Page 150 - THE REVELATION OF THE THIRD HEAVEN and THE MEAT OF THE WORD

The salvation of mankind was a process requiring the natural and pyhsical and was
started by Christ’s birth (Gen 3:15, Rev 12:1-17), which is from God’s perspective
an event in all-time or an eternal present (2 Peter 3:8). The fact of the Incarnation,
Jesus’ birth and His dwelling among us, is a 2,000 year ago event but Jesus has
been fully human, a high priest and divine for all time through the Person of
Melchisedec who is Christ, the high priest (Gen 14:18-20, Mal 3:6, John 8:56, 58,
Heb 6:20, 7:1-28, Rev 22:13) in accordance with tense sense. Since Christ is God
and God is light the best sign of this natural achievement was for the natural world
to produce a sign of light, the rainbow (Gen 9:13).

The greater spiritual flood threatened to prevent all lifeforms (Gen 7:4) from ever
emerging by evolution and was not therefore just a water flood which would not
have had this effect of killing all life, including non-breathing life, (Gen 7:4).

Noah in Genesis 10:1 refers to both the parabolical, individual, and generic Adams,
the generic Noah and Jesus Christ as does Revelation 12:15-17. Noah is described
as ‘perfect in his generations’ (Gen 6:9). However the parabolical man Noah was
not perfect throughout his life (Gen 9:21-29, Rom 3:10, 19). So this is a factual
error or parable. Furthermore every man is not ‘just’ as in justified unless a
Christian and Noah, the parabolical Ark-builder, was not so justified (Isa 53:6).

Joseph of Ramtha is described as ‘a good man and a just’ (Luke 23:50) and Simon

is described as ‘just and devout’ (Luke 2:25) but this is qualified in the whole
Word context of Matthew 19:17 in which every man is described as not ‘good’.
Joseph was therefore only a better man. Likewise Paul describes himself as
‘blameless’, as a parable or 'expression', before his conversion by ‘the
righteousness which is in the Law’ (Phil 3:6). However in the one Word context of
the Word we know that this actually means not righteous as there is no
righteousness via the Law (Rom 3:10, 19-20). Had he been so by the Law he
would have needed no Salvation (Rom 3:19, Gal 3:24). Paul is expressive again
when he says the law could be practised in a ‘perfect manner’ (Acts 22:3) as is
shown in Hebrews 7:19. One must, impossibly, keep all of the Law all of the time
to be righteous by the Law (James 2:10). Such failure is by sin and without excuse
(Rom 3:10). No man is ‘good’ (Mat 19:17) and no man can save himself (Mat
19:25-26) which would require being innocent throughout an entire life. When
Jesus talks of the righteous and sinners in Mark 2:17 he is saying that all men come
into the latter category and are therefore called to salvation (Mark 2:17). All men
are called sooner or later at the most opportune time for that person’s salvation,
that is exposed to the gospel in their own understanding and to God’s satisfaction
of completeness, i.e. Jesus does it directly or indirectly (Mark 2:17, 1 Pet 3:19).