THE MYTH OF
SANTA CLAUS AND MARY

I will never forget the day that I found out Santa Claus was not for real...but just a myth, a made up story. A fairy tale illusion to entertain children once every year on Dec. 25th. We were living in Richmond, Indiana, where my father worked as an accountant for this manufacturing company and I was in the third grade. It was a cold Sunday morning in Dec. 1946. I was out playing in the snow with the neighbors kids when they told me that Santa Claus was not for real. I immediately went into the house and down stairs in the basement where my father was stoking our coal furnace to warm the house. I was a little reluctant to ask him about this because my brother and I had always received Christmas presents every year which we thought came from Santa Claus.

Although my parents never actually said they came from Santa Claus they had not told me he didn't bring them. But that's where everyone said the presents came from and my parents never told me any different, so, of course, I believed like everyone else, that Santa Claus brought us our presents from the North Pole. We were raised to always tell the truth no matter what, so with this in mind I got up the courage and asked him straight out, Daddy, is Santa Claus for real or not? My dad didn't even look at me but just kept stoking the fire while he said, Santa Claus is your Mother and Daddy. There it was. So, the kids were telling me the truth after all...there is no such thing as Santa Claus. I will never forget that day.

You can probably remember times in your life when you found out something was not true which you always thought was true. Like, for example, that when you die your soul goes to heaven or hell or the day to go to church is really Saturday not Sunday. Since my mother raised me in the SDA Church I didn't have to go through those shocking revelations. But in the fall of 1976 I did receive a shocking revelation that truly changed my life and I have never been the same since.

Those of you who have been reading my paper for any length of time have probably already known how I learned that God does not destroy. Well, it truly was a shocking revelation. You can read about it on my web site where I go into detail along with other revelations the Lord has given to me through the years regarding His wonderful character of love. More recently, the Lord has led me into another investigation, a further revelation of His character. Due to my own ignorance and prejudice I was not able to see the relevance of what the Lord was trying to tell me or where it would take me.

So, I began to pray for understanding and the Lord answered my prayers. In this article I am going to take you step by step so you can see what I learned. Of course, I know that most of you don't pray to Mary or believe she is up in heaven interceding for us. She is a myth. But she is more than a myth...she is a counterfeit. But a counterfeit of what? That is what we must learn. The unveiling of El Shaddai and the Shekinah Glory. The Ongoing Search for a deeper understanding of the character of God.

THE REAL TRUTH BEHIND THE COUNTERFEITS

Within the human heart is an insatiable desire, an unquenchable thirst and hunger after the knowledge of the Creator...not only to know God but to be one with Him. From the beginning, Satan has taken advantage of this God given need to worship. We see this especially in pagan religions as they go to extreme lengths to appease their supposed angry deities (Satan's angels acting like gods, etc.). Some lay on boards of sharp nails, other crawl on their knees for miles while still others sacrifice virgins, their children and themselves to the great unknown God in the sky whom they imagine demands such sacrifices. These false concepts of the Creator and the fallen condition of mankind in general, was the direct result of God's professed people in Old Testament times (ancient Israel) rebelling against God's revelation of Himself through Moses and the prophets. This set the stage for the rejection of the true Messiah, Jesus, who came to this world as a human being to reveal the true character about the God family. One author has summed it up like this:

"The people whom God had called to be the pillar and ground of the truth had become representatives of Satan. They were doing the work that he (Satan) desired them to do, taking a course to misrepresent the character of God, and cause the world to look upon Him as a tyrant. The very priests who ministered in the temple had lost sight of the significance of the service they performed. They had ceased to look beyond the symbol to the thing signified. In presenting the sacrificial offerings they were as actors in a play. The ordinances which God Himself had appointed were made the means of blinding the mind and hardening the heart. God could do no more for man through these channels. The whole system must be swept away." Desire of Ages, 36.

So, Adam's descendants continued on a downward slide toward extinction for 4,000 years until the human race was so degraded that the universe waited, with bated breath as it were, to see what God would do. "With intense interest the unfallen worlds had watched to see Jehovah arise, and sweep away the inhabitants of the earth. And if God should do this, Satan was ready to carry out his plan for securing to himself the allegiance of heavenly beings. (why?) He had declared that the principles of God's government make forgiveness impossible. Had the world been destroyed, he would have claimed that his accusations were proved true. He was ready to cast blame upon God, and to spread his rebellion to the worlds above. But instead of destroying the world, God sent His Son to save it." DA 37. In reality, God had simply allowed mankind to destroy itself at the time of the flood. Job 22:15-18; Isaiah 54:5-10. These Scriptures teach that God did not destroy the antediluvian world, but that they destroyed themselves. This is what the expression, "The wrath of God," means. Christ took all the wrath (sins of the broken law requiring punishment) upon Himself at the cross as Paul tells us in Rom. 5:9, "Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him." Read these verses for yourself so you will know the truth. A study of the book "Secrets of the Lost Races," By Rene Noorbergen, (Now out of Print) reveals that the science of the day was merged with the occult (Satan's angels) who led these pre-flood scientists on to destruction. Some believe they discovered nuclear energy which they did not know how to use. Consequently, some kind of accidental, nuclear explosion took place which destroyed the vapor envelope causing it to rain for 40 days and nights. God took the blame, calling it "My wrath." On the cross, Jesus took all of the wrath of the ages into Himself so we could go free. This is His gift to you. When we study the Bible we are receiving the life and power of the Creator into our minds and bodies.

So, when you open the Bible and read it there is a supernatural power that goes into your mind and whole body to energize you with the life of God Himself. I have experienced this for myself on a daily basis since I was a child not always realizing that it was the Lord.. The statement we just read above indicated that the unfallen worlds believed that God had destroyed the world at the time of the flood and now they were waiting to see if He was going to finish them off again.. Only this time there would be no ark of safety to preserve the race, as in Noah's day, because in their minds, it was beyond redemption. The same author above tells how "Satanic agencies were incorporated with men. The bodies of human beings, made for the dwelling place of God, had become the habitation of demons. The senses, the nerves, the passions, the organs of men, were worked by supernatural agencies in the indulgence of the vilest lust. The very stamp of demons was impressed upon the countenances of men. Human faces reflected the expression of the legions of evil with which they were possessed. Such was the prospect upon which the world's Redeemer looked. What a spectacle for Infinite Purity to behold!" DA 36. You must also realize that Satan, the accuser of the brethren had been going throughout the universe slandering both the Creator and His creation using man's fallen condition as proof that God's laws and ideas were defective and faulty as God Himself. The Father did nothing to defend Himself but someone else close to Him did.

"The deception of sin had reached its height. All the agencies for depraving the souls of men had been put in operation. The Son of God, looking upon the world, beheld suffering and misery. With pity He saw how men had become victims of satanic cruelty. He looked with compassion upon those who were being corrupted, murdered, and lost. They had chosen a ruler who chained them to his car as captives. Bewildered and deceived, they were moving on in gloomy procession toward eternal ruin,--to death in which is no hope of life, toward night to which comes no morning." DA 36.

The Creator, knowing this, sent (allowed) His only Son, whom we know as Jesus the Christ, to come here to our world and be born of the virgin Mary, 2000 years ago. After His life, death and resurrection the New Testament became a record of all He said and did. In John 17:3 the Holy Spirit led the beloved disciple to write: "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." This then is the key to solving the great mystery of life. The Creator Himself has put within the heart of man the desire to seek after and know Him, whom to know and understand will lead to eternal life.

That is why, my friend, there is this ongoing, eternal quest to solve the great mystery of life...who are we? Where did we come from and where are we going? Again, John the Beloved, was chosen to write in Rev. 10:7 that the "Mystery of God should be finished" as the 7th Angel sounded his trumpet. It is this mystery we seek to solve in our ongoing quest to know the true and only God. Almost everyone loves a mystery story. Millions of mystery novels are sold every year and the Film and Television industry makes millions of dollars entertaining the masses with various types of mystery stories. I believe God, in His great wisdom uses all of these avenues to the mind and soul to teach people what He wants them to know about Himself, for He has declared in His eternal Word, "Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins, it shall die." Ezek. 18:4. So, our God loves every one of His creatures and deals with each of us on an individual basis. Jesus revealed this to us when He said that His Father noted the fall (death) of every little sparrow. This is what people do not know or understand.

