge concerning divine truths in the life of a member of the enlightened community, thereby – on the basis of this enlightenment – qualifying for an assured judgment accountability … when Christ returns … with that elightenment additionally offering a realistic hope for possibly participating in the eternal rewards of divine approval at that judgment. Where exactly does the principle of knowledge concerning our Creator’s truths and principles fit into the significance ladder in the life of the enlightened and  truly faithful?

This is very oddly a point of contention in the ‘enlightened’ community today, due to the instinctive heart generated thought process that everything is about ourselves, that love is all that is needed… and specifically a dominant love for people.  Sadly that love of people is the least of the 3 love laws commanded by God and Christ between the old and new testaments… the love of our neighbor with the divinely required standard only being a love of self.. that we are only required to love our neighbor as much as ourselves… which really isn’t very much, actually.  If there is a husband or father listening that doesn’t love their wife and children ‘more’ than they love themselves… well, then they are a pretty miserable husband and father.

Love is certainly necessary, but in the proper balance and with the proper order of significance. However, without that two edged sword of truth.. which emboides the principle of the knowledge of the righteousness of our Creator… then it is a completely uncircumcised heart that will rule our mind…. instead of the appropriate frame of reference of a mind controlling a circumcised heart.

We have already noted the prophecies that our Creator’s plan will be realized by filling the entire world with the knowledge of Himself and the knowledge of His glory. What it never says even once in the Bible is that the plan of God is to fill the world with love… not one single place in scripture does it say that. While love will be the resulting experience when the earth is saturated with the knowledge of our Creator, that is not the expressed will of God. The divine focus is on knowledge, as knowledge is greater than love. Both are absolutely necessary, but knowledge is greater than love.

Since it is the will of our Creator to fill the earth with the knowledge of Himself, this highlights a particular exhortation for ourselves, for the enlightened community. It is no secret that the construction of mankind is earth. We are told Yahweh formed man from the dust of the earth, Genesis 2:7. And when death was first imposed on that previously very good creative order God declared to Adam that he was dust and to dust he would return. Since it is the plan of God to fill the ‘earth’ with the knowledge of Himself then we can pursue that divine goal on a personal level by filling ourselves with the knowledge of God, since we are made of earth. We can fill our own part of the earth -oursleves- with the knowledge of God… saturating our minds and hearts with the knowledge of God as completely as the waters cover the sea. After all that is the clearly expressed will of God. Do we want… what He wants?

The knowledge of God is all about the righteousness of God… in other words His right-ness, recognizing, expressing and demonstrating the issues God declares to be right. In fact anything outside that right-ness frame is what the Bible declares to qualify as sin. The Apostle John declares that all unrighteousness is sin in 1 John 5:17. Anything that does not qualify as divinely right does qualify as sin.  John expanded on his earlier partial definition of sin where he stated in chapter 3 that sin is the transgression of the law. It should be recognized the word ‘only’ does not appear in the text… as in the expression ‘sin is only  the transgresson of the law. That exclusivity of a sin definition is certainly not being expressed, although increasingly it seems to be presumed as some kind of universal and exclusive understanding of what constitutes sin. This is one of the issues declaring the righteousness of God, the knowledge of which will fill the earth as the waters cover the sea… this issue of what constitutes sin. If sin were only the transgression of the law then the death of Jesus would have accomplished nothing at all. And we would be left scratching heads why there are sin offerings demanded within the laws of God’s Kingdom for conditions that are completely transgression free and can even qualify as deeds of righteousness… like a woman giving birth and burying a man hung to death before sunset. After all sin is the reason why death was introduced into a previously very good creative order and why disease and suffering are part of the natural order. Adam and Eve had two separate testimonies to consider. God had declared that if they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would die. The serpent offered opposing testimony, declaring the rightness of the Creator to be false, to be a lie. Adam and Eve contradicted the right-ness, the righteousness of God by choosing the serpent’s opposing testimony… contagiously corrupting that previously very good order of creation with the curse of sin and death.

Before we note the significant challenges related to our divinely symmetrical goal of filling ourselves -our earth – with the knowledge of God… let’s confirm the significance of this goal with some corresponding depth. After all … all of our heavenly Father’s communications are 3 dimensional. His truths and principles are eternal, existing long before creation…. which is why creation, the spoken word of God, is a perfectly matching testimony of the truths and principles expressed in the Bible, the written word of God. As we have noted in this series of classes… creation was verbally commanded into existence or into position, with the single exception of mankind… as we were crafted and not ordered into existence. Every single expression of our heavenly Father -whether written in the Bible or the result of the spoken word of God seen in creation – … they will all fit together perfectly, testifying to the exact same eternal truths and principles…. this is that glory that will be unveiled during the Millennial Kingdom…. the glory of that knowledge that will saturate the earth.

