The Bible: A Treasure Trove Weaponized

Posted on 04/05/2024 by Messyanic

Personally, I see the Bible as a treasure trove of wisdom.

Unfortunately, I believe the Bible has been weaponized by the Enemy of our soul to destroy mankind.

Our Enemy’s Primary Aim: Destroy Mankind

Through deceptive manipulation, I believe the Bible has been used by agents of our Enemy to destroy us by presenting a faulty understanding of the value, design & intended purpose for the existence of mankind.

We’ve been taught that man is now fundamentally flawed due to Original Sin, referring to the Fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden, and that we are all inherently sinners. Therefore, we are all automatically separated from God at the onset of our lives.

Furthermore, we’ve been led to believe that we are only human (as if being human was somehow inadequate), incapable of ruling & governing ourselves and thereby unable to be without sin.

We’re told we need someone to mediate on our behalf — and that it is up to us to find that intermediary and accept that figure as Lord over us in order to receive forgiveness and be brought into good standing with our Maker.

We’re also told that this world (the earth, in particular) is either being ruled by our Enemy or by God. Therefore, we are led to believe that we have no real control over what happens here.

All of this is conveyed by the teachings & traditions of men who use the Bible as an authoritative vessel by which these notions are made known to us, claiming the book is the inerrant Word of God.

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My Spiritual Expedition

Posted on 04/03/2024 by Messyanic

Iā€™m in favor of searching out a matter within the Bible. That’s how I got to where I am today. However, I believe it is necessary to first have a foundation that is based on what is physically true/real & self-evident before going on any spiritual expeditions.

The Course I Took

When I began to question what I understood about the Bible, I started seeking out answers to specific questions I had concerning what the Bible said, and that journey took me all over the place. And it was exciting! It was like the book was brand new to me.

I started washing myself in it, and I began to read whole books from start to finish.

And eventually, I naturally went back to the beginning and started reading from Genesis forward with a new, open mind.

When I did so, I realized so much of what I was taught in my Christian upbringing was baggage that was hindering me from seeing all that was plainly written on the page. So I began to unload that baggage.

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First Things First: Get a Grip & Hold Fast

Posted on 03/30/2024 by Messyanic

I believe every Bible student, Bible reader, and so-called Bible believer needs to actually read their Bibles, starting at the beginning of the book.

They need to gain a firm grip on what is established there, and then hold fast to it when reading all that comes after it, in order to make proper sense of it all.

I would think this approach would make common sense and need not be said, but evidently someone needs to say it, because it’s not happening, across the board.

But also, more importantly, I believe people need to get a firm grasp on reality before they even open the Book. And then they need to hold fast to that whenever seeking to understand whatever is before them.

Unfortunately, I see too many people doing it backwards.

For example, too many are reading passages in the New Testament and flipping here, there & everywhere to support their understanding, and then they are using that understanding as their foundation for understanding Genesis!

Or, many are taking what they come to understand from the Bible, in general — apart from reality, and using that as their foundation for understanding the world around them.

It’s upside down!

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Heavenly Thrones

Posted on 03/23/2024 by Messyanic

After publishing my post, The LORD Said to My Lord, I began looking into the Hebrew word, most often translated as throne, kisse (H3678). It comes from the verb root kasa (H3680) which means to cover, according to Brown-Driver-Briggs. And the noun kisse (H3678) means seat of honour, throne, and it appears 135 times in the Old Testament.

Of these mentions, we see priests, kings (& the mother of a king: Bathsheba), and YHVH (& even Haman in the book of Esther and a foolish woman in the book of Proverbs) seated on them. Primarily, though, they are mostly reserved for kings and priests.

In the New Testament, the Greek word thronos (G2362) appears 61 times.

In my previous post I made a reference to God’s children being seated on heavenly thrones when I wrote,

“In the Kingdom of God, God sits on His throne in heaven and calls on people to act as His children, doing His Will, ruling themselves. And when they have proven themselves worthy to be called His children, God seats them on heavenly thrones.”

from “The LORD Said to My Lord” by Messyanic

I was asked by Kay in the comment section what I meant by that reference, what it looked like, was it something that happened during our lifetime or afterward, and if it was literal or figurative.

Here’s my response to that.

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The LORD Said To My Lord

Posted on 02/04/2024 by Messyanic

Many refer to the following passage to support the notion that Jesus is not the physical son of David, but rather, he is God, the Son. (Never mind the fact that the Bible never says that Jesus is “God, the Son”.)

