Jesus And The Rainbow: A-Nu Arc, or a New Ark of Mary

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Did Jesus ever offer any teaching about the importance of the rainbow? Not directly, but he implied that the rainbow has an important symbolic meaning. When speaking about what the coming of the Son of Man would be like, he made a direct reference to Noah, and the fact that like when the giant flood occurred, some would be spared by God when the Son of Man comes, but some will be eliminated by God. This theme of some being chosen for their good works, while others being rejected because they rejected Jesus’ teachings and did not do good works, occurs over and over in the New Testament.

The rainbow becomes the metaphor for God’s plan for the future. His plan is to unify the world under Jesus teachings, to have a oneness, but with room allowed for the cultures and colors of the many races. The rainbow will be raised as the serpent who is the devil is thrown into the fiery pit.

The reference to Noah and the end times, which also is a new beginning, occurs in Luke 17: 26-37. Jesus says, “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. On that day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”

“Where Lord?” they asked.

He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”

Here, we see Jesus as the divider. Yet, he never took anyone’s life, and in John 8, when he is asked if a prostitute should be stoned for her sin, he says “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” No one cast a stone.

Interestingly, before Jesus went to the cross, he prayed for a coming oneness, and unity, for all peoples who would accept him, even if they approached him through their “message.”

One prayer for “oneness” comes in John 17: 6-26. He says:
“I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. Now they know that you have given me comes from you. For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name – the name you gave me- so that they may be one as we are one. While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture could be fulfilled.

I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. My prayer is not that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth, your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.”

So, Jesus says, “Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name – the name you gave me- so that they may be one as we are one.” He also prays for their safe protection from Satan.

Later in this passage, the prayer for unity becomes more specific. Jesus says, “

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May unity then be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me… Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”

Jesus was allowing for the spice of many cultures to influence different people’s minds, with the requirement that the people’s follow his basic plan for love, peace, and the Kingdom of God. They could come to him “through their message” as long as they followed his basic plan, or his covenant, or Ark for the future. People were to unify under him and understand each other as members of the same family. The situation he called for was similar to the way a conductor creates a Jazz tune. The conductor sets the basic beat and chord pattern, but allows other humans to improvise around the theme as long as they return to the basic plan for the song. The plan for the Kingdom of God is like the basic musical plan for a jazz song, with some freedom for musicians (humans) to improvise. In mark 9: 39-41, Jesus says, “Do not stop him, No one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us.”

Some churches have noticed that early believers loosed and binded members to their groups. In other words, a member was considered in the group if they followed Jesus’ basic plan for the Kingdom, but they were loosed, or shunned, if they repetitively disobeyed Jesus’ plan. This “shunning” of the offender was temporary or permanent depending on how long the offender violated Jesus’ teachings.

Jesus, then, was a divider, but he also will be a unifier. He “set fire” to the world, as he put it, dividing those who would obey his teachings from those who would not. However, God will unify the world around his plan for the Kingdom, and thus save the world, and the rainbow will rise. God will do this for Jesus: one will be chosen and one left, and those who are chosen will be unified under Jesus’ teachings.

The example of the Messiah as the divider comes in Luke 12: 49-53. Jesus says, “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in law.”

Jesus also referred to himself as the sword who divides the believers from the non-believers.

However, Jesus also will bind, or unify. He is the lily who will bring peace. His prayers for it are above, and he says people can come to his plan through their “message.”

Another way of explaining bring people in to him through their message is done with Jesus story of the sheep and the shepherd. In John 10:14 the Messiah says:
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me – just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. The reason my father loves me is that I lay down my life – only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”

So, Jesus also has other sheep that are not of this pen (Hebrew), and “They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.” Jesus is a unifier. The unity is coming through the end-times judgment, the judgment of hearts.

Since Jesus also is the unifier, the binder to his way, he is the second Adam (although created first) who restores God’s family. As the divider, he divides families. As the unifier, he unites God’s family. It includes members of all the races, who all are descended from Adam and Eve.

Jesus thus fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah and is called the infant and the Father – the Adam type. In Isaiah 9: 2-7, a Scripture regarding Jesus, the prophets writes:
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined. You have multiplied the nation and increased its joy; they rejoice before You according to the joy of the harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. For You have broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. For every warrior’s sandal from the noisy battle, and garments rolled in blood, will be used for burning and fuel of fire. For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”

Thus the family, which has become entangled with those willing to do wrong, must be untangled from the wrongdoers first by the Father, Jesus, and then unified.