In the framework of that confidence that we can find validating evidence for divine truths no matter which area we search in the testimony of God…we ask the question: where can we find a validation of this divine emphasis on pursuing the knowledge of God… and specifically how can we balance the principle of knowledge with the principle of love… in the proper order of significance?

That would be the two positive altar offerings divinely required during the 1st Kingdom Age. These are the burnt offering and the peace offering. The two negative blood offerings were the sin and trespass offerings and the two bloodless agricutlural offerings were the bread and wine altar offerings. it is fairly easy to conclusively define the divinely appointed theme in each of these positive altar offerings. We find it in a verse Jesus quotes more than once with the advice that if we only understood this, then we would not condemn the guiltless. Jesus quotes from Hosea 6:6. Sadly this verse is very often absolutely butchered by Bible commentators, both inside and outside the enlightened community.

God tells us in this verse:​

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

The foundational mistake that is unfortunately so frequently made in reference to this highly significant Bible verse is to generalize these two expressions of sacrifice and burnt offerings. The word sacrifice is translated from the Hebrew word zebach. It is used over 160 times in the Old Testament and has the primary application of defining what we know as the peace offering, and not sacrifice in general.  Mercy was the intended behavioral response God wanted from that shadow testimony of the peace offering. Even that mercy is not a general application but highly specific. The Hebrew word is chesed, indicating a mercy springing from love, as opposed to a mercy that is purchased by bribery or a mercy that is prompted by empathy, as those also qualify as mercy motivations. This is specifically a mercy generated by love. 30 times the word chesed is translated loving kindness. It is this merciful love that God wanted from the shadow exhortation of the peace offering.

Even though it is so clearly stated that God wants the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings …. This is often inappropriately generalized into any kind of fire consumed altar sacrifice. These are not general identifications but highly specific. When Jesus says if only you understood this when he quoted this verse … he meant truly understand, not to oversimplify a highly specific expression of his Father’s to such a degree we can make it mean anything we want to satisfy our own personal preferences.

Through the prophet Hosea God defines the burnt and peace offerings as being fulfilled by the pursuit of the Knowledge of God and the demonstration of love, respectively. Further validating that love identification with the peace offering is the recognition that just as there were 3 categories of the peace offering so there were 3 separate, divinely appointed love laws…. the love of God, the love of our neighbor and Christ’s new and personal commandment to love our Brothers and Sisters greater than we love ourselves.  The three categories of the Peace offering were The Thanksgiving offering, the votive offering (for the performance of vows) and the freewill offering. Just like the 3 great love commandments in scripture we see a corresponding descent in significance with these 3 peace offering. That Thanksgiving offer has the greatest ritual restrictions of the 3 peace offering categories. It had to be eaten by the offerer and the priest strictly on the first day and have no blemishes whatsoever. The Votive offering was the second Peace offering… in relation to the offering of vows. God relaxed the restrictions for this peace offering category by allowint this offering to be eaten on both the first day and the 2nd day but to have no blemishes. The Freewill offering was the 3rd Peace offering, corresponding to the least of the 3 love commandments, the love our neighbor.  The Freewill offering permitting the consuming of the offering on the 1st and 2nd days in addition to permitting certain blemishes (as referenced in Leviticus 22). These 3 Peace offering categories perfectly parallel the 3 great love laws presented by God and Christ. The first and greatest was to love God with all our heart and strength and mind and live. The chronologically 2nd but 3rd in significance was to love our neighbors as ourselves. The 3rd chronological love commandment that was 2nd in significance was the new commandment Jesus presented at the last supper, where he commanded the disciples to love each other to the same degree he had loved them and be willing to lay aside their own burdens to help their brethren in the truth…. to love our Brothers and Sisters in Christ more than ourselves… which is more than the love required for our neighbor which only had to be equivalent to self love, but less than the level of love we have to demonstrate for God. The 3 great love laws are perfectly projected in the 3 Peace offering categories…. thereby validating our understanding of Hosea 6:6 as declaring the divinely desired behavioral responses from those two positive altar offerings… the burnt and peace offeirngs.