“41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?
“They say unto him, The son of David.
“43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, 44 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? 45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
“46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.”

Matthew 22:41-46 KJV

I believe Jesus posed this question to point out that there were two different kinds of “kingdoms” at play: the kingdoms of men and the Kingdom of God.

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The End of An Age

Posted on 03/25/2022 by Messyanic

When I hear things like the Day of the LORD is quickly approaching & Jesus/Yeshua is coming back, I have to ask, what exactly are people expecting to see in the physical realm with these notions?

When the New Testament speaks of the Day of the LORD, I believe it is referring to the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. (with the destruction of the temple/power structure & accompanying power/control figures, which Yeshua prophesied would come to pass), and that has obviously passed.

There was a physical remnant of people that were spared from physical death in that generation — they had to figure out how to live outside the System of that day in order to go on living.

Those who lived in accordance with YHVH’s instructions & Yeshua’s teachings experienced life in a figurative “new Jerusalem” that descended upon the land. They were a nation of priestly-kings, a royal priesthood, living as YHVH intended His Anointed to live.

These were YHVH’s “chosen” — not necessarily descendants of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, but rather descendants of Adam, who walked in accordance with YHVH’s ways, having had their sins atoned for and being figuratively washed clean.

These people had all authority, power & dominion to rule themselves, and they had the ability to intercede on behalf of their fellow man to their Maker as well as act as a light in this world, being a blessing to all the nations, teaching them (in both word & deed) how to live in accordance to our Creator’s Will & His established Natural Law & Order — without the need of a physical king to rule over them or a physical priest to either make physical sacrifices on their behalf or legislate their behavior.

To me, it seems that we are presently living at the end of an age (both, a physical & spiritual one) transitioning into the start of another. And those of us who are prepared to physically live outside the present-day System, operating in accordance with our Heavenly Father’s ways & applying the teachings of Yeshua, will likely be a part of the remnant who will remain standing through this transition & the destruction that will inevitably come for today’s power structure that has been (& continues to be) set up against our Creator & His Ways.

When I read & hear, “Come out of her, my people”, I believe this is a general call through all the ages, to all of mankind who recognize and choose to walk in accordance to Natural Law, to come out of their present-day Systems, which are all destined to fail because they oppose our Creator and His established Natural Order.

What do you think?

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The Genealogies of Jesus

Posted on 10/21/2021 by Messyanic

The following post was born out of a recent Facebook exchange I had surrounding the lineages given in Matthew 1 & Luke 3.

From what I understand the thought is that Joseph’s mother was originally married to Heli, who is mentioned in Luke 3:23, but Heli died before he was able to beget any children through her.

So, given the Levirate law outlined in Deuteronomy 25:5-6, Joseph’s mother married her husband’s brother, which would have been Jacob (mentioned in Matthew), and he begat a child, Joseph, for his brother’s name. Thus, making Joseph a son in law to Heli, the first husband of Joseph’s mother, while in fact being the biological son of Jacob, the second husband of Joseph’s mother.

The church historian Eusebius explains this in his “Ecclesiastical History”, Book 1: chapter 7, verse 9.

Thus we shall find the two, Jacob and Eli, although belonging to different families, yet brethren by the same mother. Of these the one, Jacob, when his brother Eli had died childless, took the latter’s wife and begot by her a son Joseph, his own son by nature and in accordance with reason. Wherefore also it is written: ‘Jacob begot Joseph.’ Matthew 1:6 But according to law he was the son of Eli, for Jacob, being the brother of the latter, raised up seed to him.

SOURCE: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250101.htm

From Deuteronomy 25:
5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.
6 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

The genealogy given in Matthew 1 clearly speaks of Jesus as being the physical son of Abraham through David, and of David through Joseph. That was the whole point of that genealogy — to lay the groundwork for the primary qualification of the Messiah/Christ: to be a physical descendant of David, a physical descendant of Abraham.

From Matthew 1:
1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

The list of names given in Luke 3, relates to how Jesus could be considered the son of God, given that the list is given on the heels of being called God’s son at Jesus’ baptism.

From Luke 3:
21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, 22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

Originally, Solomon was to be considered a figurative/spiritual “son” to God, but he strayed from the will of God and was eventually spiritually cutoff.

