What Are We Saved From? Disrespecting God. THAT'S What We Are Saved From
We are "saved" from disrespecting God.
Moses was raised in Egypt. Egypt represents the flesh, the ignorance we are born into in this world. Moses was expert in the religions of Egypt, gods from above and gods below, but he didn't know God, Eil, the Shaddai ("He Is," the Provider). Curious of what life is all about in the end, Moses contemplated Jethro, "His Excellent Remainder." Then the image of Ashur, the God of Assyria (where Abraham was from) came to mind: the Son doing the works of the Ineffable manifest all around. "OH! That is this, “God,” this action all around, and I am part of it" (Exodus 3:14 - me). Moses had found and respected the true God, his own destiny, and his life was changed forever.
In today's Christian vernacular we would say that Moses was saved, that he had believed on God, that he had repented and accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior, that he had converted and was born again. My point here is that Moses' life up to that point, though a prince of Egypt with all the education in the world, sophisticated, successful, and well meaning, was a catastrophe. Life goes bad to make us turn and respect our superior we are disrespecting.
Consider Adam, the life-force of God's Spirit in man. Turning its focus on the flesh rather than God and entering the ignorance, it lives its life for itself without regard for God. That is disrespect; Adam is "fallen." Disregard for God kills awareness of the Spirit; Cain is the flesh and Abel the Spirit - Cain is cursed in forgetfulness. Ham disrespects his father, Noah, a type of God and an example we are to be like, and even Canaan, i.e., those who disrespect God like Ham, are cursed. I always wonder, what is the deal with Nimrod? He set up a kingdom for his EARTHLY father, Cush. These two and their 'Eve,' Semiramis, are the unholy trinity instigators of all Pagan idolatries, all of which are cursed.
Fascinating stuff. There seems to be a pattern in the Bible. Kings come into Abraham's sphere and touch his nephew, and get their asses whooped. They unknowingly disrespected Abraham, whose name means "Merciful Father" (THAT name is why he is "the Father of many nations"), and were cursed. Being merciful, God has got to get us to respect our superiors. Sometimes that takes a heavy hand. He sealed up the wombs of Abimelech's women folk, caused Esau to lose his birthright and blessing, starved Egypt into submission, killed their firstborn, forbade Moses from entering the Promised Land, took the kingdom away from Saul, and killed David's son. The pattern continues even to today and is not going away anytime soon.
You think God is some kind of monster? He IS everything affected, and everything is on its way to manifesting Him in His loving Glory. He is in the process of becoming. The stories above are ILLUSTRATIONS, examples of what it is like to be in ignorance of God and disrespectful toward Him. The stories are educational, explanations. God would be a monster if he didn't correct us, and the faster we get out from under OUR ignorance that causes our disrespecting Him, and which causes all our problems, the better. By the way, as His imaginal acts we entered into this crucifixion on flesh under the curse of ignorance to gain the freedom proffered. As bad as it is, it is us AS GOD fighting to overcome our ignorance of the nature of the Ineffable. It is a price we willingly pay for the joy set before us in receiving the Spirit, to gain the right to forgive and save - to set the Man free from sin and death and the pains of hell.
Salvation is moving from disrespecting and dishonoring our superior, God, in our spiritual ignorance, to respecting and honoring our superior, God, spiritually aware. The Bible offers a really big example of this, a second exodus I call the Season of Grace (this is Alexander's designation). This spiritual exodus is the prominent idea in the Books of Isaiah and Jeremiah. All the prophets talk about it, even Moses said God would raise a prophet like unto himself, which appeared in the Season of Grace. "Jesus" is about him, the Anointed One (the anointing nature is the "name above every name," not the fellow it was on).
Isaiah, as I was saying, is one big poem which vacillates between those who respect God and are on track to succeed, and those who disrespect God and are on track to failure (if your life is tracking in failure, where are you?). These tracks progress together until the fruit of each manifests in its final form - either the Manifestation of Christ or utter destruction. It is very clear to me from reading Vic Alexander's translations from the Aramaic Old Testament (very few books of the Old Testament he has translated, but worth every cent in my opinion).
Daniel was told the Season of Grace would run 490 years from a specific commandment to rebuild Jerusalem to the Manifestation of the Anointing, basically from the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem to the destruction of the second temple. God is not impressed with temples as much as He is with respect and honor. Malachi poses the question to the nation during the Season: "A son honors his father and a servant his lord; if I am the Father, how are you honoring Me; and if I am the Lord, how are you submitting to Me?" Some were drawing away to camps to get their lives right with God, and some priests were offering defiled bread and blind, lame, or sick animals in disrespectful "sacrifices" to God. He's going to be impressed with your garbage?
It isn't the stuff you give, it is the honor and respect you have for the truth of the structure we are in. As far as rank and authority go, the Ineffable is above us, God is above us, and the Anointing Spirit is above us. Confucius got it right: honor your superiors, be humble yourself, recognize your position, and honorably play your role well with true, loving respect. Recognize that God is in you (not far of somewhere) and the curse on the earth due to YOUR disrespect, repent, and flee its destructive power. You will be a whole lot more successful in life with love, honor, and respect. Repent means to stop floundering in ignorance, and to be baptized means to wholly submit yourself to your superior, God, and be accepted (!) by Him. If you will so submit in a true surrendering attitude, you will receive the enlivening Spirit of God’s consciousness into your being, and as an open bucket fallen into a well, receive living water.
