G.S. Ritchie: 39 Gun Wharf, 130 Wapping High Street, London E1 9NH, Tel/Fax: 01 44 171 265 1096

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Dear Ray, Roger, Tony, Anthony, John, Howard & Isaac,

As you may know I have now written 6 letters to the governing body in Brooklyn. I do not know what happened to the first one that I gave to Tony, but as regards the other five they have all been confirmed by one of the governing body's secretaries as having arrived. In fact he (the secretary) has been acting as a kind of direct channel for my letters to them, obviously with their authority. Really I am in a very strange position with the faithful slave. I am still free to write directly to them, they have not asked me to write through you, but I have taken it upon myself to do so this time because the things that I have to divulge have a local dimension.

Since my second letter, which was actually a 400 page book with two chronological charts, reached them on 1992Elul11, it has been my desire to write to them direct rather than through you because I did not want to burden you with vast numbers of deep understandings or misunderstandings as the case may be. In fact in my 5th letter I begged the FDS (Faithful & Discreet Slave) to answer me before the memorial so that I would not have to burden you, (this is what I spoke to you about Roger), but they did not and so now you will become party to the fruits of 2 and a bit years of my research. And I am very grateful to Roger for allowing me to continue writing to them directly.

This research will create a storm, and I beg you to be a hiding place for me in this storm, and not to run for cover when you see the storm coming but rather to provide cover for me, for you are my shepherds. Shepherds spring into action when they see a storm. I dare say that a storm of this type is the last thing that you would wish to occur right now, but as Jesus said when he was facing the last thing that he wanted to occur, your will not mine. I will try and make this as succinct and straightforward as possible - I have made an index on page 4.

To hopefully set your mood for your reading of this letter may I recount an experience recently when I appeared before an unrighteous high court judge, to try to have him overturn a decision by a high court master? I represented myself and my first words to him were something like:

I was basically asking him to throw away man's rule book and examine my request with Jehovah's rule book, which for him which was his own conscience. He consented, and he granted my request too, he overturned the high court master's decision.

I find myself in a not dissimilar position with you 7 brothers. For well I know that there are those among you who believe that it is impossible for any man to understand any verse in the bible correctly before the FDS does. Since they are his feeding channel. However I would point out that is manifestly an incorrect view because you are all also aware that men have actually left the society because they saw something before the FDS did, and then later, when the FDS published this thing that the disassociated man saw first, this one did not return. This proves that even unfaithful brothers can see things in the bible before the FDS sees them.

You may also feel that a man who acts on his own understanding of the bible rather than on an understanding which he has been given by the FDS is running ahead and he should 'wait on Jehovah'. If you feel that way, then I will make only two attempts to change your mind before we start.

There is only one incidence of the phrase 'running ahead' in the bible, it reads:

And the very hand of Jehovah proved to be upon Elijah, so that he girded his hips and went running ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel (1 Kings 18:46).

The prophet ran ahead of the king, the one sitting on Jehovah's throne, the administrative head of God's people at the time, or of 10 tribes of them. This was not an unrighteous act. I wonder what you would have said to Elijah had you stumbled across him doing this?

There are only two incidences of the phrase 'ran ahead' in the bible, they read:

Yes, the two together began to run, but the other disciple ran ahead of Peter with greater speed and reached the memorial tomb first (John 20:4).

So he ran ahead to an advance position and climbed a fig mulberry-tree in order to see him, because he was about to go through that way (Luke 19:4).

There is no incidence of the phrase 'run ahead' in the bible, not in our translation anyway.

So if you wish to condemn Elijah, the apostle John and little Zacchaeus, then by all means maintain this doctrine. But please remember that Jesus' response to the one who ran ahead and climbed a tree so that he could see things a bit more clearly, was to go and eat in his home, and at that meal he said to the little man:

This day salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham (Luke 19:9).

For though small was his stature, and chequered was his past, big was his heart, which for a tax inspector is really something, and this is certainly a scripture with a further fulfilment. Secondly please consider the example of the unrighteous judge of the high court. He was prepared to forego his unrighteous rules, the contrivances of Lords of England, and he instead took the counsel of Nicodemus who said: Do not judge a man until first you have heard from him. The unrighteous judge did not prejudge me.

Please, therefore, extend me the same courtesy. Please judge this letter on the basis of God's righteous rule book for his people, the bible. Not on any preconceptions you may have on how the holy spirit should be restricted and how Jehovah's hand should be cut short and how certain things are too extraordinary even for him. It is altogether a failure for God's people that I should have to make a request like this today of the shepherds of a nation who were once called international bible students, but nevertheless I do make it with all sincerity.

In this letter 29Tishri10 means Tishri 10th, 29CE. I write dates in this shorthand, you'll understand why when you see how many I am writing! Incidentally most dates are described in terms of the prophetic lunar Hebrew Calendar, which is nicely illustrated in appendix 8B of the reference bible, and I have put a copy of this in Fig2.

[1] 8 The code of the bible

[2] 10 Some Chronological things that the decoding reveals

[3] 13 Some elements of the code

[3.1] 13 Binary Questions

[3.2] 15 Every scripture has a further fulfilment

[3.3] 17 Repetition in the bible: 2 recitals means 2 fulfilments

[3.4] 19 Numeric Symbolism

[3.5] 19 Omission symbolism

[3.6] 20 Distributive symbolism

[3.7] 21 Reader Questions, from the holy spirit

[4] 21 7 Jelly Babies for 7 Elders

RAY'S JELLY BABY

[5] 23 The Midst prophecy

[5.1] 24 The end of the Abrahamic Covenant

[5.2] 27 Jesus' death bisects the Abrahamic Covenant

[5.3] 29 The second witness to the Midst prophecy & the length of the

[5.4] 31 The third witness to the Midst prophecy

ROGER'S JELLY BABY

[6] 32 The Gentile times, the Alienation times & the Exedenic times

[6.1] 32 Introduction

[6.2] 33 The 3 rights of God's people from Adam to Rutherford

[6.3] 34 Adam's family

[6.4] 37 The family unit under law

[6.5] 38 The nation of Israel under law

[6.6] 39 Spiritual Israel & the Great Crowd

[6.7] 41 The 3 Rights/Blessings and the 3 Maledictions

[6.8] 42 The Exedenic times

[6.9] 43 The cursing of the ground due to Adam

[6.10] 44 The curse on Adam due to his banishment from Eden

[6.11] 45 The length of the Exedenic times

[6.12] 48 The second witness to the length of the Exedenic times: Miriam

[6.13] 50 Roger's Jelly Baby

[6.14] 52 The full beauty of Roger's baby

[6.15] 52 What is Baptism?

[6.16] 59 The baptism into the name of the Father: Goodbye to the trinity

[6.17] 62 The baptism into the name of the holy spirit

[6.18] 62 The 3 baptisms into Abraham, the Lord Jesus & the holy spirit

[6.19] 65 The baptism into Moses

[6.20] 68 The righteous decree in the flesh, faith perfected works, and

[6.21] 70 The Priesthood malediction of the Alienation times

[6.22] 73 The end of the Alienation times

[6.23] 75 The beginning of the Alienation times

[6.24] 76 The length of the Alienation times

[6.25] 76 The first witness: The Sabbath debt release

[6.26] 76 The second witness: The Jubilee

[6.27] 77 The enmity of the Alienation times

[6.28] 78 The third witness: The festival of Cakes

[6.29] 79 The 3 annual festivals and the 3 maledictions

[6.30] 80 The 3 maledictions of Balaam

[6.31] 81 The Rainbow Covenant

ISAAC'S JELLY BABY

[7] 85 The Pattern

[7.1] 87 Cestius arrived on 66Tishri22

[7.2] 88 Jesus was born on Tishri 10th 2BCE

[7.3] 88 Jesus was baptised on Tishri 10th 29CE

[7.4] 93 The first Adam & the last Adam

[7.4.1] 94 The corresponding ransom

[7.5] 94 Isaac's Jelly Baby

[7.6] 98 The full beauty of Isaac's baby

ANTHONY'S JELLY BABY

[8] 104 The first and second baptisms and the Apostate times

[8.1] 104 The heavenly Locust

[8.2] 109 James: The first 2 baptisms

[8.3] 109 The wheat & the weeds & 2 baptisms

[8.4] 110 The feeding of the 5,000, the 4,000 & the 144,000

[8.5] 115 The Constant Feature and Jesus' presence

[8.6] 115 The Parable of the Sower, the 3 intermediate heavenly

[8.7] 121 Matthew 20: The 5 calls of the first and second baptisms

[8.8] 123 Acts 10: 3 Calls, 3 Baptisms & 96 hours

[8.9] 127 John 11: The resurrection of Lazarus after 4 days

[8.10] 128 Jeremiah 52: 400 Pomegranates, 96 to windward

[8.11] 129 Adam's 2 firstborn sons

[8.12] 130 Anthony's Jelly Baby

[8.13] 130 Haggai: The second temple to Armageddon

[8.14] 133 Ezra 7 & 8: The return from Babylon to heavenly Jerusalem

TONY'S JELLY BABY

[9] 137 The 10 times of Laban's times

[9.1] 145 Numbers 14: The second witness to Laban's times

HOWARD'S JELLY BABY

[10] 145 The 90 years of the separating times

[10.1] 148 The end of the Jewish system in the first presence of the Christ

[10.2] 150 The status of Josephus' work

[10.3] 152 The fall of Jerusalem

[10.4] 157 Daniel chapter 12

[10.5] 162 Apologies to Howard

[10.6] 164 Revelation 11: The 1260 days

[10.7] 167 Howard's Jelly Baby

[10.8] 167 The Daniel 6 flavour

[10.9] 169 The Luke 12 flavour

[10.10] 172 The Matthew 24 flavour

[10.11] 172 The Luke 17 flavour

[10.12] 172 Daniel 12: The final 1260 days

[10.13] 173 Revelation 12

[10.14] 177 Daniel 12: The 1290 days & the 1335 days

[10.15] 178 Genesis 18: The 150 days of Armageddon

[10.16] 185 The first century fulfilments of the 1290 & 1335 days

[10.17] 186 The 1290 days of the Society do not work & the 1335 days of

[10.18] 189 The 1335 days of the great tribulation

[10.19] 189 The 1365 days & the ransom of Numbers 3

[10.20] 193 The first century fulfilment of the 1365 days

[10.21] 194 The second modern day fulfilment of the 1365 days

[10.22] 196 The structure of Armageddon

JOHN'S JELLY BABY

[11] 197 The Covenant of the Circumcision, John's Jelly Baby

MY JELLY BABY

[12] 199 The third baptism & the covenant of Keturah, the second new

[12.1] 200 3 Hidden sub-covenants of the Abrahamic covenant

[12.2] 202 The Covenant of Keturah

[12.3] 206 3 Covenants with Abraham, Isaac & Jacob

[12.4] 206 Jeremiah 31 & Hebrews 8: The 2 new covenants

[12.5] 211 Did Jesus partake at the last supper?