2 Samuel 7:
12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15 But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. 16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

Jesus is now being considered the figurative/spiritual “son” of God in fulfilment of the words spoken to David by the prophet in 2 Samuel 7.

The author of Luke is pointing out an interesting tidbit concerning Joseph, Jesus’ biological father, (who was clearly laid out as such in the beginning chapters of his book when revealing details before Jesus was conceived, at his birth and thereafter in early childhood.).

It is being revealed in Luke 3 that Joseph is a figurative/spiritual “son” of God “by Levirate law”, which was established by God’s saying and conveyed to the children of Israel through Moses in Deuteronomy 25. Therefore, qualifying Jesus as being called the figurative/spiritual “son” of God.

From Luke 3:
23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, 24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph, 25 Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge, 26 Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda, 27 Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri, 28 Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er, 29 Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, 30 Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim, 31 Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David, 32 Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson, 33 Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda, 34 Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor, 35 Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala, 36 Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech, 37 Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan, 38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

These two lineages demonstrate harmoniously how Jesus could be considered the Messiah, also known as the Son of God — through physical seed, which came through the line of Solomon and through the word/saying (figurative/spiritual seed) of God, which came through the line of Nathan.

Both lineages link Jesus to David, of Abraham, of God through Joseph, Jesus’ father.

For more on this subject, see: The Lineage of Luke 3:23-38 – Jesus, the Son of God

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Time to Rally the Troops

Posted on 07/26/2021 by Messyanic

The Enemy is engaged in warfare against the Son of Man. He is hell-bent on destroying the Seed of the Woman — not just the Anointed One (singular man), but the entire body: all of mankind.

This war is not just a spiritual war or an attempt to simply destroy the economies of this world or the way our society currently operates, it’s about destroying humans on a personal level — each one of us, and corporately, in our spirit, mind & body.

The System is Destined to Fail

Honestly, the economy here in America & societal operations-at-large have been destined to fail because they are set up against our Creator & His Anointed.

They have been failing on many levels for a long time now. It’s just that many could not see how fatal their shortcomings were — until this past year. Now, those who have eyes to see can see it.

To one and all, I say, Let it go! There is no point in trying to salvage it, because it’s unsalvageable.

Also, the System has been destructive to mankind for many generations — we’re better off without it. So, in my opinion, it is not worth crying over its loss.

Frankly, I’m glad to see it go.

However, as the System collapses there are many who will not only be hurt by it but many will inevitably be wiped out by it. Because it doesn’t just end with the collapse of the present System.

The Next System is Worse

As far as the world economic leaders of the World Economic Forum are concerned, we are in a transitional phase. The System of yesteryear is being torn down as the structure of the bio-tech System of tomorrow is being built. It is being erected upon a previously-laid foundation on which most people are already standing: the Internet.

And The Great Reset is planned for the not-too-distant future.

The wicked powers-that-shouldn’t-be have engineered the COVID19 pandemic to kickstart their Problem-Reaction-Solution scenario, and we are presently in the “reaction” phase as they continue to feed into their contrived “problem”. (All the while, they are injecting the human psyche & genome with their poison.)

While they have orchestrated their own “solution” to Build Back Better, it is only going to be better for those in the highest seats of power. It will be far worse for everyone else.

This is what people need to realize, if they haven’t already done so, — and quick.

The Real Solution: To Exit & Build

In my opinion, the only solution for mankind to live & either keep or gain his freedom that I can see is for people to Exit & Build in a decentralized fashion.

The Systems of yesterday, today & tomorrow essentially all comprise a House of Bondage that will literally destroy us, and the only way to live free is to literally get out of it… to Exit those Systems.

In order to live outside that House within the world fashioned by our Creator we as a people are required to first re-learn how to live off the land in harmony with our fellow man and then, co-operate with one another…to Build anew.

But this needs to be done in a decentralized manner. Every man must choose for himself to operate in subjection to his Maker and to rule himself in accordance to Natural Law, as our Creator initially intended for us.

Learn from the Failures of Manmade Government

Man’s government processes of installing kings or presidents/governors, lawmakers & judges to rule or preside over us & govern our affairs with their accompanying law enforcement officers & judicial system don’t work. History clearly demonstrates this.

The Levitical Priesthood and Davidic Kingdom ultimately failed nearly 2,000 years ago, and the Great Experiment of the united States of America that started roughly 250 years ago also failed. We need to learn from them both.

