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brother-hermes · 3 years

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WEDDING AT CANA

“On the third day there was a wedding in Cana, in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.” (John 2:1)

Jewish mysticism has a practice called gematria- interpreting the meaning of scriptures based on numerical values. It’s a very complex Kabbalistic idea I won’t even attempt to capture here because it’s that deep. However, any time you see numbers you can guarantee there is a mystical aspect involved. When it comes to the Wedding at Cana we can find the answer in Exodus:

“In the third month after the sons of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that very day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.” (Ex. 19:1)

To stand at the foot of Sinai in the wilderness carries a very profound mystical meaning. Along the kundalini there are Temples at each energy center. Personally, my wilderness has a lone tree that grows from the base of my spine with a mountain range in the distance that forms a sort of double helix up to Ajna Chakra where there is a Temple on top of the mountain. This Temple atop the mountain is where I receive Divine revelation from El Shaddai. This is Johns way of telling us we are in the lower chakras- those associated with the earthly planes. This is where John recommends we begin our ascent.

Now I only bring all this up so all of you can start to unpack ancient mysteries by creating your sacred space within yourselves. Consider it a template for your own meditative practice. This is what the gospel of John is all about; creating a relationship with God in all of the aspects we think of.

This brings us to the Mother of Jesus being mentioned. Note, he never calls her by her name. Why? Because he’s never talking about His earthly mother but rather Ru’ahh- the Divine Feminine. The Wedding of Cana being a Biblical telling of the Union of opposites. This signifies that the Holy Spirit is present at the start of our spiritual journey.

“Jesus and his disciples are invited to the wedding.” (John 2:2)

Again, we’re not talking about the 12 physical beings we tend to think of; Matthew, Mark, Luke, etc. Rather, we’re talking about 12 spiritual disciplines that will help us become unified within. Just because our thinking tends to be dual does not mean we have to live that way.

The Twelve Disciplines

Fasting, Study, Meditation, Prayer

Submission, Service, Solitude, Simplicity

Worship, Guidance, Confession, Celebration

Note they are in groups of three signifying Inner, Outer, and Communal disciplines. 12 & 3 resonate with the Tree of Life, Christian Cabbala, and loads of other disciplines I’ll elaborate on in some other post. Suffice it to say, these are disciplines intent to subdue our carnal desires and bring us closer to God.

“When the wine ran short,the Mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” (And) Jesus said to Her, “How does your concern affect me? Has not my hour now come?” (John 2:3-4)

Wine is Spirit. They have not been transformed in their Spirits. Water is body as we are comprised of mostly water. So, putting it in laymen’s terms- water is our objective consciousness which serves as the vehicle for our subjective consciousness. The whole process that follows is a means of transforming our bodies into the living Temples that we are intended to be because our souls come from the Divine.

His hour coming means his great work is about to begin: Passion, Death, Resurrection, Ascension. Christ came here to be a living example of Divine grace and mercy. He came to lead us to salvation. Our way to salvation being that we take up our crosses to follow Him. We do so by developing the aforementioned 12 disciplines. We quiet our carnal desires in order to ascend through the Temples within.

“His Mother said to the servers ‘do whatever he tells you.’ Now there were six stone jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings.” (John 2:5-6)

This is the Divine Feminine urging us to follow the Christ. We see this echoed in Ezekiel:

“And I will place my wind/spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes.” (Ezekiel 36:27)

This is the Spirit of God arising within us. This Spirit will cause you to walk in the prescribed path. Christ alludes to this later where he says “the wind blows where it will, so it is of everyone begotten of the Spirit.(John 3:8)” Why do you think John the Baptist urges us to make straight the path of the Lord. We are servants of the Divine meant to share grace and love with one and all.

The six jars for ceremonial washing are the 6 lower chakras of the kundalini. It is Christ who cleanses our Temples and fills us with the Spirit of the Lord.

“Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, ‘Draw some out now and take them to the head waiter. So they took it. And when the head waiter tasted the water had become wine, without knowing where it came from, the head waiter called to the bridegroom and said to him, ‘Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, and inferior one; but you have kept a good wine till now.’ Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.”. (John 2:7-11)

When we allow Christ into our being He transforms our souls. He pours into all of those broken places we hide and fills us with Divine grace and love. By practicing spiritual disciplines we are creating the space needed to become vessels of Christ. As he cleanses away all the mental blocks our spirits begin to develop. We become more intuitive and learn to balance our hearts and heads. This is a difficult process but luckily it’s one we don’t have to walk alone. Christ is telling us he will hold our hands as we take the journey within.

