1 After these things there was a festival of the Jews,
and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now in Jerusalem at the sheepgate there is a pool
designated in Hebrew Bethzatha, with 5 colonnades.
3 In these a multitude of the sick, blind, lame and those
with withered members, was lying down.
4 Because an angel [actually a demon] according to season would come down into the pool and disturb the water. The first [one] therefore to step in after disturbance of the water would become cured from whatever sickness [noshma] he was afflicted with. [Vatican B does not have this verse but the Alexandrinus early Latin versions and the Syriac Peshitta have it] [This is not the MO of God. You must have faith to be cured yes. But the demons could cure too using the level playing field card. But to have cripples waiting around every day and jumping in the pool whenever a leaf fell into it, may be very funny to demons, but not the love of God]. [The count does work - we think, so perhaps this demonic game is canonically recorded since it tell us how saints are chosen??Its first come first serve into each new water baptism. So the greater meaning is there!!!]
5 But a certain man [Gordon
plus all the 2NC Kings to be as a group] was there who had been in his sickness
for 38 years [1955Tishri, the end of the 1NC
sanctification, to 1992Tishri15, Gordon's sanctification, counting parts of
years. Then 18 years (parts of years) of the woman bent double from 1992Tishri15
until 2009Tebbeth24/25? When she shouts having been released]
6 Seeing this man lying down, and being aware that he had
already been [sick] a long time, Jesus said to him: Do you want to become sound
in health?
7 The sick man answered him: Sir, I do not have a man to
put me into the pool when the water is disturbed; but while I am coming another
steps down ahead of me [2nd presence remnant
sanctified from 1895Tishri to 1955Tishri].
8 Jesus said to him: Get up, pick up your cot [krabbaton] and walk.
9 With that the man immediately became sound in health,
and he picked up his cot and began to walk.[but
is not said to get up. Gordon already had a water baptism being Elijah4]
Now on that day it was a sabbath [Tishri15 is
a festival sabbath, and the word Sabbath appears 2x in the account so festival
sabbath is the greater meaning rather than weekly sabbath the literal meaning].
10 Therefore the Jews began to say to the cured man: It is
Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry the cot.
11 But he answered them: The very one that made me sound
in health said to me, 'Pick up your cot and walk.'
12 They asked him: Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick
it up and walk'?
13 But the healed man did not know who he was, for Jesus
had turned aside, there being a crowd in the place.
Sabbath (2)
14 After these things Jesus found him in the temple and
said to him: See, you have become sound in health. Do not sin anymore, in order
that something worse does not happen to you.
15 The man went away and told the Jews it was Jesus that
made him sound in health.
16 So on this account the Jews went persecuting Jesus,
because he was doing these things during Sabbath.
17 But he answered them: My Father has kept working until
now, and I keep working.
18 On this account, indeed, the Jews began seeking all the
more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath but he was also
calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
19 Therefore, in answer, Jesus went on to say to them:
Most truly I say to you, The Son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative,
but only what he beholds the Father doing. For whatever things that One does,
these things the Son also does in like manner.
20 For the Father has affection for the Son and shows him
all the things he himself does, and he will show him works greater than these,
in order that you may marvel.
21 For just as the Father raises the dead up and makes
them alive, so the Son also makes those alive whom he wants to.
22 For the Father judges no one at all, but he has
committed all the judging to the Son,
23 in order that all may honor the Son just as they honor
the Father. He that does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent
him.
24 Most truly I say to you, He that hears my word and
believes him that sent me has everlasting life, and he does not come into
judgment but has passed over from death to life.
25 Most truly I say to you, The hour is coming, and it is
now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who have
given heed will live.
26 For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has
granted also to the Son to have life in himself.
