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Joined With a Harlot (body). (1 Co 6:16). The man and woman are in the eyes of God considered one flesh, but particularly the result of their union: the child. Man is the active principle of fact and reason, the woman is the passive principle of love and experientialism. They combine in love to produce new life. These symbols translate into a PW made up of historical facts that impact the spirit in a penetrating but ineffable way ...
Laid at (the feet). (Acts 4:35,37, 5:2, 7:58). In Acts 7, the people laid their possessions at the feet of Saul as they stoned Stephen. Saul (Paul) was a persecutor of the church, his feet being a symbol of his evil works. Their laying their clothes at Saul’s feet is a symbol of their trust in his evil intentions, as the laying of our possessions at the feet of the Apostles is about our trust in Christ’s intentions and fulfillments through the Prophetic Word. As Christ's analog, the righteous feet are those of Stephen. In this scene, Stephen recalled the prophetic history of Israel and their rejection of that prophetic revelation before his death. This is a fact overlooked by all expositors and doing so renders the sin which murdered him obliquely aligned to any that are transcendent and final. It is a sin of abuse, relegation, dismissal, apathy, and denial of messianic prophecy with respect to Jesus of Nazareth. The early church sold their items and laid them at the feet of the Apostles (Acts 4:35), which is a gesture to signify belief in Christ and the conclusion of the oracles in Him. One need only note the content of Peter's speech upon healing the lame man just prior to this event to know what their faith was responding to: Psalms 2:1–6 and 83:2–8. In verse 30, the prophesied healing miracles of the Messiah are mentioned. In verse 29, the preaching of the word is the recitation of the fulfilled prophecies of Christ by miraculous displays ...
Lame (feet). (Acts 14:8). The lame foot is one which is incapable, not by choice, of carrying the Good News abroad, or incapable of living one’s life in such a way as to fully carry out this command. The lame walking is, therefore, a figure of giving moral locomotion and obedience to the personalized Prophetic Word of Jesus, giving back the ability to publicize it. The PW lies dormant, humble, even debased and cursed in the eyes of the unbelievers until God breathes on it and it stands it on its feet by the scriptural, Messianic miracle of Jesus Christ, now fulfilled and prepared to carry its good tidings to the world ...
Law. The mosaic Law is not training for you to do something, it's training for you to love through doing something. It's missing God's standard, but God's standard is not a symbol of the standard, its that symbol's spiritual essence, and meaning. In that way, it's a prophetic Law of the spirit. For mortals, it is made for one's moral future as an independent and free spirit, to be judged in its performance by inward instead of outward obedience. But for any other, it is a statement that He will in the future come and obey it with perfection. Merging the mortal and immortal future senses, we render Law as "training of the immature human spirit for the control the body for a religious reason so that it can be fulfilled by one's honest and moral handling of spiritual Truth pertaining to its perfect, bodily fulfillment by Jesus Messiah." After you love what this primitive form of doing was meant for you to love, what was in place for you to do is still done, but it's not done for achieving that love. It's done because its a symbol of what is now your love of Truth. It's binding now not because your father is telling you to do it, it's only binding in the sense of its a habitual representation of the love that it engendered. This is exactly the same figure using the body and spirit as a guide. Resurrection, speaking theoretically, takes your old body and gives you a new body based on the same elements. You still are active in a body, but it's not the old body, it's a new one. You are still capable of doing what you did in your old body, but your new one is responsible for the old one only by analogy. If it was said you sinned, sin a sin either by analogy to the old body or by direct correspondence to the laws of the new one. If to the new one, it's to an entirely different standard of which the bodily sin signs but does not stand as the kind of essential action by which it is judged. What is judged is the extent to which the sign of the sin accurately reflects the spiritual sin, not the extent to which the primitive sin is sin in itself. So is the sin which was meant for carnal bodies moving in spatial reality but committed after you are judged responsible for a spiritual body. That is, after salvation by Christ. After you are counted an "adult," so to speak, which is not set by whether or not you are spiritually mature but by the extent to which there is an ultimate means of Truth for which you are responsible as an adult. This is the truth of the Messianic promise and fulfillment in Jesus of Nazareth. It is possible, and certain, that you will sin like a child after being held responsible for your moral handling of this ...