Jesus divides and then unifies, just as the rainbow ascends and descends. Noah also was an Adam type, which is why the rainbow is both Noah’s symbol and Jesus’ symbol. I shall explain the rainbow's significance in great detail later. The world was briefly unified under Noah, until Satan got a foothold again and entangled the wrongdoers with the good.

The devil tries to entangle the wrongdoers with good people in the hope that this entanglement will rub off evil thoughts and actions on the part of the once-good people. The devil tries to cause people to fall away from God.

Jesus recognized the innocence of little children, and how little children treat each other with love. He said we must become like little children to enter Heaven. The devil tries to lead the innocent children into evil practices and thoughts by entangling them later.

Notice this Scripture (Matthew 10: 13-16):
“People were brining little children to Jesus to have him touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.’ And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.”

I love this Scripture, just as children love the story of Noah’s Ark.

Jesus also spoke of children in Mark 9: 35-37, 42. He says, “he took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me. … And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.”

So, Jesus first came to divide. He sought to untangle the good from the bad by preaching the Gospel and the good news of the Kingdom, the New Ark. He was loosing then and has through time. I say that the reader who sees this essay must begin to untangle their thoughts and ways from evil thoughts and ways.

Some people are now beginning to unify under Jesus’ plan for the Kingdom. We must remember that even when Jesus was a divider he was merciful and never killed anyone. Won’t he be the same as a unifier? Yes. Blessed are the merciful and the peacemakers, it says in the Beatitudes. God will take care of the rest for Jesus.

Other people reject parts of the plan or the whole plan and are misled. We must take a total Gospels (4 Gospels) approach and reject the temptation of following only a few “fundamentals.” We also should try to prove our faith in Jesus’ with works that agree with the plan he called for.

Here is a list of some of the parts of the plan, the New Ark to take us into the future. I think we must live by that Jesus said, which was:
1) Praising and loving God.
2) Love thy neighbor as thyself.
3) Encourage baptism – Jesus and John gave the reasons for baptism, and we probably don’t know all of them. However, it involved a preparation to enter God’s kingdom, a call for repentance from sins and a change away from sin in one’s life. This change can be summed up as a commitment to Jesus, and I think we must understand that it is a commitment to follow all of Jesus’ teachings, not just a few teachings. We must repent from sin and change our lifestyles. From my own perspective, I would like to add simply that the fruit should be washed when it is harvested. We learn this in Virginia. I see God’s work in each of our lives as a preparation to accept Jesus’ teachings. When we accept Jesus, and his teachings, we are saying to the Lord that we are ripe, and ready for God to take us home or to use us to produce more fruit for him. We can be washed to be placed on the altar as a gift to God, or we can be washed and planted to produce more fruit for God. This is what I mean by the fruit must be washed. Not only that, but the water baptism of the church prepares us for the fire baptism that Jesus offers us. John the Baptist said that Jesus would baptize with fire. Jesus did just that when he sent the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and it was seen as tongues of fire. The Holy Spirit, the spiritual fire, the spirit of agape love, is like a fire Jesus sends to teach the individual’s spirit. St. Augustine of Hippo gives a description of this idea near the end of his book, The Confessions, when he writes: “By your gift we are set on fire and are carried upward; we are red hot and we go. We ascend Thy ways that be in our heart and sing a song of degrees. We are red hot with your fire, your good fire, and we go; for we are going upward toward the peace of Jerusalem; for gladdened was I in those who said unto me, We will go up to the house of the Lord.” In other words, the fire of the Holy Spirit, the love spirit, lifts us up to God. Baptism prepares us to receive this spirit and to produce good fruit.
4) Try not to sin.
5) Love enemies.
6) Give first fruits to God – tithe.
7) Follow the 10 Commandments.
8) No killing and keep pacifism.
9) Merciful justice – Dr. King once said justice should be defined as “love correcting everything that stands against love,” which he based on the life of Jesus. This obeys John 8, where Jesus spoke out against capital punishment. Jesus also said do not keep anger with a brother, for when you do you murder him in your heart. And he said, do not cry “Raca” against a brother. Crying “Raca” means saying someone if not worthy of God. If we are not even to cry Raca, then executions and war certainly cannot be justified. Justice is to be merciful justice when humans deal with other humans. Jesus set this standard for humans judging humans. Only Jesus, who is divine, has the right to throw souls into the fire, because he sacrificed for us. We are to go the extra mile with our justice, rather than relying on a concept of justice as merely fairness. We must go the extra mile with people that disagree with us or have hurt us, and show them love.
10) Economic justice.
11) Freely healing the sick. Universal healthcare.
12) Familial love is important – while Jesus said if your family does not follow the way, you should leave them, he also called his church family names, such as brother.
13) Forgiveness – Ask to be forgiven by God and forgive others. Jesus said to forgive others, lest ye be forgiven. This was a commentary he offered on the Lord’s Prayer, which says to forgive others. Jesus also forgave the thief he was crucified with of his sins and told the thief he would enter paradise.
14) Pray alone and together.
15) Visit the imprisoned – offer them a feeling of family.
16) Sharing wealth is as important as having personal wealth – when Zaccheus said he would give away half of his wealth t to the community and repay anyone he cheated four times over, Jesus showed him favor. So, in my mind, this means contributing to commonly owned projects, to the church, and to charity are important. If this takes up half of our income, that is fine. Zaccheus found favor with Jesus under such circumstances.

