14) As the Sun meets the Gemini Twins, so is the Son approached by the brothers James and John in Matt. 20:20-28.In fact, some have noticed many similarities between the lives of Castor & Pollux (names of the Gemini twins) and John & James. Only Cancer the Crab and Leo the Lion seem not to fit in with the order of events in Matthew, but Jesus the Son is called “The Lion” (Rev. 5:5), as He is also called the “Lamb of God” (John 1:29), represented by Aries the ram or lamb; called the goat who takes away sins (Leviticus 16), represented by Capricorn; and often symbolized by a fish, represented by Pisces. Leo’s placement in the Zodiac is fitting, for as the Son issues from the virgin in the first book of the New Testament, he does not appear as the Lion until the last book of the New Testament. The fourth last symbol of the Zodiac is Virgo the Virgin because the Sun appears in conjunction with Virgo on Dec. 25th, as Jesus came out of a virgin’s womb when He was born!!!! Also, Jesus gives the parable of the ten virgins who are planning to wed themselves to Christ in Matthew 25:1-13!!! THE SON WILL UNITE WITH THOSE WHO SEEK TO BE WED TO HIM IN THE NEW JERUSALEM! The third last symbol is Libra the Balance perhaps to show that THE SON WILL THEN JUDGE THE WORLD, so that all good will be rewarded and all evil will be punished, for Jesus discusses The Last Judgment in Matthew 25:31-46!!! That is why we talk today about the “scales” or “balance” of Justice!!! The second last constellation through which the Sun passes in the year is Scorpio, perhaps because The Son was stung by the scorpion Judas, who was possessed by the scorpion-like “dragon” Satan (John 13), just before He died when Judas betrayed Jesus to the Jews by a kiss! (Matthew 26:49)!! The last constellation through which the Sun passes in the year is Sagittarius, the arrow, apparently because THE SON WAS INDEED PIERCED ON A CROSS (Matthew 27), as Achilles a type of Christ was pierced by an arrow in the heel (Compare with Gen. 3:15: Satan will bruise the Messiah’s heel)!!! The next constellation is Capricorn the goat perhaps because by being pierced, the Son is indeed the scapegoat who runs away with all the sins of His people!!!!!! “The live GOAT shall be brought forward. [The priest, symbolic of Jesus] Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and transgressions of the Israelites, whatever their sins, putting them on the head of the goat; and it shall be sent off to the wilderness by the hand of a fit man.” (Leviticus 16:20-22)
15) As the Sun has a “corona” (Latin for “crown”; that is why when people draw the Sun they make spokes come out of it), so did the Son wear a crown of thorns and so does He now wear a crown befitting a King, as He reigns over all! God apparently puts crowns around the planets of Saturn and Uranus to point to the fact that the Sun too has a crown, though this fact somewhat puzzles me. I suggest that there are nine planets circling the Sun to symbolize all the gods people are ruled by which will one day all be displaced by Jesus (for the planets have the same names as the Roman gods after all!), or the people who will have their attention centered on the Son in Heaven (for, as I will show conclusively later on, there were twelve Greek and Roman gods in order to represent Jesus and His eleven disciples), or maybe both.
Sun’s “Corona” or “Crown” of Thorns
16) Therefore, the Sun is circular because it symbolizes the Son’s head, which is circular! head, which is circular!
17) Because the Zodiac is divided into TWELVE symbols, crosses appear all over the Zodiac! This symbolizes that the Son of God Himself died on the cross after He was crowned with thorns!!!!!! In fact, as the Son’s head with a corona appeared toward the top of the cross, so does the round Sun with its corona appear towards the top of each zodiac cross!!!
18) The Sun sometimes appears red when it is near setting to show that God’s Son did indeed shed His blood, or when it has just risen to show that God’s Son did rise after His bloody death!
19) At the Winter solstice on December 21, the sun enters the lowest point on the horizon. The next three days are the darkest days of the year. Around this time, the Sun appears in the “Southern Cross” constellation to show that the Son of God was crucified! http://farbensays.blogspot.com/2007/12/happy-december-25th-day.html December 25th is the first day when daylight gets noticeably longer. The sun is seen to come back to life. Three days have passed and Jesus is seen again. THE SON ROSE AGAIN ON THE THIRD DAY!
20) As the Sun rides on the clouds, so every eye “shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power [for He is now a crowned King!], and coming on the clouds of heaven!” (Matt. 26:64)
21)*WOW!* What brings the trees back to life every spring? The SUN does, along with other factors such as water, because each region of the Earth is closer to the Sun during
that region’s spring than it is during that region’s winter, as you know from the fact that it is warmer in the spring than it is in the winter. Why did God make the world this way? Jesus,
God the SON, supplies the answer:
“Verily verily I say to you, that an hour is coming and is now, when the dead shall hear the
voice of the SON of God, and those having heard shall live. For even as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave also to the Son life to have in Himself. And He gave authority to Him
and Judgment to execute, because He is the Son of Man. Wonder not at this, for there is coming an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall come forth, the ones who did good things to a RESURRECTION of life, and those that did evil things to a resurrection of Judgment.” (John 5:25-29)
and also:
“This is the will of Him who sent me, that everyone who sees the SON and believes in Him, should have eternal life; and I will RAISE him up on the last day.” (John 6:40)
Notice that God the Son, not God the Father, brings the dead back to life!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God the Son testifies to this fact not only by causing the Sun to rise again every morning, but also by having the Sun resurrect the trees every spring! In the Bible, God often refers to the trees as symbols of humans, as when Jesus says referring to humans that good trees produce good fruit but bad trees produce bad fruit (Matt. 12:33) or when God compares the happy
man to “a tree planted besides streams of water.” (Psalm 1:3) Notice the many other ways in which God made trees similar to humans: for instance, both need nourishment, grow, and are upright, and humans are the only upright animals!
Of course, the trees don’t “rise” again, but they certainly look like they come back to life.
Many humans think this. For instance, notice how in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73, he compares autumn to the time of life near death: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold, when yellow leaves or none or few do hang, upon those boughs which shake against the cold, bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” In Modern Greek, the word for spring is
anoixee, which word is related to the Greek verb which means “to open”: for the Greeks see the spring as a reopening of what had closed. Don’t miss my discussion of SLEEP later in this section in connection with resurrection!
22) Why does the Sun bring joy? For instance, have you seen the breathtaking beauty of sunsets and sunrises? Have you felt the pleasant warmth of the Sun after having been in cold water? Have you heard about the fact that some people who don’t get enough sunlight in winter get depressed as a result? Do you realize that our word “solace” (peace) is related to the word “solar”? Are these not all proofs that the SON is the ultimate source of all
joy, and that we should thirst with all our soul to be united with Him?! “One thing have I
desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD.” (Psalm 27:4) You can know the
beauty of the LORD to some extent now brother, especially by frequently meditating on His Word.
23) Why is the Sun so hot? According to NASA, its core reaches 15 million degrees! “Take heed unto yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you…for the LORD thy God is a CONSUMING FIRE.” (Deuteronomy 4:24) The sun should remind us of the reality of Hell.
24) IT IS AN ACT OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE THAT THE WORDS “SUN” AND “SON” SOUND IDENTICAL, AT LEAST IN GERMAN AND IN ENGLISH, THE MOST COMMON LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD TODAY! In German, the word for the Sun is “Sonne,” which makes the
connection even clearer! It makes sense that God would not make them sound the same in every language, for God CONCEALS things. Hear Jesus: “I praise you, Father, Lord of the Heaven and of the Earth, that you did HIDE these things from the wise and prudent, and did
reveal them to babes.” (Luke 10:21) God has done the same thing with the following pairs of words: SOLACE/SOLAR, GOOD/GOD, EVIL/DEVIL, and DOG/GOD, as I will prove below!