[12.6] 213 What cup did Jesus accept at the last supper?

[12.7] 216 The lamb, the bread, the wine, the bitter greens & the cakes

[12.8] 220 3 Impalements and 3 ransoms

[12.9] 221 Acts 10: The 3 baptisms revisited

[12.10] 222 Matthew 13:33: 3 Seah measures of flour

[12.11] 223 Faith, Hope & Love

THE CIRCUIT OVERSEER'S JELLY BABY

[13] 224 An extra Jelly Baby for Ted Wright and our new Circuit Overseer

[14] 229 Conclusion

FIGURE 1: 232 Josephus' chronology of the fall of Jerusalem

FIGURE 2: 242 Society's Hebrew Calendar

APPENDIX [1] 234 Going deep into Genesis 4

APPENDIX [1.1] 234 Cain's recital of his penalty

APPENDIX [1.2] 237 Jehovah's recital of the penalty

APPENDIX [2] 237 How the Jews count age

APPENDIX [3] 239 The Chronology of early Genesis

[1] THE CODE OF THE BIBLE

In the 18th Century the Reverend John Brown saw that the 7 times of Daniel 4 were 2,520 years (Proclaimers book). In 1875 or thereabouts brother Russell saw that this period ended in 1914Tishri, he actually thought it ended on Tishri10, atonement day, for on that day he announced to the Brooklyn congregation that the Gentile Times had ended. In fact it ended on Tishri15, the first day of Booths, see section[6.29] in Roger's Jelly baby.

It is amazing to me, with hindsight, and it is miraculous to me with insight that this decoding work stopped there. For it is certainly apparent that Daniel 4 is a piece of coded prophecy and that these men have successfully decoded it and that this piece of decoding was the physical motivation for Charles Russell to found the Watchtower Society. It is further apparent that the part of the code that they discovered is that in the bible the word 'times' can stand for periods of 360 years. And it is apparent that they applied this part of the code only to one chapter of the book of Daniel, and only to one book of the bible.

Why did nobody think of applying this rule to any other chapters of the bible, in particular any of the following scriptures?

For that reason anyone killing Cain must suffer vengeance 7 times (Gen 4:15).

This makes 20 years for me in your house. I have served you 14 years for your 2 daughters and 6 years for your flock, and you kept changing my wages 10 times (Gen 31:41).

But he would increase the size of Benjamin's portion 5 times the size of all the others (Gen 43:34).

And the priest must dip his finger in the blood and spatter some of the blood 7 times before Jehovah in front of the curtain of the holy place (Lev 4:6).

I shall then have to walk in heated opposition to you, and I, yes I, shall have to chastise you 7 times for your sins (Lev 26:28).

And there are many other incidences of a specific number of 'times' in the scriptures. I have chosen the above 5 because they all have a fulfilment taking a time as 360 years. During the course of this letter the reader will see what most of these are. The point is that since the whole book, the bible, has the same author, it is all written in the same code.

This decoding of 'times' is an elementary generalisation of the work started by Brown and Russell. But the work goes much, much further than this. For the scripture says:

There is nothing hidden except for the purpose of being exposed, nothing has become carefully concealed but for the purpose of coming into the open (Mark 4:22).

There is nothing carefully concealed that will not be revealed, and secret that will not become known (Luke 12:2).

As Daniel said: He is revealing the deep things and the concealed things (Dan 2:22).

And as Paul said: Carefully concealed in him are all the treasures of wisdom and of knowledge (Col 2:3).

And he was referring to the Christ who is also the word of God which is also the bible. And we have the famous proverb:

If you keep seeking for it as for silver and as for hid treasures you keep searching for it, in that case you will understand the fear of Jehovah, and you will find the very knowledge of God (Proverbs 2:5).

Things are not as they were in the days of Moses when the manna just fell from heaven. Today it is concealed, it is hidden manna (Rev 2:17). What these scriptures are saying is that everything in the bible will eventually be understood, and this will occur in this system because the scripture says:

Then he opened up their minds fully to grasp the meaning of the scriptures (Luke 24:45).

And if he did it for his first century disciples before the end of their system of things, he will likewise do it for the twentieth century disciples before the end of their system of things.

[2] SOME CHRONOLOGICAL THINGS THAT THE DECODING REVEALS

The day of Adam's creation

The day of his being placed in the garden of Eden

The day of Eve's creation

The day that Adam sinned

The day that Adam first slept with Eve!

The day that Cain was born

The day that Abel was born

The day that Cain killed Abel

The day that Jesus was born

The day that Jesus was baptised

The day of the Samaritan call

The day of the Gentile call

The month in which the last first century brother was sanctified

The month in which the last first century brother was sealed

The month in which the last first century brother died

The month in which brother Russell was sanctified

The month in which the sanctification of the 20th century bros. ended

The month in which the sealing of the 20th century brothers ended

The month in which the great crowd was first called

The day on which brother Russell was resurrected

The day of which brother Rutherford was resurrected

The day of which brother Knorr will be resurrected

The day on which the last anointed brother will die

The day on which the last anointed brother will be resurrected

The number of partakers at each memorial from 1995 to 2004

The day when the cry of peace and security goes up

The day on which we took Jehovah's name - this is prophesied

The month when the UN becomes the 8th king

The month when UN takes absolute power over the whole planet

The month in which Babylon the great is finally destroyed

The last day of the Abrahamic covenant

The last day of Satan's system

The first day of the kingdom of God

The whole timetable for Armageddon from the first to the last day of it

The day when the great crowd are released from their adamic bodies.

The timetable of the great tribulation from the first day to the last

The whole resurrection timetable into the new system, when David is resurrected,

when Abraham is resurrected, when Moses is resurrected, when Noah is

resurrected, when Abel is resurrected when William Tyndale is resurrected etc.

The exact number of physical Jews who became part of the 144,000

The exact number of heavenly brothers baptised in the first century

The exact number of heavenly brothers baptised since the founding of the Society

The number of ex-human angels in heaven today - it has been the same for the last 38 years

We will look at evidence for many of the above in the sections of this letter. Obviously these claims raise many questions such as how can a man know the date of Armageddon? These we will address, but permit me please to show off here. I am not doing it to glorify myself, I am doing it because I wish to make an impact and to establish some credibility with your souls so that you will listen to me.

Later in this letter I am going hopefully to prove to you from the scriptures that the heavenly baptism has ended, that all of the 144,000 are now sealed and that a new baptism in holy spirit has begun, the baptism of the 220 Nethinim, the ones who will be the princes over the earth. And I will further assert that I have a position amongst them and that I myself am anointed, having been sanctified on 1991Tishri17. I did not know this at the 1992 Memorial. I did know it at the 1993 memorial but I did not think that I had to partake last year because my baptism is not the same as that of the heavenly brothers, I am not a party to their covenant. However this year I did partake at the memorial in a new fashion, and this is why I am writing to you, to let you know what I have been doing. This letter is to establish my claim. If I was simply claiming to be anointed in the heavenly baptism I would not have to write to you at all. But I am not making that claim, hence I need not only to make a claim but also to explain what it is that I am actually claiming.

Please do not be afraid of the dates referred to above, they are only a fraction of the good news that the bible contains. They are just dates. The bible is full of numbers for which we not only have no greater meaning but for which it is not at all apparent why we would need to know them in the first place even in the literal meaning. Take for example the account of Jacob's crossing the Jabbok:

And from what came to his hand he proceeded to take a gift for Esau, his brother: 200 she goats, 20 he goats, 200 female sheep and 20 rams, 30 camels giving suck and their young ones, 40 cows and 10 bulls, 20 she asses and 10 full grown asses (Gen 32:13-15).

Fine so he took over all these animals, but why do we need to know the precise numbers of them? Would it have mattered if he had only had 29 camels, or if a couple of them were not giving suck? Or take the account of the assassination of Gedaliah at the start of the Gentile Times in Jeremiah 40, 41. In this account Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama is referred to as 'Ishmael the son of Nethaniah' 14 times, 'Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama' one time and plain old 'Ishmael' 7 times. Why is this? Furthermore Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan is referred to as 'Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan' 4 times and 'Gedaliah the son of Ahikam' 9 times. Is the holy spirit forgetting that it has told us the genealogy of these men several times already? Why did Jehovah have us carry around all of this excess paper and writing for 2500 years after the death of Jeremiah? Does he have shares in the scroll manufacturers?

It is not only me who is asking these questions of Jesus' disciples today, it is Jesus who is asking them , for he said to his disciples in the first century:

With that he said to them: Do you not yet get the meaning? (Mark 8:18-21).

But he wasn't only talking to them. And this account was not put in the bible for their benefit, for it is us who do not yet understand the significance of these numbers. We are the ones not seeing, the ones not hearing, if we are his disciples, for this is what the account is saying. Jesus himself, the fine shepherd, is saying, prophesying, that we are deaf and blind numerically, see section [3.4]. We look at the meaning of some of this in section [8.4].

Yes, these accounts must be written in a code, for Jehovah wastes nothing, he is the very epitome of efficiency. What this means is that there is no useless information in the bible. What this means is that every seemingly trivial or repeated detail is in fact very important, containing hidden, or coded information. For which history book ever written contained no dates? In fact the bible must be the only such book, if it only has a literal meaning.

[3] SOME ELEMENTS OF THE CODE

This section explains some of the very powerful tools which we will use to crack part of the code of the bible, the reader need not read the whole section now, if he is pressed for time, however, sections [3.2] and [3.3] are recommended for early reading.

[3.1] BINARY QUESTIONS

Any question in the bible which asks for a decision between two opposing answers, which are normally yes and no, has a cryptic fulfilment with the opposite answer to the literal fulfilment. This part of the code is easy to understand and fun, for example, like the Israelite said to Moses:

Who appointed you as a prince and judge over us? (Exodus 2:14).

Well, at that time in the literal meaning Moses was not appointed ruler and judge, he was acting out of his own love for justice. But Stephen later recounts:

This Moses who they disowned, saying: Who appointed you ruler and judge? This man God sent off as both ruler and deliverer by the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the thornbush (Acts 7:35).

So in the future fulfilment, Moses was appointed ruler and deliver, and we know he was the judge too, from the account of Jethro's suggestions. Likewise the greater Moses of Jesus is appointed both prince and judge over us right now. The further fulfilment is the opposite of the literal fulfilment.

In a further example Nicodemus asks Jesus:

How can a man be born again? He cannot enter into the womb of his mother a second time and be born can he? (John 3:4).

It is true that there have been occasions when the heavenly woman has produced children with corrupting bodies, such as the resurrection of Lazarus and others, but these kids still had Adam as a father because they all died being under the sentence passed on him and his sons, so like was begetting like through the imperfection of the father, the heavenly woman was impregnated with the seed of Adam in these resurrections. Therefore anyone who says he has been born again through Jesus, has an incorruptible vessel, and therefore does not age. Had brother Franz truly been born again, he would not have died. However brother Russell who has died and who has been resurrected, is now born again, for he has been born from the heavenly woman with incorruptible seed, his father being the last Adam, the eternal father, not the first Adam the rather temporary father. Its like Peter said:

For you have been given a new birth, not by corruptible, but by incorruptible seed, through the word of the living and enduring God (1 Peter 1:23).