SIMPLE MEDITATIVE PRACTICE

Settle down in a meditative posture. Breathe deeply for a few rounds. Once you’ve come into yourself visualize Christ standing before you holding a clay jar. As he stands before you feel his grace and love for you. Realize you aren’t alone and that he is here for you.

Now, starting with the lowest chakra, visualize an orb of water. Feel all the murkiness of your affairs stirring within this water- I see it as pond water boiling within me if that helps you grasp it better. What’s important is you feel the turmoil within your being and cultivate a genuine desire to be cleansed. As soon as you’re ready visualize Christ pouring Wine through your crown down into the chakra you’re working with. As His Wine pours into you feel the change happening within. Visualize the water transforming into wine within you.

Once you’re satisfied, move to the next chakra. Continue the process upwards until the entirety of your being is filled with Christ’s grace and love.

Once you’ve finished give thanks to God for all you have in your life. Finish with whatever prayer screams transformation to you I use St. Francis Prayer because I find it incredibly fitting, but you can do as you please here.

Now, I would highly recommend doing this meditative practice in conjunction with the 12 spiritual disciplines. This will really solidify your walk with Christ and bring you tremendous spiritual growth.

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thekingdomofgod · 4 years

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The Kingdom of God is Breaking Forth

“And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.”

Matthew 11:12

Matthew 11:12 has been mistranslated due to the translators injecting Greco-Roman or Western thought onto a Middle-Eastern culture or people. So lets remove the abstract Greek or Western thought out of the Eastern culture from which these ancient texts were written, so that we may understand through the eyes of the ancient Hebrew/Jewish, who were essentially concrete thinkers.

Luke 16:16 is reaffirming what Jesus said saying;

‘the Law and the Prophets were until John, until that time the Kingdom of God has been preached and everyone is pressing into it.’

Luke does not mention that the Kingdom of God is under attack but is being preached, and those hearing are pressing into it.

There was a significant shift that was taking place, beginning with John the Baptist. GOD’S KINGDOM HAD BEGUN TO BREAK FORTH in ernest with the forerunner, John the Baptist, who after almost 400 years of prophetic silence, had begun to preach the coming of the Messiah.

The Kingdom of God has now entered into a new and exciting phase for Israel with John’s emergence and then with Jesus’ arrival, therefore ending 400 years of prophetic silence. Jesus validates this saying, ‘the prophets & the Law prophesied until John the Baptist’ Matt 11:13

John’s ministry was the climax of what all the Prophets had been writing about concerning the coming of the Messiah. Even Jesus recognised John as the forerunner who would come before Him to prepare the way.

Micah 2:13

‘the One who ‘breaks open’ will come up before them. They will ‘break out’, passing through the gate and go out by it. And their King will pass before it, and the Lord at their head’

He who opens the breach will go up before them; they will break through (PARTZU) and pass the gate, going out by it. Their King (MALKAM) will pass on before them, the Lord at their head. Of great significance here, are the two major figures, ‘He who opens the breach’ and ‘their King’.

‘He who opens the breach’ is one word in Hebrew the breaker - ‘HAPORETZ’

Both of them are connected to Jesus saying , ‘The Kingdom of Heaven breaks forth...’ The first part of the verse from Micah 2:13, ‘He who opens the breach (the breaker - HARPORETZ) will go up before them’ is related to the words of Jesus, ‘From the days of John the Baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven breaks forth’ The one who causes the Kingdom of Heaven to break forth is John the Baptist. With John, the end time begins - the decisive eruption into the history of the world. John is the ‘breaker’ (HAPORETZ). He makes open the breach....The mental image created by the verse in Micah 2:13, portrays a sheepfold full of sheep.

Israel was an ‘Agrarian society’, therefore Micah was painting a vivid picture of Jacob/Israel as sheep crowded in a make-shift sheepfold, eager and anxious to get out. Micah says, ‘the one who breaks open’ - the ‘BREAKER’ comes up before the Shepherd & King does. He creates a breach to let the penned up sheep out. A tumult of great noise is created as the sheep eager & anxious to get out, make the breach wider and wider at their exit, thereby allowing more sheep to ‘break forth’ or ‘break out’ to greet and meet their Lord, their Shepherd & King.

