If Foot is Sex in Genesis, What are Feet in the New Testament?
In Genesis 32:24-32, Jacob wrestled with the Man through the dark night before meeting up with Esau the next day. I noted in a recent post that this wrestling insinuates both the male and the female aspects of both characters. Both Jacob's and the Man's creative members are alluded to: Jacob's "sinew" having gone limp and his clutch on the Man's "foot." This was, by the way, Jacob's (the inner man's) wrestling to create a paradise in his mind in the context of his hellish situation. Together these men gave birth to a new Esau.
Suzanne asks how I might then understand references to feet in the New Testament, especially Luke 7:38, John 13, and Matthew 10:14. Before I go anywhere, I repeat: phallic and sexual references and allusions in scripture have nothing to do with sex, but everything to do with spiritual creative power. It just recently occurred to me that that is what the biblical word 'bless' alludes to: "I will bless you," means give creative power to your imagination. I am a slow learner.
I think Suzanne has seen my take on Neville's understanding of Exodus 3:5, where Moses was told to take the sandles from his feet because the ground he stood on was holy ground. Shoes are insulators, they mediate our contact with the ground. The passage has nothing to do with shoes, feet, or ground. Moses was meditating on the source of Jethro -- success -- and God broke in. He likes to do that. He was simply saying that this was an experience of bedrock spiritual reality holy unto God; i.e., for His purpose. "This is the real thing, the real nitty-gritty, the substance of the really real reality -- God's consciousness. Don't bring any of your own stuff into it."
So Moses' "feet" were his contact points with this reality, his mental perceptions of it. Go with the flow, Moses.
What are Jesus' feet in Luke 7:38? The same as Exodus 3:5. Simon is our spiritual hearing. Great signs and wonders were being performed by Jesus, and the Pharisees turned a deaf ear to them. The whore in us got it: she understood that "When it works, you have found him," and humbly submitted herself to God's nitty-gritty, which Jesus is. The picture is a bit mixed up, she keeps her shoes on, Jesus is the ground, incense for worship and holiness, Simon for Moses, but it is all there. Luke just didn't think of having her walk on Jesus' back.
John 13 is Jesus stipping down and washing the feet of his disciples. Note Simon again. Disciples, as I understand them, are our mental and spiritual faculties. Their feet are our perceptions of reality, our real contact with it. And we find the same allusion in Matthew 10:14, ideas and teachings that are not kosher, get them off of your feet, your perceptions of God's reality.
Why is 'foot' in Genesis 32 a phallus and 'feet' elsewhere our mind's contact with consciousness reality? In Genesis 32, foot is a substitute word. Gotta clean it up. The ancients weren't prudes, but you can't be reading porn to the kids.
Suzanne wonders what all this feet stuff in the New Testament means to us. "For me, it's as if we are to cleanse ourselves of this world, let go of its hold on us, to unite with God. Is this meditation? Is this praying in the spirit? I do not know for certain, but welcome your interpretation."
In a word, Suzanne, yes. 'E', All of the above. It is realization that there is the One with Whom we have to do, AND THAT HE IS NOT APART FROM US. It is ordering our valuations and priorities and actions according to His presence within us. Now you have me preaching to myself: "The Holy Ground is within, you see His actions, do you hear the children, Simon?" It is okay to have things, to succeed, but recognize that "All of man's ambitions are like clay. They will all turn to dust" (Neville: Imagination). Focus more on being more like God. That means adopting his characteristics as your own. Love, kindness, patience, helps, imagining good for people, teaching, sharing. I said in a reply to your comment that there is a new age of faith coming. I think God is hoping my readers will be it.
Suzanne asks how I might then understand references to feet in the New Testament, especially Luke 7:38, John 13, and Matthew 10:14. Before I go anywhere, I repeat: phallic and sexual references and allusions in scripture have nothing to do with sex, but everything to do with spiritual creative power. It just recently occurred to me that that is what the biblical word 'bless' alludes to: "I will bless you," means give creative power to your imagination. I am a slow learner.
I think Suzanne has seen my take on Neville's understanding of Exodus 3:5, where Moses was told to take the sandles from his feet because the ground he stood on was holy ground. Shoes are insulators, they mediate our contact with the ground. The passage has nothing to do with shoes, feet, or ground. Moses was meditating on the source of Jethro -- success -- and God broke in. He likes to do that. He was simply saying that this was an experience of bedrock spiritual reality holy unto God; i.e., for His purpose. "This is the real thing, the real nitty-gritty, the substance of the really real reality -- God's consciousness. Don't bring any of your own stuff into it."
So Moses' "feet" were his contact points with this reality, his mental perceptions of it. Go with the flow, Moses.