It should be noted that sharing wealth is an expression of following God. St. Augustine noted this in his work The City of God(The City of God, St. Augustine of Hippo [Introduction by Thomas Merton], Translated by Marcus Dods, The Modern Library, New York [published by Random House Inc., New York], 1993.) He wrote, “These two cities were made by two loves: the earthly city by the love of self unto the contempt of God, and the heavenly city by the love of God unto the contempt of self (Book 14, c. 28).” That is why sharing wealth and using it for God’s purposes is so important. Thomas Merton, a Catholic monk who worked for economic justice and peace in the 1950s and 60s, writes in an introduction to The City of God: “The love which unites the citizens of the heavenly city is disinterested love, or charity. The other city is built on selfish love, or cupidity. Now there are two reasons why only one of these loves-charity-can serve as the foundation for a happy and peaceful commonwealth. The first reason is metaphysical: charity is a love that leads the will to the possession of true values because it sees all things in their right order. It sees creatures for what they are, means to the possession of God. It uses them only as means and thus arrives successfully at the end, which is God. But cupidity is doomed from the start to frustration because it is based on a false system of values. It takes created things for ends, which they are not. …The second reason is psychological and moral. Those who love God love a supreme and infinite good that cannot be diminished by being shared. Those who place their hopes on the possession of created and limited goods are doomed to conflict with one another and to everlasting fear of losing whatever they may have gained. Hence the city that is united in charity will be the only one to possess true peace, because it is the only one that conforms to the true order of things, the order established by God. The city that is united merely by an alliance of temporal interests cannot promise itself more than a temporary cessation from hostilities and its order will never be anything but a makeshift.”

So, we must ask, are Jesus’ principles right, or are the United States’ current principles right? Most politicians do not want to change most of the nation’s principles. They follow the doctrines of ancient Rome and Babylon, many of which are false. It also should be noted that all of the empires of the past have fallen. That is partially because they practiced militarism and encouraged selfishness among their citizens and as a national policy – greed hurt them. They did not follow Jesus’ teachings, and neither is the United States.

Regarding the idea of sharing wealth, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made a bold statement about it in a sermon. The sermon was about why Jesus called a man a fool. Dr. King said that Jesus said this because the man failed to realize his dependence on the community, and “he failed to realize that wealth is always a result of the commonwealth” (A Knock At Midnight, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Warner Books Inc., 1998, Pg. 151). It should be noted that in the end, Jesus’ cared so much about others that he allowed himself to undergo the pain of crucifixion and death. He also lived other made other pro-group decisions, rather than favoring himself. We should integrate the pro-“we” judgment into our own personalities, rather than the pro-“I” judgment.

17) Each person is important, but the group is more important. Put the “we” before the “I.”
18) Treat the environment with reverence and trust God with food. Evidence for this Christian idea comes from the fact that Jesus said that crops were to be planted for six years, and fields were to go fallow the seventh year. This protected soil in fields from going bad.
19) Forgiving debts, as we forgive our debtors.
20) Modesty.
21) Frugality.
22) Recognizing that Jesus in the master, but we can become more than servants, we can become friends of his.
23) Practice freedom with loving service. The professor and Christian writer C.S. Lewis tried to express this idea in his work Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis, MacMillan Publishing Co. Inc., New York, New York, 1977). I think he was a little off in his analysis. He wrote: “Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think once again of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the ‘right’ notes and the ‘wrong’ ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts (Mere, 23).” I would ask Lewis, why, then, does Jesus sum up the Law as loving God and “loving thy neighbor as thyself,” if there is not any one instinct or set of instincts? It is true there is much more to Christianity than these two teachings, which I support, but these two ideas are behind and must be behind all Christian teachings. Lewis then adds, “The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs (Mere, 23).” Well, Jesus submitted himself to danger and followed through on his teachings at all cost, and thank God he did. And he encourages us to follow through on his teachings, even to the point of taking up our own cross.

