The Nazirite Vow
By Gary D. Naler
(shortened version)
By Gary D. Naler
(shortened version)
In Numbers 6:1-8, the institution of the Nazirite vow required three points for fulfillment:
1. They had to abstain from anything whatsoever from the grape,
1. They had to abstain from anything whatsoever from the grape,
2. They could not cut their hair, and were to let it grow long, and
3. They could not go near a dead person.
Here in this highly important vow we find in legally representative form the three unique elements of the garden of God. Two of these elements were clearly the two trees located in the middle of the garden – the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life. A third element was that Adam and Eve were clothed with the glory of God – they had no clothing as we know it today, but rather were covered with Yahweh’s glory, His splendor. In Psalm 104:1-2 we read: "O Yahweh my God, you are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering Yourself with light as with a cloak.” Before Adam and Eve sinned, Yahweh was their covering, taking full responsibility for them; and whether literally or simply governmentally, they were clothed by His splendor, His light.There were many other things unique to the garden, but these three – the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the tree of life, and the glory of God covering them – were of great judicial significance. Let us now see how the Nazirite vow and the garden of Eden relate.The first requirement for the Nazirite was that they had to abstain from anything whatsoever from the grape. It is clear from the Scriptures that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was a grape tree. Even as the snake was cursed to crawl on its belly, obviously the snake-inhabited grape tree of the knowledge of good and evil was likewise cursed. The second point of this vow – they could not cut their hair, but were to let it grow long – represents the glory of God that clothed Adam and Eve. In 1 Corinthians 11:15 we read that a woman's long hair "is glory to her." Her long hair is a prophetic testimony of the glory the woman (as well as Adam) lost in the garden of God at her temptation, fall, and death via the serpent. Thus we see the second point of identification of the Nazirite with the garden of God – letting the hair grow long represented the glory of God that covered Adam and Eve. Third, they could not go near a dead person. This point of the vow obviously represents the second specifically noted tree in the garden – the tree of life. If Adam and Eve had eaten from that tree, they would have never died. Appropriately, the Nazirite's third and final point of this vow – abstention from contact with death – clearly represented eating from the tree of life and not experiencing death.Here then in this all-important vow were all three elements of the original garden of Eden:
1. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil – abstaining from the grape,2. The glory of Yahweh clothing them – letting the hair grow long, and3. The tree of life – not going among the dead.
And very importantly, any attempt to restore the original garden, “to return [man] to his own property” as afforded in Jubilee (Leviticus 25:10), had to be legally effected through this sole representative touch-point. This vow, we find, was the solitary legal link back to the garden; and anyone who was to restore the corrupted garden had to effect it as a Nazirite. The word "Nazirite" means – "one consecrated, devoted." In truth, the Nazirite was devoted to God for the all-important purpose of restoring the garden.Three Who Tried, and FailedWe find in the Scriptures that Yahweh raised up three men as Nazirites to try to effect this restoration – Samson (Judges 13:4-5), Samuel (1 Samuel 1:11), and John the Baptist (Luke 1:15). These three men bear unique common unifying identities in at least four highly significant ways. First, they are the only individual Adamic men recorded in the Scriptures to have been under this special vow of the Nazirite. Second, each of these three were placed under their vows prior to their conceptions. Third, and very uniquely, they each had miraculous births. All three of their mothers were barren and could not naturally conceive children. Yahweh's miraculous and sovereign intervention was required for each of these women to bring forth these devoted Nazirite vessels. And fourth, they each experienced failure in their lives.Samson failed because of his immorality (Judges 16). Samuel failed because he could not bring forth godly offspring – his sons did not follow in his ways (1 Samuel 8:3). And John the Baptist failed at the end of his life in that he faltered in his belief (Luke 7:19-20). But most importantly, since their vows were life-long, no matter if they had perfectly kept them all their days, their vows were violated at their deaths – they too, in the end, went among the dead, and their vows could not be restored since the grave held them captive! The Law of Restoring the VowWe just noted this critical issue of restoring a Nazirite vow that had been violated. In Numbers 6:9-12 we read the sole legal provision for restoring one’s defiled vow. You will notice that it has only to do with being among the dead, and there is no mention of defiling one’s vow by accidentally eating from the grape or if one’s hair was cut. Quite obviously, this speaks prophetically per this unique and critical vow.
