Glass and Ceramic - Hidden Secrets to the Breath of God

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One of my passions in life is to study scripture for truth.  Not only do I enjoy searching the Bible, but I enjoy reading any ancient scripture I can find.  The following is a quote from the Gospel of Philip, originating in the first century (Nag Hammaid Library).  This quote bothered me after reading it because I couldn't quite figure it out.  After spending a portion of one evening researching and pondering, I have found some amazing facts that are worth sharing. 

"Glass and ceramic vessels are made with fire. If glass vessels break, they are redone, since they have been made through breath. But if ceramic vessels break, they are destroyed, since they have been made without breath."

First, this is a symbolic representation of the heart of mankind.  A heart cannot be remade if it is hardened.  Why?  When information is locked into a crystalline structure, it is extremely hard for fire to reprocess the material.  Ceramics are not made with breath.  I pondered what this meant and found this:

Ceramic is a crystalline solid characterized by a topological order of its atomic structure.  It is rigid and unyielding to the breath of God (animation to change).  The breath of God is what molds the clay and creates a new vessel, just like a blower of glass creates something new from unformed glass.  This is because glass is an Amorphous solid characterized by a topological disorder of atomic structure.  It is not locked and can be molded and remade.  Not only this, but glass is pure and transparent.  Unlike clay, it does not hide behind a facade or painted finish.  It is exposed and purified from its transparent nature.

We can look at this another way.  Glass has viscosity that is able to flow.  Although it is a solid, it can yield over time to movement or be refined.  As this process happens over and over again, it transitions in the fire to new works of purpose.  Ceramic is rigid and has a viscosity that is resistant to flow.  Much higher temperatures are needed to reach a melting point.  Can we see the difference between heaven and hell with the atomic structure of a material?  How much heat is needed to melt the heart and remake it in the fire?  Is there a hardness that God cannot melt?  All good questions.

Water can be in four states: Solid, liquid, vapor and plasma.  At room temperature, water is a liquid and flows.  To transition any form of matter, we change its state by adding or taking away energy.  All matter is energy slowed down to gain mass.  Add energy to water and get vapor.  Take energy away and get ice.  Add extreme energy and get plasma.  What have we just described?  Partly, we have described what matter is.  Matter is frozen energy.  Depending on its atomic structure and state of symmetry, we can classify its hardness and ability to change states.  Of course, this is only a simplified perspective.  Science is still trying to figure out how matter is constructed.

What determines the states of energy to mass and form?

There are five geometric shapes in nature that determine energy flow and and the ability of information to flow from state to state.

The Tetrahedron
The Cube
The Octahedron
The Polyhedron, and
The Dodecahedron

Crystals can only materialize into these five forms.  The photorefractive effect in crystals can store and transmit information and energy.  A rigid crystal is not animated.  Can we draw a parallel from this with God's breath and the purpose of animating mater with life?  I say consciousness is this very process.  The miracle of life is that matter is formed into a vessel that can move, think, breathe, taste, hear, see and touch.  Life is the miracle of matter and consciousness in combination.  At the essence of our being, we are conscious energy in motion from the Word (Information / Consciousness / Spirit) of God.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was with God in the beginning. ³Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴ In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 

Now go back to the original quote. Remember that mankind is the clay and God is the potter.

Isaiah 64

8 Yet you, LORD, are our Father.
We are the clay, you are the potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
9 Do not be angry beyond measure, LORD;
do not remember our sins forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
for we are all your people.
10 Your sacred cities have become a wasteland;
even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned with fire,
and all that we treasured lies in ruins.
12 After all this, LORD, will you hold yourself back?
Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?

To answer Isiah's questions, we need only remind ourselves to soften our hearts and allow God to do His work of love in our life.  Darkness has no place in the life of any soul.  To allow God to remold us as glass, we must be willing to change our structure and cleanse the vessel from our false facade.  A hard heart is set like ceramic and will not change.  God's consuming fire is what makes us pure if the material is properly mixed.

