[Quote-But you have the best of me on the rest of it, as i lack a lot when it comes to the old testament.]
He tells us the end from the beginning,ravenwolf. And not sure people would be interested in the old testament but the old covenant had a 30,60,100 like the parable of the sower. It’s patterns repeating.
The old testament of man begins with a garden.
We are in a restored garden right now, spiritually. That is what our Savior did when He took a Nazarite vow at the last supper, then violated it at His death. It allowed Him legally to go back to the very beginning and reverse what Eve and Adam had done.(everything a Nazarite was not to do -do not cut their hair,eat the grape, touch the dead) all are pictures from the original garden!
The church, in one corporate sense, is the garden restored, or maybe just a piece of it.
But because the Author of Life is not here, the church has only one tree to eat from and offer people in the garden- Satan’s tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Maybe getting a little too deep, but it really is amazing.
It could be said that the 4th dimension is time,and His 4th Commandment with a ‘time/date’ theme (Remember the Sabbath Day) offers a hint to that.
Well, the 5th Commandment would then may have a connection to His 5th dimension.
A dimension that may very well be looked at of His restored garden, spiritual dimension.
And if we jump to a 6th Commandment, we see a hint that can help us understand what’s going on.
The 6th Commandment is you shall not Murder- or don’t take life. In His Garden there is a Tree of Life, our Savior.
But He’s not here physically on Earth, so that only leaves one tree in the ‘garden’ currently. The one that represents Satan, or maybe even more deeply, the church.
The church is good and evil. Great good over it history but great evil.
And those who have ‘eaten’ from that tree has done what Adam as Eve did- die.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is represented in His 5th dimension/Commandment of honor your Father and Mother (2 parts just like the tree Adam and Eve ate from)
Satan was always going to lead people to death , even in the restored garden, because we have been given His Holy Spirit in cursed flesh.
The premise may be we must not eat from the ‘tree of the knowledge of good and evil, to hope to live and not die.
There will be people who will not eat from Satan’s tree( church) and only seek the Way,Truth and Life right before He comes.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil to them will not be good or pleasant to the eyes or desired to get knowledge.
It will be the reverse and it won’t be by might, nor by power, but by His Spirit!
For His Glory!
Maybe so but to me it would be like putting a very hard puzzel together.
Jesus said we must come to him as little children, not “professors”
So i think i will just take it as i read it.