“But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day. Then on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting. The priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him concerning his sin because of the dead person. And that same day he shall consecrate his head, and shall dedicate to Yahweh his days as a Nazirite, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his separation was defiled.”
Thus we see that the restoration of one’s vow was specifically an eight day process; and once completed, the former days were void. All of this has been laid out thus far for one purpose – to point to the only one who would come and fulfill this vital vow and thereby make Jubilee possible, legally restoring man back to the garden of God, the garden of Eden. Who was that one?The Fourth Nazirite,Yahshua. Like His predecessors, He was the fourth man to have come under this vow. We will examine this shortly. But unlike His three predecessors, Yahshua did not take this vow until the end of His life. But certainly, before His conception by the Holy Spirit, it too was determined that He would become a Nazirite. And per His conception, like the preceding three, very significantly, He too was a miracle birth. Yahweh's miraculous and sovereign intervention was required once again in order to bring forth this fourth Nazirite vessel devoted to His redeeming purposes. But unlike the three, this Nazirite was without sin and would accomplish what the others failed to perform.At His last Passover meal with His disciples, just before His crucifixion, Yahshua declared and entered into His Nazirite vow. Matthew 26:29, Mark 14:25, and Luke 22:18 record Yahshua's vow to not drink from the fruit of the vine. From the account in Mark we read:
"Truly I tell you – no more by no means will I drink of the fruit of the vine until I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
At this pivotal point, Yahshua entered into the all-important Nazirite vow, even as His cousin John had been under it for life. Yahshua came to fulfill the Law (Matthew 5:17), and as you will see, it was vitally important that He fulfill the Law concerning the Nazirite. Upon making this highly important vow, very significantly, He then removed Himself into a garden (John 18:1). Only in John is it stated that Yahshua went into a garden, and the specific identity of that garden is not stated; it only identifies it to be "a garden." While we read in these accounts the drama that took place at a natural level, a far more important, much higher level intercession was taking place. Intercessorally and governmentally, as a Nazirite, Yahshua was in the garden of Eden – alone. Having taken this vow, three times in the garden Yahshua cried out to His Father: "if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will" (Matthew 26:36-46). “This cup” was the cup of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And making His abstention even more significant, equally three times in the course of His crucifixion He resolutely rejected drinking from the cup possessing this same fruit of the cursed tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Mark 15:23, Matthew 27:34, and Luke 23:36).Why did He continually reject the cup? Because to drink from it would have been to take upon Himself all the sins of man, from Adam onward, and to die.Truly, and most surely, through the vow of the Nazirite and His garden experiences, Yahshua entered a place of intercession, and therein returned to the garden of Eden to legally redeem the sins of all men and restore the defiled garden! In "time travel" reality, Yahshua, by intercession, was in fact slain as a Nazirite "from the foundation of the world," legally taking the cross within the original garden! “I Am Thirsty”John enlighteningly records the significance of this moment: "Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled, said 'I am thirsty'" (John 19:28). What "scripture might be fulfilled"? The scripture being fulfilled at this critical end of His life was clearly Numbers 6 – the vow of the Nazirite! In order to restore the garden of Eden/the kingdom of God, Yahshua had to take the vow of the Nazirite and then partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which effected the death of all men. By partaking of the vine as a Nazirite, Yahshua legally went all the way back to the garden and identified with "dead" man and the corrupted kingdom. By taking the Nazirite vow, He had in legal type reentered the garden. By drinking of the cup of the cursed vine, He identified with all the sins of fallen man from its very source – the garden tree of the knowledge of good and evil. By taking the Nazirite vow, He was “slain from the foundation of the world”!Thus, at the culmination of this entire drama, at the final request of