(Continued)
Moses was raised in Egypt. Egypt represents the flesh, the ignorance we are born into in this world. Moses was expert in the religions of Egypt, gods from above and gods below, but he didn't know God, Eil, the Shaddai ("He Is," the Provider). Curious of what life is all about in the end, Moses contemplated Jethro, "His Excellent Remainder." Then the image of Ashur, the God of Assyria (where Abraham was from) came to mind: the Son doing the works of the Ineffable manifest all around. "OH! That is this, “God,” this action all around, and I am part of it" (Exodus 3:14 - me). Moses had found and respected the true God, his own destiny, and his life was changed forever.
In today's Christian vernacular we would say that Moses was saved, that he had believed on God, that he had repented and accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior, that he had converted and was born again. My point here is that Moses' life up to that point, though a prince of Egypt with all the education in the world, sophisticated, successful, and well meaning, was a catastrophe. Life goes bad to make us turn and respect our superior we are disrespecting.
Consider Adam, the life-force of God's Spirit in man. Turning its focus on the flesh rather than God and entering the ignorance, it lives its life for itself without regard for God. That is disrespect; Adam is "fallen." Disregard for God kills awareness of the Spirit; Cain is the flesh and Abel the Spirit - Cain is cursed in forgetfulness. Ham disrespects his father, Noah, a type of God and an example we are to be like, and even Canaan, i.e., those who disrespect God like Ham, are cursed. I always wonder, what is the deal with Nimrod? He set up a kingdom for his EARTHLY father, Cush. These two and their 'Eve,' Semiramis, are the unholy trinity instigators of all Pagan idolatries, all of which are cursed.
Fascinating stuff. There seems to be a pattern in the Bible. Kings come into Abraham's sphere and touch his nephew, and get their asses whooped. They unknowingly disrespected Abraham, whose name means "Merciful Father" (THAT name is why he is "the Father of many nations"), and were cursed. Being merciful, God has got to get us to respect our superiors. Sometimes that takes a heavy hand. He sealed up the wombs of Abimelech's women folk, caused Esau to lose his birthright and blessing, starved Egypt into submission, killed their firstborn, forbade Moses from entering the Promised Land, took the kingdom away from Saul, and killed David's son. The pattern continues even to today and is not going away anytime soon.
You think God is some kind of monster? He IS everything affected, and everything is on its way to manifesting Him in His loving Glory. He is in the process of becoming. The stories above are ILLUSTRATIONS, examples of what it is like to be in ignorance of God and disrespectful toward Him. The stories are educational, explanations. God would be a monster if he didn't correct us, and the faster we get out from under OUR ignorance that causes our disrespecting Him, and which causes all our problems, the better. By the way, as His imaginal acts we entered into this crucifixion on flesh under the curse of ignorance to gain the freedom proffered. As bad as it is, it is us AS GOD fighting to overcome our ignorance of the nature of the Ineffable. It is a price we willingly pay for the joy set before us in receiving the Spirit, to gain the right to forgive and save - to set the Man free from sin and death and the pains of hell.
Salvation is moving from disrespecting and dishonoring our superior, God, in our spiritual ignorance, to respecting and honoring our superior, God, spiritually aware. The Bible offers a really big example of this, a second exodus I call the Season of Grace (this is Alexander's designation). This spiritual exodus is the prominent idea in the Books of Isaiah and Jeremiah. All the prophets talk about it, even Moses said God would raise a prophet like unto himself, which appeared in the Season of Grace. "Jesus" is about him, the Anointed One (the anointing nature is the "name above every name," not the fellow it was on).
Isaiah, as I was saying, is one big poem which vacillates between those who respect God and are on track to succeed, and those who disrespect God and are on track to failure (if your life is tracking in failure, where are you?). These tracks progress together until the fruit of each manifests in its final form - either the Manifestation of Christ or utter destruction. It is very clear to me from reading Vic Alexander's translations from the Aramaic Old Testament (very few books of the Old Testament he has translated, but worth every cent in my opinion).
Daniel was told the Season of Grace would run 490 years from a specific commandment to rebuild Jerusalem to the Manifestation of the Anointing, basically from the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem to the destruction of the second temple. God is not impressed with temples as much as He is with respect and honor. Malachi poses the question to the nation during the Season: "A son honors his father and a servant his lord; if I am the Father, how are you honoring Me; and if I am the Lord, how are you submitting to Me?" Some were drawing away to camps to get their lives right with God, and some priests were offering defiled bread and blind, lame, or sick animals in disrespectful "sacrifices" to God. He's going to be impressed with your garbage?
It isn't the stuff you give, it is the honor and respect you have for the truth of the structure we are in. As far as rank and authority go, the Ineffable is above us, God is above us, and the Anointing Spirit is above us. Confucius got it right: honor your superiors, be humble yourself, recognize your position, and honorably play your role well with true, loving respect. Recognize that God is in you (not far of somewhere) and the curse on the earth due to YOUR disrespect, repent, and flee its destructive power. You will be a whole lot more successful in life with love, honor, and respect. Repent means to stop floundering in ignorance, and to be baptized means to wholly submit yourself to your superior, God, and be accepted (!) by Him. If you will so submit in a true surrendering attitude, you will receive the enlivening Spirit of God’s consciousness into your being, and as an open bucket fallen into a well, receive living water.
(Continued)
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