27 And he has given him authority to do judging, because
Son of man [not son of the man] he is (John 5, NWT amended from Greek)
Bethzatha means 'house of olives'. The symbolism is very obviously to do with baptism in holy spirit, the greater olive oil for those who go through the 'sheepgate', Christians, at a festival:
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The pool called Bethzatha |
The baptism in holy sprit of the new covenant saints. |
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5 Colonnades |
5 Prophetic Times (1800 years) of no baptism for new covenant saints from 95Tishri to 1895Tishri. This gap leads to the two presences. |
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Jerusalem |
Administration of God’s people, FDS3 (whilst they still were appointed - before 1995Tishri15) |
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Sheepgate |
Baptism in water to be a son of Isaac, a party to the ICC |
| Festival of the Jews | 1994 Memorial of the JWs |
|
Blind, Sick |
Spiritually misguided |
|
Lying down |
No water baptism |
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Lame, Withered members |
Unsanctified |
|
Season to season |
First presence to second presence |
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Man sick for 38 years |
Gordon and the 2NC Kings (not said to be in the colonnades), some of whom have been in the Watchtower, by the pool, from 1955Tishri the end of the sanctification of the remnant, the second baptism of the first new covenant saints, when the chap who stepped down before finished being sanctified, until 1993Adar17 (Letter 3), when the new new covenant, the 2NC, was declared to the Watchtower effectively offering a new baptism but not in the pool. The sanctification of the 2NC Kings from heaven began in 1996Chislev. These saints joined the Watchtower too late to be sanctified as first new covenant saints, but they are not second class citizens, as some believe. In fact Jesus was watching their activities and remembering them so that he knew whom to baptise as second new covenant saints when the time came. This account proves this. |
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Another steps down ahead |
Remnant 2nd baptism from 1895Tishri to 1955Tishri |
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Do not have a 'man' to put me in the pool. |
No human to baptise him in holy spirit. This is because he is to be baptised in holy spirit by an angel. But this points to a time when a man will baptise in holy spirit. |
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Get up |
The sanctification in spirit started on 1996Chislev24 for the 2NC kings, after 1996Nisan14 when FDS3 fell in authority over the saints. But Get up is a water baptism into the ICC, actually into the 4EC. You can be re water baptised! |
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Pick up your cot |
Cot is death bed. You can have a resurrection! Welcome to the Kingdom of God on earth, your water baptism is finished. This is the sealing in the flesh |
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Walk |
Sanctification in holy spirit. 1996Chislev to 2001Chislev. You can have a spirit baptism! |
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Something worse |
Sin against the holy spirit, the breaking of the spirit baptism, this is non repairable. The breaking of the water baptism, is repairable however. 'Get up' is the water rebaptism. The sin against the holy spirit only happens to those Nethinim who do not make it into the temple of FDS4 |
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The very 'one' who made me sound in health said to me: Pick up your cot and walk |
A 'one' who by contrast, is not a man, and is therefore an angel, who actually gives a guaranteed resurrection and a holy spirit baptism. Making him sound in health is a euphemism for baptism. |
| Who is 'the man' that said you: Pick it up and walk | A composite man like the sick man, the Sluggish Slave, who informs the sick man, the Nethinim, about the existence of the two baptisms (having learned about it from Gordon). This man did not make him sound in health. He did not baptise him. |
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Didn't know who he was |
The details of the Wicked Slave and the Sluggish Slave were not explained to the Nethinim. The WSS puts a filter on this work. |
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Temple |
House of FDS4 |
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Sabbath |
The 1,000 year Sabbath of the Kingdom of God |
| Jews | JWs |
| Jesus | Gordon, he 'went up' to Jerusalem by letter just before the 1994Nisan14 memorial to try and persuade the New covenant saints to celebrate it properly (as he thought at the time). Gordon doesn't baptise any 2NC Kings in holy spirit (only in water), because the man (2NC Kings) went away and told the Jews (JWs) it was Jesus (Gordon) who made him sound in health. He did not say that it was Jesus who told him to pick up his bed and walk. But Gordon does make him sound in health, (baptise him) in water, making him sound to the extent of cleanliness of the flesh. In other words, his past sins are forgiven through Gordon, but his future sins are forgiven through the angel. |
| Do not sin anymore | You have everlasting life. He quite obviously would not have stopped sinning! |
| Unlawful to carry a bed on the sabbath | Unlawful to get a finished water baptism - the JWs say. |
| The Father | Jesus |
| The Son | Gordon |
The Jewish festival was booths, and the 5 colonnades are from 95Tishri, the end of the 96 years of the first baptism of the remnant until 1895Tishri the start of the 96 years of the second baptism of the remnant. Applying the Times Principle of the code, five prophetic times is 1800 years, the five times of the Intermission times in this case. It’s like the famous scripture says:
The utterance of Jehovah to my Lord is: Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet (Psalm 110:1).
