The Saints and The Two Sheepfolds

May 2010

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring,

and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

John 10:6

It was well know to the Hebrews in Jesus Christ’s time that Elijah was a god who had come into a soul within the fleshly body of a man. And it was well known that he, as a representative of a class, would come a second time in the finality of judgment with a glorious body like that of Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration. David, who knew this reality well, wrote of the these gods:

O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. Psalm 136:2

I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. Psalm 138:1

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works Psalm, 86:8

Malachi wrote of Elijah’s second coming in glorification.

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Malachi 4:5,6

These lines were written well after the first coming of Elijah in subjection to a human body. They are the concluding lines of the Old Testament Canon.

Like Enoch, Elijah was taken up into the heavenly eternals before his acquired human body naturally expired. These two are among the scriptural representatives of the gods who come in the likeness of men; for the scriptures say that all men will one day experience death. However the immortal gods like Elijah and Enoch never experience death. Maybe the reason that Paul emphasized at one point in scripture that he was “speaking as a man” was to point out the duality of his position as one of the gods subject to the passions of a soul with holes like all men. (Romans 3:5)

The disciples of Jesus were told they were of a different spirit than that of Elijah. They were told they were of the same spirit of that of the son of man rather than that of the Son of God.

And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. Luke 9:52-55

James later wrote that Elijah was once a man in subjection to the passions of humanity.

Well after Elijah was taken up to heaven, Elijah was manifested on the Mount of Transfiguration in his glorious body like that of the Son of God beside whom he stood and with whom he spoke. (Matthew 17:1-8)

David’s term for the gods that come in the likeness of men is saints. Paul likewise used this descriptive word in his epistles. Paul the saint wrote his Philippian epistle to the saints and about the saints. In the Philippian epistle Paul states that the saints will be transformed in the fashion of the Lords glorious body. This transformation will appear to others as that of Moses and Elijah in their appearance with the glorified Lord on the Mount of Transfiguration.

Jesus spoke of the commencement of the days in which the saints as holy angels would be gathered to him from among men in Luke chapter seventeen.

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Luke 17:32-36

Here the word taken is the Greek word paralambano meaning to be taken and received from beside something else. Here, Jesus is speaking prophetically of those saints who will still be subject to human bodies at the time when the last saints will be refashioned into glorified bodies -and the former saints will be manifested likewise - in order to eventually lead the feminine unto the consummation of union as His one body.

As gods, well known saints like Enoch, Noah, Melchisedec, Joseph, Moses, Isaiah, Elijah and Paul had come forth as ambassadors to prepare humanity for this future. In this understanding Paul wrote that he had seen Christ as “of one broken forth out of due time” - the due time being the future transitional time unto the kingdom of heaven on earth as written of by Paul in Hebrews. (I Corinthians 15:8)

The organized church and the disorganized church does not now see this because of 1000 years of grace for the human soul and 1000 years of man’s day have intervened since the time of belief in the Apostle Paul’s revelation from and concerning the Lord Jesus Christ - the revelation of the masculinely represented saints in union with the femininely represented faithful in Christ Jesus and both represented together as the Lord’s one body. In that time of man’s day, man has deceitfully or in ignorant weakness altered the revelation of the great mystery of Christ and the church. Because of such, the feminine church is looking through a thickened veil only to be taken away upon the transformation of the saints past and present. This transformation by His power is the lifting of that veil as written of by Paul in II Corinthians. (II Corinthians 3:7-18) This manifestation of the saints is the separation in differentiation that Paul writes about also in his second letter to the Thessolonicans.

