GUARDING
THE GARDEN OF GOD’S THOUGHTS: YOUR MIND,
WILL
RESULT IN YOUR TRANSFIGURATION INTO GLORY
08-01-21
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(Gen
2:7) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a
living soul. (Gen 2:8) And the LORD God planted a
garden
[of His Thoughts] [Heb: a garden (as fenced) /// to
hedge
about, protect: defend] eastward in Eden
[Heb: pleasure: delight /// to be soft or pleasant; to live
voluptuously:
delight self]; and there he put the man whom he had
formed.
(Gen
2:15) And the LORD
God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it
[Heb:
work; serve, till: worship] and to keep it [Heb:
to
hedge about, protect: defend].
1.
till
= Dict: 1. to work (land) in raising crops, as by plowing, fertilizing,
etc.; cultivate.
2.
cultivate
= Dict: 1. to prepare and use (soil, land, etc.) for growing crops; till.
2. to break up the surface soil around plants in order to destroy
weeds,
prevent crusting, and preserve moisture.
God is
thought. Life is thought. God is life.
Spacesuits
and earthsuits, suits. Our bodies are containers
(suits) that
guard, protect, and defend our garden, our thoughts.
Every body-suit container is built according to the survival
necessities of
preserving life (our thoughts) in the respective environment. Your
body is a
suit that you wear, a tent that you live in, a
tabernacle (Heb:
tent), a temporary dwelling place, a residence wherein you yourself are
a
community of thoughts presently dwelling on earth in an
earthsuit. God lives
in your mind. God desires to plant His seed (“The seed is the
word of
God” Luke 8:11, i.e., His Thoughts) into the four kinds of soils
(“by
the way side, into stony places, among the thorns, the good ground”)
of
the garden of your mind. Soon, a few of us who have (willingly)
received God’s seed into our “good ground” (and probably “among the
thorns”
80/20%) shall return to heaven and dwell in “heavensuits,” which are a
presently unknowable container, perhaps… in a halo.
1.
halo
= Dict: 1. a ring of light that seems to encircle the sun, moon, or
other
luminous body. 2. a symbolic ring or disk of light shown around the
head
of a saint, etc., as in pictures; nimbus: often used as a
symbol of
virtue or innocence. 3. the splendor or glory with which a
famed,
revered, or idealized person or thing is invested – to encircle
with a halo.
a.
nimbus
= Dict:1. orig., any rain-producing cloud
2. a bright cloud supposedly surrounding gods or goddesses
appearing on
earth. 3. an aura of splendor about any person. 4. a
halo
or bright disk surrounding the head of a divinity, saint, or sovereign
on
pictures, medals.
AN
EXAMPLE OF “A HALO”: THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS CHRIST
(Matt
16:28) Verily I [Jesus] say unto you [His
disciples], There be some standing here, which shall
not taste
of death, till [Gk: until] they see the Son
of man coming
in his kingdom.
1.
(1 Thes 4:16-18) For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel
[Michael], and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain
shall be caught up [Gk:
seized: taken (up)] [i.e.,
raptured] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever
be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these
words.
a.
rapture
= Dict: 1. the state of being carried away with joy, love, etc.;
ecstasy. 2. an
expression of great joy, pleasure, etc. 3. a carrying away, or being
carried
away in body or spirit – filled with ecstasy.
(Matt 17:1-3) And after six days
[“about
an
eight days” Luke 9:28; “eight” symbolizes a new beginning] Jesus taketh Peter, James, and
John his brother, and bringeth them up [Gk: to
take up] into an high mountain apart [“apart”
from the other disciples, indicating by this example that not
every believer will be “raptured” (transfigured) at the same time], And [Jesus] was transfigured [Gk:
transformed (“metamorphosed”): changed,
transfigured] before them: and his
face did shine [Gk: to
beam, radiate brilliancy: give light] as the sun, and his raiment [Gk:
garment, robe] was white [“exceeding
white as snow” Mark 9:3; “glistering”
Luke 9:29] as the light [Gk:
make manifest; luminousness]. And,
behold, there appeared [Gk: to
(openly)
gaze (that is, with wide open eyes, as at something remarkable)]
unto them [the
three disciples]
Moses [representing
“the dead in Christ”
1 Thes 4:16] [1] and
Elijah [representing
those who “are alive and remain” 1 Thes 4:17] [2] talking
with him
[talking with Jesus].