Biblical Evidence that the Sun is a symbol of the Son of God
1) In Psalm 84:11, it says that “the LORD God is a sun and shield.” This is obviously metaphorical, for the Psalmist is very aware that God is not a body as the Sun is. The word “LORD” is a title for the Son of God as well as for the Father. However, all the following references connect the Sun with the God the Son, not God the Father.
2) The Son of God calls himself the “light of the world” (John 8:12), and the Sun is the most prominent light of the world that we can see with our eyes.
3) “The heavens declare the glory of GOD…In them he has set a TABERNACLE for the SUN, which is as a BRIDEGROOM coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a STRONG MAN to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and THERE IS NOTHING HID FROM THE HEAT THEREOF.” (Psalm 19:1,4-6)
“The heavens declare the glory of God” in part because the Sun is a symbol of God the Son. God the Son “TABERNACLED among us” (John 1:14), and the tabernacle is a type of Him. The Messiah is called a BRIDEGROOM in Isaiah 61:1-2,8,10 & 62:5; and Jesus compares Himself to a BRIDEGROOM in several of his parables, including the parable of the ten virgins and the parable of the wedding feast. (Matt. 22:2, Matt. 25:1) The Messiah-King, Jesus, is called a “STRONG MAN”/”HERO” (same Hebrew word as in Psalm 19) in Psalm 45:3. The last sentence of the quotation is a reference to the fact that Jesus can see all over the world. For instance, He “saw” Nathanael was sitting under a fig tree although Nathanael was not
within the range of His eyesight. This seeing of course provokes Nathanael to say: “Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the King of Israel!” (John 1:48-49) This passage is clearlyinspired by God, for what human mind would think on his own to compare the Sun to a bridegroom and a hero?!
4) Jesus’ face is said to shine “as the noon-day Sun” both during the Transfiguration (Matt. 17:2) and in Rev. 1:16. In the New Jerusalem, there is said to be no need for the Sun because of the light from God and His Son. (Rev. 21:23)
5) As the SON of God was “absent” from sight for THREE days after His body died, so was
Jesus’s death accompanied by a THREE-hour absence of the SUN (Matt. 27:45); the SUN absent for THREE days to punish the Egyptians for sinning (Exodus 10:22-23); and the SUN’s light invisible to Paul for THREE days after the Son strikes Paul from Heaven with a blinding light. (Acts 9:3-5,9)
6) In the following pair of quotations from Malachi, the Son of God (the “ANGEL of the covenant” who is the LORD Himself) is referred to as the “SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.” The second quotation is especially notable because it is the last chapter of the Old Testament and the last recorded revelation of God before the Gospels, and it refers to both Jesus and John the Baptist! God really wants there to be no doubt in the minds of Christians that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. Before I present the quotations, note that in the following prophecy,
-the DAY of the Lord’s Coming refers to both of Jesus’ Comings as a human, the first being when He came in the first century A.D. and through His disciples “purified” many Gentiles and thereby caused them to “offer unto the LORD…in RIGHTEOUSNESS”; and the second being at the time of the Judgment, when all the wicked will be “BURNED” in Hell. Prophecies of the Old Testament often have multiple fulfillments: for instance, the outpouring of the Spirit of Joel 2:28-29 was fulfilled during Pentecost (Acts 2:1-2) and will be fulfilled again when the Spirit is poured out on a “remnant” of the Jewish people before Jesus’ Second Coming. (Zec. 12:9-10) The God of infinite wisdom has these multiple fulfillments, no doubt, in part so that you can be confident that the final fulfillments will come true, since the partial fulfillments did!
-The “purifying” of the people of Judah (including the “sons of Levi”) refers to Jesus
cleansing a “remnant” of the Jewish people of their sins during His Second Coming, as I discussed in the section “Joshua #4” in connection with the passage from Jer. 23 which
says that in the days of the BRANCH “Israel shall dwell securely.” This purifying is also discussed in Zec. 13:1.
“Behold, I will send my MESSENGER [John the Baptist], and he shall prepare the way before me [Jesus the LORD]: and the Lord [Jesus], whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple [to his body and to the Temple of Jerusalem], even the MESSENGER [or “angel”: Jesus, the angel of the LORD] of the covenant [“the new covenant”: Matt. 26:28], whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts. But who may abide the DAY OF HIS COMING? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s FIRE, and like fullers’ soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in RIGHTEOUSNESS. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.” (Malachi 3:1-3)
“For, behold, the DAY comes, that shall BURN as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ARISE with healing in his wings; and you shall go
forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, says the LORD of hosts. Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you ELIJAH the prophet [John the Baptist, who “shall go forth before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah” (Luke 1:17), and who resembles Elijah in many respects] before the coming of the great and dreadful DAY OF THE LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” (Mal. 4)
7) Why was this last recorded revelation in Malachi 4 given about FOUR HUNDRED YEARS before Jesus came? I believe the answer is in Gen. 15:12-14, which has another interesting reference to the SUN:
“And when the SUN was GOING DOWN [compare to the Sun rising in the previous quotation], a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great DARKNESS fell upon him. And he [God] said unto Abram, ‘Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall AFFLICT them FOUR HUNDRED
YEARS; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and AFTERWARD SHALL THEY COME OUT WITH GREAT SUBSTANCE.”
This prophecy is referring to the enslavement of God’s people for 400 years in Egypt, and
their consequent deliverance by Moses. But remember that Moses is clearly a type of Christ, and that Christ says: “If you abide in my Word, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you FREE… Everyone that practices sin is a SLAVE to sin.” (John 8:32-34) Notice also that God gave this prophecy to Abraham while the SUN was not visible, although He could have spoken to Him in broad daylight as He does almost every other time. (e.g. in Gen. 18, when Abraham pleads with God to spare people of Sodom and Gomorrah, he is clearly not conversing with God in his sleep!) Notice how the following passage associates the coming of Jesus, who is called a LIGHT here, is also associated with FREEING from oppression:
“The people that walked in DARKNESS have seen a great LIGHT: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has a light shined…For you have broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his OPPRESSOR, as in the day of Midian…For unto us a CHILD [the “Immanuel” born of a virgin, mentioned in the widely misunderstood Isaiah 7:14] is born, unto us a SON [God the Son] is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The MIGHTY GOD, The EVERLASTING FATHER, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even FOR EVER.” (Isaiah 9:2,4,6-7)
Hence, I conclude that the last recorded prediction of Jesus’ deliverance was given FOUR HUNDRED YEARS before Jesus’ Coming, as Moses’ deliverance was predicted four hundred years before Moses’ coming, in order for God to further confirm our faith that Jesus does FREE people from the AFFLICTION and OPPRESSION caused by their sins! Those who have been freed by him indeed COME OUT WITH GREAT SUBSTANCE: “a peace that surpasses all understanding” and a heart bursting with love!!!
All of the facts which I state below about the Sun are also asserted in the Bible to be true of
the Son of God. As with the types or foreshadowings of Christ, there is no other being in the world who resembles the Sun so much as the Son of God does, so know that the Sun is indeed a sign that everything said by and about Jesus in the Bible is true. Note that as the rainbow in the sky is explicitly said by God to be a symbol of His covenant with Noah (Gen. 9), the Sun in the sky is a symbol of the Son of God and the new covenant He brought.
