There are 2 aspects or primary categories of every divine principle. This issue serves as the defining point between what Jesus describes as the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ within the enlightened community. Jesus preached to the already enlightened community that was already in a covenant relationship with his Father. The Jewish people were the equivalent of the Christadelphians in the generation of Christ’s ministry, death & resurrection. His disciples were confused as to why the Master only taught the general population in parables and only explained them privately to his closest disciples (Mark 4:33-34). Jesus addressed their confusion concerning his intentionally complex teaching pattern by explaining:  For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables (Matt. 13:12-13). The parables were intended to give more understanding to those possessing the rare seeing eyes and hearing ears within the enlightened community while simultaneously draining away what little true understanding was possessed by those within the enlightened community without seeing eyes or hearing ears. God’s primary goal in the development of the saints is not quantity. It is quality. There are filters within the 2 avenues of divine testimony (Bible/written word of God & creation/spoken word of God). 

These filters give us whatever we truly want. If we want absolute truth and are willing to do whatever it takes and suffer whatever humiliations or costs in our pursuit of greater and greater enlightenment… we will be given truth. If we are indolent and our focus is merely the social approval of our enlightened community (just like the Jews demonstrated) then our correct understandings will keep draining away, to our own shame. This is the effect resulting from dismissing any one of the two categories of each divine principle. 

In continuing to address the salvation category of this dual pattern saturating scripture and creation, we should realize there are two separate categories of resurrection, just as there are two separate categories of death. The 2 categories of death are exceptionally easy to identify scripturally due to one of them actually being defined as the “second death”. The death of those accountable to the judgment of Christ will be a temporary death (that chronologically 1st death). The death of those not accountable to Christ’s judgment, as well as the many prophesied to be rejected at that judgment, die forever.  Their death is everlasting, as opposed to the saints that do not suffer a 2nd death. Revelation references that 2nd death category 4 times. Jesus refers to both categories of death when he warns the enlightened community about who to fear and who we do not need to fear: And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna (Matt. 10:28). We have no need to fear those who can only kill us but do not have the capacity to keep us dead. The One we should fear offending is the only one with the capacity to not only kill us but keep us dead…. the Father of Jesus Christ.

Jesus also explains to his closest disciples on the Mount of Olives 2 days before his execution that they would die, but not a single hair of their head would perish (Lk. 21:16-18). Perishing is that second and forever death that Peter, Andrew, James and John would not experience. Those were the 4 disciples he was addressing across from the temple mount (Mk 13:3). 

This issue of understanding there are 2 death categories is a defining issue between the true gospel and the divinely insulting doctrines of paganized Christianity. Christians absolutely reject the concept of a 2nd death that is permanent, but even maintain that first category of death is nothing more than a transition to another form of existence. Ignorance of the 2 categories of death is a doctrinal guarantee that one will actually experience that 2nd ‘forever’ death. 

This dual aspect pattern is also true for resurrection. There are two distinct resurrection categories. Ignoring this truth has resulted in more than one fellowship separation within the enlightened community. It is often, very oddly emphasized by our community speakers that when the Bible references a resurrection that the exclusive application is immortalization. This is not simply a lie. It is a very dangerous lie and one that imposes a darkness in the context of our heavenly Father’s testimony that takes away instead of giving more. There is certainly a resurrection to immortality that follows judgment. There will be two of these resurrection events (as is the pattern we are highlighting) in the beginning of the 7th millennium and the beginning of the 8th millennium. However there is also a resurrection to mortality that will precede those same judgments. This 1st resurrection category is also separately referenced in scripture and testified to every single day of our lives in the creation pattern of awakening from a sleep that scripture repeatedly parallels to death. 