"Glass and ceramic vessels are made with fire. If glass vessels break, they are redone, since they have been made through breath. But if ceramic vessels break, they are destroyed, since they have been made without breath."

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Overcoming the Beast of 666 - Understanding by the Atomic Numbers

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Audio of Revelation 13

Revelation 13

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man (or of mankind); and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

The mark of the beast is 666 and is the number of mankind.  Some translations say the number of a man.  Carbon, which is what we are made from, has 6 protons, 6 neutrons and 6 electrons.  Now you too have understanding.  Now for the hard part.  How do we overcome the beast?  Who is the beast?  


God's Word has stated how we overcome all along.  We are to rise from the carbon into the breath and words of God.  The word is spoken with Nitrogen (777) and Oxygen (888)--the very air we breathe.  The Hebrew number for God is 777.  The Greek number for Christ is 888.  Nitrogen has 7 protons, 7 neutrons and 7 electrons.  Oxygen has 8 protons, 8 neutrons and 8 electrons.  These two gasses make up 99% of the air we use to form Words.    


To overcome the carbon, we must use the Living Word of God--Christ.  Once we do this, we receive the Holy Spirit (Clean Consciousness) and transcend everything around us by the new blood of Christ (DNA).  The Holy Spirit was given to us by God through the work of Jesus.  Jesus is the firstfruits of this new life we will experience after the last judgment of God.  Before this happens, the beast will nearly destroy this present world we live in (remember, we are the ones destroying the present world).  After this, the dead in Christ will rise to new life and live with Christ 1000 years--the day of the lord.

This will happen on three levels in history: 1) Global 2) National 3) Personal

Epistle of Barnabas 15:3

"Of the Sabbath He speaketh in the beginning of the creation; And God made the works of His hands in six days, and He ended on the seventh day, and rested on it, and He hallowed it.

Barnabas 15:4

Give heed, children, what this meaneth; He ended in six days. He meaneth this, that in six thousand years the Lord shall bring all things to an end; for the day with Him signifyeth a thousand years; and this He himself beareth me witness, saying; Behold, the day of the Lord shall be as a thousand years. Therefore, children, in six days, that is in six thousand years, everything shall come to an end."

Adam to Abraham 2000 Years of Age 1 (FATHER)
Abraham to Jesus 2000 Years of Age 2 (SON)
Jesus to Today 2000 Years of Age 3 (HOLY SPIRIT)

Day of Rest (Day of the Lord) 1000 years (SALVATION)

What can a man do to overcome?  


Seek God now and walk away from your sin into a new life with Christ.  Peace and life follow you on your new path in life. The world is healed.  Love God and love others.  This is the way to salvation. 


When does all this happen?  


Christ said that the generation that sees Israel become a nation will see these things take place.  He said that this generation will not pass before He returns.  A generation can be calculated by taking the precession of the earth (26,000 years) and divide by the degrees in a circle (360).  This equates to 72.2222.   A Hebrew generation is 70 years.  Israel became a nation in 1948.  If we add the two, we get 2018.  Subtract 7 years for Daniel's last week and you get 2012.  


Will the beast be a man?


Yes.  It's you and I and our world leaders.  We overcome by accepting Christ as our Lord.  This is it.  Nothing more.  Before this happens, a false messiah will arrive on the scene and be defeated and rejected.  What is His image?  You are looking at it.  It's technology.  We worship the image of nature formed into our likeness to serve us.  Can you buy anything or sell anything apart from this mark of technology?  Is it a world system?  Does it seek to take over the world to serve wealth over the betterment of mankind?


Are there other beasts?  


Coal


Coal is a representation of Carbon in the form of fossil fuel.  I could expound on this, but the significance of this is already obvious.  We need to overcome this beast before it overcomes us.  


Oil


Do I really need to say anything here?  Alternatives to carbon emissions are available.  Greed is the only thing keeping the beast in power.  As a nation, we must overcome.  Invading nations to protect this beast is a false ambition.


