[204] The method of baptising

   9.    The priest then asks him to kneel.

   10.  The believer kneels, facing the priest, and closes his eyes.

   11.  The priest then lays his hands on the head of the believer, and says a blessing out loud, telling him the cleanliness he is about to receive. This confers to the man the cleanliness spoken by the priest, presuming that the priest knows the correct level of cleanliness for the man. For this cleanliness is purely a matter of faith on behalf of the candidate, the correct time for such cleanliness to be given, the status of the candidate (age, previous baptisms etc) and the cleanliness of the priest.

   12.  The priest then grasps the believer's hand or hands, tells him/her to get up, and/or to walk, and/or to continue walking and/or to pick up his bed and/or welcome home depending on the baptism being given and helps him/her to his/her feet. And here he/she is, wholly clean, Amen

   13.  Group hug (Eutychus)

Scriptures from which one deduces the above

Widow of Nain's son:

Jarius' daughter:

Dorcas:

Eutychus:

For this reason, now that we have left the primary doctrine about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying a foundation again, namely, repentance from dead works, and faith toward God, the teaching on baptisms and the laying on of the hands, the resurrection of the dead and everlasting judgment (Hebrews 6:1,2).

And he took the children into his arms and began blessing them, laying his hands upon them (Mark 10:16).

But when the sun was setting, all those who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him. By laying his hands upon each one of them he would cure them (Luke 4:40).

For this very cause I remind you to stir up like a fire the gift of God which is in you through the laying of my hands upon you (2 Timothy 1:6).

Baptism by the laying on of the hands

Those in FDS1 could only baptise in water. The 1NC saints are all baptised from heaven. Jesus the non adamic human who died at his baptism baptised Peter, Gordon believes. This is because he was a 1NC saint and an angel, since the first presence started at his birth and since he gave up his human body to ransom Abraham. Then after the first tranch of 1NC saints was resurrected, they could baptise others from heaven. So Peter and Philip and Paul baptised in water only whilst in TCC1.

47 Can anyone forbid water so that these might not be baptized who have received the holy spirit even as we have? (Acts 10).

Peter knew that since Cornelius and his household had already received the gifts of the spirit, they must already be baptised in holy spirit, baptised into the name of Jesus, baptised into the 1NC. So he only offered them water, but that was in fact all he could offer them in the way of baptism.

38 With that he commanded the chariot to halt, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him (Acts 8).

The Ethiopian Eunuch had been to Jerusalem to worship as a Jew. He was reading aloud the book of Isaiah. He was therefore a proselyte. Proselytes were called at Pentecost on 33Sivan6. So the Eunuch was ready for sanctification into the 1NC. But Philip did not do that he merely baptised him into the 1EC. 

14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they dispatched Peter and John to them
15 and these went down and prayed for them to get holy spirit.
16 For it had not yet fallen upon any one of them, but they had only been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
17 Then they went laying their hands upon them, and they began to receive holy spirit (Acts 8).

They were baptised into the 1EC by Philip and then into the 1NC by Jesus (the non adamic human) or Michael from heaven, then Peter and John mediated the gifts of the spirit to them.

2 and he said to them: Did you receive holy spirit when you became believers? They said to him: Why, we have never heard whether there is a holy spirit.
3 And he said: In what, then, were you baptized? They said: In John's baptism.
4 Paul said: John baptized with the baptism [in symbol] of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.
5 On hearing this, they got baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
6 And when Paul laid his hands upon them, the holy spirit came upon them, and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying (Acts 19).

This is technically an interesting situation. One cannot be baptised into the name of Jesus, sanctified into the 1NC, until one knows about Jesus and the holy spirit etc. So once Paul told them about Jesus, then the 1NC angels in heaven could baptise the Ephesians to be 1NC saints. Then Paul laid his hands on them giving them the gifts of the spirit. This is actually the angels working with Paul. The angels had to sanctify these guys in order that Paul could give them the gifts of the spirit, since these could only be given to sanctified Christians. So in this sense, the apostles themselves (and only the apostles) could as good as sanctify in holy spirit. Paul could not baptise these Ephesians into the 1NC because he was not a 1NC saint. He was the mediator of the EHC, the covenant of Bilhah.

The Watchtower and FDS3 worked in a similar way to FDS1 as regards the 1NC saints, the temple not made with hands. 

58 We heard him say, I will throw down this temple that was made with hands and in three days I will build another not made with hands (Mark 14).