We have already noted the Lord's prediction that the Mystery of God is going to be completed or finished...in other words, understood at the close of the age, just before Jesus returns. In my second quarter newspaper the Lord led me to write my front page article on the character of God on this very topic, "THE DAYS OF THE VOICE OF THE SEVENTH ANGEL," in which I explained Rev. 11:15 and 12:10 and in this latest edition of GLC Newspaper I was led again to write about the "THE TWO WITNESSES" of Rev. 11:3-12.

One of the greatest and most well hidden mysteries about God began to be revealed at the turn of the century when God's special messenger to the remnant wrote, "GOD DESTROYS NO MAN." This revolutionary concept lay dormant until sometime in the 1960s when a brilliant and most enlightened professor of religion at Keene College in Keene, Texas, began to teach his students that "God destroys no man," quoting from Ellen G. White's book, "CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS," page 84. The professor's name was Morris D. Lewis. His teaching that God does not destroy caused enough controversy that he agreed to become a district pastor until he retired. However, he continued to teach and preach on this topic of God's character wherever possible, especially on the concept of the sanctuary service. I recently obtained 13 video talks, 30 minutes each, of him speaking on this topic of the earthly sanctuary. He is dressed up like a Jewish high priest. It was at a worker's meeting in Texas, in 1969, there I heard Elder Lewis explain why he believed "GOD DOES NOT DESTROY." He had a chalk board which he used to explain his concept. There were about 50 pastors there and half of them agreed with him and half disagreed. I was one of those who agreed. However, I still did not understand how to explain the "Flood" and "Sodom and Gomorrah," until about seven years later when I began memorizing in the Psalms beginning with Psalm 2 through 20 in July and August of 1976. It was during this time that the Lord revealed to me His true character and the next year I began to write it out.

Every year since then the Lord has revealed more and more about His character and I have continued to write out what I have learned. It is amazing that at that same time frame of 1976 and 1977 the Lord was revealing the same idea to others regarding the character of God. I recently learned that one researcher and writer, now deceased, claimed to have received a revelation from God about the Holy Spirit and the God family itself at this same time, August of 1977, the same month I was memorizing the Psalms and began preaching that "God Does Not Destroy."

Some of this information was sent out through the mail during the 1980s to many people here in the USA. I remember reading some of it but it did not make any sense to me at the time. But recently this topic has been brought to my attention once again and I have begun studying it for myself, reluctantly at first, not realizing how this topic would help us to better understand the character of God. With that as an introduction, let us go back to the beginning of the Bible itself and see what has already been clearly revealed which we have evidently not fully understood.

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Gen. 1:1. Ok, no problem there. The words are very clear and simple. God is the one who made or created heaven and earth. But what about man? Again the Bible is clear. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:" Gen. 1:26. Have you ever noticed that little word "our" before? What does that indicate? It means that the God who is speaking consists of more than just One person or being who was involved in the creation of this world. Let's continue on. "So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them." Gen. 1:27. Most Bible commentaries and scholars agree that within the word "God" itself there is a plurality, indicated by the words "us" and "our" but what most commentaries and scholars have failed to tell you is that within the Hebrew word or title "God" there are three elements. 1. male. 2. female and 3. plural. So, Elohim has all three of these aspects or characteristics in that one word itself which is translated in to English simply as God. This can sometimes make it difficult to know whether a word in the Hebrew is to be translated as feminine or masculine. In English we don't have that problem because the male is clearly either a "he or a him" and the female gender is referred to as a "she or her." In Spanish the ending tells the gender. For example, nino is a male child and nina is a female child. Esposo means husband and esposa means wife. But the name or title of God, in the Hebrew, has within it both male, female and sometimes neuter. "As a generic name in the ancient languages the word ( "El meaning God) appears in both the singular and the plural ('elim, ilani), also in feminine forms." BC 8, SDA Bible Dictionary, page 298.

Most people do not realize that from the very beginning of the Great Controversy between the forces of good and evil, i.e., Christ and Satan, that Satan has sought to reveal himself to Adam and his descendants as the only "true Lord or God." These are titles he has been allowed to assume and imitate, pretending to be the "True God," and he has been very successful, as history shows. Incredibly, though, most people do not know this. Even religious people who try and study the Bible. This puts them at a distinct disadvantage when trying to understand the character of God. I define this topic as "The Two Lords" which is on Level #3 of God's character message. When I first understood that God does not destroy, I knew nothing about this. Like everyone else, I just thought that when the Bible said, "God" that it meant the true God and when it said Lord, that was also the true Lord. In the Old Testament Satan was almost treated as a non-entity...as if he did not exist. The Hebrew prophets attributed all of the acts and events of life to One supreme deity. Why? Because He was in control of all things and nothing happened without His knowledge or permission. And this is true. But when we read the book of Job the curtain is pulled aside and we see that God in the heavenly councils allows Satan to test a man (Job) the Lord declares is perfect. Satan openly accuses Job of serving God from impure motives...just because of the blessings God is bestowing upon him. The Lord then allows Satan to go down and destroy all of Job's children and property. Why? Because Satan stated publicly, before the heavenly council, that if these blessings were removed Job would no longer serve God but would in fact curse Him. "But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So, Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord." Job 1:11, 12.

This was round one, as it were, because even though Job passed this first test by blessing the Lord instead of blaming Him or cursing Him. Satan once again came before the Lord claiming that the reason Job had not cursed God was because the Lord had not permitted him to touch his body. You can read the ongoing dialogue in chapter 2 of Job. "Skin for skin," Satan replied. "A man will give anything to save his life. Touch his body with sickness and he will curse you to your face! Do with him as you please," the Lord replied; "only spare his life." Now, watch the next verse which clearly reveals who it is who puts sickness and disease upon us. "So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with a terrible case of boils from head to foot." Job 2:7. Compare this story with Acts 10:38 where Dr. Luke tells us that Jesus was anointed by God and "went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him." I had known about this story and its implications since 1956 when I first heard Elder Paul C. Heubach talk about God not being the destroyer in our Bible classes at Walla Walla College. He often quoted from "Christ Object Lessons," page 84, "GOD DESTROYS NO MAN." And he emphasized that God never put sickness and disease upon mankind nor caused accidents. He carefully explained that this was the work of Satan. So, this was my first introduction to the idea. But that concept lay dormant in my mind until 1969 when I heard Elder Lewis explain the same idea, going at it from a different angle and in more depth. Once again those new seeds lay dormant until the summer and fall of 1976 when I began memorizing the Psalms, beginning with Psalm 1, as I have already mentioned. So, all of these ideas and concepts are progressive in our lives. The Lord gives us these little germ seed thoughts, as it were, and lets them lie dormant in our hearts and minds for years and then suddenly one day He comes along and waters it and shines the sunlight of His love down upon those seeds and we begin to see them grow. That is the way God works in the lives of His people...the Ones He has chosen to give messages and the ones whom He has chosen to receive the messages. So, today as you read these words I urge you to pray for Divine guidance in your heart and mind. Many of you reading this believe that God is love and that He is not a destroyer as is clearly shown from the life of our Blessed Redeemer who gave up His life to die on the cross rather than hurt or destroy those who desired to put Him to death on the cruel cross.

Although this has been a very controversial topic as long as I can remember, it had never been brought out in the open for much discussion and/or debate until about 1976-77. I was not the first one to teach this idea, as I have already noted that EGW wrote about it in "Christ's Object Lessons," 84, (published 1900). There are a few indirect statements explaining the concept before that in "Great Controversy," 35-37 (Pub. first about 1855 and 1888) and then several in "Desire of Ages," (pub. 1898) as well as other books and even in unpublished manuscripts. Amazingly, Charles H. Pridgeon also stated that "God does not Destroy" in his book "IS HELL ETERNAL OR WILL GOD'S PLAN FAIL?" Pub. 1920 on the topic of Universal Restoration. He was a Presbyterian minister who was finally forced to resigned about 1900 in Pittsburgh, PA and went into self-supporting or independent ministry until his death in 1932.

