Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2 (Preparing for God's Paradise) by Felix Wantang

FACE TO FACE MEETINGS WITH JESUS CHRIST 2

FACE TO FACE MEETINGS WITH JESUS CHRIST 2 Preparing for God’s Paradise

FELIX WANTANG

Published by Felix Wantang

This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

ISBN: 978-0-9938744-1-3

This book is also available in print at most online retailers.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014906489

God bless you and thank you for taking the time to read this book. Before you proceed, make sure you have your Holy Bible beside you. All Biblical references were taken from the New International Version of the Holy Bible.

Lord Jesus Christ, I love you with all my heart

hen you live life like you have absolute control of the future, you are basically making yourself the master of your destiny. It is self-worship and a complete mockery of the cross of Jesus Christ. God made Jesus Christ a constant component of humanity; when you make Jesus Christ a variable, the equation of your life sums up to zero. If you truly love Jesus Christ, this book will bring you to the place where your salvation is completely sealed in his mighty name. If you are ready to learn from him then let the supernatural spiritual ride to enrich your soul begin; have fun reading. Jesus loves you!

Dedicated to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

eavenly Father, I thank you for the wonderful gift of my lovely family: My wife Jacqueline; and my children Felix Junior, Malcolm, Mahalah, Matthew, Chioma, and Amarachi. I also thank you for bringing Kathleen, Hayley, and Mia into my life.

CONTENTS

My Prayer ............................................................................................................... vii Prayer Request......................................................................................................... ix Acknowledgement.....................................................................................................x Introduction ........................................................................................................... xiii Chapter 1: The Battle of the Holy Trinity ............................................................1 Why Satan Tempted Jesus Christ........................................................................1 Your Spiritual Job Description .........................................................................10 God’s Template of the World ...........................................................................11 Temptation Number One ..................................................................................13 Temptation Number Two..................................................................................17 Temptation Number Three................................................................................30 Summary of the Three Temptations..................................................................37 The Sins of the World .......................................................................................38 The Gift of Temptation .....................................................................................45 Chapter 2: Preparing for the Mission .................................................................48 The Last Passover Lamb ...................................................................................48 Dreams ..............................................................................................................57 The Ten Commandments-Prayer ......................................................................59 Chapter 3: The Birth of Jesus Christ ..................................................................68 John the Baptist.................................................................................................68 The Supernatural Conception............................................................................69 The First Disciples ............................................................................................78 The Second Adam .............................................................................................82 Chapter 4: God’s Blueprint..................................................................................87 Why Jesus started at the Age of Thirty .............................................................87 The First Two Miracles of Healing...................................................................91

Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man ...............................................................94 Marah ................................................................................................................96 Supernatural Spiritual Flavor ..........................................................................102 Divine Number 12...........................................................................................107 Chapter 5: Spiritual Mandate ............................................................................120 Receiving the Holy Spirit................................................................................120 The Laws of God.............................................................................................127 Authority and Power .......................................................................................131 Satan................................................................................................................139 God and Money...............................................................................................144 Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prescription for Fallen Greedy Pastors.................................................157 Congratulations!..............................................................................................158 My Dream .......................................................................................................158 About the Author ............................................................................................159 Other Books by Felix Wantang.......................................................................160 Value Index ..........................................................................................................161

MY PRAYER

ord Jesus Christ, I thank you for holding my hand along this wonderful journey; I ask you to prepare me for what you are about to teach me each day. Father in Heaven, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; most merciful God, my unbeatable God, and my source of everything; Father I thank you for your glory, your mercy, your grace, your compassion, and your peace which surpasses all understanding. Thank you for the wonderful gift of your son Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. Father, I thank you for everything you’ve done, for everything you are doing, and for everything you are about to do in my life, in the lives of my children, and my household. Thank you for creating us in your own image and for giving us life through your glory. I pray for my Dad John; I also pray for my brothers and sisters: Lucy, Martin, Linus, Patrick, Emmanuel, Augustine, Stella, Christine, Esther, and Martha. I pray for all orphans, the fatherless, the motherless, the poor, the needy, the homeless, those who are oppressed, those who are being enslaved, those who are falsely accused, those who have been abandoned, those who have been rejected, those who have been abused, and those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. I also thank you for what you are doing in the lives of all those who consider me their enemy and those who are doing the wonderful work of your glory. Father I pray for your chosen people of Israel and your Holy city of Jerusalem; I pray for the leaders of this world and their families. I pray for the children you’ve brought into the world today; give their parents the strength, spiritual wisdom, and love to raise them for your son’s glory. I pray for all those who are struggling to navigate through life. Father I thank you for all the blessings you’ve deposited upon me; I ask you to show me the right way to use them wisely to glorify your name, give you honor, thanks, and praise all the days of my life. I pray for all children across the nations of the world and those who are battling with terminal illness. I pray for the souls you’ve called home today. I also pray for all those who humbly call upon your mighty name in prayer; hear their cry for help, grant them the desires of their hearts as you fulfill your glory by showing them your way. Mighty Father, I ask you all these and thank you because I trust and will always trust and rely on you alone all the days of my life

vii

through your son Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit as one God, forever and ever. Amen â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Amen â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and Amen.

viii

PRAYER REQUEST I will love to pray for you; please send your prayer request to: ftfmeetingswithjesuschrist@gmail.com Peace, be with you in Jesus name.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

do not take credit for the contents of this book; rather, I give glory, honor, and praise to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for making me a part of this wonderful revelation to the world. This book does not necessarily make me a holy man or a special individual before Jesus Christ; neither does it set me apart from the rest of humanity. I will still face judgment like everyone else on that day when we will all stand before him to account for our lives. Without him I will be a lost soul just like everyone else who lacks his presence; but with him and in him, I am able to take each step that gradually brings me to that place where I will one day rest in his arms as I leave the painful struggles of this sinful world. After he published the first book, with no regrets for taking this journey with him, I was finally very excited that I will now have some time to recuperate my sleep. I was looking forward to sleeping for at least six or seven hours each day; but to my surprise, that excitement was short-lived. As soon as the first book was published, eight days later he showed up and asked me to start writing the second book. Notwithstanding that in the process of writing Book One he persistently woke me up between 3.00 and 3.30 A.M, he did not show any signs of changing the schedule for Book Two. When he started this book with the same schedule, my major concern was getting up as early as 3.30 A.M and still go to work each day (five days a week) to complete an eight-hour shift. I remember complaining to him about it and his response was, “Let me worry about that.” I don’t know if I was deaf or just playing stupid because after we had that conversation, he showed up the next evening and told me to write down something, just one simple statement and I said to him: “I will write it down later.” I said that because I just got home from work, very tired, and I was getting ready to give my little children a bath; this is something I usually enjoy doing every day as soon as I get home from work. Later that evening as my kids were playing in the basement, I went into the office to write the information but when I picked up a pen and a note pad, I couldn’t remember a thing; I was very disturbed because he just spoke to me less than two hours ago. How can anybody suffer from such a memory blackout within a short period? It was like somebody literarily erased the statement from my memory. The next morning when he woke me up at 3.30 A.M I asked him to repeat the statement to me but he refused. Instead, he started talking about something else and I knew that it had nothing to do with what was erased from my memory because what he talked about that morning was in response to a question that I asked him a couple x

