Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
II Corinthians 12:4 How he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Paradise a Greek word found in Strong's Concordance #3857 means:
a park, an Eden, a place of future happiness, a comp of Hebrew #6508 a park, forest or orchard.
We notice in Revelation 2:7 that the overcomers will get access to a place called paradise which has the tree of life in its midst.
In Genesis 2:9 we see the tree of life in the midst of the Garden of Eden.
In the Old Testament Paradise is refered to as The Garden of Eden in the New Testament The Garden of Eden is referred to as Paradise.
They are one and the same place both contain the Tree of Life.
The Overcomers are granted access to Paradise because they have done one thing and one thing only.
The other things that they appear to have done are all granted to them for them having done this one thing.
The Overcomers gifts are covered in the article Eating Locusts and Honey. The work that the Overcomers are to do is to put on the mind of Christ. This is a work that no man can know for you it is a name that you must know for yourself.
We see in Revelation 19:12-13 That this name is the name that Christ returns with and that it is called The Word of God.
We all understand that the gift of salvation is not of works least any man boast.
Yet after Christ gives an individual this gift he then steps back to see what that individual will do next with this gift.
It is at this point that each individual must work out their own salvation with fear and trembling.
This is the work described in the book of James. This is not works of attempting to save the world.
We see in Revelation 1:13 that it is Christ who is in the midst of the candlestick.
It was also Christ The Tree of Life who was in the midst of the Garden of Eden. It is also Christ who is The Tree of Life in the midst of Paradise.
We know that when Christ returns he will smite the nations with a sharp sword out of his mouth Rev.19:15.
In Rev.1:16 ...and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword:...
This twoedged sword that comes from Christ's mouth is The Word of God.
This is the fire that proceedeth out of the mouth of the two witnesses. Rev.11:5
The two witnesses are Overcomers having The mind of Christ, The Word of God sealed in their brains.
The only way that mankind could get back into the Garden of Eden - Paradise is thru the Flaming Sword placed at the gate of entry.
Christ is the entry way. He is also the flaming sword. It is he who spoke in parable that those that should know would know and those that shouldn't know wouldn't know.
It is he who had the Old Testament written as a parable story to teach us of the New Testament.
It is he who has had the New Testament written as a parable story to teach those that should know and to hinder those that shouldn't know.
Paradise is the Mind of Christ it is in this place that he is one with the Father. It is here that we will be one with him.
It is in this place called Paradise that we willl find hapiness. It is the Word of God. It is the Will of the Father. It is the work of the Candlestick. It is the Flaming Sword. It is the Glory of God. It is the Consuming Fire of God.
It is here as man attempts to aproach God in his own understanding that he finds difficulty. It is here in the approach to the Flaming Sword that most men are consumed and die.
If a man holds back around the edge of the consuming fire he will die just as those who threw the 3 Hebrew children into the furnace did.
It is necessary to replace all of the ideas of men with a desire to know our Father. This allows a man to walk in the consuming fire or thru the flaming sword back into The Paradise of the Garden of Eden.
Paradise or The Garden of Eden is The Light of Truth. All of these aspects are aspects of Christ.
In Genesis chapter 1 we see that before there was a sun or moon or stars there was light. Christ was that Light.
We see that concerning God's government there were 3 Archangels that dealt with mankind.
Christ used by name three Angels to bring light to this planet. They were Lucifer, Gabriel and Michael.
These three angels are then found to be representative of the sun, moon and stars which all came after The Light was already. The sun, moon and stars were established to be signs to the people of earth.
Signs are used to bring instruction or to bring light upon subjects.
Many say that Christ is the Sun. Others say that Christ is the moon and Father is the sun. Not many speak about the stars.
The only way that Christ is the sun or the moon is that He and the Father are One and Father is in everything. This is not the specific case here.
He was to reflect the light of the greater light the sun also seen in Genesis 1:16.
Michael ability to hold stars makes him the biggest star larger than the others in type.
We see in Daniel 10:13 that the greater star Michael comes to the rescue of the lesser star Gabriel.
Christ is The Truth and also The Light so there must be type for the other lights that he gave us for signs.
We know in Genesis 2:17 that there was a tree of "knowledge". This was the tree that Lucifer the serpent spoke from and about in Genesis 3:1-5.
1. Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
5. Get wisdom, get understanding...
7. Wisdom is the principal thing;
Proverbs Chapter 5:
1. My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2. That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs Chapter 3:
19. The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
20. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
The ruling authority over this tripod of strength was Christ.
Lucifer had in his own heart already decieded that his knowledge was enough and had rejected understanding and wisdom.
With this seperating action wisdom and understanding had to return to heaven to be commisioned to return as individuals met certain God ordained criteria.
Man following after this fallen state knowledge was left to be incomplete in truth.
This is the condition of most men today within and without the church.
The tripod is a good solid base that will hold up an object securely. The tripod speaks of the completeness of the Triune God for earth. The tripod establishing Truth was damaged Lucifer seperated and fallen pursuading man to follow his path of knowledge.
A need became obvious.
Yet the 4 sided pyramid has a base upon the earth making the shape 5 sided allowing grace to the world. 5 is the number for grace.
Yet the cornerstone of the pyramid is missing yet. This is the capstone that is missing from the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Christ is the missing capstone he came to the earth establishing grace upon the earth making the pyramid 5 sided.
With the capstone missing the 5 sided pyramid becomes 6 sided having 4 sides a bottom and a top.
What we have is the 4 sides which are knowledge, understanding, wisdom which equal Truth.
The 5th side is the bottom which is grace reaching to the earth.
The 6th side is the top which is the number for man.
Grace thru Truth is reaching to man on the earth but man must reach to Truth by work to heaven.
The Overcomers once placed on the True Way by Christ must make every effort to enter into Truth fully.
Many Christians today have partial Truth and this is easy to understand when we know what makes up The Truth. There are 3 aspects that equal The Truth. These are all partial Truth until reaching The Truth.
The city that comes done from Heaven is a 4 square city. It is a cube seen to have 6 sides. These six sides still seen by the number 6, man's number, will be dealing with mankind.
The difference at this time will be that the cornerstone (capstone) of the pyramid, Truth or Christ, will have returned to the earth.
The pyramid which was a 6 sided design missing the capstone will now become a 5 sided design having received the capstone, Christ; grace with us.
The New Jerusalem design is a shift from pyramid teaching to cube teaching. The New Jerusalem is designed of God. With this teaching of equal sided Truth, Truth will flow over the earth as the flood of the later rain.
The knowledge of God will abound in the earth.
The multilevel ability to think is not found much anymore among the children of God and never in the seed of men.
When men desire and attempt to keep the Word of God literal it becomes evident that their pursuit of The Truth is blocked at the first level.
Man left to his own ways will not take the straight, narrow, high path but will always take the more simple direction.
This more simple direction is generally with peers this is why Father calls mankind sheep.
Man must not take the horizontal direction but rather the vertical direction. We are not to reach out to others for instruction but to Father with hands raised to the heavens.
When we place the horizontal and vertical pathways on paper we can begin to see the problem more clearly that men are faced with.
The Levels of Truth
The Truth ----------------------- is ----------------------- The Truth
Wisdom + ----------------------------------------------- = A Truth
Understanding --------------------------- + Wisdom = A Truth
Knowledge + Understanding + Wisdom -----------= A Truth
What can be noted here is that when a man proceeds directly upward to the heart of God adding knowledge to understanding to wisdom he will receive The Truth.
A man who starts his journey at knowledge (literal level) and stays at this level seeking truth he will gain some Truth but it will be lacking having been held at the level of men rather than the higher level of God.
As a man of God proceeds upward towards God he always has the option of diverting at that next level horizontally with men. The Truth received will be of a greater level but yet not The Truth.
When Christ returns The Truth level will be taught to all. Not all will receive The Truth to heart but this is always the option for freewill agents.
Standing in The Truth on a subject is to stand in The Light. To stand in The Light on a subject is to have The Mind of Christ. To have The Mind of Christ is to meet him in Paradise. In Paradise The Tree of Life is in the midst.
To walk in the Garden of Eden this is our hope of happiness.
To walk out into the many levels of Father's Word is to walk in the midst of the Garden of Eden for Christ is The Word standing in the midst of the Candlestick.
May we learn that our Christian differences are not dogmatic areas of The Truth but only differing levels of A Truth.
The man found wanting of The Truth at Christ's return will not be so proud of his entry level literal Truth. Especially if that Truth is the one that Christ gave him at the beginning of his walk, as he has done will all believers, saying here is the way walk ye in it.
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