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THE GREAT EXCHANGE
Part XIV
In our ongoing analysis of how the Spirit of the LORD is at war
with the principalities and powers that have invaded this world, we have sought
to examine the anecdotal data of various generational accounts recorded in
Scripture. Although we are seeking a deeper understanding of the things of the Spirit,
the Word of God tells us we have a window to view eternity through a discerning
look at the interactions in the earthly dimension.
We’ve already addressed the triune Spiritual
architecture in which the Life of God is opposed by the divided
mind of the Devil, through a mysterious projection of powers broadly
identified as Death and Hell.
One of the primary obstacles in accurately choreographing
how the three factions in the Triuniverse operate is found
in the area of sequence. Through the multiple accounts we’ve already
addressed, we’ve demonstrated how the principality identified as Hell
(and its many allegorical euphemisms) leads to Death --
but this only demonstrates the sequence within the Perdition
Engine -- the term we use to describe the nefarious pair.
In a way, understanding how Hell precedes Death
is not dissimilar to the ancient axiom concerning which came first, the chicken
or the egg.
The answer is, neither one came first.
“In the beginning…the earth
was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And
God said, Let there be light” (Genesis 1:1-3).
The New Testament also informs us that it is the light of
the LORD which initiates the process that delivers the righteousness of God to
the world:
“But all things that are reproved are
made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light” (Ephesians
5:13).
This verse is similar to the text in the Gospels which says
the LORD shined His light into the world, and the darkness did not comprehend
it.
“And the light shineth in darkness;
and the darkness comprehended it not” (John 1:5).
In other words, the Scriptures are telling us it is the
light of God that ignites everything – and this includes the two part Perdition
Engine. To put it another way, you couldn’t have the fall in the
Garden, and the entrance of Sin and Death into the
world, until after the LORD had created the Garden and the first couple.
Understanding that when God shines His righteousness, and
the “darkness” does not understand it, moves us closer to perceiving
yet another recurring pattern and, predictably, this one is also triune.
The three components of Life, Death,
and Hell we’ve been examining are universal, so they remain
the same. However, this formula adds a chronological dimension, and it
helps us to recognize the pattern when it recurs. We call this sequence the 6,
7, 8 Cycle.
Since God has no beginning, it should be obvious that
attempting to understand sequence in the Spirit is exceedingly difficult. Having
said that, the verse I previously cited from the Gospel of John is a good place
to start.
“And the light
shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended
it not” (John 1:5).
In this verse, we actually see the three components
of the Triuniverse – the “light,” the
“darkness,” and the “comprehension” of the light. In
this regard, it’s useful for us to note that, sequentially speaking, we
could not see the “comprehension” component (or the lack of it),
until the collision of the light and the darkness has already occurred.
A prophetic parallel of this mystical formula is the
often cited verse in Revelation, where JESUS CHRIST addresses a spiritual condition He
finds particularly distasteful:
“I know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or
hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,
I will spue thee out of my mouth” (Revelation 3:15, 16).
In the same way the “comprehension” component in
the earlier analogy arrives after the collision of light and darkness,
it is self evident that the lukewarm aspect of the LORD’s
pronouncement could not occur until hot and cold
met each other. Christ stated that He would have preferred that the
“hot” would have transformed the “cold” into more hot
(or vice versa), but clearly He detests the mingling of the two,
which produced the “lukewarm.”
In multiple chapters of the Great Exchange,
we’ve elaborated on the Scripturally established fact that everything in
this world is a shadow of the substance found in
the heavenly realm. Incredibly, the multitude of accounts in the Holy Bible
provide us with a repetitive perspective of the hot, cold, lukewarm
phenomena, and these occur in a sequential pattern which is expressed as the 6,
7, 8 Cycle.
God performed His magnificent work of creation when He
labored to create everything in six days, and He made mankind on
the sixth day. He then rested on the seventh day,
so man is allegorically represented as the crowning achievement of the
LORD’s work, with the number six.
Since God ceased His labor on the seventh day,
the LORD is represented in the number seven – which
Scripture repeatedly identifies in the concept of Sabbath, or rest.
“And God blessed the seventh
day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all
his work which God created and made” (Genesis 2:3).
The eighth day is actually the first day of
the new week, and it is easily established that this renewal of the cycle, seen
in the number eight, is associated with a form of new beginnings.