of days earlier. I apologized for my arrogance, stupidity, laziness, disobedience, and ignorance; I was relieved when he said, “It’s alright let’s move on.” It reminded me of what makes Jesus very welcoming and the depth of his profound love to rescue us from our human weakness and insatiable desire for rebellion. I guess my problem and biggest mistake was that sometimes in a relationship we all come to that place where we become too comfortable with the situation to the point where we fail to recognize the attributes of the individual that is involved in the relationship. We tend to lose focus of what the relationship is all about. I was becoming too comfortable and I needed some adjustment to slap me back into position. I learnt my lesson and I vowed that I will do whatever it takes to not bring myself back to that situation again because I was being stupid trying to argue with him. If at some point in your life God tells you to pick the most important moment you have spent in life because He wants to give you the opportunity to experience it again, what will you pick? Chances are nobody will pick moments related to long suffering with pain, agony, rejection, abandonment, torture, grief or shame. While we spend time trying to come up with occasions when we felt like life was really good, God on the other hand is not looking for that. The truth is God doesn’t use any of those happy moments to add value to our lives; they were memorable moments for us not because our souls came very close to Him; we love those moments because we had fun. Too often we spend a lot of time contemplating on the things of this world that when God decides to draw us closer to Him by throwing a storm in our path, we miss the whole picture. Our minds are so saturated with the world around us that we fail to remember the very simple advice Jesus gave us before he died on the cross. “What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:26. When Jesus walked on this planet, not even the best economist or psychologist in human history could tell the difference in social class between him and his disciples. Looking at the institution he built with his blood on the cross, what good is the church to Jesus Christ when more than 90% of its leaders live in luxury while more than 85% of Christians live in poverty? The saddest part of this picture is that the bulk of this luxury lifestyle is funded through exploited contributions from those who live in poverty. As a blueprint from heaven, what happened to the twelve men who followed Jesus for three years with no bank accounts, no luxury wagons or cars, no private jets, no expensive mansions, and no financial investments? All the teachings of Jesus Christ were in relation to God’s existing law. Unlike the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, Jesus did not spend time teaching and dissecting the principles of God’s law for our selfish gains. Instead, he used a systematic approach to bring us to the deeper practical applications of the law. One of the major problems facing the

church today is that so much time is spent refining the principles of God’s law to please the congregation. While the church persistently pushes the practical applications aside because they conflict with our selfish desires, it explains why Jesus on the other hand is disappointed with the church. In the days of Noah in a world full of people only eight were saved, in another world full of people only Job was considered righteous enough to be used to humiliate Satan, and in a city (Sodom and Gomorrah) full of people only Lot’s household was saved. Out of these three scenarios, it is absolutely indisputable that our current world, deeply immersed in a downward irrevocable self-destructive spiritual spiral, is nothing but a carbon copy of Sodom and Gomorrah. When Jesus comes back, the number of people who will be saved will not require an electronic calculator; it will be pretty easy to count because the church for the most part has completely lost its way. The number will be less than 3% of humanity that will make it to God’s Paradise in Heaven. We live in the most dangerous spiritual moments in human history. As millions flock to antichrist churches erected in almost every part of the world to promote the devil’s agenda, I want every God-fearing Christian to understand one very important truth: Jesus Christ is still in control and will always be in control with all authority and power that sustains life through eternity. The gates of Satan and the dark world will never overcome the true church of Jesus Christ. “I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.” Matthew 16:18. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.” John 14:1. The time has come for the true church of Jesus Christ to hold on fast to the word of God deeply rooted in the Holy Bible. Jesus never fails!

xii

INTRODUCTION

ost evenings after dinner on weekends, it is common practice for families across North America and most parts of the world to gather everybody downstairs in the basement or family room with some snacks or popcorn and some drinks to watch a movie as everybody looks forward to an enjoyable evening. As the movie plays along, everybody wants to fast forward the commercial breaks because all we care is to go back to the movie; we have no tolerance for commercial breaks. It is true that most commercial breaks are very loud and annoying even though corporations pay millions of dollars to make them appealing to us. As we go through life, there are moments when difficult times show up without warning and we suddenly feel like time is on a slow motion as we spend each day wondering when it will be over. We pray for everything around us to move quickly because we just can’t wait for each agonizing day to be over. The excruciating pain we face each day appears to be unbearable as we slowly begin to wonder “Am I going to make it?” These moments are like the commercial breaks we just talked about in the movie as we gather around to enjoy a quiet evening. Any attempt to fast forward the movie is definitely not an option especially if we are having a good time from watching it. On the other hand, common remote control buttons like pause, rewind, and slow motion are all possible options. The truth is we actually pray for time to move slowly because we don’t want the movie to be over yet. We always use the same approach when we embrace the good times in life because we hope and pray that they last forever; we look forward to a replay of all the good times we had in the past. The problem with virtually everything we classify as good times is that we never take a minute to pause and ask ourselves, “What made it a good time?” Was it because of how we felt or was it because of what we got out of it? Was it good for our soul or our flesh? The truth is almost everything we group as good times on earth has nothing to do with our soul. They all have something to do with our flesh. Jesus did not die on the cross for your flesh to have a good time; he died on the cross to save your soul. As much as God loves us and made all things for us, His priority is not our happiness; His priority is your soul at all times because the flesh is one thing that will