So the temple of FDS1 was not made with hands, so those in it could not baptise with holy spirit by the laying on of the hands. They baptised in water and Jesus the non adamic human, and Michael and the 1NC saints in heaven sanctified the 1NC saints in TCC1. The same is true of TCC3. But things are different with FDS2 as regards the sons of Bilhah and FDS4 as regards the sons of Rachel and the Great Crowd. We are a temple made with hands since the sons of the 2NC and the EHC are human in the Kingdom of God. So we baptise people by the laying on of the hands. Gordon suspects that Paul did this for the sons of Bilhah, the sons of the EHC as well. 

The ability of those in FDS2 and FDS4 to baptise in holy spirit is described by John in Revelation 11 and Zechariah in chapter 4. There are two lampstands and two olive trees each of which has two bunches of twigs and 2 pipes that pour the golden [fluid].

3 And I will cause my two witnesses to prophesy 1260 days dressed in sackcloth.
4 These are [symbolized by] the two olive trees and the two lampstands and are standing before the Lord of the earth (Revelation 11).

11 And I proceeded to answer and say to him: What do these two olive trees on the right side of the lampstand and on its left side mean?
12 Then I answered the second time and said to him: What are the two bunches of twigs of the olive trees that, by means of the two golden tubes, are pouring forth from within themselves the golden [liquid]? (Zechariah 4).

The golden [fluid] is the holy spirit. The two lampstands are FDS1 and FDS3 and the two olive trees which can pour this fluid around inside themselves are FDS2 and FDS4. Here we are, God's 4 witnesses, the 4 true Christian churches. In this presence of course the Jehovah's witnesses and then the Lords' Witnesses.

Prayers and Blessings

12 At that time Solomon said: Jehovah himself said he was to reside in the thick gloom [not a prayer as God is in the 3rd person].
13 I have successfully built a house of lofty abode for you, an established place for you to dwell in to time indefinite [a prayer] (1 Kings 8). 

14 Then the king turned his face and began to bless all the congregation of Israel, while all the congregation of Israel were standing up [a blessing].
15 And he went on to say: Blessed is Jehovah the God of Israel, who spoke by his own mouth with David my father, and by his own hand has given fulfillment, saying (1 Kings 8).

This is a blessing, he turns towards them to give it. So his prayer was made whilst he was turned away from the congregation. Then we read:

22 And Solomon began standing before the altar of Jehovah in front of all the congregation of Israel, and he now spread his palms out to the heavens; 
23 and he went on to say: O Jehovah the God of Israel, there is no God like you in the heavens above or on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the loving-kindness toward your servants who are walking before you with all their heart (1 Kings 8).

Whereas we read in the parallel account in 2 Chronicles:

12 And he began standing before the altar of Jehovah in front of all the congregation of Israel, and he now spread out his palms.
13 For Solomon had made a platform of copper and then put it in the middle of the enclosure. Its length was 5 cubits, and its width 5 cubits, and its height 3 cubits; and he kept standing upon it. And he proceeded to kneel upon his knees in front of all the congregation of Israel and to spread his palms out to the heavens.
14 And he went on to say: Oh Jehovah the God of Israel, there is no God like you in the heavens or on the earth, keeping the covenant and the loving-kindness toward your servants who are walking before you with all their heart (2 Chronicles 6).

So he knelt down, and spread out his palms to the heavens and he presumably turned back away from the congregation. Then when he finished this prayer we read:

54 And it came about that, as soon as Solomon finished praying to Jehovah with all this prayer and request for favor, he rose up from before the altar of Jehovah, from bending down upon his knees with his palms spread out to the heavens;
55 and he began to stand and bless all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying:
56 Blessed be Jehovah, who has given a resting-place to his people Israel according to all that he has promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise that he has promised by means of Moses his servant (1Kings8).

Solomon's actions show that prayers should be made kneeling down and privately and silently, whereas blessings should be made publicly and audibly whilst standing up. The prayer is the burnt offering, all of which goes to God, the blessing is the communion sacrifice, which is shared with God and the priests and the congregation.

2 May prayer be prepared as incense before you, the raising up of palms as the evening grain offering (Psalm 141).

The evening grain offering was a burnt offering (Numbers 28:8).

Isaiah is quite plainly equating prayer with the 'whole burnt offering', with the emphasis on 'whole'. So all of the prayer goes to God. Let us not be like the sons of Eli:

12 Now the sons of Eli were good-for-nothing men; they did not acknowledge Jehovah.
13 As for the due right of the priests from the people, whenever any man was offering a sacrifice, an attendant of the priest came with the 3-pronged fork in his hand, just when the meat was boiling,
14 and made a thrust into the basin or the two-handled cooking pot or the caldron or the one-handled cooking pot. Anything that the fork might bring up the priest would take for himself. That is the way they would do in Shiloh to all the Israelites coming there (1Samuel2).

