Matthew 23 King James Version (KJV)
23 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Friday, February 6, 2015
Every Bible Story is the Rainbow
A rainbow starts on the earth when it rains (water). When the rain stops the water evaporates and rises into the (air) and then the sun comes out and the (fire) touches the air to illuminate the colors of the rainbow. And when the rainbow returns to earth, there is a pot of gold waiting.
Every Bible story has the five elements of the spirit of God, earth, water, air, fire, spirit. It's the description of a rainbow. A rainbow starts on the ground (earth) after a rain (water), evaporates into a cloud, (air), then the sun comes out and touches it (fire) (burns away the air, kills the bird) and behold, a rainbow bursts forward in the air and arks back to the ground, earth where the reward lies (a pot of gold) a renewed mind.
Revelation 10 King James Version (KJV)
10 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
2 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
3 And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
Thursday, February 5, 2015
The Riddle of The Leper
Leviticus (hints in bold)
14 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord:
17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord.
19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the Lord.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord:
28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the Lord.
30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;
31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the Lord.
32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
33 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:
36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy
14 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;
4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:
6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days.
9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean, and those things, before the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation:
12 And the priest shall take one he lamb, and offer him for a trespass offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the holy place: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the trespass offering: it is most holy:
14 And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:
16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord:
17 And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
18 And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord.
19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness; and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering:
20 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much; then he shall take one lamb for a trespass offering to be waved, to make an atonement for him, and one tenth deal of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering, and a log of oil;
22 And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the Lord.
24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord:
25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:
27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord:
28 And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the Lord.
30 And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;
31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the Lord.
32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.
33 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:
36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house:
37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:
39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place:
42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean.
45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet:
53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.
54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,
55 And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,
56 And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot:
57 To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy
Straight
Matthew 3:15-17King James Version (KJV)
15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
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Matthew 3:2-4King James Version (KJV)
2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
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Daniel 10:16-18King James Version (KJV)
16 And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
18 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,
15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
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Matthew 3:2-4King James Version (KJV)
2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
4 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
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16 And, behold, one like the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have retained no strength.
17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
18 Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,
After you've slain the beasts, Build an Altar
Deuteronomy 27:5-7
5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
6 Thou shalt build the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord thy God:
7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the Lord thy God.
5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
6 Thou shalt build the altar of the Lord thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord thy God:
7 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the Lord thy God.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
It's Always About Killing
Every Bible story has killing, burning, cutting, severing, drowning etc as it's allegorical central theme. And the killing is usually done by God or his direct representative in the passage. Understand always that the instructions to kill are not literal. Killing is allegorical and it represents what God promises to do to your problems, whatever you view "your" problems as, if you would just meditate a few minutes every day instead of praying. Don't ask, listen.
"20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
Joshua 6 King
6 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
2 And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord.
7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the Lord.
8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the Lord, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.
9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
11 So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.
13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the Lord, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city.
17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.
20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26 And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
27 So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country
"20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
Joshua 6 King
6 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
2 And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord.
7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the Lord.
8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the Lord, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.
9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
11 So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.
13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the Lord, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city.
17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.
20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26 And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
27 So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
The Bible is Allegory
2 Corinthians 3:6King James Version (KJV)
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Here is the first chapter to the ebook I'm writing …
First off a couple of things I want to make clear. I am not religious. I don't believe in any religion whatsoever. I think all religions are crap. Pure evil. I do however read the Bible constantly, as in hours every day. I can't put it down. I just don't take the meaning literally, I take the meaning allegorically and that's what this book is about.
The allegorical meaning is the "hidden" meaning of the Bible. What did the author of the bible passages intend to say.
Secondly, I don't want you to think the way I do. Think for yourself. My goal in writing this book is to kindle the spirit of God within you to "read the bible" with a new set of eyes so that you can see for yourself. And the key to unlocking the hidden meanings of the bible is to understand that, as Led Zepellin wrote in the song "Stairway to Heaven", "sometimes words have two meanings". I want you to look up the meanings of the common word you thought you knew. You'll be shocked and surprised what these words also mean.