Those who are accountable to Christ’s judgment do not die forever. We die temporarily. As Daniel testifies: many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. This awakening from the dust of the earth is obviously not referencing the resurrection to immortality, since Daniel says that some who awaken from the dust will arise only to suffer shame and everlasting contempt. Jesus also references this 1st resurrection category that can end in forever death when he says: Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation (John 5:28-29). How can anyone foolishly try to limit our understanding of resurrection to exclusively immortalization when Jesus refers to a resurrection of damnation? This is the first resurrection, that awakening from the dust of the earth back to the same mortal nature. Following our judgment we will either experience that 2nd category of death or that 2nd category of resurrection (to immortality). Creation testifies to this first resurrection category about 25,000 times over the course of a 70 year life when we wake up each day from what scripture defines as a death-like sleep. One has to wonder how so much evidence can be ignored so completely by so many

Paul references this 1st resurrection category when he declares to Felix:  there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. Although the “unjust” certainly participate in the resurrection to mortality preceding the judgment, only the just will participate in the resurrection to immortality following the judgment.  Jesus uses this same terminology to exclusively reference the 2nd resurrection category when he says: When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. There is no “recompense” or reward for the faithful associated with the resurrection to judgment, just the resurrection to immortality. That participation is exclusively reserved for “the just”, on the basis of the testimony of the man responsible for judging us. 

Another resurrection reference that separately identifies both categories (1st the resurrection to mortality & 2nd the resurrection to immortality) is Hebrews 11:35. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection. It is very simple to recognize that if one resurrection category is “better” than another there certainly have to be a minimum of 2 separate resurrection categories. There has only ever been one resurrection to immortality at this point, being our Messiah. There is no possible way that any other resurrection to immortality could be “better” than Christ’s. The women who received their dead  raised to life again were the widow of Zarephath, the Shunammite woman, the widow of Nain, the wife of Jairus along with Martha and Mary, the sisters of Lazarus. Those resurrections were only back to mortality and the “better resurrection” was that of our Messiah which was the resurrection to immortality that the faithful hope to obtain.  

Paganized Christianity completely rejects both resurrection categories with their insistence for maintaining the original serpent lie that we don’t really die. That doctrine of the immortality of the soul is a divinely insulting declaration that God lied and it was the serpent that was truthful in the Garden of Eden. Contradictions to the righteousness of God is what qualifies as “sin” (1 John 5:17).

Fellowship separations within the enlightened community have been prompted or facilitated on the false basis of presuming there is only one resurrection category. The basis for participating in each of the 2 resurrection categories is not the same. Bro JJ Andrews prompted a fellowship separation over 120 years ago by mistaking these separate resurrection participation qualifications on the basis of the incorrect understanding that there is only one resurrection category. Additionally, the doctrinal mistake of promoting the concept of immortal emergence (coming out of the grave already immortalized) similarly rejects the truth concerning the resurrection to mortality preceding judgment. 

Just as there are 2 death categories, there are also 2 resurrection categories. In the next blog post we will consider the 2 basic life categories and how both of those have 2 sub-categories of each. Mistaking these truths has also resulted in other Creator insulting doctrinal distortions. There are 2 categories of all divine principles. They have to be recognized and correctly balanced to avoid offending the righteousness of our heavenly Father.      BroJim@spiritsword.net 

There is a very extreme emphasis throughout the 2 official witnesses our heavenly Father offers to validate His truths and principles. These 2 witnesses are the written word of God (Bible) and the spoken word of God (creation, originally resulting from the verbal creational summons during 6 evenings and mornings). The previous posts addressing the dual application of the early and latter rains serve as just a single application for this incredibly extensive pattern. The scriptural and creational extreme saturation of this dual emphasis highlights the necessity to look for that dual pattern in all divine truths and principles. Since this is our claim to be the major stumbling block accelerating the prophesied apostasy in this last generation of the Ecclesial Age, then we should be able to conclusively demonstrate that divine emphasis. If this pattern cannot be demonstrated with an overwhelming emphasis, then this warning has no merit and is baseless… like the story of the shepherd boy that cried wolf.

We will approach this pattern through several divine themes, in order to demonstrate the 3-dimensional depth of this substantial divine pattern. These themes will include the frameworks of salvation, creation, divine architectural design, prophecy, miracles, divinely ordained rituals as well as divine laws and rituals.