Let us stop sticking our forks in other people's prayers to Jehovah, guess which feeding program the 3 pronged fork represents (FDS3). Let them pray silently to him alone as did Hannah, whose prayer was answered with Samuel, her son:

12 And it occurred that while she prayed extendedly before Jehovah, Eli was watching her mouth.
13 As for Hannah, she was speaking in her heart; only her lips were quivering, and her voice was not heard. But Eli took her for drunk (1 Samuel 1).

She was not drunk, her actions were inspired, she is teaching us how to pray. As Jesus did:

5 Also, when you pray, you must not be as the hypocrites; because they like to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the broad ways to be visible to men. Truly I say to you, They are having their reward in full.
6 You, however, when you pray, go into your private room and, after shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; then your Father who looks on in secret will repay you.
7 But when praying, do not say the same things over and over again, just as the people of the nations do, for they imagine they will get a hearing for their use of many words.
8 So, do not make yourselves like them, for God your Father knows what things you are needing before ever you ask him (Matthew 6)

How exactly is God our father? Sure he is the father of those born again, and the God of those born again, since he is God of the living. But he is also the God of Abraham and the father of Abraham, whose is the father of all those with faith through the 1AC. So all with faith can pray to Jehovah. That is pray to Jehovah directly, not through Jesus. Jesus is a mediator of covenants, not a mediator of prayers. 

2 Oh hearer of prayer, even to you people of all flesh will come (Psalm 65). This one is God.

9 Jehovah will indeed hear my request for favor; Jehovah himself will accept my own prayer (Psalm 6).

13 But as for me, my prayer was to you, O Jehovah, At an acceptable time, O God. In the abundance of your loving-kindness answer me with the truth of salvation by you (Psalm 69).

6 Do not be anxious over anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication along with thanksgiving let your petitions be made known to God (Philippians 4).

11 The Pharisee stood and began to pray these things to himself, 'O God, I thank you I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week, I give the tenth of all things I acquire.' 
13 But the tax collector standing at a distance was not willing even to raise his eyes heavenward, but kept beating his breast, saying, 'O God, be gracious to me a sinner (Luke 18:11-13).

Evidently both of these were praying to God directly.

6 You, however, when you pray, go into your private room and, after shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; then your Father who looks on in secret will repay you.
7 But when praying, do not say the same things over and over again, just as the people of the nations do, for they imagine they will get a hearing for their use of many words.
8 So, do not make yourselves like them, for God your Father knows what things you are needing before ever you ask him.
9 you must pray, then, this way: 
'Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified.
10 Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.
11 Give us today our bread for this day;
12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the wicked one.'

14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;
15 whereas if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 When you are fasting, stop becoming sad-faced like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to you, They are having their reward in full.
17 But you, when fasting, grease your head and wash your face,
18 that you may appear to be fasting, not to men, but to your Father who is in secrecy; then your Father who is looking on in secrecy will repay you.

In the literal meaning, 'your Father' is God. In the greater coded symbolic meaning:

Your father who is in secret/secrecy is Jehovah (because he is in secret to men)
Your father who looks on in secret/secrecy is Jesus (for those born again) (because he is not in secret to men - we have seen him)

Blessings are requests of God made out loud in the form of speech to the congregation:

22 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying:
23 Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the way you should bless the sons of Israel, saying to them:
24 May Jehovah bless you and keep you.
25 May Jehovah make his face shine toward you, and may he favor you.
26 May Jehovah lift up his face toward you and assign peace to you.'
27 And they must place my name upon the sons of Israel, that I myself may bless them (Numbers 6).

Who are Jehovah God's People Today and who is Jesus the God over today?

34 Jesus said to them: The children of this system of things marry and are given in marriage,
35 but those who have been counted worthy of gaining that system of things and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
36 In fact, neither can they die anymore, for they are like the angels, and they are God's children by being children of the resurrection.
37 But that the dead are raised up even Moses disclosed, in the account about the thornbush, when he calls Jehovah 'the God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob.'
38 He is a God, not of the dead [physically], but of the living [judicially], for they [the 3 patriarchs] are all living to him [literally having been resurrected as angels after John the baptist died, and judicially being saints]. (Luke20)

The reason why Jehovah is the God of the patriarchs is because they were resurrected as angels after John the baptist, the validation sacrifice for the JAC died. They are his children through resurrection. But resurrection results from salvation covenants. So the children of the salvation covenants are God's children. So he is the father of many who are judicially dead are well as all who are judicially alive. But when you are physically dead, in the first death you do not praise Jah and he is not your God, until you are resurrected. 

