(C) GENESIS

This booklet is dedicated to the faithful & discreet slave of the holy of holies

Copyright Gordon S. Ritchie 1992

This booklet assumes a fair knowledge of the 'Letter to the Society'. The writer hopes that all have enjoyed reading it. Brothers, as regards your reaction to the first book, LS, the writer well knows that you currently are:

'All astonished and' are 'in perplexity saying to one another: "What does this thing purport to be?"' (Acts 2:12).

This is because you are actually right now fulfilling again this very scripture, which seeing as Peter said:

'"And in the last days", God says, "I shall pour out some of my spirit upon every sort of flesh"' (Acts 2:17).

An event which is immediately succeeded by the arrival of the 'great and illustrious day of Jehovah' (Acts 2:20). It is manifestly apparent that this pouring out of Holy spirit, and this speaking about the magnificent things of God (verse 11), has a further fulfilment in the 'last days', in fact just before the end. But fear not, because the true God has set a limit to your period of perplexity, and it expires around about now!

This booklet was going to be a whole book! It was going to be the writer's answer to Brother Russell's book: 'The Finished Mystery'. However, the true God has other ideas it would seem. Because, in 2 Samuel 24, and 1 Chron 21, Satan incited David to number Israel and Judah, he then commanded Joab to carry out a registration of the people. In fact he had to:

'Move about, please, through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba' (2 Sam 24:2).

The writer has just performed a greater registration of Judah and Israel. He has therefore had to suspend writing this book about Genesis in order to send the result of this registration to Brooklyn in time to meet the date specified by Samuel, as is explained herebelow and in section [20]. We have seen many times before that in bible prophecy, the spatial symbolises the temporal. So whereas Joab moved about physically through the tribes of physical Israel twelve times, the greater Joab moves about temporally through the tribes of spiritual Israel 12 times. These twelve times are in fact the twelve memorials from 1993 until 2004 inclusive. Yes, Jehovah has written the number of partakers at these memorials in advance. All that is except the first two, in Nisan 1993 and 1994. This is one reason why we read that:

'Levi and Benjamin he did not register in among them' (1 Chron 21:6).

Which scripture is saying that Joab literally missed two tribes out of the 12 tribes of physical Israel, with the second meaning being that the greater Joab misses out two memorial figures out of the twelve last memorials for spiritual Israel. So this then is the larger meaning of the scripture:

'And I shall certainly know the number of my people' (2 Sam 24:2).

Now this registration result is given by Joab to David 9 months and 20 days after the registration starts (2 Sam 24:8). We examine this account in finer detail in section [20]. Suffice to say here that this period, in the second meaning, starts on the first day of the time of the end, which is February 1, 1992. And the greater registration, in advance, of all of the memorial partakers, which has been requested by Jesus (the King) of the writer (the greater Joab) has to arrive in Brooklyn (the greater Jerusalem) for the perusal of the faithful and discreet slave (the greater David), by November 18th 1992, which is 290 days after February 1, 1992. The writer only realised this today, which is the 10th November. These numbers come out of Genesis chapter 5, section [7] of this booklet. Please therefore forgive the poor presentation etc., things are going to be a bit of a rush!

Meanwhile please climb aboard and consider the first part of the book of Genesis with the writer. We start with the scripture in the bible about which Jesus himself has borne witness that it has more meanings than most, if not all other scriptures:

One of these many things is the book of Genesis, which is first in the bible but is to be understood last. Whereas the book of Revelation, which is last in the bible, has been understood first, in the Lord's day.

So this chapter of Genesis is not only about the creation of the earth, it is also about the creation of the heavens. Since it describes the creation of all of the creatures on the earth, it must therefore also describe the creation of all of the creatures in the heavens. This is why we read in Genesis 2:1:

This has the meaning that the account in Genesis one is the creation of the earth and all of the living things in it and of the heavens and of all of the living things, i.e. spirit beings, in them. In other words it is the account of all physical and all spiritual creation.

The 'surface of the waters' is a repeated concept, it therefore has two meanings, and there is a greater 'surface of the waters' over which Jehovah's Holy spirit was moving (Gen 41:25,32; Amos 3:3-7, LS [2]). The physical surface of the waters was the surface of the dihydrogen oxide on the planet earth. The spiritual surface of the waters was the appearance, i.e. character, of all of the spirit creatures in the heavens, none of whom had yet been fully examined in order to determine their allegiance to Jehovah God, and so they were formless and waste at that time, they were not yet ready to be used because they had not yet demonstrated where their loyalties lay.

The sequence of events in the first day is that Jehovah first decrees that light should appear and then he actually makes light appear (Gen 1:3-5). These two actions of the decree followed by the creation characterise each of the six creative days is Genesis chapter one. Spelling this out we read:

Decree: Let there be light

Creation: There came to be light

Second day

Decree: Let an expanse come to be

Creation: God proceeded to make an expanse

Decree: Let the dry land appear

Creation: And it came to be so

Decree: Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth

Creation: The earth began to put forth grass

Decree: Let luminaries come to be

Creation: And God proceeded to make the two great luminaries

Decree: Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls

Creation: And God proceeded to make the great sea monsters

Decree: Let us make man in our image

Creation: And God proceeded to create the man in his image

The decree and subsequent creation are a repeated reference to the creative action, so there is a greater meaning to each physical creation. This greater meaning is the heavenly equivalent or spiritual equivalent to the earthly creation. This spiritual equivalent is the one which is expressed in Genesis as the decree. The earthly creation, in each of the first five days, is mentioned second and is stated as a creation (the situation is a little different in the sixth day). This is why the first ten words in the bible are:

Maybe we now understand the first ten words in the bible!

Amen, and these were the events of the 'first day'. Now this 'day' had an evening, i.e. a time period associated with darkness and invisibility, and a morning, i.e. a time period associated with light and visibility. Having created the light we see that Jehovah pronounces it 'good'. Now the light is associated with the 'Day' which starts with the 'morning' and the darkness is associated with the 'Night', which starts with the 'evening'. So the implication is that the 'day' and the 'morning', which are 'light' and visible, are 'good'. But, the 'night' and the 'evening' which are 'dark' and invisible and not good (John 1:4,5, Col 1:13). Indeed this is why the scripture says 'but the darkness he called Night'.

The physical light on the physical earth created a physical division between day and night, whereas the spiritual light which was shed on the spiritual waters of the heavens created an angelic division into the sons of the darkness and the sons of the light. This was their first inspection, and they became divided into light and dark, or good and not good.

In the first five days of Genesis we see the same division, and the same symbolism. In each day, the evening, being dark, relates to the spiritual meaning, pertaining to the invisible things, which is stated as the decree, which comes first, and bears no pronouncement. Then the morning relates to the physical meaning, the visible creation, which is stated as the creation, which is second and is, except in day 2, pronounced good. And Paul would agree, for he says:

'For you are all sons of light and sons of day. We belong neither to light nor darkness' (1 Thess 5:5).

'And God went on to say: "Let an expanse come to be in between the waters and let a dividing occur between the waters and the waters". Then God proceeded to make the expanse and to make a division between the waters that should be beneath the expanse and the waters that should be above the expanse. And it came to be so. And God began to call the expanse heaven. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a second day' (Gen 1:6-8).

Physically, in the morning part, this expanse is the atmosphere of the earth, which separates the clouds from the rivers and the seas. But the physical is a mirror of the spiritual. Now whereas the clouds above are clean and pure and distilled and in the light, the seas below are dirty and impure and in the often in the dark. This position reflects the spiritual situation in heaven. In this second day, having determined which angels are loyal to Jehovah (the sons of the light) and which are not so loyal (the sons of the darkness) the true God then divides his heavenly creatures and separates them by 'an expanse' which is some sort of heavenly barrier, which is symbolised by the atmosphere of the earth. Then the loyal angels are the 'waters that should be above the expanse', and the more autonomous group are the 'waters that should be beneath the expanse' (Gen 1:7), in the heavenly meaning. This is actually spelt out in Psalm 148:4:

We have seen this symbolism of light and darkness all over the scriptures and at the 1992 'light-bearers' conventions. The same division occurred later with the sons of men, we read in John 3:19:

Yes, their works were following after the works of the angels who preferred the darkness, who were exposed before man was born.

'And God went on to say: "Let the waters under the heavens be brought together into one place and let the dry land appear." And it came to be so. And God began calling the dry land Earth, but the bringing together of the waters he called seas. Further, God saw that it was good' (Gen 1:9,10).

The Septuagint replaces: 'And it came to be so' with:

'And the waters which are under the heaven were collected into their meetings and the dry land appeared'.

The physical meaning is obvious. The spiritual meaning is that the waters beneath, which are the angels who opted for some sort of autonomy (i.e. ate of the spiritual tree of knowledge of good and bad), are all located together in one place or condition, and then they are allowed to develop a guiding structure for themselves. In other words they form some kind of administration. The earth sets the boundaries for and guides the seas, this symbolism is the same as that of Revelation. In fact one has to understand the symbolism of Revelation before one can understand the meaning of Genesis (Mark 10:31).

'And God went on to say: "Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth, vegetation bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of which is in it, upon the earth." And it came to be so. And the earth began to put forth grass, vegetation bearing seed according to its kind. Then God saw that it was good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a third day' (Gen 1:11-13).

The decree refers to the heavenly part of this creation. In this meaning the vegetation bearing seed is the fruits of the two heavenly administrations, the dark heavenly administration and the administration of the light. The heavenly administration of the light was already there on day one, the administration of the darkness appears on day three. Hence the trees, i.e. high up ones in these administrations, are 'yielding fruit according to their kinds' (verse 11). In other words the administration of the darkness is producing dark fruits and the administration of the light is producing good fruit. It is as Jesus said:

'By their fruits you will recognise them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles do they?' (Mat 7:16).

Whereas there is no pronouncement of good or bad in the decree, which refers to the heavenly fruits, which are the two seeds which we eventually see in Gen 3:15, the physical fruit, which is referred to in the creation part of the third day, is declared to be good. This is because the physical creation is all direct from God and so is good, whereas the spiritual creation has left God in part, opting for autonomy, and so is not all good. It is also repeated that the fruits are produced according to kind, which in the physical sense means that orange trees bear oranges etc. In fact all of the reproducing after kind in physical creation has been put there to show to angels and to men that a dark tree produces dark fruit, and a light tree produces light fruit. In other words once a soul has left Jehovah it will sin, and once a soul has found Jehovah it will cease sinning.