the Son of God, sour wine was lifted up to Him in a sponge upon a branch of hyssop, and as His final act, as a Nazirite He drank from the cup of the fruit of the vine! All things now completed, it was written: "When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished!' And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit." As a Nazirite, His final identification with the cursed garden of God and cursed man by drinking the cup of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was completed, and He died. His vow had come to its crescendo, and His life’s work was thereby complete.Restoring the GardenDid this final act now restore the garden, the kingdom? Not at all. At this point, the kingdom was still as corrupted as it remained when the three preceding Nazirites had died. It would take more than the identifying commitment of a Nazirite to restore the garden. In order to restore the garden, the defiled Nazirite, according to the Law of God, had to return to the tent of meeting (the place of Yahweh’s presence), offer sacrifices, and restore His vow (Numbers 6:9-12). Neither Samson, Samuel, nor John had the power to accomplish that. Death held them in the grave and forbade the restoration of their vows. Only One, this fourth Nazirite, had the power to lay His life down, and the power to pick it up again (John 10:18)! After rising from the dead, Yahshua departed for the heavenly "tent of meeting" and restored His vow, thereby, after 4,000 years, restoring the corrupted garden of God!How do we know that this was indeed what Yahshua performed while in heaven? Numbers 6:9-12 tells us that the atoning process in the restoration of the Nazirite's vow, when defiled specifically by being among the dead, was an eight day process through which "the former days" were made "void." How long was Yahshua in heaven? John 20:26 clearly states: "And after eight days again His disciples were inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst, and said, 'Peace be with you.'" What was Yahshua doing for eight days in heaven? The answer is clear – He was (among other things) legally restoring His vow as a Nazirite, and thus restoring the garden of God, "the former days" of the corruption of the garden being made "void"! Though this phrase – "the former days shall be void" – might be thought to simply apply to the days of a Nazirite's vow, prophetically and intercessorally it speaks far more! For it was through this all-important vow that all the "former days" of cursed man and the cursed kingdom were made legally "void" by Yahshua. Therefore, by Yahshua taking the vow of the Nazirite at the Passover supper, His garden/Garden intercession, His final act of drinking from the cup on the cross, His death, His resurrection from the dead, and then His ascension to the Father for specifically eight days to restore His vow, He restored the defiled garden of God/the kingdom of God and made the former days of the corruption of the garden and man void. Yahshua, as a Nazirite, and having the power of an indestructible life, restored the garden of God!The truth you just read was revealed to this man in May/June, 1994, the very year when Yahweh declared Jubilee for man 120 Jubilee waiting periods (or 5, 880 years) following Adam’s fall and his banishment from his land, from the original garden. This is the year Yahweh afforded man the legal right to “return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.” (See Appendix 10 link.) It is quite significant and telling that the very year of Jubilee, when the way back into the garden was opened and thereby availing access to the tree of life, was the year when He revealed for the first time in the history of man this legal work that Yahshua performed as a Nazirite. Before now man had never known this truth.
Complete version at: www.thecurseof1920.com/The_Nazirite_Vow_full.pdf
I do not neccesarily agree totally with this authors point of view regarding the curse of 1920 but this expose regarding the Nazirite vow, I find Most Interesting, thought provoking and very worthy of study. An extremely INSPIRATIONAL read for the present moment in time...explains how the Lamb was slain from the foundation)overthow of the world...intercessory prayer as time travel, governmental and judicial principals and a whole new light on the vine and the serpent in the garden...and ever wonder about this verse?"
Re 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.(Sea of Death)" NO LONGER ANY DEATH! I say,HALLELUYAH
Excerpts from:Pages 8 -9:
Intercessory Prayer in an unnamed garden, by Yahshua while Peter, James and John were sleeping(death) = Time Travel
A mans state in relation to the garden of Eden: God’s willingness to give His kingdom to man, yet his possession of that kingdom reveals his great weakness, his FLESH!