To the saints in general there is only 1 God, Jehovah...

5 For even though there are those who are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many gods and many lords,
6 there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and we through him. (1 Corinthians8)

Jesus is only the God of those to whom he is a father. So he is God of the sealed saints via the ARC and of the 1NC saints. He is not God of any unsealed non 1NC saint, until such time as they are sealed. 

All humans who end up in Gehenna will have Jesus as their God because he is about to become their father. Those in Gehenna are in a salvation covenant which prevents their spirits being destroyed. They are resurrected due to the ransom of Michael - we think. So we all pray to Jehovah, but the 1NC saints and the sealed saints can also pray to Jesus.

Praying in the name of Jesus Christ

12 Most truly I say to you, He that exercises faith in me, that one also will do the works that I do; and he will do works greater than these [i.e. resurrect people and more!], because I am going my way to the Father [to become head of the second holy spirit].
13 Also, whatever it is that you ask in my name [being baptised into my name], I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in connection with the Son [God through Jesus and Jesus through the saint. Your prayer must be for something that glorifies your father Jesus, not for a ferrari that glorifies only the son].
14 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it [since you are my son, baptised into my name either through the 1NC or the ARC] (John 14).

21 A woman, when she is giving birth, has grief, because her hour has arrived; but 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.
22 you also, therefore, are now, indeed, having grief; but I shall see you again [during the salvation manifestation for a rapture at the end of the presence] and your hearts will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.
23 And in that day you will ask me no question at all. Most truly I say to you, If you ask the Father for anything he will give it to you in my name [on the basis that you are my relative].
24 Until this present time you have not asked a single thing in my name [you cannot do that until we are engaged]. Ask and you will receive, that your joy may be made full (John 16).

23 Furthermore, many had to become priests [in succession] because of being prevented by death from continuing as such,
24 but he because of continuing alive forever has his priesthood without any successors.
25 Consequently he is able also to save completely those who are coming towards God through him [through faith in him these one come into the salvation covenants], because he is always alive to plead for them [as head of the holy spirit, the mother pleading for her kids to the father] (Hebrews7).

So we are not required to pray to God using Jesus' authority! He has less authority that God in any event.

Some Examples of Prayers and Blessings

And Hezekiah began to pray before Jehovah and say: Oh Jehovah the God of Israel, sitting upon the cherubs, you alone are the [true] God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You yourself have made the heavens and the earth.
Incline your ear, Oh Jehovah, and hear. Open your eyes, Oh Jehovah, and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to taunt the living God.
It is a fact, Oh Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their land.
And they have consigned their gods to the fire, because they were no gods, but the workmanship of man's hands, wood and stone;
And now, Oh Jehovah our God, save us, please, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Oh Jehovah, are God alone.
And Isaiah the son of Amoz proceeded to send to Hezekiah, saying: This is what Jehovah the God of Israel has said: The prayer that you have made to me concerning Sennacherib the king of Assyria I have heard (2 Kings 19:15-20).

May the God who gives peace be with all of you Amen (Romans 15:33).

May you have undeserved kindness and peace from God our Father and [the] Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 1:3).

Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way prosperously to you.
Moreover, may the Lord cause you to increase, yes, make you abound, in love to one another and to all, even as we also do to you; to the end that he may make your hearts firm, unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the presence of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones (1 Thessalonians 3:11-13).

Who gets to pick up their bed ? This is covered at the beginning of U49 and in U191.

So in summary everyone who is baptised into FDS4 who has also been baptised into FDS3 gets to pick up their bed/cot. These ones are guaranteed a resurrection into the Kingdom of God. They have passed the test that the true God has set. They have recognised and joined the two true religions of the presence. This is a beautiful interpretation, and here is the mercy and wisdom and love of the true God. And here, the fulfillment of the scripture:

And he said to me: They have come to pass! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To anyone thirsting I will give from the fountain of the water of life free.
Anyone conquering will inherit these things, and I shall be his God and he will be my son (Revelation 21:6,7).

And again:

You are not greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well and who himself together with his sons and his cattle drank out of it, are you?
In answer Jesus said to her: Everyone drinking from this water will get thirsty again.
Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty at all, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water bubbling up to impart everlasting life (John 4:12-14).

Yes, the water of the well is the water of the Watchtower, which is their baptism into the 2AC, which runs dry. Then Abraham's true children will 'get thirsty again', and be rebaptised into the 2AC by FDS4. But those who join FDS4 will never (as a group) get thirsty again. Furthermore they will baptise others themselves, making sons for God in the heavens through prayer, blessing and the laying on of hands as described above. So you who go by the name of Jehovah's Witnesses, will you heed the counsel of Paul when he says:

However, the spiritual man examines indeed all things, but he himself is not examined by any man (1 Corinthians 2:15) ?