By now the reader may have remembered that in the Hebrew day, the evening preceded the morning. This fact, which mirrors the order of events in the first six creative days, is showing us that the spiritual situation in each day actually preceded the physical creation by God. In other words, in this third day, first we had the two opposing heavenly administrations (hence Satan's name) producing various light and dark fruits according to their kinds. Then, second, we had the physical trees and vegetation on the earth producing good and bad fruits to eat. The first spiritual fruits were invisible and associated with the evening, and the second fruits are visible and so are associated with the day, in fact the physical fruits grow by means of light (photosynthesis), which means that they belong to the day, the visible things. So the division into light and dark can represent a division into good and bad and also a division into visible and invisible

This is really incredibly significant, and it answers one of the questions that has always puzzled the reader, namely:

"If Jehovah is all powerful and perfect and all knowing, then why did he have to create all of the lower animals before he could create man? Why did he not just go straight to man?"

The answer to these is that Jehovah could well have done this without any difficulty, but he chose not to because he was not creating man as an end result of a lot of earlier prototypes, he was rather matching the progress of his earthly creation to the progress of the dare we say 'evolution' of the two opposing administrations in the heavens. It is obvious that he already knew how to create man even before he said "Let there be light", because man was made 'a little lower than angels' (Heb 2:7) and angels pre-existed this command. What this means is that all of the first five days of creation on this planet came about as a theatrical spectacle to the angels (1 Cor 4:9), for the purposes of instructing them. The true God was physicalising all of the works of the dark and the light administrations in order to demonstrate to all of creation what their fruits really were, he was exposing them, in an unmistakable way, via this planet.

'And God went on to say: "Let luminaries come to be in the expanse of the heavens to make a division between the day and the night; and they must serve as signs and for seasons and for days and years. And they must serve as luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth." And it came to be so. And God proceeded to make the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for dominating the day and the lesser luminary for dominating the night, and also the stars. Thus God put them in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth, and to dominate by day and by night and to make a division between light and darkness. Then God saw that it was good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a fourth day' (Gen 1:14-19).

In the physical creation, we know that the Sun and the Moon and the stars were already there, because the Sun is the physical source of light and so must have existed when the command 'Let there be light' was made. So physically what happened in the fourth day was that these heavenly objects became physically discernible, or visible from the earth. Now this situation exactly shadows the spiritual situation, because the Sun is Jesus Christ, the greater one dominating the day, and the Moon is Satan, the lesser one dominating the night. Both of these spirit creatures existed even in the first day of creation, as did the physical Sun and Moon. What happened in this fourth day is the Satan emerged as the head one of the sons of the darkness (Col 1:13), and Michael emerged as the head one of the sons of the light (John 3:19). These two are the two great spiritual luminaries, who are shining upon the earth. Now just as moonlight is merely a poor reflection of a minute fraction of sunlight, so Satan, who is a mimic god, is merely a poor reflection of a small fraction of the true light from Michael, who is the exact reflection of Jehovah. Satan has no light within himself (John 11:10), the Moon also has no light of its own, whereas the Sun has millions of mega-gigawatts of it (John 9:5)!

What this means is that the whole solar system was created as a sign (Gen 1:14). The wording of the scripture is very interesting here, because it does not say that these luminaries are a sign for seasons and for days and years, it actually says:

This means that these luminaries will serve not only as signs for the seasons and the days and the years, but also as signs for other things. Now every astronomer knows that the Sun is far brighter than the Moon, but, that on very rare occasions the moon actually succeeds in totally eclipsing the Sun. On these occasions the Moon actually completely blots out the Sun. One could even go so far as to say that the Moon temporarily kills the Sun. With our new found symbolism for these two heavenly bodies we can relate this eclipse to the impalement and death and resurrection of the Christ. In this regard the scripture reads:

'From the sixth hour on a darkness fell over the land, until the ninth hour' (Mat 27:45).

Jesus died at the ninth hour. This darkness was a total eclipse of the Sun (a partial one would not have caused darkness), this eclipse is the way that we deduce that Jesus died on Friday April 1st 33 CE (Insight 2 p268). What this means is that Jehovah was symbolising Genesis 3:15 by this and by all total eclipses, which means that Jehovah was already using the solar system to symbolise Gen 3:15 in the first creative day. It is therefore suggested that:

What this means is that Jehovah knew everything, before he said: "Let there be light"!

The moon pre-existed this command, because it is a part of the heavens, which were made 'In the beginning' (Gen 1:1). What this means is that Jehovah may have known from the moment that he created this planet that for example the true people of God would be called by his name in September 1931. In fact this may be the full meaning of the words of Isaiah at 46:8-11:

the one telling from the beginning the finale

We will see further evidence of his complete pre-cognisance in the section on Genesis chapter two.

The writer is not sure whether he can really come to terms with this at all

The reason that the writer cannot come to terms with this is that total pre-cognisance is a belonging of God, not of man, because earthling man cannot direct even his own steps, but the one who knows all things, can (Jer 10:23, 1 John 3:20). We are not permitted to know our own personal fate, this would be very counter-productive indeed, but Jehovah does know it! This does not mean that it is predetermined by him, it is not. It is determined by us, but God knows how we will fare in our efforts to serve him. This means that when he gives us a warning, we should take it to heart and respond.

The choice is ours, the knowledge of what we will choose is Jehovah's!

Because John has said in 1 John 3:20:

If he 'knows all things' then there is no 'thing' that he does not know. Furthermore, it is here suggested, that creation and Isaiah both are declaring to us: that there is no 'thing' that he did not know from the start.

Another way in which the Sun and the Moon act as a sign is that the Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon in diameter, and it is also 400 times further away from the earth (in mean orbit) than the moon is (LS[56]). This is the greater division that is being referred to in verse 18: 'To make a division between the light and the darkness'. The result of this division is 400 times. These two heavenly witnesses to '400 times' tell us that Jesus will have 144,000 brothers, because:

The scripture says that the two luminaries will serve as 'signs for... days and years' (Gen 1:14) and it says that the Sun is to 'dominate by day' (Gen 1:18). Well 'by day' the Sun is 'dominating' the Moon by 144,000 of them. Similarly, Jesus dominates over his kingdom, the 'Sabbath day' over which he is Lord, by 144,000 of his brothers.

The import of this is that Jehovah knew, in the first creative day, that his Son would ransom 144,000 humans, that is why he made the Sun, the size that it is compared to the Moon, and that is why he placed the earth in the size of orbit that it has, compared with the orbit of the moon! We therefore have two physical witnesses (Deut 19:15, LS[2]). It is as David said:

'His seed itself will prove to be even to time indefinite, and his throne as the Sun in front of me. As the moon it will be firmly established for time indefinite, And as a faithful witness in the skies' (Psalm 89:36,37).

His seed are 144,000 in number, a number which results from a comparison of the Sun with the moon, whereas Psalm 89 compares his seed and his throne with both of these heavenly bodies which together are a 'faithful witness'. The writer himself is now praising and glorifying the God of the heavens and the earth because he has shown long-suffering and humility to a degree which is beyond comprehension! He has actually waited for thousands or maybe millions of years until now, to allow Satan to develop a system which he knew from the start was not only going to be a total failure but was also going to lead to the death of his son. Although in wisdom we can now say that the fruits of this exposure to the bad in weakness is the prize of a love for the good, which is God, and a resistance to the bad by means of the new personality and a triumph over sin through Jesus. The one who has given us an everlasting victory in strength born from the acceptance of a complete humiliation in weakness. This was the course of events for him, and this must also be the course of events for us.

'And God went on to say: "Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls and let the flying creatures fly over the earth upon the face of the expanse of the heavens." And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. And God got to see that it was good' (Gen 1:20,21).

In the decree, the swarming waters are the waters beneath, the ones which have been gathered together and called seas. The flying creatures are in the waters above or the loyal angels, they are said to fly 'over the earth' and 'upon the face of the expanse of the heavens'. These two locations are literally the same location, namely the air, but we have a repetition of location, so we have a greater location, which is in the proximity of the great face of the heavens whose name is Jehovah. Being near to the 'face of the heavens' means being in the administration of the light, this is the domain of the flying creatures. Now all the angels were already created before even the first day of Genesis 1, so no new spirit being are created here. Rather, the existing spirit beings are 'swarming forth according to their kinds' or developing their characters, following after the Sun or after the moon. This is why, with reference to the physical creation the scripture says: 'God proceeded to create... every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds'. Meaning that the swarming is the taking up roles and positions that occurs after the creation.

Physically, however Jehovah creates the 'great sea monsters' (the dinosaurs) as a reflection of the sort of creatures that are emerging from waters beneath, the autonomous angels, and the 'winged flying creatures' as a reflection of the angels above. Just as the Sun and the Moon (Jesus and Satan, already were created by Jehovah before the first day of Genesis 1, and then in the fourth day, they took on their characters, so the waters already existed, but in the fifth day they 'swarmed forth' all exhibiting their characters. In the case of the demons it was the characters of Dinosaurs that they developed for themselves. Jehovah then blesses all of these beings with a blessing to become many, not a blessing to have authority (Gen 1:22). This blessing refers to both the physical and the spiritual. We then read the last words:

'And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a fifth day' (Gen 1:23).

The decree, we know, refers to the further delineation and distinction of the administrations (earth's) of the light and of the darkness to produce those who exercise authority. We have already seen the two great luminaries appear in the fourth day, we are now seeing the co-luminaries of each system. The domestic animals are the Angel Gabriel and the other loyal angels who are given authority in heaven, the house of God. These are the cherubs and such-like (May the angel Gabriel and Jehovah himself please forgive the writer if this analogy wrong!). The wild animals are the demon prince of Persia (Dan 10:13) and the demons who are given authority by Satan. The moving animals are those is the darkness who decide that they want to be in the light, and those in the light who decide that they would prefer the darkness, the angelic floating-voters!