As I said, I feel that a better analogy is to say that Christianity is like jazz music, where a maestro (Jesus) has set up a beautiful, in fact the most beautiful, basic chord pattern and beat, and he is encouraging us to make variations on it, so long us we rely on his basic chord pattern and beat and play the most beautiful song possible. In other words, the Holy Spirit may give us some new ideas, but those ideas must fit Jesus chord pattern and beat, and thus not violate his basic teachings (which are many teachings).

24) We should engage in loving service until we pass into the afterlife.
25) Practice charity.
26) Work on developing your spiritual gifts.
27) Free the captives from slavery to sin, war slavery, and unproductive imprisonment. Shorter, more rehabilitative prison sentences should be developed. In addition, we should free people from slavery to war. We can do this by practicing pacifism, disarming, and eliminating the military. It took hundreds of years to end human bondage. For thousands of years, wars have raged. It is time to follow Jesus and end warfare. Then we will be free from war slavery.
28) Christianity should be practiced as a non-deterministic religion. Deterministic religions and philosophies have individuals that think they know the end of history, and try to bring it about by using violence. Jesus knows the way to the kingdom, but he does not use violence to establish the kingdom. He also does not use violence to force people to believe he is the Messiah. He allowed and allows each person to choose whether he is the Messiah. We should not use violence to further Christianity – it would make the religion deterministic and be against Jesus’ own pacifism.
29) Purposeful fasting.
30) Practice forgiveness of sins.
31) All sinners form a circle that is equidistant from God (no person or race is closer to the image of God than anyone else), so no one can cast the first stone. God is the proper judge.

Jesus certainly gave more teachings than this. But, all of these teachings are important. They are the basic chord progression and beat of Jesus’ song. When we repent, we are to let all of these teachings guide our lives. We should also teach non-Christians the importance of the teachings.

These are not the principles of the Roman Empire, which the United States so closely tries to follow, or the Babylonian Empire; they are the principles of the anointed Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. When taken in their entirety, they are a medicine that allows us to walk like Jesus. They heal the wound in the foot that can prevent us from walking like Jesus. We should not take the placebo version of religion, but take both the sugar and the medicine. They involve the 10 commandments, Jubilee teachings, and spiritual teachings, and they all are based on the Golden Rule.

God will take this plan, this Ark, unify the chosen for Jesus. Jesus said the Son of Man would be nearly rejected when he comes, but God will step in to choose the good people and reject the bad. Matthew also says Jesus spoke of Noah and the flood, when the Messiah said in Matthew 36-37, 45-47 , “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. … Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.”

The judgment comes as quickly as the flood came, and brings the rainbow. Jesus prayed for oneness, and the acceptance of his Ark. He also prayed in Luke 15 that not one of the sheep would be lost, and said their would be rejoicing in heaven if one sinner repents. He did not want anyone potentially in God’s family to be left out.

We must chose Jesus plan, and build our house on the Rock. He said whoever keeps these sayings of mine would receive eternal life.

Jesus already has chosen many for the Kingdom of God. They are a rainbow of people. They include cripples, the poor, Samaritans, Galileans, Gentiles, the formerly demon-possessed, and people from many nations. He said they would be gathered from the four directions of the globe. His cross covers the globe. Similarly, in the Parable of the Banquet, Luke 14:12-24, Jesus says,
“When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” When one of these at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, ‘Blessed is the man who will eat at the fest in the Kingdom of God..’ Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests. At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’ “But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’ “Another said, ‘I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’ “Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’ “The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ “Sir,’ the servant said, “What you ordered has been done, but there is still room.’ “Then the master told his servant, “Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full. I tell you, not one of these men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.”

God is preparing such a banquet, the Kingdom of God.