Less Honorable (body). (1 Co 12:23). Speaking of the spiritual gifts of the individual and corporate spiritual body must also be taken as a message about what parts of the prophetic word appear less honorable or important, but are in fact all include as having a value to God: “And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal“ (1Co 12:6–7). That is, minimally, the corpus of the Prophetic Word of Jesus has many metaphorical members, such as the Proverbs, Esther, the genealogies, and many obscure passages, but they all serve their own prophetic purpose for the entire revelation which works together as one. This interpretation is never given explicitly but is strongly implied. This figure of the Word then works itself out into corresponding spiritual gifts within the body of the believer. Since this Body of Christ the body of the Prophetic Word, the gifts are not gifts for personal power, self-aggrandizement or happiness, but for the specific advancement of the power of that prophetic body as it moves through the world ...
Messianic Prophecy. The vital center of the Bible, Christian theology, faith, and practice. Messianic prophecy is that particular oracular stream running through the Old Testament by God's future promises and the New Testament as God's historical fulfillments of those promises. By this phenomena, for the first time in history, the world was given an objective, demonstrable, exposable means by which it can know with reasonable certainty that a God exists, who this God is, and what is his nature and plan for mankind. This is the "informational entity" of Christ Jesus of Nazareth, which was set by the Holy Spirit to remain in the place of his physical presence until he comes in parousia. Without this testimony of the prophets, there are no mediatory means of knowing God, no valid faith in Him and no salvation by Him to be expected, and it represents the sole abstract "door" through which any conception of God can be righteously formed ...
Nailed to the Cross (hands, feet). Christ was nailed by His hands and feet. This, and the general abuse heaped upon Messiah, is an Old Testament prophecy of the Messiah when he comes: Psalms 22:16; Zechariah 12:10; Isaiah 53:1, 3, 10; Micah 5:1-2. He was thereby bound to fulfill the prophecies, bound to the promises (PW) which the cross signified. His points of binding are the hands and feet because, for the wicked, this immobilizes the ability of the agent in his ability to change faith and carry that change to the world, and renders him at the mercy of circumstances. But to the Man and God of the PW (Christ), it a display of the highest possible act of compliant fulfillment of a prophecy, since the PW, in being abused and temporarily slain, was a part of Him, being prophesied by God. That the highest possible fulfillment of a prophecy of redemption can take place in a predicted resurrection. There is an unbreakable bond of death for all except the prophetic Word of God, which must be fulfilled (Ps 16:10; Ac 2:27; 13:35). Carnal bodies and carnal spirits do not fulfill but die. When the PW is so bound, the moral walk (feet), and wise teaching or impartation of grace (hands) is immobilized, but when the PW is bound it is also bound to realize a great and final promise, for nothing can prevent God's Word from coming true. The prophetic scriptures will seem to the wicked extinguished with Christ's death, but will be vindicated as true one last time as this embodiment of the PW is raised from the dead as the prophets foretold ...
Pillars of Brass (legs, feet). (Rev 1:15, 2:18, Rev 10:1). Brass is the metal of permanence, strength, and impermeability, and as such, feet of brass are feet which are strong, sure, and firmly planted to stand for the realization of the Prophetic Word. They realize the will of God, both in Messiah as fulfilling prophecy and the believer ministering to the saints of the fact and consequences of the truth of that fulfillment ...
Prolepsis. Literally "flash-forward," prolepsis is the anticipation of a thing before it appears, applied biblically as speech which tells of things as if they exist when they do not as yet, as with Paul of speaking of God in Romans 4:17; "whom [Abraham] believed--the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were." ...
Prophetic. Not used here as a general term for a claim of God by historical fulfillment of a prediction, but of Messianic Prophecy itself. There are no prophetic phenomena outside of this, only naive wish-casting and pareidolia of correspondence. "Prophetic" is the Word of God forecasting the future, fused with its demonstrable historical fulfillment. This and only this phenomena is capable, short of God's personal appearance, of confirming the existence and nature of any supernatural entity, and is, therefore, the basis for all of Christian theology, faith, practice, and its hope ...