The Apostle Paul certainly understood that chronologically 3rd love commandment which was also the new and personal love commandment of Jesus. He commanded the Galatians in chapter 6 and verse 2: Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Brothers and Sister’s bearing each other’s burdens fulfilled the law Christ identified as both a new law and his own personal law. IN fact in verse 10 Paul emphasizes how our loving service to mankind – our neighbors – should be exceeded by our loving service to the brotherhood of Christ. He says: As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. Whatever good we do for all men has to be exceeded by the good we do for the household of faith… just like that new commandment of Jesus Christ demanded a greater love than the love of mankind that only required the standard of self-love.

The burnt offering was the knowledge of God offering. The peace offering was the love offering. So we have to ask… what is the divinely appointed relationship between these two offerings? After all, these offerings are shadows. Divine shadows extend from the substance of our heavenly Father’s eternal truths and principles. Therfore the relationship of these shadow sacrifices will tell us things about the substance casting those shadows. We do know that the burnt offering, that knowledge offering, was the foundational offering for everything. It was the first and last offering of each day, the alpha as well as the omega offering. We know the burnt offering was doubled on the Sabbath, when the enlightened community had to rest from their labors, when they were encouraged to shift their mental focus to spiritual matters, to pursue the understandings of the righteousness of the Creator… to pursue knowledge.  The daily burnt offerings went from a quantity of 2 to four on each Sabbath day during that first Kingdom Age… very appropriately, as the focus of the Sabbath was to rest from one’s labors… to shift one’s focus from physical matters to spiritual matters.  Interestingly in the restored Kingdom Age – that we anticipate shortly, when enlightenment will no longer be optional… that daily burnt offering with be doubled yet again… to a total of 8 on a Sabbath day… but interestingly, only in the morning, not in the evening…. not in darkness but only in the light of day.. in that age of mandatory spiritual enlightenment… in that age when the glory of the knowledge of God will begin to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.

In Ezek 46:13  Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning. There is no mention of an evening burnt offering sacrifice, unlike the 1st Kingdom Age – only morning…. in this age of global enlightenment.  Additionally, on the Sabbath the Prince – meaning our Messiah – will offer an additional 7 burnt offerings, therefor a total of 8 Sabbath burnt offerings. we read in vs 4 of the same chapter : And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the Lord in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. This makes 8 burnt offerings on each Sabbath during the Millennial Kingdom Age… doubling the 4 Sabbath burnt offerings during the 1st Kingdom Age, which doubled the 2 daily evening and morning burnt offerings every other day of the week.

Just as enlightenment- basically the knowledge of the righteousness, the right-ness of our Creator – will no longer be optional during the Millennial Kingdom … so we see this parallel doubled doubling of the altar offering projecting the pursuit of the knowledge of God, the knowledge of His right-ness, His eternal truths and principles.  It is that knowledge of God that will cover the earth as the waters covering this sea in this Sabbath Kingdom reflecting the 7th day of the creation week… that inspiration for the Sabbath observance that was the signature ritual of the 1st Kingdom Age.  It is this knowledge of God that will serve as the chain for the four sin icons of the serpent, the dragon, the devil and satan…. being bound in the bottomless pit for 1,000 years as we are told in Revelation 20… this restraining of sin by the chain of enlightenment correspondingly restrains the physical effects of sin within this cursed natural order… with danger diminishing as war is eliminated, violent carnivorous beasts becoming docile herbivores, venemous snakes becoming harmless, mortal life is extended to such a degree that the death of a 100 year old man is mourned as if he were a child and agricultural bounty that will close the gaping distance between the very rich and the very poor. This is cause and effect. The global enlightenment concerning the terms of our Creator’s righteousness will bring an age of great blessings. God’s behavioral expectation for the shadow of the burnt offering was the pursuit of divine knowledge… the knowledge about our Creator’s righteousness… His right-ness.

No matter where we look in our heavenly Father’s communications we see this definition of the burnt offering as shadowing the pursuit of divine knowledge and the peace offering shadowing the demonstration of love. Therefore we have to address this question… what is the divinely appointed relationship between these two principles of knowledge and love. Which is greater? The answer is provided in how God required the peace offering to only be offered on top of the burnt offering. Without the foundation of knowledge… love is absolutely meaningless. The peace offering could not be offered independently on that Christ altar of burnt offering. We read in Lev. 6:12 the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings. The fat of the peace offering had to be burned on top of the burnt offering. The love offering had to be offered on the foundation of the divine knowledge offering. Additionally it should be understood that the 2 agricultural altar offerings… the grain and the wine offerings… always had to accompany the burnt offering…. and never the negative sin or trespass offerings.  The bread and wine -the only two altar offerings that continued from the rituals of the First Kingdom Age into the Ecclesial Age rituals… always accompanied the divine knowledge altar offering… the burnt offering.