Many of Jesus’ own people rejected him. The Messiah said a prophet is without honor in his own family and country. Jesus also said the Kingdom would be taken from his people and given to another nation because they rejected him (Matthew 21:43). And, because his people rejected his pacifist ideas, he said their own plans for war would lead them ro ruin and to the Temple being destroyed. In Luke 19 41-45, it says, “As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, ‘If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace – but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on very side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”

Jesus plan for the Kingdom looks like this: It is the New Covenant, and the New Ark for a safe passage through this world. The New Ark Jesus gave fits with his rainbow. The rainbow will rise as the serpent that is Satan is thrown into the fiery pit.

Jesus’ teachings are the new ship that will take us into the future.

Looking at the phrase “New Covenant” or “New Ark,” we can trace the prophecy for Jesus teachings and this time at least back to the Egyptians and Hebrews. People have criticized me for thinking that Egyptians saw the coming of Jesus. However, it was prophesied by the Egyptians’ slaves, the Hebrews, that the Messiah was indeed coming as the Egyptians agreed, and he would be Jewish, not Egyptian. The Egyptians would not receive the Messiah because they used militarism, force, slavery, and imperialism; tools of the fallen angel who was too proud to obey God, and sees himself as a god.

The Egyptians and the Hebrews both used the word “New” or “Nu” to describe the Messiah. He is prophesied to do a New, or Nu thing.

Nu, in Egyptian, which the Hebrews also spoke, refers to the cosmic mother, who was also called Isis, Virgo, the Virgin, and Meri, or Mary. The word Nu was used to describe the cosmic womb in the Egyptian religion, and also Mary’s womb. The letter “A” means coming to, so the phrase A-Nu means “coming to the cosmic womb” – English speakers say this as “New.” Meri is referred to as having the A-Nu. Meri is protected by the scorpion.

The ship of God, the Ark, must enter the womb for the world to be reborn. It is delivered from Heaven and travels across Heaven. Jesus’ guides the ship, or the Ark, and knows how to build it. He is the builder who trusts God, and thus the high priest. He rebuilds his body and mind according to God’s plan.

The ship also is referred to as the Arc, which also is a reference to the rainbow’s arc, which ascends into heaven and then descends in an arc, or ark, or ship, just as Jesus ascended to the Father, and then descended. Jesus will do so again. Just as the rainbow returns, Jesus returns, and brings the Arc. Jesus travels from Heaven to the A-Nu, the cosmic womb.

However, we have a written record of the Arc, or Ark Jesus’ left us, and it is the plan for the future. It is the New Covenant, or New Testament (the 4 Gospels). Gospels means “good news” or New Testament.

Jesus was real, and his word is real, and he and his message are from Heaven. The Egyptians saw him coming, and the Hebrews saw him coming. The Egyptians religious references concerning Horus, the infant, and prophesied son of Meri, line up with the events of Jesus life. Jesus’ Jewish lineage show that he is the Jewish-prophesied descendant of the Jewish King David, the Jewish Mary and the Jewish Joseph. In Egyptian, “seph” or “suph” means prince, or caretaker of the kingdom. Io, or Jo, is a reference to Jaweh. So, Joseph’s name means the “caretaker of God’s kingdom.”

The Egyptians were not given the messiah, but their slaves were. I believe the reasons are that the Egyptians did not practice mercy, they used militarism, they used force, they enslaved people, and used imperialism. They also had a religion which at first was right, but went wrong. The Egyptians originally believed in one God, and that his thoughts had life breathed into them, and became spirits and angels. Jesus refers to spirits and angels as being alive many times. However, the Egyptians exalted the spirits to being gods that were equal to the Creator. That was blasphemy. Satan saw himself as equal to God, and caused this. The Jews, on the other hand, continued to believe in the one true God, Jaweh, and the spirits and angels he created as being lower beings.

In short, when Jesus said we must all be born again because we are sinners and in rebellion, he is right. He is speaking of the A-Nu, or the figurative return to the cosmic womb; the A-Nu, where we are touched by water and then receive the Holy Spirit, the Arc, or God’s fire. We must be born twice because we are imperfect through original sin – we get a birth into the sin of our fathers and their collaboration with Satan – and must be born again under the Gospel, or the Arc, or the rainbow, the message or ship from Heaven, through the A-Nu. Baptism, with lighting a candle to receive God’s light, Jesus, the ark and the rainbow arc, is a symbol of this rebirth and acceptance of Jesus’ full teachings.