I want you to experiment with different interpertations for the words as I have done to uncover the hidden meanings behind every bible verse. Take for example the story of Noah'a Ark and the word "pitch". In Genesis 6:14 God instructs Noah to build an ark. "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." Look up the word "pitch". As a noun, pitch may refer to a (resin), a viscous substance produced by plants or formed from petroleum. Something one might smear in the cracks between the boards of an old boat to keep the water from seeping in. The hidden meaning however is the other definition of "pitch". Pitch is also defined as "the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone", like in a pitch pipe a singer uses when practicing to make sure they have the right tone or pitch.
So I ask you, does the bible mean to say that Noah's Ark is a physical boat made of wood and that you can keep the boat from sinking by spackeling in the cracks with a tar-like substance called "pitch"? Or does the Bible means that the Ark is not a physical place but rather a place in your mind where you can go in meditation that will shelter you when you are faced with a flood of lifes problems and you can seal out the flood of problems while they drown by Chanting the pitch OM?
Another bible story popular with christians is when Jesus drives the money changers out of the temple. I will prove beyond a shadow of a douby that the bible means that the "temple" is a place in your mind" and not a physical building. If we know that the temple is in our head, what is Jesus driving out of our head? Could it be greed, desires, worrys about money? Could meditation kill our money problems by putting them in perspective. When Jesus drives the money changers out of the temple, is he a real person, physically throwing people out of a building, or does Jesus represent meditation and the temple is your mind and the money changers thoughts about money?
It's not as crazy as it sounded at first is it? "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, but and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." Look up "gopher wood" ... it doesn't exist. Why would God tell you to make a boat out of a wood that doesn't exist? Maybe God means that the ark is not physical? Does "within" mean going within one's self in meditation? I think it does. And why is the verse placed at 6:14? What happens at 6:14? Did you know that that 6:14 is the average time of the sunrise and sunset in the northern hemisphere? Therefore allegorically I am being told in the story of Noah's ark that I am to build a shelter within my mind through meditation, and to focus my mind on quietly chant OM, sealing my ark within with pitch. There I'll be given the knowledge to defeat the flood of problems that I face in life, and that the times of day that I should meditate is at sunrise and at sunset. I go into my ship, my ark and I passover to the right bank, the right side.
It's not always easy to uncover the hidden meaning of a word, but if you meditate on it, it will come. Sometime I'll dwell on certain words or concepts for weeks on end without getting the hidden meaning. Such was the case with the words silver and gold. The word gold is mentioned everywhere in the bible, especially frequently when it comes to the construction of "the house", or "the tabernacle" or "the altar". Everything is covered in gold.Eventually it came to me that gold represents "sun light". A few weeks later I figured out if gold meant sunlight then silver represents moonlight. So now when I read that this or that is "covered in gold" it means exposed to the sun.
In Numbers 10:2 I was stuck on the word silver for the longest time: "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that..." What is silver? I asked myself over and over again until I realized that if gold meant the sun, then silver must mean the moon! I know that the word trumpet meant chanting OM. So two trumpets means chant Om twice. Then I got stuck on "of a whole piece of silver thou shalt make them". And then is dawned on me that a whole piece of silver must mean "the full moon"! So now Numbers 10:2 says: "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that...", but it means, "chant OM twice per day during the full moon". Every bible verse has a hidden meaning when you plug in the second or third possible definition of the words that are used.
And as your list of hidden meanings of words grows you will start to see a picture emerge. You'll realize that every bible story has the same basic meaning and it's that you are to go within yourself in meditation and kill your enemies, the dragons, the beasts, whatever you want to call it, and when you do you will passover from the left hemisphere of your brain, the 10%, to the right hemisphere, the 90% and that's where the garden of eden is planted, that's the land that flows with milk and honey. That's the reason the bible says to give 10%. It doesn't mean money!!! It means give up the 10% of your brain, desire, greed, fear, etc, and passover to the part where God resides, the "right" side. When the bible says "beasts" it doesn't mean a physical animal, it means the beast "within" you. When the bible says a temple, it doesn't mean a physical temple, it means your mind. Understanding allegory is the key to the kingdom of heaven!
