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The Biblical Creation Mapping website content presents 21 conversations for consideration concerning the proper creation background of the kosmos of Genesis in the tabernacle of the heavens that controls the interpretative foundation for biblical conversation about the ministry of Christ in atonement and his present intercession for his people at death and judgment (Heb 9:27-28). The information is free and always open for congenial discussion, clarification, and your insights in conversation opportunities available by email, Zoom, or personal venues. A Thesis, Dissertation, and 2024 book publication, with interaction with both academic & general believer conversation, is available to evaluate the evidence for plural heavens in a highly probable first-century tabernacle/temple background with Jesus's kingdom now obtainable in heaven.
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IntroductionThe Role of Conversation for Others Coming to Faith
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The Role of Conversation in DiscipleshipIn discipleship conversations with the people before us (Matt 28:18-20), how mature is our foundational understanding, as a Christian, so-called, about the past and present ministry of Christ (1 Cor 3:10) through the heavens (Heb 4:14)? Between 66-70 CE, in two large discourse units (see PDF Dissertation Outline), the Pastor in the sermon to the Hebrews, exhorts his listeners concerning their teaching about both the completed ministry of Christ in atonement for purification of sins (Heb 6:1-20) and his present ministry of intercession for his people at death and judgment (Heb 5:1-10; 7:1-28). His conclusion of his main discourse unit of exposition (Heb 8:1-10:18) summarizes both ministries of Christ (Heb 9:27-28). |
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Midway into this midrash and message about Jesus's present ministry (Heb 5:1-10), the Pastor suddenly interrupts his flow of thought by making an astounding observation about his audience (Heb 5:11-14). He forms an analogy about the teaching content of the two ministries of Jesus using milk for infants and solid food for mature listeners. Milk links teaching about the ministry of atonement and solid food with teaching about the ministry of high priestly intercession. He concludes that 1) the teachers of his audience are hard of hearing, 2) they could not teach the solid food of Jesus's present ministry, and 3) they need to review again the milk teaching about the completed ministry of atonement. He exhorts his audience teachers, who were spiritually deaf, intolerant of milk, and unable to eat solid food, to consider their own accountability at judgment (Heb 6:7-20). In previous discourse units of his sermon, he illustrates God's judgment of the ministry of his people by the example of Israel (Heb 2:1-4; 3:1-4:16; cf. 1 Cor 10:1-13) in exhortation for the proper conversation of their own ministries when judged before God. Since long before the sermon of Hebrews, many congregations and their teachers exhibit similar deafness (Isa 53:1; Rom 10:16-21). Teaching issues, among those claiming Jesus as Christ, usually surround milk intolerance with the usual chaos among infants (1 Cor 3:1-4). There is a slight increased consistency of solid food in conversation expressed among the general believer in sermons, songs, poetry, art, creative cinema, and funeral epitaphs for meeting Jesus at the moment of death. However, few academic religious teachers hear God's speech or taste the solid food of maturity in servant conversations about Jesus's ministry of intercession at death and judgment to shepherd his people promptly into heaven. Spiritual maturity rests not in mastery of method (academic details) or external source (supposed important people) but proper and accurate message content about Jesus as the fulfillment of the Christ to the one in front of us that day. In the mid-first century CE, the people who followed Jesus as the long-promised Christ Messiah fulfillment, primarily Jews mixed with some Gentile God-fearers and proselytes, were first labeled as "the way" (John 14:6; Acts 1:11; 2:28; 9:2; 16:17; 18:25-26; 19:9, 23; 22:4; 24:22; Eph 4:20; Col 2:14; Heb 9:8;10:20). More than a decade after Jesus's sacrificial death in atonement for cleansing of sins and enthronement into his heavenly kingdom (Dan 7:13-14; John 18:36; 2 Tim 4:18), after regional Greco-Roman Gentiles were added by faith, his believers were called "Christians," meaning "Messiah followers" (Acts 11:17; 11:26; 26:28; 1 Peter 4:16). The implication, in common conversation by observers, implied a following of Jesus in his provided way of salvation, at death and judgment, to God in his heavenly kingdom. The Role of Conversation in Intra-Christian ChaosSince the beginning of messianic promise to people, God's speech-action revelation about his purpose to bring people to himself into heaven endures many philosophical detours and delays toward earthly kingdom concepts (Acts 13:10; Rom 1:18-23). Since the beginning of people, at