The dual emphasis in the framework of a salvation theme is very common. There were 2 salvation ark shadows employed by God to project the salvation that would be available through His son, the antitypical salvation ark. These were Noah’s Ark and the Golden Ark of the Covenant. There were 2 genders (man and women) and 2 generations saved on that ark. God commanded that 2 categories of animals also be saved (clean and unclean). That gopher wood ark was double sealed with pitch (both inside and outside). It should be noted the verb God uses to command that double sealing is the Hebrew word kaphar, which is predominantly translated as “atonement”. 

The 2nd divinely appointed salvation ark that is also directly identified with atonement (indicating salvation)  also was covered both inside and outside, but this time with the 2nd covering of gold, as opposed to pitch as used with Noah’s ark of salvation. This Ark was employed on only 1 day every year, the Day of Atonement. At this time the High Priest would enter the Most Holy Chamber to perform 3 separate rituals involving that Golden Ark, but each of those rituals would have a dual emphasis. The first was when the High Priest carried 2 handfuls of incense into the Most Holy Chamber, fed those 2 handfuls of incense into the fire where that dust was transfigured into a cloud that embraced the divine glory between the golden cherubim on the Ark. This saved the life of the High Priest (Lev. 16:12-13). This ritual projects the forever saving (atonement) of the antitypical High Priest, Jesus Christ. Those 2 handfuls of 4 incense ingredients (2×4=8) identify our savior’s name in how the 6 alphanumeric Greek letters forming his name add up to 888. 

The 2nd Day of Atonement ritual projects the 2nd salvation/atonement event in our Creator’s plan. This was when the High Priest brought the bullock blood into the Most Holy Chamber and spattered it across the Mercy Seat of the golden ark in 2 directions, both east and west (Lev. 16:14). This was for the atonement of the whole family of the High Priest. This is a shadow prophecy of the 2nd immortalization/atonement event in the Creator’s plan when the family of the High Priest will be immortalized at the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom. 

The 3rd Day of Atonement ritual projects the 3rd salvation/atonement event in our Creator’s plan. This was when the High Priest brought the goat blood into the Most Holy Chamber and spattered it across the Mercy Seat of the golden ark in 2 directions, both east and west (Lev. 16:15). This was for the atonement of the rest of the nation. This is a shadow prophecy of the 3rd immortalization/atonement event in the Creator’s plan when the saints from the rest of the world will be immortalized just after the end of the Millennial Kingdom, in that 8th millennium from creation. 

So why does this dual emphasis apply to all 3 of the salvation/atonement rituals surrounding that 2nd salvation Ark with its 2nd covering category of gold? Why did these 2 salvation arks have to be double covered? This is because there are 2 basic aspects to atonement. This is one of the divine truths being repeatedly denied and undermined by oddly respected Brethren in our community writing our books and teaching at our Bible Schools and Study Weekends. The 1st atonement aspect is forgiveness, a heavenly application. The 2nd atonement aspect is the covering of a divinely unclean nature, which is an earthly application. These are the two basic components of all creation: heaven and earth. It is the blending of both heaven and earth at the conclusion of the Creator’s plan that will result in perfect harmony, when God will “be all in all” (1 Cor. 15:24-28).

The 1st salvation association with forgiveness is universally accepted, but it is incomplete. In the same theme there were 2 aspects of divine unacceptability. These have been behavioral and physical. The divine holiness pursuit demanded during the 1st Kingdom Age included the physical holiness standards of a restricted diet, and reconciliation procedures for the physical defilement of touching the dead, suffering with leprosy and suffering with a bodily issue. This physical holiness was in addition to the behavioral holiness demands that are temporarily not required during the Ecclesial Age dispensation of the Creator’s plan. There is more to atonement than simply the forgiveness of sins. There is a cleansing from physical defilement that is part of the atonement principle. There will be a greater concentration on the physical cleansing 2nd aspect of atonement/salvation in subsequent posts. 