In the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", author Robert Frost wrote that he has "miles to go before I sleep." The literal meaning of that sentence is that he will travel miles down the road, and then go to bed. The allegorical meaning is quite different. "Miles to go" means years to live, and "before I sleep" means before I die. The hidden meaning is that Frost is saying that he has a lot of life left in him before he dies, while the literal meaning is that he's going to bed. As you can see, the allegorical meaning yields a much different result than the literal.
Wikipedia.com defines allegory as folows: "As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. Allegory has been used widely throughout the histories of all forms of art, largely because it readily illustrates complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible to its viewers, readers, or listeners. Allegories are typically used as literary devices or rhetorical devices that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey."
It is the premise of this book that the bible is an allegorical book and not a history book and that there is a second meaning, a "hidden meaning" behind each word, verse and chapter that produces a radically different understanding of what the bible tells us, about the world we live in and about God.
Here are a few bible passages that state point blank that the bible is allegorical and not literal. The selected Bible verses are in Bold type.
2 Corinthians 3:6 "Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life." When Jesus speaks of the spirit of the law, he is speaking of the "intent" of the passage and not the literal meaning of it. Jesus goes as far as to say that taking the bible literally is so bad that is "kills" and also that if understood spiritually it will give you life. He doesn't mean that you will kill, he is implying that's it's very, very bad. That's the allegorical intent of the word kill.
The "letter" means literal as in "letter of the law". Wikipedia describes the difference between letter and spirit in the following: The letter of the law versus the spirit of the law is an idiomatic antithesis. When one obeys the letter of the law but not the spirit, one is obeying the literal interpretation of the words (the "letter") of the law, but not the intent of those who wrote the law. Conversely, when one obeys the spirit of the law but not the letter, one is doing what the authors of the law intended, though not necessarily adhering to the literal wording."
Matthew 13:34-35 "All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude in parables and without a parable he didn't speak to them." Like "the letter vs the spirit", a parable is an entire story who's intent is to impart a lesson rather than just make a statement". "You reap what you sow" has nothing to do with gardening. It means you will get out of something exactly what you put into it. Saint Matthew is clearly saying that everything that Jesus said in the Bible is a parable, not literal. "All these things" means just what is says ... everything, every word of the Bible is allegory.
Mark 10 "And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. 11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?" Being without is the opposite of going within, and going within is a metaphor for meditation. If you are not in meditation you are without. If you do not go within to meditate, you will take the bible literally. It's not what you physically see, it's the perception, and not what you physically hear, it's what you understand. It's about perception and understanding. It's allegory.
Mark 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them." Taking the bible literally is the one and only sin. Your sins are "forgiven" when the sunrises. September 21 through March 20 is Sin.
Psalm 78:2 "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:"
The lord will speak to you when you understand allegory!
Psalm 11:1-4 "In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? "
Yet religion has a literal answer for everything. "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
But know this: "The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
If you meditate, if you go within, you will see God face to face, you will be given the knowledge of the kingdom of heaven.
Allegory makes reading the bible fun. If you understand allegory your understanding of the kingdom of heaven will grow also. Mark 4:20 "And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred." 30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: 32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it."
I know that silver is moonlight and gold is sunlight and since mother and father are where you came from, sons and daughters mean where your going and Egypt is the bad guys I understood the following: Exodus “3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.”
6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Here is the first chapter to the ebook I'm writing …
First off a couple of things I want to make clear. I am not religious. I don't believe in any religion whatsoever. I think all religions are crap. Pure evil. I do however read the Bible constantly, as in hours every day. I can't put it down. I just don't take the meaning literally, I take the meaning allegorically and that's what this book is about.
The allegorical meaning is the "hidden" meaning of the Bible. What did the author of the bible passages intend to say.