2) Light
God did not make only the Sun to symbolize Himself, but He also made light itself for the same purpose:
“God is LIGHT, and there is not any darkness in Him at all.” (1 John 1:5)
“I [God the Father] will also give thee [God the Son] for a LIGHT to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.” (Isaiah 49:6)
“I [Jesus] am the LIGHT of the world.” (John 8:12)
How is light like the Persons of the Trinity?
1) All are INVISIBLE. Light in itself cannot be seen; rather, it can be seen only by being reflected from other objects. You can see that this is true if you turn on a lamp which is placed on the surface of a desk: the surface then reflects light into your eyes, but you don’t
see a beam of light coming down from the light-bulb onto the desk, or from the desk into your eye. Similarly, God is right where you are, although you can’t see Him. He made the
light in part to help you believe this!
2) As you can’t escape the Sun for long, neither can you escape light, for it is EVERYWHERE. Again, as King David says to God, “Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, thou art there.” (Psalm 139:7-8) “Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.” (Psalm 139:3-4)
3) Like God and the Sun, light has existed since the beginning of creation (Gen. 1:3), still exists, and will always exist, for “there shall be no night” in the New Jerusalem! (Rev. 21:25) It is UNENDING just like God
4) Like God and the Sun, light is LIFE-GIVING! Without the heat generated in us by being in contact with the light of the sun, we would die.
5) Why does light enter into and pass through some substances, such as glass, water, and plastic; but completely reflect from others, such as wood or cardboard? Is this perhaps symbolic of the fact that God enters into the hearts of certain people but not into the hearts of others? After all, Paul says of himself, as every true Christian should say of himself, “It is not I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” Thank God if you are like water in this respect!
6) Why is it so exceedingly difficult to KNOW the nature of light? Consider the history of scientific theories in the last few centuries concerning the nature of light. In the late 1600s,
Christiaan Huygens explained phenomena of light such as reflection and refraction on the hypothesis that light travels in waves. Then, in the early 1700s, Isaac Newton explained the phenomena on the hypothesis that light is made up of particles. Soon afterwards,Thomas Young discovered that light diffracts or “spreads out” when passed through a double-slit, and showed that this could only be explained based on the hypothesis that light travels in
waves. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, James Clerk Maxwell furthermore showed that light is an electromagnetic wave. Who would have thought that light had anything to do with electricity and magnetism! But then in 1905, Albert Einstein discovered the photoelectric effect, and could only explain this on the basis that light is made up of particles! A few years later, Louis de Broglie proposed that light is made up of particles which are associated with waves! I remember throwing my laboratory science book at the wall of my bedroom one day during my junior year at St. John’s College because I was so baffled by these matters! What human will ever plumb the depths of what light truly is?!
I think the answer to the question of why the nature of light is so baffling lies in the following two passages:
“HE [JESUS] WAS THE TRUE LIGHT which lightens every man coming into the world. In the world He was, and the world through Him came into being, AND THE WORLD KNEW HIM NOT.” (John 1:9-10)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The words of Agur…: ‘Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I NEITHER LEARNED WISDOM, NOR HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY. Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, AND WHAT IS HIS SON’S NAME, if you can tell?’ ” (Proverbs 30:1-4)
God inspired Agur to say this, in one of the Bible’s “books of Wisdom” (!), because He wants
to tell human beings that they can never fully comprehend Him. When Agur says that he does not have “knowledge of the holy,” he means that he does not fully know God, for God is “The Holy One of Israel”; he does not mean that he has no knowledge of God, since he recognizes, for instance, that God has a “Son”! (This opinion is no invention of the Gospels!) Therefore, since God made light symbolize Himself, and since He wants us to realize that we cannot fully comprehend Him, naturally He made the nature of light incomprehensible! It is apparently for the same reason that he made our eyes unable to look at the SUN directly when it is high in the sky, for we cannot clearly see God! Therefore, I PROPOSE THAT GOD HAS CAUSED THE HISTORY OF THE INVESTIGATION OF LIGHT TO UNFOLD IN THE WAY IT HAS IN ORDER TO SHOW HUMANS THAT WE CHRISTIANS, AND ESPECIALLY NON-CHRISTIANS, DO NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY ONE, SO WE URGENTLY NEED TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE OF HIM AND HIS WILL LEST WE DIE. For, God is the driving force behind world history, as you have already seen from the types of Christ, and as I will further show. He “works ALL THINGS according to the counsel of His will.” (Ephesians 1:11) It is very important to know that we might be wrong about what God’s will is, so that we constantly seek it, for “A ROAD MAY SEEM RIGHT TO A MAN, BUT IN THE END IT IS A ROAD TO DEATH.” (Proverbs 14:12)
Also, notice from the brief history I sketched how the knowledge of light we have today did not all come at once. Instead, it has been gradually advancing for centuries. Is God not thereby telling us that those in Paradise will forever advance in knowledge of Him, so that Paradise would never be boring?! For “this is eternal life: to KNOW God and to know His Son Jesus Christ.” (John 17:3)
7) The speed of light never changes in a given medium. In a vacuum, it is always 3 x 10^8 m/s or 186,000 miles/second. Compare with God: "I am the LORD: I change not." (Malachi 3:6)
8) The speed of light is the fastest speed known to man, as God is superior to all other things.
9) Light shares many properties with ELECTRONS, other substances which like God are INVISIBLE, EVERYWHERE, UNENDING, & LIFE-GIVING. (See section on the atom below)
10) God often groups sources of light into units of THREE. For instance, the traffic light with the three signals of different colors; ceiling lights. The electrical outlet, which provides the electricity needed for lamps, has two equal holes and one smaller hole in the center. This set-up highly resembles other symbols of the Holy Trinity which involve circles such as eye-nose-eye and nipple - belly button - nipple.
11) Wooden light poles are a symbol of the wooden cross on which God the Son was crucified! They almost always have one and only one bar crossing the pole near the top to make this clear! The extension from the light pole which culminates in the place from which the light shines represents the neck and face of Christ from which light shines, as light shined from Christ’s face during His transfiguration in Matt. 17 and when He appeared in Rev. 1:14 in His glorified form! Light poles tower over people just as other types of Christ do, such as Achilles and Ajax of Homer’s Iliad, the Pyramid of Khufu, the more than 100 foot tall Colossus of Rhodes, the 151-foot Statue of Liberty, the second twin tower of Notre Dame in Paris, Twin Tower #2 of the World Trade Center, and the Empire State Building, in order to show how much more space Christ fills than any human does since He is omnipresent, and perhaps also in order to symbolize that Christ will be a giant, literally, in the New Jerusalem so that everyone can constantly behold Him. And the light poles are everywhere to show that Jesus spoke truly when He said to His disciples at the end of the Gospel of Matthew: “I am with you until the end of the ages.”
3) The Wind
The wind was made by the Trinity to symbolize the Holy Spirit. Both the Greek word pneuma and the Hebrew word ruah can mean either “wind” or “spirit.” Jesus explicitly associates the two when He says: “The wind (pneuma) blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know whence it comes and where it goes to; thus is everyone who has been born of the Spirit (pneuma).” (John 3:8) Notice the association of wind and the spirit in the following passage as well: “And during the accomplishing of the day of Pentecost, they were all with one accord in the same place. And suddenly a sound as of a violent wind rushing came out of heaven, and filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire, and one sat upon each of them; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to utter forth.” (Acts 2:1-4) Like the sun and the light, the wind is a reminder that God sees all the good and all the evil that any person does!
In what ways does the wind symbolize the Holy Spirit? Neither can be seen, although both cause things to happen. They are both everywhere on Earth, outside houses at least. This is evident if you look at any tree: you will always see its leaves and branches swaying, more or less.