What I didn't realize when I first started, was how the character of God tied in with the Sabbath. How? Because it proves God is a life God, not a death God. Sunday is a sign of the death God whose name in the old testament was Baal. As far as I know all the pagan deities, male or female, were connected with the false worship of idols and sun worship. The threat of death was always hanging over the heads of those who worshiped these gods and goddesses. Unfortunately, this same fear permeated the Hebrew God Jehovah. In Jeremiah 7:18 the prophet clearly mentions and condemns the worship of the "QUEEN OF HEAVEN." "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." Then in Jere. 44:17, 18, 19, 25 the prophet again mentions this worship of the "QUEEN OF HEAVEN," as such a terrible sin that it was the direct cause of their destruction. Jeremiah quotes the people as believing that it was the worship of this Queen of Heaven that they had been blessed but when they stopped worshiping her bad things began to happen to them. Jeremiah's answer was swift and direct. He told them that they were all going to die and only a "small number" would return to the land of Judah. All the rest of them would die and Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, whom they looked to as their protector, would be captured by Nebuchadnezzar like Zedekiah. So, who was this "Queen of Heaven," Jeremiah so clearly denounced and blamed for all Israel's problems?

The Hebrew word for "Queen" is generally "gebirah" meaning "Queen Mother or lady." In the Greek it is Basilissa. The SDA Bible dictionary defines "Queen of Heaven" as a "female heathen deity probably to be identified with the Assyro-babylonian Ishtar and the Palestinian Ashtoreth, or Astarte. BC Dictionary page 896, 897. In the New Testament we find this same pagan female deity being worshiped at Ephesus under the title of Diana, so named by the Romans. See Acts 19:24-35. "A goddess worshiped at Ephesus more or less equivalent to Cybele, or to Magna Mater, the Great Mother, one of the many forms of the mother goddess of the Orient. As a goddess of fertility she was depicted as a woman whose upper body was covered with many breasts. Ancient replicas of her image have been found, and she is also depicted on coins." BC Dictionary, page 77. This Artemis should not be confused with the "goddess of hunting, and the symbol of chastity and virginity, the twin sister of Apollo. Statues show the Greek goddess as a youthful, beautiful girl with a quiver on her shoulder, and a bow or a spear in her right hand, often accompanied by deer." Ibid, 78. In other pictures and statutes there have been portrayed a mother with two babies sucking on her breasts...obviously twins. More research needs to be done on this.

The first question that comes to mind is this: Who is Diana of the Ephesians (Astarte or any other name she might have gone by) counterfeiting? Because where there is a counterfeit there has to be an original, real or genuine? Right? Let us ask another question which will help us answer this one. Who was Baal a counterfeit of? The answer, of course, is Jehovah, the true God of heaven and earth known as the Lord or Lord God, the Creator of heaven and earth we read about in the book of Genesis. Apollo was, of course, a counterfeit of Jesus, the Son of God. But who is his "twin sister" a counterfeit of? Have you ever thought about that. Would Song of Solomon 4:9 and 5:1 help any? This takes us right back to the creation of Adam and Eve in Gen. 1:26, 27 where it clearly states that man was made in the very likeness and image of God. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: ...So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them." How could it be any plainer? So, what happened to this clear revelation of the Creation of the first man and woman?

For our answer, let us examine the writings of one who was once a hostile enemy of the Christian faith in the first century. Saul of Tarsus, was a brilliant young Pharisee who had been deceived by the leaders of the day. Seeking their approval to satisfy his boundless ambition he became one of the cruelest oppressors of the followers of the lowly Nazarene. But God had other plans for this proud young man whom He met on the road to Damascus with the blinding and glorious light of truth..."I am Jesus whom you are persecuting," was the immediate reply to Saul's question, Who are you Lord? So, here was this devoted follower of all the Jewish rules and regulations face to face with the Creator of the universe declaring that the incredible truth that the very people he had been sending to prison and putting to death were in reality the true people of God. In this incredible moment of truth Saul's mind must have been racing through all of the Old Testament scriptures which he had not only learned but memorized, as was customary for that day for those who went to school like Saul had. Logic was his forte and the Scriptures his ultimate reality and hope...all that he lived for every day of his life. The coming of the Messiah was to restore Israel to greatness and world domination was the dream he shared with all of Israel. But in an instant of time, this Jesus whom he had been told was a false Messiah, appeared to him supernaturally, giving him a Divine revelation of truth that was to forever change his life and guide him til the day he died.

Saul the persecutor was changed that very day into Paul the foreign missionary preacher, teacher theologian and writer extraordinary, authoring 14 books of the New Testament. One of these is the book of Romans. In the very first chapter Paul tells us that the "Wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has (already) showed it to them. (How?) For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, EVEN HIS ETERNAL POWER AND GODHEAD; so they are without excuse:"

How many times have we read these words without understanding or realizing what Paul is trying to tell us. What is it that there is no excuse for not knowing? Paul says it has to do with the "Godhead." So, what is that? It is the members or persons who make up the God family. In the third century Constantine legalized the first day of the week, making the first Sunday law. Most people don't know that it was during this same period of time that he settled the argument between Arias and Athanasis regarding the God head or what has become known as the Godhead. Ever since the Catholic church has taught that there are three persons in the Godhead...1. The Father, 2. The Son and 3. The Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit. This is called the doctrine of the Trinity. This one doctrine has probably caused more arguments and disagreements than any other one doctrine. The very fact that the church went into the dark ages right after this should make us realize that there is something about the doctrine of the trinity that is not right.

Now, remember that Paul said the people in the past who made images and idols and worshiped these false Gods were "without excuse." This is a very important clue as to what is wrong with the doctrine of the trinity over which there has been so much controversy through the centuries, which continues right up to our day. Until recently I had never realized what the real problem with the Trinitarian doctrine was...until I read a small pamphlet which quoted Paul's statement in Rom. 1. I was amazed that I had never seen it before and even more amazed that as far as I know, nothing has ever been written to expose the real issue at stake here. If anyone knows about such a document please let me know. Anyway, this little pamphlet began to open my eyes to the real message Paul was trying to get across. And beloved, this is important otherwise, I would not waste my time trying to explain it to you. So, bear with me for a moment. If you read the rest of Romans 1 what do you find? It is the most scathing denunciation and condemnation of the Homosexual and/ or so-called "Gay" life style that you will find in the Bible or any other literature. I want you to keep in mind and remember that Paul's writings in the New Testament are considered by all Christians to be the Word of the Living God. Of course, we all believe that if we are truly Christians. So it was the Divine Mind of the Creator God who inspired Paul to write these words we are going to read again to refresh our memory and comprehend their full impact.

Paul begins His Epistle to the Romans declaring himself to be a servant of Jesus Christ. The word "servant" actually means "one who is bound or a slave" (doulos in Greek) which is what Paul was, only a willing slave, having totally surrendered and devoted Himself to the Service of the Most High voluntarily after Jesus appeared to Him on the road to Damascus. After his usual greetings up through vs. 15 Paul launches right into an explanation of the power of God that was so necessary to convert the heathen whose hearts were hardened from centuries of lies about the Godhead or Godhood which simply means "the Divine nature or essence" translated from the Greek word, "theiotes," Rom. 1:20. Roget's Thesaurus defines and equates the "Godhead" as the "Trinity," or "Three in One," which is the traditional view based upon the Catholic Church's definition of the Godhead since the days of Constantine when he settled the debate between Athanasius and Arius over the nature of Christ by declaring that God consisted of three Divine persons in one. "When the great Arian-Athanasian controversy threatened to divide his newly won empire and destroy his plan to use Christianity in consolidating and maintaining political power, he convened the first ecumenical council of the church, which took place at Nicea in 325 A.D." Page 273 "Oneness of God."