Another highly significant dual highlight in relation to salvation is that there will be 2 separate salvation events in 2 separate divine days of the 7th day (millennium) and the 8th day (millennium). That 2nd salvation event of the saints is timestamped after the conclusion of the Millennial Kingdom (Rev. 20:5,7). These 2 salvation timestamps of the 7th and 8th ‘divine’ days since creation parallel the signature rituals of the 2 great covenants of works and faith. The signature ritual of the Mosaic Covenant of works was Sabbath Observance on the 7th day when there was a rest from all our labors. The signature ritual of the Abrahamic Covenant of faith was circumcision, observed on the 8th day when the crown of flesh was cut away from a man. In the same pattern there will be a salvation/atonement event in the 7th day when there will be a rest from the physical effects of sin all through creation and in the 8th day all flesh will be cut away with the elimination of death following that 2nd salvation event of the saints in that 8th millennium since creation. 

Hopefully we are beginning to see the extensiveness of this dual pattern. The weight of this evidence has to be substantial enough to overcome the social pressures within the endangered enlightened community accelerating the prophesied corruption of this last generation of the Ecclesial Age. 

We will be pursuing the width, depth and height of this dual pattern throughout all of our Creators manifestations in order to provide the light to dispel the darkness that is creeping over the enlightened community in the last years before the return of Christ. 

BroJim@spiritsword.net 

As we have noted, the law of the early and latter rains is directly referenced to 3 aspects of the word of God: 1. The inspired written word of God, 2. The word of God made flesh (Jesus) and 3. the word of God expressed in power (the outpouring of the miraculous Holy Spirit gifts). Each of these three early rains from heaven ended at the beginning of the Ecclesial Age. The latter rains for each of these 3 applications will begin again with the introduction of the Millennial Kingdom. 

The Holy Spirit gifts were provided to the first 2 generations of the Ecclesial Age. Peter promised them to 2 generations of Jews as well as to the Gentiles (“those afar off”) on Pentecost Day, which was the first day (High Sabbath) of the Feast of Weeks (Acts 2:38-39). Except for the 3 unique Holy Spirit outpourings from heaven (baptism of Jesus, the 120 at Pentecost, the household of Cornelius), the only way to receive the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit would be to have an Apostle laying their hands on a believer. Although there may have been more with this capacity, we only read of Peter, John and Paul having this capacity. Once these Apostles died there would be no possible avenue for receiving the power of the Holy Spirit to perform miracles. This timing perfectly agrees with Peter’s time limit for the Holy Spirit gifts to just 2 generations of Jews and Gentiles.

This limited timeframe for the early rains of the Holy Spirit power also perfectly matches Paul’s explanation of when the accessibility of those miraculous gifts would end. When Paul was addressing how the Corinthian Ecclesia was abusing their capacity to perform miracles with the Holy Spirit powers they had been given that these gifts would end when “that which is perfect would come” (1 Cor. 13:8-10). The Greek word translated “perfect” is teleios, meaning mature or complete or finished. That which was perfect that signaled the end of the availability of the Holy Spirit gifts was the completed word of God, the whole Bible. The last book of the New Testament to be written was Revelation, while John was exiled on the Isle of Patmos by Roman authority. This was completed a little over 60 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The ‘early rains’ would end with the death of all the Apostles and the completion of the written words of God: the Bible. As noted in the previous post, this would begin the prophesied period of divine silence that Amos appropriately defines as a famine of the word of God (Amos 8:11-13). This qualifies as the absence of rain that separates and defines the ourpouring of the early and latter rains.

This pouring out of Holy Spirit miraculous gifts, the word of God expressed through power, would be done in two separate ages. Jesus references this ‘2 age’ distinction when he warns about the unforgivable sin of blasphemy to those who witnessed that unveiled power and then defined it as the wicked power of Beelzebub.

Matthew 12:32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. 