The spirit is willing.., Mt 26:41 The flesh is weak…Mk 14:38
…return and stand in the very place of Adam and REVERSE his sin…Yahushua the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world…Rev 13:8
His other book:
Excerpts from:
Here in this highly important vow we find in legally representative form the three unique elements of the garden of God. Two of these elements were clearly the two trees located in the middle of the garden – the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life. A third element was that Adam and Eve were clothed with the glory of God – they had no clothing as we know it today, but rather were covered with Yahweh’s glory, His splendor. In Psalm 104:1-2 we read: "O Yahweh my God, you are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering Yourself with light as with a cloak.” Before Adam and Eve sinned, Yahweh was their covering, taking full responsibility for them; and whether literally or simply governmentally, they were clothed by His splendor, His light.There were many other things unique to the garden, but these three – the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the tree of life, and the glory of God covering them – were of great judicial significance. Let us now see how the Nazirite vow and the garden of Eden relate.The first requirement for the Nazirite was that they had to abstain from anything whatsoever from the grape. It is clear from the Scriptures that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was a grape tree. Even as the snake was cursed to crawl on its belly, obviously the snake-inhabited grape tree of the knowledge of good and evil was likewise cursed. The second point of this vow – they could not cut their hair, but were to let it grow long – represents the glory of God that clothed Adam and Eve. In 1 Corinthians 11:15 we read that a woman's long hair "is glory to her." Her long hair is a prophetic testimony of the glory the woman (as well as Adam) lost in the garden of God at her temptation, fall, and death via the serpent. Thus we see the second point of identification of the Nazirite with the garden of God – letting the hair grow long represented the glory of God that covered Adam and Eve. Third, they could not go near a dead person. This point of the vow obviously represents the second specifically noted tree in the garden – the tree of life. If Adam and Eve had eaten from that tree, they would have never died. Appropriately, the Nazirite's third and final point of this vow – abstention from contact with death – clearly represented eating from the tree of life and not experiencing death.Here then in this all-important vow were all three elements of the original garden of Eden:
1. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil – abstaining from the grape,2. The glory of Yahweh clothing them – letting the hair grow long, and3. The tree of life – not going among the dead.
And very importantly, any attempt to restore the original garden, “to return [man] to his own property” as afforded in Jubilee (Leviticus 25:10), had to be legally effected through this sole representative touch-point. This vow, we find, was the solitary legal link back to the garden; and anyone who was to restore the corrupted garden had to effect it as a Nazirite. The word "Nazirite" means – "one consecrated, devoted." In truth, the Nazirite was devoted to God for the all-important purpose of restoring the garden.Three Who Tried, and FailedWe find in the Scriptures that Yahweh raised up three men as Nazirites to try to effect this restoration – Samson (Judges 13:4-5), Samuel (1 Samuel 1:11), and John the Baptist (Luke 1:15). These three men bear unique common unifying identities in at least four highly significant ways. First, they are the only individual Adamic men recorded in the Scriptures to have been under this special vow of the Nazirite. Second, each of these three were placed under their vows prior to their conceptions. Third, and very uniquely, they each had miraculous births. All three of their mothers were barren and could not naturally conceive children. Yahweh's miraculous and sovereign intervention was required for each of these women to bring forth these devoted Nazirite vessels. And fourth, they each experienced failure in their lives.Samson failed because of his immorality (Judges 16). Samuel failed because he could not bring forth godly offspring – his sons did not follow in his ways (1 Samuel 8:3). And John the Baptist failed at the end of his life in that he faltered in his belief (Luke 7:19-20). But most importantly, since their vows were life-long, no matter if they had perfectly kept them all their days, their vows were violated at their deaths – they too, in the end, went among the dead, and their vows could not be restored since the grave held them captive! The Law of Restoring the VowWe just noted this critical issue of restoring a Nazirite vow that had been violated. In Numbers 6:9-12 we read the sole legal provision for restoring one’s defiled vow. You will notice that it has only to do with being among the dead, and there is no mention of defiling one’s vow by accidentally eating from the grape or if one’s hair was cut. Quite obviously, this speaks prophetically per this unique and critical vow.
“But if a man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his dedicated head of hair, then he shall shave his head on the day when he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day. Then on the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the doorway of the tent of meeting. The priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him concerning his sin because of the dead person. And that same day he shall consecrate his head, and shall dedicate to Yahweh his days as a Nazirite, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former days will be void because his separation was defiled.”
