August 10th.

I intend to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God, as the LORD told my father David, when he said, "Your son whom I will put on the throne in your place will build the temple for my Name."

Here is how hidden the word of God actually is to the humans, and its actual nature (secret because it's not of natural origin, association or finality) versus what they always think it is (something they can understand and interpret). Solomon thought he was the one Nathan told David about so he acted on that assumption. In reality though, he wasn't the Son, just as the temple wasn't God's house, just as the group of humans who called themselves the chosen people of God weren't that; because the true God's reality isn't comprehended in the natural, by natural beings which is what they all are.

The LORD declares to you that the LORD himself will establish a house for you: When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with the rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men. But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.

It's what all the humans are who are existing on the earth. They aren't like God, but like animals, which is why they don't understand Him or anything He has done or intended to do, nor what He continues to do. For them, everything must be reduced to things they can understand, which means they cannot ever understand God or His reality because of the simple condition that He and it isn't meant for them because they don't have eyes to see it, or ears that can hear what His intention is.

Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place."

"You are a king, then!" said Pilate. Jesus answered, "You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me."

When a human belongs to the world, there is no knowledge that he belongs to the world or that there is any kind of duality. He just is one of the others that are existing, doing what they do. It is only when one is given eyes to see and ears to hear that they see the duality that exists, because the whole point is for them to see it and come away from it. That is the only reason for their being able to see it, otherwise they would just remain as they were—unable to see it for the simple reason that they're not sposed to be able to see it.

The Spirit gives life; the sarx (natural life, flesh and blood, human animal existences) counts for nothing.

All they can do is theorize about what it might be like from their very humans standpoint, since that's what they are and possess to be able to comprehend it; that is, unable to except as theory because perhaps they read some things in a book and wanted to extend that reality to themselves, like someone who invites himself to a party where he's not wanted—arrogant and presumptuous. Not only that but he tries to take the party over and decide who gets to come in and go out of the party, all on the presumption that he was invited in the first place. What has actually happened for the purpose of this analogy is that he showed up at a tenderloin crack house and he thinks that's the party, and he is king of his party, and he does invite people over and let them in or deny them. But it isn't the party, which is going on in a house and a neighborhood and a city he has no idea even exists. That's because the God who can't be comprehended by the humans chooses His own sons. They don't choose themselves, nor does any of the humans choose them for Him. They can go on all day long about this or that god they've created, which allows them to take part in their theoretical party and even be the doorkeeper, but it has nothing to do with the God who created everything that is seen.

They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an evil spirit came from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him any more, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Swear to God that you won't torture me!" For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of this man, you evil spirit!"

Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is Legion," he replied, "for we are many." And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.

A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. The demons begged Jesus, "Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them." He gave them permission, and the evil spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.

Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. Those who had seen it told the people what had happened to the demon-possessed man--and told about the pigs as well. Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.

The story is a metaphor about the process of transformation from wild animal to son of God. Metaphorical because what happens in a few minutes takes years in the actual reality. The evil spirit living in the man is the foreign, "wrong" nature which controls and leads him against his will. The state of the man after the transformation—calmly sitting, dressed and in his "right" mind—represents the nature that lives in and controls God's chosen sons, as He commands it to be in them instead of the other thing. Not led by His enemy, the serpent, the wild animal which will be destroyed, but by Him so the son can be useful to Him—able to love Him because he can know Him (because he's not just a dumb animal any longer like all the rest, what he was before when he couldn't know Him).

The evil spirit, representing the wild animal nature that is living in the sons of God He has chosen, but not transformed, is taken out of the man and put into a herd of unclean pigs, representing the vast majority of unclean (unable to come close to God) humanity, at a 2000 to 1 ratio which represents the miniscule fraction of the sons of God to the rest of the animal population. The pigs drown in the water, so when they go in they don't come back out (of the grave, which in Hebrew is sheol, translated to hell in the english), because they are the humans who are one with this temporary creation with its cycles of death—existing only to die.