Don't you find it interesting that the same emperor who made the first Sunday law four years earlier, 321 AD, is the same one who brought in this doctrine of three male Gods, Father, Son and Holy Spirit? I find it absolutely fascinating and enlightening as well. In the centuries that followed both doctrines grew and developed leading both the church and the world into the dark ages. Slowly, but surely Sunday took the place of the true Sabbath and slowly but surely the Catholic Priesthood degenerated into an all-male, celibate priest hood which of course opened the door of temptation for homosexuality til today you have at least 60% of the Catholic Clergy practicing homosexuality and certainly the majority condoning it openly or looking the other way. This was brought out on a Phil Donahue talk show interview with two Catholic priests. The next logical step was the elevation of Mary to godlike status equal to Christ Himself. She became the mediator between God and man because the Father is either too busy or too angry with humanity so Mary must go to Jesus who in turn pleads with His Father to forgive sinners. Prayers to Mary are central to the teachings of Catholicism today. "Without Mary there is no hope" is what they believe today. She is hailed and worshiped as the Queen of Peace and the Queen of Heaven, the same as in the Old Testament. Now, friend of mine, has it ever crossed your mind that where there is this big of a counterfeit there has to be a genuine? An original? But what or who is the original??? It is so simple I am sure, like myself, you are going to be shocked.

Yet, throughout history the Holy Scriptures have consistently presented a clear prophetic history of the Messiah texts depicting a mother-child IMAGE and LIKENESS looking forward to the birth of Jesus through Mary. And throughout history Satan has consistently duplicated or counterfeited it in the heathen religions. The female aspect of the deity is clearly presented in the heathen religions but hidden in the Hebrew history due to the fact that males dominated throughout Israel's history. Nevertheless, the truth is there for anyone who wishes to see it beginning with Gen. 3:15 where the promise of a Redeemer would come through the seed of Eve, the first woman (symbolizing the church). The revelation of this imagery was given by God, the Holy Spirit (feminine), from the beginning in strong scriptural terminology that has been covered up by the rubbish of human inventions and traditions, misapprehended, misinterpreted and concealed in the traditions of men by the presentation of a strictly masculine concept of God. One can only surmise that this happened due to the belief that Eve caused Adam's fall by eating the forbidden fruit first and then offering it to her husband, Adam. Secondly, the heathen religions always were worshiping female deities who were presented as sanctioning not only human sexual immorality but human sacrifice of children, virgins, etc.

It has been given to this final generation to restore the truth about the female, Mother image of God, which Eve was created to represent, being created or made in the exact image of her Mother, the Holy Ghost, which is always feminine in spite of the fact that the translators always make both the Holy Ghost and the Holy Spirit out to be male. But they are wrong, because you might be interested to know that they are always in the feminine. The Dove is feminine. The Shekinah glory is the "feminine face of God" and in Gen. 17 the "Almighty God" who appeared to Abraham is none other than EL SHADDAI, which means "THE ALMIGHTY BREASTED ONE" (obviously feminine) whose counterfeited counterpart in the pagan religions throughout the Old Testament and even in the days of Paul was Diana of the Ephesians. The SHEKINAH GLORY is what was withdrawn from the Jewish nation when Jesus left the temple for the last time and said, "YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE." This departure was proven and signified at the time of Jesus' crucifixion when the sacred curtain dividing the Holy Place from the Most Holy was ripped into two. But let me read to you what EGW has to say about who it was who left and you decide who she is. "When the fast westering sun should pass from sight in the heavens, Jerusalem's day of grace would be ended. While the procession was halting on the brow of Olivet, it was not yet too late for Jerusalem to repent.

THE ANGEL OF MERCY WAS FOLDING HER WINGS TO STEP DOWN FROM THE GOLDEN THRONE TO GIVE PLACE TO JUSTICE AND SWIFT-COMING JUDGMENT." DA 578.

The traditional belief of the Jewish nation at that time was that the "SHEKINAH GLORY" was the feminine face of God. Webster's dictionary defines it as: "Shechina <root skn, to dwell]] Judaism the manifestation of the presence of God; Divine Presence." Therefore, the cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night was this same "Shekinah glory, the feminine face of God." See PP 349, 584.

The revelation of this imagery has been hidden in the original Hebrew itself which includes both feminine and masculine genders as well as plural, as is the case with the title "God." "Let US make man(kind) in OUR image and after OUR likeness." Gen. 1:26. Not only does this strike a death blow to the theory of Evolution but homosexuality as well because evolution sets the stage for homosexuality by teaching that man has evolved and there is no difference between the species, including man. "The creation is all of one flesh which has evolved over billions of years from the lower forms up through the monkeys to what we are today," they say. Then you have theologians who teach that God did create the world, but not like Genesis says but over long periods of time. With these and other false assumptions Satan has been able to lead the masses on to believe that God is the one who is responsible for placing within men and women homosexual urges to mate with the same sex. Without the false teaching of evolution they could never get anyone to believe such a distortion of the truth. But the ground work was laid back in Constantine's day when he made the doctrine of three males in the trinity the official teaching and doctrine of the Christian church which was simply called "Catholic" which meant "universal." From this distortion of the doctrine of the godhead or godhood being a trinity of three males Satan was able to deceive them into elevating Mary to the status of a mediator, usurping the place of Jesus in the sanctuary who works in harmony with the Holy Spirit, the true Queen of heaven.

Now, let me insert here an e-mail message that I just wrote the other day which fits in here very well at this point regarding the coming of the false Messiah. I feel this is very important to understand before we continue on. Listen:

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Beloved friends...listen to me...if you don't remember anything else today, remember this and have faith and praise God for all things.

At any given time in the history of the universe, everything is happening just as it should. Is that awesome or what! Doesn't that expand upon Rom. 8:28 to the max and really explain it??? It surely does. I learned that little gem in 1990 when I was going through a terrible crisis and I will tell you that it saved my life.

Ok, I have just one more item to share re: Jerusalem which is going to be the center of all political and religious activity and turmoil in the days to come. It is in the news every day already but this is going to increase. In this article this Rabbi says that in AD 66...get this now...that in that year, and I believe the siege began in October of AD 66, that the Shekinah Glory departed from the Temple or Sanctuary and went over to the Mount of Olives and it stayed there for the next three and half years...waiting patiently for the Jewish nation to repent...just imagine...Can you imagine the suffering of God waiting for His/Her people to repent and say, "Oh, dear God we are so sorry that we have sinned and killed your only Son."

But they would not admit they had sinned and so they perished. I had never heard this story before. It is truly amazing. And then the Shekinah Glory departed off of the Mount of Olives after that three and half year period which would have taken them to the Spring of AD 70. And the Shekinah has never returned. How sad. But it is going to return to fill the heart, minds and lives of the FINAL ELECT (Little Company or Barley Group, aka Sons of God, Rom. 8:19) I think Josephus says that over a million Jews were trapped inside of Jerusalem when the siege first began. All of the true Christians escaped just before the seige began, because Titus came and then mysteriously withdrew in the fall of 66 AD, which was the sign or warning Jesus' had given that it was time to escape. After they escaped is when the Shekinah glory departed from the Sanctuary/Temple and went to the Mt. Olives and waited for the Jews to repent...three and half years.

This Rabbi says that the Shekinah glory is not of any gender but is an "it" or neuter. At least he believes that it is not male. I don't know why he does not tell the truth...that it is female. Everyone knows that the "Shekinah Glory" is the "FEMININE FACE OF GOD." But this is only the beginning of his deception. This man thinks that the Shekinah glory is going to return to the New Temple they are going to re-build over there in Jerusalem...Oh, is he ever wrong about that. What a deception. When they build that new temple over there Satan will come and claim to be the Messiah and then somehow, if God permits them to do it, Satan and men will make it appear that this same Shekinah glory that departed in AD 70 from the Mount of Olives will come back and go into this new temple. If they can pull off such a deception it is going to deceive the whole world and that is just what Matt. 24:24 predicts...that the whole world will be deceived...except for the elect. It is going to be so terrible my friends. And I think that they have perfected these holographic images to the point that it looks so real you cannot tell the difference. Only those who believe the true character of God message, that "GOD DOES NOT DESTROY" are going to escape this overwhelming deception. So, pray and try and study and understand.

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Now, let us continue on in our study with these things in mind and the terrible deceptions that will be coming when they rebuild that temple over there in Jerusalem.