Thus we see that the restoration of one’s vow was specifically an eight day process; and once completed, the former days were void. All of this has been laid out thus far for one purpose – to point to the only one who would come and fulfill this vital vow and thereby make Jubilee possible, legally restoring man back to the garden of God, the garden of Eden. Who was that one?The Fourth Nazirite,Yahshua. Like His predecessors, He was the fourth man to have come under this vow. We will examine this shortly. But unlike His three predecessors, Yahshua did not take this vow until the end of His life. But certainly, before His conception by the Holy Spirit, it too was determined that He would become a Nazirite. And per His conception, like the preceding three, very significantly, He too was a miracle birth. Yahweh's miraculous and sovereign intervention was required once again in order to bring forth this fourth Nazirite vessel devoted to His redeeming purposes. But unlike the three, this Nazirite was without sin and would accomplish what the others failed to perform.At His last Passover meal with His disciples, just before His crucifixion, Yahshua declared and entered into His Nazirite vow. Matthew 26:29, Mark 14:25, and Luke 22:18 record Yahshua's vow to not drink from the fruit of the vine. From the account in Mark we read:
"Truly I tell you – no more by no means will I drink of the fruit of the vine until I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
At this pivotal point, Yahshua entered into the all-important Nazirite vow, even as His cousin John had been under it for life. Yahshua came to fulfill the Law (Matthew 5:17), and as you will see, it was vitally important that He fulfill the Law concerning the Nazirite. Upon making this highly important vow, very significantly, He then removed Himself into a garden (John 18:1). Only in John is it stated that Yahshua went into a garden, and the specific identity of that garden is not stated; it only identifies it to be "a garden." While we read in these accounts the drama that took place at a natural level, a far more important, much higher level intercession was taking place. Intercessorally and governmentally, as a Nazirite, Yahshua was in the garden of Eden – alone. Having taken this vow, three times in the garden Yahshua cried out to His Father: "if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will" (Matthew 26:36-46). “This cup” was the cup of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And making His abstention even more significant, equally three times in the course of His crucifixion He resolutely rejected drinking from the cup possessing this same fruit of the cursed tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Mark 15:23, Matthew 27:34, and Luke 23:36).Why did He continually reject the cup? Because to drink from it would have been to take upon Himself all the sins of man, from Adam onward, and to die.Truly, and most surely, through the vow of the Nazirite and His garden experiences, Yahshua entered a place of intercession, and therein returned to the garden of Eden to legally redeem the sins of all men and restore the defiled garden! In "time travel" reality, Yahshua, by intercession, was in fact slain as a Nazirite "from the foundation of the world," legally taking the cross within the original garden! “I Am Thirsty”John enlighteningly records the significance of this moment: "Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled, said 'I am thirsty'" (John 19:28). What "scripture might be fulfilled"? The scripture being fulfilled at this critical end of His life was clearly Numbers 6 – the vow of the Nazirite! In order to restore the garden of Eden/the kingdom of God, Yahshua had to take the vow of the Nazirite and then partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which effected the death of all men. By partaking of the vine as a Nazirite, Yahshua legally went all the way back to the garden and identified with "dead" man and the corrupted kingdom. By taking the Nazirite vow, He had in legal type reentered the garden. By drinking of the cup of the cursed vine, He identified with all the sins of fallen man from its very source – the garden tree of the knowledge of good and evil. By taking the Nazirite vow, He was “slain from the foundation of the world”!Thus, at the culmination of this entire drama, at the final request of the Son of God, sour wine was lifted up to Him in a sponge upon a branch of hyssop, and as His final act, as a Nazirite He drank from the cup of the fruit of the vine! All things now completed, it was written: "When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished!' And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit." As a Nazirite, His final identification with the cursed garden of God and cursed man by drinking the cup of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was completed, and He died. His vow had come to its crescendo, and His life’s work was thereby complete.Restoring the GardenDid this final act now restore the garden, the kingdom? Not at all. At this point, the kingdom was still as corrupted as it remained when the three preceding Nazirites had died. It would take more than the identifying commitment