We need to re-consider the stories of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob to more fully understand YHVH’s intent for His people: to walk before YHVH and be perfect, and to be a blessing to the nations…to act as “priestly-kings of righteousness & peace”. This is not done by people ruling other people. Rather, people rule themselves in accordance to the Creator’s Will and Ways.

The only way to engage this solution is for people to first decide to exit and then take the first step out. For those who do this, we need to band together.

Exit the House of Bondage

If you have not physically left the city yet, what are you waiting for? Get out! This is where the powers-that-shouldn’t-be have the greatest control. (Not to mention, this is where many of the programmed masses are living in accordance to their programs: fear & submission to unjust authority.)

Pack your bags, shod your feet, grab your walking stick and get out of Dodge already. (I’m speaking figuratively, of course. But I think you know what I mean.)

Give a serious look at your present situation and make the hard choices for the betterment of your household.

Once you have physically moved your body (& the bodies of your household) out of the city and similar physical strongholds, temporarily gather in a place with others who have also physically moved their bodies out and prepare to follow the cloud by day & the fire by night, figuratively speaking.

Quit looking for a single man to lead the way. There are many who have already gone before you. Find the path from your door that leads you out and take it — before the gate closes and you are locked in.

Then, heed the Spirit of God for direction as to where to go next & how long to stay at each location until you reach your final resting place.

You can do this!

Make your way into & through the wilderness together

When my husband and I left the city seventeen years ago, we met up with others whom I already knew that were living outside the city — my family. I don’t think we would have ever made that journey without that connection. It would have been too daunting, especially with children in tow.

I encourage you to find someone you can trust to meet up with in your departure, but understand that those people may not go the distance with you, so do not get too invested in staying with them for the long haul.

Appreciate & enjoy the companionship while you have it. Take advantage of what you each have to offer one another, but keep your eyes on the prize: living freely on the land your Creator intended for you in loving community with those who seek to do the same, in accordance to the Creator’s ways.

In our personal experience, we decided to utilize more of the natural resources around us a few years after our arrival and this separated us from the pack.

At first, my husband mowed the lawn around our house and fought back a lot of the overgrowth around our outbuildings and fence lines with his own two hands & whatever hand tools he had, but within a few years we acquired some goats & cows to manage the overgrowth & pastures.

This put us in a league of our own as most people around us simply utilized lawnmowers & weed-wackers to manage their unwanted vegetation, uninterested in obtaining livestock.

Over the years one thing led to another — acquiring chickens & ducks for pest control & egg production, milking our goats & cattle, planting gardens & a food forest, constructing greenhouses & meat-processing facilities — all the while, seeking to transition off-grid and get further away from the corrupted System.

Unfortunately, however, much of what we’ve done over the years has been by ourselves, and it has been brutally difficult.

We need community!

We spent most of our time truth-seeking, which caused further divisions in our life.

We focused quite a bit of our life developing long-distance like-minded relationships, with the hope of having some of those relationships turn local for us.

But while some of those relationships stayed with us for several months at a time, they all eventually moved on and left us all alone.

For us personally, the wilderness experience we’ve been on has been very challenging because of our loneliness on the local level. And now, given the events & culminating circumstances in recent years, it has grown even more difficult.

In the past three years, I have greatly pulled away from connecting with folks on the internet, in favor of seeking to connect more offline. But it is proving to be very difficult.

Still, I will continue to press on with that avenue.

(In the meantime, however, I have a few privately-owned websites (this, being one of them), which I am able to utilize in reaching people who may be aware of all that is going on and who are either doing something about it or desperately want to. Hence, this post.)

Rally the Troops

Assuming you see the writing on the wall and have taken to heart the very real war we are facing on a spiritual, mental & physical level is raging all around us, and you recognize that authority, power & dominion has been given to you to do something about it, this call goes out to you.

Come meet with us — in real life!

We need support — not financial, but moral & physical support. And we can offer our support in exchange — moral for those who are local & those at a distance, and physical for those who are local.

Let’s get together!

2021 Summer Saturday Fellowships

My husband and I are available to meet in person on Saturdays throughout the summer at our homestead in Central Virginia, and we invite you to come hang out with us.

Let us encourage one another & share with each other our needs & concerns and offer our assistance & solutions where we are able, so we can all better weather this storm.

The regular schedule is a Meet & Greet for the general population from Noon to 1PM on the porch adjacent to The Homestead Stand at the edge of our property. Please, come on by.