If you have not died first you cannot be born again in this system of things. Although you can during Armageddon see section[10.19]. In this system any man who says he is born again, unless he has died and been resurrected, is saying that he has two souls. So no man who today says he is 'born-again' is born again at all. The anointed remnant have none of them been born again, the anointed ones who have already died, have most of them been born again, as angels in incorruptible bodies. It is like Paul said:

It is sown in corruption, it is raised up in incorruption (1 Cor15:42).

The first sowing is from the earthly woman the second raising is from the heavenly woman with .

[3.2] EVERY SCRIPTURE HAS A FURTHER FULFILMENT

Every witness knows that Daniel chapter 4 is not just about a king who lived as a wild beast for 7 times, and then returned to being a king. This chapter of Daniel has a second fulfilment in the Gentile times, during which God's people were ruled over by a wild beast for 7 times. Every witness also knows that the story of Abraham and his two wives, Hagar and Sarah, has a further fulfilment, it being a prophetic drama about the Jerusalem below and the Jerusalem above, and two covenants, the law covenant and the new covenant.

Every bible student knows that the story of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac, and Isaac's willingness to be sacrificed has a further fulfilment, namely that Jesus was willing to be sacrificed and God was willing to allow it and the sons of Abraham actually killed him. But let's get more bold still, for Paul says:

The law has a shadow of the good things to come (Hebrews 10:1)

So the whole law is prophetic, being a shadow, and therefore it all has a further fulfilment. But why stop at the law, let's look at the whole of the Hebrew scriptures. They consist of the law, the prophets and the psalms. Well the prophets, by definition, are prophetic writings so they certainly have a further fulfilment. This leaves the Psalms, well how many prophecies about Jesus do we know come from there?

My God, my God, why have you left me (Psalm 22:1)

They apportion my garments among themselves and upon my clothing they cast lots (Psalm 22:18)

We could go on all night. In fact the writer usually does. So without a doubt the vast majority of the Hebrew Scriptures have a further fulfilment. And let's now grasp the nettle of our fear and lack of faith in the perfection of God, let's apply our whole minds to his whole book, the question that is being begged is: Does every scripture have a further fulfilment? For he that inspired the prophets was the same one who inspired Moses to write the law and to recount all the prophetic Drama's of Abraham. For everything Abraham did was a prophetic drama, all of his hiding of his wives as sisters, this was him disguising covenants, showing that there are hidden sub-covenants to the Abrahamic covenant (see section[12.1]). It is not the case that his two arguing wives were the only prophetic part of his existence. And likewise with the great Prophet Daniel. Do we really think that only the 4th chapter of his book has a further fulfilment? Do we care? Well it is no giant leap of understanding to grasp the idea that since God wrote the whole book, it is all prophetic, every word. And has not Jesus actually explicitly stated this? he saying:

It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one particle of a letter to go unfulfilled (Luke 16:17).

Unfulfilled? It must therefore have a further fulfilment. And this law that Jesus is referring to is not only the law of Moses, it is rather the law of Jehovah, as written in his word, for Isaiah has spoken the words:

Out of Zion, law will go forth, and the word of Jehovah out of Jerusalem (Isaiah 2:3).

And in one meaning this law out of Zion is the word of God out of heavenly Jerusalem which is the bible, the whole bible. So either the word of God is alive and is exerting power today, through further fulfilments of words written thousands of years ago or it is dead and powerless. Either the flaming blade of the sword, the two edged sword that pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, which guards the way to the tree of life is continuously turning or it has broken down and has come to a standstill. Either the word of God has a height and a breadth and a length and a depth, which we are able to grasp mentally (Ephesians 3:18), or it is flat. Either this book has further meaning upon further meaning upon further meaning, or it has one meaning and we should all become Hasidic Jews and start declaring Sabbath-free zones everywhere.

This element of the code is very easy to state, but its effects are inordinately far reaching, for we are saying that every phrase in the bible has a further fulfilment.

[3.3] REPETITION IN THE BIBLE: 2 RECITALS MEANS 2 FULFILMENTS

We witnesses say that repetition is for emphasis. However there is one who would take issue with this interpretation, his name is Joseph. The one who said: Do not interpretations belong to God? (Genesis 40:8). He explains precisely the correct interpretation of a repetition in the bible by saying:

And the true God is speeding to do it (Gen 41:32).

For a dream is a vision which does not emanate from one's conscious mind, it is a story which is 'inspired' by another source, which we call our subconscious mind. Jehovah is using this to symbolise the inspired scriptures, for they too are stories which do not emanate from the conscious mind of the bible writer, but rather are inspired by God. Pharaoh is standing for Jesus, our great spiritual leader, and Joseph is standing for our teacher, or for the holy spirit, if you like.

Dream Bible

Pharaoh Jesus

Joseph Teacher/holy spirit

Joseph is saying that the meaning of a repetition in the bible is that:

[2] And the true God is speeding to do it

In this symbolism, we see that a repeated phrase in the bible, the greater dream of our greater Pharaoh, means that God is 'speeding to do it', in other words it is a prophecy with a future fulfilment. This is a great confirmation of what we have already elucidated in the previous section [3.2]. But it tells us nothing new, because we already know that every scripture, whether repeated or not, has a further fulfilment, because the bible is not a dead history book, it is a living history and prophecy book. However we will break off here to point out that the scriptures:

Moses, Moses (Ex 3:4)

Instructor, Instructor (Luke 8:24)

Conspiracy, conspiracy (2 Kings 11:14)

Samuel, Samuel (1 Samuel 3:10)

And many other similar ones mean that there will be a greater Moses, Instructor, Conspiracy, Samuel, etc., in a further fulfilment. This is the first impact of what Joseph is saying. But there is more, for he describes a repetition as meaning two things:

[2] And the true God is speeding to do it

However, if a thing is 'firmly established on the part of God' then he is certainly going to do it, in fact one could say that 'God is speeding to do it'. Also if God is 'speeding to do it', then it must be 'firmly established' for God does not speed to do things that he has not firmly established. Therefore [1] is [2]. And now the reader is treated to a typical exposition from the holy spirit. For Joseph, who being our teacher is standing for the holy spirit here, is saying that a repetition in the bible means:

[1] The true God is speeding to do it

[2] And the true God is speeding to do it

But this itself is a repetition. So here God is defining the meaning of a repetition in terms of a repetition. He has therefore made an implicit definition, one defining a thing in terms of the very thing that it is defining. Now the explanation itself is repeated, so since it too is inspired, being a part of the bible, it has a further fulfilment as we have deduced above. But thereagain the explanation is a further fulfilment. So since it is repeated there must be a further fulfilment to this further fulfilment. In other words there are two further fulfilments. And this is a far as we can go playing this game.

So the result is that Joseph has explained that when an account contains a repetition of a concept then that concept has not one, but two further fulfilments. And in general if an account has 3 or 4 repetitions of the same thing or general concept then there are 3 or 4 further fulfilments of that thing.

Now we can answer the question: Why is the phrase '7 times' mentioned 4 times in Daniel4? The answer is that there are 4 greater periods of 7 times witnessed to in that Chapter, one of which is the famous Gentile times.

This concept of 'n' recitals means 'n' further fulfilments is again very easy to state, but shatteringly powerful to apply, if one can apply it properly, that is!

[3.4] NUMERIC SYMBOLISM

This one is very simple, when the bible mentions 200 goats or 12 bulls, these can stand for 200 times or 12 times, and these times can be days or years or years of years etc.. Joseph tells us this because he correctly interprets the dreams of the baker and the cupbearer as follows:

Then Joseph said to him: This is the interpretation: The 3 twigs are 3 days (Genesis 40:12).

Then Joseph answered and said: This is the interpretation: The 3 baskets are 3 days (Genesis 40:18).

Likewise in the case of Pharaoh, he interpreted 7 cows and 7 ears of grain as 7 years. And these two were also the correct interpretations. These accounts are in the bible, in part, to teach us how to interpret the book ourselves. This answers the question we asked earlier, about why we are told the exact number of various animals that Jacob crossed the Jabbok with, the 200 she goats and 20 he goats and 30 camels etc. These animals are standing for time periods. Of course this is another enormously powerful weapon, for the bible is full of numbers, full of them.

[3.5] OMISSION SYMBOLISM

The reader should find this symbolism very amusing, it works like this: The important thing is what the scripture deliberately omits to mention:

So he said to me: Until 2300 evenings and mornings and the holy place will certainly be brought into its right condition (Dan 8:13,14).

Fine but what about the 'army'???

Next he commanded the crowd to recline on the grass and took the 5 loaves and 2 fishes, and, looking up to heaven, he said a blessing, and, after breaking the loaves, he distributed them to the disciples, the disciples in turn to the crowds. So all ate and were satisfied, and they took up the surplus of fragments 12 baskets full (Matt 14:19,20).

Great, wonderful, miraculous, but what did he do with the 2 fishes?? This symbolism is recognisably only as a result of our faith in the perfection of God. For if the reader says in his heart: Oh, Jehovah did bother to tell us about the fishes, he is saying that the true God is negligent. The only conclusion possible for the man with faith it seems to the writer is that the true God is saying just as much by omission as he is saying by inclusion.

All of this is rather like the fine public declaration that Jesus made before Pontius Pilate, which consisted essentially of Jesus standing there whilst Pilate said: Ecce Homo, it was a silent public declaration, but never has more been said than on that day. But my favourite omission symbolism of all time is the conferring of the gifts of the spirit on the Samaritans:

Then they went laying their hands upon them, and they began to receive holy spirit. Now when Simon saw.... (Acts 8:17,18).

Everybody else who received holy spirit by the laying on of the hands started speaking in tongues or healing people or prophesying, performing miracles or at the very least glorifying God. After all this is the spirit that created the whole universe and all men, this is God's active force, not his couch potato. Are we here being told that it fell upon the Samaritans period? This is rather like the bank reference: Yes, this man does bank with us! It is possibly the most outrageous omission symbolism in the whole bible. And it has a very interesting meaning, which the writer is here explaining by omission symbolism!

[3.6] DISTRIBUTIVE SYMBOLISM

Death where is your victory, death where is your sting? (1Cor 15:51-55)

Literally this sentence is saying death has no victory and no sting. But it actually refers not only to one death having neither of these things but also to two deaths, one having no victory and the other having no sting. Since for the heavenly anointed ones death certainly does have a sting but has no victory, for they do die but are then resurrected. Whereas for the great crowd, death doesn't even have a sting because they do not die at all. Although their adamic flesh dies during Armageddon, this being the baptism of fire that Jesus performs on them (Matt 3:11, see section [10.19]). Here the concept is distributing over its two descriptors. In distributive symbolism the sentence: the cat was fat and hot; means one cat was fat and another cat was hot.