times this debate fiercely intensifies, as first exampled by Cain and Abel in the symbolism of their sacrifices, between those symbolically in worship hoping for an earthly or heavenly kingdom. Jesus remarked that these differences in messianic destiny formed the basis for the chaos between ideological views (Matt 24:4-14; cf. Heb 11:32-38; James 4:1-10; 2 Tim 3:12). Notice how Jesus asserts that among the "many," "they," who claim Jesus is the Christ, those who were with him, "you," were the ones being persecuted by the "many," "they," of people groups having earthly authority in power to put others to death or tribulation and not the "you" of people holding Jesus as Christ doing the persecution (Matt 20:24-28; Matt 23:1-12). The Apostle John was amazed at this culture when provided a vision of their judgment (Rev 17:6-7). Now nearly two thousand years later, historians realize the earthly Christian history of past people and events most often determines by the self-proclaimed victors over supposed enemies (John 16:2). Hence, due to a long practice of erasure by Christians, so-called, with claims of power and authority in earthly kingdoms, little evidence remains about those following Jesus, as the Christ who shepherds his people into heaven. What is known about those by faith holding to spiritual transformation at death and judgment comes from the polemicized exaggerated records of heresies, so-called, often written hundreds of years later. Christian historians would do well to follow the example of the author of Hebrews in looking for records/testimonials of those looking to be with Jesus at death (Heb 12:1-4). The Pastor chose those who diversely testified during their lifetime to the ones in front of them about access to a heavenly kingdom (Heb 11:13-16), more than the testimonial comparisons in later traditions claiming truth against others, highlighted by victors over supposed non-orthodox theological/philosophical views. Based on Hebrews 11, true history of the Christian "Messiah-follower" with completion in heaven traces by a trail of blood, for both Jesus and his followers, since the example of Abel (Heb 11:4; 12:24). Since Antioch Syria in the first century CE, the people groups, claiming the new first-century "Christian" moniker, frequently oscillate between followers hoping for life journey completion as either earthly fleshly resuscitation or heavenly spiritual transformation destinies. This site hears in God's speech-action/revelation to his people, a heavenly calling by Jesus, as Christ, to shepherd those who believe in him at death and judgment into heaven, a normative opinion held by Christians and forcibly suppressed by religious authorities since the latter half of the first century (See Henry, "Atonement and Logic of Resurrection in Hebrews 9:27-28," p. 145-50). This hearing cuts across much of modern orthodox Christianity since the fourth century CE, which in holding to traditions more than the first-century text of Scripture (copies of Greek manuscripts controlled by leaders), mainly hears only promised ethical and legal changes of status for people on a mysterious religious path to a renewed, fleshly, earthly kingdom. In philosophical and theological gap-filling beyond the speech of God, many since the fifth-century CE, to shore up obvious tradition incoherence with the text of Scripture (in the fifth century CE, more believers beyond leaders could now read the new Latin translation of 405 CE by Jerome), have since embraced ideology that deceased believers are in some quasi-intermediate-state, considered either as a mystery of "in Christ," or now inferior beings awaiting "asleep" or wandering the earth, until a final perfection in return to their fleshly bodies during a second coming of Jesus at the end of the age. Neither position maps sensibly in Scripture. However, the general believer usually believes that they will see Jesus at death to shepherd them into heaven (Psalm 23; 2 Cor 4-5; Phil 1:21-23; 3:17-21), which does have a strong hearing, at least until listening more to the later religious orthodoxy more than God himself. The Necessity of Conversation With Cohesive Biblical MappingGod's speech about his purpose in Christ for people and his present creation, as always cohesive revelation (2 Tim 3:16-17; 2 Pet 1:20-21), can be mapped in time and space within the parameters of the current tabernacle of the heavens (Heb 8:1-6). Incohesive hearing of God's speech arises when heavenly truth is flattened and replaced either by escalated or isolated, earthly, religious elements that become distorted, disconnected images from their heavenly reality. Errant claims about God's speech-action are often worked out on an earth-centric, spatial background-field with limited heavenly access for people. Further, these alternative religious assertions by false prophets, biblically so-called, fall under the rejected teaching of Babylon (Rev 17-18). Since people cannot sense the realm of heaven contained in the descriptions of God's promises in Christ (1 Cor 2:6-16), God reveals the spatial way and life of heavenly truth through