Plato's concept, about the non-physical World (but substantial), was that it represented the most accurate reality. Plato spoke of these entities only through the characters of his dialogues suggesting that these entities were the only objects of study that can provide knowledge.
It is proved along all the characters in the Scriptures, Old and New and with Jesus itself with his spiritual entrance to Jerusalem. Luke, identified only as a "fellow worker," not simply one of Paul's "traveling companions" or "assistants," but an entity of comparable stature, a "missionary colleague."
Luke was an entity that lived in the Greek city of Antioch in Ancient Syria. He repeatedly used the word "we" in describing Paul's missions in Acts of the Apostles, indicating that he was there at those times. There is also evidence that the entity resided in Troas, the province which included the ruins of ancient Troy, in that Luke, as an entity living there, wrote in the 3rd person about Paul and his travels until they got to Troas, where he switched to the 1st person plural. The "we" section of Acts continues until the group of entities leaves Philippi, when his writings went back to the 3rd person. This change happens again when the group returns to Philippi. Philippi was a city in Eastern Macedonia, established by Philip II of Macedon in 356BC and abandoned in the 14th century after the Otto-Man conquest. The city appears in the sources during the Roman civil war that followed the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Paul preached for the 1st time on European soil in Philippi (Acts 16). Paul visited the city on two other occasions. The Epistle to the Phippians shows the immediate effects of Paul's instructions. Seven different churches were constructed in Philippi, all of them destroyed because of their materialistic nature.
When Lucas writes about the Passion (suffering, enduring) of Jesus Christ in His short and final period of His life covering His "visit" into "the spiritual city of Jerusalem"from the point of His entrance and the steps leading to His crucifixion on Mount Calvary, he is defining the climatic events of the Spiritual War fought inside the city between all the powers and principalities in Heaven and Earth and the consequent Victory of Jesus Christ freeing the spiritual heart of every human being that were subjected to Death, the spirit in control of all the human souls , and made them free to chose between God and Evil, promising everlasting life to those whose heart freely and sincerely choose God and His kingdom.
The Scripture says that Jesus before visiting Jerusalem, He entered spiritual Jericho, a place of concealment (2 Sam.10), passing through (spiritual Heart), a man named Zac-Cha-Eus, a chief tax collector and rich (entity working through the hearts of those lovers of riches), wanted to see who He was. Because he was small and wanted to avoid the crowd of entities surrounding Jesus he ran ahead to the way he knew Jesus was going to walk and climbed a sycamore tree to have a good view of Him.
Jesus saw him and asked him to come down and receive Him in his spiritual home. He did it joyfully. Many around him, blinded because of man's religious laws, murmured about how Jesus can enter into the heart of a sinner. The man offered Jesus to give have of his goods to the poor in spirit and anyone defrauded by him he offered restoration. Jesus told him:"Today Salvation has come to this House .."
The crowd made of all kind of entities heard of this and Jesus proceeded to tell a Parable given the fact that He was near and the crowd supposed that the Kingdom of was to "appear immediately." He said to the crowd: "A noble man went into a "far" country to receive "kingly power"and then return. Before doing it He called 10 of his servants and gave them a gold coin and authorized them to "trade" it until his return. But they hated him and sent an embassy of entities after Him, saying:"We do not want this man to reign over us."When He returned, having received the kingly power, he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to Him, that He might know what they had gained by trading. The first came and said:"I have made ten more gold coins." And He said to him: "Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you are going to have spiritual authority over 10 cities. The second came and said: "I made five." He said:"You are to be over 5 cities." The 3rd one said:"Lord, here is your coin which I kept laid away in a napkin, for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow. He said to him:" I will condemn you, out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow? Why then did you not put my money into the bank and at my coming I should have collected it with interest? And Jesus said to those who stood by:"Take the gold coin from him and give it to the one who has the ten."
(And they said to Jesus, "Lord, he has 10 coins!) "I tell you, that to every one who has Will more be given; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me."
After he said that He went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem (spiritual realm). When He drew near to Beth-P-Hage and Beth-Any, at the Mount that is called Olivet, He sent 2 of his disciples, saying,"Go into the Village opposite (in the other side), where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one (of the entities) has ever yet sat; untie it and bring it here. If any one (of the owners) ask you, 'why are you untying it?' you shall say this, 'The Lord has need of it.' And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their spiritual garments on the colt, they set Jesus upon it.
During the time of Moses when the Lord saved Israel from the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians and all of his power, dead upon the seashore, Moses and the people of Israel sang this song:"I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the Horse and his raider He has thrown into the sea." It symbolizes the power of the flesh over spiritual Israel thrown to the waters and defeated. The spiritual condition of the people of Israel that Jesus encounter descended and was captured again by the snares of the Devil. Jesus had to get inside the flesh again and brake the thick wall of Sin formed in it. Only Him was powerful enough to die in the physical realm, then go to the spiritual realm and fight for all the souls of the humankind trapped in the snares of the Devil and won the Spiritual Battle of all, that was our freedom.
The entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem as a visitor symbolizes that the city was taken by the enemies of God and also the place of His sacrifice for all mankind. As He approached the city he wept over it and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day What Bring You Peace -but Now It is Hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build and embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every 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."
This is what Jesus said to anyone who fails to understand the deep meaning of His Word. We need to know our positions in the spiritual war and be prepared to fight the Final Battle of all and the End of Days.
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