of a Nazirite to restore the garden. In order to restore the garden, the defiled Nazirite, according to the Law of God, had to return to the tent of meeting (the place of Yahweh’s presence), offer sacrifices, and restore His vow (Numbers 6:9-12). Neither Samson, Samuel, nor John had the power to accomplish that. Death held them in the grave and forbade the restoration of their vows. Only One, this fourth Nazirite, had the power to lay His life down, and the power to pick it up again (John 10:18)! After rising from the dead, Yahshua departed for the heavenly "tent of meeting" and restored His vow, thereby, after 4,000 years, restoring the corrupted garden of God!How do we know that this was indeed what Yahshua performed while in heaven? Numbers 6:9-12 tells us that the atoning process in the restoration of the Nazirite's vow, when defiled specifically by being among the dead, was an eight day process through which "the former days" were made "void." How long was Yahshua in heaven? John 20:26 clearly states: "And after eight days again His disciples were inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors having been shut, and stood in their midst, and said, 'Peace be with you.'" What was Yahshua doing for eight days in heaven? The answer is clear – He was (among other things) legally restoring His vow as a Nazirite, and thus restoring the garden of God, "the former days" of the corruption of the garden being made "void"! Though this phrase – "the former days shall be void" – might be thought to simply apply to the days of a Nazirite's vow, prophetically and intercessorally it speaks far more! For it was through this all-important vow that all the "former days" of cursed man and the cursed kingdom were made legally "void" by Yahshua. Therefore, by Yahshua taking the vow of the Nazirite at the Passover supper, His garden/Garden intercession, His final act of drinking from the cup on the cross, His death, His resurrection from the dead, and then His ascension to the Father for specifically eight days to restore His vow, He restored the defiled garden of God/the kingdom of God and made the former days of the corruption of the garden and man void. Yahshua, as a Nazirite, and having the power of an indestructible life, restored the garden of God!The truth you just read was revealed to this man in May/June, 1994, the very year when Yahweh declared Jubilee for man 120 Jubilee waiting periods (or 5, 880 years) following Adam’s fall and his banishment from his land, from the original garden. This is the year Yahweh afforded man the legal right to “return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.” (See Appendix 10 link.) It is quite significant and telling that the very year of Jubilee, when the way back into the garden was opened and thereby availing access to the tree of life, was the year when He revealed for the first time in the history of man this legal work that Yahshua performed as a Nazirite. Before now man had never known this truth.
Complete version at: www.thecurseof1920.com/The_Nazirite_Vow_full.pdf
I do not neccesarily agree totally with this authors point of view regarding the curse of 1920 but this expose regarding the Nazirite vow, I find Most Interesting, thought provoking and very worthy of study. An extremely INSPIRATIONAL read for the present moment in time...explains how the Lamb was slain from the foundation)overthow of the world...intercessory prayer as time travel, governmental and judicial principals and a whole new light on the vine and the serpent in the garden...and ever wonder about this verse?"
Re 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.(Sea of Death)" NO LONGER ANY DEATH! I say,HALLELUYAH
Excerpts from:Pages 8 -9:
Intercessory Prayer in an unnamed garden, by Yahshua while Peter, James and John were sleeping(death) = Time Travel
A mans state in relation to the garden of Eden: God’s willingness to give His kingdom to man, yet his possession of that kingdom reveals his great weakness, his FLESH!
The spirit is willing.., Mt 26:41 The flesh is weak…Mk 14:38
…return and stand in the very place of Adam and REVERSE his sin…Yahushua the Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world…Rev 13:8
His other book:
Excerpts from:
Once one begins to know and understand the ways of Yahweh, they see that He is very consistent in the way He does things. In other words, He takes a simple truth, or pattern, and repeats it over and over. The truth, or pattern, of coverings, as revealed in Coverings, is just one example of this. Seeing such replication affords us even greater insight into why Yahweh has done certain things. Furthermore, these replicable patterns reassure us that we have come to know Him, and afford us insight into what He has not only done, and even what He is now doing, but also what He will do. Let us examine a testimony that will afford us all three of these benefits.
The question arises in Coverings as to whether Adam and Eve were actually clothed in Yahweh’s light and splendor in the Garden of Eden, or if this was simply true as a governmental matter. Either way, it is the same. The point is that, governmentally, Yahweh was taking full responsibility for Adam and Eve. He was their covering.