They both have long been, are, and always will be active on the Earth until the Earth passes away. As the Psalmist says, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy keeper.” (Psalm 121:1-5) Are you grieving, brother? Is it late at night? No matter: the LORD is awake and He is right where you are! Call on Him and He will bring you joy, for He is the source of all joy!
They are both the source of life! The words pneuma and ruah don’t mean only “wind” and “spirit,” but also “lifebreath.” Wind is simply air in motion, and air needs to move into your body in order for you to live. Similarly, it is God’s Spirit that gives life. When a person dies, it is said: “Then shall the dust [the material of the human body] return to the earth as it was: and the spirit [or “lifebreath”] shall return unto God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:7) Is there anything you find enjoyable, brother? You would not experience such enjoyments if it were not for God, for He grants you life!
The wind can be very gentle; look at how gently it sways the branches and leaves of the trees. That fact is symbolic of how gentle God is to those who love Him! Jesus says: “Come to me, all you that labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28) On the other hand, the wind can be very violent: think of tornadoes! That fact is symbolic of how violent God can be to those who don’t love Him. When the Israelites made a golden calf and worshipped it instead of worshipping God, God said to Moses: “I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them.” (Exodus 32:8-10)
Is there anything else besides the wind and God that is invisible, omnipresent, ever-active, life-giving, and alternately gentle and violent? The only other things I know of which are present everywhere on Earth are light and water vapor, which too are both symbolic of God. The only other things I know of which are ever-active are aspects of living things, such as the heart and brain, and these too are symbolic of God: the heart and the brain are the source of life. Are there many other sources of life, other than the sun, food, and water, which are other symbols of God?
4) WATER
Notice how Jesus associates water with the Spirit in the following passage. “’He who believes in me, as the Scripture said, streams of living water shall flow out of his belly.’ But this he said concerning the Spirit which those believing on him were about to receive.” (John 7:38-39) He also associates them when He says that to enter the Kingdom of God, one needs to “be born of water and the Spirit.” (John 3) The immersion of a person into water in the sacrament of Baptism is actually a symbol of becoming immersed in God.
Both water and God “cleanse” a person of what is undesirable. In fact, being free from sins is often described in the Bible as being “cleansed” of sins. For instance, we see this when Jesus says: “Blessed are the clean [katharoi] in heart; for they shall see God.” (Matthew
5:8) But only God can clean our hearts. That is why King David says to God: “Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin…Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:2,10) Oh, how true this is! God has cleansed me of the indifference I had toward people toward people and has filled me with
burning love! God has given me the self-control which I lacked before coming to Him! God
has washed me of my tendency to get angry easily and has created in me a gentle heart! Every time you take a shower, God reminds you how you can’t be clean in His sight without His influence!
Like the wind and God, water can be gentle or extremely violent. On the one hand, look at how peaceful the water in a pond is. On the other hand, think of how much damage hurricanes cause, or think of how powerful the waves of the sea can be. The mightiness of both God and water are explicitly compared in Psalm 93:3-4, where it is said: “The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.”
The sea shares much in common with God. Both cover a very wide area, for God fills all space. The seas and oceans of the world are so deep and so wide that their depths have not even all been explored. When you are on the beach, you are usually unable to see the other end of the body of water because of how large it is! Do you thirst to know? How eager, then, should you be to forever dwell in Paradise with Christ, for “in Him are all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge hid.” (Colossians 2:3)
Like the wind and God, water is life-giving. Every time you drink a glass of water, God is reminding you that you can’t live without him!
Why does water come down from heaven and then ascend when it evaporates? God causes this phenomenon frequently all over the world so that all the world can be frequently
reminded that God, who is symbolized by water, truly did come down from heaven and then
ascend, multiple times (for He is recorded in the Old Testament to have appeared often during the early days of the nation of Israel, especially as “the angel of the LORD” who calls
Himself the LORD)! As there is a visible form of water, God truly did become visible to people on this Earth!
But God has an invisible form too, as does water! In fact, both water and God have three forms! (Of course this is true of all matter, but this fact is more obvious to us in the case of water than in the case of anything else!) Water vapor shares much in common with the Holy Spirit (the invisible form of God) and the wind. All three are invisible, omnipresent, and ever-present, three very uncommon qualities!
One particle of water cannot exist without three atoms- two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. This is symbolic of the fact that two persons of God by name at least seem more similar to one another than to the third person- insofar as there can be no “father” without a “son” and no “son” without a father- although of course in fact all three equally possess the same divine nature. God made water, and He must have made it that way for a reason. That this is the reason He made water this way is evident from the fact that the Trinity is portrayed thus throughout the human body (ex. Eye-eye-nose, ear-ear-mouth, nipple-nipple-belly button), in the conic sections (parabola-hyperbola-ellipse), in electrical outlets, on light switches, on fire hydrants, and in most sinks and bathtubs. Most sinks and bathtubs have the set-up of water handle – faucet – water handle.
5) MAN
Genesis 1:26: “And God said, Let us [The Trinity] make man in our image.”
(notice how in each of these trios, the first and the second members are nearly identical,
as Jesus says of Himself: “Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father.”)
Father-Son-Holy Spirit (or “Holy Breath”) = Heart-Brain-Lungs, Eye-Eye-Nose,
Ear-Ear-Mouth, Brain: Cerebrum – Cerebellum – Medulla,
Cerebrum (view from top): Frontal lobe – Parietal lobe – Occipital lobe
Heart: Left – Right – Septum, Left lung – Right lung- Trachea,
Upper arm- Lower arm- Hand (parts of ONE arm), Index finger- Ring finger – Middle finger,
Lower – middle – upper part of finger (parts of ONE finger), Left arm- Right arm- Torso,
Torso: Left torso – Right torso - Breastbone,
Back: Left back –Right back - Spinal cord,
Nipple- Nipple - Belly Button, Left hip – Right hip – waist,
Testicle –Testicle – Penis,
Upper leg – Lower leg – Foot, Left leg- Right leg – Genitalia,
Left ankle – Right ankle – Achilles tendon (Achilles is a symbol of God),
Lower – middle – upper part of toe
-Because the lungs, nose, and mouth are all used in respiration, and all appear to be the third member of a trio in the body, I see no reason to deny that they are symbols of the Holy Spirit, which in Hebrew & Greek also means "breath"
-The heart, brain, and lungs are organs which can always be detected to be at work, through one's pulse, thoughts, & breathing, respectively, as God "neither slumbers nor sleeps" (Psalm 119) Also, it is fitting for the brain to symbolize God the Son because He is called "Wisdom" (Cf. Proverbs 1, 8; discussed in Part Two in conjunction with Gen. 1:26)
-The ears & mouth fit together because the former hear while the latter speaks. Isaiah 41:17 NKJV: "The poor and needy seek water, but there is none, Their tongues fail for thirst. I, the LORD, will HEAR them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. The mouth is fittingly an image of the Holy Spirit for “Men moved by the Holy Spirit SPOKE from God.” (1 Peter 1:21)
-The eyes & nose fit together because they are used for sensation; God is fittingly symbolized by sensory organs, because He sees & hears everything (Psalm 139: there is no place from which one can escape God) “Those seven [eyes in a stone symbolizing Jesus] are the EYES of the LORD, ranging over the whole earth.” (Zechariah 4:10)
-“Now I know that the LORD will give victory to His anointed (Jesus), will answer him from His heavenly sanctuary with the mighty victories of His right ARM.” (Psalm 20:7)
The Ten Commandments were written “with the FINGER of God.” (Exodus 31:18)
-The testicle & penis are, like other symbols of God such as light, the source of LIFE, for they emit semen.