Put off Shoes From (feet). (Acts 7:33, Ex 3:5): “Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.” It is crucial to note the scriptural stream in the passage, which is God prophesying that He will bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. That is, let no artificial covering, no unauthentic faith, no humanly produced religious motivation or means, come between the believer and the source of the real and ordained transcendent kinds. Nothing artificial will come between man's moral demeanor and God's, demonstrated by his Word, or what God promises and fulfills ...
Redurrected (body). The antithesis to this is the following: Vile Body, Broken Body, Body Cast into Hell ...
Serpent, snake. The first thing we notice about serpent symbolism in the Bible is that, although there is much linking it to evil and Satan, there is also a great deal biblically that led the ancients to consider it as something good. There are several principal words used in the Bible for serpent: ophis, tanniyn, seraph, and nachash ...
Sheep. προβατον. Universally, in the NT and OT (Isa 53), as a prophetic type of Christ and the believer in His PW: Mt 7:15; 9:36; 10:6,16; 12:11–12; 15:24; 18:12–13; 25:32–33; 26:31; Mr 6:34; 14:27; Lu 15:4,6; Joh 2:14–15; 5:2; 10:2–4,7-8,11–16,26–27; 21:16–17; Ac 8:32; Ro 8:36; Heb 13:20; 1 Pe 2:25; Re 18:13 ...
Shown (feet). (Luke 24:39,40). In a post-resurrection appearance of Christ, he said: "Behold my hands and feet." That they are not ephemeral, but flesh, real, true, showing nail holes, or effective in the world as fulfillments of prophecy and ready to work teaching and carrying this prophetic gospel, of which they are proof, to other spirits. These hands and feet show the nail holes of his crucifixion, proving not only that he is the same as that Crucified, but he is the fulfiller of the Prophetic concerning Messiah ...
Sin. The mosaic Law is not training for you to do or not do something, it's training for you to love or not love something through doing or not doing something. It's missing God's standard, but God's standard is not a symbol of the standard, its that symbol's spiritual essence, and meaning. In that way, it's a prophetic Law of the spirit. For mortals, it is made for one's moral future as an independent and free spirit, to be judged in its performance by inward instead of outward obedience. But for any other, it is a statement that He will in the future come and obey it with perfection. Merging the mortal and immortal future senses, we render Law as "training of the immature human spirit for the control the body for a religious reason so that it can be fulfilled by one's honest and moral handling of spiritual Truth pertaining to its perfect, bodily fulfillment by Jesus Messiah." After you love what this primitive form of doing was meant for you to love, what was in place for you to do is still done, but it's not done for achieving that love. It's done because its a symbol of what is now your love of Truth. It's binding now not because your father is telling you to do it, it's only binding in the sense of its a habitual representation of the love that it engendered. This is exactly the same figure using the body and spirit as a guide. Resurrection, speaking theoretically, takes your old body and gives you a new body based on the same elements. You still are active in a body, but it's not the old body, it's a new one. You are still capable of doing what you did in your old body, but your new one is responsible for the old one only by analogy. If it was said you sinned, sin a sin either by analogy to the old body or by direct correspondence to the laws of the new one. If to the new one, it's to an entirely different standard of which the bodily sin signs but does not stand as the kind of essential action by which it is judged. What is judged is the extent to which the sign of the sin accurately reflects the spiritual sin, not the extent to which the primitive sin is sin in itself. So is the sin which was meant for carnal bodies moving in spatial reality but committed after you are judged responsible for a spiritual body. That is, after salvation by Christ. After you are counted an "adult," so to speak, which is not set by whether or not you are spiritually mature but by the extent to which there is an ultimate means of Truth for which you are responsible as an adult. This is the truth of the Messianic promise and fulfillment in Jesus of Nazareth. It is possible, and certain, that you will sin like a child ...
Sitting at (the feet). (Luke 8:35, 10:39, John 20:12, Acts 5:10). It is hard to find much attention paid to exegeting Luke 8:35, since it only says that the demoniac, after being in his "right mind," was found sitting at the feet of Jesus. This opens up the whole issue of Jesus and exorcism, particularly concerning the "accommodation theory," but is marginalized by the overriding import of the figure here ...
Sown in Corruption (body). (1 Co 15:42). In this passage Paul clarifies the difference between the natural body and the heavenly body, stating by inference that the natural body is not evil but only weak and transitory ...
