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Preface of visions of glory12/17/2022 “Sir,” the woman said to Him, “I see You’re a prophet! Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say, `The place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.'” “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus told her, “the time is coming when you will not be worshiping the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.” … “ God is a spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:19-21, 24) ![]() We see a step towards this “ internalization” of the mountains expressed by Jesus in a discussion with a non-Israelite Samaritan woman. A later step is when people begin to understand visionary mountains as real but internal, within the minds of the visionaries. In Stage 5, this mountain is seen as real and as external to the visionary. ![]() It is now a visionary mountain to which the people turn when they are in trouble instead of to the original or to an artificial, physical copy. In Stage 5 even the artificial mountains are gone, and a different kind of mountain arises that replaces what is lost. An artificial mountain can become so miniaturized and portable that it can be simulated with the fingers, and this becomes sufficient to suggest the mountain and to function as one. In Stage 4 the people are forced to migrate, and, when they reach a new land, they build a mound or a pyramid for the gods who traveled with them (assuming the gods don’t just assume a new residence on a mountain in the new land). They climb it, make offerings to it, and build houses for their gods and for themselves so they can be closer their gods. In Stage 3 people overcome the fear of approaching the mountain. In Stage 2 people see gods living on the mountain. In Stage 1 people, often from a distance, see the mountain as a person or a god. The Mountain in Visions and Dreams Introduction to Stage 5 The message to the faithful is: “ Behold Him! The Shekinah glory” thereby reversing the curse of “Ichabod” which literally means “ the glory is departed.” Christ as “Immanuel” is God-with-us the glory has returned.11 Chapter 11. The literal interpretation of Shekinah is “ He dwells with us.” When Christ became manifest in Light, the event represents the return of the Shekinah glory. In the time of Christ the faithful in Israel had longed for the return of the Shekinah which had been missing since the days of the destruction of the first temple. But this presence was necessarily also a spiritual presence, for when Israel strayed from God morally, His visible presence would remove from their midst until they were again so oriented as to behold the revelation of His glory. This manifestation was called the “Shekinah” and offered tangible proof of God’s presence while providing physical guidance for the nation. This was not a concrete image such as an idol could have not the works of men’s hands, but an image of light, the pillar of the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night. In granting this forgiveness, God gave them a visible manifestation of Himself to go with them. But Moses interceded for the people and begged forgiveness. God was so displeased with their idolatrous act that He proposed to Moses that He should destroy them and make Moses and his seed the heirs of the promises. In two other glorious manifestations of Light, God revealed Himself in the Old Testament to Israel: namely, the Shekinah glory and that mysterious oracle called Urim ve Thummim.Īt Sinai when Moses had gone up into the Mount to receive the Law, the people departed from the will of God by creating for themselves a visual image to worship to which they attributed the miracle of their deliverance from Egypt. It is these same symbols which are used in the book of Revelation of Jesus Christ. ![]() In all these visions, we see that the highest symbols possible to be used in describing God are the symbols of the starry heavens. The wheel itself is the great turning sky, and the wheel-in-the-middle-of-the-wheel is the Lord Jesus Christ, symbolized by the polar circle upon which the apparent movement of the whole universe is turned. the constellations of the stars and their movements in the starry heavens. These “living creatures” are rather “moving things,” i.e. In Ezekiel’s vision, for example, he gives a full description of the cherubim, the chariots, wheels, and turning fire, giving a feeling of swift and powerful motion. We should point out that these visions of the “glory” or Light of God were from heaven they were high and lifted up. ![]() Revelation 1:11-20 Light Comes Down From Heaven
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