The NAME of GOD, and the LAND flowing with MILK and HONEY.

Exodus 3:(After Moses was called by God to do His Plan and liberated his people (with sincere heart) from the hands of the Egyptians (representing the power of the flesh), the story continue:
Then Moses said to God (at Horeb, the Mountain of God), "If I come to the people of Israel (in spirit) and say to them , 'The God of your fathers, has sent me to you,' and they ask me, "WHAT IS HIS NAME?' what shall I say to them?"(meaning that they were overwhelmed by many spirits that behaved as if they were the ones with power).
God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM"(The Creator). And He said, "Say this to the people of Israel (in spirit); 'The Lord, the God of your fathers (in a spiritual sense the ones responsible for their beings),
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you' : THIS IS MY NAME FOREVER, and thus I AM TO BE REMEMBERED THROUGHOUT ALL GENERATIONS."
"Go and gather the elders of Israel together (to unify His power), and say to them, 'The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying: I HAVE OBSERVED YOU (in your hearts) and what has been done to you (in spirit) in Egypt (Flesh power); and I PROMISE that I WILL BRING YOU UP out of the affliction of Egypt, to the land (good and broad) of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey."Exodus 3: 13-17.
Given that Milk is as staple food for humans from the time of its childhood to its dead it is used in the Scriptures in the physical and spiritual senses. The main food source for milk is the cow.
Since ancient times it is associated with many stories of the Creation. It is a symbol of divinity and an emblem of growing in abundance and wealth, also during times of famine, milk is far more useful as a limitless resource than a dead beast that would provide meat for a limited period only. It made far more sense to keep cows alive for its milk rather that slaughter and eat it purely for its meat. So all parts of the cow were sacred and were ruled by specific gods and goddesses. Milk was the absolute nectar of life from which god and goddesses were maintained alive in a physical and spiritual way.
According to ancient beliefs, Milk was a symbolic way to understand the process of creation of the cosmic sea. The cosmic sea, symbolizing a sea of Milk, was churned. The curds were stirred and formed the Earth, the Universe, and the Stars. Three different levels in the cosmographic view.
To the Egyptians, Milk was a life product obtained from their goddess, Aher, considered to be the universal fertility power that formed the Sun itself, in their beliefs, everything existed because of her.
To make themselves a land for her in order to obtain power in the Earth, Egyptians women wore amulets of the goddess Hathor, with the head of a cow, in her guise as the creator of all the power abounded in the universe and manifested in the flesh.
The cow was considered a creature able to conduct the souls of the dead to the Underworld. The voyage  included a journey through the Milky Way, the constellations of stars said to be the Milk splashed by the great goddess in the personification of a cow. She was considered a Mother, and the one in command of all the souls that freely accepted her and follow her as the only one in control of their souls.
There was a custom in which a cow was brought in a symbolic way to the room where a sick person was waiting for its final breath. The dying person was encouraged to grasp the tail of the cow as he breaded his last bread giving it back to the power that controlled him during the time when he was a spirit, and then during the time of his journey in the earth.
The cow was so revered and treated so gently with a great respect symbolizing the tenet of their faith. In our time, this power continue alive, attracting more and more souls to it, and making them slaves to it, forgetting the real purpose of our journey in this world, that is our spiritual place in the Land flowing with Milk and Honey.
Honey is a natural preservative and it is used in the spiritual world as a symbolic way of preserving our beliefs. As food for the human body it proved to have long lasting time of preservation that even the honey jars found in the tombs of the Egyptian Kings from several thousand years ago are perfectly edible even now.
Honey also is used as symbol of immortality and used in funerary rites.
The sweetness of honey is believed to confer gifts of spiritual learning nature. As well as being edible and fermentable, honey has healing and antiseptic qualities for the body and for the soul. A dollop of honey smeared onto a wound will soon draw out any impurities and speed the healing process.
Honey also is a symbol of life, because of the flowers from which it is made came from the process of pollination (place pollen on the stigma at a specific time and place to make it conceive). Also the color of honey is the color of the sun that give the physical life to the plants