This all mirrors the situation between humans and animals on the earth. Domestic animals are in subjection to humans and reside with them, whereas wild animals are a law unto themselves and reject man's authority and so do not reside with men but are fenced off because they are a danger. In the same way the loyal angels reside with Jehovah in heaven but the demons have rejected God's authority, and so they are fenced off for protection and they are separated by the heavenly expanse (Gen 1:6,7). This spiritual barrier is symbolised by the atmosphere of the earth, the earthly expanse, which is a barrier between the clouds (the waters above) and the seas (the waters below). And whereas the clouds are free to move about in three dimensions, the waters below are confined to move in one dimension, downwards, in the rivers or are going nowhere in the seas. So we have got this correct, because the physical is a mirror of the spiritual! Now we reach the most marvellous of scriptures:

'And God went on to say: "Let us make man in our image, and according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth". And God proceeded to create man in his image, in God's image he created him; male and female he created them' (Gen 1:26,27).

'Further, God blessed them and God said to them: "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth' (Gen 1:28).

In all of the first five days, we have seen that the physical creation mirrors the spiritual situation. We are now being told this for a fact by God, who says:

'Let us make man in our image, and according to our likeness' (verse 26).

We are told that man is a reflection of angels, he is a physicalisation of the spirit beings. He is a miracle! How can one physicalise the concept of love? How can a man or a woman's face, which is just skin and bone, capture this abstract emotion? Poets cannot find the words and yet God has expressed it in silence! Is this not the triumph of Jehovah? He has done the impossible. It is as the apostle Matthew said in Mat 19:26:

Jehovah has made a creation that can demonstrate love and hate, joy and sadness, pain and anger, fear and surprise, nonchalance and interest, acceptance and rejection, all of this, merely by the moving of a few facial muscles (Eze 10:14).

So, the first way in which we reflect spirit beings is that we are a physical version of them. But since this isomorphism is repeated, we know from Joseph and from Amos (Gen 41:25,32 Amos 3:3-7, LS[2]) that there is a greater way in which we mirror angels. This greater meaning is that the whole structure of human society is an image of the whole structure of the heavens which are divided into the waters above and the waters below. So much so that Jehovah actually reconciled all of creation, both heavenly and earthly to himself through the death of a man (Col 1:20,21). It also means that since the spirit world was divided before man was created, then the human world would also become divided, which is a further proof that Jehovah knew that Adam would sin.

In fact just as in the first five days, the earth was created as a lesson to the angels, likewise in the sixth day man was also created for the benefit of the angels, in order to teach them. But there is something more than this that is being said here. And this is contained in the blessing which is given to man. Because, this blessing is not only one of becoming many, it is also one of having things in subjection. Now subjection was not a feature of the blessing made in the fifth creative day, which referred to the angels. No, it is a feature of the blessing made on man. In fact the blessing on man is a prophecy, a prophecy that we will have in subjection:

'The fish of the sea, the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving about on the earth' (Gen 1:28).

This is a fairly comprehensive subjection! It means that we will have in subjection all of God's creation, the physical and the spiritual. The spiritual fish of the sea are the demons of the waters below, the spiritual flying creatures of the heavens are the angels above, and the spiritual living creatures of the earth are the humans in the kingdom of God. This kingdom is when all of Jehovah's creation is subjected to Jesus (who was a man) and to his 144,000 ex-human brothers (Hebrews 2:6-9, 1 Cor 15:27,28, Psalm 8).

'"What is man that you keep him in mind, or the son of man that you should take care of him? You made him for a little while lower than angels; with glory and honour you crowned him, and appointed him over the works of your hands. And all things you subjected under his feet." For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. Now though we do not yet see all things in subjection to him' (1 Cor 15:27,28).

Truly it is being said to you that this is the purpose that Jehovah had in mind when he created man. He did not create man simply to 'fill the earth', this he could have done with polystyrene!

Well we know, that Abraham's firstborn Ishmael lost his birthright to Isaac, that Isaac's firstborn Esau lost his birthright to Jacob, that Jacob's firstborn Reuben lost his birthrights to Judah Levi and Joseph, that Joseph's firstborn Manasseh lost his birthright to Ehpraim and that Judah's firstborn Er lost his birthright to Perez. These things categorically assure us that the nation of Israel, a firstborn son of Jehovah (Ex 4:22), will lose its birthright to a later born son. It is interesting that the bible does not appear to indicate definitely what happened in the case of the firstborn son of Levi.

Now we have already determined that the physical not only precedes the spiritual for men (1 Cor 15:46), but also pictures the spiritual for angels. Therefore there is an angelic equivalent to the fate of the nation of Israel. This equivalent is the prophecy of Genesis 1:28, which will be fulfilled on Nisan 14, 2008 CE, on which day men will be given the birthright of the angels. Angels were Jehovah's firstborn, men are in fact his secondborn. However Jesus, the one for whom and through whom all things came into existence (John 1:3) transcends this loss of birthright, even as Levi's firstborn appears so to have done, because in this sense the angel Michael is a priest (or spiritual Levite) according to the manner of Melchizedek, it is as Paul says:

'In being fatherless, motherless, without genealogy, having neither a beginning of days nor an end of life, but having been made like the son of God, he remains a priest perpetually' (Heb 7:3).

Well, Levi got the firstborn priesthood rights, hence the bible does not appear to show his firstborn son as losing these, because Jesus did not lose his right as firstborn of all creation (Col 1:15). In harmony with the justice of Jehovah, it was his firstborn son's sacrifice as a man which gave him a name which is above every other name named, so that he will be king over all of creation for one thousand years.

'And God went on to say: "Here I have given to you all vegetation bearing seed which is on the surface of the whole earth, and every tree on which there is fruit of a tree bearing seed. To you let it serve as food. And to every wild beast of the earth and to every flying creature of the heavens and to everything moving upon the earth in which there is life as a soul I have given all green vegetation for food." And it came to be so' (Gen 1:29,30).

We already know that if we take each one of these creatures 'as a soul' in which there is spiritual life then we get the angels and the demons and the undecided ones (the moving animals). This food of the green vegetation is spiritual food. The greater meaning of these two verses is that all of the fruits of the battle of the two seeds (that of Satan and that of the woman - Gen 3:15) on the earth, are to serve as food for, i.e. as a lesson to, men and angels and demons. This is something that we had already understood from logic. Of course, those angels of the waters below are not all going to be consigned to Gehenna, because Jehovah would not embark on a massive teaching campaign in the knowledge that it would produce no fruit at all. This is why the 'moving animals' are appearing in this chapter of Genesis.

One can think of one's knowledge that lying leads to injustice as say a rice field in one's physical garden. One's experience of putting one's brother before oneself would be perhaps an orange grove. Those who practice violence would perhaps have toadstools in their lawn. In other words the nine fruitages of the spirit (Gal 5:23,23) can be represented as nine nutritious types of green vegetation, whereas the 19 characteristics of men in the end (2 Tim 3:1-5), would be 19 poisonous plants.

'After that God saw everything he had made and look! it was very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day' (Gen 1:31).

So this garden, planted by Jehovah had one river which started in Eden and flowed into it. Eden means pleasure or delight, and so this river is from Jehovah, the happy God (1 Tim 1:11). Also Jehovah planted the garden (Gen 2:8), so he would be the one watering it. This river is divided a first and second and third and fourth time. Well, if we divide one time in half, four times, then we get one sixteenth of a time or 22.5 days. If we now take a day for a year then we get 22.5 years. This is the same calculation as Joshua 7 (LS[70]) and Luke 12 (LS[90]). Now the symbolism used by Jesus in Matthew 12:25,26, is that the fall of Satan's system is a division in two, and the destruction of it is a division by four. Similar symbolism is being used here, because the rivers in the garden were prophesying the destruction of Jehovah's kingdom over the earth, which is represented by the river which issued out of Eden being divided into four rivers, representing an earthwide destruction.

Any division of Jehovah's river is a loss of his kingship because there is no disunity in his camp. The four rivers became 'as it were' four heads. This means that we should view the four rivers as becoming something with four heads. Well the only candidate for this in the bible is found in Daniel chapter 7 verse 6, and is the four headed leopard, which is the last of the rulers of the UN before Armageddon (in the greater meaning of this chapter of Daniel), which is the end of Satan's rulership over man. It is a part of the fourth beast of Daniel 7 which encompasses all of the three preceding ones (LS[64.2]). So Satan's system, which started in Eden, ends its life as a four headed Leopard. Now the fourth beast as we have said encompassed the other three, and similarly the river Gihon, which encircled 'the entire land of Cush', represents Satan (Cush was the physical father of Nimrod, Satan was his spiritual father), and Satan's system encompasses three parts, namely:

False religious: The Euphrates, which watered Babylon

Military: The Hiddekel, which went East of Assyria

Commercial: The Pishon, which encircled Havilah a land of good gold

Assyria we know was Israel's traditional military enemy, and Havilah is spoken of as having gold and commodities, which symbolise commerce. Now we can perform the sealed up cryptic calculation in these verses:

Rivers flowing out of Eden:

Pishon 1 time

Encircles 1 time

Havilah 1 time

gold, bdellium, onyx 3 time

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6 times

first river: i.e. x1 6 times

Gihon 1 time

encircles 1 time

Land of Cush 1 time

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3 times

second river: i.e. x2 6 times

Hiddekel 1 time

East of: i.e. half encircle .5 times

Assyria 1 time

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2.5 times

third river: i.e. x3 7.5 times

Euphrates 1 time

fourth river: i.e. x4 4 times

Total flowing out of Eden = 6+6+7.5+4 = 23.5 times

Less one river flowing in = 22.5 times

This is our second witness to the figure of 22.5 times. This has the meaning that when Jehovah planted the garden of Eden and put Adam in it, he knew that Adam would sin 22.5 years later (Gen 2:15). This means that Adam entered into Jehovah's garden when he was 11 years old exactly. Just as Jesus was commissioned to build the temple when he was exactly 11 years old (LS[50]), although he did not get to the temple until he was 11.5 years old in Nisan (Luke 2:41,42). In fact now we know why the time from the commissioning to the inauguration of all of the last five temples was 22.5 years! (LS[94]).