Secondly, I don't want you to think the way I do. Think for yourself. My goal in writing this book is to kindle the spirit of God within you to "read the bible" with a new set of eyes so that you can see for yourself. And the key to unlocking the hidden meanings of the bible is to understand that, as Led Zepellin wrote in the song "Stairway to Heaven", "sometimes words have two meanings". I want you to look up the meanings of the common word you thought you knew. You'll be shocked and surprised what these words also mean.
I want you to experiment with different interpertations for the words as I have done to uncover the hidden meanings behind every bible verse. Take for example the story of Noah'a Ark and the word "pitch". In Genesis 6:14 God instructs Noah to build an ark. "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." Look up the word "pitch". As a noun, pitch may refer to a (resin), a viscous substance produced by plants or formed from petroleum. Something one might smear in the cracks between the boards of an old boat to keep the water from seeping in. The hidden meaning however is the other definition of "pitch". Pitch is also defined as "the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone", like in a pitch pipe a singer uses when practicing to make sure they have the right tone or pitch.
So I ask you, does the bible mean to say that Noah's Ark is a physical boat made of wood and that you can keep the boat from sinking by spackeling in the cracks with a tar-like substance called "pitch"? Or does the Bible means that the Ark is not a physical place but rather a place in your mind where you can go in meditation that will shelter you when you are faced with a flood of lifes problems and you can seal out the flood of problems while they drown by Chanting the pitch OM?
Another bible story popular with christians is when Jesus drives the money changers out of the temple. I will prove beyond a shadow of a douby that the bible means that the "temple" is a place in your mind" and not a physical building. If we know that the temple is in our head, what is Jesus driving out of our head? Could it be greed, desires, worrys about money? Could meditation kill our money problems by putting them in perspective. When Jesus drives the money changers out of the temple, is he a real person, physically throwing people out of a building, or does Jesus represent meditation and the temple is your mind and the money changers thoughts about money?
It's not as crazy as it sounded at first is it? "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, but and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." Look up "gopher wood" ... it doesn't exist. Why would God tell you to make a boat out of a wood that doesn't exist? Maybe God means that the ark is not physical? Does "within" mean going within one's self in meditation? I think it does. And why is the verse placed at 6:14? What happens at 6:14? Did you know that that 6:14 is the average time of the sunrise and sunset in the northern hemisphere? Therefore allegorically I am being told in the story of Noah's ark that I am to build a shelter within my mind through meditation, and to focus my mind on quietly chant OM, sealing my ark within with pitch. There I'll be given the knowledge to defeat the flood of problems that I face in life, and that the times of day that I should meditate is at sunrise and at sunset. I go into my ship, my ark and I passover to the right bank, the right side.
It's not always easy to uncover the hidden meaning of a word, but if you meditate on it, it will come. Sometime I'll dwell on certain words or concepts for weeks on end without getting the hidden meaning. Such was the case with the words silver and gold. The word gold is mentioned everywhere in the bible, especially frequently when it comes to the construction of "the house", or "the tabernacle" or "the altar". Everything is covered in gold.Eventually it came to me that gold represents "sun light". A few weeks later I figured out if gold meant sunlight then silver represents moonlight. So now when I read that this or that is "covered in gold" it means exposed to the sun.
In Numbers 10:2 I was stuck on the word silver for the longest time: "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that..." What is silver? I asked myself over and over again until I realized that if gold meant the sun, then silver must mean the moon! I know that the word trumpet meant chanting OM. So two trumpets means chant Om twice. Then I got stuck on "of a whole piece of silver thou shalt make them". And then is dawned on me that a whole piece of silver must mean "the full moon"! So now Numbers 10:2 says: "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that...", but it means, "chant OM twice per day during the full moon". Every bible verse has a hidden meaning when you plug in the second or third possible definition of the words that are used.