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. II Thessalonians 2:1-4

Notice first the two pronouns you and our in the first verse of this section. You refers to the femininely represented faithful in Christ Jesus but our refers to the masculinely represented saints The word falling away means departure and in the underlying original Greek language in its noun form separation of masculine and feminine or husband and wife. Notice that the English words falling away are preceded by the word first. This first event of the short work of righteousness is what Jesus was referring to when he said one would be taken and the other left in Luke chapter seventeen. This section is in the context of the mighty angels (immortal gods/angels once sharing all the thoughts and feelings of humanity as saints ) as follows:

And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. II Thessalonians 1:7-12

Peter, who wrote his two letters in his last days, after thorough exposure to, and belief in, the apostle Paul’s revelation, writes purposely about the events to transpire at the commencement of the transitional period leading unto the paradise of the kingdom of heaven on earth. (II Peter 3:15,16)

To him the events he experienced on the Mount of Transfiguration were prophetic concerning the commencement of the day of the Lord or entrance into the kingdom of heaven on earth. (II Peter 1:16,17)

Peter knew that the time of man upon this earth was like a week of seven days with each day of the week about 1000 years in duration. As such he knew that his last days were during the last day of the fourth day of that week. He knew, as Paul knew, that in the last days of the sixth day man’s attempted usurpation of God’s throne would reach its crescendo. In such knowledge he wrote his letters more so to the to the future final remnant to obtain salvation in the Lord’s Day. (II Peter 3:8)

He also knew, as Paul knew, that the seventh day, as the Hebrew Sabbath Day, was a day of rest. Paul’s letter entitled Hebrews is entirely about the short work of righteousness leading into that last day of rest on this earth. In that day the Lord will be the High Priest of the Melchisedec priesthood-the former saints in non-fleshly spiritual bodies - as written, obviously without father or mother.

And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the inhabited world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. Hebrews 1:6

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. Hebrews 4:1-4

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. Hebrews 5:8-12

For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. Hebrew 7:1-3

A simple reading of Joel, the seemingly favorite prophet of Peter, the remnant of the those to be considered faithful appear as those from whom the meat is cut off before their eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God. But the glorified saints appear as:

………a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:

Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? Joel 2:2-11

[Today, it seems there are many who presumptuously proclaim that they are a part of Joel’s great army or one of the horsemen of the apocalypse or a member of Joseph’s company. When the time comes for the implementation of the revelation, all we see who is really in Joel’s great army or any other self proposed elite spiritual group. It will be those, as Elijah, who, live and in person, will command fire to come down and consume man’s hubris antithetical attempts to be a god under the usurping counterfeit god.]

This day of the Lord is the short work of righteousness written of by Paul to finish off the Lord’s body with the remnant of faithful souls.

These two folds, encased in their times, as those feminine of the early church and those feminine of the day of the Lord, are epitomized in the heavenly revelation as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor or the larger sheepfold and the lesser sheepfold according to the interpretations of the ancient stellar nomenclature. As with the time of man’s day that divides the time periods of these two folds, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are separated by the bright star of Draco’s tail named Giausar meaning the central one as in between. Additionally and significantly, in this context, Polaris, the bright lead star of Ursa Minor marking the entrance to the sheepfold, will make its closest approach in the last 26,000 years to the geocentric celestial North Pole within the next five years.

Peter wrote of these two time periods in his letters to the future when he wrote of the time periods of both the sufferings of Christ, the gulf of time in between, and then the glories that would one day follow.

Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. I Peter I:10,11

It seems that we are only arc-seconds away from that day when the church is finished in glory with the remnant of faithful and the day the doors of paradise revisited are opened.

If I were a faithful soul in these days I would be attracted to this message of hope from scripture regarding the transitional days into paradise. I would look forward to being lead out of and away from the wrath by the beloved holy angels and I would also anticipate with joy, in the midst of the associated sufferings, the day that my genetically corrupted soul would be burned to ashes then resurrected in and into perfection.

If I were a saint I would seek to warn the faithful of things to come and, out of my experienced mercy, be merciful to those who have sincerely hungered for genuine faith yet have been so deceived in their inherited genetic corruption by those willingly feasting on corruption. (Or, as written, the vessels fitted for destruction in their place in millennial perdition.)

.If you have not yet chosen to search the scripture, become noble like those of Berea of whom Paul classified “more noble” because they searched the scriptures daily to verify what he had taught them. And, pray, for yourself and others, the prayers that the apostle Paul prayed for both folds about 2000 years ago

Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. Ephesians 1:15-23

Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. Psalm: 50:5

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