The import of this is that the fluid dynamics of the garden of Eden were declaring the fall and the time of the fall of man, from the moment that the garden was planted by Jehovah. Whilst it is true that the account was not penned until after the event and furthermore it would not have been beyond the wit of the true God to use this split of one river into four rivers to symbolise something else in the event that Adam had passed the test, the fact remains that the symbolism relating to a sin after 22.5 years is the symbolism that Jehovah has used. And this account is set at the entrance of Adam into the garden in Genesis chapter 2, rather than after the exit in Genesis chapter 4. From this we are forced to conclude that Jehovah is making it plain to us that he did know that Adam would sin and he also knew when Adam would sin. Notwithstanding that we already know that he knew everything from the moment that he said: "Let there be light" from section [1] in any event. It is even written in the prophets that Jehovah knew that Adam would sin, for Habakkuk, who is fast becoming the writer's favourite prophet, has said:

'Are you not from long ago, O Jehovah? O my God, my Holy one, you do not die. Oh Jehovah, for a judgement you set it; and, O Rock, for a reproving you have founded it' (Hab 1:12).

This scripture plainly states that Jehovah has created the earth to be judged and then corrected, this was his whole plan. Therefore he knew that Adam would sin and in fact he designed him or 'set' him to sin. So it is not a question of Jehovah 'choosing not to look', he is so clever that he would know anyway, he does not need to look it up. Now the fact that the true God knew that Adam would sin, means that God had allowed Satan to set him a task that was impossible for him at that time, namely, to desert his wife in favour of Jehovah. Let us therefore make no mistake, Adam mark 2 and Adam mark 3 and Adam mark 4 would all have sinned on the same day, had the experiment been run again, because before the entry of Satan, Jehovah was controlling every factor in the garden. So this mistake was not a weakness peculiar to Adam, it was actually a weakness in all men. This is why his name, Adam, means 'man'. In fact it is a weakness in angels too. Furthermore, man is the chosen vehicle to correct this weakness in all of creation (Psalm 8, Heb 2:6-9)! Therefore we now realise that the scripture in Genesis 2:16,17 is not just a warning, a prohibition with a penalty, it is actually a prophecy. This indeed is why it reads:

'But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it dying, you will die (literal).'

This scripture does not say: 'if you eat from it then you will die', it says: 'in the day' you eat from it or when you eat from it you will positively die. This brings us nicely back to Leviticus chapter 26 (LS[4]). This chapter was not merely a contract with a blessing and a malediction, it was actually a prophecy and a second witness to the Gentile Times being 2520 years long. Similarly Genesis 2:16,17 is a prophecy and we are all still suffering from the malediction associated with that breach of contract.

At this point one might say: this was unfair to Adam! He was going to pay the price for a sin which he could not avoid. So: 'Is there injustice with God? Never may that become so' (Rom 9:14)! For what is this price that Adam paid for his sin? He lost his life, but was it really his to lose? The scripture says:

'The wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life' (Rom 6:23).

So his everlasting life was a gift from God. So if Adam had had everlasting life, then his life would have been his, because Jehovah would have given it to him.

BUT ADAM DID NOT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE

This is a completely trivial observations which follows inescapably from the fact that he died!! One does not need to be a bible scholar to realise this, it is a matter of logic and language. People who live forever do not die, by definition. Actually what Adam had was 'life until time indefinite' or 'life until further notice (all of this is looked at in section [17.1]). Adam's life was therefore not his, because his life was conditional on obedience as measured by the tree of knowledge of good and bad, which means that it could be removed without his consent, which means that it did not belong to him. If Adam's life had been a possession of his and then God had removed it from him without his consent then God would have constituted himself a burglar!

The terms on which Adam was allowed to live were made known to him at the start by Jehovah (Gen 2:16,17), this is a proof that Adam's life was a belonging of the Most Holy. It was not Adam that was defining what the terms would be, because he did not own his own life! There is therefore no injustice in removing this life (or in suspending it temporarily), if the condition for holding on to it is broken. Life does not become one's own until God gives this gift permanently, as in the case of the brothers of Christ. This means that Adam's life actually was a belonging of Jehovah's at the time that sin was found in him. Furthermore, as regards the rest of us, Jehovah himself says:

'Your blood of your souls shall I ask back' (Gen 9:5).

This he does because it belongs to him, it is something holy, set aside for Jehovah. We, the dead, do not own our own life, this is why we do not own our own blood, which is the soul or life in our bodies (Gen 9:4). This then is the justice: Adam, for his part, paid a price with something that was not his for a sin which he could not have avoided, whereas we, for our part, are paying a price with something that is not ours for a sin that we have not all committed. Because although Paul tells us that:

'Death spread to all men because they had all sinned' (Rom 5:12).

He qualifies this by saying further that death ruled as king from Adam down to Moses:

'Even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression by Adam' (Rom 5:14).

Now if the death of Adam really had been a price that was paid by Adam himself, then why would God have imposed the extra penalty on him of:

'Cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life' (Gen 3:17).

Was death too good for him, did Jehovah have to give him pain as well? No sir! Death was not the price that Adam paid, because his life was not his to give, pain was the price he paid, as did Eve:

'I shall greatly increase the pain of your pregnancy' (Gen 3:16).

This pain was not a retributive punishment, it was a corrective punishment. Take for example Jesus, Paul says of him, that:

'He learned obedience from the things he suffered' (Heb 5:8).

His pain and suffering was not a retribution from God resulting from any sin, because 'he committed no sin, nor was deception found in his mouth' (1Peter 2:22). No, his suffering was beneficial, it was in order for him to 'learn obedience'. Now if a sinless man has to suffer pain in order to learn obedience, how much more so will a sinful man have to suffer. This suffering is corrective, and believe it or not, Jehovah was doing Adam a favour when he threw him out of Eden and gave him pain and suffering! Everything Jehovah does is for the benefit of his creations. And Adam, having learned and benefited from his sufferings will return into a far better place than the Garden of Eden, because whereas the last man Jesus, was the last who was first, the first man Adam, is the first who will be last resurrected (1 Cor 15:45, Mark 10:31, LS[105]). Therefore, although men are created as sinners, they are also created with the ability to learn from their mistakes and to overcome this sin through their faith in Jesus, the one who proved categorically that man, given enough tuition, can learn to rely on Jehovah completely, and so is able to resist all sin.

The view held by some that all of the last six thousand years of pain is the fault of Adam is wrong. For a start the true God was the one who decreed the 6,000 years of pain and suffering not Adam. Secondly Adam, for his part, did not know that his sin would lead to pain and suffering, all he knew was that he would die if he sinned (Gen 2:16,17). So, whilst it is true that 'through one man sin entered into the world' (Rom 5:12), this was not the personal fault of Adam himself, it was a result of the way that man is designed. Neither was it a fault in the design of man, rather it is a deliberate design feature of man that he should sin:

That man would sin was the will of God!

Spelling this out:

[1] For any given sin it is God's expressed will and command that a man should not commit it.

[2] It is also God's will that his creation of man will initially be unable to keep all of his commandments all of the time and that he will therefore sin.

These two statements are not contradictory, although they look it at first sight! Because, it is God's will that men should be allowed to do things that are against his expressed will in the short term. In other words Jehovah does allow his commands to be broken, which means that:

When a man sins he is doing something which is against God's expressed will, but God is willing to let him do it!

We are not saying that: it is God's will that man should not do his will, because this statement is a true paradox (the writer thinks). Rather, we are saying:

It is God's will that man should many times break his expressed will!

And in the case of Adam things are more acute, because God was not only allowing his one command to be broken he actually wanted this command to be broken, because having had control of all features of the garden of Eden previous to Adam's sin, he could certainly have prepared Adam in such a way that he would have passed the test had he so desired. But he did not do this because it was not his will to do this. Because it was God's will that Adam be tested beyond his capabilities, just as it is his will that all men are similarly tested, because they all sin. And now we have to outspokenly say that:

ADAM'S SIN WAS GOD'S WILL

But it was nevertheless a sin because although it was his will it was not his expressed will. Before you all condemn the writer for heresy and apostasy please consider the following illustration:

Suppose a father wants to teach his secondborn son, his child whom he loves, to always listen to him, because his firstborn son has stopped listening to him and is now suspected of being a jealous homicidal maniac. Suppose too that he would like to put his firstborn to the test to expose just how bad this maniacal son really is. He might tell the secondborn son to do whatever he liked but not to run across the road under any circumstances. This child would not be told why he shouldn't cross the road or that there exist such things as homicidal maniacs, because the father is not only trying to teach him not to cross the road, he is actually trying to teach him to obey his father always. Then he might arrange for a very large and frightening and lethal looking but in fact very lightweight and fairly harmless car to be given to the maniac. He would not let the maniac know that the car was in fact fairly harmless or lightweight, and neither would he tell the child. He would also give the maniac a large gorgeous-looking ice-cream, which both the father and the maniac would know the secondborn child would be unable to resist.

The maniac would then arrange for this ice-cream to suddenly come into view on the other side of the road. The child would then run across the road, being unable to resist the ice-cream, which represents the maximum temptation possible for him, and get run over by the maniac in a fit of homicidal jealousy in the very frightening but very light car. The child would become covered with bruises but would not be killed. The maniac would then be exposed as the murderer that the father suspected he was. And the child, having survived this terrifying experience, would learn once and for all to listen to his father, even when he doesn't fully understand the reasons behind his commands!

Well, this is the account of the Garden of Eden with the symbolism below:

Now in this example it was the Father's expressed will that his son should not cross the road, and furthermore the whole example is designed to teach the son not to cross the road, and to obey his father's expressed will. But in this case it was most certainly the father's will that the son should actually cross the road and get knocked down and therefore learn never to disobey his father again - because this is why he set the whole thing up in the first place! Paul has cryptically spoken about this situation when he said:

'You will therefore say to me: "Why does he yet find fault? For who has withstood his express will? Oh man, who then really are you, to be answering back to God? Shall the thing moulded say to him that moulded it: 'Why did you make me this way?'"' (Romans 9:19).

Yes indeed, Adam has withstood his express will and I am Bezalel, and today we are asking our moulder this very question, in fact we have been asking it for the last few paragraphs. This prophecy is therefore now fulfilled! God made us this way so that we could learn the exceeding love that he has for us, by living in its absence and then finding it! So that we could learn the excelling wisdom of God, by relying on our own and falling down disasterously and then being picked up by God himself, out of his undeserved kindness. He is today still using this technique even on his own beloved nation of whom it was written in advance:

'For God has shut them all up together in disobedience, that he might show all of them mercy' (Rom 11:32).