And as your list of hidden meanings of words grows you will start to see a picture emerge. You'll realize that every bible story has the same basic meaning and it's that you are to go within yourself in meditation and kill your enemies, the dragons, the beasts, whatever you want to call it, and when you do you will passover from the left hemisphere of your brain, the 10%, to the right hemisphere, the 90% and that's where the garden of eden is planted, that's the land that flows with milk and honey. That's the reason the bible says to give 10%. It doesn't mean money!!! It means give up the 10% of your brain, desire, greed, fear, etc, and passover to the part where God resides, the "right" side. When the bible says "beasts" it doesn't mean a physical animal, it means the beast "within" you. When the bible says a temple, it doesn't mean a physical temple, it means your mind. Understanding allegory is the key to the kingdom of heaven!
In the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", author Robert Frost wrote that he has "miles to go before I sleep." The literal meaning of that sentence is that he will travel miles down the road, and then go to bed. The allegorical meaning is quite different. "Miles to go" means years to live, and "before I sleep" means before I die. The hidden meaning is that Frost is saying that he has a lot of life left in him before he dies, while the literal meaning is that he's going to bed. As you can see, the allegorical meaning yields a much different result than the literal.
Wikipedia.com defines allegory as folows: "As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. Allegory has been used widely throughout the histories of all forms of art, largely because it readily illustrates complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible to its viewers, readers, or listeners. Allegories are typically used as literary devices or rhetorical devices that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, and/or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey."
It is the premise of this book that the bible is an allegorical book and not a history book and that there is a second meaning, a "hidden meaning" behind each word, verse and chapter that produces a radically different understanding of what the bible tells us, about the world we live in and about God.
Here are a few bible passages that state point blank that the bible is allegorical and not literal. The selected Bible verses are in Bold type.
2 Corinthians 3:6 "Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life." When Jesus speaks of the spirit of the law, he is speaking of the "intent" of the passage and not the literal meaning of it. Jesus goes as far as to say that taking the bible literally is so bad that is "kills" and also that if understood spiritually it will give you life. He doesn't mean that you will kill, he is implying that's it's very, very bad. That's the allegorical intent of the word kill.
The "letter" means literal as in "letter of the law". Wikipedia describes the difference between letter and spirit in the following: The letter of the law versus the spirit of the law is an idiomatic antithesis. When one obeys the letter of the law but not the spirit, one is obeying the literal interpretation of the words (the "letter") of the law, but not the intent of those who wrote the law. Conversely, when one obeys the spirit of the law but not the letter, one is doing what the authors of the law intended, though not necessarily adhering to the literal wording."
Matthew 13:34-35 "All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude in parables and without a parable he didn't speak to them." Like "the letter vs the spirit", a parable is an entire story who's intent is to impart a lesson rather than just make a statement". "You reap what you sow" has nothing to do with gardening. It means you will get out of something exactly what you put into it. Saint Matthew is clearly saying that everything that Jesus said in the Bible is a parable, not literal. "All these things" means just what is says ... everything, every word of the Bible is allegory.
Mark 10 "And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. 11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?" Being without is the opposite of going within, and going within is a metaphor for meditation. If you are not in meditation you are without. If you do not go within to meditate, you will take the bible literally. It's not what you physically see, it's the perception, and not what you physically hear, it's what you understand. It's about perception and understanding. It's allegory.
Mark 12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them." Taking the bible literally is the one and only sin. Your sins are "forgiven" when the sunrises. September 21 through March 20 is Sin.
Psalm 78:2 "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:"
The lord will speak to you when you understand allegory!
Psalm 11:1-4 "In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? "
Yet religion has a literal answer for everything. "For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
But know this: "The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
If you meditate, if you go within, you will see God face to face, you will be given the knowledge of the kingdom of heaven.
Allegory makes reading the bible fun. If you understand allegory your understanding of the kingdom of heaven will grow also. Mark 4:20 "And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred." 30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? 31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: 32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it."
I know that silver is moonlight and gold is sunlight and since mother and father are where you came from, sons and daughters mean where your going and Egypt is the bad guys I understood the following: Exodus “3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.”
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