Money


The root of our problem with the various beasts of the earth is tied to greed.  If we are unable to overcome this final beast, we are doomed.  The fact is very clear from the Bible:  God will intervene.  


Matthew 24


 ²² “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.


Are you marked for salvation by God?  Which savior do you choose?  Man or God?  Isaiah said this:

Isaiah 46
I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.

What is he referring to?  In Genesis, man had a choice to gain the fruit of knowledge by his own efforts or by receiving it as a gift from God.  Satan used mankind as a proxy to get at the tree of life.  This is still happening today as we continue to steal the tree of knowledge.  You must make a choice:


Either you choose to wait on God through faith, or you seek to steal the fruit from God by your own efforts and works.  Serve God or money.  This is the choice.


To choose God, simply ask for forgiveness and accept his gift of grace.  Call upon the name of the LORD and be saved.  Love others by your good deeds of service.  Give instead of take.

Matthew 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

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Interesting Linguistics in Hebrew - Word / WorLd

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The Word of God is a clear allusion to Christ, as revealed in the first verse of John 1:  "In the beginning was the Word..."  We also see the mirror to this in Genesis 1:  "In the Beginning, God created..."  If we go back to John 1, we see that God created the world with Word (Information).  Travel back to Genesis 1 and we see that Time starts when God creates the Heavens (space for the world) and the earth (World itself).  Then God says, "Let there be light."  Light is the symbol for energy, motion, force, consciousness, understanding, wisdom and so on.  

Genesis 1:1  

In the Beginning (Time), God created the heavens (Space) and the earth (Matter). Let there be light (Energy).  See my related Article on the Physics of God.

In English, the word 'World' and 'Word' are separated by only one letter.  When I consult my Ancient Hebrew Lexicon, I see that this letter 'Lamed' is the Shepherd's crook from the original Phoenician idograms (Pictographs) that predate modern Hebrew.  The Hebrew form of 'word' (Speech / Ne'um) and World (Filled / Tevel) both continue this distinction.   It is also interesting to know that Abram became Abraham when the Hebrew letter 'Hey' was added to his name as the symbolic creation of the nation that would bring light unto the world.  'Hey' represents beholding a great work.  The light that is in the world can then be easily seen as the Lamed that is added to Word to make World.  Christ is the word that leads the world to the light as the Good Shepherd.  


This all sounds like a bit of a stretch until you examine the two words in Ancient Hebrew.  The Hebrew language starts with roots that then morph like the branches of a tree to associate meaning from the root.  Here is the root morphology for the word 'Word' and then 'World':

WORD

The definition of Word in Hebrew is from the root Speak.  Speaker is more accurate for John 1, although the Greek Logos is the word used.  In the ancient Hebrew pictographs, we find the symbol for water and the Shepherd's staff.  The way to arrive at the full meaning is to follow the root to the words that branch from the root. Here we go....

My lexicon says this: The definition and meaning of the pictograph for 'Word' is "A continuation of segments, which fills the whole."  From this definition, we can easily make the connection that physics makes to the geometry of the universe.  As I said, meaning derives from following the root.  The next definition is a "Chain blended together to form a sentence."  This is Obviously what words do.  Oddly enough, chains are formed by photons in light in a wave of parent and daughter photons.  This is interesting terminology that both physics and the Hebrew language use to denote a chain of information.  Hebrew uses 'parent and child' to denote these chains.  Related to this branch of the the morphology of 'Word', we find the word 'sickness', or a break in the chain.

The next link in this chain is the word 'Matter'.  Matter is the chain of quanta and atoms that bind energy with mass and form.  The meaning here should be obvious to most readers so I will move on.


The word 'ear' comes into play here as another word from the root of 'word'.  Not only is this the ear to hear, but the seed that is an ear of grain.  Seeds are information.  The word 'Branch', as in the branching of information from the root of the seed is also connected from this relationship.  This is a reference to the tree branches that are also related in Hebrew to the family tree and the trees of life and knowledge.  Knowledge is information that branches, as in what is happening in your mind at this moment.