xiii

always try to pull us away from God’s objective. As insatiable creatures living in a sinful world, we have come to master two distinctive aspects of life:  When life is hard, time appears to move slowly.  When life is good, time appears to move faster. As much as these theories have a strong hold in the human mind, the practical movement of time actually never changes because there are still twenty four hours that make up each day. God psychologically accelerates the good times just like you fast forward the painful commercial breaks because to Him, what we call the good times, are actually not the most important part of your life. He deliberately slows down the hard times because it is through moments like these that He uses to teach you His ways, empower you, and prepare you for the challenges ahead. It is out of the difficult times that God carves out your destiny to reveal your next step in the journey He mapped out for you the day you were formed in your mother’s womb. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139:13-16. If the good times were more important to God then everybody with the tools to live a good life especially rich people, will be far closer to God than everyone else. God loves you and for that reason decided to give His only son Jesus Christ to save your soul. One of the most fascinating approaches that God used to expose His son Jesus Christ to the world was the ability of Jesus to perform all kinds of miracles including raising the dead when he was on earth. As much as many people came to believe in Jesus Christ through the outcome of miracles, we should not forget that miracles are in no way the defining element of our salvation. Every miracle Jesus performed in the Bible was part of God’s plan for him and was also designed for a specific supernatural reason with respect to his mission on earth. Not a single miracle was performed to display supernatural powers from Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, most churches have redefined the true meaning of miracles. A lot of churches today use miracles to deceive their members and the public. They will try to convince you that it is the power of Jesus Christ that performs the miracles. The truth is miracles can never be used to define salvation and Jesus Christ. If these churches have nothing else to use as the center point of their spiritual mission, then their platform is not rooted in the word of God; they have completely lost their way and such denominations belong to the devil. Any attempt to define Jesus Christ strictly from a miracle view point, makes a complete mockery of the cross because what he came to do for us is far greater than a miracle. He came to die

xiv

for the sins of the world and he came to do what no one else can do. Anytime you analyze Jesus Christ from the perspective of anything that can be achieved by someone else, you make a complete mockery of the cross. The devil can also perform miracles. In his teachings in Matthew Chapter 7, Jesus set the record straight when he said “Watch out for false prophets.” Matthew 7:15. “Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers.’” Matthew 7:21-23. Jesus described them as evildoers because miracles don’t define him. The one major thing that defines him to us is his death on the cross for the sins of the world. This was a supernatural event that had nothing to do with the flesh, but had everything to do with your soul. The miracles you see in churches today are nothing but distractive shows that have everything to do with your flesh. As much as we love to make prayers that are filled with words to make our flesh feel good, Jesus Christ did not come to save your flesh; he came to die on the cross to redeem your soul from the hands of the devil. Miracles should never be the center point of any ministry. The teachings of Jesus Christ should be the pillar of every church. Because no amount of theological studies can bring man to acquire the contents of this book, Jesus therefore used this book to reveal what sets him apart from humanity. Jesus Christ and Satan. Both Jesus Christ and Satan can perform miracles. Jesus died on the cross for our sins because he was sinless. Satan cannot die on the cross for your sins because he is not sinless. Jesus will always judge your sins. Satan will always give you a free pass for your sins. The judgment from Jesus is out of love. The free pass from Satan is out of deceit. You cannot separate yourself from Jesus and find eternal life. You cannot separate yourself from Satan and loose eternal life. You don’t have to believe in Satan to become his property. You have to believe in Jesus Christ to become his property. Satan cannot bring you to the Father, only Jesus can because he is the only way.  Satan will lead you to his destination which is eternal condemnation in hell fire.            

 Jesus will lead you to eternal life which is Paradise in the Kingdom of God. In the eyes of God, no miracle defines the most important aspect of His son’s life on earth; rather it is the time spent on the cross that God considers to be the most important moment of His Son’s life on earth because Jesus paid the price of your soul when he died on the cross and was resurrected on the third day. There is no greater miracle than the one you see when you wake up each morning and look straight in the mirror; what you see right there looking back at you is the greatest miracle God has made through Jesus Christ. You were uniquely made in the image of God with the potential to harness the supernatural power of Jesus Christ through his grace, by repenting your sins and embracing the truth that he died for your sins on the cross. Jesus loves you!

xvi

CHAPTER 1

THE BATTLE OF THE HOLY TRINITY Why Satan Tempted Jesus Christ

he opening statement in the Holy Bible talks about two different worlds; it unveils the heavens and the earth.“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1. One remarkable feature that sets heaven apart from the earth is the fact that while everything about heaven is supernatural, the earth on the other hand is strictly natural. This spiritual demarcation was established in fulfillment of God’s law of divine number 2. The law states that members of a pair must be the exact opposites of each other. The Book of Revelation talks about the battle of the End of the Age which will take place during the second visit of Jesus Christ. We know that Satan will wage war against God’s kingdom. As Christians, every time we read the Book of Revelation, we immediately assume that this looming battle will be the first of its kind in human history. While humanity waits with mixed feelings of fear and anticipation, what the world doesn’t know is that part one of this battle already took place as soon as Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist. Unlike part one that was supernaturally hidden from the eyes of humanity, in compliance with God’s law of divine number 2, part two will not be hidden from the world because humanity will be given the opportunity to witness it when Jesus comes back. The first phase of this battle was defined by heaven as, “The Battle of the Holy Trinity”. The last few pages of this book will take you to the Value Index of all names from the Chart of Heaven. In Book One, we talked about the Language of Heaven and the Chart of Heaven. From the Chart of Heaven, we also calculated some values. Jesus = 10 + 5 +19 +21 +19 = 74 = (7 + 4) = 11 = 2 Christ = 77 = 14 = 5

Felix Wantang

Jesus Christ = 2 + 5 = 7 Holy = 6 Spirit = 10 In the entire Bible, the description of God as spirit was only revealed by Jesus Christ to the Samaritan woman. “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” John 4:24. The God Jesus is talking about is our God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – Our Father in heaven.