MOSES AND JETHRO IN THE WORLD OF THE SPIRITS

Exodus 3 Now Moses was keeping the flock (souls) of his father-in-law, Jethro (a Kenite and head of a very large house and descendants of Keturah, Abraham's wife after Sarah's death), the priest of Midian (place of judgment); and he led his flock (souls that were instructed in God's Law) to the West Side of the Wilderness, and came to Horeb, the Mountain of God (a holy ground).
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and Moses looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. (God's power is not in the flesh).
And Moses said, "I will turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." (He was looking for a man made explanation).
When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!"
And he said, "Here I am."
The he said, "Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet (take off the unrighteousness), for the place on which you are standing is holy ground."
And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." (Four different houses).
And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid (guiltiness)to look at God.
Then the Lord said, "I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt (in the flesh), and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters; I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians (using God's people as their slaves because of their lack of faith), and to bring them up out of that land (the land of the flesh) to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey (a spiritual land), to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (Those were the ones inhabiting the land that God wanted to give to his people since only with his power they would be able to succeed in spirit and take it over).
And now, behold, the cry (the heart of his people claiming for God's help) of the people of Israel has come to me (with a sincere heart), and I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. ( The power in the flesh didn't let them to worship God)."
"Come, I will send you to Pharaoh (King of the flesh) that you may bring forth my people, the sons of Israel out of Egypt."
But Moses said to God,"Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the sons of Israel (sons in the spirit) out of Egypt?"
He said, "But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this Mountain." (Moses' house could serve God from there).    Exodus 3: 1-12
Primarily the Midianites were tent dwellers. Paul, the apostle, also had his family in the same profession. They were prosperous, having asses and animals of the flock and the herd numbering the tens of thousands. They represent man made religion and the incredible amount of souls that follow them.

THE CITY OF GADARA

The city of Gadara once belonged to the territory of the ancient commercial and geographical confederacy known as The Decapolis, The Ten Cities, which were scattered over a wide area of Syro-Palestine in Greco-Roman times.
The cities of the Decapolis are mentioned several times in the New Testament. Gadara, in particular, is famous for the symbolic record of the "Gadarene Swine,"in the Gospel of Matthew.
The Gospel according to Matthew tells the news that Jesus is the promised Saviour, the one through whom God fulfilled the promises He made to His people in the Old Testament. The news is not only for the Jewish people, among whom Jesus was born and lived, but for the whole world.
The Gospel presents Jesus as the greatest Teacher, who has the authority to interpret the Law of God.
The writings are carefully arranged. It begins with the birth of Jesus, describes his baptism and temptation, and then takes up his ministry of preaching, teaching and healing in Galilee. After this the records goes on to Jesus' journey from Galilee to Jerusalem and the events of Jesus' last week in the earth.
The record of the "Gadarene Swine"says:  When he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, 2 demoniacs met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way.
And behold, they cried out, :What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
Now a herd of many swine was feeding at some distance from them. And the demons begged him, "If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine."
And he said to them, "Go." So they came out and went into the swine; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and perished in the waters.
The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, and what happened to the demoniacs.
And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their neighborhood.
Ancient Gadara is known for its fine tradition of man made philosophy and poetic satire. Its first great son was Menippus. He was a Cynic philosopher and satirist, but allegedly a slave by origin, who on earning his freedom, made money as a ship-broker, but hanged himself on losing it.
Men in Gadara were controlled by demon power and they were slaves of their own fleshy desires.
The way in which demon power worked over humans was symbolized through the crafty use of the aqueducts designed by Greco-Roman engineers The only purpose of the aqueducts were to connect water to cities to waste massive quantities of water.
The comparison that Matthew portrait in his narrative is about how Jews handled the spiritual water that God let them to drink and use and how the Roman's water,  coming from the world controlled by Satan served to overindulge themselves to the point that they were slaves to their own fleshy desires.
The demons there were so powerful because men decreased his spiritual level letting the unclean spirits take control over the heart and mind of all of them. Legions of demons possessed them.
When Jesus appeared there none of them recognized him in their spirit, the ones who did it were the demons themselves.
In Semitic languages, "Gadar" means a "wall" or "boundary." Later in Talmudic texts associatively connected "Gader" with the area of the "vineyard wall" ("Gader") where an angel is said to have halted the prophet Balaam. It was then that his ass was supposed to have miraculously addressed its master complaining of his ill-treatment. (Num. 22:24-29)
In the world that we are living with today, how many of us would recognize Jesus?

PAUL, the THIRD HEAVEN, and the SUPER APOSTLES.

No one, except for Jesus, influenced the development of early Christianity more than Paul. He was the foremost apologist for the gentile mission, and the most eloquent defender of the centrality of the Scriptures, and morality for his predominantly gentile churches. Thirteen of the twenty seven books of the New Testament are attributed to him.

Paul, an Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin, holding a Hebrew name, Saul, and a Roman name, Paul, chose to use his Roman name in view of his commission to declare the Gospel to the non-Jews.

Paul was born in Tarsus, a prominent city of Cilicia. His parents were Hebrews and he was a Roman citizen from birth. He learned the trade of of tentmaker from his father, and at Jerusalem, he received instruction from the learned Pharisee Gamaliel. Language-wise, Paul was versed in Greek and Hebrew.

At the time Paul travelled as a missionary he was unmarried. He had a sister and a nephew who resided in Jerusalem.