Will you therefore examine all things, which would include an examination of this website/book? Or will you instead ignore the utterance of God's spirit above and follow instead the commandments of men, not to read this sort of literature, not to eat certain foods? Yes read the scripture which says:

However, the inspired utterance says definitely that in later periods of time some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to misleading inspired utterances and teachings of demons, by the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, marked in their conscience as with a branding iron; forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who have faith and accurately know the truth (1 Timothy 4:1-3).

And understand that this food is not only physical but also spiritual. For God makes spiritual food too does he not? So partake why don't you, and follow the spirit not of cowardice but of God. Yes, your wife or your husband or your best friend in the congregation may not agree with your course of action and may shun you. But if you love that one who persecutes you in ignorance, then you will show them the way, by following not your comfort zone, but your Lord, Jesus Christ. Then you will be a true Christian, and this will be the best thing you can do for them and for God. And great will be your reward in the heavens for this is how they persecuted all the prophets who came before you.

Will you therefore follow the example of Jesus, who spoke to Satan himself, or will you shun God's new people as instructed by Satan through the Watchtower? Will you bask in the glorious freedom of the children of God or will you cower behind your mother's skirt after the manner of a frightened child of the flesh? Are you Christians or are you Christianians? Are you followers of Christ or followers of followers of Christ? Are you fearing God or are you fearing his adversary? It is one or the other as you know only too well.

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Old incorrect attempt at get up, pick up your bed and walk

There are 4 accounts, one in each gospel where Jesus orders a man to get up, pick up his bed/cot/little bed and either walk or go home. Here are the first 3:

Matthew

So, boarding the boat, he proceeded across and went into his own city.
And, look! they were bringing him a paralytic lying on a bed. On seeing their faith Jesus said to the paralytic: 
Take courage, child; your sins are forgiven.
And, look! certain of the scribes said to themselves: This fellow is blaspheming.
And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said: Why are you thinking wicked things in your hearts?

For instance, which is easier, to say, Your sins are forgiven, or to say, Get up and walk?
However, in order for you to know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins -- then he said to the paralytic:
Get up, pick up your bed [klinhn], and go to your home. And he got up and went off [aphlqen] to his home.
At the sight of this the crowds were struck with fear, and they glorified God, who gave such authority to men (Matthew 9:1-8).

Mark

And men came bringing him a paralytic carried by 4.
But not being able to bring him right to [Jesus] on account of the crowd, they removed the roof over where he was, and having dug an opening they lowered the cot on which the paralytic was lying.
And when Jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic: Child, your sins are forgiven.
Now there were some of the scribes there, sitting and reasoning in their hearts: Why is this man talking in this manner? He is blaspheming. Who can forgive sins except one, God?
But Jesus, having discerned immediately by his spirit that they were reasoning that way in themselves, said to them: Why are you reasoning these things in your hearts? 

Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and pick up your cot and walk [peripatei]'?
But in order for you men to know that the Son of man has authority to forgive sins upon the earth, -- he said to the paralytic:
I say to you, Get up, pick up your cot [krabbaton], and go to your home.
At that he did get up, and immediately picked up his cot and went [exhlqen] out in front of them all, so that they were all simply carried away, and they glorified God, saying: We never saw the like of it (Mark 2:3-12 NWT adapted from the Greek).

Luke

And, look! men carrying on a bed [klinhV] a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking a way to bring him in and place him before him.
So, not finding a way to bring him in on account of the crowd, they climbed up to the roof, and through the tiling they let him down with the little bed among those in front of Jesus.
And when he saw their faith he said: Man, your sins are forgiven you.
Thereupon the scribes and the Pharisees started to reason, saying: Who is this that is speaking blasphemies? Who can forgive sins except God alone?
But Jesus, discerning their reasoning's, said in answer to them: What are you reasoning out in your hearts?

Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'?
But in order for you to know that the Son of man has authority on the earth to forgive sins-- he said to the paralyzed man: I say to you, Get up and pick up your little bed [klinidion] and be on your way [poreuou] home.
And instantly he rose/stood up before them, picked up what he used to lie on and went off [aphlqen] to his home, glorifying God (Luke 5:18-25).

We apply the Parallel Accounts Principle, and deduce that there are 3 greater fulfillments to these 3 accounts. Now here play spot the difference. Here is the comparative table.

The Symbolism is: