Why was the period of the wilderness wandering framed by two miraculous water crossings, and both of them at Pesah? Why was the Lord's provision for His people in that period also miraculous, and so unique? Like the Apostle Paul was given to write, it's an example to us and it's for our instruction! I've still got plenty of questions about these things but I have more satisfying answers than before!
When Israel had served out their sentence in the wilderness, fully 40 years had passed since their departure from Egypt. The time had come for Joshua to lead them into the promised land. As it was when they passed over from Egypt into the wilderness, a significant body of water had to be crossed. Read the following account in the same way I encouraged the reading of the exodus in Part 1, as a passage made through a space-time portal with both water and the number 12 signaling time.
The water signals time and the Jordan is a river of time. Israel's trip across the dry riverbed was from one bank of the river of time to the other. The crossing pictures a trip from one spacial dimension to another without getting wet, without being touched or influenced by time. The concept isn't exactly novel, as “going over Jordan,” means to many folks, “going to heaven.” (See lyrics of popular gospel/folk song, Wayfaring Stranger)
You're somewhat familiar with David Flynn's book, Temple at the Center of Time, right? It's well documented that time-distance arcs as ripples in time may be drawn from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with the point of origin being precisely where the ark of the covenant would have rested, and perhaps still does. (D-Day - June 6 - Portent of a Coming Invasion) We believe the center of time or origin of the flow is the ark itself, which represents the presence of the Most High God and Lord of time. The ark is stationary when it's at rest on the Temple mount, obviously. When it is moved about it's no less the center of time. Consider the role it played in the crossing of the Jordan. When the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water there was an immediate and dramatic response. It was with the soles of their feet that they grounded the ark to the earth. Think of how like poles of two bar magnets repel each other. It's like the waters of the Jordan as a river of time were divided by the ark as a polarity matching source of the flow of time (which is perhaps torroidal in geometric form). The action of the ark at the Jordan pictures the crossing of two streams of time.
The name, Jordan, means “their descent,” which I've written about with respect to the descent of the life of man into corruption that ends in the death of the flesh. The Jordan river is an allegorical representation of the life of man, from birth to death. John baptized in the Jordan, and the baptism symbolism of passing though death to eternal life is profound. There is a time element to it because this life of the flesh flows as metered through time.
I'm going to present a collection of scriptures that may inspire you to receive more insight into these things. Alongside this, I want to present the Jordan as the time construct itself that is fit for this age.
Time is a servant construct, appointed for this age to serve the sovereign Lord's purposes. Something different from what we've known as this continuum applies in other ages and realms.
I believe there is a perspective from which, Jordan, as “their descent,” references the descent of the Watchers upon Mount Hermon. It was there that they descended in the days of Jared, whose name means, descent, or, to descend. and it is there that we find the headwaters for the Jordan.
The Jordan, that symbolic river of life and river of time, originates and flows down from where the rebel angels descended. Their “stream” polluted man entirely, morally and genetically, and those Watchers have been held accountable for making necessary the great purging flood of Noah's day. Water-time wars.
The headwaters have long been and still are linked to idolatry.
Consider the testimony recorded in Matthew 16 about that area.
Peter, little stone. (Note: stone, rock and water.) The gates of Hades is connected to the flow of water at Banias, or, Paneas in the district of Caesarea Philippi, near the headwaters that flow also into Philia Lake (Berekhat Ram or Lake Ram) at a higher elevation. The Temple of Pan is at Paneas or Pania, which was central to his worship. Pan is one of many alias identities of the Devil.
Consider also the worship of false gods at the headwaters of the Jordan with respect to the tribe of Dan.
Here's what Jacob prophesied over his son Dan in a very significant deathbed context. (The prophecy given about his son, Judah, functions as a celestial-terrestrial foundation, a time marker that rigidly fixes the prophetic calendar in these last days.)
The Jor-Dan River winds through the valley like a serpent in the path. The path of a winding river pictures a serpent, and rivers and serpents are time symbols. The Jor-Dan has Mount Hermon as its source, and straight away it's polluted by idolatry. That time stream of the life of the corrupted flesh has a limit. It ends in the Salt Sea that is most commonly known as the Dead Sea. The life of the flesh and time itself will end as the age appointed for this servant construct runs its full course.
With all that background, when Israel passed over the Jordan in obedience with the priests bearing the ark, two streams crossed, one pure and one polluted. They're not mixed and Israel passes without contamination. These streams also represent time, time streams, rivers or time lines. They're kind of in one time zone on one bank of the river, and then in another on the other.
The ark carried by the priests quite literally represented the presence of the Lord who is the Lord of time, which we see from a later account. The cherubim are those in gold above the mercy seat.
The ark is like the throne of the Most High God, and out from there flows a river.
The river of the water of life is similar to a river of time but different in some significant way from what we experience in this present realm as a continuum. Note the number 12, with 12 kinds of fruit being yielded in connection with the month of the year, a marking off of units of time. The tree of life is on either side of the river, which is to say, as above or spanning across all time.
Where is the ark?
There will be seen a temple and an ark of His covenant in His temple. When? At the right time, at the appointed time when the temple in Heaven is opened. Those are the models for those that were built in this temporal realm. There is a kind of quantum entanglement, a principle of co-identification and synchronization in the modeling and patterning. Where is the intersection in this time-space of that ark seen in God's heavenly temple? It's hidden according to the Lord's purposes, like with the garden of Eden as access is denied by the angelic guards. Will the ark carried across the Jordan have a further role in these last days? Ron Wyatt was convinced that it would. We also believe it will, to play a key role in major transitional operations.
When we consider how the ark has to do with time we have to consider what was put into the ark, and why. The tablets of stone given to Moses on the mount were placed inside it. God wrote upon them with his own finger. A jar of manna was placed inside, which did not spoil. Aaron's rod that budded was also put inside. These were for a memorial and a testimony. The ark is what we call a time capsule! Things are put inside time capsules to persist them through time as a testimony of the past. Time capsules are usually unearthed and subsequently opened in a public ceremony on a designated anniversary. The ark is just such a time capsule, but on what anniversary shall it be unearthed and opened? Who has been able to open it and see the contents, except some were struck dead for doing just that? That very special time capsule awaits the appointed time. The time is near! Whether the manna and rod remain inside with the tablets or not, it is what the Lord intends, Who assures that not one jot or tittle of all that has been foretold will fail.
More to follow, Lord willing!
Hi Bob,
ReplyDeleteYou provide great insight about the rivers of time.
With this recent pollution and toxicity to the Animas river in CO,(animas = soul), which is a tributary to the San Juan river (Saint John) river, we could be looking at a "sign" of an upcoming event. The San Juan River lies just a few miles northeast of the Four Corners point. (CO, AZ, NM, AZ).
I believe we are seeing something important being played out, for those who can "see".
Thanks. Soul pollution. Good observation. We keep watching, and seeing plenty to keep our attention! Blessings!
DeleteAfter 131 years it turns out the Greenwich Meridian Line is in the WRONG place
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Wow! Thanks John.
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