Scripture Research

Volume 4 Number 7

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CONTENTS

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The Fall of Gods (A Scriptural Research

Series of “Pleroma”)

By Jerry Wayne Bernard Ph.D… i

A Personal Note ……………………... iii

Foreword ……………………………. iv

My Thanks ………………………….. vi

The Fulness of All in All ……………….. 1

Introduction-

(Suppose I told you that) …… … 1-12

Hard Words ……………………. 13

Chapter 1 THE OVERVIEW ……. 22

Further N.T. Study on “things”

or angels …………………… 32

Chapter 2 REVIEW OF SPIRITUAL

BEINGS ………………………… 33

References from Young’s Literal

Translation …………………… 34

What does the N.T have to say

About angels? ……………….. 39

What do other outside sources

Say about angels? …………… 42

References from KJV Translation . 43

References from historians ……… 44

References from other outside

sources …………………….. 46

References from NKJV

Translation …………………. 49

References from the O.T. ………. 51

More references from the N.T

about angels ……………….. 54

More references from outside

Sources about angels ………. 56

CONTENTS (CONTINUED)

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More references from the

NKJV about angels …………… 58

Chapter 3 PAGAN INFLUENCE …… 66

Chapter 4 FIRST CENTURY

UNDERSTANDING …….. 77

Chapter 5 THE TRIAL AND JURY…. 81

Chapter 6 THE PLEROMA OF

CHRONOLOGY ………… 84

First witness ……………………… 84

Second witness ………………….... 92

Third witness …………………….. 93

Chapter 7 THE SON ASSIGNS ALL

IN ALL TO THE FATHER . 97

Chapter 8 THE HEAVENLY PRO-

TECTION PLAN ………… 101

Chapter 9 VICTORY OVER ALL

IN ALL …………………… 103

1. Principality ……………... 104

2. Power …………………... 105

3. Might …………………... 105

4. Dominion ……………… 105

5. Every name that is named. 105

Chapter 10 THE SPIRITUAL

BATTLE ………………... 111

Chapter 11 THE SPIRITUAL

ARMOR ………………… 114

Chapter 12 DURING AND AFTER

THE ACTS PERIOD …… 119

CONTENTS (CONTINUED)

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Chapter 13 EMPTINESS –

“KENOSIS” ……………… 120

Chapter 14 FULNESS – “PLEROMA” .. 126

Chapter 15 CONCLUSION …………… 131

REFERENCES …………………………. 137

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS FROM

THE INTERNET BIBLE

STUDY GROUP …………………… 139

BBC NEWS (Gilgamesh tomb believed

to be found in Iraq) …….. 142

A Scripture Research series of

"Pleroma!"

The Greek says:

ta pleroma tou ta panta en pasin.

The Translation is:

THE FULNESS OF THE ALL IN ALL!

in the language of laymen...

Judgment came upon the whole spiritual shebang, without making an exception for any fallen spiritual creature in the entire cosmos! I call it...

The Fall of Gods!

Jerry Wayne Bernard, Ph.D.

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all [1^s1 Corinthians 15:28].

Read this Psalm very slowly …

The Nephil Elohim

"I have said, Gods

(Elohim) ye are, And

Sons of the Most High

(Elyon or Anu) —(are) all of

you, But as men, ye

(shall also) die, and (just)

as one of the heads

(fell) ye (all shall also)

fall," [Psalm 82:6, 7].

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1 The Star of David was first seen on an Assyrian cylinder seal on a clay envelope encasing a tablet that shows a celestial background with the Sun, Moon and Venus (an 8 pointed star) and the six pointed star, Mars separated from a larger one (Jupiter) by a drawing of an Asteroid belt, followed by a large ringed planet, Saturn. Did the Sons of Gods teach the Sumerians about Earth's solar system? If not, where did this advanced knowledge of the order and number of the planets in our solar system come from? The Sumerian Sons of Gods symbolized Mars as the sixth planet from the outer most regions of Earth’s solar system, (contd. footnote on page iii)

A personal note:

Dear reader:

This is astounding! Across the page (ii), an old Psalmist said that a select group of Gods and Sons of Gods (the Pantheon) appeared before Yahweh and learned of their extreme and traumatic fate. They were forced from the spirit realm, becoming flesh, in order that they would die like men.

The following pages will explore this judgment upon all the Angels, Gods and Sons of Gods, whether wicked or good, called the "all in all."

Signed,

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traveling towards the Sun with 6 points. As the Anunakki or Nephilim traveled (fell) from heaven, they passed all the planets and gave that solar knowledge to mankind. David slew the Philistine giant and the attendants handed the Giant's shield to David. The shield, with the emblem of the God of War, Mars became the Shield of David. Later it became the Israelites emblem for victory over all enemies.

2 "Ezekiel saw the wheel... way up in the middle of the air..." so the song goes. Read Ezekiel 1-3. The Anunakki had faces like a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle. Their feet were of a calf. Their aircraft was like a wheel within a wheel.

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FOREWORD

It is with humility that I offer the following. I do not consider myself qualified to explore such a significant discussion as the one before us. However, I have been invited by the Board of Scripture Research Inc. to look into the subject of the fulness of the all in all and present my findings to the annual 2006 Scripture Research Conference. I do so with a measure of uneasiness and much concern. For there are men in our midst, more qualified than I, who could appropriately reach the depths of this debate and bring to light the thoughts and ways of Yahweh, which concern how He became all in all. However, since I am invited to present my findings, I am honored and will gladly and humbly do so.

I had not, in the least bit, chosen to explore this stimulating subject. However, as I looked more deeply into the matter, I discovered that it has compelled me to explore ancient Sumerian and Hebrew texts and write down my findings and I cannot, in any way, escape the task.

My prayer is for you not to be overwhelmed, but enlightened by the concept that Gods and Sons of Gods inhabited the solar system and came under the absolute authority of Christ in the first century anno Domini. And then I want to consider the prospect that spiritual creatures, living in every corner of the universe, lost their authority in that same first century. For, at this same moment in history, we have learned that Yahweh regains all authority unto Himself through Christ and all Gods (Elohim), in every habitat, were placed in Him. This was when Yahweh, became all in all.

In the opening phrase of this book, "All in all" is a brief statement for all things in all places. The first "all" refers to

spiritual beings, Elohim and their children. The second "all" refers to their habitat everywhere in Heaven and Earth. Many were taken out of the spiritual realm and placed into the physical. Then at the moment of the final act of Christ's submission to Yahweh, the Gods and Sons of Gods were placed into Yahweh and He becomes "all in all." In this examination I ask for imagination, not your information.

There comes a moment when children, playing in the home, hush suddenly. "Was that a real footstep in the hall?" We likewise find in the midst of our busy schedule that we must hush and take the time to listen when a new sound chimes to our ears. Draw back if you must. However, the sound may go away and never play as sweetly as it sounds the first day that it brought a hush to your life. Listen to it with all your heart. Your life may never be the same afterwards. You may begin to look more clearly at things in a new and refreshing manner.

LAUS DEO³

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3 "Laus Deo", in Latin, means "Praise be to God".

MY THANKS

After sending my lecture to Dr. Charles Asbell to critique and approve for publication, we engaged in several discussions on how to simplify the thought process for Laymen and young readers.

Supplementary footnotes were added because of the inability to access libraries in order to examine ancient and rare translations of recently discovered Sumerian tablets. These Sumerian legends had noteworthy influence upon Ezra, the post-exiled Babylonian scribe⁴. Dr. Asbell suggested that a segment be included to clarify the reasoning. The purpose of the concept of sundry Gods was to incorporate them all in the pleroma of all in all.

I enlisted the assistance of one of my four daughters to correct the euphony in my writing. Her musical ability would give this book an easy flow for the reader. I gave her an almost completed copy of the material to read. She returned the manuscript with changes that raised the book to a comprehensive level for readers. Her suggestions, like Dr. Asbell's, were in light of laymen reading the book. I shall forever be grateful for these two wonderful ambassadors of revision, Dr. Charles Asbell (my friend) and Crystal Bernard (my daughter and friend), for corrections and bringing a completion to this work.

Thankfully,

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4 The Scribe that compiled the five books of Moses.

THE FULLNESS

OF THE

ALL IN ALL

INTRODUCTION

SUPPOSE I TOLD YOU THAT...

Before the Earth was inhabited, as we know it today, apparently, there lived a Flawless Intelligence that was perfect in every aspect. This noble Mind must have been alone in the spiritual habitat. Let's call this Holy Intelligence/Spirit, ahh...um... Yahweh. In your thinking, Yahweh is the Jewish GOD. However, for the sake of understanding our point, let's not call Him GOD just yet. Yahweh will do for now. For we will speak of many good and bad Gods in the following.

Suppose I told you that...

The Sumerians (the first civilization after the flood), like the ancient Hebrews, thought that a primeval sea existed prior to

the creation of material order. Here is how that worked: the universe consisted of a united heaven and earth mixed in some way as a primeval sea. The Sumerian air-god, called Enlil, in the same manner as the ruach-elohim of Genesis, separated heaven from earth by a great explosive wind, causing a wide expanse. In the words of the earliest civilization, a large planet entered into the solar system and

collided with a planet called Tiamat, exploding it in half which created this earth with its heaven.

So, Yahweh looked upon His newly created edifice of matter, divided with a heaven above and an earth below and allowed his host of spiritual and intellectual emissaries to fill the material cosmos.

This could have been accomplished for the mere pleasure of creating them or maybe for the chance to communicate with other intelligent beings in the growing architectural cosmos. And let's call these other spirit beings Messengers.

So far, we have two thinking creatures in the cosmos, Yahweh and His created Messengers. These Messengers took the message of Yahweh to other Messengers until the messages filled the universe with Yahweh's intelligence. I'm only speculating! No one was writing this down as it was happening. But, why bother recording it, no mistake-ridden scribe was around to alter the misunderstood messages. It would be continually told from mouth to mouth as undiluted truth from eternity on, throughout the cosmos. This and many other stories are what the heavenly Messengers ultimately told to mankind, the Sumerians.

Suppose I told you that...

Yahweh was Love and everything He created was intelligent

and "good." And love was shared with all of the good and free spirit beings. Over a vast period of time, billions of Earth years, these Messengers grew in the freedom of this perfect love and then began to love themselves a little too much and became full of self-centered pride and personal arrogance. Then the leader of the Messengers was filled with a love to be like Yahweh. He admired his own ability and loved his own

beautiful design so much that it lifted him up in the eyes of many other Messengers. And by it, he drew a third of the Messengers down to Earth where they could do their own thing that they loved and do it in whatever way they loved. Their self-centered loves were inappropriate for intelligent and perfect holiness for they had abused what was a very good and perfect love in their freedom of choosing and achieving. Let's call these degenerating, fallen Messengers, Sons of God.

Suppose I told you that...

The father of these Sons of God lived and ruled life on a "far away planet" the Sumerians called Nibiru,⁵on the outskirts of our solar system? And that this "far away" Father of the Gods was also a created spirit being like all the others. He was the foremost father of the Sons of God.

The supreme Creator/Spirit, Yahweh, judged the pride or love of the self-exaltation of many of these created Sons of God. And in that judgment forced them to leave their "far away"

planet and descend to Earth. Yahweh took their immortality away from them by changing them into flesh beings in order that they would die like all mortals. Pride demands a heavy price. Pride caused the fall of the gods.

Suppose I told you that...

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5 Nibiru is the "planet of the crossing. Named by the Sumerians because it crossed over into our solar system and created heaven and earth by crashing into Tiamat. As Nibiru and Tiamat came together, Tiamat split in half. Its lower part was smashed into bits and pieces, creating the asteroid belt, the "celestial bracelet of planetary debris that orbits between Jupiter and Mars. Tiamat's upper part, together with its chief satellite was thrown into a new orbit to become Earth and the Moon. This event happened around 4 billion years ago. 300,000 years ago the Anunakki came to earth.

Flesh beings are mortals and only have mortality and that they soon die? Spirit beings are immortal and only have immortality. In order for evil Spirit beings to die (as punishment), they must become flesh beings. And in order for flesh beings to have immortality and live forever, they must become Spirit beings. I hope that you understand that immortality is put on in resurrection. Or shall I say it this way, mortality is replaced by immortality and that must mean that flesh is exchanged for spirit. Just thinking out loud. You do your own math.

Let's use an old Hebrew word to describe these fallen Messengers. Let's also call them Nephilim. That Hebrew name means that they came down to Earth from somewhere above. Hey, since we are giving them names, we might as well give them another adjective-name. Since Anu (on the planet Nibiru) was their father, the Sumerians called them Anu-nakki, Anu's sons. They are spoken of in the Hebrew Bible as the Anakim, and in Chapter 6 of Genesis are also called Nephilim, which in Hebrew means the same thing: Those Who Came Down, from Heaven to Earth.

Suppose I told you that...

These Anunakki hated their work in their new habitation, Earth. So, they decided to get some of the Earth creatures to do the work for them. Let's call these Earthlings... uh... Homo erectus guys. Boy, the Homo erectus guys were so dumb. And

the brilliant Anunakki could not easily communicate with these dumb creatures, the Cro-Magnon men (as others call him). The problem in getting the erectus guys to work was, in not being able to tell them what to do and have them understand and carry out orders. I suggest that the erectus guys could only grunt and moan. Who wants to live side by side with someone that only grunts and moans and lies on the

couch all day and won't do anything? I am not referring to anyone you know. To the Anunakki, these erectus guys were worthless as slaves. They could not talk to the Anunakki. It seems that the Nean-derthal (alter. sp. ...tal) man (as some call him) was operated on and developed into a talking HU in order to become the first true Homo Sapien sapien.

In order to understand how the Elohim (Gods) made humans in their image and likeness one must look at the power of the DNA and its ability to change the Neanderthal into a Homo Sapien sapien. It has been reported (2007) that Scientists have transplanted the DNA of one organism into another, changing the recipient completely into the likeness of the donor. Here is the report:

Scientists Report DNA Transplant -Organisms Adopt Donor Traits

By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 29, 2007; Page A03

Scientists said yesterday that they had transplanted a microbe's entire, tangled mass of DNA into a closely related organism, a delicate operation that cleanly transformed the recipient from one species into the other. After the operations, the "patients" -- single-celled organisms resembling bacteria — dutifully

obeyed their new genomes and by every measure exhibited the biological personas of the donors. This is equivalent to changing a Macintosh computer in a PX by inserting a new piece of [PC] software," said study leader J. Craig Venter, chief executive of Synthetic

Genomics, a Rockville company racing to be the first to create full synthetic, replicating cells. The success confirms that chromosomes can survive transplantation intact and literally rewrite the identity and occupation of the cells they move into. That is a crucial finding for scientists who hope to make novel life forms by packing synthetic chromosomes into hollow, laboratory-grown cells.

Suppose I told you that...

The Sumerian account of humanity's time frame was closer to modern scientific findings than the translations of the Hebrew text indicate? Scientific records tell us that the ancestor of the Cro-Magnon Man, walks the Earth today as the current talking human beings, Homo sapiens sapiens. The Cro-Magnon was named after the site in France where his skeletal remains were found. The Neanderthal Man was named after his discovery site in Germany. The genetic markers for their ancestors, the Homo sapiens was first studied through the Mitochondrial DNA that is passed by the female alone, and then through studies of Nuclear DNA that is inherited from both parents. This is from the report at the April 1994 annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. This report indicates that we all stem from a single "Eve" that had lived in southeast Africa between

200,000 and 250,000 years ago. Studies released in May 1995 of the "Y" chromosome indicate a single "Adam" ancestor began some 270,000 years ago. The Sumerian records place the first man, Adappa at about 290,000 years ago. The

Hebrew text places Adam at about 6,000 years ago.

Suppose I told you that...

The Biblical record says that the ten pre-Diluvial patriarchs enjoyed life spans ranging almost 1,000 years, in most cases, for each individual. Let's look at the Biblical time frame.

1. Adam begat Seth at the age of 130 years.

2. Seth begat Enosh at the age of 105 years.

3. Enosh begat Kenan at the age of 90 years.

4. Kenan began Mahalalel at the age of 70 years.

5. Mahalalel begat Jared at the age of 65 years.

6. Jared begat Enoch at the age of 162 years.

7. Enoch begat Methushelah at the age of 65 years.

8. Methushelah begat Lamech at the age of 187 years.

9. Lantech begat Noah at the age of 182 years.

10. Noah was 600 years old at the Deluge.

The span of years from Adam to Noah's Deluge was 1,656. On the other hand, the Sumerian account of years numbered much more. And the Sumerian account has ten Kings from the first man, Adappa to Ziusudra, the Deluge hero.

Suppose I told you that...

One of the brilliant Medical Officers of the Son's of God (Nephilim or Anunakki) decided to add a talking chromosome (FOXP2) and a brain size maker (ASPM) in the Homo erectus guy's DNA make-up. The earthlings didn't have this DNA. So, it had to come from the sperm of a flesh creature

that could talk, a Nephilim, the former Messenger for Yahweh. This would dramatically change the Homo erectus into a talker like the Messenger Gods. And this medical doctor and his assistant hoped for the best in their creation of an intelligent, talking slave. The Sumerians called this Doctor, Enki! They identified him with a symbol of a brass snake coiled around a pole. This was Enki's symbol of healing and improvement. Enki was a brilliant DNA scientist and

after many tries with his own DNA, the Elohim, Enki and Ninti (his sister, assistant) came up with a human that could talk and communicate with the Anunakki. The Sumerians called the Elohim's new creation, Adappa, the Homo sapiens sapiens. Since he is from Earth-clay, we could also call him Adama (Hebrew = from the ground).

Suppose I told you that...

I am smiling right now, because I am certain that you think I am making this up. You ask, who would believe this? My answer is that the ancient civilizations of the Sumerians, Akkadian/Semites and Babylonian/Amorites believed it and wrote it down for others to learn about it. The Persians, Greeks and Romans accepted, without problem, the ideas of the earlier civilizations. Moses trusted Enki's brass snake on a pole to heal his people in the Sinai desert.

Suppose I told you that...

