How and When "Heaven's Gate" May Be Entered: Be Fruitful and Multiply
Be Fruitful and Multiply | By Jmmody |
Even in the beginning, Adam's loneliness showed he was not satisfied with looking only to the Lord. Adam had been an androgynous virgin, but when the Lord realized he was lonely, He separated Adam into two individuals. The Lord then made it clear He was warning Adam and Eve about partaking of the forbidden fruit (Genesis 2:17), which led to their union. By this action, they made it clear that they wanted more than what a relationship with only the Lord could offer.
Is it possible that from the beginning the Lord had something more significant than multiplying in mind for Adam, something that would set him apart from other mammals and mammalian behavior? Is it not true that even then the Lord gave Adam the opportunity of seeing up front that he could make the Lord happy by resisting mammalian behavior and desiring to look only to Him? Although the Lord knew that Lucifer was going to come into the garden and use the forbidden fruit game to tempt Adam and Eve's resistance, didn't Adam have the opportunity to actually listen to the Lord as He gave those instructions, and not listen to other influences that came along (Luciferian)?
Could it be that what the Lord had in mind from the beginning was to see if Adam was strong enough to follow only His instructions and not be tempted by others? Is it possible that the Lord suspected that the creature He created called Adam was not strong enough to make the right decisions?
Would it not be correct to assume that when the Lord created Adam, He gave him free will and the choice to listen to only Him as well as the option to drift away from Him? If this is so, could the Lord then have seen to it that the human kingdom would serve as a catalyst for humans to get out of what they shouldn't have gotten into in the first place? Wouldn't this be especially true for those in whom the Lord takes an interest?
Is it possible, at this point in time, that the Lord is offering us the opportunity to regain our "virginity," to become what the Lord had originally intended for Adam? Adam may have fallen short of some of the Lord's expectations, but didn't the Lord also see to it that He gave humans step-by-step instructions on how to become new creatures that could reside in the Literal Heavens - and be a part of advanced activities that could never exist in this "temporary classroom" (Earth's civilization)? If one continues to read in a chronological progression the scriptures in the Bible, is there not evidence that would show this? When the Lord took an interest in someone, He would let them know that what He required of them was a puritanical life (for example, priests in the temple were not to have families). He let them know that they didn't have to drop to participating in mammalian behavior, if only they had put more effort into adhering to the more significant instructions the Lord gave.
What did the Lord give Jesus to pass on to those who were ready for their "next instructions"? Was it to be fruitful and multiply - raise a family? Or, was it the following instructions (and these quotes were taken from the same Bible that "Be fruitful and multiply" was taken):
- Luke 14:26-27 - "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and his wife and children and brothers and sisters and even his own life also - he cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not persevere and carry his own cross and come after (follow) Me cannot be my disciple."
Didn't Jesus mean by this that those who follow Him would have to suffer and bear the pangs of separating from the world and live as He did - looking to Him and learning from Him if they would expect to get into His Father's house?
- Luke 17:26-30 - "And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the time of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, right up to the day when Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. So also as it was in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; But on the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. That is the way it will be on the day that the Son of Man is revealed."
Is Jesus not implying that there comes a time when all these human ways have to be dropped when a Son is present?
Matthew 19:11-12 - "But he said to them, Not all men can accept this saying, but it is for those to whom it has been given: For there are eunuchs who have been born incapable of marriage; and there are eunuchs who have been made so by men; and there are eunuchs who have made themselves incapable of marriage for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him who is able to accept this accept it." Luke 20:34-35 - "And Jesus said to them, the people of this world and present age marry and are given in marriage; But those who are considered worthy to gain that other world and that future age and to attain to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage." Matthew 19:29 - "And anyone and everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for My name's sake will receive many times more and will inherit eternal life." Luke 9:59-62 - "And He said to another, become my disciple, side with My party, and accompany me! But he replied, Lord, permit me first to go and bury (await the death of) my father. But Jesus said to him, Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and publish abroad throughout all regions the Kingdom of God. Another also said, I will follow You, Lord, and become Your disciple and side with Your party; but let me first say good-bye to those at my home. Jesus said to him, No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the Kingdom of God."
If these were the instructions spoken by Jesus approximately 2000 years ago, do you understand why we are so puzzled by the Christians and Jews who still quote instructions that were applicable to "diaper lessons"? Why do they still think they have instructions to not take their "diapers" off even when they are past the diaper age? The ones defending their position by using those quotes are not primitives. Is it in order to justify their preoccupation with reproduction (human/mammalian behavior)? Hasn't it been generations since the Lord gave this instruction, and hasn't He even given instructions that updated and replaced it?
In Jesus' teachings we can see a whole new set of instructions spelling out the formula for what it takes to get out of the human kingdom - to connect with somebody who comes from that Kingdom and who can show us how to get out of the human kingdom and become students of getting into the Next Kingdom Level.
Anytime the Kingdom of Heaven relates to a civilization to offer stages of that process of overcoming humanism and entering that Kingdom Level, the theme is renunciation of all human ways, growing to despise the world and human/mammalian behavior. This includes procreation.
If God is the Creator, did He really need and want Adam and Eve to populate this planet? Were Adam and Eve the only creation in His bag of creations, and therefore did He need them to create for Him? If Adam had looked only to his Creator for all his nourishment as the Lord originally intended, would Adam have felt the need for another companion? Could it be that because Adam and Eve chose to look to each other and away from their Creator for their needs that they both found that the Lord gave them what they desired instead of what the Lord would have chosen for them? We thought that the Lord was angry with Adam and Eve for engaging in fornication:
- Genesis 3:16-17 - "To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your grief and your suffering in pregnancy and the pangs of childbearing; with spasms of distress you will bring forth children. And to Adam He said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is under a curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you eat of it all the days of your life. So God drove out the man; and He placed at the East of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep and guard the way to the tree of life."
For us it seems that the evidence is undeniable that "Be fruitful and multiply" was an instruction that the Lord gave regretfully and only for a specific time in our civilization. Are the Christians and Jews who still practice and defend the instruction of "Be fruitful and multiply" doing so because it requires less of them and it gives them an excuse to participate in sensual gratification? Why are they still choosing to wear the "diapers" that they should have long outgrown?
| April 16, 1996 |