1.
(Deut
34:7) And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died:
his
eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
2.
(2 Kings
2:11-13) And it came to pass, as they [Elijah
and Elisha] still went on, and talked, that, behold,
there
appeared a chariot [Heb: a vehicle] [the Bible] of
fire
[a], and horses of fire [power words (angels) of
fire; the
words of the Bible] [a], and parted [Heb:
divided] them
both asunder [symbolically “dividing asunder of soul
and
spirit” Heb 4:12; prophetically dividing “the
dead
in Christ” from those who “are alive and remain”]; and
Elijah went up [alive
(raptured)] by a
whirlwind [symbol
of the
Holy Spirit] into
heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the
chariot [the
vehicle that
will “carry” you to heaven, the Bible] of
Israel [Heb:
he will rule as God], and
the horsemen [Heb:
drivers] [angels] thereof. And
he [Elisha] saw
him [Elijah] no
more: and he [Elisha] took
hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces
[in
acknowledgment of the existing hostile division of his own spirit and
soul in
the garden of his mind]. He
[Elisha] took
up also the mantle of Elijah [Heb:
garment, robe] [b] that
fell from him [fell
from Elijah because it was no longer needed
by a “heavensuited” glorified angel], and
[Elisha] went
back [Heb: returned]
[from the wilderness
(“and the spirit shall return to God who gave it” Eccl 12:7)], and
stood by the bank of [the
river] Jordan
[about
to part the waters of humanity into saved peoples and unsaved peoples
with Elijah’s, now Elisha’s, Godly mantle (covering). Elisha himself,
in
prophetic type and shadow, is about to enter into the Promised Land];
a.
(Jer
23:29) Is not my word like as fire? saith the Lord; and
[for
clarification] like a hammer that breaketh the rock [hardness
of heart]
in pieces?
b.
Commentary:
“the mantle of Elijah” = is a type and shadow of the
Anointing
that covered and empowered Elijah (who did many miracles) that
prophetically
symbolized the woven one-piece “coat” (John
19:23) of
Jesus Christ by denoting the miraculous power of “oneness”
in the Spirit of God.
i.
(Luke
17:6) And the Lord said, If ye had faith [Gk: belief]
[full-faith equals a one-piece “coat,” i.e., no divisions] as
a grain of mustard seed [the smallest of seeds], ye
might say
unto this sycamine [Gk: sycamore] tree, Be thou
plucked up
by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should
obey you.
THE
GLORY WHICH
SHALL BE REVEALED IN US
(ENCOMPASSING US IN A HALO)
(Luke 9:30-32) And, behold, there
talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elijah: Who appeared in
glory, and [Moses
and Elijah] spake of his [Jesus
Christ’s] decease [Gk:
fig. death] which he should
accomplish at Jerusalem. But Peter and they that were with him
were heavy
with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw his glory, and the
[glory
of the] two men that stood with
him.
1.
glory =
Gk: glory (as very apparent): dignity,
glorious, honor, praise, worship.
2.
glory =
Dict: 1. worshipful adoration or praise.
2. the condition of highest achievement, splendor, prosperity, etc. 3.
radiant
beauty or splendor; magnificence. 4. heaven or the bliss of heaven. 5.
a) a
halo or its representation in art. b) any circle of light.
3.
(Rom
8:18,19) For I reckon that the sufferings [Gk:
hardships]
of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which
shall be revealed [Gk: to take off the cover,
disclosed] [i.e.,
to take off this earthsuit] in us [please read
and compare
2 Thes 1:4-12 to be blessed]. For the earnest expectation
of the
creature waiteth for the manifestation [Gk: disclosure:
appearing, coming, be revealed, revelation] of the sons of
God
[i.e., redeemed, restored, renewed good angels].
Amen