[3.7] READER QUESTIONS FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT

These are questions asked of various characters in the bible which are really questions asked by the holy spirit of the reader of the bible.

Here is a little boy that has 5 barley loaves and 2 small fishes. But what are these among so many? (John 6:9).

The real question being asked is: What do the 5 loaves and 2 small fishes stand for in this account.

You with little faith, do you not yet see the point, or do you not remember the 5 loaves in the case of the 5,000 and how many baskets you took up? Or the 7 loaves in the case of the 4,000 and how many provision baskets you took up? (Matthew 16:8-10).

Reader, you 7 brothers, who do you think that Jesus, our saviour, is addressing here??? Is it really the first century brothers. It is? Fine then what is the meaning of the 12 provision baskets that he took up in the case of the 5,000 and the 7 provision baskets that he took up in the case of the 4,000? What do they mean, you men of much faith? And why were there 5,000 in the first feeding miracle and 4,000 in the second, in case you should know this. If you do know the answers then it is true Jesus was only talking to the first century disciples when he rebuked them for having little faith. If you do not know the answers, then it is you who 'do not yet see the point', and it is you who therefore have little faith, and the holy spirit is talking to you, asking you these questions, and these are 'reader questions' from Jesus.

[4] 7 JELLY BABIES FOR 7 ELDERS:

In this and the next 7 sections we will look at 7 different ways of calculating the date of Armageddon, a calculation for an elder is what I am giving you. And if these calculations are correct then it is not me who is giving you them but it is Jehovah who is giving you them, through Jesus, for he is the giver of every good gift and perfect present.

Before we start, we consider the scripture:

Concerning that day and hour nobody knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the son, but only the father (Matt 24:36 - NWT).

Concerning that day or the hour nobody knows, neither the angels in heaven nor the son, but the father (Mark 13:32 - NWT).

Well, brothers, the above is very interesting but it is not what the scripture says, for the Kingdom Interlinear reads:

About but the day that and hour no one has known, neither the angels of the heavens nor the son, if not the father only (Matt 24:36).

About but the day that or the hour no one has known, neither the angels in heaven nor the son, if not the father (Mark 13:32).

The literal meaning of Matthew 24:36 and Mark 13:32 is quite simply: Look! in the past nobody other than God has known the date of my marriage to my wife, because in the past I had not got engaged to her. But now that I am getting engaged on Nisan 14 (in 3 days time), by virtue of the new covenant, the announcement of my engagement, a thing which has been a secret up until now, I am about to know, or I already know the day of our marriage. For who knows the date of their marriage until they have become engaged? The marriage of the lamb is the first day of the kingdom of God, for it is the investiture of the 144,000 kings of that Kingdom. The symbolic meaning of these two verses relates to the hour of the thief in the night and the day of Jesus' presence and I have written about these things to the governing body so there is no need to burden you with them.

So having expelled that demon let us press on to the first Jelly baby.

[5] THE MIDST PROPHECY

This one is dedicated to you Ray, this is Ray's Jelly baby because it is such a beautiful symbolism, such an elegant illustration, and Ray is a master of illustrations, as Jesus was. We are going to discover that Jesus is the centre of everything. I wish I could have revealed this under different circumstances but nevertheless here it is.

I myself said: In the MIDST of my days I will go into the gates of Sheol. (Isaiah 38:10)

See Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi there; and you must come in and make him get up from the MIDST of his brothers and bring him into the innermost chamber (2 Kings 9:2).

For look! the Kingdom of God is in your MIDST (Luke 17:21).

And I shall indeed reside in the middle of the sons of Israel (1 Kings 6:13)

In the MIDST of the years Oh bring it to life! In the MIDST of the years may you make it known (Hab 3:2).

Cry out loudly and rejoice, Oh daughter of Zion; for here I am coming, and I will reside in the MIDST of you, is the utterance of Jehovah. And many nations will certainly become joined to Jehovah in that day, and they will actually become my people; and I will reside in the MIDST of you. And you will have to know that Jehovah of armies himself has sent me to you (Zech 2:10,11).

'A prophet from your own MIDST, from your brothers, like me, is what Jehovah your God will raise up for you ......... A prophet I shall raise up for them from the MIDST of their brothers, like you, and I shall indeed put my words in his mouth (Deut 18:15-18).

'And he said to the man with the withered hand: "Get up and come to the CENTRE"' (Mark 3:3).

I am in your MIDST as the one ministering (Luke 22:27).

From all of this it is apparent that Jesus is in the midst of the sons of Israel, he is in the midst of the daughter of Zion, and in the midst of his brothers. Furthermore he is temporally in the midst of years and days pertaining to the above. Jehovah resided in the middle of the sons of Israel through Jesus, and Jehu who prefigured Jesus got up from the midst of his brothers to go into the innermost chamber, which was the most holy in temple symbolism. Hezekiah who was prefiguring Jesus said prophetically: 'In the midst of my days I will go into the gates of Sheol'. Habbakuk says: 'In the midst of the years oh bring it to life, in the midst of the years may you make it known.'

So we have Jesus, and in particular his appearance or death or resurrection, being in the midst of some days or years which have something to do with the brothers or the Jews, or the sons of Israel, or the daughter of Zion. Well, a daughter can symbolise a covenant or submission, so the daughter of Zion could symbolise a covenant to be kings, since mount Zion was the abode of the kings of Israel, or she could symbolise those in submission to divine authority. The largest possible definition of the brothers of the Jews, whom Jesus is in the midst of is all of Abraham's seed. Now entrance to be such is under the Abrahamic covenant, the covenant for those in submission to God, and a covenant for a nation of Kings. So it could be that Jesus died in the midst of the years of this covenant. We are asserting this here, we are not proving it yet.

Entrance into this covenant began on 1943Nisan14 and ends at the marriage of the lamb, which is the investiture of the kings under this covenant. The Abrahamic covenant is the ark for this system and in fact it ends with this system. The last day of this system is when all those who will receive the promises of the Abrahamic covenant have been chosen, we prove this in the next section.

[5.1] THE END OF THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT

First we consider the land promise:

Jehovah now appeared to Abram and said: To your seed I am going to give this land (Gen 12:7).

On that day Jehovah concluded/cut with Abraham a covenant, saying: To your seed I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates (Gen 15:18).

To Abraham: And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land of your alien residences, even the entire land of Canaan, for a possession to time indefinite (Gen 17:8).

To Isaac: Reside in this land as an alien, and I shall continue with you and bless you, because to your seed I shall give all these lands, and I will carry out the sworn statement that I swore to Abraham your father (Gen 26:3).

To Jacob: As for the land that I have given to Abraham and Isaac, to you I shall give it, and to your seed after you I shall give the land (Gen 35:12).

These scriptures make it plain that the covenant concluded with Abraham in Genesis 15 was a sub-covenant or further clause of the first recital of the Abrahamic covenant in Genesis 12, because Abraham was already promised the land in the first recital. Likewise the promises to Isaac and Jacob are additional sub-covenants, or extra clauses to the Abrahamic covenant. This covenant is rather like a Marx brothers covenant, you add on clauses as you go along. This interpretation of Master covenant and sub-covenants is referred to in Chronicles:

Remember his covenant even to time indefinite, the word that he commanded to a thousand generations, which covenant he concluded with Abraham, and his sword statement to Isaac. And which he kept standing as a regulation even to Jacob, as an indefinitely lasting covenant even to Israel, saying: To you I shall give the land of Canaan (1 Chron 16:15-18 & Psalm 105:8-11).

Peter too explains this: You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God covenanted with your forefathers, saying to Abraham: And in your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed (Acts 3:25).

In other words the covenants to Isaac and Jacob are derivatives of the one to Abraham, i.e. they are sub-covenants or extra clauses.

As regards the land promise, the first fulfilment was the promised land, and the second fulfilment is the Kingdom of God. The Abrahamic covenant was a big covenant, large in length and large in clauses. It contained the circumcision covenant (Gen 17), a priestly clause, the first fulfilment being the circumcisers of the flesh and the second being the circumcisers of the heart, the baptisers in holy spirit. It contained the promise that his seed would be kings (Gen 17), the kingship clause. The first fulfilment being the kings of Judah and Israel and the second fulfilment being the 144,000 kings-to-be. It also contained the land inheritance clause, as above which likewise has two fulfilments.

Whilst it is true that other blessings resulting from this covenant continue to be administered right through the 1,000 year reign, (Insight I p522), the covenant was not in order that God could administer these blessings, for God was going to do this anyway, it was to determine upon whom these blessings would be administered, so the covenant does not have to extend right through to the final blessing at the end of the 1,000 year kingdom. In fact the scripture: 'the word that he commanded to a thousand generations' (1 Chron 16:15) could be taken as meaning: the covenant that lasts until the 1000 year kingdom begins, taking a generation for a time, numeric symbolism see section [3.4].

Now the land inheritance blessing is gained actually on the third day counting inclusively after Satan's system ends, but God's first statement of the covenant to Abraham said: 'Go your way out of your country' (Gen 12:1), and Abraham's seed leave Satan's system on its last day, which is the last day of this covenant. The Kingship blessing in the second fulfilment is inaugurated on the first day of the kingdom of God which is the the third day of the marriage of the lamb, this being the investiture of the 144,000 kings. As a confirmation that the Abrahamic covenant ends at the marriage of the lamb, Daniel says:

And he must keep the covenant in force for the many for one week, and at the half of the week he will cause sacrifice and gift offering to cease (Dan 9:27).

There are many fulfilments to this scripture. The first fulfilment was the end of the sub-covenant of circumcision, in 36Tishri, at the end of the week in which Jesus died, the second fulfilment is the end of the Abrahamic covenant itself, and the last anointed one dies half way through the last week of years as we shall see later in section [10.4]. This being an antitype of the pattern set by the Christ. In this second fulfilment the covenant is truly kept in force for the sake of the many. In the first fulfilment one could not really argue that the physical Jews were the many when compared with the nations who were called at the end of the week. But in the second fulfilment, this covenant extended for 7 years for the benefit of those who find the truth in the 'last week' of this system, which starts at the end of the baptism in holy spirit of the Nethinim, who are 220 in number (I am not proving this here).

Furthermore, the first recital of the Abrahamic covenant went as follows:

Go your way out of your country and from your relatives and from the house of your father to the country that I shall show you and I shall ... (Gen 12:1).

In the first fulfilment, the literal one, Abraham did as above, physically. The country was the land of the Chaldeans, his relatives were his physical family and the house of his father was a house in Haran. The covenant started on the day that Abraham did these things, this day being 1943Nisan14. In the greater fulfilment: Abraham is everybody who is saved under his covenant, the country is Satan's system, the relatives are the sons of Adam not saved under the Abrahamic covenant, the greater ark, and the house of their father, is their adamic bodies, the country that Jehovah shows these ones is the Kingdom of God, and the Euphrates is the water baptism into this covenant, see section [6.15].