---Being Awake > Falling Asleep > Dreaming > Being Awake Again
“Verily verily I say to you, that an hour is coming and is now, when the dead shall hear the voice of the SON of God, and those having heard shall live. For even as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave also to the Son life to have in Himself. And He gave authority to Him and Judgment to execute, because He is the Son of Man. Wonder not at this, for there is coming an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, and shall come forth, the ones who did good things to a RESURRECTION of life, and those that did evil things to a resurrection of Judgment.” (John 5:25-29)
One of the reasons God makes us sleep is so that we are constantly reminded that dead bodies all over the Earth will be raised back to consciousness!!!!!!!!! Humans all over the Earth associate sleep with death. For instance, Shakespeare calls sleep “Death’s second self, who lays up all in rest!”
In the passage I just quoted from the Gospel of John, Jesus makes this connection between
death and sleep clear by saying that there is an “hour” at which this will happen, not a “day,” as we rise at a certain hour each morning! God revealed this connection to me one morning a few months ago: as soon as I got up out of bed, the first thought that entered my mind was, “and the dead shall be raised to life”! Apparently, God was speaking to me in my own thoughts!!! He revealed it to me just a few days before I went to my local church to be baptized, and gave a speech in which I mentioned this fact! Here is another connection
between the two: you cannot forever avoid falling asleep, as you cannot avoid dying.
And God makes us dream in part to show us that even when our bodies are laid in their tombs, our souls will live on, until they reenter our old bodies newly transformed! This is indicated by the fact that when we dream, there is a continuity between our waking life and our dreaming life: all our dreams incorporate things we recently thought about in our waking life, and we act similarly in dreams to the way we do in waking life. If you look at the description of the rich man in Hades in Luke 16, where he has a soul but apparently no body, you will notice that he remembers his experiences, for he asks Abraham if he can warn people about eternal punishment. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet associates dreams with what follows death: “To be or not to be, that is the question…To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause.”
Also, notice that we sometimes fall asleep because we’re tired, but feel reenergized once we wake up. This fact symbolizes the fact that while our current bodies are “sown in weakness,” they are “raised in power”! (1 Corinthians15:43)
---BUT Armpit=smelly “pit”(ex. Job 17:16) in Hades where those who don’t believe Jesus go; Hell is the translation of "Gehenna," a garbage dump
---Waste= In order to live, we must expel foul-smelling sin from ourselves (To receive eternal life, “you must love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind…and love your neighbor as yourself.” [Luke 10:25-28])
---we all get sick at times (ex. cold)="if anyone says he has not sin, the truth is not in him" (1 John)
---we have blemishes, like acne=we have sins which are repulsive to others
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GOD THE SON HAS EXISTED SINCE ANCIENT TIMES, SINCE BEFORE THE TIME WHEN HE WITH THE OTHER TWO MEMBERS OF THE TRINITY MADE THE STARS ON THE “FOURTH
DAY” OF CREATION:
1) Sirius, “The Dog Star” (because it is part of a constellation which looks like a dog) is the brightest star in the sky after the Sun, and is the brightest star visible at night.
You find it by following the three stars in the line of Orion’s belt to the left. The three stars in Orion were made by God as symbols of the three kings who came to see Jesus after they “saw His star [while they were] in the East,” (Matt. 2:2) for the three stars of Orion’s belt are indeed “east” of the dog star which symbolizes the Son of God! As the three kings by coming pointed to the fact that Jesus was the Son of God, so do the three stars of Orion’s belt point to Jesus being the Son of God, who is symbolized by the Sun which is the only star brighter than Sirius!
”THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD.” (Psalm 19:1)
2) Fossil range: Late Pleistocene – Recent
The Late Pleistocene (also known as Upper Pleistocene or the Tarantian) is
a stage of the Pleistocene Epoch. The beginning of the stage is defined by the base of Eemian interglacial phase before final glacial episode of Pleistocene 126,000 " 5,000 years ago. The end of the stage is defined exactly at 10,000 Carbon-14 years BP ("before present").
So Jesus did exist before any man existed!
3) Dogs in Ancient Religions
Like Anubis, Jesus is God and man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead. He presided over the embalming of the dead and is
represented as a dog-headed or jackal-headed man. Look at pictures of him online! HE COMMONLY CARRIES A CROSS IN HIS HAND, as does the Egyptian God Horus, another symbol of Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anubis
Horus
“Cult Center: Heliopolis, Cynopolis”:Those words are Greek for City of the Sun and City of God!!!!!! For the Sun symbolizes the Son!
“By worshipping Anubis, the Egyptians hoped to invoke him to protect their deceased from jackals, and later, the natural decay that unprotected bodies endure.”
Dogs have a major religious significance among the Hindus in Nepal and some parts of India. In Hinduism, it is believed that the dog is a messenger of Yama, the god of death, and dogs guard the doors of Heaven. God had this happen to show that Jesus was indeed a messenger from God the Father, who brings eternal death to those who disobey Him, and to show that one cannot enter Heaven unless Jesus allows one to! The dog is one of the 12 animals honored in Chinese astrology. The second day of the Chinese New Year is considered to be the birthday of all dogs and Chinese people often take care to be kind to dogs on that day. God made this happen to show that Jesus had 11 disciples with whom He associated!
It is also probable that God had Cerberus, the guardian dog of Hades, has three heads to show that there are three persons which share one Divine Nature: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit! For, I show in Part Three how God has all mythology, including Greek mythology, point to the truth of the Gospel.
4) Notice how God used dogs since ancient times to symbolize the fact that He died on the cross, as He does with other animals in the Bible such as the lamb (Exodus 12, John 1:29), the scapegoat (Leviticus 16:20), and others! “In some countries, certain dog breeds, apart from being kept as pets, are raised on farms and slaughtered for consumption. In countries where dogs are popular as household pets, consumption of dog meat is generally considered abhorrent. There are exceptions, such as Korea, Switzerland, and Vietnam, where dogs are popular as both pets and meat. Dog meat has been a source of food in China from at least the time of Confucius, and possibly even before. Ancient writings from the Zhou Dynasty referred to the ‘THREE beasts' (which were bred for food), including pig, goat [another symbol of Christ: Lev. 16:20], and dog. Mencius, the philosopher, recommended dog as the tastiest of all meats. [as Christ’s words are the “tastiest” words you will ever come across!] Dog meat is also consumed for allegedly salubrious effects: the Swiss rural cantons of Appenzell and St. Gallen are known to have had a tradition of eating dogs, curing
dog meat into jerky and sausages, as well as using the lard for medicinal purposes. [So can Christ cure you of any sin!]”
5) There are estimated to be 400 million dogs throughout the world. They are the most popular domestic pet, as you can see from the following list:
Number of U.S. Households that Own a Pet (millions). Bird 6.4 Cat 38.4 Dog 44.8 Equine
4.3 Freshwater Fish 14.2 Saltwater Fish .8 Reptile 4.8
God made this happen to show that He is in every country and in every household, even right where you are! Look at the following list of the world’s top 10 countries with the biggest pet dog population to see how widespread God is on every continent that humans
inhabit:
USA 61,080,000 Brazil 30,051,000 China 22,908,000 Japan 9,600,000 Russia 9,600,000 South Africa 9,100,000 France 8,150,000 Italy 7,600,000 Poland 7,520,000 Thailand 6,900,000
6) Notice how dogs do what God does! TRULY DID GOD SPEAK WHEN HE SAID “EVEN THE SON OF MAN CAM E NOT TO BE SERVED, BUT TO SERVE”! (Mark 10:45)
Here are all the services they provide for humans:
Assistance dogs which help the seeing and hearing-impaired. Others are trained to help those with epilepsy and psychiatric disorders, by detecting the onset of the condition so they can seek help. The typical assistance dog is a sociable breed such as a
Labrador Retriever. So does God help those who are blind to see the truth, and give sight and hearing to those who are physically blind and deaf, as He did when He walked on the Earth in the first century A.D.!
