Oct
2
2011
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The first half of the matrix concerns forming. It is inherently Adamic. Every man is a mobile altar of earth, carried about the wilderness on human legs. Authority is delegated to Man and then he is tested. He is offered a future by God and a future by Satan. Both futures involve rule, but one is as a shepherd and the other as a predator. The test brings Man to the crux of history, to the three-and-a-half.
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Sep
18
2011
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Psalm 33
If you feel spiritually barren, that is a good thing. It is because you are, and because God has shown it to you. However, a barren heart cannot praise God. So often we rock up to church with empty hearts and attempt to feel “worshipful.” Well, we are commanded to worship, but must we draw water from dry wells?
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Sep
10
2011
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Here’s the Preface, Introduction and first two chapters of The Covenant Key, which will be on the press in the next few days.
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Sep
9
2011
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My friend Pastor Albert Garlando has internalized the matrix. He spotted one without even looking for it.
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Sep
7
2011
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The description of Jesus in Revelation 1 follows the Bible’s new Creation matrix.
Jesus is the Word, and His manifestation is described in the pattern of the Creation Week. He is the Word made flesh, the Sacrament who “tabernacled” among us, and so is described in the pattern of the Tabernacle. He is the Word in Government, ruling over the pastors of the churches, and so we also see elements of the corresponding Dominion pattern.
Revelation is indeed a sublime book. Every stanza refracts the structure of every section, which in turn refracts the structure of the book, which in turn refracts the structure of the entire Bible. This literature comes from the mouth of the uncreated, the One who creates things fully formed from nothing; it is irreducibly complex. Nothing can be added, and nothing can be taken away.
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Sep
5
2011
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Joel 2: 1-11
Into Joel again, and he knows nothing of our chapter divisions. At least the chapter break occurs at the end of an obvious stanza. We are still within Ethics 3, so this is the Trumpets stanza of a Trumpets cycle (aren’t fractals fantastic?) It’s a bit like that movie Inception — as the prophecy moves forward, each step is expanded to further level of structure, a dream within a dream. In this case, it is a multi-level nightmare, a brewing, billowing thundercloud. [1]
Jerusalem had become a new Babel, so God raised up a real Babel in order to overrun the Land and swallow her up. Joel uses the Creation, Dominion and Feasts structures but applies them to the invading Babylonians in ironies that would go over our head — if we weren’t familiar with these literary devices!
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Sep
4
2011
Here’s the feast/Covenant structure in the doxology that appears near the end of the book of Hebrews:
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Sep
4
2011
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Run-of-the-mill triperspectivalism not only misses the progression inherent in the three roles of prophet, priest and king, it gets the order wrong. Well, kind of…
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Aug
23
2011
or Feasts in Joel 1
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The prophets were God’s “Covenant sheriffs,” hammering on the door with the broken contract like repo men from hell. They don’t want your car. They want your blood.
It should not surprise us when their words follow the Covenant structure. The first chapter of Joel is, once you know what you are looking at, a beauty and a terror. The prophet uses the Annual Feasts as a theme. It turns out that the Lord’s rebellious people will be the meat on the table.
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