This shadow offering order of burnt before peace…. emphasizes the substance casting the shadow… the authority order of mind over heart, of knowledge over love. Both are absolutely necessary. Knoweldge without love is just as completely meaningless as love without knowedge. Our pursuit of knowledge is based on the word of God-the written testimony of the righteousness of our Creator. It is the sword of the spirit. It is that sharp two edged sword of truth that is needed to circumcise our hearts. Only a circumcised heart will be able to understand the intentional complexity that filters all divine communication, being constructed in a way to gives more to those who have within the enlightened community while simultaneously taking away from those within the enlightened community who have not… exactly what Jesus described to his disciples when they asked why he insisted on teaching the enlightened community of his generation exclusively through parables and only explaining those parables to his closest disciples, privately.

While knowledge and love are both required for a divinely approved and potentially eternal relationship with the Creator, it is knowledge that serves as the controlling factor for love. Knowledge  that flaming sword of truth with which the appointed cherubim kept the way to the tree of life at the entrance of the Garden of Eden – will balance and control the loves in our lives, like the harnessing of a fire. An unharnessed fire only destroys and kills. A harnessed fire sustains and enriches our lives.  This is also the case with love. If we imbalance the loves in our life we will suffer for it. We have many loves in our lives and they all have significance, but varying significance. We love our wives – or husbands – and our children and our parents and our friends and our neighbor. But if we love our children more than our spouse… we will suffer for it, and so will everyone else. If we love our parents more than our wife or husband… we will suffer for it and so will our spouse. We need to properly balance the various loves in our lives. If we demonstrate a love for our job or friends that diminishes the perceived love of our children… not only will we eventually suffer for that, so will our children later in their lives. We have to have a value ladder. That value ladder will be defined by the degree of sacrifice we demonstrate for each of those love categrories. On a number of occassions over the last dozen years or so I have heard our community’s speakers promote the imbalancing of love. I have heard it said and read in our community’s magazines that the love of our neighbor actually fulfills the greatest of all commandments, to love Yahweh our Elohim with all our heart and strength and might and life. That is a very dangerous lie. These are not only two entirely separate loves, the divine intensity standards are completely different between these two loves. We are instructed to love God with the greatest of all intensity… with all our heart and all our mind and all our energy for all our life. We are only asked to love our neighbor to the same degree that we love ourselves… which is dramatically less. I assume you love your family more than you love yourself? If you don’t I feel very sorry for your family… and for you. We should never drop the level of love we have for God to the dramatically lower level of self-love, as some within our enlightened community have repeatedly recommended.  That imbalanced  self-love is exactly the source of the knowledge problem, the source of all false doctrine, the driving force in the development of contradictions to the terms of our Creator’s righteousness. All false doctrine is based on mirror worship, worshipping ourselves…. of placing ourselves as equal to or above God in our value ladder.   As we have repeatedly noted in preceding presentations, all false doctrine has two common elements. It is always God degrading and it is always flesh exalting….100% of the time with absolutely no exceptions. This is true of the doctrine of the trinity, the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, the concept of a sinful, rebellious immortal angel, the delusion of instant guaranteed salvation, the present posession of Holy Spirit gifts and the lazy, disrespectful mistake of presuming salvation is based on faith alone, without  the necessary accompanying works of faith… and on and on and on. False doctrine is just a demonstration of self-worship, that love of self… of listening to our uncircumcised hearts, of thinking with our heart controlled minds, instead of our mind controlled hearts. An uncircumcised heart is the throne of the serpent perspective, that mankind was burdened with when our ancestors chose the serpent testimony that contradicted the righteous testimony of our Creator.  It makes no difference if one is enlightened or unenlightened. It was the uncircumcised hearts of the enlightened community already in a divine covenant relationship that blinded and deafened the generation of our Messiah’s ministry. It is the same as inverting the sacrificial order on the altar, of inappropriately offering the burnt offering on top of the peace offering… of building knowledge on top of love, instead of love on the foundation of true knowledge…. right knowledge… the knowledge of the principles of eternal rightness.

Our society endlessly and mindlessly chants the same mantra of listening to our hearts and following our instincts. This is the invariable message in all forms of enterainment. Listen to your hearts and you will never go wrong. Go with your first instinct… don’t think it through, go with your heart. The religious leaders and political leaders of the sons of men – as opposed to the sons of God – elevate the heart generated thought process above the mind generated thought process. This is exactly the opposite advice of our heavenly Father who tells us there is absolutely nothing in all of creation more deceitful, more vile than the human heart. God says through Jeremiah in chapter 17:9  The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked… who can know this?