The earliest of civilizations believed that the Earth was full of Gods (Hebrew: Elohim) bossing the intelligent human “guys” around. These Gods wore a variety of guises that looked like birds and beasts. Some liked to exhibit themselves as having human heads and animal or bird legs. One of these half-human, half-beast Gods was the famous Pan.

Suppose I told you that...

Other Son's of God on Nibiru built space ships and flew around checking stuff out, while their father, Anu stayed on Planet Nibiru and sometimes got mad at his mischievous sons

on Earth. Anu would send one of his daughters down to punish them from time to time. Other times Anu would send the Bull of Heaven down to bring caustic and corrective judg-

ment on his antagonistic sons. The Gods experienced "good and evil" at every turn. If one wanted to be like Anu, he would soon appreciate "good and evil sons." If Adappa wanted to be like Anu, he must eat of the "tree of knowing good and evil. Then Adappa would have evil and good sons, just like the God, Anu.

Suppose I told you that...

The first host of Sons of God was forced from heaven because of pride. They became flesh and lost their immortality. The second host, called Watchers fell on their own volition. They saw the daughters of men and lusted after them. The Watchers chose to become flesh and lost their immortality. Their children were the giants of old, men of renown.

Suppose I told you that...

Another thing you need to imagine is that these Sons of God were not supposed to tell the Earthlings any heavenly secrets. But, as sons often disobey their father, the sons of Anu disobeyed him. Like, for instance, when the planets aligned in a certain way, one of the Sons told a human that there would be an enormous deluge of water that would wipe out all life on Earth. Let's call this guy... Ziusudra from the city of Shuruppak. One of the Gods (Enki) wanted him to survive and save vegetation, some animals and the seed of mankind. Ziusudra and his people, the Sumerians considered themselves special people on the new earth. Their god, Enki

recorded the famous "King List" following the flood. This rescued human's name is difficult to remember. So, you may call him Noach, or maybe Noah.

While the Flood and Noah's Ark are the best-known elements

of the ancient story of Ziusudra or Noach, he is also men-

tioned as the "first husbandman" and the inventor of wine, as well as in an episode of his drunkenness and curse of his son, Ham.

Now, the Son of God, Enki told him how to build the boat and to preserve different species of animals. Enki believed that the whole thing could start over, after the flood, with Noach and that the Anunakki could return in their spacecraft and start over with an improved situation on Earth and maybe also save their father's planet, Nibiru.

Suppose I told you that...

After Noach's children had children and their children had children, the Anunakki (Watchers) decided to marry the Earthling's daughters and have children through this union. These children were so large that the Earthlings called them Giants and considered themselves as grasshoppers in their sight.

To some, this bible legend of sons of gods marrying Adams daughters is so preposterous that they explain away the fact that the Sons of God were Angels. And they cautiously resolve that the great sin that brought the flood upon humanity was that sons of (good) Seth married the daughters of (evil) Cain. This great pre-flood evil was a joining in wedlock of two close families of the sons of Adam and Eve. However, the offspring becoming giants is a big problem for these theologians. I tend to think that the notion of Seth's sons

as Sons of God is a wee bit of a stretch for sober imaginativeness.

For their children, fathers fantasize the famous Biblical character David as fighting with a mythological Giant. However, it is told as true story in the Bible. His true name

was Goliath. A real live David got him with an actual slingshot and rock. As Goliath lay dead, his attendants handed the approaching David his huge shield that actually became the Shield of David. It had, drawn upon it the six pointed star emblem of Mars, , the God of War. The emblem was later called the Star of David. Don't fantasize this story.

Modern Israel still flies the flag of David with that ancient symbol of Mars, the God of War. Now, if you want to enjoy another shocker, the symbol of Enki 's snake, wrapped around a pole, is still in use today by the modern medical profession. Enki's snake on a pole and the Anunakki symbol for Mars were written down over 4,500 years ago. Don't think that this first civilization had little or no influence upon following civilizations. They had big time influence upon us all, even unto our modem times. Why? Because, as Coke Cola says, "It's the real thing."

Suppose I told you that...

The Son's of God continued with their folly, bringing glory to themselves until the Holy Spirit (remember his name is Yahweh) sent His only Son to Earth to become flesh and correct all of this misguided worship of Sons of God. Yahweh called the Anunakki false Gods. Yahweh's Son also entered into mortal flesh in order to die for the wayward and sinful Earthlings. His name was Jesus.

Jesus lived his life in an exemplary way with the same temptations that humanity and the Son's of Gods could not resist. In fact, one of the Sons of God tried to temp Jesus by offering him a whole bunch of his land, kingdoms and inhabitants to rule over. Jesus resisted all temptations to be

like the fallen Angels. However, when He was only thirty

years of age, He surrendered to a humiliating death upon a Roman cross. Then afterwards, by His resurrection from death, overcame flesh's mortality and brought all things and humanity to RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUTH. Wow! This is big business in the spiritual world. Is it believable? You better believe it!

Suppose I told you that...

The death, entombment and resurrection of Jesus opened the eyes of mankind and brought everyone, Sons of God, humans - all into the authority and judgment of the Holy Spirit, Yahweh. Jesus did not take the glory for anything and resisted using his magical powers. He never called this Earth his, but called it his Father's and said that everything on it, below it and above it belonged to Yahweh. Once all things were given back to His Father, Yahweh, the one true Spirit/God became the all in all. All things were put back into Yahweh. That's it. I think you get the gist of it.

Suppose I told you that...

This scenario is true. Do you believe me? Is this too impossible to grasp? If so, you need to read the rest of this book several times. For I have recorded what is contained in the oldest and first stories ever told to man. And by the way, I will also show you where it is recorded in the Bible and other "non-biblical" writings.

One might say, "I've never believed this kind of stuff before and I cannot now. For I want to be consistent in my faith." To this I would say that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. Great minds have little to do with consistency. They may as well concern themselves with their shadow on

the wall. I present hard words to the fragile reader. So, read

on at a pace that you can consider all the facts. The Bible will be compared with other writings in order to get the larger picture.

Is it deplorable to be misunderstood? Socrates and Pythagoras were misunderstood. Jesus, Peter, John and Paul were tragically misunderstood. Luther, Copernicus, Galileo and Newton were terribly misunderstood. Every pure and wise soul is in danger of being misunderstood. I gladly join their ranks.

HARD WORDS

Allow me to begin by reflecting upon the beginning words of this manuscript. The two considerations are fulness⁶ and all in all.⁷ The Greek word, pleroma is translated fulness. That Greek word simply means the plethora or completeness of a container, cause or course of action, to which nothing can be added.

The phrase, all in all is a brief reference to Messengers, Angels, Gods and Sons of Gods⁸ that were created by Yahweh.

They were "all things," holy and unholy spirit/beings in the heavens and lawful and lawless flesh/beings upon Earth. It will be proved that they resided in every habitat from the beginning of human experience to the first century AD. We

will also attempt to discover the period of when the ego-filled reigns of these same Nephilim (Anunakki) or Elohim were

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6 The Greek word is pleroma, meaning full, accomplished and resolved. Nothing can be added to its fulness.

7 Ephesians 1:22-23 - "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church. Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." The Greek words are panta en pasin.

8 Sons of God were called Bnei-elim = sons of gods.

full or ending in judgment⁹

Before BC 496, the elect Hebrews had no divine literature that was bound together into one book. Yet the Prophets, beginning in BC 690 (200 years before) would quote portions from the (later bound) Pentateuch¹⁰ Genesis was referred to 149 times; Exodus, 312 times; Leviticus, 285 times; Numbers, 168 times; and Deuteronomy, 617 times. In the Babylonian captivity of the exiled tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi, the Redactor or Scribe gathered all the available information from Babylon, Persia and Akkad, in order to

compile the Pentateuch or five books of Moses.¹¹ Sargon and the Semite/Akkadians had destroyed Sumer. However, Sumerian influence upon the Akkadians was transferred into Babylonian culture, religion and civilization. The Gods of

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9 2nd Peter 2:4 - "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down (nephil) to hell (regions below), and delivered them into chains of darkness (flesh) to be reserved unto judgment."

l0 The Pentateuch contains separate and identifiable texts by four main authors, all dating from the period after the breakup of the unified kingdom of David and Solomon. The four are the Jahwist, identified with the southern kingdom of Judah, the Elohist, from the northern kingdom of Israel, the Priestly source, written in Judah as an answer to the first two, and the Deuteronomist, dating specifically from the time of King Josiah of Judah and responsible for the book of Deuteronomy as well as Joshua and most of the subsequent books up to 2 Kings. A number of smaller independent texts have also been identified, including the Song of the Sea and other works, mainly in verse, most of them older than the four main texts. The individual books were edited and combined into their present form by the Redactor, frequently identified with the scribe Ezra, in the post-Babylonian exile period.

11 Torah (ת∙ו˙ ר ָ ה) is a Hebrew word meaning "teaching," "instruction," or "law". It is the central and most important document of Judaism revered by Jews through the ages. It is also very important to Christians, as it constitutes part of their bibles. It is written in Hebrew, the oldest Jewish language. It is also called the Law of Moses (Torat Moshe ת∙ו˙ר ָת). Torah primarily refers to the first section of the Tanakh-the first five books of the Tanach.

Sumer were a concentrated influence upon the Hebrew Scribe.

Concerning the influence upon the Redactor of the books of Moses, a great blunder would be made if one mistakenly regarded Gods, Sons of Gods and Giants in the Cuneiform writings of Sumer, Akkad and Babylon to be merely myths or fantasy. If theologians and laymen alike consider the Cuneiform legends as fiction, then the constant course of thought demands Biblical narratives to also be parables of fantasy. For both ancient chronicles speak of identical episodes of Gods and Sons of Gods in man's beginning, the creation and the flood. If you think that these are hard words... read on.

The Hebrew redactor¹² in the exile gathered what he heard orally and saw in the temples and upon city walls in the province of Babylon. The Sumer myths filled the hearts, imaginations and lives of every Babylonian and their educators. The renowned Babylonian and Syrian temples displayed the robust Gods and Sons of Gods just as the Cuneiform tablets from Sumer¹³ and Akkad¹⁴ and Temple ________________

12 Theologians considered the scribe, Ezra as the Hebrew Redactor in Babylon.

13 Sumer is the land between the rivers (Euphrates and Tigris) - the biblical Land of Shin 'or in Mesopotamia (today's Iraq). Sumerians were non-Semitic people who called themselves Kiengir. The origin of the name, Iraq may date back to the Sumerian City of Uruk (or Erech). Another suggestion is that Iraq comes from the Aramaic language, meaning "the land along the banks of the rivers."

14 The Akkadians were a Semitic people living on the Arabic peninsula during the great flourishing period of the Sumerian city-states. Although we don't know much about early Akkadian history and culture, we do know that as the Akkadians migrated north, they came in increasing conflict with the Sumerian city-states, and in BC 2340, the great Semitic/Akkadian military leader, Sargon, conquered Sumer and built an

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decor of Babylon told of the creation of man and the universal

flood.¹⁵ The ancient libraries were filled with episodes of the search for immortality, which were also the themes on walls of many tombs in Egypt.¹⁶ These stories of supernatural beings were the legends and background of the biblical all in all. We will examine the pagan-myth influence upon the Babylonian/Hebrew Redactor as he gathered the written and oral myths that he considered to be true to the facts, for the Hebrew canon. This Hebrew redactor¹⁷ lived under Babylonian influence where the paramount philosophy was that many Gods (Elohim) sojourned the universe. Have we gotten to the hard words yet? I am not dismantling myths as some have tried. I'm establishing their validity!

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(14, Contd. from p, 15), Akkadian empire stretching over most of the Sumerian city-states and extending as far away as Lebanon. Sargon based his empire in the city of Akkad, which became the basis of the name of his people. This great capital of the largest empire humans had ever seen up until that point later became the city of Babylon, which was the commercial and cultural center of the Middle East for almost two thousand years.

15 The Sumerian belles-letters consists in resemblances and parallels between Sumerian and Biblical literary motifs. The Epic of Gilgamesh speaks of the flood and the survivor, Ziusudra (the Hebrew - Noah).

16 Ancient Egyptian religion is often called a "death cult." Their image of the world was divided into two halves, which together formed the immortality. The sun was the guide for this cycle of death to life. During the day, the sun passed over the world of the living. During night the sun entered the other world, the other part of cosmos, the world located beneath the ground of man. And this is a central fact to understanding the shape of tombs, especially the finest ones, the royal tombs on the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor. Here the pharaohs and queens built their staging posts for joining the eternal cycle of the sun. Hence it was important to drill into the ground, getting as good a position as possible to join nothing less than the Sun.

17 The individual books were edited and combined into their present form by the Redactor, frequently identified with the scribe Ezra, in the post-Babylonian exile period.

city Gods and had forsaken all others, the Hebrews likewise chose their tribal God, Yahweh and abandoned all others. This was their "one God" motif. For to them, Yahweh was the Creator of the hosts of Gods and Sons of Gods. Yahweh was over all others.

Throughout Mesopotamia, from the earliest times of Sumer and Akkad, Gods owned all cities and lands and men were their slaves. Of this, the cuneiform texts leave no doubt whatever. Each city-state had its own principal God, and the King was described in the very earliest written documents that we have as 'the tenant farmer of the God'.

We learn from the Sumerian flood myth that God became angry and destroyed the human race.¹⁸ Subsequently the Elohim determined that this devastation of gods and men must never again befall humanity. One family¹⁹survived the ordeal and this same flood myth was later brought to light in brought to light in the Hebrew canon.²⁰

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18 Genesis 6:1-7, 13 is the Hebrew's biblical account.

19 The Sumerian, Ziusudra ("life of long days", Hellenized: Xisuthros), Akkadian Atrahasis ("extremely wise") and Utnapishtim ("he found life") are heroes of Ancient Near Eastern flood myths. Although each version has distinctive story elements, there are numerous story elements that are common to two, or three, or four versions. The earliest version of the flood myth preserved fragmentarily is in the Sumerian language, dating to ca. 2600 BC, and is thus among the oldest literature known. Strong parallels have been drawn with other stories, such as the Biblical story of Noah.

20 Genesis 8:21 "And the Lord smelled a sweet savour (of Noah's burnt offerings); and the lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake... neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done." The story of a Great Flood sent by a deity or deities to destroy civilization, as an act of divine retribution is a widespread theme in Greek and many other cultural myths. The stories of Noah and the ark in Genesis, Matsya in the Hindu Puranas, Deucalion in Greek mythology and Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh are among the most familiar versions of these myths. A large percentage of the world's cultures past and present have stories of a "great flood" that devastated earlier civilization.

The reader will be assisted in the following:

A list of Biblical texts follows these "Hard Words" in order to give a backdrop from unfamiliar and less discussed passages concerning the host of lawless spiritual beings. This brief review of texts will hopefully assist laymen as they assimilate and adjust their thinking to a unique and realistic approach to Christ's victory over all in all and their final placement in Yahweh.

Some may agree with me about the idea of the reign of Christ over the all in all. However, the time frame may be a problem for them. The question, WHEN fulness of time (Greek: pleroma tou ta chronos) ended, must be addressed. For it gives the century and exact generation living when Yahweh's judgment and execution of the all in all occurred My hypothesis is that the end of time refers to the conclusion of redemption's chronology not "time" as described by Gottfried

Leibniz and Immanuel Kant²¹ We will discuss this time milieu in the setting of a courtroom as though the reader is a member of a Jury listening to testimonies of "when" the all in all occurred. This should be interesting.

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21 There are two distinct views on the meaning of time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. This is the realist's view, to which Sir Isaac Newton subscribed. A contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which we sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions of objects. In this view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows", that objects "move through", or what is a "container" for events. This view is in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, in which time, rather than being an objective thing to be measured, is part of the mental measuring system. The question, perhaps overly simplified and allowing for no middle ground, is thus: is time a "real thing" that is "all around us", or is it nothing more than a way of speaking about and measuring events.

Several of my friends, whom I consider to be able theologians (on the Board of Scripture Research, Inc.), disagree with me about the time frame of the Parousia (arrival of Christ) or as it is called the Second Coming. I respect their serious and strong convictions. I must also point out that our love for each other surpasses any breach in eschatological concepts. On the other hand, we are in undivided agreement on the Grace of God and how one comes into faith.

However, I offer the proposal that the process of redemption ended in the first century with the Parousia and that it was in this final episode in redemption's chronology that Yahweh became all in all. Repeating, my opinion is not in agreement with some of the Board and friends of Scripture Research, Inc. So, I ask this question, can opponents to my idea (set forth later as a last days motif by Peter, John and Paul) be simply unacquainted with some cryptic and critical facts associated with the subject of the fulness of all in all God willing, this manuscript will hopefully make the event of Yahweh becoming all in all indisputably crystal-clear.

Next we will see that the New Testament reveals a divine "protection plan" that began unfolding after the flood. This plan resulted in the Son of Yahweh taking care of the ancient problem with Gods and humanity in the first century AD. This was WHEN Yahweh took charge of and judged²² the all in all.

Two things must be understood: one is that lawless Gods exalted themselves and were cast from the spiritual realm and mercilessly ruled over many areas of the Earth. Peter described them as "the angels that sinned" and "which some-

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22 "Judge" means to form a decisive opinion and make things right.

time were disobedient... in the days of Noah."²³They were forced from the spiritual habitat and took upon themselves flesh, which became the dark abode of fallen angels. This is the backdrop for Psalms 82.

In contrast to their exalted egos, the only begotten Son of Yahweh humbled himself and in His lowly predicament and humiliating death, was exalted by His Father to sit in "all authority" above all things, the all in all.

Again, it is my conviction that after the forty years (Luke's

Acts period + 8 years) reign, Christ handed his "authority" back over to His Father. This was when all other Gods and Sons of Gods submitted their wills to the Father and His only begotten Son. This was the investiture of the judgment of "all things in all places" that had been processed during the Act's period, from the Throne Room of the Father and the Son. This power over all spirituals was displayed on Earth by the disciples and the Church during the Acts period.