The finishing of the mystery of God under the voice of the 7th Trumpet (Rev. 10:7 and 11:15) is a revelation of His glorious character of love which EGW clearly predicts is the final message of mercy which will be sent to the whole world. COL 414, 415. This is also the work of the angel of Rev. 18 which lightens the entire world with God's glory. Now, let us define the word "glory" as given in the Scriptures. "The woman is the GLORY of the man." I Cor. 11:7. In Isaiah 6 the young prophet had a vision of God's glory. "I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims:..and one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory." Isa. 6:1-3. Scroll forward in time 700 years to the book of Revelation. John is given a similar vision in Rev. 4. Here John looks and sees an open door which indicates important information is about to be imparted. He hears a voice like a trumpet talking to him telling him to "come up here, and I will show you things which must be hereafter." John then states that he was immediately in the spirit or in vision and the first thing he sees is this same throne scene which Isaiah saw in 758 B.C. "And, behold, a throne was set in heaven and One sat on the throne. (Father). And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald."

Colors are important so let's take a moment to analyze them. We know that colors have significance and meaning in every culture. For example, in our American culture baby boys are dressed in blue and baby girls in pink. So, we see how these colors identify gender...blue for the masculine and pink for the feminine. Perhaps some of you reading this can expand on this idea. This a.m. as I was reading in Daniel 10 I saw something I had not noticed before. Daniel thinks that the being who has come to help him is a man. The Hebrew word is Iysh pronounced eesh or Ish. The Hebrew word for woman is Isha. Why did Daniel think this angel was a man? Obviously because to his mortal eyes that was what this being looked like and so Daniel described him as such. But the matter is far from settled when we read Daniel's description of this angel who has already been identified in Dan. 9:21 as Gabriel. But let's look at vs. 6. "His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude." Dan. 10:6. This is a parallel description of Jesus in Rev. 1. But notice that Daniel said that this being's "body was like the beryl." Webster's defines beryl as "precious with ref. to gems. A feminine name." It is also defined as "sea green gem < Prakrit veruliya < ...a very hard, lustrous mineral that is a source of beryllium and that occurs in hexagonal crystals, usually blue, green, pink, or yellow in color: emerald and aquamarine are two gem varieties of beryl." Ezek 1:15-17 also mentions the color beryl in connection with his prophetic vision of the being who had four faces and four sides. In John's vision the person John saw sitting on the throne was "like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." Rev. 4:3, 4. As we already noticed, the color "emerald" are two gem varieties of beryl, specifically a "green variety of beryl." Emeraldo is also a woman's name. As we shall see, step by step, God's glory, His character is revealed in that Rainbow which has feminine colors. Remember the Bible says that a man's "glory" (character is His wife or woman). So, the female image or person of the Godhead is God's glory or His wife because in order for God the Father to have a son he would have to have a wife (Holy Spirit) if we are made in in His exact image as the Bible tells us we were.

"In the vision that came to Isaiah in the temple court, he was given a clear view of the character of the God of Israel. 'The high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy,' had appeared before him in great majesty; yet the prophet was made to understand the compassionate nature of his Lord...He (Isaiah) had caught a glimpse of the loveliness of the divine character. He could testify of the transformation wrought through beholding Infinite Love...The God whom they had been claiming to serve, but whose character they had misunderstood, was set before them as the great Healer of spiritual disease." Prophets and Kings, pg. 314.

Now for some SOP comments on Isaiah 6.

"As the prophet Isaiah beheld the glory (character) of the Lord, he was amazed, and overwhelmed with a sense of his own weakness and unworthiness...The vision given to Isaiah represents the condition of God's people in the last days. They are privileged to see by faith the work that is going forward in the heavenly sanctuary....as they look by faith into the holy of holies, and see the work of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary, they perceive that they are a people of unclean lips,--a people whose lips have often spoken vanity, and whose talents have not been sanctified and employed to the glory of God. Well may they despair as they contrast their own weakness and unworthiness with the purity and loveliness of the glorious character of Christ. But if they, like Isaiah, will receive the impression the Lord designs shall be made upon the heart, if they will humble their souls before God, there is hope for them. The bow of promise is above the throne, and the work done for Isaiah will be performed in them. God will respond to the petitions coming from the contrite heart. (RH Dec. 22, 1896). We all know that this "Bow of Promise" Isaiah saw is the same rainbow God gave to Noah after the flood, which we still see today after it rains. This is highly symbolic and we need to open our hearts and minds to receive it and understand it. There are many beautiful colors in the rainbow we see from time to time yet today and each color has a significance representing the perfect, harmonious and beautiful blending of the God family into one glorious promise of love and protection for all who, by faith, believe in the God family's goodness and power to save.

Now, let us compare this "Bow of Promise" with the promise Jesus made to His disciples.

THE SHEKINAH GLORY (feminine face of God) REVEALED TO ISAIAH.

SOP comments on Isaiah 6:1-8.

"Christ Himself was the Lord of the temple. When He should leave it, its (her) glory (Shekinah or feminine face of God) would depart--that glory once visible in the holy of holies over the mercy seat, where the high priest entered only once a year, on the great day of atonement, with the blood of the slain victim (a type which pointed forward to the sacrifice of the Son of God who would shed his blood for the sins of the world), and sprinkled it upon the altar. This was the Shekinah, the visible pavilion of Jehovah. It was this glory that was revealed to Isaiah..." [Isa. 6:1-8 quoted] (MS 71, 1897) SDA Bible Commentary, Volume 4, page 1139. Every time you see the word "glory" in the previous quote realize it is referring to the "Shekinah Glory" which is the feminine face of God. The comments inclosed in parenthesis are my comments.

"Shekhina (sh'khinah) is a Hebrew abstract noun derived from the Biblical term shakhan discussed above and means literally 'the act of dwelling.' These abstract nouns, constructed from the verbal root-letters with the added -AH suffix, have the FEMININE GENDER."

"...THE NOUN Shekhina had the FEMININE gender (shekhinta in Aramaic)...."

"A Talmudic discussion flatly equates God with the Shekhina...His tangible manifestation."

"The Hebrew Goddess," pp. 102, 1103, 104. But there is greater proof. Listen:

"In Kabbalah...The symbolism describing the Shekhinah is the most developed in kabbalistic literature...The basic elements of the kabbalistic concept of the Shekhinah are found in the earliest kabbalistic work, the Sefer ha-Bahir, where the Shekhinah, or Malkhut, is described as the DAUGHTER, the PRINCESS, the FEMININE principle in the world of the divine Sefirot...In the divine world it represents the FEMININE principle...the Kabbalistic tendency to discern a male and FEMALE element in the deity could not be suppressed. In fact, it remained an established doctrine that God consisted of (both) male and FEMALE components...As to the relation of the Kaballah to Christianity, it is maintained that this theosophy propounds the doctrine of the TRINITY (its true meaning) and the sufferings of the Messiah. Indeed, one Codex of the Zohar has the following remark or, the words 'Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts.' The first Holy refers to the Holy Father, the second to the Holy Son; and the third to the HOLY GHOST [Mother-Shekinah, feminine."-The Essenes, pp. 138, 140, by Ginsberg.

At the time the source material I had access to was written and put together in 1981, all that was known about the God family was that there were three members...a Father, a Son and a Holy Spirit and the 3rd member, the Holy Spirit was feminine. But, as we now know, present truth has built into it "progressive revelation."

We have already looked at Isaiah's vision of 758 BC at a time of deep apostasy and rebellion of God's professed people just before Israel (the ten tribes) were taken into captivity, scattered and lost to history, for all practical purposes. Some books have been written about this as to their identity today if anyone is interested. That is a good topic for another study. Let's go forward in time now 163 years to 595 BC. This is the year God chose to reveal His glory to a young 30 year old prophet-priest of the tribe of Judah. Beginning in vs. 4 of chapter 1 Ezekiel describes a "whirlwind" that "came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst there of as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man." A more accurate rendering of verses 4 and 5 is found in the NAS (New American Standard Version). "Within it there were figures resembling four living beings, And this was their appearance: they had human form."