To listen to our hearts, to surrender to the natural impulses generated from a heart based frame of reference… is to be what scripture calls ‘carnally minded’.

Paul references this perspective differential in Romans 8 when he writes

vv 5-8 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

This carnal mind has its foundation in an uncircumcised heart, a heart dominated thought process instead of having that heart – that serpent throne – controlled by the spirit guided mind… the enlightened mind.

James references this same battle for our frame of reference when he writes in chapter 4  4-5 know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

We have to think entirely differently than the world – than the societies of the sons of men that we have to live within, and even those within the enlightened community who defend and promote the world’s perspective… that love is greater that knowledge. It is that flaming sword of the spirit that keeps the way to the tree of life – the words of truth defining our Creator’s righteousness – that circumcises that naturally heart dominated perspective, that carnal mind – thereby developing the meekness that is the absolute key to for the seeing eyes and hearing ears that can ‘ now’ -even at this time – witness an increasing measure of the incredible glory and beauty that is intentionally hidden within the two avenues of our Creator’s testimony – the Bible and creation…. filling our own earth constructed bodies with that knowledge of the Glory of Yahweh that will soon begin to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. Everyone can see the “shadow” testimony our Creator offers. But only the circumcised in heart have the capacity to see the hidden substance casting those shadows. The carnal mind, the mind that elevates the heart over the mind, the carnal mind where love is exalted above knowledge… this carnal mind will always interpret those shadows in self-glorifying ways.

So … Now the big question should be HOW… exactly how does a world with – currently anyway – billions of people sharing the same heart based, serpent perspective  of self-worship… how does that paradigm, that frame of reference, shift so dramatically from flesh to spirit… in just a single generation? What is the process by which the entire world becomes enlightened… abandoning their self-worship, abandoning the foolishness of equality, the ungodly concept of democracy … and unity based on the toleration of diversity.

The answer is the fear of God, generated through frightening violence. We are told that fear is the greatest educational tool of our heavenly Father. Solomon tells us in Proverbs chapter 1:  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: But fools despise wisdom and instruction. If there is no fear of God… just like today’s societies of the children of men… then there is no knowledge – whatsoever. Because the fear of God is the very beginning of true knowledge. If we haven’t even started… we aren’t even in the process.

Solomon expands this education avenue identification in chapter 9 when he writes:

​The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom:

It is this fear of God that will facilitate the spiritual education of the entire world following the return of Christ and that 1st immortalization of the saints at the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom Age.

Our next presentation will address this educational procedure of the prophecies definng the development of that fear of God that is absent in the societies of the sons of men. It will begin at Jerusalem, with Christ and the saints destroying 5/6ths of the 6 nation Gogian led annihilators who will have murdered 2/3rds of the Jewish people at Jerusalem before being decimated by that sword issuing from the mouth of the son of God, that sword of the word of God that will command the features of creation to attack that Gogian gang of 6… with earthquakes, volcanic action, lightning storms and disease resulting in a mindless panic where those seasoned but by then blood drunk mercenaries will turn their weapons on each other.

1/6th of those soldiers will be permitted to return home in shame and fear to report what they saw, along with the embedded military journalists with all their video feed. However that fear will not be enough to re-educate the world, filling their mental void with true knowledge and wisdom. There will be continuing violence that will eventually result in the geographic destruction of the city of Rome, that center of religious corruption. The recent acceleration of earthquakes surrounding and centering on Rome are warning shots from the Creator of the universe. The restored KIngdom of God has been repeatedly prophesied in scripture as beginning about 2,000 years after the death and resurrection of the son of God. That will be in just 13 years from now.  Our generation witnessed the sign of the resurrection of the national firstborn son of God .. the nation of Israel … that identifies the last generation of the Ecclesial Age… our generation. Jesus personally warned us that our generation will not pass away until the prophecies he shared on the Mount of Olives with 4 of his disciples will be fulfilled. We are the transition generation between the end of the Ecclesial Age and the beginning of the Restored Kingdom Age.

So our next consideration of the Visions of the Kingdom Age will examine the very necessary violent nature of the introduction of the Millennial Kingdom when the glory of the knowledge of God will begin to fill the earth… as the waters cover the sea.

Transcript by Jim Dillingham 2018