In light of the fact that Jesus is alluding back to these passages here in Micah 2:13, I would suggest that the verse in Matthew 11:12 should actually be understood as;

‘And since the days of John the Baptist, the Kingdom of Heaven is BREAKING FORTH, and the BREAKERS are pressing of forcibly advancing into it’

The Greek verb which is translated as ‘suffers violence’ in the King James Version is ‘BIAZO’. Again ‘Suffers violence’ is not a good translation. At times the Hebrew verb ‘PARATZ’, which means to ‘break forth’ has been used to translate the Greek verb BIAZO in the Septuguant Bible. The idea conveyed by the Greek verb BIAZO certainly includes the action of breaking forth. Moreover the Hebrew background of this saying of Jesus actually denotes an action of breaking out with ‘strong force’. The best rendering of the term in this context is ‘breaks forth’. The action originates from within and moves outward. The Kingdoms source of power is an internal and not an external source.

Likewise. the single word ‘BIASTAI’, a noun derived from the Greek verb ‘BIAZO’, is translated as ‘the violent’ in the King James Version and ‘forceful men’ in the NIV. However, since ‘BIASTAI’ comes from the same verb ‘BIAZO’ and is closely related to Micah 2:13, it should be rendered as ‘the breakers’ that is the ones making the breach wider as they break out from within the wall. They are the ones who are breaking out with the Kingdom. Unquestionably the entire saying of Jesus is connected to the words of the prophet Micah 2:13.

Greek words are not only abstract but they are stationary & static as well. However, in Biblical Hebrew, the imagery is more concrete, every word is DYNAMIC or IN MOTION; because Hebrew is an action orientated language. And that why the phrase is translated above as a correct one because it corresponds with the concrete imagery and picture that is being painted and presented by the prophet Micah - of sheep pressing or ‘breaking forth’ to enter the Kingdom in pursuit of their Shepherd & King. It is a positive message that has been portrayed as a negative one. It is a message of freedom from captivity with the coming of a greater David.

The controlling idea of the second part of the saying focuses on the higher values of Gods reign. The ones ‘breaking forth’ with the Kingdom of Heaven pursue the principles of Gods reign with all their might, They possess an intensity for the work of the Lord...the rule of God is sought in every part of their lives. They become subjects of the King, accepting the yoke of the Kingdom of Heaven and seeking to see the redeeming power of healing love penetrate a world full of people in need of God.

Caught Up - HARPAZO

The term ‘caught up’ used in Matt 11:12 has also been used in 1 Thessalonians 4:17

‘Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.’

The Greek word is ‘HARPAZO’ which conveys the idea of force suddenly exercised and is used to describe a powerful release of Gods energy. Paul was caught up to the third heaven and did not know whether he was in or out of his body; but he had access to the spiritual realm and heard words that could not be expressed in human language. However Paul did not physically leave this world.

Philip wal also mightily moved on by the Spirit of the Lord, and was caught away from one place to another, but did not leave the earth. It seems Ezekiel also had a similar experience.

Each received a powerful intervention of Gods power, which released them from the normal restrictions of this dimension, although they remained in it. (2 Corinthians 12:2-4, Acts 8:39, Ezekiel 8:3, 11:24

The use of the same word by the Lord reveals its meaning to us. He said that the Kingdom of God suffers ‘Harpazo’ by men of force in Matt 11:12.

This is a difficult scripture, but the NIV says =, ‘the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it’. Men enter into it by the ‘HARPAZO’ power of God. It conveys the idea of pressing into the Kingdom (Luke 16:16)

Each time that Jesus did a miracle, He reached into a future age, the Kingdom Age and took hold of it and released its power into the present situation. Through ‘HARPAZO’ believers were also able to take hold of and enter the Kingdom. They were not taken out of the world, but rather experience the power of God coming into them to change their lives and situation. The ‘HARPAZO’ being the forceful dynamic of God to catch up something into His power.

Paul used it to describe a future release of Gods power into believers, to clothe them in the life of Christ. The ‘HARPAZO’ is the dynamic power of God to catch believers out of their fallen condition of corruption, transforming them into the risen life of Christ. Not catching out of this world, but out of a state of carnality and weakness, into that of spiritual power. In His resurrection, Jesus exhibited a new dimension of being, an order beyond the physical. To be released from the restrictions of our present mortality and into the freedom of Jesus life at the time of His return. Man into it by the ‘HARPAZO’ power of God....pressing into and possessing the Kingdom. (Luke 16:16) We are not forcing our way into but are being ‘CAUGHT UP’ INTO HIS PRESENCE, into a higher place, a higher dimension, a higher level of consciousness in which we are seated with Christ on the throne of God. (Ephesians 2:6)

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