And the covenant ends at the same stage in the greater fulfilment as when it started in the first fulfilment. Namely at the crossing of the greater river Euphrates, this being the day of the end of Satan's system, the exit from the greater country of the Chaldeans. And just as baptism into the Abrahamic covenant started with Abraham's own baptism when he crossed the literal Euphrates, so this baptism for his true sons, ends at the crossing of the greater Euphrates, which itself is symbolising the baptism to enter this covenant, thereby becoming a true son of Abraham.

[5.2] JESUS' DEATH BISECTS THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT

To show that it certainly is the Abrahamic covenant which Jesus' death bisects consider Genesis 15. Here Jehovah recites terms of his covenant to Abraham and defines a sacrifice which represents this covenant, and he then tells Abraham to cut everything except the two birds in half and lay them all in two rows facing each other. Then a fiery torch passed between the pieces. This one was the light of the world, the one who said: 'I came to start a fire on the earth, and what more is there for me to wish if it has already been lighted' (Luke 12:49). The torch is Jesus, he is illuminating the darkness, and he bisected the carefully arranged sacrifice of Abraham, which represented his covenant. Or put another way, the sacrifice which is the basis of the covenant, which in the greater meaning is not a load of three year old animals and a couple of birds but is rather the Christ, bisects the covenant.

So since Jesus died on 33Nisan14 and since Abraham's covenant was made on 1943Nisan14, 1975 years earlier, we have the last day of Satan's system being 1975 years after the death of the Christ, i.e. 2008Nisan14. In other words, 2008 is the date. The reason that I dedicated this one to Ray will hopefully now become apparent:

Consider the pivotal position of Jesus' sacrifice in the plan shown below:

So Jesus has the central position in these three timetables. Furthermore as regards the Abrahamic covenant, the whole plan to save mankind, the whole ark, rests on Jesus' shoulders! Now what sort of balance do you need to rest the whole world on top of one point?

YOU NEED PERFECT BALANCE!

This balance is symbolising the sinless perfection of the sacrifice of the Christ, it is represented by his perfect central position. Also if one wishes to support something by only one support then one has to put that support exactly in the centre of the thing. So the central position of Jesus also represents his singular role in the plan to save mankind. In other words the whole plan to save men is resting upon the shoulders of just one man, Jesus, and therefore he must be in the middle of this plan by a spiritual application of the principle of a see-saw. Is this not a wonderful symbolism? Jesus is always temporally central in his activities, this discovery is quite a powerful tool in bible Chronology.

So: 'Cry out shrilly and shout for joy! Oh you inhabitress of Zion, for great in the MIDST of you is the Holy one of Israel' (Isaiah 12:6).

Taking the Abrahamic covenant as this woman, this inhabitress of the Zion of God, the kingdom of God.

The Abrahamic Covenant lasts for 3950 years or 11 years of years less 10 years [3950 = 11x360 -10]. This is witnessed to in Abraham's sacrifice itself, the witness is beyond the scope of this letter.

[5.3] SECOND WITNESS TO THE MIDST PROPHECY & THE LENGTH OF THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT

Please look at the excellent illustration of the tabernacle in the Insight book 1 p538. From the picture it can be seen that the ark of the covenant has a cover above it, which was the tabernacle itself. The tabernacle had a cover above it which was the 'tent upon the tabernacle' (Ex 36:14). Now whereas the tabernacle was made out of ten tent cloths (Ex 26:1), the tabernacle cover itself was made out of eleven tent cloths (Ex 26:7).

Now just as the eleven tent cloths of the Tent of meeting covered both the ten tent cloths of the Tabernacle and the Ark of the covenant, so the eleven times which the tent cloths of the Tent represent, cover both the ten times which the ten tent cloths of the Tabernacle represent and the length of the Abrahamic covenant itself which the Ark of the covenant represents. This is a numeric symbolism - section [3.4].

We know of course that the ark represented more than the Law covenant, it also represented Jehovah's direct rulership of mankind (Rev 11:19), which rulership will be exercised by many of the covenanters of the Abrahamic covenant, hence the Ark can stand for the whole Abrahamic covenant. For Noah's ark, the ark of the covenant, and the Abrahamic covenant are all related. So the equation again is:

(Ark of the covenant) (Tabernacle) (Tent of meeting)

Putting this another way, the eleven times of the tent, directly cover the covenant, only if you first take away the ten times of the tabernacle which was underneath it. Which is what the position was physically. If we take the tabernacle times as years and the tent times as years of years, then we get a length for the covenant of 3950 years (3960 - 10 = 3950). And 1943Nisan to 2008Nisan is 3950 years.

Now we see why David said under inspiration to Jehovah's prophet Nathan:

'See, now I am dwelling in a house of Cedars while the ark of the true God is dwelling in the middle of tent cloths' (2 Sam 7:2)

And again he says:

'Here I am dwelling in a house of Cedars, but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is under tent cloths' (1 Chron 17:1)

Now there is one further major symbolism in the midst of the tent and the tabernacle, and that is the way they were joined together. Because the tabernacle was sown together into two pieces of five tent cloths each and then these two pieces were joined up by gold hooks and rings. Whereas the tent was sown together to make two pieces, one of five tent cloths and one of six tent cloths, and these two pieces were joined by copper rings and hooks. The six piece cloth then had its sixth cloth, which was the one at the front of the tabernacle folded in half (Ex 36:8-18, 26:1-13). In other words both covers were joined together at the centre, as far as was possible, and in the case of the eleven tent cloths of the tent of meeting, the join was in the centre of all the unfolded cloths, and the remaining cloth itself was folded in half. All of this symbolically confirms in advance that Jesus would come in the middle of the Abrahamic covenant.

And now we see a further reason why the temple curtain, the covering for the ark, from the point of view of the man in the sanctuary, was rent in two as Jesus' death (Mat 27:51). This renting in two of the one ark covering, the temple curtain, is symbolising the same thing that the joins in the tabernacle and in the tent of meeting (the gold and the copper hooks and rings), are symbolising. Furthermore the ark was actually revealed through the Christ, i.e. became visible, or uncovered. Jesus himself revealed to men how they would be saved at the last supper, he even agreed the legal means for everlasting salvation for the heavenly ones. These things are the fulfilment of the words of Habakkuk:

In the MIDST of the years Oh bring it to life! In the MIDST of the years may you make it known (Hab 3:2).

So every time the Jews dismantled their tabernacle in the wilderness, to move it, as they did all over the Sinai Peninsular, the tabernacle cloth and the tent of meeting were both rent in two at the rings and hooks, and the temporally central position of the death of the Christ was being symbolically declared! In particular it was being declared that the ark covering would be removed in the midst of the whole covering of the ark, or in the midst of the Abrahamic covenant, for the covenant covers it all legally and the tent covered it all physically.

[5.4] THIRD WITNESS TO THE MIDST PROPHECY

This one is very simple. We read in the 'All Scripture' book p286:

Well we become completely independent of all Egyptian dependency at Armageddon, thanks to the efforts of the greater Jacob who is Jesus Christ, who came in the middle of the period ending with such independence and starts with the crossing of the Euphrates, at the beginning of not only the 430 years but also the 3950 years.

In other words just as physical Jacob came into Egypt in the middle of the dwelling of the physical sons of Israel in the 'land' of physical Egypt, so Jesus Christ, the spiritual Jacob, came into spiritual Egypt (the world) in the middle of the dwelling of the spiritual seed, the true seed of Abraham therein, which dwelling started with Abraham himself, when he crossed the river, being baptised, to become such, and ends at Armageddon.

It is like Moses said: Thus Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree desirable to one's sight and good for food, and also the tree of life in the middle of the Garden (Gen 2:9).

This is my gift to you Ray, to convince you that there is a newer covenant and a new baptism following after the first 'new' covenant and the baptism of the heavenly brothers. For the gift does not belong to me because interpretations belong to God. But it was given to me by Jesus through a new covenant, a covenant inaugurated after the end of the heavenly baptism, the covenant for which I was sanctified, matters which we will consider later in this letter. Incidentally interpretations do not belong to Jesus, not everything is his to give, although he himself gives everything:

This sitting down at my right hand and at my left is not mine to give but belongs to those for whom it has been prepared by my father (Matt 20:23).

It was a belonging of Jehovah not a belonging of Jesus, just like his interpretations. But Jesus does give these things at the direction of Jehovah for he himself said:

All authority has been given me in heaven and on earth (Matt 28:18).

John goes further into this logical minefield of who owns what and in what sense in John 16:12-16, I will leave the reader to puzzle it out. This is why the FDS did not get this one and many others, because they have been exclusive over Jesus, their master's, belongings, but they are certainly not exclusive over the belongings of God, which include his interpretations. Actually this was not why they did not get it, this was the legal justification in divine law for Jehovah to give it to whom, he pleased. He desperately wanted to give it to the FDS, as did his son, their brother, but they did not want to know, and they still do not want to know I fear - Do you want to know? - I hope so.

[6] THE GENTILE TIMES, THE ALIENATION TIMES & THE EXEDENIC TIMES

[6.1] INTRODUCTION

Roger it was you who gave me my talk in the theocratic ministry school on the death bed blessing from Jacob to his sons. It was through the preparation of this talk that I realised that the firstborn son of Jacob had three birthrights, since Reuben and his sons lost all three to Joseph, Judah, Levi and their sons. These three firstborn rights as you know are the kingship, the priesthood and the land inheritance double portion right. So this section is your fault!

These three blessings: the kingship, the priesthood and the family land are not unique to the Family of Jacob, they pervade the whole bible, they are fundamental to the people of God. In the case of the physical family of Jacob, all of the fleshly Jews, these three blessings found physical expression in the Kings of Israel and Judah, the Levitical priesthood and the promised land, very straightforward and easily discernible. For Jehovah teaches by example, but these things are not the big picture, they are the trailer to the big picture, they are a commercial for the big picture, a promotional video for it. The big picture, the great story of these three blessings on all of God's people, is what we will consider in this section which I am dedicating to you, this is your Jelly baby, please do not desert it. It needs your attention, nobody else cares about it, or will look after it other than the writer and his two friends at the moment.

It is my gift to you under the covenant of Keturah, the third wife of Abraham (Gen 25), which is the covenant of peace, which is the second new covenant which is explained in section12 on my jelly baby. For if I am asserting that I am baptised to enter into a second new covenant of spiritual gifts of the spirit, a covenant for a kingdom on earth, and that I have already entered into this covenant, then I had better provide some examples of these gifts! It is also God's gift through Jesus to all men under this covenant. And truly he has much more to give under this covenant than mere understandings.