The detection dog, which is a dog trained to and works at using its senses (almost always the sense of smell) to detect substances such as explosives or illegal drugs. So does God see every sin you commit!
Guard dogs are trained for personal protection, or to protect property. These are commonly Doberman Pinschers, German Shepherds and Rottweilers as well as dogs of other breeds that have protection instinct. So does God guard the lives of His people so that no evil befalls them! (Psalm 91:10) Praise Him!
Herding dogs can be trained to help the herder to move the herded animals, such as sheep. Australian Cattle Dog, Border Collie, and German Shepherd are common
herding breeds. So did God call himself the “Good Shepherd” when He came to Earth! (John 10)
Hunting dogs can be trained to assist the hunter. Terriers and retrievers are hunting breeds. So does God hunt out those who do evil so that they may be destroyed!
Police dogs, typically German Shepherds, are trained to assist law enforcement officers. So does God cause justice to be carried out, especially through the governments He has established throughout the world, and so will He fully recompense people for the evil they have done after they die!
Search and Rescue dogs also known as SAR dogs, are specially trained to search for missing humans. The archetypal breed is the St. Bernard. Nowadays, many dogs of other breeds, such as German Shepherd and Doberman Pinscher are trained to perform this task. So does God “seek and save the lost” (Luke 19:10), those who have strayed from the path God wants His people to follow!
The war dog, used by the military to detect mines and enemy soldiers. So does God see evil people’s plans to harm His people, and foil those plans!
Therapy dogs, with friendly and gentle temperaments, trained to provide comfort and affection to hospitalized and institutionalized patients. Truly is joy a fruit of the Holy Spirit which God sends! (Galatians 5:22) Consider the following:
7) HOW DOGS APPEAR TO SHOW GOD’S AMAZING LOVE, THOUGH THEY ARE ACTUALLY QUITE VICIOUS:
“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from
great LONELINESS of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man.
All things are connected.” -Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe) But God can be your friend, all you who are lonely! “Why should it be that God (or god) spelled backward is dog ? It's not just a coincidence. Unless they're severely beaten, starved, or fall victim to rabies, dogs demonstrate the closest thing to ''god-love" that humans can experience. No matter how much a dog is ignored or neglected…or sharply spoken to…no matter how often you forget to feed or water him or her when there are other things on your mind, your dog is still there, GAZING AT YOU ADORABLY, EYES BRIMMING OVER WITH LOVE. No
matter how badly a dog is treated, he or she is still ready to protect you, defend you, and love you. The wells of understanding and compassion are fathoms deep. A dog forgives
and forgives and forgives…endlessly. Nothing you do, short of violent and repeated beatings, will kill a dog's undying love for and loyalty to both master or mistress.”
“IF WE SHOULD CONFESS OUR SINS, FAITHFUL HE IS AND RIGHTEOUS, THAT HE MAY FORGIVE US THE SINS AND CLEANSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.” (1 John 1:9)
“One of the gifts people receive from their Pets is Unconditional Love. You can step on their tail, or forget to feed them, and they will still Love you.”
8) “It's not uncommon for dogs to be frightened of thunder, firecrackers or other loud sounds. These types of fears may develop even though your dog has had no traumatic
experiences associated with the sound. Many fear-related problems can be successfully resolved. However, if left untreated, your dog's fearful behavior will probably get worse. The most common behavior problems associated with fear of loud noises are destruction and escaping.”
The following interpretation given by one person online is right on the mark: “This is a signal that the world is coming to an end. Humans remain amazingly calm during thunderstorms, so it is necessary to warn them of the danger by trembling uncontrollably, panting, rolling your eyes wildly, and following at their heels! SO HAS THE INFINITELY GRACIOUS GOD GIVEN WARNINGS THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND NATURE TO BEWARE HIS WRATH, AND SO SHOULD YOU WHO IMITATE GOD WARN EVERYONE YOU KNOW ABOUT GOD’S WRATH!
7) ATOM: PROTON-NEUTRON-ELECTRON=FATHER-SON-HOLY SPIRIT
Protons are observed to be stable and their theoretical minimum half-life is 1×1036 years. Proton decay has never been witnessed. [God the Father always remains the same!]
protons are known to transform into neutrons through the process of electron capture. [God the Son is “begotten” by God the Father. (John 1)]
Protons are spin −1/2 fermions and are composed of three quarks[3], making them baryons. The two up quarks and one down quark of the proton are held together by the strong force, mediated by gluons. [Protons are also a symbol of God who is comprised of three persons]
The neutron has one up, two down quarks. [Neutrons are also a symbol of God who is comprised of three persons]
The neutron is a subatomic particle with no net electric charge and a mass slightly larger than that of a proton. [God the Son is the image of God the Father. As the electron is different in size from the proton and neutron, so does the third member of many trios representing the Trinity, such as the human face’s eye-eye-nose, appear quite different from the first two members.]
Further indications that these particles are symbols of the Trinity are the facts that they, like other symbols of the Trinity such as light, wind, & water, are EVERYWHERE (for everything is composed of atoms), UNENDING, INVISIBLE, & LIFE-GIVING. ELECTRONS are metaphorically life-giving insofar as all electrical currents are made up of them, as proved by Milliken; thus, electrons give "life" to electrical applicances such as lamps, televisions, clocks, radios, etc. Like LIGHT, ELECTRONS consist of particles carried by waves "of the definite frquency & velocity which we ascribed to what we called light." (From Schrodinger's Four Lectures on Wave Mechanics: First Lecture: Part One) It is known that electrons can act like waves because electron beams reflect selectively as x-rays do & diffract (or "spread out") into a series of concentric circles when passing through a slit, as is discussed by C.J. Davisson in his essay "Are Electrons Waves?" As there is uncertainity regarding the nature of light, so does Werner Heisenberg show in his paper "The Indeterminacy Principle" that if you measure the position of an electron, you cannot know its velocity, and vice-versa, because you must impact the electron whose position you are trying to measure with another electron, which causes that electron to "recoil" an uncertain amount. Truly was it said of Jesus: "He was the true LIGHT...In the world He [Jesus] was, and the world through Him came into being, and the world knew Him not." (John 1:9-10)
ENERGY (Greek: "energeia," which literally means "has work in it"; therefore, energy is the ability to do work)
John 5:17 Jesus said to them [the Jews who were persecuting him], “My Father is always at work [un]to this very day, and I, too, am working.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy#Historical_information
In a paper Über die Natur der Wärme, published in the Zeitschrift für Physik in 1837, Karl Friedrich Mohr gave one of the earliest general statements of the doctrine of the conservation of energy in the words: "besides the 54 known chemical elements there is in the physical world ONE agent only, and this is called Kraft [energy or work]. It may appear, according to circumstances, as motion, chemical affinity, cohesion, electricity, light and magnetism; and from any one of these forms it can be transformed into any of the others." [God is the ONE being who "works all things according to the counsel of His will." (Ephesians 1:11)]
Einstein's famous equation E=c [LIGHT's speed]*c*mass= mc^2 is symbolic that God is one being (symbolized by energy) which is represented by three invisible persons (the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit), as the speed of light & mass are invisible. That this resemblance is not coincidental is evident from the fact that "God is LIGHT." (1 John 1:5)
Energy, as do the other symbols of God, symbolizes that God is EVERYWHERE, UNDYING (for according to the law of the conservation of energy, energy is never created or destroyed), INVISIBLE, LIFE-GIVING (ex. light energy). This law of conservation is very remarkable: one can calculate (as Leibniz reveals in his "Essay on Dynamics"), that no matter how many balls one has collide with one another, the total energy is the same before as after the collisions. That God wishes thus to symbolize His UNDYING nature provides at least a partial explanation for the existence of this law.