The Biblical record introduces Saul (his hebrew name) as the young man at whose feet the false witnesses who stoned Christ's disciple Stephen laid their "outer garments." Because of misdirected zeal for tradition, he began a campaign of vicious persecution against Christ's followers. He extended his persecution to cities other than Jerusalem as far as North of Damascus, and in Syria.

As Paul neared Damascus, Christ Jesus revealed himself to him in a flashing light and commissioned him to be an attendant and a witness of the things he had seen and would yet see.

Paul wrote :"Boasting is necessary, though it is not profitable; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who 14 years ago -whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows -such a man was caught up to the Third Heaven. And I know How such a man -whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows -was caught up to Paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell." 2Cor. 12:2-4

Who were the "super apostles" that Paul referred to? This is the title that the false apostles used to call themselves, because the title tends to misguide the Truth. This term is found in 2 Cor. 11:5; 12:11.

Paul made reference to them as "a lot (apostles) that defied the authority of the apostleship on what was then the theocratic authority. They even ridiculed on criticized Paul in respects to his speech. 2 Cor 10.

That is why he sarcastically referred to them as "super apostles."

Paul had divine backing as an apostle and that is the main reason that through divine inspiration Paul was able to indicate to the congregation in Corinth that these "super apostles" were not speaking Truth.

Just as Eve was seduced by the cunning serpent so the congregation was in danger of being corrupted in their minds.

Paul had not proved himself being inferior in his apostleship in comparison to them. he had endured so much: imprisonment, beatings, shipwreck 3 times, so many dangers, going often without sleep or food.

Yet through it all he never lost sight of the needs of the congregations and always felt compassion  when someone stumbled.

The true measure of a man of God does not lie in his claims of visions and experiences with God, or the force of his personality, or the size of his ministry, or his educational degrees, or any other human criteria.

A true man of God is marked by how much he had suffered in the war against the kingdom of darkness, how concerned he is for people, how humble he is, and how accurately he handles the supernatural revelation found in God's work. (2 Timothy 2:15).

THE BOOKS OF KINGS. Why they were written?

The aim of the Books of Kings is to demonstrate that  the covenant relationship with God is not just in the physical realm, it has to be in harmony with the mental, emotional, and spiritual realms.
The writer sets out to demonstrate that although Israel stood in covenant relationship with God, most of her Kings had rejected and outraged the covenant obligations.
The Kings of both Judah and Israel are reviewed while they were passing, and as far as possible, they were treated contemporaneously. The spiritual worth of each King is determined by comparison with two Kings of former years. These two Kings were: King David who held closely to the covenant, and King Jeroboam of Israel who forsook the covenant. Comparison in this way shows whether a given king "walked in the ways of Davis his father" or "in the ways of Jeroboam the son of Nebat."
The writer, evidently, found that on this basis very few of the Kings of Israel or Judah kept the covenant with God. Notable exceptions were the King Asa (1Kings 15), King Jehoshaphat (1Kings 22), Hezekiah (2Kings 18-20) and Josiah (2Kings 22-23), and even these had some defects.
David was the ideal example, he was the more closely role model than any. His parting advice to his son Solomon was that he should keep God's commandments (1Kings 2). In that loyalty to the covenant relationship lay the only hope of prosperity and peace. To depart from that way was to risk divine judgment.
Loyalty to God's covenant stemmed from Abraham, but found national expression at the time of Exodus, when Israel,  recently delivered from Egypt, meaning the forces of the flesh, stood at Mount Sinai and entered into a solemn spiritual covenant with God (Exodus 19; 24). Thereafter Israel was to be God's own people, set apart from the nations, obedient to His commandments and loyal to him.
They were forbidden to enter into covenants with other entities or other gods. Adherence to the covenant with God would result in blessings; departure from it would result in cursing and judgment.
These principles are clearly worked out in 2 Kings 17-23.
The writer traces the story of Israel's Kings from Solomon to the last king of Judah. In a sincere and honest manner he records the sad story of the rejection of the covenant by most of the rulers. The final collapse of Israel before Assyria (2Kings 17) and of Judah before Babylon (2Kings 25) was a demonstration of the Truth of the Principle underlying the Book and came as no surprise to men of spiritual discernment.
In later days the two Books of Kings remained as a warning to the remnant of God's people, and thus provided a practical lesson in the Truth that rejection of God's covenant, being a sinful and rebellious act, can only result in divine judgment.

ABRAHAM, ISAIAH, JESUS, ALL MEN OF FAITH CALLED FROM THE WOM OF THE EARTH.