The time of Virgo, or Meri, also is traditionally associated with the time of judgment, along with the time of Taurus and Horus in the spring, when Meri’s infant Horus is born, and the time of Libra. Taurus has traditionally been seen as the sign of the priest, the judge, and the builder – as Horus also is seen as these things. The Ark, or plan from Heaven, enters the A-Nu of Meri in September of American time, when the constellation Virgo is in the sky, and then the son is born to carry it out in the spring (late April-May) of American time, when Taurus is in the sky.

In the Jewish religion, Sarah’s barren womb is touched by the angel in September, the time of Virgo, and Israel is born in the Spring. Likewise, Noah sends out the Dove and receives the branch in late September (the world is reconceived), and Israel passes through the Sea of Reeds and moves out of its Egyptian captivity in the April timeframe – the nation of Israel is born.

When Jesus told his disciples not to use the sword and asked if everyone thought he came to lead a rebellion, he said he did not. Jesus was not in rebellion against God, he followed God’s plan, the New Ark. We can follow that New Ark left by Jesus, and the plan of Heaven.

Briefly here, I want to say that many people have believed that the Hebrews were very different from the Egyptians, but can two peoples who live so close together not have some form of their ideas rub off on one another? God judged the Egyptians at the time of Moses because of what they had done to the Hebrews and others, however, and their exultation of spirits to Gods. They were proud and exalted their king to a god, like Satan believes he is a god.

Jesus knew that most people would reject his plan. Most churches still do. They are not pacifists, not merciful, not against executions, and preach earthly wealth, not treasures of Heaven. They do not help the poor many times. They believe in treating all races and nations like part of God’s family. They are becoming the bad plants tangled with the good. Jesus says in Matthew 15:12-14 in regard to the Pharisees working against him, “Every plant that my heavenly father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” Jesus says in Matthew 15: 7-10, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’” People do not follow Jesus plan.

The nations are at war, as Jesus’ predicted. War is a sin. It was never Jesus way. Committing war creates a cycle of hate between nations, who then arm themselves for more war. Hate is a sin, in fact, it is far worse than crying “Raca!” only, which Jesus said was in itself murder. Jesus did not commit war when he was the divider and he will not commit war when God unifies the world. Jesus teaches us the way; God will intervene for Jesus by eliminating the evil ones. God is the judge.

The new Jerusalem will descend from Heaven like a rainbow. It has come slowly; Jesus said the Kingdom of God is inside of you (Luke 17:20), but now will come quickly. The flood is near.

Christians who reject pacifism and merciful justice reject Jesus. Jesus forgave while on cross, did not fight when arrested, and said he did not come to lead a rebellion. Jesus did not rebel against God; he obeyed and obeys God’s plan. He actually came to give the plan for the Kingdom, and forgiveness for sins. He said the two greatest commandments are to love and worship God, and love thy neighbor as thyself – he said the Law and the prophets hang on these. But, works are needed to.

Of works after the needed repentance, Jesus said In Matthew 25: 31-46, Jesus says that works are needed to enter heaven. He says that the king will come, and:

“When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. The righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you? The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the lest of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’

“Then he will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: ‘for I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’ “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ “Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ “And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

This is a requirement of faith with works, from Jesus’ own lips. It is also a prescription – it is a prescription for that wound that is preventing us from walking like Jesus. Jesus tells us how to walk the walk in the Scripture, and in this case it involves establishing economic justice.

In Matthew 9: 42-48, Jesus reveals the importance of avoiding sin – in other words, obeying the law. The law, Jesus’ teachings and trust in him are the prescription for the wound. He says, “And whoever causes one of these little ones to believe in me to stumble, it would be batter for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea. “And if your hand makes you sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands, to go to hell, into fire that shall never be quenched- “where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
And if your foot makes you sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched-
“where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ “And if your eye makes you sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire- “where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’”

Jesus first miracle was to turn water to wine. He also will follow the water of the coming flood with a rainbow. The New Jerusalem, descending from the sky, will sparkle with the colors and spices of many cultures following Jesus basic plan, the New Ark, A-Nu Arc. The “Nu” wineskins are ready for the new wine.

Jesus will drink from the new wine in his Kingdom. And, Jesus, who sowed the good seed, will separate it from the bad seed at the harvest, and the weeds will be tied and bundled and burned, and then the wheat will be brought into the barn (Matthew 13:24) wit

Posted by: Reed Miller | September 25, 2007 5:23 PM