For those who seek to hang out longer, we can arrange to gather later in the afternoon and/or evenings at our barn located towards the middle of our property. Contact me at carrie-at-messyanic-dot-com.

We would really appreciate your company.

2021 Fall Camp-Out

We are also hosting an early fall campout on our homestead: Friday, September 17th through Monday, September 20th, 2021.

This is earlier in the season & shorter than our past fall camp-outs, so please make note of that. This is not a religious event. It is not “in honor of” anything. It is simply a camp-out in the company of other campers on our private land.

This event is specifically for those who are:

  • actively coming out of the System,
  • seeking a temporary place to dwell, and
  • heading in the direction of living off the land as our Creator intended for us.

The purpose of this event is to network with one another:

  • to share first-hand practical knowledge & experience in living outside the System,
  • to strategize how we’re going to navigate the storm and live well through it, and
  • to morally support one another.

My husband will share his “building on the homestead” knowledge, and I will share my “running a household on the homestead” knowledge. We will also both share from our personal passions and hands-on knowledge, experience & insights as it relates to coming out of the System & living off the land in loving community. Others who attend are welcome to share along the same lines. Registration is required. More details to follow.

The Time is Now

We are in the height of summer, with the days ahead shortening. Now is the time to remain busy doing what needs to be done, and making & taking the time to reach out & connect with one another — to build each other up. (Here’s a look at some of what we’ve been doing around here.)

Winter is coming, and from the look of things, according not only to the media and public reactions but also to the natural consequences of actions taken thus far, it’s going to be a nasty one.

Prepare the best you can for what is coming, and please, don’t do it alone. You (and I) need the strength of community support.

Please contact me today at carrie-at-messyanic-dot-com, whether or not you can physically meet with me in person. Let us encourage one another. You are not alone. Am I? (Please tell me if I’m not. Thanks. šŸ˜‰ )

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Do You Know Who You Are?

Posted on 06/12/2021 by Messyanic

For many years I struggled with understanding who I was in the grand scheme of things.

I struggled with understanding all that the Bible said concerning the relationship between God and Man — not so much who God is, but more so who Man is in relationship to God.

I went back and forth over the terms “Son of God” and “Son of Man”, ad nauseum, to determine precisely to whom these terms referred.

I was raised to believe they referred to Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament. I have always embraced that notion, and I still do. But is that all? To whom else do those terms refer?

Obviously, we are all the sons & daughters of man, but are we all the sons & daughters of God?

The Son of God

In my journey for the past decade, I have become convinced that the Son of God was not God Himself, but rather an offspring of Him — a spiritual offspring.

I have discovered that the “angels” of God mentioned throughout the Bible are considered heavenly sons of God. I don’t know exactly how they came to be, but evidently they were here before man came to be. And then there are earthly sons of God as well.

These “sons of God” are two different species. Heavenly sons were made immortal while the earthly sons are mortal.

But I was hesitant to embrace the notion that all of mankind was to be considered the corporate Son of God. It had appeared to me that only portions of mankind may have been considered such. But who decides this? Who determines which portion of mankind is the Son of God?

I’m realizing, now, with more clarity that all of mankind was made to be the Son of God. And God chose man to grant him the authority, power & dominion to rule in His kingdom. But, it is the choice of each individual to accept that calling for himself.

We decide if we are going to walk in the ways of our Heavenly Father or to be cutoff from Him. And we decide if we are going to be restored to right relationship with Him should we become cutoff from Him. Therefore, we decide if we are going to be seated in the position of His Anointed Son.

God made His choice. What will we choose? Personally, I have humbly accepted the calling to be the Son of God.

Man: the Anointed Son of God

It is my current understanding that Man (Adam), with the seed to produce all of mankind within him, is the Son of God.

Moreover, he is the Anointed of God from the very beginning, having been made a little lower than the angels, yet given all authority, power & dominion to rule in righteousness in the land.

However, due to Adam & Eve’s sin, all of Man was spiritually cut off from his Heavenly Father. This is the “death” that was foretold would come from that sin — it was a spiritual death.

But God, in His infinite wisdom, made provision to first cover man in his nakedness when He made garments of skin for him, to replace that which man had made for himself to cover his own shame.

But then also, with the adversarial relationship between the Serpent and the Woman exposed, crucial elements of God’s plan was revealed.