Heaven = 10 Holy Spirit = 6 + 10 = 16 = 7 God is in three persons namely: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. If the Son who is Jesus Christ is 7 and the Holy Spirit is also 7, then since the three Godheads are one and the same God, the value for God the Father is also 7. The value for the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit will be 7 + 7 + 7 = 21 = 3 which brings us to the divine number of the Holy Trinity. The divine number of the Holy Trinity is also the supernatural divine number of Jesus Christ because the Father committed all things to the Son.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Life = 5 Death = 2 In the Bible, the first description of Satan given to humanity was in the image of the serpent. Serpent = 7 (He was originally one of the holy angels) Serpent + Death = 9 Good = 5 Evil = 3 Good + Evil + Serpent = 15 = 6 Sin = 6 Adam = 10 Eve = 5 Adam + Eve = 15 = 6 Good + Evil + Serpent = Adam + Eve 5+3+7) = (10 +5) 15 = 15 6=6 God knew that Adam and Eve will at some point disobey Him and that explains why He gave them the law in the first place. Good + Evil + Serpent = Sin 5+3+7 = 15 = 6 The wages of sin = Death Death = 2 Good + Evil = Sin + Death (5 + 3) = (6 + 2) 8=8 The number 8 is Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s divine number for a new beginning. Serpent + Death = The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Felix Wantang

If we add all the components of Satan, we get: Serpent + Evil + Sin + Death = 7+3+6+2 = 18 = 9……… (Equation Gdn.1) When God warned Adam about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in Genesis 2:16-17, He was not referring to the natural knowledge you acquire from learning. In the Language of Heaven, God was referring to spiritual wisdom when He said: “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” God’s concern was a unique type of spiritual wisdom that not only has the capability of turning the spirit of man away from Him as our only God, but is also capable of destroying the spirit of man. It did not take Eve very long to discover that poisonous spiritual wisdom when she had the conversation with the Serpent. “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.” Genesis 3:6. That lethal spiritual knowledge can only come through God’s adversary who is Satan. As humans, every sinful behavior that offends God is rooted in the spirit of man. The power of this spiritual knowledge (wisdom) explains why when Jesus was teaching the Samaritan woman on how to build a relationship with God, he stressed on the importance of the spirit of man to be constantly attached to God’s unwavering truth. “God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” John 4:24. Knowledge of Good and Evil = Spiritual Wisdom of Good and Evil. Spiritual = 125 = 8 Wisdom = 83 = 11 = 2 Good = 41 = 5 Evil = 48 = 12 = 3 Spiritual Wisdom of Good and Evil = 8 + 2 + 5 + 3 = 18 = 9 ……….. (Equation Gdn.2) (Equation Gdn.1) = (Equation Gdn.2) Serpent + Evil + Sin + Death = Spiritual + Wisdom + Good + Evil 7+3+6+2=8+2++5+3 18 = 18 9=9

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

The number 18 = 9 is therefore Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s divine number for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This divine number is death without the Holy Trinity. The divine number for the Holy Trinity is the number 3. Death + The Holy Trinity = 2+3 = 5 Death with the Holy Trinity will give you everlasting life with Jesus Christ. The number 5 is Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s divine number for Victory, Salvation, and the Tree of Life. It symbolizes everlasting life. Life = 5 Salvation = 5 The number 9 is the divine number for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil for the following reasons: 1. The serpent took the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. 2. The fruit gave birth to sin. 3. When you die without giving your life to Jesus Christ, death does not exonerate you from the bondage of sin. 4. Death without Jesus Christ means you will spend eternity with the Serpent who in this case is Satan. 5. Your final destination will be hell fire which is (Serpent + Death) = 7+2 = 9. From a supernatural perspective, if sin came from the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil through the serpent, it therefore means that Sin is equal to the Knowledge of Good and Evil from the serpent. In the Language of Heaven, to compute sin, all numbers must be below the divine number of Heaven which is 10. Sin = 19 + 9 + 14 Serpent = 19 + 5 + 18 + 16 + 5 + 14 + 20 = 97 = 16 = 7 Good = 7 + 15 + 15 + 4 = 41 = 5 Evil = 5 + 22 + 9 + 12 = 48 = 12 = 3 Sin = (Serpent + Good + Evil) 19 + 9 + 14 = (7 + 5 + 3) 10 + 9 + 5 = (7 + 5 + 3) (1 + 9 + 5) = (7 + 5 + 3) 15 = 15

Felix Wantang

6=6 Sin = 6 Satan, in the image of the Serpent was the spiritual path of sin from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. While the Bible was written for man for the purpose of praising and worshiping God, the Bible was also written to expose Satan. In Book One, while we saw how Jesus extensively used his supernatural divine number 3 to navigate the world, what we did not see or talk about was an example of how Satan used his divine number 18 = 9 for demonic purposes. One very significant area that the devil used this number for demonic display of strength was in Luke 13:16 where he held a crippled woman in bondage for 18 years. Jesus had just finished healing this woman when his opponents challenged him for violating the Sabbath day. “Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?” God described the serpent - the devil as being very crafty. “Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made.” Genesis 3:1. Jesus also defined the serpent with some very smart words when he sent out the twelve disciples. “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.” Matthew 10:16. The strategic approach that the devil used to position himself in the Chart of Heaven is a clear indication of the two descriptions from God and Jesus Christ. While God has chosen some specific numbers to represent His kingdom, some special numbers have also been set aside for Satan. All divine numbers are supernatural numbers governed by Heaven which brings us to: God’s Supernatural Equation of Divine Numbers …… (Equation Dvn.) (Equation Dvn.) = God’s Total + Satan’s Total. As much as some divine numbers have been set aside for Satan who is God’s principal adversary, it does not necessarily imply that God transferred a huge chunk of supernatural powers to Satan. Neither does it imply that Satan has anything in common with God. As a child of God and a repented true believer in Jesus Christ, never lose sight of the fact that Satan will always be your number enemy.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

(Equation Dvn) = 40 + 15 From the Chart of Heaven, the value of Heaven is: 8 + 5 + 1 + 22 + 5 + 14 = 55 …… (Equation Dvn-2) (Equation Dvn-2) = (Equation Dvn) 55 = 40 + 15 55 = 55 10 = 10 (God’s divine number for Heaven).

