Forward

In this writing I have chosen to go with the Aramaic name for the Son of God instead of the traditional name because that is his true name and the one the disciples knew and used.

SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING

"We speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God desired for our glory before time began."

Spiritual understanding does not come with being borne again anymore than understanding of life comes with a natural birth. The potential to learn is there but it takes growth and training. A natural child learns to talk and understand language as he grows and is in the presence of those using such skills. Spiritual understanding comes from being in the presence of the Holy Spirit and allowing him to teach you spiritual things.

You have to change the way you think and look at things. Natural or carnal thinking is enmity against God for God is a Spirit and if you ever hope to understand Him you must learn to think on his level. When you are born again you become a new creature with the potential to understand spiritual things, however, unless you exercise that way of thinking you never become skilled in it.

The problem is that the religious man needs things they can see and touch, something their carnal minds can relate to. A spiritual man needs none of these things for they understand spiritual things are not of the sense realm nor are they tangible.

First, I want you to know the religious leaders of today are not spiritual, they are religious, and can not bring you to maturity. God’s people are right where they were shortly after the first Church Age. They have neither grown spiritually nor advanced in spiritual knowledge. Needing milk like a baby, not solid food. We must go on to grow up into the head.

The difference between baby Messiahians and a mature Son of God is their realm of thinking. Babies think only about what is around them and directly effects their life, where a mature believer is spiritually minded. That is, they think on things that can not be seen, but are more real than things that do appear for things seen will pass away while unseen spiritual thing are eternal.

The purpose of this book is to stimulate you into thinking spiritual thoughts. "I pray that the eyes of your understanding(heart) might be enlightened in order that you may know the hope of which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe."

Other races of people have given us our great civilization, but religious education came through the Jews. Salvation and spirituality came through YahShua Messiah.

When YahShua was about to die upon the cross he said, "It is accomplished". All that he had been trying for three and a half years to teach his disciples was now brought into fulfillment. In the same way, what the early Apostles tried to teach was accomplished and they died. The foundation teachings were established and it was time to build upon them. Unfortunately, that did not happen.

Two thousand years later and we are still hearing the same carnal teachings of the first Church Age.

The Gospels speak to all cultures and to the Church Age:

Matthew: Written to reach the Israeli population by stressing the fulfillment of the laws and the promises.

Mark: Dwells on power and acts of authority that appeals to the Roman minds.

Luke: Appeals to the intellect, showing the Lord’s dietyship in great teachings with proof of Godship, which the Greeks seek after.

John: Writes to all, especially the common man with little or no education, for it remains simple and full of love.

The churches today appeal to all people who love law and promises. The modern day Markeans seeking power and authority are found in Bible colleges, while the new Mattheweans can be found in religious seminars. Those with Lukean minds go here and there seeking "a word of the Lord" from ministries who gives it to them for a price. For uneducated Johneans, a pew, a place to belong and have fellowship. There is no spiritual growth here.

Now, the Epistles are letters to the churches and are written to correct error and to instruct and encourage. Paul found out, however, true spiritual teaching was impossible to relate for the church was carnally minded, like babes needing milk not solid food.

You no longer need the Gospels or the Epistles, they were for the Church Age. The Church Age has closed now and what we need is the Living Word spoken to our hearts daily by the Spirit.

When you were in school you learned out of books and had teachers over you, but when you graduated, you laid aside the books and did not go to teachers anymore. Unless you are one of those people who can not cope well outside ridged routine and spend most of their life in the school systems, ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of life, or as the Bible says, "truth". These are professional learners, but they are among the most ignorant of all people for life passes them by while they remain secure in their books and institutions.

Most people, anyway, began to live their day to day life in the realm of adulthood and put into practice the principles learned in school. Walking experimentally in new knowledge gained by day to day life, not from books or school. The principles remain as building blocks, but experience is now the way to walk and they are free from the bounds of rigorous school life.

It is the same with your Spiritual life. When you were young you studied the Bible and listened to teachers. They fed you with the sincere milk of the word. Graduation time has long past, but we like professional learners or mentally undeveloped children return to school Sunday after Sunday and are none the wiser for true growth takes place when you strike out on your own armed with the principles of God. You learn to walk as full adults, eating strong meat prepared fresh daily at the Master’s table. This is how you learn God’s ways. In the book you learned about him, in a Spiritual life walk you get to know him and his ways. You should become intimate with him, not a book or some teacher. Some have made gods of both.

Books were necessary when you were in school to learn the principles of mathematics, reading, writing and so on. After graduation you do not violate those principles, but neither do you order your life by their standards, you matured and became a business person, sales executive or something else. You left the books and teachers behind like the toys of youth.

One of the principles of the Bible is that "you need no man teach you, for the Spirit Himself(your experiences in him) will teach you all thing". Because you are still in school after nearly two thousand years and your teachers have lost their Spiritual understanding, becoming religious, I will therefore also teach you. But, what I teach will be things revealed to me by the Spirit, neither by men nor religious seminars. They teach only religious things and call them Spiritual because they themselves do not understand Spiritual things.