I am going on the way of all the earth.

The sons are unclean animals at one point in their existence, then go into the water which cleans them, and come back out of the water transformed into clean sons, not led by the sinful (animal) nature, but the spirit of life, the nature of life and peace—the nature of a son who can find and therefore know the hidden Father. It is the process of transformation from unclean animal with the wild animal nature—useless to God—to useful, enjoyable son, able to love and serve the Father and carry out His desire and will on the earth, which becomes their purpose—to find and know the Father and be able to serve Him instead of themselves, which before they were found by Him was their only alternative (fully human, fully tied to the earth).

"The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them, " declares the LORD.

"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD.
"I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.

No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, `Know the LORD,'
because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD.
"For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

The humans couldn't ever know God because they were/are so different than He is, so neither can they know His intention. However, He does put the words into the mouths of His prophets about a new time which was coming, when they would actually be able to know Him because His covenant wouldn't be a thing that is understood by mere humans like everything else they understand (as the religious humans contend), but would be able to be understood and therefore be entered into by some of them who were the real nation of Israel, not humans but sons of God, what Israel only ever pointed at as the metaphor it was intended to be.

The law would be able to be written on their hearts because they would be being turned into creatures like God, not like other men who were natural and fully bound to the natural creation via their natures. The old covenant was flawed because it could only ever be a natural thing, what could be understood by natural beings. They couldn't ever know God by it because of its nature. By the new covenant, and therefore the coming of a new nature being able to be put into a man (because the Son was acting as a buffer between the Father and the humans who were still animals), the sons wouldn't be taught by other humans, because humans are flawed. The only way for a son to know the Father is to be taught by another kind of teacher, one who is not one of the humans, one who can teach him from the inside, where none of the humans can ever go.

"A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted, because her children are no more."

The words about Rachel weeping in Bethlehem ties Jeremiah's words to the coming of the Son, who would make possible this new kind of covenant. The condition happened and flourished while the words of Joel were being fulfilled for a time, as per the many prophesies about its coming.

Then you will know that I am in Israel, that I am the LORD your God,
and that there is no other; never again will my people be shamed.

And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

Then it began to stop, and finally stopped when the human animals took over and began setting themselves up again as the teachers, so that the world of the humans was once again as it was before—without a knowledge of God because He is so different than they are able to comprehend. God and His Son, who was now safe with the Father, retreated from the humans and left them to their own devices, the evidence which we see as the landscape of their existence and all the false gods they have created and maintain for themselves (all the mythological religions that sprang up and exist as fully human institutions with made up gods which serve them because they're made by them).

As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. Jesus did not let him, but said, "Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you." So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.

While the man was lashing about in the caves, cutting himself, unable to be bound, he was just wild and useless. The humans are given over to the lie, and so consider themselves above reproach, superior and perpetually clean. Because of the nature they are bound to they are arrogant, proud, boastful, self-driven and egotistical animals able to love and truly care only for themselves. To God, the humans are just like the man who was driven by the evil, foreign, unclean spirit—by His design and according to His purpose.

His sons are like that also—totally useless for anything—but by the miraculous power of the spirit they are supernaturally transformed from the one condition to the other, as a testament of God's power and desire. Just as He purposefully made Israel to go into captivity, bound up to the foreign nation away from the land that God intended them to be in just so that He could draw her back out; so also the sons are all made to be bound up to the animal until the time that the Father decides to draw them out. And out they must come from the place where they have been heretofore kept from a knowledge of their Father, living in a land of darkness.

The nature of the wild animal is to boast because it always finds something good about itself. It has to because its nature drives it to be that way so when it feels safe physically—when it feels it's not in danger of having its life terminated immediately—then another mode kicks in and it needs to survive in another way, the emotional, egotistical way. That is feeling like it's better, or righter than the others; feeling like it has something to hold on to that makes it feel safe in that other way.