In like regard, Yahweh raised up a man with whom He was going to set forth the same testimony. Abraham received the promise that he would be given a son who would be his heir and that his descendants would be countless (Genesis 15:1–6). But upon receiving that promise, like Adam who “listened to the voice of [his] wife” and not to Yahweh’s instruction (Genesis 3:17), Abraham equally “listened to the voice of Sarah” (Genesis 16:2) and thereby brought forth a son by the cursed Egyptian, Hagar—the “wild donkey of a man” (Genesis 16:12), Ishmael.
Was this the son who would afford the blessing to the whole world as promised? No, no more than what Eve offered was of like results. This son was the seed of the cursed flesh. So what was Yahweh to do? He had to governmentally take responsibility for Abraham’s offspring, even as He once took responsibility for Adam and Eve. How would He attest to this? By the covenant of circumcision.
After Ishmael was born, we read in Genesis 17:9–14 where Yahweh then laid out the commandment of circumcision for Abraham, his descendants, and for any servant in his house. Thereby, we read: “Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin” (Genesis 17:24). Then one year later, Isaac, the son of promise, was born (Genesis 21:5).
So, what made the difference? The first son, Ishmael, who was not acceptable to Yahweh as the son of promise, was born before Abraham’s circumcision. But once he was circumcised, Sarah, though incapable of having a child by then, brought forth Isaac. For twenty-five years Abraham had waited for the fulfillment of the promise of many offspring, first given to him as recorded in Genesis 12:1–4; and that fulfillment finally came following one very significant solitary act—circumcision!
Why? What is so important about circumcision that twenty-five years and four separate promises later, the fulfillment finally came? It all had to do with coverings; in fact, head-covering! And remember, head-covering is just that—it is headship, authority, governmental responsibility!
What we are going to discuss now is sensitive in nature since it has to do with sexuality. To understand what was taking place governmentally, we have to talk more specifically about circumcision of the foreskin of Abraham.
What is circumcision? It is removing the covering of flesh from the head of the male’s reproductive organ. The fact is, the foreskin of Abraham was a head-covering, in the same order as head-coverings addressed in 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 and as expounded upon in Coverings. Government is replicable, even as we see here once again. This is the same pattern, just per a more specific area—the very member that effects the birth of offspring.
When Abraham brought forth Ishmael, Abraham’s head-covering was his flesh. With regard to his efforts to bring forth offspring, he was under the headship covering of his own flesh, his own flesh efforts. And it was from that flesh covering that he attempted to bring forth the son of promise and failed, bringing forth instead the unacceptable cursed son. So what was Yahweh to do? In prophetic and governmental testimony, He had to thereby take complete responsibility for this offspring of immense promise. So, to testify of Him taking this responsibility, He had Abraham remove the flesh covering from the part of his body that brought forth the offspring, and thereupon Yahweh became his head-covering. When Yahweh thereby took that responsibility, the miracle birth of Isaac took place; and from thereafter He continued to take that responsibility for his offspring.
We see this same testimony in the man. Before Yahshua, the priest had to wear a headcovering when he went before Yahweh. However, when Yahshua became the head of every man (1 Corinthians 11:3), the man’s head was “circumcised” and, in like manner, Yahshua became the man’s head-covering. Therefore, the man cannot pray with anything on his head.
Let us now take an important look back to Adam and Eve. Why was it that they could have been without clothing and yet not see their nakedness? Because governmentally, they were in fact covered, for their covering was Yahweh. Likewise, even though Abraham no longer had the foreskin to cover his head, legally he was not naked, his head was not uncovered, for Yahweh had become his covering. Before circumcision, his head was legally covered with foreskin, which averted Yahweh’s wrath. And even when he was aroused and his head became uncovered, thus calling for judgment, Sarah, his bride, became his covering until the foreskin head-covering could be replaced.
In truth, Sarah was Abraham’s substitutionary covering until the otherwise present covering could be restored. But now that Yahweh had become his covering, even though it appeared that he was uncovered, he was not uncovered. This is again the replicable government whereby a man can pray with his head uncovered and yet still be covered—Yahshua being his head, his covering. Conversely, the woman does not have that governmental order covering her when she directly goes to Yahweh, and must cover her head with “authority” (1 Corinthians 11:10).
Now, let us take this one vital step further. Remember, government is replicable. Here we will discover a truth that affects us today in the most profound way since the original Garden.