[6.2] THE 3 RIGHTS OF GOD'S PEOPLE FROM ADAM TO RUTHERFORD

This section can be skipped if the reader is happy with the concept that God provides by right any group of his people with a king/head administrator, which is generally himself, a priest, and land to live on, a place to live which is blessed, a blessed home exclusively for this group, a place where no one can reside unless they are a member of this group, a place which provides food to sustain the group. This was the garden of Eden for Adam, and was the promised land for the physical Jew, the situation becomes more spiritual with the Christian. We are now going to identify the manifestations of each of these three rights from Adam to Rutherford. Ray should certainly appreciate this because he stole my thunder on Reuben losing his three firstborn rights and gave my 5 minute bible reading talk in his bible highlights talk! An example of repetition for emphasis. So first we define the three terms:

Definition: A priest of a group of men is a person clean to mediate and maintain some sort of relationship between God and the men in the group.

Definition: The king of a group of men is the person who sets the laws for the group of men

Definition: The land of a group of men is the place where they live, where they dwell, and which sustains them, providing sustenance for them.

In this last definition I have defined 'land' by two things which it does for men, namely it gives them a place to live, and it provides food for them etc. These aspects of physical land can be extended down to our modern day spiritual 'land' as we shall see.

[6.3] ADAM'S FAMILY

Priest: Tree of life

King: Tree of knowledge of good & bad

Thus Jehovah God made to grow out of the ground every tree desirable to one's sight and good for food and also the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and bad (Gen 2:9).

To cultivate it and to take care of it (Gen 2:15).

That is to cultivate the ground and to take care of the trees within the garden. But then when he was thrown out his work became:

To cultivate the ground from which he had been taken (Gen 3:23).

Which was the thorny and thistley ground outside the garden, for he was taken from ground outside the garden and settled in it afterwards by God (Gen 2:15) actually when he was 11 years old see section7.

God was Adam's father and he was Adam's King, he set the law for Adam which was very simple:

From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. 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 (Gen 2:16,17).

That was it, things are a bit more complicated nowadays. So this one tree represented the kingship of Jehovah God over Adam. As regards trees representing kingship, I need write nothing more about this to Jehovah's witnesses.

Now the tree of life on the other hand was constantly available to all inhabitants of the garden. This tree mediated indefinitely lasting life to all the inhabitants of the land. At this point I must make two definitions:

Life until time indefinite: Is life which has no predetermined end point or maximum. Literally there is no definite, or defined end to this life. It may however end at some future date which has not as yet been defined. It is life until further notice, where such further notice has not yet been given and may be given at some future date or may in fact never be given.

Life everlasting: This is life for ever. The mathematical definition of this is that at any future date, one is still living. Life everlasting is life until time indefinite with the extra guarantee, that there will never be a definite time after which one is not living. It is life until further notice where such further notice will never be given.

These definitions are not a matter of bible interpretation, they are a matter of Logic and language. The society has done well in translating the two different Hebrew words for these two concepts:

The hidden time meaning, seems to imply that there actually is a hidden limit, in which case the translation as 'time indefinite', or 'a time not yet defined' would not strictly be correct, for such a time may never be defined. However if we allow ourselves the latitude that the time hidden may itself be forever, then we can correctly translate a hidden time as being time indefinite. Whether this is the true meaning of the Hebrew I do not at this point know.

The 'until' symbolism is rather a wonderful use of language, it is an omission symbolism, because the obvious question is until when?, but the when is deliberately omitted, which is symbolically saying: there is no when, no hidden time, there will be notice of termination at any future date. Not only did the Hebrew language involve omission symbolism, but the bible itself uses it see section [3.5]. It is as the Psalm says:

So Adam had life until time indefinite in the Garden of Eden, he did not have everlasting life, the tree of knowledge of good and bad, with its associated death penalty meant that at some indefinite future time he could have died. Now a man who has no preset time of death from God is not under a death penalty and is therefore judicially alive.

Furthermore Adam had not sinned before his eviction sin because it was not actually possible for him to sin in the garden, unless he ate from the tree. Putting this crudely, he could have murdered his wife, and for him this would not have been a sin, because for him sin was very simple, it was eating from the tree. The tree was the Law of Moses for him, the one commandment, rather than the 10 commandments. Of course he prefigured Jesus, so he could not have sinned before he ate. Therefore Adam was not only clean in the flesh, which is obvious, but he was also clean in spirit, like the loyal angels, for he had no consciousness of sin, this being the definition of the man who is sanctified in spirit - see section[6.18].

Briefly, he was a member of Jehovah's judicially living family, he actually had the same judicial state as angel Michael before his fall. Now this state of having no consciousness of sin is achieved today by God imputing a clean conscience to a man. This being the forgiveness of all his sins in the past and until time indefinite. The request for a clean conscience is the baptism in holy spirit, the sanctification of the spirit. For a good conscience is a clean spirit, because one's spirit is ones mental inclination, it determines future acts. The cleanliness of the flesh, which is achieved by water baptism is a forgiveness of past sins, on the basis of repentance from dead works, the putting away of the filth of the flesh, which one does in the bath, for Peter said as regards that which corresponded to the saving of the 8 souls:

That which corresponds to this is also now saving you, namely baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the request made to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ (1 Peter 3:21).

So the latter is the sanctification of the spirit in Jesus' blood, the former is the baptism of John. Adam never had any consciousness of sin until he fell, he was judicially alive, or spiritually alive, as Paul would say:

The spiritual lives of righteous ones who have been made perfect (Heb 12:23).

The tree of life is declaring the judicial life of Adam, not the physical life of Adam. The great crowd do not have this judicial life today, that is why they are referred to as the 'dead' by John in Revelation, and as Jesus said, 'let the dead bury the dead', itself a witness to the fact that the disciples were judicially alive at that time, before the new covenant was made. On the day that Adam sinned he lost this life, for Jehovah's command was:

From every tree of the garden, to eat, you may eat, and from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, not you must eat from him, because in the day of to eat you from him, dying you will die (Gen 2:16,17 literal translation).

And Adam did die on the day that he ate, not physically, but judicially. He also started dying physically, in that he started ageing, hence, 'dying you will die'. However Eve recited this command to Satan differently, saying:

From fruit of tree of the garden, we may eat, and from fruit of the tree that in middle of the garden he said, God, not you must eat from him, and not you must touch in him, lest you will die (Gen 3:2,2 - literal translation).

Eve is bearing witness to the loss of physical life, 'you will die', this not being 'in the day' of eating but in the future. When God chucked them out he said:

And now, lest he reach out hand of him, and he take also from tree of life, and he eat and he live to time indefinite - and he sent him, Jehovah, from the garden of Eden (3:22,23).

So eating from the tree of life imparted life until time indefinite, the life that Adam had in the garden of Eden. The tree was therefore a priest mediating judicial life.

[6.4] THE FAMILY UNIT UNDER LAW

King: Jehovah

Priest: Father

Land: Their part of the tribes inheritance

This is straight forward. The father was the administrative head of the family but he was not the king, it was Jehovah who set all the laws for each family not each individual family head, although he was at liberty to add to them but not to break them, he was a subordinate to God. Neither was the Father the entire administration however, the mother had a large part to play there:

Observe, Oh my son, the commandment of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother (Prov 6:20).

The father was the family priest in the sense that he mediated his son's entrance into the nation of Israel, which was in a covenant relationship with God, by naming him when he was 8 days old at his circumcision.

And on the 8th day they came to circumcise the young child, and they were going to call it by the name of its father Zechariah. But its mother answered and said: No indeed! but he shall be called John...then they went asking its father by signs what he wanted it to be called, and he asked for a tablet and he wrote: John is its name, at that they all marvelled (Luke 1:59-63).

The father was the ultimate arbiter of his son's name, Zechariah named him John. Fathers do name sons, for the request made to God for a clean conscience is a request for a name in the heavens, albeit a temporary one, it is a request for membership of God's holy family, and it is granted by the God the father.

We also know that every Hebrew family had a specific land allotted to them which could not be sold in perpetuity:

And no inheritance of the sons of Israel should circulate from tribe to tribe, because the sons of Israel should cleave, each one, to the inheritance of the tribe of his forefathers (Numbers 36:7).

[6.5] THE NATION OF ISRAEL UNDER LAW

To Jehovah the whole Nation was still Jacob's family even though he died hundreds of years before Moses was given the law.

And you must say to Pharaoh: This is what Jehovah has said: Israel is my son, my firstborn (Ex 4:22)

When Israel was a boy, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son (Hosea 11:1).

King: Jehovah

Priests: Aaron & Sons

Land: Promised land

There is not much argument with this. Certainly Jehovah was the king of Israel, he set the laws for them, Moses did not think them up. He also owned the promised land 'the land is mine' (Lev 25:23). They were living on his family estate. Furthermore he actually declared that he was their king:

Then Jehovah said to Samuel: Listen to the voice of the people as respect all that they say to you, for it is not you whom they have rejected, but it is I, whom they have rejected from, being king over them (1 Samuel 8:7).

We know too that David and Solomon sat on Jehovah's throne (1 Chron 29:23).

[6.6] SPIRITUAL ISRAEL & THE GREAT CROWD

King: Jehovah

Priest: Jesus

Land: FDS

King: Jehovah

Priest: Any baptised brother

Land: FDS

Today the FDS provide us with our food, our milk and honey one could say, and they provide us with our dwelling place, from the spiritual point of view which is the congregation. Not physically in the kingdom hall, but our national identity is by means of our membership of these units, and this is our camp of Israel or our garden of Eden, the congregation is the ground that Jehovah owns, which we all cultivate, by encouraging each other and helping each other. We also try and plant new trees in it by means of field service. In any event the Hebrew word for Ground is 'Adam' which is of course man. The FDS are the trees which provide food. For the scripture says:

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? (Matt 24:45 NKJ).

Food in due season is what trees and crops produce, it is what the land produces. The household is the ground, the FDS who have the feeding responsibility are the trees in Edenic symbolism. Of course we also cultivate ground which is outside our land, and having produced a nice tree we transplant it into our land, and there are many differing agricultural symbolisms for that occupation, but we are addressing the three blessings of membership of God's family in this section not the efforts to expand it.

I would respectfully suggest that Jesus is not our king right now but is rather our prince, in fact the prince of peace. For if he is our King then when pray is the scripture to be fulfilled which says:

And the princely rule will come to be upon his shoulder. And his name will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Prince of peace. To the abundance of princely rule and to peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom in order to establish it firmly and to sustain it by means of justice and by means of righteousness, from now on until time indefinite the very Zeal of Jehovah of armies will do this (Isaiah 9:6,7)?

He certainly is not a prince in the 1,000 year kingdom, his is a king then. So the only time he could possibly be a ruling as a prince is between 1914Tishri and Armageddon, in order to establish his kingdom firmly. After Armageddon it is totally secure. Two wonderful cryptic witness to this are the complaints of the ungrateful Israelites to Moses, saying:

Is it so little a thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to put us to death in the wilderness, that you should also try to play the prince over us to the limit? (Numbers 16:13).

The cryptic answer is yes, the greater Moses will do just that! And the complaint of the Israel wrongdoer:

Who appointed you prince and judge over us? (Ex 2:14).