his Spirit by direct prophecy, analogy, and typology in outlines, shadows, parables, visions, antitypes, and images. These methods of revelation are developed in Mapping Conversation 4: First-century, Aion-Field (apocalyptic), Temple-of-the-Heavens Based, Background Revelation. Chart numbers on the visual maps below provide links to sections of important conversation within the biblical narrative, which for complete hearing, must include God's response to sin by the devil. His sin necessitates God's construction of the present, dark, separated creation in a temporary tabernacle of the heavens or kingdom of the heavens design for God's house in current levels of holiness of people and other created spiritual beings now spread across all visible and invisible creation (Eph 6:12; Col 1:13; Heb 2:14-15). The interactive, numbered Mapping Conversations also highlight the above listed forms of God's revelation about his will and purpose to bring people to himself in heaven by repentance of sin and faith in his provision of atonement for sin by himself as Christ. The Beginning Foundation for Conversation in DiscipleshipOne should begin study with Biblical Mapping Conversation 1: The Past and Present Ministry of Jesus as the Christ , as this Mapping Conversation provides the foundation necessary for biblical understanding of God's speech about the ministry of Christ in the true, unseen heavens (Heb 8:1-6). Accurate hearing of God's speech understands that his goal for this creation features bringing people to himself into heaven at death and judgment by the ability of the Son as the Christ (1 Thess 2:20; Heb 9:27-28). However, many false religious teachers claim that God is only coming here in a later delayed ministry to renew this world to edenic conditions, as they strive with one another over preeminence in power, lust, and worldly position as God's true people (Matt 24:4-14). This site attempts to explain the auditory differences as to why heavenly hope by faith in Jesus as the Christ is better (Phil 1:21-23; 3:17-21; 2 Cor 4-5; Heb 11:16). This biblical mapping conversation, based on the foundation of the ministry of Christ, is written for both lay people and those theologically educated. Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek has either glosses or English translations to assist learning. Technical language material in scholarly publication is usually explained. Be aware that the theological or philosophical quotations of men carry very little weight in the conversation of this ministry in comparison to the actual hearing of God's speech in his Word. We do not investigate NDEs (Near Death Experiences) for the same reason. The attempt, herein, purposely aims to avoid the conversation and philosophical language traditions of men to focus mainly on proposed proper conversation by learning to hear the speech of God in his own words and concepts (Col 2:8; Heb 5:11-14). Until a believer hears God's speech in God's ways, it really does not matter what another person says. For example, Jesus told each of the seven churches in Asia, of which five were told to "...repent...or else...," "...hear what the Spirit says to the churches" (Rev 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22). Further, God corrected the errant focus by Peter on the building of tabernacles for worship at Jesus's transfiguration, by stating, "This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!” (Matt 17:5). Believers are often more focused on what other believers say or the material aspects of the needs/wants of meeting in assembly to feel-experience worship--than listening to God himself (John 4:24). Some Matters of Housekeeping for Good ConversationsAs a matter of housekeeping for those reading this site:
_____________________________________________________________________________Biblical Mapping of the Past, Present, and FutureMinistry of Christ |
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Point Locations and Motion Segments
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________________________________________(Event 0-1) - Movement of Christ - Spirit Preexistence in Heaven, Promise to Earth, Earthly Preperation,
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________________________________________(Event 2A; 3) - Movement of Christ - Kosmos to Heaven - Death,
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________________________________________(Event 2B; 4) - Movement of Christ - Heaven to Kosmos - Sign of Flesh Resuscitation/Resurrection That Atonement Complete |
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________________________________________(Event 5)-Movement of Christ-Kosmos to Heaven - Ascension for Shepherd Ministry for People at Death |
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________________________________________(Event 6) - Movement of Christ - Heaven to Kosmos - Second Coming for Living and Harvest with Rule |
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Biblical Mapping of the Revelation of Jesus as the Christ |
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