This leaves us with the question of how to fight in a battle where the enemy is already defeated. This is the next lesson from the text of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. We will examine the spiritual armour for battle against the spiritual enemy and what it means today. This much-needed awareness (of how to battle against the spiritual enemy) will cause the ________________

23 1st Peter 3:19, 20 - "By which (death and resurrection) also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison, which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."

2^nd Peter 2:4, 5 - "For God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly."

Christian to understand how to live victoriously in Yahweh's Will.

Then, a prolific lesson follows. We explore the emptiness of Christ and compare it with His unmistakable fulness. This must be reasoned out and mastered.

This manuscript concludes with an overall self-evident truth about Yahweh and His powerful authority. A few interesting ideas are included at the end of this book. Hopefully, this book will not only entertain you, but enlighten you to a successful and intellectual walk in faith.

It is our prayer that you will come to understand Yahweh's great protection plan in the work of Christ in the first century AD. After one understands the protection plan against spiritual beings, the next assignment is...

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up (James 4:10)

For, pride goes before the fall. So, one must recognize that the ground at the cross is level and no one is above another.

Level is the soil where knees are bent.

And heads bow in submission.

Embrace the Cross, arise to be sent

Wherever Christ gives commission.

Take the message of God's redemption.

Telling of His loving call.

Never leave a Soul with having never heard.

The greatest story told to all.

Chapter 1

THE OVERVIEW

I assume that human nature is more unwavering in self-centeredness than we humans are willing to admit. Even Christianity has been more concerned about what Christ did for it, than what He did for the inhabitants of the entire planetary system. And as a result, judgment of the cosmos has dissipated in theological schools. The earliest writings of man indicate that at the beginning of creation, Elohim²⁴were bejeweled throughout the heavens and upon the Earth. Their presence was felt in every environment. Many angelic beings were on Earth to protect their holy shrines. Two ethereal beings were positioned at the entrance of the Garden of Eden to keep curious humans out. Others were busy, unjustly

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24 "Elohim" is a Hebrew word which expresses concepts of divinity. It is related to the Hebrew word el, though morphologically it consists of the Hebrew word Eloah with a plural suffix (im). Elohim is the third word in the Hebrew text of Genesis and occurs 2,700 times throughout the Hebrew Bible. Its exact significance is often disputed. In some cases (e.g. Ex. 3:4 ...Elohim called unto him out of the midst of the bush...), it acts as a singular noun in Hebrew grammar, and is then generally understood to denote the single God of Israel. In other cases, Elohim acts as an ordinary plural of the word Eloah, and refers to the polytheistic notion of multiple gods (for example, Ex. 20:3 Thou shall have no other gods before me.). This may reflect the use of the word "Elohim" found in the late Bronze Age texts of Canaanite Ugarit, where Elohim ('Ihm) was found to be a word denoting the entire Canaanite pantheon (the family of El, the patriarchal creator god). In still other cases, the meaning is not clear from the text, but may refer to powerful beings (e.g. Gen. 6:2 the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them for wives..., Ex. 4:16 and you [Moses] will be as Elohim to him [Aaron], Ex. 22:28 Thou shalt not curse Elohim, or curse a ruler of your people, where the parallelism suggests that Elohim may refer to human rulers).

gaining the worship of humanity. The celestial wars in heaven and earth continued until (as we shall later understand) God became all in all. Before then, these creatures had to wait for the Parousia of Christ and the manifestation of Believers who became sons of God, through believing in Christ.

For the earnest expectation of the creature (created beings) waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity (vain flesh), not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope [Romans 8:19-20].

Yahweh made the created Angels subject to flesh and also "subjected the same (Angels) in hope." Before their "hope" could be realized, they had to wait for "the manifestation of the sons of God" at the Second Coming of Christ.

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered (set free) from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God [Romans 8:21].

The "hope" for these Angels (in flesh) was to be set free like the "glorious liberty" of immortality enjoyed by the human Believers in Christ at the resurrection.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now (AD 57). And not only they (Angels), but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body [Romans 8:22-23].

Paul intensely opens the window for us to see that Gods and

Sons of Gods (creatures) looked forward to the day of redemption from flesh for themselves and mankind. Just as scripture teaches that not all humanity is "in Christ," not all Angels will enjoy the delivering power of the resurrection. This must be kept in mind as we proceed further into our subject.

Immediately after the universal flood,²⁵ we are told in the Genesis account that the surviving cradle of humanity spoke one language.²⁶ That caused each God in the Pantheon²⁷ to be easily identified, illustrated on walls and described in worship above all others. The first portrait of the Gods (Elohim) was human like in appearance.²⁸ However, as dialects developed and adjectives were applied to the old Gods and their Sons and Daughters, those adjectives became nouns and generated different ideas of their appearance. These new ideas became common place. From the first three chapters of Ezekiel and walls of the Egyptian tombs, we understand that Pagan worshipers began to change the human appearance of the Sons of Gods (Elohim) into features of animals, reptiles and birds, sometimes the Gods were half human and half animal.

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25 Genesis 6:17 - "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the Earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the Earth shall die."

26 Genesis 11:1-2 - "And the whole Earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar (Sumer); and they (sons of Shem) dwelt there.

27 Pantheon is the Greek word for all (pan) gods (theon).

28 Genesis 1:26,27 - "And Elohim said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him..."

The God, Horus²⁹ had the head of a falcon or hawk. Anubis³⁰ was the jackal-headed god of embalming. Thoth³¹ was an ibis,³² while Sobek³³was the god with the crocodile head.

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29 Horus is an ancient god of the Ancient Egyptian religion, whose cult survived so long that he evolved dramatically over time and gained many names. The most well known name is the Greek Horus, representing the Egyptian Heru/Har, which is the basic element in most of the other names of Horus. Horus was so important that the Eye of Horus became an important Egyptian symbol of power. He had a man's body and a falcon's head. He only had one eye because after Osiris was murdered by his brother Set, Horus fought with Set for the throne of Egypt. In this battle Horus lost one of his eyes and later this became a sign of protection in Egypt. In one story he has said to cut off his mother's head. Horus united Egypt and bestowed divinity on the pharaoh.

30 Anubis is the Greek name for the ancient jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology whose hieroglyphic version is more accurately spelled Anpu (also Anup, Anupu, Wip, lenpw, Inepu, Yinepu,"Inpu", or Inpw). He is also known as Sekhem Em Pet. Prayers to Anubis have been found carved on the most ancient tombs in Egypt; indeed, the Unas text (line 70) associates him with the Eye of Horus. He serves as both a guide of the recently departed and a guardian of the dead.

31 Thoth was considered one of the most important deities of the Egyptian pantheon, often depicted with the head of an ibis. His feminine counterpart was Ma'at. His chief shrine was at Khemennu, where he was the head of the local company of gods, later renamed Hermopolis by the Greeks (in reference to him through the Greeks' interpretation that he was the same as Hermes) and Eshmunen by the Arabs. He also had shrines in Abydos, Hesert, Urit, Rekhui, Ta-ur, Sep, Hat, Pselket, Talmsis, Antcha-Mutet, Bah, Amen-heri-ab, and Ta-kens. He was considered the heart and tongue of Ra as well as the means by which Ra's will was translated into speech. He has also been likened to the Logos of Plato and the mind of God. He has been involved in arbitration, magic, writing, science and judging the dead.

32 An Ibis is a long-legged bird.

33 In Egyptian mythology, Sobek (also spelled Sebek, Sochet, Sobk, Sobki, Soknopais, and in Greek, Suchos) was the deification of crocodiles, and was originally a demon, as crocodiles were deeply feared in the nation so dependent on the Nile River. His worship began as an attempt to pacify crocodiles so as to reduce the danger they posed.

Seth³⁴ had a peculiar head similar to that of an anteater. And on it goes, with Gods appearing as half-human and half beast. Later, Planets represented many of the Gods in the Pantheon. Each city had its individual star God and used warm and descriptive adjectives to describe Him or Her. The Hebrew called them Angels.

According to the book of Jude, the Angels left their first habitation and were forced into judgment as recorded in the Sumerian clay cylinders and tablets.³⁵ Many of the Gods and Sons of Gods (created by Yahweh) were forced from their initial design and habitation³⁶ in the heavens and assumed work and authority in numerous Earthly locations.³⁷

The prevailing Deity³⁸ must correct the immense issue of self-exaltation among many of the Gods (Elohim). So, Yahweh

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34 In Egyptian mythology, Set (also spelled Sutekh, Setesh, Seteh) is an ancient god, who was originally the god of the desert, one of the two main biomes that constitutes Egypt, the other being the small fertile area on either side of the Nile. Due to developments in the Egyptian language over the 3,000 years that Set was worshipped, by the Greek period, the t in Set was pronounced so indistinguishably from th that the Greeks spelt it as Seth.

35 Sumer was the first civilization in the history of humanity after the flood. In recording their origin (before and after the flood), king's list, cities, gods, beliefs and business affairs, then- scribes wrote upon clay tablets and cylinders with a reed. This writing was called cuneiform. Cunei = reed; form = shape.

36 The Nephilim (Sumerian Anunakki) were compelled to (change or) be cast down (Rev. 12:9). They were forced from the spiritual and became flesh.

37 Jude 6 - "And the angels which kept not then-first estate but left (fell from) their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."

38 Yahweh was the Creator of the spiritual realm and material universe.

constructed a display³⁹ of His desire. And then He brought reality to that heavenly design when He placed His only begotten Son⁴⁰ upon Earth. Jesus (like the Nephilim) became flesh, in a lowly state and (unlike the Nephilim) humbled Himself in servitude and humiliation and willingly accepted a cursed death,⁴¹ on a Roman cross.⁴² This willingness to die in humiliating disgrace was unlike any of the spiritual beings (Elohim) in all of Yahweh's creation. These Gods and Sons of Gods were judged and forced from their original habitation in the spirit.⁴³ They were "strange flesh"⁴⁴ to the women they seduced. For they were in appearance, like men and did not

humble themselves like the Son of Man that kept himself pure. They defiled the flesh by producing offspring from the union. The offspring from the unions were giants.

If the guiding principles of heaven and Earth were (1) "Pride goes before a fall!" and (2) "Humble yourself in the presence

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39 Types and shadows from the beginning of Old Testament redemptive pictures until the coming of God's Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

40 Anu, father of the Gods, Enlil, Enki and Ninti, and grandfather of the Anunakki and Igigi could not be the Creator of heaven and Earth. Yahweh created these Gods and Sons of God as spiritual beings. Yahweh had only one Son and heir. This Son was the Lord Jesus Christ.

41 Galatians 3:13 - "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree."

42 Philippians 2:7-8 - "But (Jesus) made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."

43 2^nd Peter 2:4 - "For if God spared not the angels that sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment."

44 Strange flesh - Greek heteros, which means another of a different kind, usually denoting generic distinction, men as opposed to women. Jude 6, 7.

of Yahweh and He will lift you up,"⁴⁵ then the righteous judgment of the preeminent Deity (Yahweh) must fall upon all supernatural beings⁴⁶ that were full of pride.⁴⁷Michael (the Archangel), at the Father's exaltation of His Son, Jesus, joined in to accomplish this universal judgment in the solar system.⁴⁸ It is my opinion that in the first century anno Domini,⁴⁹ all

supernatural beings in heaven and upon Earth were put under the authority of the submissive Son of Yahweh as He walked

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45 Matthew 18:4 - "Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

Matthew 23:12 - "And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted."

James 4:6, 10 - "God resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble." "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up."

lst Peter 5:5, 6 - "For God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time."

46 Daniel 12:1, 2 - "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the Earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."

47 Proverbs 16:5 - "Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the lord."

48 Read Daniel 10:13; Jude 1:9; Revelation 12:7.

49 Traditionally English copies Latin usage by placing the abbreviation before the year number for AD, but after the year number for BC; for example: BC 64, but 2007 AD. However, the placing of the AD after the year number (as in 2006 AD) is now also common, while, analogous to the use of BC, the abbreviation is also widely used after the number of a century or millennium, as in 4th century AD or 2nd millennium AD, despite the inappropriate literal combination in this case ("in the 4th century in the year of Our Lord").

the Earth doing the Will of Yahweh.⁵⁰

The way I understand this is that the newly crowned Lord reigned for forty years (a generation = 30 to 70 AD)⁵¹ and after His achievement of universal reign, handed His accumulation of every spiritual being (under his control) backover to His Father.⁵²THEN, Yahweh became supreme landlord over the cosmic container of "all things in all places." The all in all had run it's course.⁵³ It is now back in Yahweh.

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50 Hebrews 10:7 - "Then said I, Lo I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God."

51 Romans 9:28 - ""For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the Earth."

52 1^st Corinthians 15:28 - "And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."

53 On an international level, the Prophets displayed an uncanny grasp of geopolitics, and their remarkable insight and foresight ranged far and wide. They knew of the reemergence of ancient kingdoms, as that of Elam, and the emergence of a new power farther east, that of the Medes (later known as Persians); even distant China, the land of Sinim, was accounted for. The early city-states of the Greeks in Asia Minor, then- occupation of the Mediterranean islands of Crete and Cyprus, were recognized. The status of old and new bordering of Egypt in Africa was

known. Every nation, city and people was engaged in pursuing the intention and influence of lesser Gods, out of the Pantheon. Indeed "all the inhabitants of the world and the dwellers on Earth" shall be judged by Yahweh, for they have all gone astray."

Israel's exile among Nations was because of their association

with other Gods⁵⁴ and the judgment upon Gods and Sons of Gods had occurred in the last days of Israelite economy.⁵⁵ Many in this massive group of Gods and Sons of Gods are what the phrase all in all referenced. They were all in all until Yahweh became all in all.

This manuscript concerns the hottest debate ever to rage in the religious and academic arenas. It answers the age old question, "Were angels ever transfigured into flesh-and-blood mortals?" In one of our many discussions, Dr. Charles

Asbell, president of Scripture Research, Inc. asked me to give the reader proof that Satan's rule and authority was destroyed when Yahweh became all in all. Satan was one of the created Gods that was forced down to earth and became flesh. However, the shortest answer I can give concerning only Satan is from "the disciple whom Jesus loved." He was there in the first century and had this to say,

Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out [John 12:31].

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54 Yahweh brought about the exile, according to the Prophets, because of Israel's transgressions, "they heeded not the words of Yahweh their Elohim and transgressed His Covenant and all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded." The prophet Hosea, in words and symbolic deeds, foresaw those events as punishment for Israel's "whoring" after other Gods, but made it known that "a quarrel hath Yahweh with the inhabitants of Earth, for there is neither truth nor justice, nor understanding of Elohim upon the Earth."

55 Last Days - Matthew 10:23;' 16:27-28; 24:3, 34; Mark 13:4, 30; Luke 21:7,20,28, 30, 31, 32; John 21:22; Acts 3:19-21; Romans 13:11, 12; 16:20; 1^st Corinthians 1:7; 7:29-31; 10:11; 16:22; Philippians 4:5; Hebrews 10:25, 37; James 5:7-9; 1^st Peter 1:5; 4:5,7,17; 1^st John 2:17 18; Revelation 1:1, 3; 22:6, 7, 10.

...the prince of this world is judged [John 16:11].

The words "now" and "is" stubbornly imply that the death, entombment, resurrection, ascension and first century Parousia of Christ terminated Satan's domain of power and established the kingdom of truth and righteousness. By the time that God had become "all in all" Satan had lost all of his footing. The author of the Gospel of John said that NOW, Satan IS judged and "cast out."

Maranatha!⁵⁶

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56 Maranatha is an Aramaic (Syriac) phrase occurring once only in the New Testament and also in the Didache that is part of the Apostolic Fathers collection. It is transliterated into Greek letters rather than translated, and is found at the end of Paul's first Epistle to the Corinthians (1 Cor 16:22) as a farewell. The NRSV translates it as: "Our Lord, come!" but notes that it could also be translated as: "Our Lord has come": I use it this way, "Our Lord Came."

Further N. T. study on "things" or angels:

Romans

1:18-32; 8:19-23; 32-39; 9:22, 23; 28; 11:35, 36.

1^st Corinthians

1:23-31; 2:15, 16; 3:21-23; 4:5, 9; 5:5; 8:6; 10:9-11; 15:27, 28.

2^nd Corinthians

4:14-18.

Ephesians

1:10, 11, 22, 23; 3:9-11; 4:10.

Philippians

2:5-11; 3:21.

Colossians

1:16-20.

Hebrews

1:2-14; 2:1, 8, 10; 3:4; 4:13-16.

2^nd Peter

2:11-22.

Revelation

12:7-17.

Chapter 2

REVIEW OF SPIRITUAL BEINGS

It would surprise most people to learn that an Angel gave the Law to Moses, instead of Yahweh. The Massoretic and Vulgate texts (of Exod. 3, 19 & 20) clearly represent the Supreme Being as appearing to Moses in the bush and on Mount Sinai. On the other hand, the Septuagint version, while agreeing that it was God Himself who gave the Law, yet makes it the angel of the Lord who appeared in the bush.⁵⁷

There the angel of the LORD appeared to him inflames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. Moses thought, 'I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.' When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, 'Moses! Moses!⁵⁸

By New Testament times the Septuagint view had prevailed, and it is now not merely in the bush that the Angel of the Lord, and not God Himself appears, but the Angel is also the Giver of the Law (cf. Gal. iii, 19; Heb. ii, 2; Acts vii, 30)."⁵⁹

The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator [Galatians 3:19c].

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57 Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia

58 Exodus 3:2-4a

59 Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia

I place this before you so that it might be seen that many doctrinal resolves are only personal notions, not factual truths. There are depths of truth that many of us have never reached. Many times obvious facts are hidden from our eyes because of imbedded traditional arguments. The following passages will give food for thought into the subject of who the Sons of God were.

References from Young's Literal Translation.

Genesis 6:1-7

1 And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,⁶⁰

2 and Sons of God see the daughters of men⁶¹that they are fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

3 And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man — to the age; in their erring they are flesh:⁶²and his (Adam's) days have been an hundred and twenty years.'⁶³

4 The fallen ones⁶⁴ were in the Earth in those days, and even afterwards (after the flood) when Sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them ~ they are the heroes, who, from of old, are the men of name.