Another good question! Could it be the one who 'decreed the appointed times and the set limits of the dwelling of men'? (Acts 17:26).

As regards the priests for the great crowd, well any brother who has clean flesh himself can bathe another brother in order that his flesh becomes clean. This is pointless of course without the approval of the FDS, but nevertheless the one with such approval has no more cleanliness than his having been dipped himself. The situation is not the same for the anointed ones. They are baptised from heaven by the one who baptises in holy spirit, Jesus, or possibly more recently by Peter and his brothers, after all they did it as humans.

As a final witness to the three blessings, we have the City of Jerusalem:

King: Mount Zion, and palace

Priest: Mount Moriah, and temple

Land: Rest of the ground of the city and administrative buildings

[6.7] THE 3 RIGHTS/BLESSINGS AND THE 3 MALEDICTIONS

Having grasped the concept that God's people are blessed not only with him as King but also with a priesthood and some land we are now in a position to ask the 64 million dollar question:

Since the Gentile Times is a malediction on one of these 3 blessings, namely the kingship, could it be that there are two similar maledictions on the priesthood and the land inheritance??

The answer to this question is - yes there are. With research, it is not answering questions which is necessarily the problem it is finding the right questions to ask that is the problem. The land inheritance malediction I have called the Exedenic times, for reasons that will become obvious, and the priesthood malediction I have called the Alienation times. It turns out that both of these new maledictions are 7 times long or 2,520 years long, just like the good old Gentile times which we all know and love, which is now relegated to the position of kingship malediction, amongst two other maledictions, it is one of the 3. 3 of the scriptures which we quoted at the start of the letter bear witness to these two new periods, namely:

For that reason anyone killing Cain must suffer vengeance 7 times (Gen 4:15).

And the priest must dip his finger in the blood and spatter some of the blood 7 times before Jehovah in front of the curtain of the holy place (Lev 4:6).

I shall then have to walk in heated opposition to you, and I, yes I, shall have to chastise you 7 times for your sins (Lev 26:28).

The first one is a witness to the Exedenic times and the second two are witnesses to the Alienation times.

[6.8] THE EXEDENIC TIMES

It is not at all difficult to see that crudely speaking God's people were Exedenic or not on Jehovah's land from the date that Adam was thrown out of the garden of Eden until the day that they entered into the promised land. This period is certainly a land inheritance malediction on God's people. Certainly the garden of Eden was a blessed land, having 'every tree desirable to one's sight and good for food'. And the word 'Eden' means pleasure, not pain (Insight - Eden). As regards the promised land we read:

And to Joseph he said: May his land be continually blessed from Jehovah with the choice things of heaven, with dew, and with the watery deep lying down below (Deut 33:13).

And he will give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, that you may take possession of the land of your alien residences, which God has given to Abraham (Gen 48:3).

When you have eaten and satisfied yourself you must also bless Jehovah your God for the good land that he has given you (Deut 8:10).

However, no one should come to be poor among you, because Jehovah will without fail bless you in the land that Jehovah you God is giving you as an inheritance to take possession of it (Deut 15:4).

So the ground within it was blessed and the people were blessed in it and it was a good land, it is of course an archetype for the Kingdom of God, which is an antitype for the garden of Eden. As regards the entrance into the promised land we read:

And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month and took up camping at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho (Joshua 4:19).

And the sons of Israel continued to camp at Gilgal, and they proceeded to carry out the passover on the 14th day of the month, in the evening, on the desert plains of Jericho. And they began to eat some of the yield of the land the next day [construct] of the passover, unfermented cakes and roasted grains on this same day. Then the manna ceased on the next day [absolute] in their eating from food of the land [literal]. And no longer he was to sons of Israel manna, and they ate from produce of land of Canaan in the year the that (Joshua 5:10-12).

So God's people began to eat the produce of the promised land on 1473Nisan15, having celebrated the passover on 1473Nisan14. This day was the end of the land inheritance malediction, the first day of the festival of cakes. There is wonderful cryptic meaning in the concept that the manna stopped on that day, which is not the day after the eating of the food but rather the day after the passover, because literally the scripture asks:

Then what is it? ceased on the next day, in their eating food from the land (Joshua 5:12).

For 'manna' means 'what is it', the answer to his cryptic question is that it was the land exile that ceased, or the Exedenic times stopped on that day. The first day that they ate food from the promised land. The last time that mankind had eaten food from any blessed land of Jehovah prior to that was when Adam ate the fruit!!

[6.9] THE CURSING OF THE GROUND DUE TO ADAM

The Exedenic times is not necessarily a period during which the ground which God's people find themselves on is cursed, it is a period during which God's people are not on ground that is blessed. When Adam sinned Jehovah said:

Cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return (Gen 3:17,18).

Adam did eat its produce in pain all the days of his life, but the curse on the ground did not extend too long after he died for it was lifted when the earth was baptised in the flood. Because Lamech said of Noah:

This one will bring us comfort from the pain of our hands resulting from the ground which Jehovah has cursed (Gen 5:29).

And Jehovah said after Noah had made his offering to him:

Never again shall I call down evil upon the ground on man's account, because the inclination of the heart of man is bad from his youth up. And never again shall I deal every living thing a blow just as I have done. For all the days that the earth continues, seed sowing and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter and day and night will never cease (Gen 8:21,22).

This statement implies that these things did cease in some way during the flood. In any event this is a covenant not to curse the land again and it would be pointless to enter into such a covenant if in fact the land was still cursed, for this would render the covenant meaningless. So the flood ended the physical land curse, basically it 'baptised' the planet. However the land was not blessed at that time. There are three states for land, in fact for anything, and these are blessed, cursed, and neither of the above. For instance those under law had the benefit of the blessing and the penalty of the malediction, but those not under law had neither.

[6.10] THE CURSE ON ADAM DUE TO HIS BANISHMENT FROM EDEN

Cursed is the ground on your account. In pain you will eat its produce all the days of your life. And thorns and thistles it will grow for you, and you must eat the vegetation of the field. In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return (Gen 3:17,18).

There is more to this scripture than a curse on the ground which ended in the flood. For Adam himself is cursed in that he will eat the produce of cursed ground all of the days of his life. But then he is cursed further in that he will eat bread in the sweat of his face until he returns to the ground, for out of it he was taken. Now this latter curse about sweating is not limited by the phrase 'all the days of your life'. The literal meaning of this curse is the same as the meaning of the 'pain' curse but the symbolic meaning refers to his being returned to the Edenic ground from which he was taken, and is not limited by the day of Adam's life, which is what the omission symbolism [3.5] is saying. For he was taken out of the ground of the garden of Eden at his fall, as well as his being taken out of the ground outside the garden when he was created. We know that there is a further meaning to this second recital of the curse on Adam's food because it is a second recital and two recitals mean two fulfilments - section [3.3].

Adam returns to the ground from which he was taken when his sons enter the promised land, at which time his eating bread in the sweat of his face ends, because it is a land flowing with milk and honey. This penalty prescribed by God for Adam, mentions the nature of the Exedenic malediction on him, by defining his difficulty in obtaining food, a thing produced by land.

[6.11] THE LENGTH OF THE EXEDENIC TIMES

Adam committed an act of idolatry and some years later in fact it was 3928Sivan, but we aren't proving this in this letter, his firstborn son committed an act of murder. The two acts are not unrelated for he who does not care for God will eventually cease caring for his brother. Likewise the two penalties pronounced on them are related, as regards Cain, God said:

And now you are cursed in banishment from the ground, which has opened it mouth to receive your brother's blood at your hand. When you cultivate the ground it will not give you back its power/yield. A wanderer and a fugitive you will become in the earth (Gen 4:11,12).

So Adam was banished from Eden, and the land outside was cursed, whereas Cain was banished from the ground, denied any cultivating success, becoming a wandering roaming fugitive from Jehovah's justice. Cain's penalty is a straightforward land malediction for him. Adam was banished from blessed land and Cain was banished even from cursed land!

Therefore Cain has come under a further land malediction in addition to the one on Adam.

One reason why land figured so much in the punishment for what was a murder is that land was the reason why Jehovah rejected the sacrifice of Cain in the first place. For Cain offered to God the fruits of the ground, after the ground had been cursed because of Adam. So Cain offered to God cursed fruits. This was not a good idea. And he had no excuse because his younger brother, who by definition had had less spiritual instruction from his father than him, did not make this elementary mistake. He understood and furthermore it is evident that he accepted that the ground was cursed and therefore offered no fruits of the ground. Instead, he even offered a firstborn blood sacrifice, showing a great spiritual appreciation.

Cain then complains about this extra land malediction, and Jehovah responds to Cain with the wonderful phrase:

For that reason anyone killing Cain must suffer vengeance 7 times (Gen 4:15 NWT)

This wording, in fact the whole of this chapter of Genesis is hyperintelligent, and it is all tied up in a knot, as Daniel foretold (Dan 5:12). If we assume that killing Cain is meant literally then the penalty that Jehovah is prescribing is a soul for 7 souls. This is not the justice of the one who decreed to Moses you shall give soul for soul. Therefore killing Cain is not meant literally in this scripture. Jesus himself spoke similarly when he said:

Let the dead bury their dead (Matt 8:22).

There is no literal meaning to this scripture with the first word 'dead' actually meaning 'physically dead'. One has to take the first word symbolically to get any sense out of the phrase. So the same is true of the killers of Cain. In fact the literal protection for Cain is described in the next sentence:

And so Jehovah set up a sign for Cain in order that no one finding him should strike him (Gen 4:15)

to not to strike/smite him, every [one] finding him (Gen 4:15 NIVHEOT)

Of course this would be a lot more use to him than the knowledge that someone who did kill him would be punished. What this sign was I do not know. But I do know that it wasn't a sign with the wording that everybody who kills Cain will be avenged 7 times, because the sign was not to strike him, rather than not to kill him. But this did not stop Lamech, a descendant of Cain being aware of the penalty for 'killing Cain' and coming up with an equally symbolic penalty for those who 'killed him'.

This is an exposition of divine intelligence. The fact that physical Cain himself would be more interested in a sign saying 'God says do not hit me' than he would in a covenant from God to deal with anybody who succeeded in killing him, is itself declaring that the killers of Cain penalty relates to the symbolic killers and the sign is the literal protection. Putting this another way, the true God is using the literal sense of the account to dictate which part of the account is symbolic. He has therefore written a self decoding account. In fact the holy spirit has done more than this, it has actually written a self-decoding book, the bible.

A further reason why the phrase everyone/anyone killing Cain could not be literal is found by asking the question: How could more than one person kill Cain, physically? Were they going to take it in turns? or all do it together in one giant group? Why did this penalty not read: The one who kills Cain, 7 times he will be avenged? Evidently this is an entirely symbolic killing of Cain, performed by a large number of people.

Although the vengeance penalty has no literal meaning, the literal symbolism for the symbolic meaning prohibits a 7 fold repetition of the same act of vengeance since as we mentioned above Jehovah's justice is soul for soul, not soul for 7 souls. Therefore the '7 times' part of the penalty means a period of 7 times, or 2520 years.