The son learns to feel safe in all ways because he understands the power of God as an actual force (not theoretical because it is so different than he is), because he is witnessing the miraculous transformation from what he once fully was—dead and useless to God—to what he is becoming. The life of God which is living in him gives him the ability to believe in what the humans find impossible, precisely because that process of transformation is not happening in them. They aren't being given eyes that can see, ears that can hear, or a mind that can comprehend God, which all leads to a heart that can love Him and His desire—to have a family of sons. They understand that there is no power in them which could have done the incredible miracle that is happening in them, so they cannot boast about being good or special or having some ability to do good. Like the man who was transformed, they are filled with awe and gratitude for all the the Lord has done for them, setting them free from what bound them before without any hope of being unbound.

The other humans who witnessed the transformation react with fear and rejection of the One who is doing the miracle. Because they are animals who are led and driven by God's enemy (and don't even know it), they don't want God around them. Just like any wild animal will always run away from what it perceives as a threat, even if that is someone wanting to help it, the humans cannot help but repel God because they are afraid.

Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.

That's why the religious people, those who claim to know the way to God, the ones whom we might expect would embrace the transformation; will reject His true sons even more than the others, because they cannot perceive the process that is happening and they are afraid of God and can't control Him. What He is doing is a direct threat to what they're tying to hold on to as the way to be right. It's the wild animal nature living in them that makes them reject us and push us away from them, just like those who saw what happened to the demon possessed man pushed Jesus the one who transformed him out of their community because they were afraid. This is the same process that is duplicated throughout the history of the accounts of God's people.

So all the work on the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed. The Israelites did everything just as the LORD commanded Moses.

At the king's command they removed from the quarry large blocks of quality stone to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple.

The tabernacle was constructed out of things the Israelites had, transformed from a bunch of useless things in and of themselves, into something useful to God. It was transformed in a sense to the temple, a much more glorious version of the tent. Solomon transformed otherwise worthless pieces of rock, hidden in a quarry, into the stones which were dressed and made useful to—each one within itself—become one part of the temple, which is still an inferior copy because it was made by the hands of men. Everything is a copy of the better thing that is incomprehensible to the humans and their inability to see what the sons are made to see.

As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

The ultimate purpose of God is to have a safe place to live, surrounded by a complete family of sons who love Him. That's how the tabernacle transformed into the temple, both formed from nothing into something good and useful, is merely a copy of the better thing, the spiritual reality. Solomon was mistaken about being the offspring Nathan spoke to David about; all Solomon could do was build a temple that would later be destroyed by the servant of God Nebuchadnezzar, who reduced it to what it once was and carried away what man considers valuable (Solomon's gold).

God formed Jesus, and then raised him up to become the sacrifice that could make the transformation of useless garbage into each one of God's living stones possible. His work is what allows that house of God to be built, the home and safe place God desires to live in, in the middle of the chosen sons who choose Him, then they all eventually surround Him and create the environment in which He desires to dwell. Everything else is just a copy of the better thing.

Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard, and say, `O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.'

See, I will bring them from the land of the north and gather them from the ends of the earth. Among them will be the blind and the lame, expectant mothers and women in labor; a great throng will return.

They will come with weeping; they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I am Israel's father, and Ephraim is my firstborn son.

The remnant of Israel is also only a copy of the better thing, not actually referring to the natural exiles who will come back to the land, rescued out of the enemy Babylon's country. It speaks about the coming of the promised Son who will rescue the clans of actual Israel—all of God's true spiritual sons from all the generations of man—what natural Israel was only a copy of. They will be God's true people, His family of sons whom He has redeemed from the earth and transformed into something for His benefit and glory.

They represent just a sliver, a tiny fraction of all the humans who have lived and died on the earth—a remnant of something bigger. Within that group we can expect to find all the sons of Abraham who loved God in the secret places of their heart and believed Him more than what they could see and understand with their natural faculties. Not natural sons but the people who believed like Abraham, who possessed a faith in God bigger than their love of their own life and purpose.

Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.

We can be assured that we are in that group if we possess the life of God living in us—the name of God on our forehead, the seal and guarantee of what's to come, and we know all this because we can see and understand that we are in the process of being transformed. Now it's not perfect though, as we also know that the wild animal nature is still living in us. It ultimately points forward to the time when the sons will be free from sin and death. Then there will be peace for God and His sons, untainted by the enemy which is unclean flesh, the way of the world and the humans living in it.

The LORD will create a new thing on earth..."after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts."

The promise and looking forward to the spirit, when it could, and would, live in the hearts of God's children even while they still had the curse and seed of death living in them (the wild animal nature). That living word is also a seed that is planted and starts to grow. It grows stronger all the time like a natural plant grows from a tiny seed. Eventually it grows large enough to overshadow the other plants and weeds so they cannot compete with it for the light which gives it life—like a mature tree would block the sun from the worthless weeds growing under it. Then we start to become useful to God because we aren't being led by the old nature of death but by Him.

What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest seed you plant in the ground. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds of the air can perch in its shade.

The sons of God are inching their way upward, their roots beginning to become substantial as the kingdom of God increasingly makes its home in their flesh and blood bodies. The kingdom of Heaven is the invisible spirit growing within us for the Lord's purpose. Heaven = spiritual reality of the only living God = unable to be comprehended by mere humans. He planted it inside us and it has been growing steadily, without our effort and most of the time without our awareness, just as he promised. We on the other hand wanted to control it and make it for our purpose, to satisfy the evil that dwells in us, to make it serve us like a good animal is driven to, against its will by the instinctual nature that lives in it to define it as what it actually is to God.

He also said, "This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head. As soon as the grain is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.

The harvest is the time when the farmer's work comes back to Him, when the time and effort brings him back a harvest of something useful to Him. The Lord's work and the life of God are overtaking that old way in us—the way of the old man, the way of the world, the flesh, the devil, of  the animals who we once were, totally useless to God—so that we can become useful. As we are becoming more sensitive to its presence and its voice, we're also becoming more obedient to the new way forming in us so we are led by God instead of the serpent.

The firstborn Son is the one who heard the voice of his Father most clearly, because the life of the Father lived in him perfectly so that he was kept from defined as an animal, so he could be the unblemished Lamb of God who was worthy to be offered as that perfectly unblemished (unpolluted because the animal never lived in him) sacrifice to save the family of God's true sons.

The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, `Here it is,' or `There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you.

The kingdom of God isn't comprehensible to the humans. It was the hidden, secret power and force of the life of the unseen Father that controlled the Son instead of the unclean animal. The kingdom of God had grown in him into a mature tree. He spoke about the seed in the above parables from experience. He was sensitive to the spirit, the living word in him—the voice of his Father, and obedient to it instead of the animal who wanted to rule him.

At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?"

He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James. After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him...

We also see a picture of his disciples, not privy to the spiritual things because the teacher was not yet living in their hearts to teach them in the only way a son can actually understand, otherwise he remains just an animal that can hear words but the words are only natural because the teacher isn't interpreting them from the vantage point of hidden within the body so the interpretation goes beyond the human capabilities of comprehension. We have the record of the Son teaching and training the disciples, although from the outside, in the ways of the Father instead of the ways of man. We see Jesus revealing the Father to them, making them ready to do his work as the Father had taught and trained him and he was doing the Father's work. We can, in the accounts of the disciples, see the groundwork being laid for the coming process of transformation. Although at the time the Son was teaching them from the outside, they weren't able to comprehend, because of that fact (he was coming from the outside and going through the natural filter which turns everything into things the dumb animal can understand).

The sons learn to cultivate an environment where the kingdom of the spirit can continue to grow within us, separated from the ways and influences of the wild animals, which will always tend to pull us back to where they can only ever be. The seed has already been planted, so we can become useful children for our Father's good and for the Lord's sake. To be led by our Father's nature, transformed from nothing to a living stone in the true temple where our Father will dwell in peace forever with His children.