  • The Enemy of Man was cursed to eat the dust of the ground all the days of his life, and the Enemy was going to bruise/crush the heel of Man.
  • However, the Seed of the Woman, also known as the Son of Man, would bruise/crush the Enemy’s head.
  • The ground was cursed due to the Man’s sin, and Man would have to labor to eat of it all the days of his natural born life.

So, there would remain a struggle between the Enemy and mankind, but the Son of Man would have the upper hand. And, it was now, man’s lot to have to toil to eat of the land all the days of his physical life.

In the next chapter of Genesis, the story of Cain & Abel followed by the introduction to Seth, all of whom were the Son of Man, revealed God’s plan of redemption.

God’s Plan of Redemption

Cain & Abel both made offerings to God. Abel’s offering pleased God and was found acceptable in His sight. Cain’s offering was not.

Cain was forewarned that if he did well, he would be accepted, but if he did not do well, sin was crouching at his door longing for him, and Cain had to rule over it.

This demonstrated that the Son of Man has the ability to please God despite the sin of Adam/Man. It also demonstrated that the Son of Man could rule over sin.

But Cain did not do well, and ultimately, he slew his brother. Cain’s punishment was to be banished from the presence of God, but God had mercy on him, preserving his physical life. And in doing so, Cain was blessed to have begotten sons, extending his physical life further still.

This demonstrated that sin separates the Son of Man from God, but God is merciful.

Then, near the end of the chapter, we read another son is begotten of Man/Adam, to replace the son whom Cain slew: Seth. And this son begat a son of his own, and we’re told he then began to call upon the name of YHVH. The Septuagint says, he hoped (“elpizo”) to call on the name of the Lord God.

It seems to me that this demonstrated some kind of substitutionary atonement with a hope of reconciliation between God and Man.

And all of this took place not through Adam himself, but rather through the Son of Man/Adam.

The position of the whole of Man as the Anointed of God, seated at the Right Hand of God in glory & power to rule upon the land was always present. It was never taken away. However, over the course of many generations, I believe this truth was hidden from us.

In the first century of the common era, I believe Yeshua may have shed light on this subject when he continually referred to himself as the Son of Man after it was revealed that he was the Son of God. In doing so, I believe Yeshua indicated all that applied to himself individually also applied to the entire Son of Man at large.

It seems to me that God was revealing to His people in the first century at the dawn of the messianic age in which we are still living, that we, the sons & daughters of man, who are called by His name, are the anointed of God.

Should we accept that calling and prove ourselves worthy to be called such, all nations will be blessed through us.

But first, we must come out of the world made by human hands, so we can live freely on the land in the world made by God.

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We Are in the World, But Not Of It

Posted on 06/12/2021 by Messyanic

Genesis 1 tells us that in the beginning God made the sky, land & seas. He brought forth regenerative vegetation on the land & put the sun, moon & stars in the sky to light the land. He filled the sky, land & seas with regenerative living beings. And then He brought forth a Son (also known as Man), to inhabit this world. And He anointed that Son with authority, power & dominion to rule in righteousness, and thereby experience perpetual life on the land.

God has provided all of us with what we need to physically live in this world made by Him. However, most people in this modern age, and in my part of the world, do not even know how to live by that provision, let alone seek to do so.

Most Americans have grown dependent on the System (or The Matrix, if you will), which is a composite of integrated systems of operation run by men. Many rely on this System for their livelihood, but it is being controlled by those who oppose God.

The powers-that-shouldn’t-be in that System are actively seeking to destroy humanity.

I am doing everything within my power to escape that wretched world, especially when we have the ability to do so. And we need to figure out how to operate outside of it.

While we may find rest in the sovereignty of God, I believe we all must stop being used as a tool for the Enemy.

We are members of the corporate Son of God. Future generations are counting on us to advance the Kingdom of God.

I am certain it is neither God’s will for men to subject themselves to evil men, nor is it His will to specifically mask/muzzle mankind & inject genetically-modifying poison into each other. The Son of God needs to rise up and distance himself from the works of the Enemy!

We all need to flee the System & experience our time in the literal wilderness as we learn how to physically live on the land given us by God. And we need to be a light to the nations to demonstrate how living free on the land in the world made by God is done.

While there is a world made by human hands that operates within the natural world, that world is not where the Son of God belongs because it stands in opposition to God.

We belong outside of that world, but inside the Natural World, living off the land walking in obedience to our Creator, loving Him with our entire being and loving our neighbor as ourselves.

This is what I understand being “in the world, but not of it” means.

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