Felix Wantang

While the devil is the master of the sins of the world, God on the other hand is the Beginning and the End. Remember when Moses went up the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments from God, he was there for forty days and forty nights. “Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant – the Ten Commandments.” Exodus 34:28. When God destroyed the world using the flood through Noah it rained on earth for forty days and forty nights. “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month – on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.” Genesis 7:11-12. The number 40 carries the weight of all of God’s divine numbers from the Chart of Heaven which explains why when Jesus was about to start his ministry, he decided to fast for forty days and forty nights. “Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry.” Luke 4:1-2. To understand how close the devil is to every step we take in this sinful world, all we need to do is take a look at his positions in the Chart of Heaven:  The number 6 is next door neighbor to 5 and 7.  The number 9 is next door neighbor to 8 and 10.  Notice that the numbers 6 and 9 are nowhere close to the Holy Trinity number 3. The number 40 is one of God‘s expanded divine numbers. In Book One, we saw two major expanded divine numbers 14 and 17. We saw how God used the number 14 for the Passover to free the Israelites from bondage in Egypt. We also saw how He used the number 17 to get them out of Egypt and also grant them entry into the Promised Land. The number 17 was also displayed when He used the flood to destroy the world through Noah in the Book of Genesis. Divine number 14 is expanded divine number from 5. God used the number 5 to give life to the Israelites when He delivered them from death in Egypt to life in the Promised Land and Jesus also used the expanded divine number 14 to give us eternal life on the cross when he said: “It is finished”, as he took his last breath. After the freefall of man through Adam in the Garden of Eden, God’s move to restore the supernatural qualities He originally planted in man, started with the covenant He made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That covenant was nothing but a blue print of the supernatural transformation of man that will come through His son’s death on the cross, for the sins of the world. Fig.1 is an illustration of man’s spiritual freefall through Adam and subsequent supernatural rise through the grace of Jesus Christ. In real life, just like it takes no time for anything that goes up to suddenly

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

come down, likewise it took man a lot faster to hit spiritual rock bottom than it actually took God to restore the soul of man through His son Jesus Christ.

Adam = 10 Abraham = 8

Felix Wantang

Isaac = 6 Jacob = 4 Death = 2 When Adam failed by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil with divine number 9, what he did was the equivalent of pushing the button of man’s spiritual freefall (from 10 to 2). Notice that as soon as Adam ate from the tree, his divine number started decreasing by two (10, 8, 6, 4, 2) as he made his way towards death. God precisely used the three names (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) to supernaturally demonstrate that the fall of Adam was an indication that the soul of man is no longer spiritually clean. God’s divine number for unclean is the number 2 and the fate of every unclean spirit is death. The consequences of Adam’s actions were clearly demonstrated in the names (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) that God used to initiate the covenant of salvation for the soul of man. The covenant did not exonerate man from the wages of sin which is death from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. But with Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, we can rise again.

Your Spiritual Job Description From God’s spiritual blueprint for humanity, the principles of life are summarized in one simple rule, “You sow before you reap.” The Bible teaches that when God planted a garden in Eden, He took Adam and Eve and placed them in the garden to take care of it. “The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” Genesis 2:15. Notice that Adam had one job description, “Work the garden and take care of it.” After God put Adam in the garden and his wife Eve later joined him, the Bible has no record of Adam and his wife actually spending one day on the job of working and taking care of the garden; instead, right away as soon as the boss (God) left the office which is the garden, Eve engaged in a conversation with Satan regarding food to eat. I don’t know about you, but I have seen people who on their first day at work do nothing but ask one simple question, “When is payday?” It sounds shocking or laughable but there are actually people who are very good at this kind of behavior. Why was Eve talking about food with Satan when they had not even started the job they were hired to do? In Book One, we talked about Jesus retracing the steps of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden through his temptation with Satan. One of the most important reasons why Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights with no food was because he wanted to supernaturally demonstrate that Adam and Eve should have first done some work in the garden before talking about food. It also explains why as soon

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

as Jesus completed his fasting period, the same temptation that was used for Adam and Eve was replicated before Jesus by Satan. When you live by God’s law and work for Him, He will definitely bring you to that place where your spiritual wisdom is enhanced to bring you closer to Him. If Adam and Eve had spent some time working the garden before they ate from it, that experience would have given them a better knowledge of the garden and the spiritual wisdom to understand the true image of Satan who appeared to them in the image of the Serpent. It also would have given them the supernatural spiritual wisdom to understand the dangers surrounding the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. After Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights, he was spiritually boosted and supernaturally charged to face Satan head on in the battle of the Holy Trinity. The biggest lesson to learn from Adam’s principle of “Reap before you sow” is practically what we see in the world. We live in a world that is strongly characterized by greed, lust, envy, oppression, abuse, exploitation, defamation, sexual immorality, and wickedness. These attributes are becoming more prevalent among Christians and churches across the world. Most Christians are made to believe that as soon as you accept Jesus Christ into your life, you should immediately start reaping from God because there is a huge material reward that comes your way as soon as you proclaim Jesus Christ. By declaring that Jesus is your savior, the days of hard work, lack, sickness, and painful toil will immediately disappear from your life. Contrary to this spiritual garbage, the truth is that as soon as you sincerely through repentance accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, that point marks the beginning of a life where you start working for God. It is not a time to reap from God because as long as you live in the world, there is absolutely no reward on earth for serving God. You get it all when you go to God’s Paradise in Heaven. If this was not the heavenly truth, then a painful life on earth would have been reserved for just the wicked. The Garden of Eden that God used to reveal this process to Adam and Eve is not s spiritual symbol of the world; it is God’s Garden also known as God’s kingdom. Just like the reward for Adam and Eve was placed in the Garden of Eden for them to reap after sowing, likewise your reward for serving God has been reserved for you in God’s kingdom when you finish the sowing process.

God’s Template of the World The Bible teaches that the first thing God created was the heavens and the second component was the earth. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Genesis 1:1-2.