5 And Jehovah seeth that abundant is the wickedness of man in the Earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;

6 and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the Earth, and He grieveth Himself— unto His heart.

7 And Jehovah saith, 'I wipe away man whom I have prepared

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60 "them" - Adam and Eve

61 "men" - Hebrew: ha-adham (singular) = the man.

62 In their erring, humans became like the fallen fleshly angels.

63 120 years - 930-120 = 810 BC. The date is BC 3194.

64 The Nephilim, were expelled from spiritual properties and became flesh.

from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'

Note: These fallen ones (Nephilim or Anunakki) were forced from their spiritual position that the Father of the Gods⁶⁵ had assigned. Forced out of their habitat, the Sons of God left the spiritual realm and came down to Earth in flesh and took as wives the daughters of men. Their children were the Giants in the Biblical account.

1^st Samuel 2:4-10

4 Bows of the mighty⁶⁶ are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

5 The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

6 Jehovah puts to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

7 Jehovah dispossessed, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

8 He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause them to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah are the fixtures of Earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

9 The feet of His saints (holy ones) He keepeth, And the wicked (lawless, unholy ones) in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

10 Jehovah ~ broken down are His adversaries. Against them in the heavens He thundereth: Jehovah judgeth the ends of Earth, And giveth strength to His king, and exalteth the horn

of His anointed.

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65 Anu, the Sumerian Father of the pantheon assigned the Anunakki over certain areas on Earth. The God of the pantheon of Gods was Yahweh.

Note: The Sons of God had divided themselves into wicked lawless sons and saintly obedient sons. A great battle raged in the heavens over good and evil. However, many were placed in chains of darkness (flesh). Others still ran loose and were divided against the will of the Father of all and of Yahweh, the God of the Gods.

1^st Samuel 24:13 as saith the simile of the ancients. From the wicked goeth out wickedness, and my hand is not on thee.

Note: The lawless, wicked Sons of God were the ancient men of renowned fame. These were the fallen ones, the Nephilim.

Numbers 13:30-33

And Caleb⁶⁷ stilleth the people concerning Moses, and saith, 'Let us certainly go up -- and we have possessed it; for we are thoroughly able for it.’⁶⁸

31 And the men who have gone up with him said, 'We are not able to go up against the people, for it is stronger than we;'⁶⁹

32 and they bring out an evil account of the land which they have spied unto the sons of Israel, saying, "The land into which we passed over to spy it, is a land (of cannibals) eating up its inhabitants: and all the people whom we saw in its midst are men of stature (giants);⁷⁰

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66 The Mighty (Gibborim) are the mighty men mentioned in Gen. 6:4 as the progeny of the angels and the daughters of men. The Gibborim were equated with the "giants."

67 Calab = whole-hearted

68 "able for it" = the conclusion of faith

69 "it is stronger than we" = the conclusion of unbelief always leaves God out.

70 Giants = Hebrew Nephilim. They were destroyed in the flood and "after that" (the days of Noah) there was a second irruption of fallen angels. Two falls, one forced and the other voluntary.

33 and there we saw the Nephilim, sons of Anak. (son) of the Nephilim; and we are in our own eyes as grasshoppers; and so we were in their eyes.’

Note: The Giants in the land were cannibals. They may have run out of animals to eat and started eating humans and each other. They were the Nephilim (fallen from spirit into flesh) and Rephaim (giants) that Israel feared.

2^nd Samuel 21:15-22

15 And again have the Philistines war with Israel,⁷¹and David goeth down, and his servants with him, and they fight with the Philistines: and David is weary,

16 and Ishbi-Benob. who is among the children of the giant⁷² -- the weight of his spear is three hundred shekels weight of brass, and he is girded with a new one -- speaketh of smiting David,

17 and Abishai son of Zeruiah giveth help to him, and smiteth the Philistine, and putteth him to death; then swear the men of David to him, saying, 'Thou dost not go out again with us to battle, nor quench the lamp of Israel.’

18 And it cometh to pass afterwards, that the battle is again in Gob⁷³ with the Philistines, then hath Sibbechai the Hushathite smitten Saph. who is among the children of the giant.

19 And the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim, the Beth-Lehemite, smiteth a brother o/Goliath the Gittite.⁷⁴ and the wood of his spear is like a beam of weavers.

20 And the battle is again in Gath, and there is a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands are six. and the toes of his feet are six, twenty and four in number, and he also hath been born to the giant.

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71 War occurred in 930-923 BC

72 Giant = Rapha

73 Gob = Some codices with two early printed editions read "Nob."

74 1^st Samuel 17

21 and he reproacheth Israel, and smite him doth Jonathan son of Shimeah, brother of David;

22 these four have been born to the giant in Gath, and they fall by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

Note: The Philistines' ranks were filled with the children of the fallen ones. The offspring of the Sons of God were the Rephaim. Many were huge in stature, maybe 14 feet or taller.

Psalms 82:1-8

1 -- A Psalm of Asaph. Gods (Elohim) hath stood in the company of God (ED. In the midst (of) Gods (Elohim) (He) doth judge (them).⁷⁵

2 Till when do ye judge perversely? And the face of the wicked (lawless) lift up? Selah.

3 Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

4 Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

5 They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of Earth.

61 -- I have said, Gods (Elohim) ye are. And Sons of the Most High (Elyon or Anu) - (are) all of you.

7 But as man (die) ye (shall) die, and as one of the heads (fell) ye (all shall) fall,

8 Rise, O God, judge the Earth, For Thou hast inheritance among all the nations!

Note: Sons of God stood before the company of Yahweh and the Elohim answered for their deeds. Then they were forced out of the spiritual realm and became flesh. They later died

like Adam's race.

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75 Job 1:6 - "Now there was a day when the sons of God (angels) came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them."

What does the N. T. have to say about angels?

Ephesians 6:10-12

10 As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

11 put on the whole armour of Yahweh, for your being able to stand against the wiles (methods) of the devil (Son of God),

12 because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh (humanity), but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places:

Note: Up until the first century AD, the battle still raged (not against flesh and blood) against the fallen ones and spiritual messengers (angels- malak'im)⁷⁶ they influenced to rebel.

Jude 6-19

...messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

7 as Sodom and Gomorrah,⁷⁷ and the cities around them, in

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76 Malakim are entities that exist on a plane above the physical. To risk oversimplification, a malak (singular) is the Judaic or Semitic version of an angel. In that respect, they serve as messengers or perceivable aspects of a singular deity, as well as teachers of humankind. When the Christian Bible mentions "angels," it means Malak'im. In the land of Israel one greets others with, "Shalom malak'im" (one who brings a message of peace).

77 Sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was going after foreign flesh. It was an unnatural passage into flesh. Breaking through the restricted bounds that God had set. The Sodomites demanded that Lot release the Angels to them in order that they might satisfy their appetite for sex with strange flesh. Ezekiel 16:49 provides more insight into the condition that prevailed: "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: Pride, fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters." They had all they needed. They did not need Yahweh. They had pride, fulness of bread and abundance of idleness.

like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other (different) flesh, have been set before -

an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

8 In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh

indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,

9 yet Michael, the chief messenger, when, with the devil contending, he was disputing about the body of Moses,⁷⁸ did not dare to bring up an evil-speaking judgment, but said, 'The Lord rebuke thee!’

10 and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;

11 wo to them! because in the way of Cain they did go on,⁷⁹ and to the deceit of Balaam for reward they did rush, and in the gainsaying of Korah⁸⁰ they did perish.

12 These are in your love-feasts (as) craggy rocks; (they are) feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves: clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

13 wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

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78 Death reigned from Adam to Moses (Rom. 5:14). A great dispute took place in heaven, after Moses was in the "death-state."

79 Cain's sin was in taking a forbidden female of strange flesh (Gen. 4:7). The offering of Cain was not rejected. It concerned his actions, "had thou doest well." Had you been acting correctly, I would have received you (not your offering). God always accepted offerings of "the first fruits."

80 Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and certain Reubenites - Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and One son of Peleth - became insolent and rose up against Moses. With them were 250 Israelite men, well-known community leaders who had been appointed members of the council. They came as a group to oppose Moses and Aaron and said to them, "You have gone too far! The whole community is holy, every one of them, and The Lord is with them. Why then do you set yourselves above The Lord's assembly?

14 And prophecy also to these did the seventh from Adam -- Enoch -- saying, 'Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads (countless numbers of holy angels),

15 to do judgment against all (lawless, unholy ones), and to convict all (unholy ones) their impious (profane) ones, concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously, and concerning all the stiff things that speak against Him did impious sinners.'

16 These are murmurers, repiners; according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit;

17 and ye, beloved, remember ye the sayings spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

18 that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,

19 these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having.

Note: One cannot deny that Elohim or Gods and Sons of Gods cohabited (in flesh) with the daughters (strange flesh) of humanity and had offspring (in the flesh) that were Giants and enemies of Yahweh and controllers of humans. Many of these Giants were kings over humans in the Sumer texts. The Epic of Gilgamesh⁸¹ is one of the oldest written examples of a giant king.

The account in Revelation 12 gives us a clear concept of the fall of the Nephilim. The angels who had fallen in rank with the fall of the proud archangel were forced to surrender their position in the hierarchy of heaven by the Archangel Michael. This "great prince" of the celestial order waged a cosmic war and engaged in direct combat with the rebels in order to force them to surrender their position to the Son of Yahweh. Satan _______________

81 BBC News of the tomb of Gilgamesh is located on page 182 of this book.

was cast down to die.

What do other outside sources say about angels?

The Gospel of Bartholomew⁸² detailed the reason for the archangel's fall. The apocryphal work explains that the archangel reveled his pride when he refused to bend the knee (to confess the Christ) before the man made by Yahweh. The great dragon (in Revelation), called the Devil and Satan, is threatened by the birth of the Manchild to the Woman clothed with the sun and therefore seeks to devour her child as soon as it is born. The dragon's contempt for the Manchild, Son of the Woman and Son of Yahweh, cost him his elevated position on the ladder of the celestial theocracy. There had always been conflict. However, this was the height of irresponsibility and rejection of the divine decree of reconciliation⁸³ and love.

The same proud unwillingness to bend the knee before Yahweh's newly created man is evident in the Gospel of Bartholomew. I am fire of fire, boasts the archangel. I was the first angel formed, and shall I worship day and matter? His refusal to worship the lowly and meek man -- as the Son of Yahweh was his incriminating exploit of rebellion. The apocryphal Book of John the Evangelist contains a portrait of the aftermath of the lawless archangel's pride.⁸⁴ The apostle John asks the Lord, When Satan fell, in what place dwelt he?

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82 This Gospel exists in three languages and not hi an original form in any of them: Greek is the original language, of which we have two manuscripts, at Vienna and Jerusalem; Latin 1, consisting of two leaves of extracts, of the ninth century; Latin 2, complete. The Greek text may be as old as the fifth century; the Latin 2 of the sixth or seventh.

83 John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

84 Physical incarnation, that is, made flesh.

The Lord replies, My Father changed his appearance because

of his pride, and the light was taken from him, and his face became like unto heated iron, and his face became wholly like

that of a man⁸⁵ Psalms 82:7 declares that Satan, like a man, will die.⁸⁶

Revelation 12:9⁸⁷ establishes the fact of the forced incarnation of the Nephilim in the Earthly plane in physical bodies. Genesis 6:4 confirms not only the physical incarnation of the Nephilim but also that of the Watchers. Therefore, we have come to understand that there were at least two falls or separate incarnations of fallen angels upon Earth. The Nephilim (Anunakki⁸⁸) were made to fall; the Watchers⁸⁹ fell (Igigi⁹⁰) of their own accord through lusts.

References from KJV Translation.

GENESIS 6:1-4

Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the Earth, and daughters were born to them,

2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

3 And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one ______________

85 James, trans. "The Book of John the Evangelist." in The Apocryphal New Testament, p. 189

86 Psalms 82:7 - "But ye (Gods) shall die like men..."

87 Revelation 12:9 - "he was cast out into the Earth."

88 Documented in Sumerian literature, "The Myth of Zu," the Anunakki were in production of gold ore in the Abzu under Enki's direction and their processing, smelting, and refining in the Edin was under Enlil's supervision. 600 were engaged in these Earth operations.

89 Watchers wore large protective goggles. They stayed aloft in flying chariots.

90 Igigi were 300 sons of God who were observing and overlooking from heaven, the activity on Earth.

hundred and twenty years."

4 There were giants on the Earth in those days, and also

afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. (NKJV)

Note: The first, and oldest, belief is that "the sons of God" were fallen angels who consorted with human women, producing giant offspring called Nephilim (Heb. JD^D). This view was widely held in the world of the 1st century AD, and was supported by Flavius Josephus, Philo, Eusebius and many of the "Ante-Nicene Fathers," including Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Tertullian, Irenaeus, Athenagoras and Commodianus.

The view that I was taught in the University is one which was first suggested by Julius Africanus and later advocated by Saint Augustine, the Catholic Bishop of Hippo. Augustine rejected the concept of the fallen host having committed fornication with women. In his early 5th century book The City of God, he promoted the theory that "the sons of God" simply referred to the genealogical line of Seth, who were committed to preserving the true worship of God. He interpreted Genesis 6 to mean that the male offspring of Adam through Seth were "the sons of God," and the female offspring of Adam through Cain were "the daughters of men." He wrote that the problem was that the family of Seth had interbred with the family of Cain, intermingling the bloodlines and corrupting the pure religion. This view has become the dominant one among most modern biblical scholars.

References from historians.

Here is a quotation and footnote from William Whitson's

translation of the respected Ist-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus’ history of the Jewish people:

Now this posterity of Seth continued to esteem God as the Lord of the universe, and to have an entire regard to virtue, for seven generations; but in process of time they were perverted, and forsook the practices of their forefathers, and did neither pay those honors to God which were appointed to them, nor had they any concern to do justice towards men. But for what degree of zeal they had formerly shown for virtue, they now showed by their actions a double degree of wickedness; whereby they made God to be their enemy, for many angels of God accompanied with women and begat sons that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good, on account of the confidence they had in their own strength; for the tradition is, that these men did what resembled the acts of those whom the Grecians called giants. But Noah was very uneasy at what they did; and, being displeased at their conduct, persuaded them to change their dispositions and their acts for the better; but, seeing that they did not yield to him, but were slaves to their wicked pleasures, he was afraid they would kill him, together with his wife and children, and those they had married; so he departed out of that land. (p. 32, bk. 1, ch. 3, §§72-74, The Antiquities of the Jews, translated by William Whitson)

As you can see, Josephus believed and recorded that "the sons of God" mentioned in Genesis 6, were fallen angels. As Whitson's footnote acknowledges, this belief was standard in the ancient world.

Another well-known 1st-century Jewish writer, Philo of Alexandria, shared this view. In his work "On the Giants," Philo wrote:

And when the angels of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, they took unto themselves wives of all them whom they chose." Those beings, whom other philosophers call demons, Moses usually calls angels ... (p. 152, The Works of Philo, "On the Giants," translated by C.D. Yonge)

The Book of Enoch (called I Enoch) is a collection of pseudepigraphic writings by various authors, which dates to the 1st or 2nd century BC. This book was well known by the early church; in fact, Jude, the brother of Jesus, quoted Enoch 1:9 in verses 14 and 15 of his epistle. Obviously Jude felt that the Book of Enoch, he had access to in the 1st century was trustworthy. This work, which survived to our day against great odds, deals extensively with the fall of the angels. It was viewed favorably by early "Christian" writers also (Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and others).

References from other outside sources.

ENOCH 6:1-6

And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto

2 them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men

3 and beget us children." And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not

4 indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay

the penalty of a great sin.^’ And they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations

5 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves

6 by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit

of Mount Hermon ... (From The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, translated by R.H. Charles)

A similar passage is also found in the pseude-pigraphic Book of Jubilees:

JUBILEES 5:1-3

1. And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the Earth and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they

2. chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants. And lawlessness increased on the Earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the Earth - all of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other, and lawlessness increased on the Earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men

3. (was) thus evil continually... (From The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, translated by R.H. Charles)

The Genesis Apocryphon, one of the texts uncovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls, also contains references to the angels interbreeding with human women. In this text, a conversation between Lamech, the father of Noah, and his wife Bathenosh

is detailed. Lamech questions his wife because he thinks that the conception of Noah was due to either an angel or one of their offspring, a Nephilim.

The Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, and the Genesis

Apocryphon all show that the common understanding at the time of Christ was that the fallen host of Angels committed

fornication with women in the periods before and after the Flood.

Early Christian writers accepted the story in Enoch as fact. Let's examine the writings of Justin Martyr, who lived from 110 to 165 AD. He said in chapter 5 of his Second Apology, "How the Angels Transgressed":

God, when He had made the whole world, and subjected things Earthly to man, and arranged the heavenly elements for the increase of fruits and rotation of the seasons, and appointed this divine law - for these things also He evidently made for man - committed the care of men and of all things under heaven to angels whom He appointed over them. But the angels transgressed this appointment, and were captivated by love of women, and begat children who are those that are called demons; and besides, they afterwards subdued the human race to themselves, partly by magical writings, and partly by fears and punishments they occasioned, and partly by teaching them to offer sacrifices, and incense, and libations, of which things they stood in need after they enslaved by lustful passions; and among men they sowed murders, wars, adulteries, intemperate needs, and all wickedness (p. 363, vol. 1, The Ante-Nicene Fathers)

A North-African bishop who lived about 240 AD wrote: "The Worship of Demons," from The Instructions of Commodianus:

When Almighty God, to beautify the nature of the world, willed that that Earth should be visited by angels, when they were sent down they despised His laws. Such was the beauty of women, that it turned them aside; so that, being contaminated, they could not return to heaven. Rebels from God, they uttered words against Him. Then the Highest uttered His judgment against them; and from their seed giants are said to have been born. By them arts were made known in the Earth, and they taught the dyeing of wool, and everything which is done; and to them, when they died, men erected images. But the Almighty, because they were of an evil seed, did not approve that, when dead, they should be brought back from death. Whence wandering they now subvert many bodies, and it is such as these especially that ye this day worship and pray to as gods. (p. 435, vol. 4, The Ante-Nicene Fathers)

In Greek mythology, the Titans were a family of giant gods who were the offspring of Uranus (heaven) and Gaea (Earth). The most famous of the Titans was Cronus, who killed his father. Cronus later led the Titans in their losing war against Zeus and the Olympian gods. After their defeat, the Titans were imprisoned in a section of the underworld called Tartarus.