The next word is 'fill', which also makes 'firstfruits', denoting a conglomeration of ingredients to fill a vessel.  The universe is filled with a variety of matter.  Jesus was the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit.

The next word is 'full' as in full of authority.  This word then makes 'Lord'.

The next word is 'filling', which denotes being stuffed with abundance.  It also makes the word 'set or setting', as in a stone of ornamentation.  This is a recess for filling with a stone.  In physics, a stone (so to speak) fills a space in the fabric of space, as in a recess.

The next word is 'mix', as in filling with many substances.  Mix is where we derive our word particle by comparison.  The lexicon cites this as a connected word to the Hebrew usage of the root we are examining.

The next word is 'front', as in the front of a long series of the same.  The past is seen in front in Hebrew thought, because the future is unseen and therefore behind.

Front makes the word 'Circumcise', or the cutting of the front of the male member used for reproduction by encoded information.  Can we take this further to say a cutting of the past as well; as in, our sins?

The next word is 'Before', as in the front of time or place.  This is the last word in the sequence.  All of this has been derived from the root of the word 'Speak'.  Christ is the Word that became a Living Word in the World.  

WORLD

Now examine the word 'World' (added Lamed of the Shepherd's Crook):

World comes from 'Flow'.  'Flow' is a combination of pictographs representing the Shepherd's crook and the pictograph of the floor plan of the tent.  This is the second letter 'Beyt' (Bet), the first letter of the Bible and of creation.  This letter represents the house or tent.  A tent is a temporary dwelling place.  It can be seen as the tent of the nomad or the human body.  The body is the vehicle that is used to sense the wilderness of nature.  The wilderness is a temporary home where work is accomplished and learning takes place.

Flow denotes the flowing of a substance. In other words, the flow of time and matter in space.

The next word is Except. This denotes a flowing away of all things 'except' one.

The next word is Earth, a land flowing with substance.

The next word is Ruin, or the flowing away of something in destruction.

The next word is Fodder, or the flowing away of a mixture or substance.

The next word is Stream, which is a flowing of waters such as tears.  The removal of tears allows them to flow. Tears is a derivative of the next word, which is Mourn.

We now come to three related words of Mourning, Meadow and Surely.  Surely is a flowing of certainty (faith). A Meadow is a moist ground.

The next word is Old, or a flowing away of life.

Next is Empty, a flowing away of contents.  The tent holds the contents.

Next is Trouble, the flowing of the insides of the tent.

Next is Terror, the flowing away of function.

Next is Flood, a large flowing of water.  We are baptized into the flow of life by the water of our earthly womb.

Finally, Trumpet, or the flowing of breath for sound.  Like a word coming forth to the World from the mouth of God.

I'll say this in closing: Please seek God while He may be found.  The facts of the Hebrew language go beyond Human Reason on many different levels.  Evidence for the authenticity of the Bible is all around us.


To verify what has been said and to expand your own research, order the Ancient Hebrew Lexicon by Jeff Benner.  Word numbers for this Article are 1135 and 1288.

Consider this last thought: The beast is the one to overcome in Revelation.  666 is said to be the number of mankind.  Carbon is what you and I are made from.  Carbon has 6 electrons, 6 protons and 6 neutrons.  We are to overcome the animal that we are here on earth and become what God has offered.  Divine translation from here to there.  God's word is the way to find a higher meaning here on earth.  God Bless!  Related Article

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The Physics of God

Psalm 19


¹ The heavens declare the glory of God; 
   the skies proclaim the work of his hands. 
² Day after day they pour forth speech; 
   night after night they reveal knowledge. 
³ They have no speech, they use no words; 
   no sound is heard from them. 
⁴ Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, 
   their words to the ends of the world. 
In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. 
 ⁵ It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, 
   like a champion rejoicing to run his course. 
⁶ It rises at one end of the heavens 
   and makes its circuit to the other; 
   nothing is deprived of its warmth.