In vs. 10 Ezekiel tells us that each of these four figures not only had human faces but "all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle." Through the centuries commentators have noted that "various ideas, such as: (1) The human face is the highest symbol of the Eternal; the lion, a symbol of sovereignty; the ox, also a kind of sovereignty, together with a natural symbol of strength made subservient to human uses; and the eagle, an emblem of kingly power." BC 4 576. If you will take time to read all 28 verses of chapter one you will find out that the same descriptions of these four creatures are identical to what Daniel and John attribute to Gabriel in Dan. 10 and Jesus in Rev. 1. I found it significant that in Rev. 4:6 John said "and in the center and around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind." John's description of the four living beings are the same except instead of an ox he said it looked like a calf. The point I would like to make here is that both Ezekiel, Daniel and John all give descriptions of the Almighty that are similar in regard to the voice being as the sound of a multitude and of the sound of abundant waters. In fact, Ezekiel says that the voice was "Like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp." Ezek. 1:24. Ok, that is sufficient to make my point, which is, the four living beings represent God Himself, not as a Trinity or as three beings or persons, but as four. Now, what does this mean? It means we need to try and identify the fourth being in the Godhead.

Let's begin with what we already know, which is, that there is a Father and a Son and because of Gen. 1:26 we also know that there is a female entity or a Mother figure in the Godhead. But because God created both genders, that is, a male and a female in the exact image of the God family and John 1:1-3 and Heb. 1:1-3 indicates that Jesus was the person through whom the Father created the worlds and Adam and Eve, in their very image, then the Son had to also have a female counter-part who would be the mother of Eve, in whose image and likeness she was created. Likewise, Adam was created in the very likeness and image of Jesus. Read Proverbs 8:22-25 for an auto-biographical sketch of this female entity who calls herself "Wisdom," who claims to have been "brought forth," or "begotten" just as Jesus was begotten. It is only logical that there would be a female being in the Godhead because if Adam and Eve were made in the very likeness and image of the Godhead or God family then you could not have a son without a mother. But who is the fourth member? For an important clue let us go to Song of Solomon 4:1-9. Here the Bridegroom is speaking to his bride which we have always thought of as the church. Notice in vs. 9 he refers to her as "my sister, my bride." NAS. In KJV it is "My sister, my spouse." Next let us go to John 1:1-3. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being." Paul says something quite similar in Hebrews 1:1, 2: "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world."

So, here we have two New Testament writers saying the same thing...that God made all things, including this world, and He did it through Jesus, His Son. Now, here is where pure logic helps us again. In Gen. 1:26 we read that mankind or Adam and Eve were made in the exact image and likeness of their Creators (plural). So, here is God the Father and His spouse (Holy Spirit or Queen of Heaven) creating Adam and His spouse (Eve) through Jesus and His Sister-bride. Song of Solomon 4:9 and 5:1. Does that make sense? It does once you study it all out and realize the Scriptural backing and logic of it all. We have already noted that Gabriel told Daniel no one was equal with "her" except Michael whom we know to be Jesus Christ. EGW agrees with that point...that Michael is Christ. But just try and convince someone from a different faith that Michael is Christ and see what kind of an angry reaction you get. There is someone with a very angry spirit who does not want people to know that Michael and Jesus are the same...why? Because it is the first clue that sets off the investigation to find out who that other angel is in the Bible...the only other angel in the Bible who has a name beside Michael, the Arch angel. And of course, I am speaking of Gabrielle, whom I also believe is the angel of Rev. 18:1-4. Friend of mine, let us just look at it logically. If Adam and Eve were created in the exact image and likeness of their Creators and Jesus is the One whom the Father used to create us then Jesus would have to have a female partner just like Adam had Eve. Otherwise, they would not have been in the exact image and likeness as Gen. 1:26 plainly states.

"The tabernacle was erected in order that the Shekinah might dwell on earth (Num. R. xii.), and it (SHE) actually entered the Holy of Holies...Wheresoever the Israelites went in exile the Shekinah accompanied them; and when they were redeemed it likewise was released...the Shekinah appeared as physical light; so that Targ. to Num. vi 2 says, 'Yhwh shall cause His Shekinah to shine for thee." -The Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 11, p. 260.

"The descent of the Shekhinah upon man and its dwelling among man is conceived by Rosenzweig as a separation which occurs in God Himself. God descends and suffers with His people, wandering with them in exile. At the end, it is God who suffers the most, and the remnant of Israel who bear His sorrow. Most important is Rosenzweig's notion that the purpose of the mitzvot is to unify God and His Shekhinah." Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 14, p. 1353.

This is an incredible thought that sin and His birth in Bethlehem and death on the cross not only separated Jesus from His Father and Mother but from His wife...His sister-spouse. And the way they are to be re-united is for the human race, beginning with the Little Barley Company, to be totally filled with the Holy Ghost and to be translated up to the wedding feast ... the Marriage Supper of the Lamb when He is re-united with His beloved "hermana-esposa." What an awesome thought and a holy motive to strive with all of our might to be filled with the Spirit of God so we might stop His sufferings.--I think that this is enough for this first article on this topic.

THE WAR AGAINST THE FEMALE GENDER OF THE RACE? WHY?

From the beginning of time there has been a war against the female gender of the human race. Since I am not a woman, I cannot be labled as a biased reporter or investigator. In fact, I have had as many females hurt my feelings as the average man, maybe more if I go back far enough to my teenage and college days when I asked girls out for dates and got rejected. Be that as it may; I have chosen to investigate and write about this for other, more personal reasons. So, what is my motive or interest in researching and writing about this very controversial subject?

Well, it is highly personal, because it involves my belief and relationship with my God, the Creator, and with Jesus Christ, whom I believe to be the Son of God and Saviour of the whole world as well as my own soul. For the last 24 + years I have been trying to vindicate the character of God...to prove that Jesus, nor His Father has ever hurt or killed anyone. I have done this at the leading and request of Jesus Himself who began speaking directly to me in my mind very clearly in May of 1977. And I have not failed to listen to or obey and follow that voice. My love for my Lord and Saviour knows no bounds. So, when this new topic was just recently brought to my attention, that El Shaddai, the Hebrew title for the name "God Almighty" or "the Almighty God," I told the Lord. Why is this important? Help me to understand this Lord. And so He has and now I am going to share with you what He has led me to know up to now. First of all, This title or name (El Shaddai) is first introduced in the story of Abraham as we read in Gen. 17:1. "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."

When it was pointed out to me that this "'Almighty God," the El Shaddai of the Old Testament is also the same as the "Almighty Breasted One" my mouth dropped open and I did a double take...like "What did you just say??" The Almighty God who revealed Himself to Abraham is a Her, not a Him??? A woman??? Man, you have got to be kidding. Well, that was not quite as bad as the reaction I got two days ago when a friend of mine, whom I have been e-mailing my research to little by little, shared this "wonderful news" with a man she had met in some chat room. She is married by the way, but basically immobile in a wheelchair and spends a lot of time in chat rooms trying to help people. Well, this man's reaction to the idea that there is a female aspect to the God head was, "What is this satanic trash you are peddling? Saying that God is a woman?" I answered his e-mail by asking him if that was his normal personality or if he was just having a bad day to see if he had the courage to answer me when I confronted him on his inappropriate behaviour. Then I went on to explain a little bit about why I believe this. He replied something to the effect that I had hurt his feelings and to just "leave me alone." This is a familiar phrase of the evil spirits in the New Testament I told her, which she verified a few hours later with another lady who had run into this same fellow in a chat room. "That guy has a lot of evil spirits." In spite of that I have been able to communicate with him since then on a different level and hopefully he will someday be willing to listen to the character message.

But this man's reaction immediately alerted me to the realization that I was onto a topic that the demons really hate and are terrified of...maybe as much or more so than the idea that "God Does Not Kill." Believe it or not, this really gave me a lot of encouragement...a shot in the arm, so to speak but I knew that I was on the right track. My motive now has been to dove tail this topic into the main theme of God's character. From the first time I heard about the idea that there is a female aspect to the God head my first thought was, "Well, I have already been able to prove that God the Father has never hurt or killed anyone against a lot of opposition, but this should be a lot easier to prove because who would want to believe that a mother would want to kill her own children, even when they disobey and are naughty?" The idea of a "Mother God of Israel" seemed like a topic that would be easier to prove. Isa. 49:15.