And it is here suggested that his dealings with Adam were no different. So the resolution of the apparent paradox above, lies in the difference between the expressed will of God, and the will of God. For God expressed to Adam that he should not eat from the tree, but it was actually his will that he should eat from the tree. In other words although Jehovah told Adam not to eat from the tree, he actually wanted him to eat from the tree, because it would be a lesson for him that would save his spiritual life. This does not make God to be a liar, he did not tell Adam whether or not he wanted him to eat from the tree, he just said:

'You must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die' (Gen 2:17).

A command that he knew Adam would disobey, and a command that he wanted him to disobey in order that he might put on some clothes of experience, to protect himself from further disobedience. This does not mean that Adam did not sin, he most certainly did sin because he disobeyed God, and he 'withstood his express will' so he committed a sin incurring his physical death, which was the prescribed penalty of which he was well aware, and we all have this penalty hanging over our heads. But he did not actually withstand God's will, which was in his case that he should sin, because no man can withstand God's will, but men can withstand his expressed will - the writer thinks.

What the actual will of God is for other men and their sins in each case, the writer does not know, this sort of thing lies at the heart of the way that Jehovah teaches us. He many times allows us to be tested too far, because we many times sin. But this is in some way beneficial, and once one has got the measure of one's shortcomings, then one can start to do something about them. This is why the law came first and the Christ came second, to resolve the failings that the law exposed. Similarly the tree of Knowledge of good and bad was eaten from first and the tree of life second. In conclusion of the arguments that Jehovah knew that Adam would sin, the writer would like to quote a scripture that will become very famous among all the servants of God:

'That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and stick to his wife and they must become one flesh' (Gen 2:24).

This scripture is a prophecy. It applies to Adam, who said in the previous verse:

'This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one will be called woman, because out of man this one was taken' (Gen 2:23).

The prophecy is saying that Adam will leave his father who is Jehovah and his mother who is Jehovah's wife, the woman of Gen 3:15, and he will stick to his wife who was Eve, and they must become one flesh. This is saying that Adam will choose Eve over Jehovah, and that he will leave Jehovah in favour of Eve. This is the sin which he committed on Nisan 14, 3993 BCE.

A further implication of the above is that Adam and Eve did not 'become one flesh' before Nisan 14, 3993. Because they did not 'become one flesh' until after Adam had left his (heavenly) father and his mother on that day. This is actually a parallel to the covenant that Jesus, the last Adam, established on Nisan 14, 33 CE. This is why it was only after the sin that we read:

'After this Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she had to become the mother of everyone living' (Gen 3:20).

She was not able to procreate before this time, in fact it was only when both Adam and Eve entered into the 'long garments of skin' that Jehovah made for them (Gen 3:21), these being their 1,000 year long lasting fleshly bodies, that they were able to reproduce. This reproduction by the fleshly woman being a type for the reproduction by the heavenly woman whom she prefigures. The heavenly woman gives birth on the third day after Nisan 14, 1918 which is the antetype of Nisan 14, 33 CE, which is the antetype of Nisan 14, 3993 CE.

Had Adam and Eve passed the test of the tree that they faced on Nisan 14, 3993 CE, an eventuality which was never going to occur, then they would not have been able to procreate at all because they would have been declared righteous, having everlasting life. Such life would have therefore been a possession of their children, since like begets like, and this would contradict divine principle, since the kids would not have passed any test but would have had immortal life from the minute they were born. This would have left Jehovah with just two humans.

From this it is apparent that Adam and his wife were not able to conceive before they sinned, although they were certainly man and wife before this because we read in Genesis 2: 25:

The 64 million dollar question to all fleshly men is therefore: did Adam and eve have intercourse before they sinned? One can certainly reason that they did not because they were not ashamed of their nakedness, like a naked young child, but then why does the scripture say:

'And they began to realize that they were naked. Hence they sowed fig leaves together and made loin covering for themselves' (Gen 3:7)?

Because if they became ashamed after they ate from the tree, then they must have become ashamed of what they had been doing in the past, because the contrast has explicitly been drawn by the holy spirit with their lack of shame at their nakedness before they sinned, and their 'nakedness', which is the cause of their being ashamed, pre-existed their sin. So, whatever it was that they were ashamed about, they had been doing without shame before they sinned. We therefore deduce that they had intercourse before they sinned and for them, being naked and having intercourse, became a thing to be ashamed about, whereas before it was not. This is entirely consistent and indeed prophetic of their judicial situation. Had Adam and Eve had children before they sinned, which would actually have been judicially possible, since although they had spiritual life, they did not own it, then they would have had nothing to be ashamed of since their kids would not have been born in sin. But after their sin, they did have something to be ashamed of since their kids were born in sin, and that is why under law a sin offering was required.

So we can now at last recognise that our embarrassment at our naked bodies is a physicalisation by Jehovah of the judicial condition of the offspring which they produce in this system. In the next system however, this embarrassment will vanish because our children, and those who are resurrected or walk through unrighteous will have them, will not be born in sin. However those who are resurrected righteous, or those who walk through righteous, will not be able to conceive and hence will not marry, so for them the 64 million dollar question is: What will the righteous men and women do with each other?

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Well the writer does not know right now and neither can he rely on his current desires being satisfied because they are sinful. However we have found that there is no shame to be attached to nakedness and intercourse in the new system, and therefore it would seem that to desire such things would not be unrighteous, and since we know that the true God is opening his 'hand and satisfying the desire of every living thing' (Psalm 145:16), the writer would propose that the thing that they will do to each other will not be dramatically different from what man and wife are doing to each other in this system, although they will not be doing it as man and wife. The writer is not proposing fornication, he is presuming that the true God will announce some new licensing deal, other than marriage, for this act among those who he has declared righteous. The writer would suggest that the righteous will be forbidden from having intercourse with the unrighteous and vice-versa, this would be consistent with reproducing according to kind. In fact there will have to be two covenants, one for the righteous and one for the unrighteous, and these could be prefigured by Lot's daughters, both of whom had intercourse after they left Sodom, albeit in a rather despicable but no doubt very prophetic way.

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So if it was God that threw man out of Eden then this action was not just for the benefit of Adam, it was also for the benefit of all his descendants, like righteous Seth, because all the things that God does are for our benefit. Seth, at the time of his son Enosh's birth had begun to 'learn obedience from the things he suffered' (Heb 5:8, Gen 4:26, LS[105]). Now, having realised that we are not much good, a fact that the bible makes very very clear, we have to start working hard to learn submission and loyalty and love and obedience, this is why the scripture says:

'In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground' (Gen 3:19).

This was not because Jehovah was trying to make life difficult for Adam. It was not because the true God wanted him to get a lot of physical exercise so that he would physically sweat. No, it was because Jehovah knew that man needs to work very hard spiritually, and to carry out a large amount of spiritual exercise in order to become acceptable to him, and so eat bread from his table, like Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. As Peter has said:

'Yes, for this very reason, by your contributing in response all earnest effort, supply to your faith virtue' (2 Peter 1:5).

He says again:

'If the righteous man is being saved with difficulty, where will the ungodly man and the sinner make a showing' (1 Peter 4:18).

One has to sweat, spiritually, to be saved. Jehovah is using the physical to picture the spiritual. For instance, how difficult is it to grow thorns and thistles, the fruits of the darkness, in your garden? No problem, the writer's garden is full of them. But as for growing food to eat, or as for producing fruits of the light, well this is not so easy, it takes hard work.

As regards Eve, the physical pain that a woman experiences when giving birth, is there to represent the spiritual pain of the woman of Rev 12:1,2:

'And she was pregnant, and she cries out in her pains and in her agony to give birth'.

Jehovah's loyal angels, the administration of the light, also had to work very hard, and suffer pains and agony in order to conceive and give birth to the body of the Christ, the 144,000 who have been declared righteous. This job would have been far easier if Adam and Eve had not sinned, hence Eve's pain was increased after her fall. However this easier option was never going to be the case, Adam's sin was always going to happen. Finally consider please the writing of Paul in Romans 5:12:

We have already seen that we had not all sinned after the likeness of Adam (Rom 5:14). Therefore how is it that 'they had all sinned', even before any of them were born? Well it is because Adam's sin was not his sin, no, it was our sin! His sin was, as we have discussed, not a personal sin of his, but a global demonstration of mankind's sinful heart. Hence he sinned once on behalf of us all. Now mankind has a tendency to blame someone else for their faults. This is what all of Jehovah's people have been doing to Adam for the last hundred years. Whereas in truth, by condemning Adam to death we are actually condemning ourselves according to the manner of the Pharisees. Because, it was not only his fault that he sinned it was also our fault. In fact if Jehovah could not engineer a salvation for Adam, how could he engineer one for us, all of whom are made in his image (1 Cor 15:48)? We are just like the Pharisees who said:

"If we were in the days of our forefathers, we would not be sharers with them in the blood of the prophets" (Mat 23:30).

Jesus' response was to call them hypocrites, because they are actually bearing a witness against themselves, namely that they are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. And truly we, the new hypocrites, have learned nothing from this at all. For we, with equal hypocrisy, are condemning our father Adam, for sinning a sin that he was designed to commit, with the big rafter sticking out of our eye, which says: "You are his sons, his sentence is your sentence"! In fact by doing this we may well be sinning in a manner worse than he did. Let us therefore not condemn one whom Jehovah has saved, the one of dust in whose image we are made, because there are some of us who will not fare as well as he did in the end. In fact this is why angel Michael says in Revelation 1:17,18:

Whereas Adam, is the last and the first and the dead one. Because there would be no need to qualify this statement with the words 'the living one' if there wasn't somebody else who was also first and last but was not living. This one was the first Adam, he will be last resurrected and he is currently dead, whereas Jesus who was the last Adam, was first resurrected and is currently and has been since times indefinite and will be forever living. So:

It is as Paul said:

'As the one made of dust is, so the ones made of dust are also; and as the heavenly one is, so those who are heavenly are also' (1 Cor 15:48).

If, therefore, there was a flaw in an exact representation of ourselves, then there is a flaw in us too. Furthermore, this flaw will be an exact representation of the flaw found in Adam, namely: We all want to be our own God. This is what Satan offered to Eve (Gen 3:5). In fact Jehovah, who can change men's language from one common and universal vocabulary into hundreds of differing ones in one instant, is not regarded by most as being any better at managing their affairs than they are themselves. Notwithstanding the fact that we take several years to learn even one of these languages, the plurality of which Jehovah created simultaneously in less than a microsecond! Truly this is conceit.