Felix Wantang

Heaven = 55 = 10 The first divine number God created was divine number 10 for heaven. Earth = 52 = 7 The second divine number God created was divine number 7 for the Earth. We know that the first pair of God’s creation was the Heavens and the Earth. Heaven + Earth = 10 + 7 = 17 The third divine number God created was divine number 17 which is God’s most powerful divine number on earth because it blends Heaven and Earth into one powerful supernatural component. After divine number 17 was born, the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. The Spirit of God = The Sum of all creation. God’s creation started after divine number 17 because this number became God’s template of all creation. After the earth and all living creatures were made, God did not use divine number 17 again. However, when God made the decision to destroy the world because of the rapid growth of evil, He used His template again during the flood with Noah. “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month – on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.” Genesis 7:11-12. When God was about to destroy the world, He asked Noah to gather two of all living creatures, male and female and bring them into the Ark; Noah’s family was also brought into the Ark. Because of this command, the new value of God’s Spirit which initially hovered over the waters in Genesis 1:1-2 was transformed to the Sum of All Living Creatures in the Ark. The Spirit of God = The Sum of All Living Creatures in the Ark. By using His template of divine number 17, the Ark started sailing the same day as soon as the flood started on the 17 th day. As the Ark sailed, the Spirit of God which is the Sum of All Living Creatures in the Ark was hovering over the waters (the flood) once again, just like in the beginning in Genesis 1:1-2. The Ark is Jesus Christ the son of God and through him all things were made. When he came to take away the sins of the world, he kept a low profile for the first 29 years of his life; but at the age of 30, he stepped out in full glory to start his ministry in compliance with God’s divine plan.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Ark = 18 + 1 + 11 = 30 When God asked Noah to naturally build the Ark with very unique specifications, it was God’s way of saying “I will send my son and I will gradually build him on earth until the age of 30 when I will expose him in full glory to the world.” Just like the Ark represents the Spirit of God that used the flood to baptize the world, Jesus will also become God’s Spirit and his blood will be used to baptize the world so that the sins of the world can be effectively and supernaturally taken away. The Ark = Jesus Christ.

Temptation Number One The number 30 is expanded divine number from divine number 3 which is the divine number of the Holy Trinity and the supernatural divine number of Jesus Christ. That also partially explains why he started his ministry at the age of 30. We saw in Book One how Jesus used this expanded divine number to complete the most important phase of his supernatural journey. During the Lord’s Supper Jesus took the bread; he broke it and gave it to his disciples who were seated at the table with him. “While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and he gave it to his disciples saying, ‘Take and eat; this is my body.” Matthew 26:26. During that process, we saw two very important manifestations:  When he took the bread that was his arrest.  When he broke the bread that was him being tortured. Bread = 30 While the temptation of Adam and Eve was designed by the devil to wipe out the human race, the temptation of Jesus Christ on the other hand was designed by the devil for an outcome far more devastating than the erosion of humanity. When Jesus was fasting in the desert, the devil could have used any of the things you can find out there to tempt Jesus like snakes, lizards, sand, a piece of wood or just show up with a piece of bread and try to convince Jesus to eat it. When he tempted Eve, there was no transformation involved; all he did was offer Eve a fruit from the forbidden tree – the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. But in the case of Jesus Christ, the devil offered him no food instead he tried to convince Jesus to create food by transforming stone. Why did Satan change his tactics? What was his main goal of this new approach? And what was so special about using a stone?

Felix Wantang

When the devil tempted Jesus in the desert it was a make or break moment. The first temptation had everything to do with the supernatural mission of Jesus Christ. This temptation was designed to void the supernatural manifestation of what Jesus did with the bread during the Lord’s Supper. “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” Matthew 4:3. The stone that was used for this temptation was a symbolic representation of the Son through the Father. Remember that one of the most widely used terms to describe God in the Bible is “The Rock” which is what the stone stood for. The bread in the temptation symbolizes what Jesus said about himself as the bread of life from heaven. “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” John 6:41. When Jesus broke the bread and gave it to his disciples, he was supernaturally telling us that the bread that came down from heaven will be broken to become stone (The Rock) which symbolizes the Father because when the bread is broken, all authority will be transferred from the stone (The Rock) who is the Father to the bread who is the Son. The devil, just like Jesus Christ is very knowledgeable of the Language of Heaven because remember they both came from heaven. The devil was trying to use this temptation to abort the mission that Jesus Christ came to fulfill. If Jesus had listened to the devil and turned the stone to bread, the resultant effect would have produced three things:  Jesus will not be arrested.  Jesus will not be tortured and crucified.  The price of sin will not be paid and the world will remain in the hands of Satan for eternity. Bread = 30 Stone = 10 Heaven = 10 In simple terms, what Satan was asking Jesus to do was something that was the exact opposite of what Jesus came to the world to accomplish; he came to die on the cross for our sins. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross did not change the spiritual representation of his body as the bread of life that came down from heaven. To this day, spiritually and supernaturally speaking, two things remain unchanged:  God is still the Rock of all ages (the stone).  Jesus is still the bread of life. When Jesus died on the cross, he did not change the bread to become stone (the Rock). In his statement to his disciples as he broke the bread, he did not say anything

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

about stone; all he said was that the bread represents his body. The Father in heaven will transform that bread which is Jesus’ body to become the stone (the Rock) when Jesus is glorified after his resurrection and ascension but for that to happen, Jesus must faithfully complete the mission. Jesus never said he will transform anything because all supernatural transformations surrounding the life of Jesus Christ are in the hands of the Father. When Satan asked Jesus to transform the stone to bread, what he was trying to do was very tricky and crafty. Stone = 10 Bread = 30

Result = Bread alone = 30. The devil was trying to convince Jesus to systematically get rid of the stone because after the transformation, all that will be left will be bread alone; the stone will be gone. The devil was trying to use Jesus to humiliate and get rid of God. Remember, this was the same game the devil tried to play in heaven and that explains why God expelled him from heaven. “How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.’” Isaiah 14:12-15. Although many Bible scholars seem to believe that the bread in this temptation was the normal bread we eat, the truth is that even though Jesus was hungry, this bread had nothing to do with the bread we eat. It was only used for the symbolic representation of the Language of Heaven, just like the stone. To get a better understanding of what this was all about, let’s take a look at the response from Jesus. “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Matthew 4:4. The devil was not asking Jesus to eat the bread and live on it alone. The only reason why Jesus responded with this statement was because he knew from a supernatural standpoint where the devil was going with this game. The devil had two goals in mind: 1. Get rid of the stone = Get rid of God. 2. End up with bread alone = End up with Jesus alone without the Father.