What are Jesus' feet in Luke 7:38? The same as Exodus 3:5. Simon is our spiritual hearing. Great signs and wonders were being performed by Jesus, and the Pharisees turned a deaf ear to them. The whore in us got it: she understood that "When it works, you have found him," and humbly submitted herself to God's nitty-gritty, which Jesus is. The picture is a bit mixed up, she keeps her shoes on, Jesus is the ground, incense for worship and holiness, Simon for Moses, but it is all there. Luke just didn't think of having her walk on Jesus' back.
John 13 is Jesus stipping down and washing the feet of his disciples. Note Simon again. Disciples, as I understand them, are our mental and spiritual faculties. Their feet are our perceptions of reality, our real contact with it. And we find the same allusion in Matthew 10:14, ideas and teachings that are not kosher, get them off of your feet, your perceptions of God's reality.
Why is 'foot' in Genesis 32 a phallus and 'feet' elsewhere our mind's contact with consciousness reality? In Genesis 32, foot is a substitute word. Gotta clean it up. The ancients weren't prudes, but you can't be reading porn to the kids.
Suzanne wonders what all this feet stuff in the New Testament means to us. "For me, it's as if we are to cleanse ourselves of this world, let go of its hold on us, to unite with God. Is this meditation? Is this praying in the spirit? I do not know for certain, but welcome your interpretation."
In a word, Suzanne, yes. 'E', All of the above. It is realization that there is the One with Whom we have to do, AND THAT HE IS NOT APART FROM US. It is ordering our valuations and priorities and actions according to His presence within us. Now you have me preaching to myself: "The Holy Ground is within, you see His actions, do you hear the children, Simon?" It is okay to have things, to succeed, but recognize that "All of man's ambitions are like clay. They will all turn to dust" (Neville: Imagination). Focus more on being more like God. That means adopting his characteristics as your own. Love, kindness, patience, helps, imagining good for people, teaching, sharing. I said in a reply to your comment that there is a new age of faith coming. I think God is hoping my readers will be it.
posted by Daniel C. Branham-Steele at
4:08 AM
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Dear Dan,
Thank you for the unexpected prompt response to the question of new testament feet. I had not read your Exodus, post but will search for it.
For some unexplained reason, Spirit is asking me to encourage you to listen to the gospel of John in its entirety. There are many free apps that would allow you to do this at your leisure. I use the Bible.is App (no affiliation) and chose the free King James version in the non drama format, but there are many other options.
His yoke is light and his message is simple enough for a child isn't it?
Much love and light,
Suzanne
P.S. I completely understand if you choose not to post this comment.
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Suzanne, at 10:40 AM
Prompt because I am indeed preaching to myself. Neville's kabbalah techniques are essential and key to what has been lost to the church, but there are other techniques in the real nitty-gritty that are being ignored. Praying in tongues, of which I am a fan while Neville was not, is one. Traditional petitioning prayer needs the tweak of faith that Neville's technique provides, as does nightly revision. I am a big fan/admirer of T. L. Osborn who saw God in the Word and in the healing ministry of William M. Branham, and decided to call a healing meeting together. And God healed. What now with the baptism with the Holy Spirit? Without enabling that, the cart is before the horse. I have known and known of many who received the Holy Spirit alone, in their study and even in their bathtub. Why not promote/enable it here? It may be taken as simply as believing "Ye have received, and ye shall have" (the Greek 'receive' means lit. to take). Well, I think I can answer Be Nice and describe the hell I went through to get baptized in the Holy Spirit in my next post.
I posted your comment after all so that we all might listen to the Gopel of John. I have got to ask Alexander why his audio of John is down.
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Daniel C. Branham-Steele, at 5:20 PM
Beautiful imagery. Receiving the Holy Spirit in the bathtub! Or while reading a book, lying in a field of grass, or stepping out of a pool. We are all uniquely made and so are our experiences of his true christening.
Speaking, singing and praying in tongues is so powerful.
I was thinking of purchasing Vic Alexander's bible, but I have been happy with George Lamsa's translation, along with the occasional King James.
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Suzanne, at 9:01 AM
Something is up with Vic Alexander. I hope it is just that he got financial backing and is busy making a movie. He usually resonds to e-mails within a day or two. He hasn't. And his website has fallen into some disrepair: audio files don't open up and some lead to the web host, which typically happens when a site has not been paid for. I wanted to purchase Vic's Old Testament collection, as it has Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. Actually, I have everything saved and most printed out even though I have bought everything else just to support Vic. The book I just mentioned is not offered on his site anymore. And I should mention that Victor has been translating on his own, no big foundation to support his work. No editor or proofreader, either. You have to take his typing and punctuation as, um, causual. He is very conservative and literal-historical in his method and interpretation. He gets very excited about O. T. "prophecies" about Jesus and the Apostles. I described him as a tour bus driver who just happened to be expert in the ancient liturgical Aramaic. He just translates what is there. Expensive for a Bible as Bibles go, but there is nothing else like them (individual books)! Check out his v-a.com/bible/ offerings. Let's hope he and all his family is okay.
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Daniel C. Branham-Steele, at 8:06 PM
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