This bears an exact parallel with the law of Moses. Consider please the following features of the law:

'It was added to make transgressions manifest' (Gal 3:19).

'By law is the accurate knowledge of sin' (Rom 3:20)

'All those who depend on works of law are under a curse; for it is written: "Cursed is every one that does not continue in all the things written in the scroll of the law in order to do them"' (Rom 5:10)

'The Law has become our tutor leading to Christ' (Gal 3:24).

'The scripture delivered up all things to the custody of sin... we were being guarded under law, being delivered up together into custody' (Gal 3:22,23).

'The wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life' (Rom 6:23).

'If a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would actually have been by means of law' (Gal 3:21).

'All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God' (Rom 3:23)

So whereas the tree of knowledge of good and bad made manifest the sin that was in Adam, the law made manifest the sin that was in all men (Gal 3:19). For Adam, having eaten, gained a knowledge of good and bad, and so gained an accurate knowledge of sin, realising that he was spiritually naked, having no protection against sin, and so began to understand the sin that was intrinsic in him. Whereas the law gave all men an accurate knowledge of sin (Rom 3:20), and exposed their inability to desist from it. Whereas Adam, having eaten, was put under a curse (Gen 3:17), the law put all men under a curse. Whereas Adam was never going to be able to avoid taking the fruit, no man was ever declared righteous by law because all sinned and fell short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23).

Whereas the tree of knowledge of good and bad could never give life, because there was a separate tree for this purpose, neither could the law, Jehovah made a separate provision for this purpose, namely the death of his firstborn son, the twig out of the stump of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1). This is the one who has now become the tree of life! Life results from righteousness and death results from sin, but no-one was declared righteous by law, and so the law condemned all men to death even as the tree condemned Adam in the same way. The curse that Adam was put under, and the pain that he suffered, was teaching him to develop a resistance to sin and showing him that he needed a saviour. This was indeed recognised by Seth at the time of the birth of his son Enosh whose name means 'Mortal man', 'incurable', 'destined to die' (Gen 4:26, LS[105]). Adam was about 235 years old at this time. Similarly the law was a tutor leading to Christ (Gal 3:24). The isomorphism is:

EDEN ISRAEL

Adam Jews

Tree of knowledge Law

Tree of life Jesus

So in conclusion we now know that if Jehovah foresaw that millions of sinful man could not live up to the 600 laws of Moses (Lev 26:41), he most certainly also foresaw that one sinful man Adam would not be able to live up to the one law of Eden.

The word 'one' is appearing twice in close succession. This indicates a calculation (compare John 8:1-11 LS[91A], Rev 17:12,13 LS[53]). The calculation works as follows:

Bone of my bones 2 times

Flesh of my flesh 1 time

_________

This one actually has the famous form: 'A time, times and half a time' (Rev 12:14), although in this case it is actually: A flesh, bones and half a man! Paul has spoken on this subject also, he says:

'"For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and he will stick to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This sacred secret is great. Now I am speaking with respect to Christ and the congregation' (Ephesians 5:31,32).

Truly the most holy one is amazing. Paul, for his part, knew nothing of the greater meaning of what he was talking about here, because this was a sealed up thing, although this scripture does look like he did actually know, but that would be impossible because knowing the correspondence between Adam and Jesus gives you the date of Armageddon, mind you Paul did write this after Jesus said what he did at Matthew 24:36! He has just explicitly stated that Gen 2:24, is a sacred secret and that it is a parallel of Jesus and his congregation, the greater Adam and the greater Eve. Peter, the last Eve, was born again in Nisan 33 CE (John 20:22). Yes indeed, this sacred secret is truly great!

In fact this very scripture is a second witness to this period of 3.5 times:

'That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife, and they must become one flesh' (Gen 2:24).

The calculation here is:

Man 1 time

Father 1 time

Mother 1 time

Two become one .5 times

3.5 times

Adam said: 'this is at last bone of my bones'. This means that Eve lived for the last 3.5 years of Adam's life before he sinned. In other words if we take 'this one' i.e. 3.5 times 'from man' in particular from his age at his sin, then we get her birth. So we can now say that:

EVE WAS BORN IN TISHRI 3997

Poor old Eve was only three and a half when she sinned!! Mind you she was born a fully grown perfect woman. Satan must have thought that she was a sitting duck. We now arrive at a very interesting scripture:

'And both of them continued to be naked, the man and his wife, and yet they did not become ashamed' (verse 25).

The physical pictures the spiritual. Both Adam and Eve were spiritually naked, they had no knowledge of sin, they had no resistance to it, because they had never been exposed to it. They had no protection from any past experience of seeing sin. They got all of this when they ate from the tree. Then they were spiritually exposed, they realised that they were sinful and vulnerable. Then they were ashamed. When men and women are naked in public they feel ashamed. This physical feeling of shame before the eyes of men is symbolising their sinful condition before the eyes of the one from whom nothing can be hidden. Therefore we must follow the exhortation of Paul, who says:

'Clothe yourselves with the new personality, which through accurate knowledge is being made new according to the image of the one who created it' (Col 3:10).

Most of this chapter has been covered in section [3], we will just make two points. Firstly, Gen 3:20 says:

Yes, truly she did, but Adam was not to become the father of everyone living, he lost this privilege to Enoch (LS[104]). The scripture is, by omission, making this point! This bears a resemblance to Psalm 51:5: 'In sin my mother conceived me', David is speaking under inspiration as Methuselah here (LS[104]).

Secondly when Adam chose to eat from the tree of the knowledge of 'good and bad', he already had a knowledge of good, because he had been with Jehovah for 33.5 years previous to this sin. Jehovah is the only one who is good (Mat 19:17), so a knowledge of good, is equivalent to and in fact is the same statement as: a knowledge of God. Therefore he was not choosing to know any more about the good, he was actually choosing to know about the bad. We now know about bad! And to know about bad, one has to experience it. One cannot experience any bad thing from God, because he never does anything that is bad, because he is the very definition of good. As James says:

'With evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone' (James 1:13).

Therefore, in order to experience bad, Satan had to be released, to mess up mankind. So the tree of knowledge, was the tree of knowledge of Satan's works, which are the 'bad'. It was actually the key to release Satan. But Jesus, the tree of life, has been given the key to lock him back out once more.

'Now Adam had intercourse with Eve his wife and she became pregnant. In time she gave birth to Cain' (Gen 4:1).

Cryptically the meaning of this is that we should take the first sentence 'in time' and then we will get the date of Cain's birth. Well when Adam and Eve (his wife - as opposed to all of the other Eve's that this might have referred to) have intercourse, then the two become one flesh, so this, as we saw in the case of the birth of Eve, stands for half a time. When Eve became pregnant with Cain, then she had one more within herself, so this pregnancy is one time. Adding things up we have 1.5 times. Therefore Cain was born 1.5 times after Nisan 3993 BCE, i.e.:

CAIN WAS BORN IN TISHRI 3992 BCE

'Later, she again gave birth, to his brother Abel' (Gen 4:2).

She gave birth again! She gave birth a second time, this fact is actually mentioned twice: once in that the word 'again' is used, and once in that Abel is referred to as Cain's brother, which means that he is a further son of Eve (Gen 41:25,32, Amos 3:3-7, LS[2]). So Abel was born 2 times or 2 years after Cain. Therefore we now know that:

ABEL WAS BORN IN TISHRI 3990 BCE

So Jehovah himself has now revealed the most glorious of parallels:

True were the words of Paul when he said:

'Christ Jesus, who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all - this is what is to be witnessed to at its own particular times' (1 Tim 2:6).

We can now see these 'particular times' !

We have seen the corresponding events to Adam's birth, Adam's entrance into Eden, Eve's birth, Adam's sin and Abel's birth. It therefore remains for us to discover what corresponds with Cain's birth. We have already Seen that Peter is the last Eve (LS[91]). So Eve conceiving is Peter conceiving. Peter and the other ten apostles excepting Thomas, received holy spirit, and were born again on Nisan 16, which makes them good candidates for being firstfruits to the lamb. This we know because we read in John 20:19-23:

So Peter himself was inside the door before he applied the first key at Pentecost 33 CE. This key was the call to the Jews who were of the same nation (birth) as the disciples. All of this is the victory over sin and death through Jesus of the first ones of his wife, which corresponds with the defeat by sin and death of Eve, in Nisan 3993 CE. The second key, the Samaritan call would therefore correspond with the birth of Cain. We should expect that the Samaritans were first born again 18 months after Nisan 33 CE, i.e. in Tishri 34 CE. Well, in this regard we read in Acts 8:14-17:

Well 'their hands' have 20 fingers and so we have 20 times, but before this Peter and John (the owners of these fingers) were 'despatched' and 'went down' so we subtract the two times that they represent and get 18 times. Now, the heavens above are declaring that:

The earth goes round the sun one time every year

The moon goes round the earth one time every lunar month

The earth goes round itself one time every day

From this we can see that a time can be a day or a year or a month. In other words we have the bible rule of 'a month for a year', this we have seen before in 1 Chron 21:12 (LS[94]). So we can now say that:

THE SAMARITANS WERE FIRST CALLED IN TISHRI 34 CE.

What about the further parallel in the Lord's day. Well, we know that the first physical key was the call of the Jews, the second physical key was the call of the Samaritans and the third physical key was the call of the Gentiles. The first spiritual key was therefore the first call of the spiritual Jews, which lasted from Pentecost 33 CE until the end of the first baptism, i.e. Tishri 95 CE. The second spiritual key was the second call to spiritual Israel, the call of the second baptism, which started in Tishri 1895 CE and will end in Nisan 2001 CE. The third spiritual key we know was the calling of the spiritual Gentiles of the Great Crowd, which first started on September 13th 1922, at the end of the Cedar Point convention (see Dan 9:27 LS[74]). Therefore the greater Samaritan call is the call of the brothers of the second temple or second baptism. These ones are spiritual Samaritans in the sense that they are called second.

In fact the baptism of the Samaritans, being first of all 'in the name of the Lord Jesus' (Acts 8:16,17) and then later with holy spirit, through the laying on of hands, is prophetic of the second baptism of anointed Christians. These were first baptised in water, from around 1877 onwards, and then baptised by holy spirit in Tishri 1895 (LS[34]). It would be interesting to see when exactly Brother Russell was baptised, or when the first followers of his were.