Felix Wantang

That is why Jesus specifically said that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the Father because Jesus always called himself “The Son of Man”. Jesus was basically saying that attempting to get rid of the Father was not an option. Jesus was also saying that man cannot live on Jesus Christ alone without the Father just like Jesus once said that he and the Father are one. “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” John 14:11. Using the crafty nature of the serpent, the devil knew that by trying to get rid of the Father, he will also be getting rid of the Son. It was a plan to take over everything – heaven and earth. That explains why stone was used for this temptation. Stone = 10 Heaven = 10 Just like Satan had the full authorization from God to tempt Job, he was also given the same type of authorization to tempt Jesus Christ. That explains why instead of the devil just showing up, it was actually God through the Holy Spirit who transported Jesus to the scene of the battle. “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.” Matthew 4:1. With Job, his life and faith in God were at stake, but with Jesus Christ, everything (heaven and earth) were at stake. Satan was poised to take over everything if Jesus had failed that simple test. For temptation number one, the components used to set the stage were stone and bread because this temptation was also a crafty play-back of the temptation that occurred in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve failed. In the garden, the components used for the stage were Serpent, Eden, Tree, and Fruit. Serpent = 16 Eden = 10 Tree = 12 Fruit = 11 Serpent + Eden + Tree + Fruit = 49 = 13 = 4 Bread = 30 Stone = 73 Bread + Stone = 103 = 4 The number 4 is God’s divine number to start a process. Thank you, Jesus for passing the test.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Temptation Number Two In temptation number one we saw how Satan’s objective was to take over heaven and earth. In temptation number two, the Bible teaches that Satan decided to change the venue of the next spiritual fight. “Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. ‘If you are the Son of God’ he said, throw yourself down.’ For it is written: He will command his angels concerning you, And they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” Matthew 4:5-6. In response, Jesus said: “It is also written: Do not put the Lord your God to the test.” Matthew 4:7. We know that the holy city the Bible talks about is Jerusalem and we also know that as far as Holiness goes, God is Holy but the devil has no traces of it in his DNA or nature. When the devil was done speaking, Jesus responded with a very direct statement during which he stressed the need to refrain from putting God to the test. From the statement from Satan, we can see that he was trying to quote Psalm 91. Why this particular Psalm? If all the devil was trying to do was, convince Jesus to perform a stunt, then why Psalm 91? Out of the 150 Psalms in the Bible there are many Psalms that deal with the supernatural protective promises of God but the devil decided to use only Psalm 91 for this unique battle. The truth is, just like the Bible talked about the crafty nature of the devil, in the Book of Psalms, the most powerful Psalm is Psalm 91. We are not going to deal with that right now but keep that in mind for your prayer sessions. Another troubling question is that why did the devil change the location of the next fight? Why not proceed with the battle at the venue of the first temptation? The truth is, as much as God gave Satan the authorization to tempt Jesus, God also gave him the authorization to choose the tools and venues. All Jesus had to do was show up for the battle. That was the same case with Job; God gave Satan authorization to tempt and attack Job in any place and manner that the devil saw fit. The only area he was not allowed to touch was Job’s life. Systematically speaking, because this battle was all about the Holy Trinity (Heaven and Earth were at stake), Satan knew exactly which tools and areas of the Bible to use for each of the temptations but what he failed to understand was that Jesus was always one step ahead of him because not only did Jesus write the Bible, Jesus is also the word of God which is the Bible. In the devil’s mind, he had to use specific designated areas that embraced the three Godheads (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit). To understand why Satan picked Psalm 91, we have to take a closer look at this Psalm, especially the verses that he was trying to recite as a weapon against Jesus 17

Felix Wantang

Christ in this crucial battle for the Holy Trinity. If you have truly accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, I strongly urge you to develop the habit of reading Psalm 91 everyday. Growing up as a young man, most of my spiritual battles were fought using this Psalm and I know for certain the devastating effect it had on my enemies because I developed the habit of reading it twice each day. You can never go wrong if you make this Psalm a part of your daily Bible Study. I still read this Psalm every day. Using the word of God to resist any attacks from the enemy is a habit that should be cultivated by every God-fearing Christian. You cannot effectively use natural weapons to fight a supernatural spiritual battle; your only source of our supernatural weapon is Jesus Christ through the word of God because the Bible teaches in John 1:14 that the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. The insurmountable supernatural shield from the word of God is the reason why during the three temptations of Jesus, he always used the phrase, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is writtenâ&#x20AC;? to neutralize the forces of the enemy (Satan). The most dangerous position for any Christian is when you confess Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior but thereafter refrain from making the word of God (the Holy Bible) your daily companion.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Satan was crafty enough to know that if he had to use any tools in the Bible to engage Jesus in this fight, it had to be a tool that will earn him the price of the Holy Trinity if for any reason Jesus fails. If Satan decided to use Psalm 91 for round two of this fight after Jesus humiliated him in round one, why not use the entire Psalm instead of a selective quote? The quotation from Satan was no doubt taken from Psalm 91:11-12. 91 + 11 + 12 = 10 + (11 + 12) = 33 = 6 Remember that Jesus died on the cross at the age of 33 and the number 6 is God’s divine number for man, sin, and dominion. When Satan tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, we talked about how he used the word of God which today is the Bible to accomplish his wicked mission. The word that God gave Adam concerning the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was very straight forward; it was a direct command. “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” Genesis 2:16-17. When Satan tried to quote the same law to Eve, he told Eve something slightly different from the original law; he added something to it that was not from God. “You will not surely die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will, be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:4-5. Notice how the devil added the word NOT to the original version from God. Even though the devil said that Eve will become like God knowing good and evil, this resultant effect was the truth because that’s exactly what happened to Adam and Eve after they ate the fruit regardless of the fact that God did not give them that information. In effect, all Satan did was inject something new into the original law from God. The approach and objective of Satan in the Garden of Eden was to inject something new into human nature and that explains why he had to add something new to the original law that God gave Adam. Unfortunately for us, because Adam and Eve failed, sin was injected into humanity. The battle with Jesus Christ will not be fought with the same tools and approach as we saw in the Garden of Eden. Unlike Adam and Eve, Satan’s objective in confronting Jesus Christ was not designed to inject something into Jesus Christ; it was designed to take something away. That explains why in Table 2, if you take a closer look at the two versions of Psalm 91:11-12 (the one from the Bible and the one from Satan), the devil actually erased part of verse eleven. He erased the statement “To guard you in all your ways.” From the devil’s strategic point, the temptation in the Garden of Eden and the temptations of Jesus Christ can be classified as follows:  Temptation of Adam and Eve = Injection strategy (to contaminate).  Temptations of Jesus Christ = Erosion strategy (to eradicate or erase).