It is God who is covenanting to take this vengeance on behalf of Cain. He is the one who says: Vengeance is mine. Cain would not be able to avenge anybody if he were dead. Again using the literal to dictate the symbolic meaning. Now a vengeance covenant from God on his people is a malediction, this is God's means of vengeance for his people. It is even written in the malediction of the law of Moses:

And I shall certainly bring upon you a sword wreaking vengeance for the covenant (Lev 26:25).

So finally we are able to interpret this wonderful penalty as:

Everyone killing Cain will suffer a malediction of 2520 years.

There are no prizes for guessing what malediction this is, it is the Exedenic times. And the killers of Cain are the true worshippers among the sons of Adam, because Cain was the original false worshipper amongst Adam's sons. We are identifying, or equating, Cain with his form of worship. So the true worshippers, the Cain-killers would once again enter a blessed land 2520 years after they left it. If you like the vengeance that was wrought on behalf of Abel, by men, was not a physical retribution immediately on physical Cain it was a spiritual retribution 7 times after the very first act of false worship by Adam, which was the instigation of 'Cainism'. Jehovah was not addressing the physical with his vengeance covenant he was addressing the spiritual.

These avengers of Abel were not the Pain-killers of the Pain of the hands that Adam suffered due to the land being cursed, for Noah and the flood removed that malediction. No, but after the Pain killers, then we have the Cain-killers! These were the sons of Israel, the firstborn of God, who avenged Abel, by killing Cain, the firstborn of Adam. And they re-established true worship in a blessed land. As God said:

Israel is my son, my firstborn (Ex 4:22).

Now we do know that this malediction started with Adam's eviction, and we also know that the malediction ended on 1473Nisan15, therefore we deduce that Adam was thrown out of the garden in Nisan 3993 BCE, 2520 years to the month before the Jews entered the promised land under Joshua. In fact Adam sinned on 3993Nisan14 as we shall find out in section [6.11]. Putting this diagrammatically:

[6.12] THE EXEDENIC TIMES

3993Nisan 1473Nisan

Adam evicted from Eden Jews enter promised land

X_________________________X

2,520 years, or 7 times

If you understand this, then you have become one of:

The wise men having knowledge of the times (Esther 1:13).

[6.12] THE SECOND WITNESS TO THE LENGTH OF THE EXEDENIC TIMES: MIRIAM & AARON CHALLENGE MOSES

In the law there is an example of a 7 day quarantine outside the camp due to uncleanness, resulting from the desires of a presumptuous woman and an easily led man, rather like Adam and Eve. This was a land/administration quarantine/malediction and so it could represent the Exedenic times, taking a day for a year of years, i.e. a day for a year twice.

In this little drama, there is a modern day fulfilment which I am not permitted to disclose right now and there is also a fulfilment involving Adam and Eve which we will look at now. For with Jehovah's people the same thing happens again and again. It is a wise man who can learn from the mistakes of his forefathers, and wise men are rare. The symbolism we look at is:

Aaron Adam

Miriam Adam's offspring: Eve onwards

Moses Michael

Cushite wife Edenic covenant

Cush Satan

In the garden of Eden Adam's offspring was Eve, the one made by God from his rib. Michael was God's spokesman to Adam and Eve we know, for he is 'the word'. And in Eden there was an Edenic covenant, which was basically: do not eat from this tree. So just as Hagar and Sarah, the wives of Abraham symbolised the law and the new covenants, the sub-covenants of the Abrahamic covenant, so the Edenic covenant, the Cushite wife of the greater Moses, was presumably a sub-covenant of the Michaelic covenant, by which I mean the covenant by which Jesus is God's spokesman. For Michael would have mediated the Edenic covenant to Adam. And in order to do this he would have needed to have had a covenant himself with God. Satan is symbolised by Cush, because Cush was the physical father of Nimrod whereas Satan was the spiritual father of Nimrod, in the sense that Nimrod demonstrated the spirit of Satan. Neither is it impossible for Satan to have actually possessed Nimrod. This covenant was Cushite in the sense that Satan was the anointed Cherub covering Eden, so he had some position in the Edenic covenant arrangement, and of course he terminated it, abusing his position.

Now it is certainly true to say that: Miriam and Aaron began to speak against Moses on account of the Cushite wife whom he had taken. And they kept saying is it just by Moses Jehovah has spoken? Is it not by us also that he has spoken (Numbers 12:1,2).

This would have been precisely the conversation that Adam and Eve had after Eve had eaten the fruit: It's an unfair covenant, why can't we eat from it, Jehovah is hiding things from us? As regards the question: 'Is it just by Moses Jehovah has spoken', well in the edenic fulfilment this was the very question that was asked about the snake, is it just by Michael that Jehovah has spoken? The second question: 'Is it not by us also that he has spoken?', well Jehovah has said many things through the behaviour of Adam and Eve.

Michael, Adam and Eve were two brothers and a sister, for all three were in Jehovah's judicially living family before the sin. Eve spoke against the covenant, the Cushite wife, by eating the fruit and Adam was led along by her, as in the case of Miriam and Aaron. These two also spoke against Michael by their actions too, for he is supporting Jehovah and they were opposing him, in their ignorance, and he had mediated the tree covenant to them, which they broke, or maybe Satan did this, since it was a Cushite wife? The result was that all of Adam's offspring became unclean in the flesh, lepers in fact like Miriam. So they were thrown out of Eden and Miriam was thrown out of the camp. Adam himself was also evicted, but he died before Abraham, so he never saw the promised land of the Jews. However his offspring did return to the promised land 7 years of years later, and this is prefigured by Miriam's return 7 days later, for Eve was to be the mother of everyone living. So these 7 days are the 7 years of years or the 7 times of the Exedenic times in one symbolism.

[6.13] ROGER'S JELLY BABY

It was not an easy birth but as John says: When she has brought forth the young child, she remembers the tribulation no more, because of the joy that a man has been born into the world (John 16:21). Now that we know that Adam sinned in Nisan3993, things are easy. So when did the 7th creative day begin? when was the true God's last act of creation?

In the 1975 debacle, which actually was not a bad guess at the date of the end, we thought that maybe the last creative day began when Adam was born, which we thought was in 4026 BCE. In fact he was born on 4027 Tishri 10, see appendix[3]. The reason that the sheep were speculating and going all over the place, and many were lost at that time, was that the shepherd himself was lost, he did not know whether 1975 was the correct date or not, and neither was he prepared publicly to admit this. When the sheep go astray only the blind ones blame the sheep with statements like: Certain brothers ran ahead etc. Is it the fault of the sheep when they go astray? Certainly not, it is the fault of the shepherd, for the scripture says:

Everyone to whom much was given, much will be demanded of him. And the one people put in charge of much, they will demand more than usual of him (Luke 12:48).

This is what I like about Bill Martin and Ted Wright, because they give it to us straight. Ted said, look! the reason that the FDS have not told us whether all the anointed will be in heaven before Armageddon is that they just do not know. And just like they say they do not know that today, neither did they know either what was happening in 1975, although they weren't prepared to admit it then, that is why the sheep were wandering all over the place, the shepherd himself was actually lost. Now Bill has said to us look! 12% of brothers are doing no field service and missing the meetings worldwide. And the worldwide response has been to beat the sheep because they are going astray. But this is Satan's response, he always blames the lowly one, do we not know that God is with the lowly one? he blames the lofty one.

It is not the fault of the sheep that 12% of them are drifting around, it is the fault of the shepherd. He has the duty to keep them together, they themselves have no such duty. If the reader will indulge me just for 2 paragraphs, may I venture the opinion that this is the same stupidity as the British government and people showed as regards the trade unions, for. They blamed the workers and their unions for all the strikes, but the strikes were never the fault of the workers, the workers have no duty to look after themselves and avoid strikes, the managers are paid to do that. ICI was a company that recognised this, they said words to the effect of: 'All employee problems are the responsibility of the management, we pay these guys to manage them, that is their job.' Well ICI had God's view, and now our economy is destroyed and there are no unions left to blame, but ICI is still going strong, it has even had a child called Zeneca!

Let us not make the same mistake in 'the truth'. Because everything in this system is provided by God for us to learn from, yes even the government and the trade unions! If we are not prepared to learn from bad then we are kidding ourselves that we are back in Eden, and if we do not learn from bad we will fare no better than Adam did under his edenic test, for he knew no bad before he sinned. The true God provides both the good which comes directly from him, and the bad, which he permits to appear from another source for our instruction, painful as it is. And he is intensifying his teaching as we approach the end, and we are going to see a lot more bad than the problems of the British economy, in order to make the great crowd, those who are the seed for the earthly kingdom, as resistant as possible to bad.

Returning to the last creative act of God, well certainly creating Eve was a creative act because no fleshly woman had existed before her. But there was also a creative act that God performed on the day that Adam sinned, for the account reads:

And Jehovah God proceeded to make long garments of skin for Adam and for Eve, his wife, to clothe them (Gen 3:21)

So much more becoming than fig leaf loin coverings! This is a beautiful cryptic scripture. The long garments of skin were their new bodies, which replaced their indefinitely long garments of skin, which they had before they sinned. In fact the first Adamic body had a maximum lifetime of 960 years but this is beyond the scope of this letter. Jehovah created two new creations, namely an ageing man and an ageing woman. Before this they had just been created as steady state fleshwise perfect creatures. Now these creatures were to become slowly deteriorating fleshly creatures. It is a masterful thing the Jehovah did, to build a car that slowly deteriorates in an uncontrolled way is easy, but to build one that deteriorates according to plan and maintains all of its faculties during this whole degradation process requires complete understanding of all things mechanical.

In any event, the bible itself describes the new corrupting bodies of Adam and Eve as something that God himself 'proceeded to make'. And the corruption in the bodies is of course a result of and a physical declaration of the corruption in their spirits. But now the very same one, out of his undeserved kindness, is prepared to make a judicial declaration concerning their sons that they are righteous in spirit, through the blood of the Christ. And just as the man's and the woman's bodies became corrupt as they left Eden, so they will become incorruptible, though still mortal, when we enter into the next system, the second Eden at Armageddon see section [10.19].

Scientifically, God would presumably have changed the genes of Adam and Eve, from permanently renewable copies, to slowly degrading copies, and this would have certainly been a divine act of creation, albeit a destructive act of creation. Therefore the seventh creative day began in Nisan 3993BCE, and so it ends 6,000 years later in Nisan 2008CE as we saw in the case of the Midst prophecy. This is my jelly baby for Roger.

In 1874 Charles Taze Russell had one witness to the fact that the Gentile Times would end in 1914 CE. He did not even have any signs of the times! In fact all of the evidence around him belied the proximity of the Lord's day. But that was enough for him!!!

We have now seen two witnesses to the fact that the seventh creative day ends in 2008 CE. Is this enough for us????

Well, if it isn't do not worry, there are five more witnesses yet to come.