For many years men have been speculating as to what the meaning of this number in Revelation 13:18 truly is. There are many stories of 'bad luck' associated with this number. The writer himself is humbled in awe at the open-handedness of the superlative one, who is now revealing the sacred secret of this number. The victory is his, our salvation is his and this secret is his. But what possession is there of his that he does not give freely to his children? whether they deserve it or not!

Well the first two verses of Genesis five say:

'In the day' of creation is mentioned twice. Therefore there is a greater day of creation, to which this account is also referring (Gen 41:25,32, Amos 3:3-7, LS[2]). in the first 'day' the were created male and female, in the greater day they were not, because they become angels. In the first day they were cursed, on account of their disobedience, in the greater day they are blessed on account of the undeserved kindness of the most holy one. The greater day is the Lord's day, and the greater creation, the one that is truly blessed, is that of the 144,000 brothers of Christ. Now we read in verses 3-5 that:

The rest of Genesis five takes a similar form. We see here a repetition of the total number of years of Adam's life, this is once mentioned as 130 plus 800 and once mentioned as 930. Let us make no mistake, this means that there is a greater meaning to the length of Adam's life, and his days of 930 years are standing for something more than just his days being 930 years. This figure of 930 is expressed in the verses as 130 plus the length of the remnant of his days after his firstborn (from the point of view of the line to Jesus). On the other hand, the remnant who follow after the firstborn of Jehovah are the remainder of the 144,000 who are left on the earth in the Lord's day.

Therefore we deduce that all of the ages of the Ancestors of Noah, as listed below, have something to do with the anointed remnant who are left on the Earth in the Lord's day. The ages are:

Adam 930

Seth 912

Enosh 905

Kenan 840

Mahalalel 895

Jared 962

Enoch 365

Methuselah 969

Lamech 777

At this point we notice that Lamech's age looks rather nice, it is 777 which represents a triply emphasised perfection, in the way that 666 represents a triply emphasised imperfection. We have hopefully by now learned that the spiritual follows the physical (1 Cor 15:46), and that the good follows the bad. So before we try to understand the greater meaning of the 777 years of Lamech's life, let us reconsider the 666 of Rev 13:16-18.

To unravel this, we start by considering the words: 'All persons: the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves'. This has a cryptic value of 12 times, because we have six plural groups who are 'all persons' (we are using the rule of a time, times and half a time - Rev 12:14, in the greater meaning - see LS[21.1]).

These persons (12 times) then get a mark (1 time) in their right hand (5 times) or on their forehead (1 time). So all of these persons (12 times) get these things (7 times). This represents 7 x 12 or 84 times. But then the account says, that nobody can buy or sell except a 'person' having the mark (1 time), the name of the wild beast (1 time) or the number of its name (1 time). Since we have been cryptically told to consider 'all persons' we also consider this phrase which has the value of -3 times, because nobody could buy or sell 'except' these ones. Well the whole sum is therefore:

7 X 12 - 3 = 81 times

Now the league of Nation was first formed on June 28, 1919 (YW p206), which means that its first regnal year started in Nisan 1920. 81 years after this is Nisan 2001. This is when everybody is put under compulsion, because this is when the UN takes worldwide power after the manner of Nimrod, who put a lot of people under compulsion himself! In fact the mark in the hand or on the forehead, which itself stands for 7 times, as we saw above, is also standing for the length of the period of this compulsion, which is 7 years, from Nisan 2001 until Nisan 2008. The Image of the wild beast (Rev 13:14,15), breathes for 81 regnal years before it compels!

So Judge Rutherford was right! The image of the wild beast was the League of Nations, the bible predicts its first regnal year!

This number of 666 is said to be both 'a man's number' and 'the number of the wild beast'. This is saying to us that there are two things which this number relates to. We will consider first the number of the wild beast.

The scriptures have told us that there is a compulsion from the UN which is made in Nisan 2001, which is that everybody should have the mark of the UN on their forehead or on their right hand. As an enforcement procedure for the carrying of this mark, it is impossible to but or sell without having either the mark of the beast, the name of the beast or the number of its name. The writer, for his part, does not know what exactly this mark is going to be but there is one aspect of it which is discernible. This mark is said to be: 'the name of the wild beast, or the number of its name'. This statement is very clever, the 'number of its name' will be the means of buying or selling. A means of buying or selling is a means of exchange. The only means of exchange we use today is money. It is as Jesus said to the Pharisees:

'Who's image and inscription is this?' (Mat 22:20).

This mark of the wild beast therefore could well be a UN currency. Which of the first seven kings of this world did not have a currency, bearing his image? The 'number' of its name, would then actually mean the right 'number' of marks of the wild beast to pay for the thing being bought or sold. It is even possible that this will be the UN mark, rather than the UN dollar. In other words it may be tied to the Deutchemark initially!

We are not saying here that the Mark of the beast is solely the appearance of a UN currency, because mere possession of such a currency would not make one liable for Gehenna (Rev 14:10). But certainly the UN will have a currency, and it is suggested that this will carry its mark or insignia. Furthermore, this currency will be created by Nisan 2001, and a fondness for this currency is not recommended. This is not the whole answer to the earthly meaning of 666, no doubt the true God will reveal the whole picture to one of his servants at his appointed time!

If the reader is surprised at the first meaning, the earthly meaning of the mark of the beast, or such parts of the meaning that we so far can see, then he will be astounded at the heavenly meaning of its number. The revealing of this heavenly meaning is what Isaiah means by a truly wonderful act from Jehovah (Isaiah 29:14). Revelation 13:18 says:

Well, who in the bible is attributed wisdom and intelligence?

'And God continued giving Solomon wisdom and understanding in very great measure....And he was wiser than any other man......And he could speak 3,000 proverbs and all his songs came to be 1,005' (1 Kings 4:29-32).

Yes it is Solomon, but where does Solomon calculate 666?

'And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year amounted up to 666 talents of gold, apart form the men of travel and the profit from the traders and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the land' (1 Kings 10:14,15).

If all of this gold 'amounted up' to 666 talents, then somebody must have done a calculation. The first thing we notice is that gold was effectively the means of exchange in the days of Solomon, which is in harmony with the earthly meaning of 666. The second thing we notice is that gold is mentioned twice in verse 14 which means that there is a greater type of gold that this verse is referring to (Gen 41:25,32, Amos 3:3-7, LS[2]). Now 1 Kings 10 is incredibly prophetic and contains a lot of the greater 'wisdom of Solomon' as does 2 Chronicles 9, the second witness. We are not going to look at this now, because it has to do with the covenant of Keturah (see section [21]. However, the writer would point out that the conclusion of LS is actually prophesied in advance at 1 Kings 10:10 and by 1 Kings 10:24,25. The former scripture says:

The 120 talents of gold, are the 120 years of the faithful and discreet slave of the corporate body of the Watchtower society, from Tishri/Chislev 1884 to Tishri 2004. This slave was appointed on Nisan 14, 1918, when he was 33.5 years old (LS[106]). The Balsam oil is all of the sweet smelling and illuminating understandings (especially about the anointed ones) presented in the 'letter', the precious stones are the likes of the rights of the firstborn (LS[8]) and the Midst prophecy (LS[40]). 1 Kings 10:24,25, has the meaning that the 'letter' should have arrived in Elul 1992, 12 years before the Society is closed down, in Elul 2004 (the gift stands for 12 times). This is when it arrived. Furthermore these verses show that 'all the people of the earth' are going to present similar gifts to the heavenly Jesus Christ, this was a part of the conclusion of the 'letter'.

Having reviewed all of this we can understand that the 666 talents of gold represent 666 anointed brothers. These go to Solomon in one year 'apart from' the gold from:

'The men of travel and the profit from the traders and all the Kings of the Arabs and the governors of the land' (1 Kings 10:15 NWT).

'The men of travel and the merchants who were bringing in and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the land who were bringing in gold and silver to Solomon' (2 Chron 9:14 NWT).

'Besides from men of the ones being merchants and revenue of the ones trading and all of Kings of the Arab and governors of the land' (1 Kings 10:15, NIV Hebrew interlinear).

'Besides from men of the ones being merchants and the ones trading ones bringing and all of the Kings of Arabia and governors of the land ones bringing gold and silver to Solomon' (2 Chron 9:14).

All of the above translations highlight one of the problems of counting lists of things in the bible, because one needs to know all of the correct modes of the words in the original Hebrew to get the correct count, and there are precious few bible translations that have this sort of accuracy. For example the NWT, which is most excellent, translates the 'Kings of the Arab' as the 'Kings of the Arabs'. The former expression having a value of 2 times but the latter has a value of 4 times. In fact all through the NWT where the Hebrew has a people in the singular, the NWT seems to translates this as a plural e.g. in 2 Chron 8:7 NWT says: 'All the people that were left over of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites', whereas the Hebrew interlinear (NIV) has 'All of the people the one being left from the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite'.

WE NEED A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE WHICH IS MODE INVARIANT THROUGHOUT

In fact to fully grasp all of the cryptic meanings of the bible we need an exact literal translation, even if this sounds like nonsense in the modern speech idiom. Returning to the four translations above, 'all' refers to both the 'kings of the Arab' and the 'governors of the land', because this is how the Hebrew is written, and the writer has seen this sort of thing before elsewhere (Lower Beth-horon LS5). Also the Hebrew itself has 'the men of the ones being merchants' rather than simply the 'merchants' in both Kings and Chronicles. So the best guess that we can make on the value is:

Men of merchants 4 times

Traders 2 times

All the kings of the Arab 4 times

All the governors of the land 4 times

_______

Total 14 times

We are employing the rule of a time, times and half a time (Rev 12:14, LS[21.1]). 'All the men' is four times rather than two times, because it is 'some of the men' plus 'the rest of the men', again the writer has seen this meaning of 'all' many times.

So the number of gold talents, 666, has a meaning 'apart from' the gold that arrives in the last 14 years. This extra gold is something that we are not ready to look at yet. Let us therefore look at the heavenly meaning of this, because as the true God says:

"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:9).

This meaning is that, 666 of the anointed remnant (golden ones) will die, thereby going to the greater Solomon of the heavenly Jesus Christ, 'in one year'. The question is: which year? The answer can be found in Genesis chapter 5! We are finally in a position to consider this chapter! The ages of Adam and his descendants were:

Adam 930

Seth 912

Enosh 905

Kenan 910

Mahalalel 895

Jared 962

Enoch 365

Methuselah 969

Lamech 777

So we have 9 numbers here, which we have already established are to do with the anointed remnant in the Lord's day. Now these nine humans were the first ones. But Jesus has told us that: 'many that are first shall be last' (Mark 10:31). And the same one has said in Matthew 20:16:

So there are many ways in which the first will be last. It is here suggested that we have just found another of them! Following our heavenly understanding of the number 666, let us see what happens if we take these nine numbers of the years of the first dead humans, as the numbers of anointed who die in the last nine years between the last ten memorials at which we still have partakers on the earth. In other words, between the memorial in 1995 and the one in 2004. We then deduce the following:

1995 - 1996 930 die

1996 - 1997 912 die

1997 - 1998 905 die

1998 - 1999 910 die

1999 - 2000 895 die

2000 - 2001 962 die

2001 - 2002 Enoch (365) who did not die

2002 - 2003 969 die

2003 - 2004 777 die

We have a problem with Enoch, because he did not die. In other words we are left with one year, in fact the first year of absolute power of the UN, after the manner of Nimrod (LS[53,54,54]), for which we do not have a number for the all the anointed ones who die. This is the 'one year' of 1 Kings 10:14 it is suggested. The year in which 666 finish their earthly course therefore corresponds with the year of Enoch. So we do not use Enoch's age at his transference for number who die in this year, instead we employ the figure of 666. This number of the anointed will therefore be a mark for the year in which the UN takes absolute power, and puts everybody under compulsion. It is actually the heavenly mark for this event! It is of course a very good mark for such an event because as stated it represents triple imperfection. But what do we do with the 365 years of Enoch in this case? Well, there is a little period from Nisan 2004 until Tishri 2004, that is left over, and the brothers who die during this time, basically shoot straight up into heaven, being resurrected on Tishri 17 of the same year, so they follow the closest after the pattern of Enoch. We therefore take his age of 365 as being the number of anointed who die between Nisan and Tishri of 2004 CE.

The upshot of this is that we now know all of the memorial figures for the last ten memorials at which partakers will be present, and these are:

1995 7361 + 930 8291 Adam

1996 6449 + 912 7361 Seth

1997 5544 + 905 6449 Enosh

1998 4634 + 910 5544* Kenan

1999 3739 + 895 4634 Mahalalel

2000 2777 + 962 3739 Jared

2001 2111 + 666* 2777 * Solomon

2002 1142 + 969 2111 Methusaleh

2003 365 + 777* 1142 Lamech

2004 365* 365* Enoch

If we add up all of those who die between Nisan 1995 and Nisan 2004, we get a figure of 7,926 (8,291 - 365 = 7926). Whereas, we know from Daniel chapter 5, that 8,000 will die between Tishri 1995 and Tishri 2004 (See LS[58]). This is a very good agreement. It is also very noticeable that 777 appears as the last three digits of 2777, the number of anointed who are left in Nisan 2001. This is the month when the last one of the third baptism is baptised (Dan 9:27, LS[74]), and 7 stands for divine temporal completeness (LS [47]). Nisan 2001 is the time-wise completion of Jehovah's perfect plan as regards his sealing of his chosen ones from all three baptism, hence the 777 part. Furthermore the last week is the second fulfilment of the three maledictions of the Exedenic, Alienation and Gentile Times (LS[76]). Each of these three maledictions, being seven times long, is fulfilled a second time (i.e. 2nd 7x of Kingship and 7x of priestwise and 7x of Exedenic maledictions) in the week of years starting on Nisan 14, 2001, on which day there will be 2777 anointed ones left!

'O the depth of God's wisdom and riches and knowledge......To him be the glory forever, Amen' (Rom 11:33-36).

Furthermore, the seventh watch starts in Nisan 2003, this is the final watch and is led by the greater Benaiah who is a third baptism brother, hence 777. This is when the Great Crowd really becomes 'Great'. They will battle physically with the UN, who are symbolised by 666, i.e.. the 777 class will fight with the 666 class. But the 777 class have Jehovah and Jesus and spiritual Israel fighting for them, so they will prevail. The number 777 is a witness to the divine temporal completion of Jehovah's plan to overcome sin and death and Satan. Also we know that Jesus comes after 7 times, and we know that he comes after 77 times, so now he is coming at Armageddon visibly after 777 times, in that the 7th watch begins with 777 anointed brothers dying in its first year.

Finally the number at the 1998 memorial, which will be very exciting, is 5544. Well, two fives are ten, the ten kings (horns), and two fours are 8, the eighth king (Rev 17:11,12), putting these together as they are in 5544, we get the ten kings who become the eighth king! The final number of 365 is the total and true and complete number of days in a solar year or time. Now Jesus is the greater luminary as we have seen, even 'the light of the world' (John 8:12), the Sun physicalises him, just as Enoch did. So, the last year of the death of his brothers is the Sun's time, which is his time, i.e. a complete solar year a day for a brother, rather than the incomplete Hebrew Calendar.

In other words before he had completed the measure of his resurrected brothers we had an incomplete measure of solar time, but once he finally completes their resurrection, to their full measure of 144,000, then we have a fully complete measure of solar time (and we have finally eclipsed the Hebrew calendar - Amen). Putting this another way, the temporal completion of the heavenly victory by Jesus (the Sun) over Satan (the moon) is represented by a change from the Lunar calendar (of Satan) to the Solar calendar (of Jesus), i.e. we are now in Jesus-time (as regards heaven) rather than Satan-time. These numbers are very beautiful, the writer does hope that he has not made any mistakes here.

Whilst these numbers are the exact numbers of those who die faithful between memorials, they are not of necessity the exact numbers of the partakers, because various anointed ones may be ill or in hospital, and congregations may make mistakes etc. The writer does not know whether the true God will compensate for this so that the memorial figures will be an exact reflection of the numbers of deaths in the year and therefore exactly hit the divinely predetermined figures above (assuming that the writer has added them up correctly that is!). In any event they will not be far out! This will be a magnificent display of divine power. Paul has told us that faith is:

'The assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld' (Heb `11:1).

But now, by the open-handedness of God, we have the prospect of a new faith, namely: the evident demonstration of realities which are beheld ! All of this we will see God-willing. What a future Jehovah has in store!

'Now it came about that when men started to grow in numbers on the surface of the ground and daughters were born to them, then.......' (Gen 6:1).

We have seen 'heavy in numbers' in Nahum 3:15, which referred to the one occurrence of the word 'heavy' in the book of Numbers, at Numbers 11:14 (LS[52]). We now have the second of these cryptic references, which are the writer's favourite, they are truly a wonderful act of Jehovah (Isaiah 29;14). There is only one incidence of the word 'grow' in Numbers, and it occurs at Numbers 6:5:

'All the days of the vow of his Naziriteship, no razor should pass over his head, until the days that he should be separated to Jehovah come to the full, he should prove holy by letting the locks of his hair grow.'

We will now discover that there are 3 fulfilments to the 120 year period of Genesis 6:3. One literal, one in the time of Moses, and one in the last days. We start with the latter, the 120 years of the faithful and discreet slave, the greater 'Nazirite class'.

Now whereas Numbers 6:5 is referring to the full length of time before the Nazirite ended his separation to Jehovah, Genesis 6:3 is referring to the full length of time before the greater Nazirites of the anointed brothers of the faithful and discreet slave all finally end their separation to Jehovah as men who are set apart as a special possession, and end their separation from Jehovah by becoming angels. This time being measured from the birth of this faithful slave, which was in Tishri/Chislev 1884 CE, when the Watchtower Society was incorporated. Because Genesis 6:2 reads (LXX):

This was a disgusting thing, but the true God is using the disgusting to symbolise the righteous, he is using the defiled to symbolise the undefiled, he is using the violated wives of the fallen angels and their sons, the Nephilim, to symbolise the virgins who are to be the wife of the Christ. Just as he uses the beautiful earth to symbolise the dark administration of the Demons, just as he uses Belshazzar when tipsy to represent his firstborn son and when sober to represent Satan (Dan 5:2 (Jesus), 5:22 (Satan), LS[58]). Jehovah does not hide evil, like the prudes, rather he is facing it, and he is teaching us to be good by fully exposing us to what is bad!!!

The greater meaning of verse two above is therefore that the angels are choosing the remainder of the bride of the Christ. Furthermore we read in verse 3:

The first meaning is that mankind at the time of this pronouncement (Nisan 2488 BCE - LS[9,10,11]), had 120 years left (taken as an age - LS[24.2]) before the flood. The second meaning of this is that the anointed ones of the second temple, to whom Jehovah's holy spirit has acted in bearing them a witness that they are sons of his, even the ones who are spirit begotten and are 'also flesh', will all die, to twinkle, within 120 years of the birth of the faithful and discreet slave in Tishri/Chislev 1884. This is why we read in the next verse:

The spiritual hybrids of the anointed, the greater mighty ones, the greater Conquerors of the Nephilim, are the ones who partake in the second fulfilment of this verse, i.e. the fulfilment not 'in those days' but the fulfilment 'after that'. This is why we were cryptically referred to the account of the Nazirites in Numbers 6:5. But there is yet one further fulfilment of these verses and it is by Moses, the typical and first anointed faithful and discreet slave of Jehovah. Moses was the anointed one of the first coming of Jesus, Jesus himself was the anointed one at his second coming, and the faithful and discreet slave today is the anointed one during his third coming, which is his second presence (LS[60]), which is still in progress, and ends at his revealing on Sivan 29, 2008 CE. May that day come soon! Now as mentioned in LS[106], Moses prefigured the faithful and discreet slave, he was the meekest by far, he lived exactly 120 years, and no man, who died after Moses died, has lived or could live any longer than 120 years, in this system of things. This is the third meaning of Genesis 6:3.

Summarising this we have:

[1] First: One year old Male and female lambs (with their grain and drink offerings) for sin and burnt offerings

[2] Second: Ram (with its grain and drink offering) for communion sacrifice, together with a basket of:

[a] Unfermented ring shaped cakes