There are many forms of energy: Solar (From SUN), LIGHT, WIND, HYDROELECTRIC (i.e.from water), ATOMIC, ELECTRIC, etc. Notice how all of these forms of energy are symbols of God, which further supports that energy itself is a symbol of God! These energies are INVISIBLE, though the effects of this energy are visible. For instance, you cannot tell from looking at its reflection that light has energy, but that it does is evident from the fact that certain kinds of light can cause things to move when shining upon them, as I have seen with my own eyes! Similarly, you cannot see the elastic energy that keeps a spring compressed, but one can discern that it exists from the fact that if one compresses a spring with enough force, the spring will not decompress while that force is maintained.
8) SECTIONS OF THE CONE: PARABOLA, HYPERBOLA, ELLIPSE
Like God, these three sections are INVISIBLE (for lines in truth are "breadthless lengths" in the words of Euclid, although we must draw them with a breadth in order to see them) and UNCHANGING (in respect to their natures: what Apollonius proved of them in the Conics two-thousand years ago is still true today! Malachi 3:6: "I am the LORD. I change not.").
The first two members of this trio look more like one another than like the third member, as is true for many representations of the Trinity in nature, such as water’s being composed of hydrogen-hydrogen-oxygen. Blaise Pascal shows in his essay "Generation of Conic Sections" that the parabola & hyperbola are more alike to one another than to the ellipse also insofar as they are parallel to one or more of the generating lines of the cone, they have at least one point which does not have an "image" (namely, the vertex point[s]), they extend to infinity, they enclose infinite spaces, & they have one or more series of monosecants (lines which cut them in only one point) which are all parallel to one another. Nevertheless, the ellipse too is in a way infinite because if you picture it as a track along which you are running, there is no natural starting or ending point. So is God infinite, for He "fills all space." Furthermore, only the hyperbola has an “opposite section” which looks just like it. This appears to be a symbol that only the second person of the Trinity, God the Son, has two natures united, for Jesus was fully God and fully man. The cone is generated by a triangle being rotated in a circle around a straight line passing through the triangle’s vertex: thus, the cone itself represents the triune God symbolized by the triangle and eternity symbolized by the circle which has no starting or ending point.
Remember that a circle falls in the category of ellipse, so that on the most general level, there are only three kinds of conic sections.
As this whole essay shows, God does everything for His glory, as He wants us to follow this rule: "whatsoever you do, do it to the glory of God." (1 Corinthians 10:31) Thus, it is fitting that God chose to use these figures which are symbolic of Him so often: for instance, all projectiles fall to the ground in the shape of a parabola, as Galileo shows in Two New Sciences; and planets travel in elliptical orbits, as Isaac Newton shows in proposition 13 of Book III of his Principia Mathematica.
TREE :"The tree of life, which bare 12 fruits...and the leaves of the tree were for healing." (Rev. 22:2) "And he that reaps a reward receives, and gathers fruit into eternal life." (John 4:36) "Every branch in me not bearing fruit, He (Father) takes it away." (John 15:2)
-Jesus, who gathered the 12 Apostles (Judas replaced in Acts 1) into eternal life, was raised from the dead by the Father! (Sun, water)
-we can bear fruit (i.e. convert people to Christ) only if we remain attached to Jesus by praying to Him & regularly hearing/reading the Bible
-Leaves with three main parts=the Father-Son-Holy Spirit can "heal" us from physical & spiritual diseases (i.e. sin) & are thereby LIFE-GIVING
(St. Patrick used the shamrock to bring Ireland to believe in the Holy Trinity; God made the leaf & the human hand which resembles it!)


Shamrock
-Christmas Tree: the Antichrist will by imitating Christ lead people away from the true Christ (as the tree leads them away to material things wrapped in boxes) (also see Santa Claus [a.k.a. Satan Claws] in Part Three)
The new "light of the world"
The Satanic pentagram, popular today in Wicca!
-Jeremiah 10:2-6: 2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not...there is none like unto thee, O LORD [not even the Christmas tree, a demonic imitation of Christ!]; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
Some websites try to argue that this passage does not apply to the Christmas tree because the context implies that the passage refers to idols worshipped by the Jews. But these people fail to realize that the Christmas tree is an idol in our time: people even bow down to it when they kneel in front of it on Christmas, to open those gifts which for the most part distract them from learning from, worshipping, and serving Christ! "Everyone who does not take leave of all that he possesses cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:33)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram:
A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha or pentangle or, more formally, as a star pentagon) is the shape of a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. The word pentagram comes from the Greek word πεντ?γραμμον (pentagrammon), a noun form of πεντ?γραμμος (pentagrammos) or πεντ?γραμμος (pentegrammos), a word meaning roughly "five-lined" or "five lines".
Pentagrams were used symbolically in ancient Greece and Babylonia, and are used today as a symbol of faith by many Wiccans, akin to the use of the cross by Christians and the Star of David by Jews. The pentagram has magical associations, and many people who practice Neopagan faiths wear jewelry incorporating the symbol. Christians once more commonly used the pentagram to represent the five wounds of Jesus,[1][2] and it also has associations within Freemasonry. [thus, the thing atop Christmas trees is used by anti-Christian religions!]
The pentagram has long been associated with the planet Venus, and the worship of the goddess Venus, or her equivalent. It is also associated with the Roman word lucifer [a name for Satan! see Isaiah 14], which was a term used for Venus as the Morning Star [and Jesus is said to be the "morning star"! [Rev. 22] Satan wasn't kidding when he said "I will be like the most high [God]" (Isaiah 14:14)!], associated with the bringer of light and knowledge.
9) FATHER-SON-MOTHER:
God made every person have an earthly father and mother to show that God the Father and the Holy Spirit are both responsible everywhere for bringing every person into the world and nurturing them, and have done this since the beginning of the human race! For God indeed
“fashions” a person in the mother’s womb. (Psalm 139:13) We are indeed told to call God the Father “Abba,” which means “daddy”! (Romans 8) Also, one reason God makes sons highly resemble their fathers is to show the truth of Christ’s statement about Himself that “whoever has seen Me has seen the Father.”