One of the things I was especially interested in proving was that the original Hebrew supported this idea of a female deity in the God head. The very documentation I needed showed up last night and I want to share some of it with you. For example, there are four Hebrew words which are translated God, two of them are singular, and two of them are pluarl. The two singular ones are el and eloah. The two plural ones elim, and elohim. When the plural word elohim is applied to the true God of Israel it is traditionally translated simply as God , singular. Yet, when the exact same word is applied to a false god, it is gods, plural, which is in fact, the only true or correct translation. So, here we can plainly see that when the Bible was translated (all by males by the way) that from the very start there was this male chauvinist motive to purposely mistranslate any reference to God that would indicate a feminine aspect to the deity or idea of God was resident in the original Hebrew language in which the Holy Bible was originally written. So, here we have a very major cover-up by the male species of the race. Let me give you a prime example of this purposeful mistranslation at the very beginning of the Bible itself. In the original Hebrew Genesis 1:1 actually reads: "In the beginning Gods (elohim-plural)...," yet it reads simply God (singular, in most English translations. I have not had time to check this out with all of translations but will do so eventually.

Now, if this in and of itself, was the only blunder and major inconsistency by the translators we might be able to try and explain it away or just forget about it. But no, that is not the case. I have learned that the feminine gender resident and evident in the original Hebrew is consistently and continually disregarded in spite of the fact that it is there as plainly as his and her in the English. EGW (Ellen G. White) has made this profound statement about the language the Old Testament was written in. "Hebrew was cultivated to be the most sacred tongue in the world." FE "Fundamentals of Christian Education." Page 97. What this means is simply that we should be able to discover in this original Hebrew, the most sacred language/tongue in the world, a very clear revelation and assignment of gender, male and female both, in the words el (masculine), and eloah (feminine). It is truly amazing that even though the singular masculine "El" is consistently translated according to its number and gender, the singular feminine, "ELOAH", is never translated with its appropriate feminity, even when used of a pagan diety (Daniel 11:38). The correct rendering would be Goddess, not God. "But in his estate shall he honor the God of forces: and a godess (not god) whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things." Dan. 11:38.

As we think about the time frame of history, 14th to the 16th centuries, during which the Bible was brought forth first from the Latin and later from both the Hebrew and Greek we realize that the people were not ready to receive this particular revelation about the God family. Why? Because males had dominated the world completely since the birth of Christ. The finishing of the revelation of the mystery of God would have to be accomplished in stages. And that is what has been happening. As I look back on how God has revealed the character of God to me I can see His great wisdom. In the fall of 1976 He led me first into an understanding of the basic idea that "God does not destroy." That revelation alone created major changes in my life. That was all I could handle at that time. The next level of understanding did not come until three years later regarding the animal sacrifice system. God never commanded the killing of animals. This led into the 3rd level of understanding which was the fact that there are two Gods or deities operating in the Old Testament and whole Bible. The fourth level was not revealed to my mind until 1985-86, which was God's plan to restore all things. This meant that His entire creation would be brought back and saved, even Sodom as we read in Ezek. 16:53. "When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters,.." Oh, I did not accept that idea right away. Oh, no. It took a few weeks and months but I finally came to understand and accept it. And so it has been with all the other topics the Lord has allowed me to learn and discover. Each has come according to His/Her perfect timing.

El Shaddai - The Breasted One, or Who's that Lady?

Psalm 87; Galatians 4:26; Revelation 12

DEFINITIONS

The Hebrew word shaddai comes from the root word 'breast'. Literally translated it would mean 'many-breasted one'.

There are two roots for the word: first is to be powerful and second is breast or nourisher and sustainer. The O.T. uses this form 48 times.

The word "Almighty" is translated from the Hebrew Shaddai, which, according to Hebraists, is a plural word.

We know who this person is. The "breasted one" with "peaks" is a real person, not a mountain as some assert, although mountains are part of the allegory. "El" is a reference for God. "Shad" means the breast. All mothers use them to suckle their young. When God said, "Let us make man in our image and likeness," He was communing with His Wife! El Shaddai refers to Her oneness with Her Husband and Her position as co-head of the Family. Mother is revealed in Proverbs 8 and the first part of Proverbs 9. Mother Wisdom is the Mother of the living. Wisdom is an initiate in the creations, Wisdom of Solomon 7:21-29. Enoch wrote about Her in Secrets of Enoch XXV. There She is parabolized as "Adoil" having a belly full of "children of light". All infants are housed in the mother's womb where development takes place. In Psalm 87 where God says of Mother Zion, "This man and that man (any man and all men) was born in Her" , He is referring to what happened to Her as "Adoil". He concludes in that Psalm saying, "All my (off) springs are in thee" meaning all my sons and daughters were created in your belly. One of Her works is to exalt Her sons, Sirach 1:1-15, 4:11-18 . All of this happened before God rested from His labors in the beginning.

Isa 25:6 And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations. 8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken [it]. Commenting about this in Psalm 82:6-8, the Creator states, "I said, Ye are gods and all of you are children of the Most High". Because we know the way we go and our destination as exemplified in Jesus' crucifixion, when He adds, "but ye shall die as men", we no longer view death as an intimidating threat. Death is the designated door leading to eternity. It has no sting and the grave is a sign of a man's personal VICTORY! Hosea 13:14; "What is man that thou art mindful of him"? We are placed on the lesser Earth and "crowned with glory and honor", Hebrews 2:6-8. We are the little "images" of the Most High God, His beloved sons and daughters, the apples of His eyes and clay-bound angels! Our Father is El Jah and our Mother is El Shaddai!

Why is this El Shaddai significant? Not only because it establishes important facts about Wisdom's name and God's wife. Consider the abominations going on out there in the world - the homosexuality, the lesbianism, the transvestite behavior - people do not believe that "what God has created is forever", Ecclesiastes 3:14. Male and female roles are fixed eternally. The world of spiritual "Babylon and Sodom and Gomorrah" does not believe this and mixes genders indiscriminately. Christians add to the problem by claiming that ultimately "we will become like angels", i.e. NEUTERED. This is due to their ignorance about angels.

Wisdom/Shaddai is the first Being of God's creations Proverbs 8:12-34 and is the form and pattern for all of Her daughters. God will not undo Her, neither will He undo any one of Her daughters! Therefore it is important to establish Her identity for all time (and each woman's), as God must do as stated in Psalm 87.

When Gabriel visited Mary to tell her of Jesus' birth, he said, "The power of the Almighty will overshad you". Mary birthing Jesus is the image of Adoil (El Shaddai) conceiving us. Over-SHAD -owing ... God/El "over" Shaddai to birth us. Male and Female forever.

Here is a letter from an old friend who knew that I was researching on the subject of Gabriel and sent me this e-mail. She is the one who told me about this Hebrew expert whose e-mails you are about to read which will confirm all that I have written in this article so far. I did not edit her e-mail.

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Subj: Re: A little more info on Michael and Gabriel.
Date: 11/29/00 1:56:52 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: Frostings
To: MCLUTE777

You know, when i first got into this... i had emails and lots of things to do..... now, i am only involved with this subject. and i love it!!!!!! i met rivka last year trying to find a sda/jewish church. i had wanted to learn what was already surfacing. namely the heavenly family. and prov.8.. wisdom, and who wisdom really is. so my name was passed around until finally rivka called me. we must have talked for 2 hrs. long distance. i realized that she is a lady of much knowledge. the rest is history. she is sooooooooo busy!!! one hardly has a chance to talk with her. i have cut out all unnecessary business. This is all i am doing nowdays. :) M.