Reference from NKJV Translation.

II PETER 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell [tartarosas] and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; (NKJV)

Note: In his second epistle, the apostle Peter uses part of this Greek myth to explain the fate of the fallen angels. He states that for their sins, these angels had been tartarosas, which The NKJV Greek English Interlinear New Testament translates literally as "confining them to Tartarus" ("the Abyss"). This is the same Tartarus where Greek mythology says the Titans were imprisoned. It's highly unlikely that

Peter would have used such an analogy if this pagan legend weren't based on at least some grain of truth, which his

readers would have knowledge of. The idea that evil Angels mated with human women and had offspring (Nephilim) appears far-fetched to most in this modern era, but it was widely accepted as fact in the ancient world.

The etymology of napalm is uncertain, the following explanations have been advanced with mixed reception. First, it may derive from the niphal of the verb pala, meaning, "be extraordinary," i.e., "extraordinary men." Second, it may be derived from the verb napal, "fall," in one of the following senses:

(1) the "fallen ones" - from heaven, i.e.,

supernatural beings;

(2) morally "fallen men";

(3) "those who fall upon," in the sense of invaders or

hostile, violent men;

(4) "those who fell by" the sword (cf. Ezek. 32:20f.);

(5) "unnaturally begotten men" or bastards (from cf.

nepel, "abortion" or "miscarriage").

It is apparent that the understanding of Genesis 6:1-4, at the time of Christ, was that the angels had sinned by committing fornication with human women. But does the Bible support this theory?

First, let's look at all of the Old Testament references to "sons of God." This phrase is translated from the Hebrew beney 'elohim (3T tfrrrn), beney ha'elohim (or ntfwo), and beney 'elim n

References from the O. T.

GENESIS 6:1-4

When men began to increase on Earth and daughters were born to them, daughters of men were and took wives from

among those that pleased them.

3 The LORD said, "My breath shall not abide in man forever, since he too is flesh; let the days allowed him be one hundred and twenty years."

4 It was then, and later too, that the Nephilim appeared on Earth when the divine beings [beney ha'elohim} cohabited with the daughters of men, who bore them offspring. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown. (Tanakh, the new Jewish Publication Society translation according to the traditional Hebrew text)

DEUTERONOMY 32:8

When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the sons of men, He fixed the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God [beney 'elohim]. (RSV)

JOB 1:6

Now there was a day when the sons of God [beney ha'elohim] came to present themselves before the LORD and Satan also came among them. (NKJV)

JOB 2:1

Again there was a day when the sons of God [beney ha'elohim] came to present themselves before the LORD and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. (NKJV)

JOB 38:4-7

"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.

5 Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?

6 To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone,

7 when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of

God [beney 'elohim] shouted for joy? (NKJV)

PSALM 29:1-2

O give the LORD you sons of God [beney 'elim], give the LORD glory and power;

2 give the LORD the glory of His name. Adore the LORD in His holy court. (The Psalms: A New Translation)

PSALM 89:5-6

The heavens proclaim Your wonders, O LORD; the assembly of Your holy ones proclaims Your truth.

6 For who in the skies can compare with the LORD or who is like the LORD among the sons of God [beney 'elim]? (The Psalms: A New Translation)

Note: As you can see, each reference above is to angels. There are no instances in the Old Testament where the phrase "sons of God" refers to men. Let's see what E.W. Bullinger has to say about these "sons of God" in Appendix 23 to The Companion Bible:

"The Sons of God" in Gen. 6.2, 4.

It is only by the Divine specific act of creation that any created being can be called "a Son of God." For that which is "born of the flesh is flesh." God is spirit and that which is "born of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3.6). Hence Adam is called a "Son of God" in Luke 3.38. Those "in Christ" having the "new nature" which is by the direct creation of God (2 Cor. 5.17; Eph. 2.10) can be, and are called "sons of God" (John 1.13; Rom. 8.14, 15; 1 John 3.1).

This is why angels are called "sons of God" in every other place where the expression is used in the Old Testament. Job 1.6; 2.1; 38.7; Ps. 29.1; 89.6; Dan. 3.25 (no art.). We have no

authority or right to take the expression in Gen. 6.4 in any other sense. Moreover in Gen. 6.2 the Sept. renders it "angels", (pp. 26,27, Companion Bible Appendixes) Now let's look at Genesis 6:9, which discusses Noah's genealogy. This Scripture is further proof that fallen angels had interbred with humans.

GENESIS 6:9

This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect [tamim] in his generations. Noah walked with God. (NKJV)

Note: In Genesis 6:9, the Hebrew word tamim, here translated "perfect," means "physically without blemish." As the first sentence makes clear, it's referring to the genealogy of Noah; it does not refer to moral perfection. Below is what Appendix 26 of The Companion Bible has to say about this word as used in verse 9 of Genesis 6:

The Heb. word tamim means without blemish, and is the technical word for bodily and physical perfection, and, not moral. Hence it is used of animals of sacrificial purity. It is rendered...

• Without blemish in Ex. 12.5; 29.1; Lev. 1.3, 10;

3.1, 6; 4.3, 23, 28, 32; 5.12, 18; 6.6; 9.2, 3;

14.10; 22.19; 23.12, 18; Num. 6.14; 28.19, 31;

29.2, 8, 13, 20, 23, 29, 32, 36; Ezek. 43.22, 23,

25; 45.18, 23; 46.4, 6,13.

• Without spot: Num. 19.2; 28.3, 9, 11; 29.17,26.

• Undefiled: Ps. 119.1.

This shows that Gen. 6.9 does not speak of Noah's moral perfection (p. 28, Companion Bible Appendixes)

More references from the N. T. about angels.

JUDE 6-7

And the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (KJV)

Note: Because of the punctuation of verse 7, this appears to say that Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as the cities around them, gave themselves over to sexual immorality. However, the underlying Greek text does not support this interpretation. Kenneth Wuest writes of verse 7: This verse begins with hos, an adverb of comparison, meanings of "in the same manner as, after the fashion of, as, just as." Here it introduces a comparison showing a likeness between the angels of verse 6 and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah of this verse. But the likeness between them lies deeper than the guilt of committing sin. Both were guilty of the same identical sin. The punctuation of the A.V. [KJV] is misleading, as an examination of Greek text discloses.

The A.V. punctuation gives the reader the impression that Sodom and Gomorrah committed fornication and that the cities about them committed fornication in like manner to the two cities named ... The words "in like manner" are related to the verbal forms, "giving themselves over to fornication" and "going after strange flesh." In addition to all this, the Greek text has toutois, "to these." So, the translation should be, "just

as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, in like manner to these (Angels), having given themselves over to fornication and having gone after strange flesh." The sense of the entire passage (w.6, 7) is that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, in like manner to these (angels), have given themselves over to fornication after strange flesh. That means that the sin of the fallen angels was fornication, (pp. 241-242, vol. II, Word Studies in the Greek New Testament)

The underlying Greek text indicates that the fallen angels left their own domain and indulged in sexual immorality, going after "strange," or "other" flesh. The KJV obscures this fact, probably because the view that the fallen angels were "the sons of God" spoken of in Genesis 6:2, 4 was not accepted when it was translated in 1611. However, some translations do more clearly show the meaning of this passage. The New English Bible better presents what Jude was saying:

JUDE 6-7

Remember too the angels, how some of them were not content to keep the dominion given to them but abandoned their proper home; and God has reserved them for judgment on the great Day, bound beneath the darkness in everlasting chains.

7 Remember Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns; like the angels, they committed fornication and followed unnatural lusts; and they paid the penalty in eternal

fire, an example for all to see. (NEB)

Note: The nature of the angels' fall is clearly stated in Jude 6, where it is said that they left their own "abode" (Gr. oiketeriori). This word occurs in the New Testament only here and in II Corinthians 5:2, where it is used of the spiritual body of a resurrected saint.

II CORINTHIANS 5:1

For we know that if our Earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation [oiketerion], which is from heaven, (NKJV)

Note: Angels assumed human form and even eat men's food (Gen. 18-19). Although the Bible doesn't tell us how, Jude 6 shows that some angels left their proper abode (their spiritual bodies) and took on fleshly bodies so as to marry and produce offspring by the daughters of men.

Although the angels committed sexual sins and corrupted the human lineage to some extent, they did something just as perverse that threatened to foil God's plan for humanity. Let's go back to 1 Enoch to see what these fallen angels did that affected the human race enormously:

More references from outside sources about angels.

1 ENOCH 8:1-3

And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the Earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all

2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the Earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon.

3 And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven ... (From The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, translated by R.H. Charles)

Note: The angels brought with them knowledge that humanity did not possess, beforehand. This newly acquired knowledge led to a rapid advancement in the education base

of the antediluvian society, including the invention of advanced methods of waging warfare.

In the NKJV translation of Genesis 6:4, the Nephilim are called "mighty men who were of old, men of renown;" however, the NRSV translates that same phrase as "heroes that were of old, warriors of renown."

Genesis 6:11 shows that the Earth was filled with violence; this is very likely the direct result of the Nephilim, who apparently were mighty warriors. If the ancient legends are based in fact, as they appear to be, these angelic offspring were superhuman in size and great in strength. There is also an indication from the ancient text known as the Book of Jasher that this corruption of bloodlines extended to the animals also.

JASHER 4:18-19

And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands according to

their choice, and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the Earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole Earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon Earth, all men and all animals.

19 And the Lord said, I will blot out man that I created from the face of the Earth, yea from man to the birds of the air,

together with cattle and beasts that are in the field.. .(From The Book of Jasher, published by J.H. Parry & Company, 1887)

Note: The Book of Jasher is mentioned twice in the Bible (Jos. 10:13; II Sam. 1:18). While it's evident that the copy of this book has survived to our time has also been corrupted to some extent, the Scriptures seem to confirm the information contained in this section of Jasher:

More references from the NKJV about angels.

GENESIS 6:7

So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." (NKJV)

It appears likely that the objectives of the Flood were the destruction of the polluted human and animal bloodlines and the eradication of the forbidden knowledge that humanity had learned from the fallen host of Angels or Anunakki.

I CORINTHIANS 11:7-10

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man.

8 For man is not from woman, but woman from man.

9 Nor was man created for the woman, but woman for the

man.

10 For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. (NKJV)

In I Corinthians 11, Paul states the position of women in relation to men and says that the symbol of authority on a woman's head is needed "because of the angels." Without an understanding of what took place between Angels and Earth women, this verse is puzzling at best.

There is opposition to the view that the fallen angels are the "sons of God" referred to in Genesis 6. Some cite Matthew 22:29-30 and Mark 12:24-25 as objections, saying that these Scriptures clearly teach that angels do not marry.

MATTHEW 22:29-30

Jesus answered and said to them [the Sadducees], "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven." (NKJV)

MARK 12:24-25

Jesus answered and said to them, "Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God? 25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven." (NKJV)

Note: These verses do not state whether angels can marry or procreate. Here Christ refers only to the way things will be after the resurrection. The angels who did not sin are the example cited, not the angels confined to Tartarus because they sinned by marrying humans and producing offspring.

Here is the parallel account of this conversation in Luke's Gospel.

LUKE 20:34-36

And Jesus answered and said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.

35 But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

36 nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection." (NKJV)

Note: Christ's affirmed the reality of the resurrection to these questioning Sadducees, who did not believe that there would be a resurrection. As you can clearly see from Luke's account of this confrontation, Christ is making two points about the age to come: (1) Resurrected humans will not marry, and (2) resurrected humans will be given eternal life, which the holy angels now have. Interpreting these Scriptures to mean that angels have never been able to marry or procreate reads more into them than was intended by Jesus.

Some also object by saying that Genesis 6:4 shows that there were Nephilim on the Earth before "the sons of God" came in to "the daughters of men" and also afterward; therefore, these giants cannot be the offspring of this union. Does the phrase "in those days, and also afterward" mean that the Nephilim were present before the sons of God cohabited with the daughters of men?

"In those days" plainly means the time after the "sons of God" had come down to Earth; the fact that they had taken wives is disclosed in Genesis 6:2. In chronological sequence, the events of Genesis 6 follow Genesis 4. Genesis 5 is simply an inset into the story flow. "Afterward" specifies after the

Flood, when we see another instance of giants appearing, this time in the land of Canaan which the Israelites were to inherit (Num. 13:33). Satan once again tried to thwart God's plan by using these savage hybrids to occupy the land of Canaan and keep Abraham's offspring out. Obviously none of the Nephilim that stayed on Earth survived the Flood. The Sumerian text says that the Anunakki escaped the deluge by returning to Nibiru.

These giants are often mentioned in the early books of the Old Testament until the last of them were finally killed off. The word Nephilim only appears twice in the Old Testament (Gen 6:4; Num. 13:33), but these giants are also referred to as gibbor (Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33; Job 16:14) and Rephaim when

they reappear in a more limited fashion after the Flood (Gen. 14:5; 15:20; Deu. 2:11, 20; 3:11, 13; Jos. 12:4; 13:12; 15:8; 17:15; 18:16; II Sam. 5:18, 22; 21:16, 18, 20, 22; 23:13; I Chr. 11:15; 14:9; 20:4, 6, 8; Isa. 17:5; 26:14). They were known by the proper names of Rephaim, Zuzim, Emim, Horites, Anakim, Zamzummim, and Avim.

The evidence shows that the "Sons of God" were fallen angels is substantial. By their sexual immorality, these angels produced offspring that were strong and violent. The concept of a race of giants, which resulted from the union of gods and humans, is virtually universal in the world's early civilizations.

The original intent of Angels may have only been to satisfy their forbidden lust. Yet the knowledge they brought with them and taught mankind caused society to develop at a more rapid technological pace than Yahweh had intended. This societal development was not positive, and it gave rise to a violent society, one in which the Nephilim apparently played a large role. God was forced to restrain in the Abyss the

wicked angels that produced the Rephaim, and cleanse the Earth of them and the violence they brought with the great Flood.

These fallen Angels would never be put back into Yahweh. They had no promise of resurrection and could not ascend to Yahweh. Only the Angels that did not sin were in the "all in all" that was put back into Yahweh. Yahweh's Son, Jesus was "in God" and all believers that are "in Christ" are "in God."

Furthermore, the Book of Isaiah says that the Nephilim and their descendants will not participate in a resurrection, as is the portion of ordinary mortals. Isaiah 26:14 reads:

They are dead, they shall not live; they are

deceased, they shall not rise.

The original Hebrew word translated "deceased" here is the word "Rephaim." It would have saved a lot of misinterpretation if the translators had left the word as it was in the original. The verse actually reads:

Dead, they shall not live; Rephaim, they shall not rise.

The Rephaim are generally understood to be one of the branches of the Nephilim, and God's Word makes it clear that they are to partake in no resurrection. But with humans it is different: all humans will be resurrected either to life or to damnation (John 5:28-29). And the Angels that did not follow in Satan's fall will be removed from flesh and placed back into Yahweh, causing Him to become "all in all."

ISAIAH 14:12-19

12. How art thou fallen from heaven, o Lucifer, son of the morning? How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations?

13. For thou hast said in thine heart, 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars (angels) of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High."

15. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

16. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee saying, “this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

17. that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?”

18. All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

19. But thou art cast out of thy grave lie an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.

Note: As Isaiah details the fall of the archangel Lucifer, he calls him "the man that made the earth to tremble." Here, Isaiah called Lucifer a man, giving strong indication that he believed that the "fallen one" or the one cast down from heaven had walked the earth, in the flesh, among mortals as one of them. A pupil of Tertullian, Cyprian (200-258) noted the specific use of the word man and used it as proof that the Antichrist, Lucifer would someday appear in the flesh as a man. A 4^th century Christian theologian from Persia, Aphrahat believed that Lucifer had already incarnated as an ancient king of Babylon.

JOHN 8:38-44, 47

38. I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

39. They answered and said unto Him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

40. But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

41. Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of (angelic) fornication, we have one Father, even God.

42. Jesus said unto them, if God were your father, ye would

love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

43. Why do ye not understand my speech? Even because ye cannot hear my word.

44. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it...

47. He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Note: Jesus was in a conversation with the seed or offspring of the Wicked One. In our Lord's conversation with Nicodemus we read, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" [ John 3:3]. Actually, the Greek reads, "born from above." The phrase "from above" is later used in Jesus' statement to the Pharisees, "Ye are from beneath; I am from above." [John 8:23].

Jesus was saying that there were two ongoing natural processes in the flesh of men. Here He declares that the Pharisees are the seed of the devil. They have a father that is different than Adam. Does this mean that the Pharisees were different from the children of God?

If we accept the proof of scripture and other outside sources that speak of angels becoming flesh/men, we will better understand the private interpretation of his parable of the tares of the field that he explained to the disciples.

MATTHEW 13:37-42

37. He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

38. the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom; but the tares are the sons of the Wicked One:

39. the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

40. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

41. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall

gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

42. and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Note: With two seeds in the earth, one was the descendant of Adam. The other was the brood of the Wicked One. Matthew and Mark testify of man's seed.

CHAPTER 3

PAGAN INFLUENCE

Gods and Gods and Sons of Gods.

Heaven and Earth are filled with them.

Ready to fight with swords and rods.

But adequate shelter is found in Him.

It is very important for us to realize that the true warfare of the Christian, according to Ephesians 6:10-19 is in the spiritual realm, not earthly. Therefore, we must examine the fallen creatures that inhabited the spiritual realm, described in the earliest of civilization's histories that were called the Nephilim?