The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies
beneath your feet.
If, therefore, David calls him 'Lord,' how is he his son? (Matthew 22:44,45
NWT corrected).
By the holy spirit David himself said: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies beneath your feet (Mark 12:36 NWT corrected).
For David himself says in the book of Psalms: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet (Luke 20:42,43 NWT corrected)
Actually David did not ascend to the heavens, but he himself says: Jehovah said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet (Acts 2:34,35).
But with reference to which one of the angels has he ever said: Sit at my right hand, until I place your enemies as a stool for your feet ? (Hebrews 1:13).
The hand has five fingers on it or it has fingers occurring 5 times. It stands for 5 times in the symbolic meaning. The Jehovah's Witnesses correctly replace the word ‘Lord’ in the old testament with the original scripture wording ‘Jehovah’ deriding the Jewish scribes for altering the holy word of God due to their superstition. But then, the hypocrites that they are, they go and make the same mistake themselves and they change the word ‘Lord’ in the new testament for ‘Jehovah’, breaking the holy code in precisely the same way, becoming inverted scribes!
When you are sitting you cannot baptise in holy spirit, the priest has to be standing to baptise in holy spirit - see [204]. The right hand congregation of Christ is the remnant, the new covenant saints, FDS1 and FDS3, and the left hand congregation is that of FDS2 and FDS4, the sons of Bilhah and of Rachel. So sitting at the right hand is a suspension of baptism for the remnant lasting five times (a hand has fingers occurring 5 times). This is the 1800 years of the Intermission Times.
However, it is evident from the multiplicity of recitals of this scripture that there are further fulfillments. One of them involves a delay in baptising the multitude of the JWs and those who make the final part of the great crowd, for 5 years, from 2001Tishri30 to 2006Tishri30. We can use the counting dimension of the code, and get a count on those in the Colonnades:
In these was lying down multitude:
of the (ones) being sick
2x
of blind (ones)
2x
of lame (ones)
2x
of withered (ones)
2x
The multitude 'in these' counts as 8x in 1x and 8x in 1x = 18x or possibly just 8x + 2x = 10X. This might be the period of water baptism of the 'multitude' of JWs who join the LWs, from 2007Nisan to 2008Tishri??
Now the thing is that when Jesus said to him: Get up, pick up your bed and walk. The account then says: He immediately became sound in health, and (not necessarily immediately) he picked up his bed and began to walk. This is an omission symbolism. The account does not say that he 'got up'. Of course he got up, but in the account symbolism the meaning is that the Nethinim do not get a water baptism from heaven from 'the man'. They get a spirit baptism and also a righteous decree in the spirit, if they turn up in the temple of FDS4. Now it is FDS4 that tells them that they can pick up their cot, i.e. have a resurrection (which means for the Nethinim, 'Have everlasting life'). But it is not FDS4 that actually gives them this baptism. For the scripture says:
Therefore the Jews began to say to the cured man: It is Sabbath, and it is
not lawful for you to carry the cot.
11 But he answered them: The very one that made me
sound in health said to me, 'Pick up your cot and walk.'
12 They asked him: Who is the man that told you, 'Pick
it up and walk'?
13 But the healed man did not know who he was, for Jesus
had turned aside, there being a crowd in the place.
14 After these things Jesus found him in the temple and
said to him: See, you have become sound in health. Do not sin anymore, in order
that something worse does not happen to you.
The 'man' gives the information about the possibility of the baptism but the 'one' (who is an angel since he is not described as a man) gives the baptism. So the Nethinim are baptised from heaven, by an angel whom they do not know, he gives them their sanctification and he gives everlasting life to those who eventually come to the temple of FDS4. Neither do they know Gordon, who informs the Sluggish Slave, who informs them of these baptisms. Only when they reach the temple of FDS4 do they 'get up', or get the water baptism into the ICC.