Under the Old Covenant, for example, the physical sign of the covenant between
God and His chosen was the ritual practice of circumcision, which was always
performed on the eighth day of the new life of the male child.
“And in the eighth
day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised” (Leviticus 12:3).
When the LORD determined to reset world events through the
great flood, the number eight occurs again as Noah and his clan
manifested the quintessential example of new beginnings, with eight
people in the ark surviving the monumental judgment:
“[God] spared not the old
world, but saved Noah the eighth person” (II Peter 2:5).
Another excellent example of the 6, 7, 8 Cycle
is seen in the early stages of the nation of Israel, as they
transitioned from the period when the people were directed by the judges, to
the time of the kings.
In a repudiation of a pure theocracy, where the LORD ruled
the emerging nation of Israel through the mediation of the elders known as judges,
the people desired to emulate the nations surrounding them, as they
insisted they should have a king.
The disappointment of the LORD is recorded, as God told the
prophet Samuel, the last of the judges, that Israel’s
desire to have a king was a turning point, as Israel rejected God’s plan
for the nation.
“And the Lord said unto Samuel,
Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they
have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should
not reign over them” (I Samuel 8:7).
The twelve tribes of Israel chose a mighty warrior named Saul,
as he had distinguished himself in battle against the dreaded Amalekites,
the multi-national superpower of their time. The Amalekites had even overthrown
the Egyptians after Israel’s entrance into Canaan, and they helped to
sustain all the various Canaanite tribes who relentlessly fought Israel
throughout the promise land.
Saul represented the very best that Israel
could produce apart from reliance upon the LORD, and he was a powerful leader.
He was also a prophetic parallel of the LORD’s crowning
achievement in the creation of man on the sixth day, as his
finite nature fell short of the perfection of God, represented by the number seven.
In short, Saul was the very best man could do apart
from God, so he may accurately be represented by the number six.
But Saul was disobedient to the ways of the LORD, and even
though he served God in his role as king, his heart was not right before Him.
For instance, just before a great battle with the Philistines (a surrogate
force of the Amalekites), Israel’s first king intruded on the role of the
presiding prophet of Israel.
All the way back to the time of Moses, the Israelites had
brought an offering to the LORD, to petition Him for victory in a forthcoming
battle, and this offering, which was burned, was to be performed by Samuel the
prophet. But on this occasion, as the battle loomed, Samuel had not arrived, so
Saul took it on himself to officiate over the ritual.
When Samuel arrived at Saul’s battle camp, he told the
king the LORD would no longer bless the kingdom of Israel.
“And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast
done foolishly: thou has not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God…But
now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after
his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his
people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee” (I
Samuel 13:13, 14).
The Scriptures record the anointing of the LORD moved away
from Saul, and God raised up David, whose devotion to the LORD
was legendary.
“I have found David my servant;
with my holy oil have I anointed him” (Psalm 89:20).
David’s glorious rule was lengthy, and his righteous
reign would have to be identified with the Sabbath number seven,
in which God gave David rest from all his enemies.
“[God said] I took
thee….from following sheep, to be ruler over my people over
Israel…and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great
men that are in the earth. And as since the time that I commanded judges to be
over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine
enemies” (I Samuel 7-10).
After David died and his son Solomon came to
the throne, even though his reign started out in great wisdom serving the LORD,
just like Saul before him, Solomon resorted to his
own devices instead of relying on the LORD. Thus, Solomon became the
“eight” in the 6, 7, 8 Cycle after Saul and David
– and the events in Solomon’s life precisely manifested the
characteristics of the “eight” in the pattern.
To sustain good relations with the Gentile nations
surrounding Israel, Solomon broke the commandment of God which prohibited
joining himself to the women of the nations.
“If you…cleave unto the
remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages
with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: Know for a
certainty…they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your
sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which
the Lord you God hath given you” (Joshua 23:12, 13).
In defiance of the LORD’s mandate, Solomon arranged
marriages with the royal princesses of the lands surrounding Israel, as a
political maneuver, to sustain peace with adjacent nations.
“But king Solomon loved many
strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites” (I Kings 11:1).
The prophetic metaphor shows the human side in the
“six” (Saul) collides with the God component in the
“seven” (David), and when the cycle is renewed in the
“eight” (Solomon), it cumulatively mingles the
“six” and the “seven” to become the
“eight.”
-- James
Lloyd
To Be Continued
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