YahShua taught Spiritual things with parables because the people of his day were unspiritual and carnal minded and through parables he hoped to enlighten them to Spiritual things. On this side of the cross, however, we should not need parables, carnal or natural things to represent or point to spiritual things. He has given us the Holy Spirit so Spiritual understanding can be ours. However, YahShua has not changed. He will still use parables or object lessons when his people are carnally minded.

Since most, sad to say, are religious and not Spiritual, I will now take some of the natural things and show you the Spiritual meaning of them. Everything God has given man the intellect to build and all natural things are object lessons for the spiritual man. Most, however, see the objects and get so carried away with them that they miss the lesson.

There is a vast difference between an earthly kingdom and a spiritual kingdom, earthly things and heavenly things. Man is constantly pulling spiritual things down to their carnal minded realm. Man always does things backward! They turn spiritual things into natural things and natural things into religious things and miss spiritual things altogether. We are supposed to be allowing the Spirit of God to pull us up into the realms of the spiritual. The carnal or natural is tangible and spoken of as things that can be acknowledged by the five senses: see, touch, taste, smell and hearing. Spiritual things are intangible and known only by the Spirit that dwells inside. Things like love, peace, joy and fellowship with God the Father.

In comparing natural to spiritual we can begin to see with spiritual eyes. This is eye salve for your eyes.

Numbers play a key role in understanding the hidden things of God. Here is a list of numbers and what I have found them to mean:

Number One: Unity; holiness

Number Two: Witness; establish a thing

Number Three: Perfection; Resurrection

Number Four: Dominion; Encompassing the whole

Number Five: Ministry; Laying on of hands

Number Six: Man; Carnalism

Number Seven: Completion; Rest

Number Eight: New beginning

Number Nine: Perfect Unity; Openness

Number Ten: Time of testing and proving

Number Twelve: Government of God’s Kingdom

Thirty: Good will of God; 30 fold blessing

Forty: Death; dying to self

Fifty: Pentecost; Anointing; Jubilee

Sixty: Acceptable will of God; 60 fold

One Hundred: Fullness; 100 fold

You do not have to be a mathematical genius to understand that if you want to make a number or something bigger you must add or multiply something to it. Our spiritual walk is progressive and must be added to for us to mature. Sometimes it might look like we are going backward when God tells us to use subtraction and lay aside something instead of adding to it, but the end results is better than what we originally had. Here is a little Spiritual mathematics for you:

    6             Carnal man 
 +2             Established in God
= 8             New beginning 

When carnal man(6) is born again, he becomes established in the kingdom of God(2) and it is a new beginning(8). Notice the word beginning.

   10          Testing and Trying 
 X 4          Encompassing the whole 
= 40         Death to Self

The whole(4) work of the time of testing(10) and trying is to bring death to our self life(40).

This does not take place in the church system for there you get support for your self-life and it stays alive. YahShua was crucified outside the city (denomination) walls. Like the sacrifices of the Old Covenant that was taken outside the camp and destroyed, our sin sacrifice suffered and died outside the camp.

We are told to come out of the perverse Religious System, and go to him outside the camp baring the same disgrace. Anyone inquiring (revelation knowledge) of the Lord is to go outside the camp. We put on God’s righteousness in a place that is ceremonially clean outside the camp(church walls). That is to say, we must be purged from our own self-righteousness, all religious theology and man made doctrines. There is no religious ceremony out here.

  12         Government of God 
  -5         Ministry 
= 7         Completion and Rest.

Here is a beneficial minus for you. When the Government of God(12) no longer needs a ministry(5) the people will be complete(7) in him, in harmony with God and at rest in the Spirit, no longer working(religiously). The ministry was originally meant to help the church come to maturity, but it has became a power to control lives and act as a mediator between God and the people and build little self kingdoms. The people of God need not another advocate, YahShua is enough.

There are three levels of growth which requires testing and trying for the purpose of refining us and bringing us step by step into perfection.

    10        Time of testing and proving 
  X 3         Perfection 
= 30         Good will of God/ 30 fold blessings.

The people who embrace salvation but do not go on to experience the Baptism of the Holy Spirit are called fundamentalist and live in the good will of God, the thirty-fold realm of blessing.

   50        Pentecostal Anointing 
+10        Testing and Trying 
= 60       Acceptable will of God/60 fold blessing 

The baptism of the Holy Spirit is only the earnest of our inheritance and part of the fullness of God. Some more testing and trying will bring us into the next level. We are told to go on to maturity.

      50      Pentecostal Anointing 
    X 2      Established second outpouring 
= 100      Fullness; 100 fold; sons of God

In this level we are no longer tried and tested but are established. The second out-pouring(later rain) will bring the fullness of God’s blessing and anointing through the manifestation of the sons of God. It gives us the fullness of our inheritance and brings many Sons unto Glory (Godliness), the purpose of God.

   12         Government of God 
 X 4         Dominion 
= 48        Dominion(4) and new beginning(8).

With all encompassing dominion(4) and a new government under God(12) we enter the