It should be noted the Greek word that is twice translated as “world” is aion, indicating an ‘age’. Jesus declares this avenue of unforgivable blasphemy will be possible in 2 separate ages, including that current age and another age yet to come. 

This 2 ‘age’ distinction is also expressed by Paul and also in the context of the unforgivable sin of extreme disrespect for that Holy Spirit power. In fact this is also where the pouring out of the Holy Spirit power is defined in the context of rain.

Hebrews 6:4-8 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. 

If one was a partaker of the Holy Spirit, able to demonstrate that power through miraculous manifestations, then they also “tasted of the powers of the world (Age) to come”. Like Jesus, Paul also refers to 2 separate ages when divine power of the Holy Spirit will be manifested through believers. However, also like Jesus, Paul warns that the extreme disrespect of using that power to teach lies (the falling away of the enlightened who were partakers) is an unforgivable sin. Paul then parallels the faithful receiving the power of the Holy Spirit to how the earth receives the rain from heaven. We are the earth, as we are made of dust and to dust we are condemned to return (Gen. 3:19). If our bodies of earth drink in the rain from heaven (Holy Spirit gifts of power) into which the seed of the word of God has been sown, but only yield fruitless briers and thorns, then our end is to to burned (meaning perishing forever, like the tares in Christ’s parable of the wheat and the tares).

So Paul’s confirmation of Christ’s reference to the 2 ages when the Holy Spirit gifts of power will be demonstrated by the enlightened community includes a parallel to that expression of ‘God’s word confirmed in power’ to rain. Peter also makes this connection when he is defending the miraculous demonstration of the gift of tongues (languages) on Pentecost Day in Jerusalem. Peter quotes from Joel’s prophecy about Yahweh pouring out His power onto His people.

Joel 2:28-30 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids In those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth.

However a few verses before this God defines this miraculous power sharing in the context or early and latter rains.

Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: For he hath given you the former rain moderately, And he will cause to come down for you the rain, The former rain, and the latter rain in the first 

Just like the word of God and the word of God made flesh, the word of God expressed in power is scripturally defined as the early and latter rains. These early and latter rains will be poured out in 2 separate ages with an extended drought between those 2 ages.

This examination of the extensive dual pattern of the early and latter rains has been offered as an example of the distinct and highly extensive pattern of the dual categories of every divine principle. The examples for this pattern are inexhaustible, despite being invisible to those within the enlightened community that are currently imbalancing the right-ness of God by degrading these divine principles into an exclusive single category. The principle of atonement is being degraded into nothing more than forgiveness. The principle of sin is being inappropriately minimalized into nothing more than the exclusive application of guilt assigning transgressions. The principle of righteousness is being limited to the exclusive application of imputed righteousness. The principle of resurrection is being expressed as exclusively applying to immortalization following judgment. The degrading of the principle of mortal life being exclusively understood as an assured death that was supposedly the original creation model prior to the introduction of sin has been corrupting the enlightened community for over 120 years. The mistake of assuming there is only one Sabbath qualification of being a Saturday has resulted in the Christ insulting delusion of a Friday afternoon crucifixion followed by a Sunday sunrise resurrection only about a day and a half later. The often proposed dismissal of the actual breaking of the memorial bread into two components to be shared blinds those embracing that foolishness from the incredible pattern silently shouted through scripture between cleaving and salvation. Even the divinely mandated application of exactly 2 human genders is being denied by some within the enlightened community presuming the legitimacy for the societal corruptions of gender distortions defined as gay, lesbian, trans-sexual, pan-sexual, etc. 

The terms of our Creator’s righteousness (right-ness) are being increasingly challenged within the enlightened community, just as the many prophecies about our last generation of the Ecclesial Age have warned us. Our next post will begin to demonstrate the extreme and endless pattern of how our heavenly Father’s eternal principles have 2 separate categories that need to be balanced. Eliminating one of those categories completely imbalances our understandings and reverses the focus of our worship from God to the mirror. 

broJim@spiritsword.net