When Adam and Eve sinned, they lost the covering they once had—being clothed in Yahweh’s glory. That covering was replaced with the substitutionary covering of clothing, and they were sent out of the Garden so that they would not eat from the tree of life. But as you will see in Chapter Ten, through the Nazirite vow Yahshua performed a work that made it possible for man to return to the original Garden experience. What does that mean for man? It means that man will return to the place where Yahweh, once again, takes full responsibility for him—no longer being covered by his own failed flesh efforts, his flesh head-covering! Relative to Abraham, it means circumcision of our flesh!
Everything points to the fact that this is where we are today, with the hopeful anticipation that things can now take place that have not been possible for 6,000 years. And once again relative to Abraham, it means the Son of promise can be born—Yahshua’s return!
For 2,000 years, kingdom man has listened to the voice of the weaker element, even within himself, that is easily deceived; and under the covering of his own flesh has thereby brought forth a cursed wild-donkey-of-a-man offspring that is not acceptable to Yahweh. So, what must Yahweh now do? He must take full responsibility for man and for His kingdom. According to the timing and the promise of Jubilee whereby “each of you shall return to his own property” (Leviticus 25:10), to the original Garden experience, that time is now. (Read The Curse of 1920, Appendix 10.)
What we have discussed here is the identical testimony we see evidenced when the sons of Israel crossed the Jordan and entered into the Promised Land west of the Jordan. First, we read that the first thing they did upon crossing was to attest that Yahweh would now be their head-covering and take full responsibility. In Joshua 5:2–7, we read that for the first time since they left Egypt, they were circumcised. Quite significantly, their absence of circumcision during the wilderness wandering thereby means that, clearly, the wilderness period is a time in which Yahweh does not take full responsibility to bring forth the promised and much needed results. This, of course, was evidenced by the fact that they failed to enter into the Promised Land at the wilderness of Paran (Numbers 12:16 through chapter 14), bringing suffering and death upon them for forty years.
As testified by this circumcision wherein they were circumcised “the second time” (Joshua 5:2), Yahweh restored the covenant of Abraham and took full responsibility for them and for their success in the Promised Land. This is the identical testimony when, immediately thereafter, Joshua met the “captain of Yahweh’s host” and was told, “remove the sandals from your feet” (Joshua 5:13–15).
Prophetically, sandals speak of the like responsibility to bring forth the fulfilling offspring. In Deuteronomy 25:5–10, we read that when the brother of a deceased man refused to take his deceased brother’s wife to bring forth offspring in his name, she was to remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare to him, “Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.” This man was to then be called, “The house of him whose sandal is removed.” This is the same law being carried out in the book of Ruth regarding Ruth and Boaz, her kinsman redeemer.
So, when Joshua was told to remove his sandals, even as Moses was told to do likewise at the burning bush before he was sent into Egypt to deliver the sons of Israel, in both instances it spoke the same message—circumcision; or Yahweh, as our kinsman redeemer, now taking full responsibility. Thus, taking off one’s sandals and circumcision are one and the same in their message. It is Yahweh saying, “I will now take full responsibility; I will be your covering.”
This is where it appears we are today. For 2,000 years, the church has been “the church in the wilderness” (lit. of Acts 7:38). For 2,000 years it has wandered in “the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water …,” where “He fed you manna which your fathers did not know [“manna” means “what is it?”], that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end” (Deuteronomy 8:16–17). At the completion of these 2,000 years, He is now going to do good for us, taking full responsibility for us and for His kingdom.
After 2,000 years of wandering in “the great and terrible wilderness” where kingdom men have all been taken to death and circumcision did not take place—men labored according to their own flesh efforts—He is now going to take full responsibility and be our covering, even so as to bring forth the promised Son. In truth, He is circumcising man. Joshua is taking off his sandals. It is Jubilee, when “each of you shall return to his own property.”
Today, it is time for Yahweh to begin to restore this world to its original state, as it was before the fall. Even as we saw in the original Garden, Yahweh’s glory that once clothed man means that He will take full responsibility for man. And that responsibility will ever increase, even as we read that His glory will ever increase until it covers the earth. Yahweh will ever more extensively take responsibility for man and do good for him and no longer do evil.
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