10) Bridegroom/Husband and Wife:
Ideally, they show that Christ the BRIDEGROOM (Matt. 22:2,; 25) does not forsake His BRIDE, as those who are married are not supposed to part until death! That is why divorce is so abominable to God (Matthew 19, Malachi 2:16), because its prominence in the world today obscures the fact of how faithful Christ is! Marriage has been around since the
beginning of the human race, when Adam and Eve were created, to show that Christ the Bridegroom existed then too! As husbands and wives are everywhere, so is Christ everywhere! Interestingly, the ring finger on which the marriage ring is placed symbolizes God the Son, as the index finger and middle finger represent God the Father and God the Holy Spirit respectively. (see Table of Contents)
11) Stars= Eternal Bodies of those who have faith in Christ
“Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for a FATHER OF MANY NATIONS have I made you. I will establish my covenant between me and you and YOUR SEED after you in the generations for an EVERLASTING COVENANT, to be a God unto you, and to your seed after you. And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you. And I will give unto you, and to your seed after you, the land wherein you are a stranger, all the LAND OF CANAAN, for an EVERLASTING
POSSESSION; and I will be their God.” (Gen. 17:5-8)
God also said to him: “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, IF YOU ARE ABLE TO NUMBER THEM…So shall YOUR SEED be.” (Gen. 15:5)
“Behold, a great crowd, which NO ONE WAS ABLE TO NUMBER, out of ALL NATIONS and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the LAMB [Jesus], clothed with white robes and with palms in their hands.” (Rev. 7:9)
The “seed” of Abraham and the “many nations” which come from him are not the Jews alone, but rather whoever believes in Jesus! This is evident from the fact that only the “seed” of Abraham inherits Canaan as an “everlasting possession”; but the land of Canaan includes Jerusalem, and the place in which God’s people are forever to dwell is called the
“New Jerusalem.” (Rev. 21:2) Also, John the Baptist says to some Jews: “Think not to say to yourselves, ‘We have father Abraham,’ for I say to you that God is able from these STONES [i.e. presumably from Jesus the “cornerstone” and His followers who build up the “body of Christ”] to raise up DESCENDANTS TO ABRAHAM!” (Matt. 3:9) Also, Paul says that “those who have faith are sons of Abraham,” and supports this statement by referring to the promise God made to Abraham that “by him all nations would be blessed.” (Galatians 3:8-9,
Genesis 22:18) Also, consider the following additional evidence for my opinion:
-God has Paul compare the bodies of the faithful, renewed after the resurrection, to heavenly bodies including the stars! (1 Corinthians 15:40-42)
-“And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” (Daniel 12:2)
-The stars are in heaven with the Sun to symbolize that THE FAITHFUL WILL DWELL WITH THE SON IN HEAVEN!
-The Sun is a star just like the other stars in the heavens, for the faithful are “predestined to
be conformed to the image of His Son!” (Romans 8:29) That means that he will increase our love and wisdom far more!
-However, it is much more glorious than all the other stars, so much so that you can’t even see them while the Sun is shining during the day! Exalt the persons of the Trinity alone!
-Many stars have never died, although they have existed since ancient times! TRULY THERE IS ETERNAL LIFE!
-Jesus says that after evil-doers are cast into the fiery furnace, “The righteous shall shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father.” (Matt. 13:43) But God the Father is in Heaven; hence, His Kingdom is in the heavens; therefore, it is natural to think that the stars are symbols of the faithful!
-angels are compared to stars throughout the early chapters of Revelation, and the risen dead are said to be “like the angels in heaven.” (Matt.22)
13) SEVENS IN NATURE
This is a chapter from the book, Biblical Mathematics, written by Evangelist, Ed F. Vallowe, quoted on http://www.angelfire.com/az/rainbowbridge/seven.html.
Life operates in a cycle of SEVENS. Changes take place in the body every SEVEN years. There are SEVEN bones in the neck, SEVEN bones in the face, SEVEN bones in the ankle, and SEVEN holes in the head. Most births are multiple of SEVENS. The hen sits three weeks (21 days); the pigeon two weeks (14 days); after having laid eggs for two weeks. Of 129 species of Mammalia (sic) the majority have a period from conception to birth of an exact number of weeks, a multiple of SEVEN.
Human physiology is constructed on a law of SEVENS. Children are born to mothers in a certain number of weeks usually 280 days, a multiple of SEVENS. Fevers and intermittent attacks of gout, ague, and similar complaints have a period of operation of SEVEN, FOURTEEN or TWENTY-ONE days known as critical days.
All departments of nature are marked all over with mathematics. In this realm practically everything is in SEVENS. Notice next time the shape of frost when it crystallizes on the window. Notice the small snow flakes. It is wonderful how God formed everything in a pattern of SEVENS.
It would be well for the reader to always remember the SEVEN means COMPLETENESS or SPIRITUAL PERFECTION. Whenever you come to a SEVEN in the Word of God read the meaning and the message is plain.
SEVEN is found 735 times in the Bible. Ex. In the Book of Revelation the number SEVEN is used throughout. There are SEVEN churches, SEVEN Spirits, SEVEN stars, SEVEN seals, SEVEN trumpets, SEVEN vials, SEVEN personages, SEVEN dooms, and SEVEN new things. [This is very fitting, for the Book of Revelation is all about what happens at the COMPLETION of this world. God created all things in the beginning and then took six days of restoring His creation and then rested on the SEVENTH day. (Genesis 2:1-3). He appointed SEVEN days for the week, and most, if not all advanced nations reckon time in that way: SEVEN days to the week. Few ever stop to think of why there are SEVEN days in a week. Do atheists and infidels give God and the Bible credit for it?
There are SEVEN notes in the musical scale. All other pitches are only variations of these. When the musician uses the eighth note he goes back to “do” and starts over. Man named the notes but God fixed the sounds, even as God fixed the days of the week, and man named them.
FLIES & LOCUSTS: made by God to symbolize demons (evil spirits) which tempt all people worldwide to sin
Flies
locusts
"We are fighting against...the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual powers of wickedness in the heavenlies." (Ephesians 6:12)
"He drives out demons only because their ruler Beelzebul ("Lord of the Flies") gives him power to do so." (Matthew 12:24) [Beelzebul is the lord of demons & his name in Hebrew means the lord of flies. Therefore, flies symbolize demons.]
"They [the locusts] have a king over them, the angel of the abyss...Apollyon 'the Destroyer.' " (Revelation 9:11) [The king of these locusts is presumably Satan or the Anti-Christ whom Satan possesses. The Greek SUN god Apollo is perhaps a type of the Anti-Christ.]
Locusts rapidly strip fields & greatly damage crops, and thereby cause famine & death. Demons cause spiritual death by leading people into sin.
Locusts & flies both have red eyes, the color of the Devil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly
Flies are often parasites, including internal parasites such as the bot fly and external parasites such as the mosquito, black fly, sand fly or louse fly. Myiasis is the special term for diseases cause by flies (such as the screw worm fly) infecting living tissue. Many flies eat dead organic matter (detritovores), plant or animal remains. This is especially common in the larval stage, seen in the filter-feeding mosquitoes and black flies, the dung-feeding blow flies (Calliphoridae), or the organic deposit feeding rat-tailed maggot. A number of taxa feed on blood, including horse flies and mosquitoes. [Demons only inhabit people who are spiritually dead or "empty" (Matthew 12:43-45) of God's Word, the "sword" which is needed to resist them (Ephesians 6)]
True flies are insects of the Order Diptera
The Diptera, in particular the mosquitoes (Culicidae), are of great importance as disease transmitters, acting as vectors for malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, yellow fever, encephalitis and other infectious diseases. [Satan causes disease by blinding people so that they cannot see the truth of the Gospel. (2 Corinthians 4:3-4) Pray to God to overcome Satan.]
Flies have often been used in mythology and literature to represent agents of death and decay, such as the Biblical fourth plague of Egypt, or portrayed as nuisances (e.g., in Greek mythology, Myiagros was a god who chased away flies during the sacrifices to Zeus and Athena, and Zeus sent a fly to bite the horse Pegasus causing Bellerophon to fall back to Earth when he attempted to ride to Mount Olympus), though in a few cultures the connotation is not so negative (e.g., in the traditional Navajo religion, Big Fly is an important spirit being). Emily Dickinson's poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" also makes reference to flies in the context of death. ["The wages of sin is death." (Romans 6:23)]
Not surprisingly, in art and entertainment, flies are also used primarily to introduce elements of horror or the simply mundane; an example of the former is the 1958 science fiction film The Fly (remade in 1986), in which a scientist accidentally exchanges parts of his body with those of a fly.
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