The Esoteric Bible - 004
The Bible was written by one author: God, and is the Book of Life concerning itself with everything from the beginning to the end.
The Book of life has three books:
- The Book of the Father: Genesis
- The Book of the Son: History of Israel
- The Book of the Holy Ghost: New Testament
The Book of the Father
Genesis is concerned with the patriarchs; the fathers. There are two sets of Fathers that follow the same pattern of a Father and two sons. The first son dies desolate, and the second son gets the inheritance. This is a continuing motif throughout scriptures which is a subset of the "First shall become last" motif.
- The first three Fathers are God, Adam and Noah
- The second set are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
- Both Adam and Isaac are miraculous 'births'.
- Both die desolate.
- Adam died in the garden because of sin and was 'resurrected' in a new life outside the garden.
- Isaac died figuratively by being threatened with death, and was figuratively resurrected when the ram took his place.
- Noah became fruitful after the flood ( a death and resurrection image)
- Jacob became the fruitful after he returned to Esau. He left Isaac and was alone, and returned with many children.
The first three fathers are 'heavenly' fathers:
- God , of course
- Adam because of his being filled with the spirit of God
- Noah, as a symbol of the firmament between the waters, the firmament was in the heavens.
The second three are earthly fathers
- The prominent feature about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is God's blessing that they would have land.
The last one in Genesis is Joseph. He is not one of the fathers. He is the son who became the king of kings.
The Father writes of the Son to show his joy in his son's accomplishments. He mentions sin, but the son has it covered. He chose a bride for his son, and watched as his son wooed and worked for her, but he is always the object of affection. His daughter-in-law is incidental in his narratives.
The Book of the Son
- When God confronted Pharaoh through Moses, he said that Israel was his son.
- The history of Israel is the story of how the son was given a bride chosen by his father, but she was a prostitute.
- It is his story about how she continually broke his heart, though he loved, wooed and worked for her.
- The story has two parts: Israel in the desert, and in the promised land.
- The first is how the prostitute had to die, and the second is his virgin bride.
Both brides were obtained through the death of the water. All but two who crossed the Red Sea died in the desert as the flesh was separated from the spirit. Those who went into the promised land were the spiritual bride. Though literally there is not much to love about them, in the hidden narrative it tells how Chirst removed the frailties of the flesh.
The love poems are written to woo his bride. The proverbs to instruct her. All is written and done in preparation for the marriage of the Lamb. It is a story of the love of the Son for his bride.
The Book of the Holy Ghost
The Holy Ghost is akin to the best man at the wedding. His book has two parts. The first concerns the time before the wedding, and the second after the wedding.
That statement there makes me a heretic in the minds of 90% of Christians. The marriage of the Lamb takes place at the cross.
- Consider what Jesus said when he was challenged about the woman who was married seven times. He said that there is NO marriage in the resurrection...and furthermore, to add insult to injury, he said that those who believed that there was, did not know the scripture nor the power of God. Their error does not prevent salvation, but it keeps them from knowing the hidden Bible.
The first section of the Book of the Holy Ghost proclaims "Here comes the bridegroom!" and the second tells how the couple are fruitful and multiplying. It is the marriage of a virgin bride who remains a virgin, and who gives virgin births. The church is fruitful 'spiritually' by possessing the fruit of the spirit. And she multiplies through discipleship... through teaching.
The virgin birth of Christ is not the final fulfillment. It is his earthly fulfillment which is a shadow of the spiritual fulfillment which occurs at the cross. The church is born from his dead flesh, the same way that Eve came forth from the sleeping flesh of Adam.
The Bible or Book of Life encompasses everything from the beginning to the end, It has three authors, each of whom wrote two parts, a heavenly expression and and earthly expression. Each part is a shadow of Christ.
Genesis 1 is a table of contents to all the parts, and we will tackle that next time.