For centuries, the Jews feared the pagan deities of western Asia, such as Akkadian, Babylonian, Hittite, Assyrian, Human, Canaanite, and Elamite worship and knowledge of Gods. In Herod's Temple, one could observe an influence of heavenly signs of the Zodiac, solar symbols, seasonal vegetation figures, sphinxes,⁹² centaurs,⁹³ winged Genii,⁹⁴

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92 Sphinx is an iconic image of a recumbent lion with the head of a ram, of a falcon or of a person, invented before the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom, but a cultural import in Greek mythology. It could be the joining of Virgo and Leo, the beginning and ending constellations. Thus, an image of "the beginning and end," "the alpha and omega."

93 In Greek mythology, the centaurs (Greek: Kevraupot) are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attic vase-paintings, the head and torso of a human joined at the (human's) waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be. This half-human and half-animal composition has lead many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, of centaurs as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, as Chiron.

94 Genii is the plural form of "genius" and "genie" and also refers to the Latin name for Æons angels, with the Gnostics.

lions, eagles and pomegranates⁹⁵ among the many emblems of contemporary religions during their last 400 years BC.

In 1969, I was invited to Israel (by Dr. Wayne Tucker) where I met William Dever, professor of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology (at the University of Arizona). He lived in Jerusalem and led excavations at Gezer from 1966 to 1984 and served as director of the William F. Albright School of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. He uncovered many small idols in Israelite homes that give proof that the Goddess, Astarte or Ashteroth⁹⁶was privately worshipped, along with Yahweh in Israelite homes for many centuries.

Phoenician and Aramaic literature also exercised considerable influence upon Jewish thought as is shown in the apocryphal "Tobit Legend,"⁹⁷ and in the "Elephantine

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95 The Pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 5-8 m tall. The pomegranate is native from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and was cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean region including Armenia since ancient times. It is widely cultivated throughout Iran, India and the drier parts of Southeast Asia, Malaya, the East Indies and tropical Africa.

96 Astarte (from Greek Αστάρτη (Astarte)) is the name of a major goddess as known from Northwestern Semitic regions, cognate in name, origin and functions with the goddess Ishtar in Mesopotamian texts. Another transliteration is 'Ashtart; other names for the goddess include Hebrew or Phoenician jflpmn (transliterated Ashtoreth), Ugaritic 'strt (also 'Astart or'Athtart, transliterated Atirat), and Akkadian As-tar-tii (also Astartu).

97 The Book of Tobit (or Book of Tobias in older Catholic Bibles) is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon, pronounced canonical by the Council of Carthage of 397 and confirmed for Roman Catholics by the Council of Trent (1546). Tobit is regarded by Protestants as apocryphal. It has never been considered an integral part of the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible by mainstream Jews, but Aramaic and Hebrew fragments of the book were discovered in Cave IV at Qumran in 1955.

Papyri."⁹⁸

The Israelites were also influenced by the heresies of the Phrygian Jew99 who identified the Thracian Dionysiac¹⁰⁰ God

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98 The Elephantine Papyri is a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts dating from the 5^th century BC. They come from a Jewish community at Elephantine, the island in the Nile at the border of Nubia, which was probably founded as a military installation in about 650 BCE during Manasseh's reign to assist Pharaoh Psammetichus I in his Nubian campaign. The dry soil of Upper Egypt preserved documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Syene (Aswan). Hundreds of these Elephantine papyri, written in hieratic and Demotic Egyptian, Aramaic, Greek, Latin and Coptic, span a period of 2000 years.

99 Also spelled Atys, mythical consort of the Great Mother of the Gods (q.v.; classical Cybele, or Agdistis); he was worshipped in Phrygia, Asia Minor, and later throughout-the Roman Empire, where he was made a solar deity in the 2nd century AD. The worship of Attis and the Great Mother included the annual celebration of mysteries on the return of the spring season.

100 Dionysus and Dionysos or Dionysius (Ancient Greek: Ατττ or AiovDooq; also known as Bacchus in both Greek and Roman mythology and associated with the Italic Liber), the Thracian god of wine, represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. He is viewed as the promoter of civilization, a lawgiver, and lover of peace — as well as the patron deity of agriculture and the theater. He was also known as the Liberator (Eleutherios), freeing one from one's normal self, by madness, ecstasy, or wine. [1] The divine mission of Dionysus was to mingle the music of the flute and to bring an end to care and worry. [2] There is also an aspect of Dionysus on his relationship to the "cult of the souls", and the scholar Xavier Riu writes that Dionysus presided over communication between the living and the dead. [3] Within Greek mythology Dionysus is made to be the son of Zeus and Semele; other versions of the story contend that he is the son of Zeus and Persephone.

Sabazios¹⁰¹ with Yahweh. And we must not forget the influence of Sumer's or spiritual Anunakki¹⁰² (the Hebrew: Nephilim¹⁰³fallen ones) and the fifty renowned Igigi.¹⁰⁴

In my second year at Baylor University, I was told, in Old Testament Hebrew History class, that God determined to destroy, by the Great Flood, the Sons of God who married the daughters of Adam. My professor labored on to say that the Christian writer Julius Africanus (200-245 AD) brushed aside the argument and established the tradition that the Sons of God were the sons of Seth and that the Nephilim were figuratively seen as giants working on the sides of the mountains. Being a greenhorn in my second year, I foolishly

contested the Professor. I replied that I had learned that the Nephilim were the spiritual sons of gods that were forced to

come down to Earth.¹⁰⁵ He smiled and reprimanded me

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101 Sabazios is the nomadic horseman sky and father god of the Phrygians and Thracians. In Indo-European languages, such as Phrygian, the '-zios' element in his name goes back to Dyeus, the common precursor of'deus' (god) and Zeus. Though the Greeks associated Phrygian Sabazios with both Zeus and Dionysus, representations of him, even into Roman times, show him always on horseback, as a nomadic horseman god, wielding his characteristic staff of power.

102 Anunakki were the sons of Anu. They fell (nephel) from their original habitation in the spirit and became physical miners on Earth, like men. They tired of the work and wanted humans to do the mining for them. According to Burner's records, there were 600 Anunakki individuals.

103 The term Nephilim is in the passive voice, i.e., "those who were made to fall" or "those who were cast down."

104 Igigi was a term used to refer to the lesser gods (as opposed to the great gods, or Anunakki). In Sumerian it means "Those who watch and see." The Igigi or Watchers numbered around 300 individuals according to Sumerian calculations.

105 On top of the confusion, the Greek Septuagint, a late translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, rendered the word Nephilim as "giants," eliminating all connotations of "fallen angels." The evil giant children born to the Watchers and daughters of men were known to the Hebrews

saying, I must pay careful attention to traditional interpretation, which was that sons of god were sons of Seth and they were the ones that illegally married their brother's

sisters, Adams daughters.

I later confirmed my classroom "shot in the dark," that the Sons of the Nephilim were Rephaim or actually "giants" in Ashteroth-Karnaim and were still a indisputable influence on the minds of Israelite prophets. These men of colossal stature were the ones that the Hebrew spies compared themselves (long afterward) as grasshoppers (Num. 13:33).

I had further learned from the Hebrew text that the giant, Og of the Amorites, was king of Bashan and probably of the greater part of Canaan. However, most of the giants died out, or were exterminated at an early period. Israel still feared a few remarkable specimens of the race - such as Goliath, Sipai and Lahmi¹⁰⁶

Deuteronomy 3:11 describes the bed of Og as 14 feet x 6 feet. These Gods and Sons of Gods were real to Israel.

At the beginning of this book, I quoted the psalmist, describing Yahweh 's condemnation of the Pantheon of Gods. Let's look at the verses again.

God (plural) standeth in the congregation of

God (singular)... I have said, Ye are Gods; and all of you are children of the most high (Ann). But ye shall die like men... Arise, o God, judge the Earth: for thou shall inherit all nations [Psa. 82:1, 6-8].

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(Contd. from p. 74) 105 specifically as Gibborim (heroes or mighty men), but later editors, in the confusion, mixed up the Nephilim with these Gibborim and also with the giants of Numbers 13:33, the Anakim.

106 1^st Chronicles 20.

This Psalm falls into four paragraphs: the first represents the angelic rulers of this world standing in the presence of the Almighty and being charged with folly. In connection with this Psalm, the book of Job tells us that the Sons of God and Satan came to present themselves before the Lord. These were the fallen angels or Sons of God who were cast down to Earth.

I am reminded of those mysterious words that the Lord uttered after the voice from heaven had resounded through the Temple:

Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this World be cast out [John 12:31].

This fixed the first century doom of the world-rulers of this darkness. Their hostility towards the incarnate Son of Yahweh filled up the measure of their iniquity. They refused to offer to the great Creator the fruits of his Earth that had been committed to their care. They rejected His merciful pleadings, such as our Psalm discloses. And, as soon as they observed the Lord Jesus Christ entering their realm, they destroyed whatever hope they may have had. They cried, "This is the Heir. Come, let us kill Him, that the inheritance may be ours."¹⁰⁷

The terrible consequences of their condition were soon coming upon them. The heavens had grown tired of their bloated egos and senseless activities. Their foundations were tottering and filled with flagrant abuses and crimes. Theirs was anarchy of injustice and oppression. They must be deposed. Their power and authority must be taken away. A fearful retribution must vindicate the justice of Him that is King of Kings and Lord over all. The sentence was carried out. Paul tells the Corinthians that Yahweh had put "all things " under the authority of His Son at that time of the end of resurrection.¹⁰⁸ This was during the 40 years of the Acts period, from the cross to the crown.¹⁰⁹ His authority over all things (except

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107 Matthew 21:38

108 1^st Corinthians 15:23-28

109 AD 30 to 62 + 8 years = 40 years, a generation. (Num. 32:13 &Psa. 95:10).

Yahweh) in all places was accepted or affirmed by the Father as the true and only laurel-crowned Deity over all other Gods. He was above all others, be it Ahura Mazda,¹¹⁰ the Sun God, the Moon God (Sin), Osiris,

Regarding Isis, the Eleusinian Demeter¹¹¹or the wide-spread Anatolian Mother of the Gods¹¹². The Father of the exalted and humble Christ was now elevated above any male or female God of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Syria, Persia, Greece, Rome or Egypt.

The proof of Yahweh's preeminent wisdom and authority was brought to light for Gods and angels to look upon, by Christ's disciples during the Acts period. In other words, the Spiritual Beings watched Yahweh's Sophia (wisdom) demonstrated in the public presentations of resurrection evidence and exaltation of

Christ by the Acts church. That is, the disciples were going everywhere, demonstrating in power the fact that Yahweh was placing all things under the feet of His now exalted Son, the Jew's Messiah, the true Wisdom or Logos.

I read from Paul's eyewitness account:

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110 Ahura Mazda is the Avestan language name for an exalted divinity of ancient proto-Indo-Iranian religion that was subsequently declared by Zarathustra (Zoroaster) to be the one uncreated creator of all (God). Ahura Mazda is 'Auramazdah' in Old Persian, 'Hourmazd' or 'Hormizd' in Middle Persian as well as Parthian and 'Aramazd' in the Armenian language. New Persian language usage varies, but 'Hourmazd¹, 'Hormuzd' and 'Ormazd' are common transliterations.

111 The Eleusinian Mysteries were initiation ceremonies held every five years for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis in ancient Greece. Of all the mysteries celebrated in ancient times, these were held to be the ones of greatest importance. These myths and mysteries began c. 1500 BC and later spread to Rome. The rites, cultic worships, and beliefs were kept secret, for initiation rites united the worshipper with god, and included promises of divine power and rewards in life after death.

112 Originally a Phrygian goddess., Cybele (Greek KvpiiXii) was a deification of the Earth Mother who was worshipped in Anatolia from Neolithic times. Like Gaia (the "Earth") or her Minoan equivalent Rhea, Cybele embodies the fertile Earth, a goddess of caverns and mountains, walls, fortresses, nature and wild animals.

To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God [Eph. 3:101.

The Acts church schooled a countless host of spiritual principalities and powers about the multiple wisdom of the one true Creator and supreme Deity. One great lesson that the spiritual hosts of heaven were learning was that the last spiritual enemy, death had also been conquered. This brought immortality to light. For thirty-two years,¹¹³ the resurrection of Christ and other witnesses authenticated the demise of death. The message was,

He that hath the Son hath life.¹¹⁴

Remember that all spiritual antagonists along with wisdom and death were created by Yahweh and under his Son's sovereign authority. This teaching through the Acts' period demonstrators gave the spiritual enemies of Yahweh a "beyond a reasonable doubt" that His victory over spiritual death had actually occurred.Just as David reigned victoriously for 40 years over Israel,¹¹⁵ Paul says that Christ's valiant reign "on David's Throne"¹¹⁶ in the heavens concluded as He humbly subjected Himself and authority back to His Father. The reign of Christ (shared by His saints in the first century) was for the purpose of subjugating His enemies and accomplishing the restoration of all

things spoken by the prophets. This millennial objective blends into the age ending, pre-Parousia reign of Christ from Pentecost (30 AD) to 70 AD. All things were not put under His feet ________________

113 The Acts period was from 30 AD to 62 AD.

114 1^st John 5:12 (also see John 20:31 and 1^st John 2:25)

115 2^nd Samuel 5:4 - "David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years."

116 Luke 1:32 - "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David."

instantly¹¹⁷(1^st Cor. 15:24-28), but we do know that by the power of His reign the full end of the old aeon of sin and death was accomplished in the 70 AD demise of outward, fleshly Israel. The end (in 1^stCorinthians 15:24), when death (the last enemy) was destroyed, was not the end of Christ's reign, but of the ministration of death written and engraved in stones.¹¹⁸ Paul looked forward to this end and called it hope.

Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech (v. 12).

In other words, after the glorious reign of Christ without borders, in the first century, He then humbly submitted all authority back over to His Father, Yahweh. THEN Yahweh became landlord and supplier of victory over all (things) in all (places) to the Body of Christ.

We have attempted to examine the influence upon Hebrew thought in order have a reality of why Pagan religions were so strong and had such a persuasive influence upon the Redactor. Without the discovery of the Sumerian tablets and the ability of dedicated men to translate the Cuneiform, we would not have had the insight into the Hebrew canon as we now enjoy.

We must consider the years and influence prior to the writings of the Old Testament. The 2000 years before the Biblical records are as important as the following 2000 years.

Ancient civilizations encountered many supernatural powers. Those evil beings caused sickness and misfortune (Psalm 91).

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117 Hebrews 2:8 - "Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet. For in that he put all in subjection under Him, he left nothing that is not put under Him. But now (during the Acts period) we see not yet all things put under Him." Hebrews 10:12, 13 - "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sat down on the right hand of God. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool."

118 2^nd Corinthians 3:7

They were called "the terror of the night" and "the destruction that wastes at noonday." Amulets, spells and exclamatory prayers to personal Sons of Gods helped against such demonic dangers. Amulets are mentioned in the old Testament.

Compare the 'silver crescents" (salt'ronim) that were worn by camels (Judges 8:21) or people (Isaiah 3:18) or the magic things (o'hasim) and "boxes of life' (batte hannepes in Isaiah 3:20) and also the "boxes of myrrh" (Song of Songs 8:6), "little bells" and "pomegranates" - the latter officially on the high-priestly dress (Exodus 28:33; 39:24-26). Look at the mantic, magical, exorcistic practices mentioned in Deuteronomy 18;10; Ezekiel 13:1; Isaiah 65:3-5. In short, ancient Israel was defensive and precautionary against every kind of God and their Sons.

Sacrifices and gifts to Gods were the means of communicating with them and the Sons of Gods. Ancient civilizations used these means to assuage them, winning them over or regularly providing for them. Sanctuaries, temples and professional priesthood made this easier for communication between humans and the Gods.

There was the possibility of engaging in a direct confrontation with a hostile spirit, struggling with it and possibly forcing it into one's own service. Thus it is reported that Jacob, with superhuman strength, wrestled until daybreak with the nocturnal demon who dwelt at a ford over the river Jabbok, but the name of the demon has not been handed down. At daybreak the dark companion lost his force. Therefore, he quickly ransomed himself from Jacob by giving the blessing Jacob had asked for (Genesis 32:23-33),

Families had their individual Gods. The God of the fathers or the family God becomes clearest in the scene from Genesis 31:48-51, which depicts the conclusion of a treaty between a Mesopotamian group and an Israelite-Gileadite group. In demarcating the spheres of interest Laban says,

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor be judges between us... (Gen. 31:53).

Jacob, Laban's party in the treaty, does not swear by the God of Abraham but by "the fear of Jacob, the God of his father" (Gen. 31:53).

With this in mind, let us proceed to the subject of the all in all and their submission to the Father and Son of Yahweh. We will first look at the first century AD.

CHAPTER 4

FIRST CENTURY UNDERSTANDING

Pleroma is the word Paul and other New Testament writers used in a variety of senses. The force of its particular Biblical use lies in first century usage by "heretical teachers" at Colossae. In the mid-second century, Gnostics of the Valentinian School¹¹⁹systematically used pleroma to denote the full ensemble of the western Asian form of Logos or all things beginning with Sophia and descending fourteen other spheres or Aeons to the Earth. These thirty pairs of divine entities or emanations were located in the fifteen presupposed stages descending from the incomparable Creator and Sky-God to humanity. The Gnostic sects personified all these entities starting with the first and highest of creation, named wisdom or Sophia. The first act of Yahweh to touch matter was to create spiritual Sophia with the lesser Gods guarding each of the other fourteen created spheres that descended from the Creator's realm of spirit and light into a world of matter. The first Sophia was the first Logos (action or word) in time and highest in rank.

The Gnostics said that "Without Sophia was not anything made that was made." It is hard to grasp... However, wisdom was an attribute of the Creator and in wisdom, He created the spiritual enemy, death¹²⁰. Wisdom spoke and everything, I mean everything came into existence. Wisdom and Logos were so closely linked that they became, in the mind, as one and the same. Sophia was the first Logos, Word. This suggested that

Logos be understood and used in that same way when the New

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119 Valentinians were a school of believers, offering a fuller esoteric interpretation of Christian doctrine. They did not see themselves or their teachings as being in conflict with Christianity. They saw themselves as successors of Saint Paul through an apostolic succession of teachers. According to school tradition, Valentinus had been instructed by Theudas who had himself been taught by Paul (Clement of Alexandria Stromata7:17).

Yahweh's Full Judgment of the All in All 99

120 The death condition is separation from the life condition in God.

Testament is studied.

The first century Gnostics¹²¹ envisioned a sufficient amount of all things or elevated Pantheon of lesser Gods or angelic powers intermediate between the Spirit and the material world below. This made spiritual interaction between the Spirit/Deity and the material world to pass through the various elevated spheres in which the lesser powers exercised absolute control. This was also a pleroma of all things, located in the spiritual realms or places between Yahweh and man. This Gnostic teaching had to be addressed and corrected. Yahweh was not apart of the pantheon of Gods.

Permit me to reference one author briefly. The disciple whom Jesus loved¹²² declared that if you appeal to the solitary Logos or Word, you would touch Yahweh Himself. The author of the Gospel of John^l23 disputes the first century Gnostic ideology and theology of many Logos emanations by announcing that:

In the beginning was the Word (the only divine entity, logos or emanation), and the Word was with (pros = towards) God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. AH things were made by Him and without him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in

darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not [John 1:1-5].

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121 Gnosticism is a word derived from the Greek word gnosis, meaning knowledge. It is a term created by modern scholars to describe a diverse religious movement often associated with Christianity, although textual evidence for the movement contains distinctly non- and anti-Christian elements, as well as anti-Judaic elements. These beliefs had largely syncretistic origins in that they were often based on various influences from such idea-systems. Several Gnostic texts appear to have no Christian element at all. Because the textual evidence comes from the first few centuries AD, many scholars have assumed that Gnosticism did not predate this period, but earlier historians of religion saw it as an outgrowth of ancient mystical traditions in Asia, especially Iran.

122 The author of the Gospel of John. This disciple was Lazarus.

123 John 21:20-25

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth [John 1:14].

Agreeing with this author's testimony, Paul also collapsed the whole theosophical apparatus of the Gnostic's assumed approach to Yahweh through the Pantheon of all things in one simple affirmation. He maintained that divine essence and absolute power resided in Christ. He is the one, all-sufficient intermediary between Yahweh and man. The all things were not intermediaries. However, they were under His authority.

For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily [Col. 2:9].

The idea of one Logos was never clearer than when Paul said,

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus [1st Tim. 2:5].

Therefore, the two authors, the disciple whom Jesus loved and Paul leave us with no room for speculation and presumption. Unless their words were empty of meaning, we are left with a verdict of "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the fulness of all in all was in Christ's absolute authority. He was over all spiritual Gods, Sons of Gods and angels, causing no lack or need of anything.

For though there be that are called Gods, whether in heaven or in Earth, (as there be Gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are 'all things' and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are 'all things,' and we by Him [1st Cor. 8:5-6].

What began when God manipulated matter?

Which to some, He dare not touch!

Gnostics felt God needed a ladder.

And fifteen flights were just too much.

So, John and Paul decided to say...

That only one Logos was needed.

The Word was flesh and in this way...

Connection to man was completed.

Now, we come to the words, all in all. I previously suggested that you remember the words, all things. We are going to investigate the facts and try to come to a verdict of what all things were, based on "beyond a reasonable doubt."

CHAPTER 5

THE TRIAL AND JURY

"ALL truth is safe and nothing else is; and he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, by motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal, or both." - Max Muller¹²⁴

I turn to the lighter side of logic for addressing the weighty subject before us. I want to imagine that we are attending a trial and listening to witnesses speak of the time frame of the event in question, the cessation of Redemption's process. For it was of recent months that I served on a twelve-member jury of a murder trial in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County.¹²⁵ We were instructed by the Judge to arrive at a verdict, based on the presumption of "beyond a reasonable doubt." We were told that any facts in the case that were "clear and convincing" were not enough to arrive at a verdict. Also facts that say the crime was "maybe," "probable" or "highly likely" do not demand a verdict of guilt. The facts of the case must be "beyond a reasonable doubt" for the Jury to arrive at "guilty as charged.

Today, I invite you to my courtroom, to solve a puzzle. We must uncover evidence that is often ambiguous and capable of being

interpreted in various ways. I want to make a case for a time frame of the fulness of all in all.

You are summoned to jury duty.

So, I ask you to listen to and have confidence in three

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124 Friedrich Max Muller (December 6, 1823 - October 28, 1900), more commonly known as Max Muller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of Indian studies, who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. Muller wrote both scholarly and popular works on this subject, a discipline he introduced to the British reading public, and the Sacred Books of the East, a massive, 50-volume set of English translations prepared under his direction, stands as an enduring monument to Victorian scholarship.

125 The Clara Shotridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, 210 West Temple Street, 11^th Floor, Room 11-506, Los Angeles, CA 90012

testimonies about the time frame of the "pleroma" of redemption's chronology,¹²⁶ And I want you to be convinced "beyond a reasonable doubt" that from an ancient blueprint¹²⁷, a program was completed in the first century with Yahweh and victory over "all in all." I will try to show that the first century contained both of these items, (1) when God became all in all and (2) the generation that lived to see the end of time. Therefore, testimonies concerning these two scenarios must be brought to the witness stand in order for us to arrive at a clear position of WHEN. And their words must be "beyond a reasonable doubt."

● "Truth is found when men are free to pursue it." –

Teddy Roosevelt¹²⁸

● "Individuality is freedom lived." -

John Dos Passos¹²⁹

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126 Being in Egypt, the Hebrews came under Egypt's doom; for in the types, the first-born was to die. Salvation was proclaimed. The paschal lamb was to be killed for every house and its blood sprinkled upon the doorposts. Redemption by the blood of beasts was pictured from the first Passover until the Cross of Christ. The blood of beast could never take away sin, or change a sinner's condition or destiny. But it could foreshadow the death of Christ, the great Passover for sinners. Thus, the chronology of redemption from Adam to Christ sees a renewed emphasis from the time of Moses to Christ.

127 Moses saw the blueprint in the heavens and built a physical tabernacle to demonstrate Yahweh's plan of redemption. This blueprint was the Great Architect's gradual unveiling of tbe Son of God, bringing redemption to its full end in the first century AD. Abraham also saw the Holy City that comes down from heaven. Read Hebrews 8:5 - about "the pattern."

128 Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919), also known as T.R. and to the public as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement. He served in many roles including governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier. Roosevelt is most famous for his personality: his energy, his vast range of interests and achievements, his model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" persona. In 1901, he became President after the assassination of President William McKinley.

129 Dos Passos wrote forty-two novels, as well as poems, essays, and plays, and created more than 400 pieces of art.

Let's envision our individual freedom. Let's allow presumptions to be just that, only prejudices that were forced upon us by folk we know and love. For during the past twelve months of examining the facts of the fulness or Pleroma of all in all, I have made a radical adjustment to my first impression.

I previously entertained the idea that all in all referred to the sum total of humanity. I now see all in all as something I had never before taken into account. Because of my recently acquired perception and shift in a former persuasion, many other passages have become directly associated with Yahweh's authority over all in all. I am filled with joy to share these thoughts with my friends and colleagues.

In order for new truth to be brought to light and reasonably adhered to, one must be predisposed to change! As an analogy, the danger in feeding an esteemed doctrine of a particular group is like feeding a growing tiger. Then, as we ride to and fro upon that growing beast, we dare not dismount in later years because of the hazard. If the following comments are true, we may have to dismount the monstrous brute with due precautions, as I have found necessary. This is not an easy task. For many will not understand. Many other questions arise to devour us.

To be able to fully comprehend the fulness of all in all, we must resist the easy path and tolerate the idea of a first century time frame for the fulness of redemption's chronology.¹³⁰

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130 Chronology is a science of measuring time by regular divisions and that also assigns to events their proper dates.

CHAPTER 6

THE PLEROMA OF CHRONOLOGY

(ended at the day of salvation)

We are blessed and full to busting

And our soul is filled to the brim.

And shall we all be truly trusting...

That fulness is surely found in Him.

I want the jury to listen to our first witness concerning the time frame of the pleroma of redemption's chronology. This is important for establishing the date of "the fulness of all in all." For these two are in concert and cannot be separated by time. These testimonies will be limited to the time of the end result of Redemption's chronology WHEN Yahweh became all in all. This is more important in the theme of things than you may recognize. The material question before this court is, "When did the fulness of the all in all take place?" And I will try to clarify for the court that this fulness was achieved at the end of redemption's chronology.¹³⁰

First witness...

I call the apostle Paul to the stand. Please listen to this first-hand witness as to WHEN the unfolding chronology of redemption arrived at its final destination in time;

But when the fulness of the time (chronos) was come (had arrived) [Galatians 4:4a]...

Wait a moment Paul. Before you continue with your statement, is

this fulness of time to be in our future, as some assume, that it will be when "time shall be no more" and the literal "heavens and Earth

pass away?" Paul, tell us exactly when is your when? That's

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130 The chronology of redemption is the unfolding of events that point to the finished redemptive act of Jesus Christ.

precisely what we want to know. When is your when? You may continue.

Paul replies that it was at the very time when... (continuing with the verse)

God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law [Galatians 4:4b].

In my assessment of Paul's statement under inspiration. I understand that the pleroma of redemption's chronology reached its destination. It was fulfilled at the time when (in the days of His flesh) Jesus was under the law and born of young Mary. By this, I understand that Paul believes in "first century" fulness of chronology. Paul's grasp of Redemption is that it reached its objective in the first century AD.

Another facet to this diamond of truth is that the fulness, as established by Paul, found its conclusion with the entrance of the last Adam through the Seed of the Woman¹³¹ - Mary. The indisputable statement of Paul is that, in the first century anno Domini, the Pleroma of chronology (fulness of time) began with the first Adam and continued until it was accomplished in the first century with the last Adam, WHEN Yahweh sent His Son, made of a woman.

Does Paul place the chronology of redemption between the two Adams, and by that, making Christ the last Adam in your unfolding chronology of redemption? I ask the Jury to take a note of Paul's reply:

And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a

living soul; the last Adam (Christ) was made a

quickening spirit [1st Cor. 15:45].

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131 For more on the Seed of the Woman, read Arthur C. distance's (1910-1985) book with the same title. Joshua Press, Dundas, Ontario Canada. ISBN: 0-919857-00-0. Order book from Scripture Research, PO Box 51716, Riverside, CA 92517. Price: $26.00.

To the Jury I must make it clear that Paul's reference to the first Adam was not of the first man of history. Otherwise, his last Adam, Christ would be the last man of world history. Logic will not allow us to rest there. If Christ, the last Adam was the very last man of history, what are we, who are considered men?

Since the Bible is a book of redemption, we must accept Paul's notion that the first Adam was first in the chronology of an anticipated redemption. Then we can understand how redemption was full, complete and finalized in the first century, as Paul testified, when Yahweh sent His Son, made of a woman.

Paul's declaration is that redemption's chronology concluded with the last Adam, in the first century Redemption's chronology was between two men. Adam and Jesus.

Paul gives another facet to this diamond of truth and says,

That in the dispensation of the fulness of times (kainon = newness, not chronology) he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on Earth; even in Him [Eph. 1:10].

In this verse (vs.10), the fulness of times is not speaking of the fulness of a chronology (unfolding of events) of redemption between two men. It is speaking of a fully developed newness that was related to the old. This adds validity to Paul's date for the fulness of time.

The Greek word, kainos is always in contrast to neos. Neos signifies "what was not there before… what has only just arisen or appeared," whereas kainos means "what is new and distinctive as compared with other things; what is new in nature, different from the usual, better than the old, superior in value or attraction." Thus Paul's use of kainos rather than neos in describing new things of the new aeon confirms the fact that the

new is rooted in the old. Let me explain…

It is the consummated old Jerusalem, which explains the need and significance of coexistence during the period of consummation (the 40 years Acts period). The two Jerusalems were living together. One was seen on Earth, the other in heaven (as far back as Abraham)¹³².

An example of two things living together is understood from Abraham's two sons living in the same household for a time. Therefore, by this illustration we can visualize two things living together during the first century, in the dispensation of completing the old and entering into newness.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise. Which things are an allegory; for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem, which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the so of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free [Galatians 4:22-31].

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132 Hebrews 11:8-10 and 12:22-23

The old Jerusalem lasted until 70 AD or better said, 70 ADNIC.¹³³ The New Jerusalem (when all things were made new) came down upon men and continued after the old Jerusalem was cast out.¹³⁴

All past prophecies, types and shadows of things to come flowed like rivers into the sea of the first century (with no outlets), collecting all of Yahweh's predictions into the fulfillment of redemption and then making all things new. For a brief period,¹³⁵the old and new lived together, like Abraham's sons. When the old (with its predictions, types and shadows) was finally dislodged, the new took precedence. The pier'oma of newness in quality and pleroma of the redemptive process became one event at one point in time, the year of one anno Domini.

The pleroma of redemption's chronology was in the arrival of Christ in the first century¹³⁶ when He gathered together all things¹³⁷ that were in heaven and on Earth and presented them to His Father.¹³⁸At this time, two pleromas occurred.

• The pleroma of newness, when all things became new.

• The pleroma of chronology, when redemption was complete.

As the old Jerusalem was destroyed, the New Jerusalem was in full swing¹³⁹. And if Paul's testimony about the when of the pleroma of redemption's chronology is beyond a reasonable doubt, we have a true pleroma that summed up all things and

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133 Anno Domini Nostri lesu Christi - ("In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ").

134 Hebrews 13:14 - "For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come."

135 Romans 9:28 - "For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness; because a short work will the Lord make upon the Earth."

136 Galatians 4:4 - "But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law."

137 "All things" refer to individuals that were created as spiritual beings.

138 1^st Corinthians 15:24 - "Then cometh the end, when he (Christ) shall have delivered up the kingdom to God..."

139 Revelation 21:1-5 - "And I saw a new heaven and a new Earth: for the first heaven and the first Earth were passed away: and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,

(contd. p. 89)

made all things new, in the first century.¹⁴⁰

As we gaze into the night sky with its glistening stars, we realize that we are looking at the edge of the container or pleroma of the heavens. When we adequately understand the words, the fulness of space as being the whole container, containing all such as we see and cannot see in the heavens, we will then understand precisely the term, fulness of time. From Paul's testimony we learn that the first century AD was the end of redemption's chronological process, when all predictions concerning Christ were winding down to their final fulfillment. As we look at the first century AD, we gaze upon a filled container of the pleroma of chronology. Nothing was missing.

I realize that some in this Jury are of the persuasion that the outcome of predictions is furthermore future and therefore, not historical. (I held the futurist's position for many years.) For that reason, I respect the opinion of the futurist and completely understand the doctrine. However, let us continue the trial with more testimony.

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(139 contd. from p. 88) prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, write: for these word are true and faithful."

2^nd Corinthians 5:1-4 - "For we know that if our Earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house, which is from heaven; If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life."

140 2^nd Corinthians 5:17 - "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." Revelation 21:5-"And He that sat upon the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new."

Paul, in Romans 13:11, 12 you said,

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent; the day is at hand, etc.

Paul, what day is at hand? Perhaps something like a Second Coming is at hand! It is my understanding that 70 AD marked the end of the process of redemption referred to in Hebrews 9:28 and Romans 13:11, 12. This day that Paul referred to was at hand, now. His "now." It was, in his words, the approaching day of salvation. It was drawing near in the first century for Paul and the day would conclude redemption's chronology. Salvation would be complete.

You also said in Hebrews 9:28,

So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Paul, if the fulness of time brought the day of salvation, and assuming for a moment that the end of the chronology of redemption had arrived at the Parousia (arrival of Christ) in 70 AD, then our container is finally full and we have a true pleroma. We then must conclude that the day of salvation arrived and was completely full at the Parousia. If the day of salvation was at hand in the time of Paul's first century writing, then we have a first century AD, fulness of chronology, bringing in the day of salvation.

Paul's testimony gives us a pleroma of chronology WHEN Yahweh sent His Son, made of a woman, during the first century. This pleroma was the complement of all predictions and being a pleroma, lacked nothing to be added or fulfilled at a later time.

The chronology of redemption (when all things were made new) was finished and could proceed no further. Why? The only answer I can come up with is because it was a container that was filled to the full, that is, a true PLEROMA.

Redemption's' chronology ended in the day of salvation. (I say this, assuming that the pleroma was filled to completeness at 70 AD, with the destruction of Jerusalem, the Temple, the records and the formal cessation of functioning Judaistic priesthood and its Sceptre,¹⁴¹ see Matthew 3:13-17 where Christ Jesus was in the process of filling up [pleroma] all righteousness).¹⁴²

All previous times were resolved in the first century AD (Greek: to pleroma tou kronou). That is, the chronology of events found their realization, complement or resting-place in the first century AD, making it the last days,¹⁴³ a true pleroma of chronology running it's complete course and filling the container to the maximum.

Before Paul vacates the witness stand, let him speak of living in the last days.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds (aionas = ages) [Heb. 1:1, 2].

Paul, we want to be absolutely certain of what you are saying. You told us that it was because of Christ that Yahweh fashioned events throughout past ages and that by Christ, Yahweh complemented the

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141 Genesis 49:10 - "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." [KJV]. The Latin Vulgate translates the word as "he who is to be sent," in allusion to the Messiah; the Revised Version (margin), "till he come to Shiloh;" and the LXX Greek, "until that which is his shall come to Shiloh."

142 Verse 15 says, "for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness."

143 Last days of the Mosaic system of types, including the Temple, Priesthood, City of Jerusalem and the People.

chronology of redemption's history and that the day of salvation arrived in the first century anno Domini. Therefore, we must conclude that the whole container of full redemption and full salvation was done, filled to the brim within a generation of the Cross of Christ. Thank you Paul. You may step down.

Second witness...

I call Peter to the witness stand. Peter, you walked with the Lord, in the days of His flesh. Tell this Jury what you learned about when were the last days of the chronology.

(Christ) was manifest in these last times (chronon) for you (the scattered Jews) [1st Pet. 1:20].

Please note Peter's word, "these." It does not ring in my ears as a future last times. He refers to the times in which he lived, "these." Thank you Peter. Do you have anything further to add that concerns your generation in the first century?

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer [1st Pet. 4:7].

Thank you Peter. That is very clear and sufficient for this court. You may step down. "At hand" does not give us the impression of 2000 years down the road.

To the Jury I say, If Paul's and Peter's first-hand witness were not so, then their words are empty and we have no idea for when the end of redemption's chronology would be, causing us to be "incomplete in Christ." If they were wrong, we would be waiting in the dark for a future day of salvation. On the other hand, if you accept these two first-hand witnesses as being true, regarding the environment of the first century, then you have a pleroma of redemption and a day of salvation in the lifetime of that

generation,¹⁴⁴ which makes us complete in Christ¹⁴⁵ today

Third witness...

I call to the stand the disciple “whom Jesus loved.” Do you feel that the final days of redemption's chronology had arrived in your lifetime? I will read from your letter:

Little children it is the last time (chronos): and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time [1^stJohn 2:18].

This means that you believe that the last days had shortened into prophetic hours, a fraction of chronology's span of time. The last moments were nearing six o'clock, the evening and morning's end for the Hebrews. To the Jury, I must point out that this testimony was that the pleroma of redemption's chronological history was in its last hour, during the first century anno Domini, Thanks. You may step down.

The Hebrew law requires two witnesses.¹⁴⁶ One, that was divinely inspired, should be enough for us. However, these three witnesses were under divine inspiration of what they testified. We have three inspired men, Paul, Peter and the disciple whom Jesus loved testifying to this fact, giving us a beyond a reasonable doubt that both, redemption's chronology and the beginning of newness poured into one solitary container of time, at the Parousia, the day of salvation. In other words, redemption's chronology had grown up and matured to the state of fulfillment in the first century anno Domini. That generation

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144 Luke 21:32 - "This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled."

145 Colossians 2:10 - "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power."

146 Deuteronomy 17:6 - "At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death."

saw the fulfillment and the "sign"¹⁴⁷ of His coming.

May I read for the court this prediction of Paul?

Then cometh the end (the last ones of the resurrection), when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. He (the Father) hath put all things under His (Christ's) feet. But when He saith 'all things are put under Him,' it is manifested that He (the Father) is excepted (not included), which did put all thinss under Him (Christ). And when all thinss shall be subdued unto him (the Father, through the work of Christ), then shall the Son also Himself be subjected) unto him (the Father) that put all thinss under him (Christ), that God may be all (thinss) in all (places). [1st Cor. 15:24-28],

This passage must be subjugated to reason before we can discern the arrival time for the finalization of the all in all. If the Jury's verdict (from these three testimonies) is built upon refusing these statements and concluding that the end of the redemptive process did not occur in the first century anno Domini, then the Jury must also conclude that Yahweh is not, to this date, landlord and conqueror of all in all. What misery this summation offers to the world?

On the other hand, it is my humble opinion that this passage is the crux of the Parousia teaching. It says that following the end, after resurrection and Parousia in Judgment upon all things, the Son ________________

147 Luke 21:20-22 - "And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter there into. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written maybe fulfilled."

returns His subjects, kingdom and authority over to Yahweh in order that Yahweh may supply that victory, that Christ had over the all in all, to the Body of Christ.¹⁴⁸

As far as some of my colleagues are concerned, I may have stepped "out of the box"¹⁴⁹ with my conviction that Yahweh became supreme dispensary of all (things) in all (places) in the first century. For I believe that Yahweh's judgment arrived when two different worlds (Rome and Israel) collided with nightmarish vividness and collapsed the out-of-date Holy Nation, obsolete city of Jerusalem and outmoded Temple life. I see that Mosaic types and pictures ended at that time and man's redemption was observed by all things (Angels) in heaven and all things on Earth as becoming Yahweh's spiritual triumph over all in all.

This end of redemption's chronology guaranteed an astronomical triumph in the heavens, over every spiritual enemy, even the last spiritual enemy¹⁵¹ of heaven and Earth, death.¹⁵²

The flesh and spirit enemies of Heaven and Earth were all created by Yahweh and finally put under Christ's feet during the Acts period (32 years) of the New Testament. Otherwise, Yahweh would not be, as of yet, victorious over all things in all things. Paul testified that Yahweh's all in all followed the

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148 Ephesians 1:20-23 - "Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him t his own right hand in the heavenly places. Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him tht filleth all in all."

149 Out of the box is looking from another point of view, not the accepted view.

150 Ephesians 3:10 - "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God."

151 2^nd Timothy 1:10 - "But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel."

152 1^st Corinthians 15:26 - "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."

end¹⁵³. The end was the final crowd that was raised in the (resurrection) harvest. The Parousia judgment of Yahweh's spiritual enemies in the first century must be beyond a reasonable doubt for this jury.

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CHAPTER 7

THE SON ASSIGNS ALL IN ALL

TO THE FATHER

Pride is the enemy of us all,

Definitely engaging us into a fall.

Taking us higher is God's master plan.

Provided only though the Son of Man.

So humility is the God blessed key.

That means for us to bow the knee...

To the only one Who exalts His own...

Beyond the Earth to a heavenly throne.

...then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him (in order) that God may be all in all. [1st Cor. 15:28].

What a mystery there is in 1^st Corinthians 15:28. What an infinite depth of meekness for a human!¹⁵⁴We are accustomed to speaking of the two notable acts of humbleness and meekness on the part of the Lord Jesus. They are: (1) His descent from the spirit realm into flesh, becoming flesh/man upon Earth, (lower than the angels)¹⁵⁵ being a servant among men; and (2) his descent through the frightening cross into the dark and silent grave, the profound humiliation under the curse of the law.¹⁵⁶But, oh, what a mystery there is here - that there was a third moment and circumstance when the exalted Son of Man would again subject His authority to the Father and return the kingdom to the Father, who in turn became landlord of the all in all under His control.

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154 Matthew 11:29 - "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls."

155 Hebrews 1:9 - "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man."

156 Galatians 3:10 - "For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, 'Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them'.'¹

I feel this may well be one of those areas where we would all do well to refrain from being overly dogmatic in the promotion of our own preferences. None of us have arrived at a perfect perception, thus "the mystery of the ages" will most likely not be made crystal clear to the people of Earth by anything I pen. I will merely seek to present the evidence and offer a few humble observations. Perhaps this will promote further reflection among us all as we focus our thoughts upon the Lord's unprecedented meekness and remarkable humiliation in suffering unto death upon the cursed lawbreaker's cross.

Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that He put the all things under Him, He left nothing that is not put under Him; but now we see not yet the all thing put under Him... For it became Him, for whom are the all things and through whom are the all things in bringing many sons into glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through suffering [Heb. 2:8-10].

At the writing of Hebrews, the writer had not yet seen all things put under Christ's authority. However, at the end, all things were finally put under Him.

Then, all spiritual beings that were "made subject to vanity" or disappointing misery of "falling" from heaven and becoming flesh, were put finally into God at the day of redemption.

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered (set free) from the bondage of (flesh) corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

And not only they , but ourselves also, which have

the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body [Romans 8:19-23].

This is another way of saying that God becomes "all in all." The "all in all" is firstly put under the authority of His Son, Christ and then put back into Him. The invaluable lesson that I want to point out to you is that the whole aim of Christ's coming in flesh; the whole aim of redemption from sin; and the whole aim of Christ's work in our hearts were summed up in that one thought - That Yahweh may be all in all. I cannot understand Jesus' humble submission to His Father; it exceeds my acumen. But, I will recognize Christ in the glory of His continual and humbling subjection and the transfer of all things back over to His Father.

At the crux of His exalted situation in heaven, humility never departed from Him. If I am correct in my premise, as soon as the Father exalted Him above every name and privileged Him to reign¹⁵⁷over all after His resurrection, He reestablished His authority to always be under His Father's.

Some divines failed to be exalted by the Supreme Spirit.¹⁵⁸ For their ego and pride continued to block their success. As a result, they were reduced to fleshly bodies. Not the Lord Jesus Christ, He never exalted himself and kept His humble spirit through out all the days of His flesh and even unto the first century generation.¹⁵⁹ His humiliation continued through the supreme exaltation, during the magnificent glory bestowed upon Him by the Father as the indisputable Lord over all.

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157 Romans 15:12 - "And again Esaias saith, There shall be a Root of Jesse, and He that shall rise (from the dead) to reign over the Gentiles; in Him shall the Gentiles trust."

158 From the Sumer clay tablets we learn that the Gods wanted dominion over other Gods. Therefore, wars of the Gods were subjects of many legends. Where did Cain learn to kill his brother, Able? This was taking place among the Elohim or Dingir of Sumerian legion.

159 A generation is 40 years. Psalms 95:10; Acts 16:36-David reigned over Israel 40 years, a generation of service.

If my hypothesis is true and my inadequate judgment is accurate, of what infinite consequence it is that we take the principle of submission that our Lord demonstrated as our life-motto.¹⁶⁰ If we do not appreciate this submissiveness to the Father as Christ's highest objective, we will never understand what He expects of us, and how He works in us to do the will of Yahweh. But if we will make good our spiritual life in conforming to His - then everything else in life will be subordinated to that -for we will have discovered the divine principle of life.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves [Phil. 2:3].

I want us to now look into the subject of the Christian's spiritual warfare during the first century. The battle raged. However today, not many understand about the enemy and conflict. It will be profitable for us to learn how to engage in the battle and with what equipment we wage the warfare.

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160 Philippians 2:5 - "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." This mindset was to humble self before God.

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THE HEAVENLY PROTECTION PLAN

“It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.” -Pascal.¹⁶¹

Hopefully, most people understand their inherent weaknesses. And it would be a tragedy for them not to know of the opportunity for deliverance and salvation in the matters of life. I intend to address the Christian's armor for victory over the dreaded enemy.

Suppose you were at the bedside of a dying Monarch and in his final breath, he asked you to listen very closely to his words? Then in a soft whisper he said, "ALL THE WEALTH AND PROTECTION OF MY KINGDOM ARE YOURS. AND IN HUMILITY, TRUST IT TO PROTECT AND SUPPLY YOUR INSUFFICIENCIES." You would not forget His last words and it would be your duty to understand what he meant about humility.

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161 Blaise Pascal, (June 19, 1623-August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote powerfully in defense of the scientific method. He was a mathematician that helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen and corresponded with Pierre de Fermat from 1654 and later on probability theory,, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following a mystical experience in late 1654, he abandoned his scientific work and devoted himself to philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensees. However, he had suffered from ill-health throughout his life and his new interests were ended by his early death two months after his 39th birthday.

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The placing of the Pleroma of all in all under the authority of God is... The Throne Room Protection Plan. The Son of Yahweh finalized and offered the benefits of this protection through abundant grace to all that live in and walk by faith. Listen again as Paul speaks of the all things,

For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many rebound to the glory of God [2^nd Cor. 4:14].

All things will play a large part in the pleroma of all in all. Pleroma of all in all is infinite guardianship, or the assets of safekeeping and preservation of the Body of Christ through Abundant Grace. In other words, Yahweh 's grace does not operate without all things being under His control. We should not try to live under the economy of the Act's period, a time before the all in all was put under Him. Therefore, we should learn to live under unmixed Grace as Paul described for the ages to come.¹⁶²

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us. Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen [Eph. 3:20-21].

We will investigate this further in the following chapters.

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162 Ephesians 2:7 - "That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus."

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Chapter 9

VICTORY OVER "ALL IN ALL"

Believer's conquest over Elohim

For Christ brought it to pass.

The victory came to light through Him,

And now we're victors at last.

Paul prays that believers may know...

...what the riches of the glory of his (Christ's) inheritance (is) in the saints (holies)... [Eph. 1:18].

Here the attention is focused upon the glorious inheritance or reserved allotment of Christ's authority located in Yahweh's treasury department, in the true holy of holies (saints) or Throne Room. Paul wants the believer to know about this immense authority and protective refuge against all spiritual beings against every believer. Paul prays that believers will see the mighty delivering power of this protection... Verse 19 says:

...what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power... [Eph. 1:19].

Christ's reservoir of protection in the Throne Room is coequal to the Father's power to transfer authority of deliverance to believers. What amazes me is that this powerful weapon of defense is simply drawn upon by an unhindered child-like faith.

It is so... so believe it.

The next verse tells us that out of Heaven's treasures; our defense plan becomes accessible because Yahweh had exalted Him...

Far above all principality and power, and might,

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and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come... [Eph. 1:20].

Here is a list of the all things previously referred to. The all things are spiritual enemies that were written into the protective plan of the exalted Christ.

And hath put (the) all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church... [Eph. 1:22].

Christ's mastery over this list of all things was not universally dispensed to the world. It was only given to the church, the spiritual Body of Christ and was the overthrow of all spiritual principalities, powers, might, dominions and every name that is named throughout all the ages. This was the spiritual enemy list called all things. No spiritual enemy against Christ or the Christian was left out. This was the Throne Room Protection Plan. So, let's get to know the spiritual enemies separately.

Learn the right to resist and

Earn the might to persist.

1. Principality is the Greek word, arche. The primary meaning of this word is "first" or "beginning" in the order of time. It

pictures one as having first place in government and time.

The archbishop is the first bishop. Archangel is the first

angel. It is also the beginning of chronology (the first) when

it says, that the Lord is called the beginning of the creation

of God. In Colossians 1:18 we read that He is the Head of

the Body, the church: Who is the beginning, the Firstborn

from the dead; that in all things He might have the pre-

eminence. In Jude we learn that angels kept not their first

estate (arche) or deserted the place that was given to them in

the beginning. All the Gods and semi-Gods of Sumer,

Akkad, Babylon, Persia, Assyria, Greece, Rome and Egypt

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were the Principalities or first heads of governments of the

past. John said, in beginning (arche) was the Word. The

Christ was first.

2. Power is the Greek word exousia. This speaks of ruling

governments or lawful groups of authorities. These two

Greek words appear in Luke 20:20 where we read of the

Power (arche) and authority (exousia) of the governor. The

Greek exousia derives from exesti "lawful." The authority of

The prince of the power of the air [Eph. 2:2] was put under

The feet of Christ. This takes care of the Devil, the Enki of

Sumer legend. The God of the deep ocean of darkness.

The tempter of Sumer's Adappa (man) or the Hebrew's Adam,

3. Might is the Greek dunamis. These are the mighty Anunakki

and Igigi that create their own unlawful power and sway over

people. David went against the lawless giant of might and

offspring of Sumer's Anunakki in his day. Sumer's Anunakki

were the Hebrew's Nephilim.

4. Dominion is the Greek kuriotes. This is a higher rank of power

than the lawless mighty Sons of God are. However, it too

usually rules unlawfully. This would include Anu, the head of

all Gods and Sons of Gods. There have been many rulers that

began good and ended in becoming the enemy of heaven and

Earth. The Prince of this world [John 12:31] or power of the

air was cast out of his place.

Every name that is named includes every created thing in

heaven or hell, Earth or sea, past or future. This vast gathering of all things was put under the authority of Christ and His Body of which He is Head. What demon is loose and running around that can harm the Body of Christ? NONE! Why? Because the infinite power of Yahweh is behind the Throne Room Protection Plan over everything.

Psalms 8:4-6 predicts the coming one with absolute authority over all enemies.

What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that Thou visitest him? For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and

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hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet [Psa. 8:4-6].

All things were the lawful and unlawful spiritual authorities over the Earth and in the heavens that were finally put under the feet of Christ's authority in the first century. It was then that the spiritual Body of Christ obtained heaven's supreme authority and safekeeping.

For He must reign, till he (God) hath put all enemies under his feet [1st Cor. 15:25].

In this chapter, the word translated put down (v. 24) and destroyed (v. 26), is the Greek katargeo. Other places it is abolish, bring to naught, make of none effect, make void, destroy, cease and fail. So, this gives us the truth that Christ brilliantly established all things as inoperative against the Body of Christ. There is no ethereal breed, with any kind of spiritual power that can threaten the Child of Yahweh. The phrase, all things include all things in the spiritual realm. If this were not so, the term is empty of meaning and we have no protection against any spiritual enemy.

There are no spiritual enemies that are not at the disposal of the child of Yahweh. If this were not so, we should not be told that...

In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. [Romans 8:37].

Listen to the apostle Paul as he personally leans upon this remarkable Throne Room Protection Plan:

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord [Rom. 8:38-39].

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This is the quality or state of spiritual victory for every believer. For all (things) in all (places) are NOT in working order against the Christian today. The unrestrained coliseum of spiritual enemies called all things were conquered by Christ and presented to the spiritually victorious Church...

...which is His body, the fulness of him that filleth (the body with) all (things) in all (places) [Eph. 1:22, 23].

It is no wonder that Paul could say with confidence,

I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me [Phil. 4:13].

For here we are introduced to the fact that the Body of Christ is in protective custody and has spiritual authority over multiple enemies in the spiritual world.

In short, the reservoir of wealth and arsenal for safety is given by grace to the now sufficiently matured and completed Body of Christ. This was the source of friendship and protection between man and Yahweh.

RECONCILIATION¹⁶³ between a hostile spiritual creation and the Spirit/God produced a perfect and flawless spiritual condition for the exalted Christ to possess ultimate authority.¹⁶⁴

For Yahweh to conquer the all in all, He absorbs it back into Himself and He becomes the all in all. The Son of Yahweh conquered all things in His short reign and handed that victory to His Father. At that moment, God became all in all.

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163 Reconciliation is a process of restoring fellowship in a relationship gone badly. The result is a return to friendship, peace and good will. It is substituted for defiance, enmity and dislike. This reconciliation is between Yahweh and His whole cosmic creation.

164 Colossians 1:20 - "And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself: by him, I say, whether they be things in Earth, or things in heaven.&qu