QUESTION I SENT TO A HEBREW SISTER TO SEE IF SHE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS TOPIC I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON

From: MCLUTE777

Dear M. and Sister: Am going to write to both of you while I have time as I have a lot of packages to do. Anyway, I really need to have any kind of proof you have that Jesus has a sister and I don't know what you believe the Sister's name is...so I need to know that. But, the only way I can remotely prove that Christ Jesus had a sister and a twin sister at that, is the following: Song of Solomon 4:9 and 5:1 where the Bridegroom, (Jesus) speaks to his bride as "my sister, my spouse." Traditionally, this has been thought of as Christ speaking to His bride...the Christian church, whom He is preparing by perfecting them through various trials, etc. But, a friend of mine in Penn. has told me that Jesus has a twin sister. So, I began praying and thinking about this. The only way I could even remotely prove such an idea would be to do the same thing I did with the mother idea. We know that the Queen of heaven in the OT was a counterfeit, Jere. 44. The Jews worshiped her. This was Astarte, Asereth and Diana of the Ephesians. Today we know that Mary, the Queen of heaven, is also a counterfeit. The Catholics have done that, now the NWO has also killed Princess Diana so they could make her into another Goddess. Since you are an SDA you know that the dead don't come back and talk to us as the Bible clearly teaches us that "The dead know not anything." Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10. Ps. 6:5, 146:4; Job 14:21. But through spiritualistic deceptions, Satan and his angels will use Mary (Jesus' physical mother) and now Princess Diana to appear to people all over the earth, which she is already doing and later, through modern technologies such as holographic images, they will project images of Mary and Diana in the clouds and use them to deceive the people into thinking that this is really Jesus come again to earth. Yes, my beloved children, this is my Son and I want you to listen to Him because if you don't you are all going to die because the Father is very angry at all of you, etc. EGW has already told us much of this in her writings. We know that Tamuz and Ishtar were brother and sisters...probably twins...who went down into the bowels of the earth every fall or autumn and made love down into the center of the earth and then, according to the ancient pagan beliefs, Ishtar brought forth or birthed spring. This is the counterfeit and where there is a counterfeit (like Mary and Diana counterfeiting the true Mother image of God who is the Rainbow in Isa 6 and Shekinah glory, Mother and Daughter) then this Tamuz and Ishtar is also a counterfeit of Jesus and His sister whom I try and prove in my article is Gabriel (Gabrielle) who gave messages to Daniel or explained the visions and gave him much more info about the end time like Jesus did John in the Revelation and Dan. 10 gives a description of Gabriel which is the same almost exactly the same as Christ among the candlesticks. Ok, I need to send this before I lose it as we are live here on line. Your friend, Mike. Her answer follows.

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ANSWER TO MY QUESTION....WHICH REALLY SHOCKED ME BUT MADE ME VERY HAPPY AND EXCITED. I JUST HAD TO SEND YOU THIS INFO TO SHARE WITH YOU AND GET YOUR FEED BACK MY FRIENDS. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS???

To: MCLUTE777

Shalom Mike,

I agree that Gabrielle is Y'shua's bride and sister. That is a common belief among the Jews that Gabrielle is female and Michael is male and are maybe twins. I do believe that the Ruach Ha Kodesh (the Holy Spirit) is female and is the glory of G-d. I will go to Synagogue and pull up what I can to help you. I am a Jewish Orthodox SDA. I live in the Jewish community (the Black Hats) and was raised as a Lubavitch. I feel l have come to know Mashiach Y'shua will also be exposed. You see we are not in fear just waiting for HaShem G-d to reveal the time to stand up for Mashiach(Messiah). That time will be when Anti-Mashiah appears. I feel like Esther you might say. waiting for part 2.

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Subj: Something for you to start with:
Date: 11/23/00 12:39:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
To: MCLUTE777

Shalom Mike,

Here is something for you to start with on the concept of El Shaddai. I do not know if you are aware of it or not but in Hebrew 101 you learn the Alphabet the first letter is Alef and the second letter is Beyt now the name Eloheim starts with the letter of Alef and B'El Shaddai starts with the letter Beyt. Look in the hebrew Bible and you will find that El Shaddai does not start with the letter Alef, but instead with the letter Beyt so the Name is "B'El Shaddai" you will see it is what you will find. What is the reasoning behind this? It is that B'El Shaddai is second to Eloheim. This is feminine to mean G-d the breasted one. Another example of this would be if you read the first line in the Bible in Genesis "Barsheyth Bara Eloheim" "In the beginning G-d Created" Notice the first line of the Torah Tells us about who Created and notice the first word starts out with the letter Beyt in the word "Barsheyth". Why? Because Creation is second to the giving of Torah The Law on Mt. Sinai. The 10 Commandments starts out "Ani Hu Adonai Eloheim" "I am the L-rd your G-d" and the word "Ani" starts with the letter Alef which is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. So as you can see the Creation is second to the 10 Commandments which is First. So that means 10 Commandments are more important than Creation. Just like Eloheim is first and B'El Shaddai is second to Eloheim. So as you can see Eloheim is First and there is no other greater than He.

I am praying to let G-d show me where to begin with this....I will write as I get the impression where G-d wants me to show you. I hope that you understand all this that I wrote. Keep praying. Peace unto you...

G-d Bless you,

Rivka

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From: MCLUTE777
Subject: Re: A little more info on Michael and Gabriel.
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:03:36 EST

I just looked up in the Strong's concordance and it is #1403...Gabriy'el (Gab-ree-ale) 1397 & 410 "man of God; Gabriel, an archangel.

Young's Concordance says it means, "GOD IS MIGHTY." So, this could also mean "The Almighty God," which is the same as her Mother---"The Mighty God" or "The Almighty God," which is El Shaddai. Gen. 17:1..."The Almighty God," the Almighty breasted One. And we know that "Shad" or "Chad" means breast.

You have helped me a lot tonight. This a big breakthrough. God bless you richly.

Amen. Mike.

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Subj: Re: A little more info on Michael and Gabriel.
Date: 11/25/00 10:52:36 PM Pacific Standard Time
To: MCLUTE777

I JUST CALLED A FRIEND WITH HER CONCORDANCE...STRONG'S, OF COURSE. AND SHE SAID THE ROOT FROM #1397 IS #1403 AND #1404 AND #1376 WHICH LEADS YOU RIGHT BACK TO #1397. A RULE OF HEBREW IS TO TAKE ALL THE ROOT WORD IN FOCUS OR ELSE YOU MISS THE WHOLE MEANING OF THE HEBREW WORD. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT GABRIEL IS WOMAN NOT A MAN. SHE IS OF AUTHORITY BECAUSE OF HER FATHER JUST LIKE Y'HOSHUA IS OF AUTHORITY FROM THE FATHER WHO IS G-D THE FATHER BLESSED BE HIS NAME. BARUK HASHEM!

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Another person says that in the NT the daughter is The Holy Ghost and the Mother is The Holy Spirit. But I don't know how to prove that. Little by little. I am going to have to go to a big library and to some Jewish temples and write some places...don't know what else to do...But that does not mean I don't want you to keep helping me...I really need your help...You have helped me a lot tonight. This a big breakthrough. God bless you richly.

Amen. Mike.

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Subj: Re: A little more info on Michael and Gabriel.
Date: 11/25/00 10:41:16 PM Pacific Standard Time
To: MCLUTE777

CHECK OUT THE WORD "GABREE" MEANS MISTRESS OR MISTRESS LADY AND IS FEMININE. GABREE IS THE ROOT OF GABRIEL AND IT IS MY DEAR FRIEND, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THAT CHANGED THE NAME OF GABRIEL TO BE MORE MASCULINE. IF YOU TAKE THE ROOT OF GABRIEL AND LOOK AT THE PRONUNCIATION OF IT, IT IS FEMININE WHICH CORRECTLY TRANSLATED WOULD BE MIGHTY "LADY OF G-D" AND YOU WILL SEE AND ASK THE QUESTION WHY GABREE WOULD BE THE ROOT OF GABRIEL AND BE TRANSLATED AS "MAN OF G-D INSTEAD OF LADY OF G-D?" STRONG'S AND GOOD OLD KING JAMES WAS STILL CATHOLIC INFLUENCED AND RELIGION WAS MALE DOMINATED. YES THAT IS WHAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING. GO AND LOOK INTO THE BOOKS I RECOMMENDED TO YOU. I HAVE SOMETHING REALLY BIG COMING TO YOU BUT I HAVE TO FINISH IT, MEANWHILE G-D HAS BEEN SAYING GROUND FIRST THEN GO UP. --Rivka.

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