Isaiah (God's salvation), the son of Amoz (not the prophet Amos) served Judah and Jerusalem as a prophet in the days of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah in the Kingdom of Judah, and Kings  Pekah, and Hosea, ruling in the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Contemporary prophets were Micah, Hosea and Oded.
Isaiah writes in his book in chapter 49 about his birth: "Listen to me, O coast lands; Hearken you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother He named my name. He made my mouth like a sharp sword (Word of God), He hid me in the shadow of his hand;
He made me a polished arrow, He hid me away in his quiver."  49:1-2
Isaiah was commissioning by God in a vision to do the work of speaking to the people of Judah and Jerusalem about God's coming judgments. He was told in advance that the nation will refuse to take heed. God said that this situation would continue until the nation would come to ruin, and that only a "Tenth," a "Holy Seed," would be left like the stump of a massive tree.
The first occurrence of the word "prophet" in the Scriptures refers to Abraham. The first identified as a "Hebrew." Like Abel, Enoch, and Noah, he was a man of faith. But the first to be mentioned with the expression "put faith in God" is Abraham, that is the reason why he is called "the father of all those having faith." This man of unusual faith walked with God and was in constant communication with him by means of visions and dreams.
When the Son of God, Jesus, and his disciples referred to Abraham, they did it more than 70 times in their conversations and writings. In Jesus' illustration of the rich man and Lazarus, he referred to the prophet Abraham, the father of all those having faith, in a symbolic sense. When his opponents, the people who refused to take heed,  boasted that they were the offspring of Abraham, Jesus was quick to point out their hypocrisy saying: "If you are Abraham's children, do the works of Abraham."
The apostle Paul said that it is not fleshy descents that counts, but rather, having the faith like that of Abraham that enables one to be declared righteous. Paul also identified the true seed of Abraham as Christ, along with those who belong to Christ as "heirs with reference to a promise."Abraham's two women, Sarah and Hagar, were actually making a symbolic drama illustrating God's two covenants, the one with Abraham and the one with Jesus.
In Galatians 4 we find the reason: ...So with us; when we were children, we were slaves to "elemental spirits of the universe." But when the time had fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a womb of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. ... So through God you are not longer a slave but a son, and if a son then an heir. Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to "beings that by nature are no gods;" but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the 'weak and beggarly elemental spirits, whose slaves you want to be once more? ....
When Sarah died at Hebron at the age of 127, it was necessary for Abraham to purchase a burial plot, for indeed he was only a temporary resident owning no land in Canaan, so he bought a field with its cave at Machpelah near Mamre from the sons of Heth. The second covenant was an expectation and God instructed Abraham to so.
When 4 allied kings, headed by Mesopotamian King Chedorlaomer (chief of the elemental spirits of the universe), were successful in crushing a revolt if five Canaanites (slaves to them) kings, Sodom and Gomorrah were sacked and Lot was taken captive together with all his property. Abraham, upon learning of this, quickly mustered 318 of "his trained (universal) household servants," made a force march in hot pursuit Northward to beyond the spiritual Damascus, and with God's help, defeated a far superior force. As Abraham was returning from this great "victory" a "priest of the "Most High God,"
Melchizedek, who was also the king of Salem, came out and blessed him, and Abraham, in turn, "gave him a Tenth of everything."
We now understand that God's plan about the salvation of His People is true. We are requested to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His Might. We need to wear the whole armor of God, that we might be able to stand against the wiles of the devil (elemental spirits of the universe). For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

WE WERE CREATED, FORMED AND CALLED BY NAME INSIDE THE EARTH WOMB.

ENOCH (Initiated, dedicated), the son born to Jared (descent), a pre-Flood ancestor of Jesus Christ, fathered Enoch at the age of 162. The length of time that Enoch lived on earth match perfectly with the number of days in a solar year. Jared, his father, lived 962 years and was second in longevity only to his grandson Methuselah.
Enoch, being the seventh man in the genealogical line from Adam, was one of the "so great a cloud of witnesses" who were outstanding examples of faith during his time. "Enoch kept walking with the true God,"and was taken by God without facing death. He foretold God's coming with His holy myriad to execute judgment against the unholy.
The fact that Cain, the first son of Adam, built a city in the Land of Fugitiveness to the East of Eden, calling it by the name of his son Enoch, give us enough reason why God took his faithful prophet to act as a cloud of witnesses toward the true justice of the only true God, creator of heavens and earth.
Isaiah tells us in chapter 41 how God did what he declared in times of old: "Listen to me in silence, ... let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment... the ends of the earth tremble, they have drawn near and come. ... But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend; you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, "You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off."... "Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you," says the Lord, "Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel."
Chapter 42 "Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed (symbol of the flesh) he will not break, and a dimly burning wick he will not quench (power in the flesh); he will faithful bring forth justice in the earth; ... Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it ...  .
Chapter 43 But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for i have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine..." ... "You are my witnesses," says the Lord, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am He. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me. I, I am the Lord, and besides me there is no saviour. I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses," says the Lord.