Felix Wantang

Jesus fought back by accusing the devil of putting God to the test because he knew exactly where the devil was going when Psalm 91 came up. The devil used Psalm 91 because if Jesus fails, the supernatural devastating effect will be a complete erosion of the Holy Trinity. To understand where the devil was coming from with this Psalm, let’s go to the first time the Israelites put God to the test. I say the Israelites because they are the gateway of what Jesus came to do for us on the cross and since all these battles were centered on the mission of Jesus Christ you cannot rule Israel out of the picture. When the Israelites came out of bondage in Egypt under the leadership of Moses the Bible teaches that when they came to Rephidim, they grumbled against Moses for water to drink. “The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin, travelling from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said: ‘Give us water to drink.’” Exodus 17:1-2. From Exodus 17 and Psalm 91, we can see one common spiritual composition. Exodus 17 has 16 verses and Psalm 91 also has 16 verses but since the devil picked Psalm 91 for this battle we are going to concentrate on this Psalm for now. Holy Spirit = 10 + 6 = 16 91 = 10 16 = 7 10 + 7 = 17 Remember we talked about divine number 17 as God’s most powerful divine number to overshadow the earth. When the Israelites grumbled about water to drink, Moses responded by saying: “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the LORD to the test ?” Exodus 17:2. Part of the response from Moses was the same response that Jesus gave the devil when he fought back. The Bible further teaches that when Moses reported the incident to God, the Lord God asked him to proceed to Horeb where he eventually struck the rock with his staff for water to come out for the people to drink. “Walk on ahead of the people. Take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.” Exodus 17:5-6. What happened here is one of the most remarkable passages in the Bible because every time the Holy Trinity is present in an event something supernatural is manifested. From this event, the following components were present: 1. The staff of Moses which represents Jesus on the cross (the Son).

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

2. The Rock which represents God (the Father). 3. The water which represents the spirit of God (the Holy Spirit). This is exactly where Satan was going with the second temptation; he was going for a complete takeover of the Holy Trinity. In Book One, we talked about the supernatural significance of the staff striking the rock and we concluded that the only component that will be bruised in this process is the staff because God himself will strike (bruise and kill) His son Jesus Christ on the cross for the sins of the world which will in turn give us the Holy Spirit (the living water). This was the same water that Jesus was offering the Samaritan woman. “Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:14. After water came out of the rock for the Israelites to drink, the Bible teaches that Moses changed the name of the place. Not only did he change the name, but he actually gave the place two names instead of one. What prompted him to do that? “And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarrelled and because they tested the LORD saying: ‘Is the LORD among us or not?’” Exodus 17:7. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, their actions marked the birth of the first rebellion from man towards God. That made the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to also earn the title “The Tree of Rebellion”. Consequently, divine number 9 which is the number for this tree also became the divine number for rebellion. When God tested Abraham because He wanted to reestablish a faith-based relationship with man, Abraham successfully passed the test and God crowned him with the title “Father of Faith” after changing his name from Abram to Abraham. Abraham = 44 = 8 Faith = 44 = 8 Because Abraham passed the test, he was assigned the divine number 8 for a new beginning and faith. That explains why the only thing that brings you to Jesus Christ is your faith in him that he died on the cross for your sins to give you eternal life. This is the greatest new beginning you can ever introduce into your life. Unwavering faith is what pleases God. Before we go into the reasons why Moses changed the names of the locations where the water came from the rock, it is very important to remember that before Jesus came to die on the cross for our sins, Horeb, where the water came from the rock, was God’s home on earth because that’s where He called Moses out of the burning bush. “Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb,

Felix Wantang

the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.” Exodus 3:1-2. However, when Jesus came to die on the cross, God’s new home on earth was the Temple in Jerusalem and that explains why Jesus was very angry with what he saw at the temple. “When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, ‘Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!’” John 2:13-16. In temptation number two, the Bible teaches that Satan took Jesus to the highest point of the temple. This point represents the mountain in Horeb which was also the highest point in the desert where the Israelites temporarily camped for water to drink. Because these two locations (Horeb and the temple in Jerusalem) both represent God’s home on earth, Moses changed the names of the locations in the desert because he knew what was to come from the rebellion of the Israelites. He knew that these locations will become Satan’s choice for temptation number two against Jesus Christ. Let’s not forget that it was the same Moses that God made like His son Jesus Christ and it was also the same Moses that God dispatched with Elijah to go supernaturally boost Jesus shortly before he made his way to the cross. Before Moses changed the names of these locations, the original names were Rephidim and Horeb. Rephidim = 82 = 10 Horeb = 48 = 3 Recall that the number 10 is God’s divine number for Heaven while the number 3 is the divine number for the Holy Trinity and the supernatural divine number of Jesus Christ. Moses changed the names of these locations to Massah and Meribah respectively because they will later become the tools for the devil to tempt Jesus Christ. Massah = 61 = 7 Meribah = 56 = 11 By changing the names of these places, Moses was also setting the stage for the kind of battle that took place in the Garden of Eden. The Bible described that battle as a temptation which is the same thing that will repeat itself except that this time around, the venue and the players will be different with the exception of Satan who will be a come-back. The first battle occurred in a place God called the Garden of Eden (God’s Garden) which was also designated as God’s home on earth just like

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Horeb and the temple in Jerusalem. Before the first battle took place in the Garden of Eden, God had the stage set with divine number 9 for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; since this number eventually became the devils favorite tool for battles, God will set the stage once again with the same tool and that is why He used Moses to change the names of the two locations. Good = 5 Evil = 3 Eden = 10 Good + Evil + Eden = (5 + 3 + 10) = 18 = 9 Massah = 7 Meribah = 11 Massah + Meribah = 18 = 9. The number 9 is the divine number for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The number 18 is the expanded divine number for the Tree. When God gave the Israelites water to drink using the staff of Moses to strike the rock for the first time, the Bible mentioned two locations namely: 1. Rephidim = 10 2. Horeb = 3 Rephidim + Horeb = (10 + 3) = 13 When the devil took Jesus to a different location for the second temptation, the Bible mentioned two locations as well: 1. Jerusalem = 5 2. Temple = 8 Jerusalem + Temple = (5 + 8) = 13 Remember in Book One, we said that the number 4 is Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s divine number to start and end a process; we also mentioned that expanded divine number 13 is Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s divine number for Change of Season. God knew that there was going to be a dramatic change of venue and style that Satan will use for the second temptation and for that reason, God made certain that the changes were also going to be in compliance with the supernatural divine number 3 of His son Jesus Christ because this number is what embodies the supernatural strength of Jesus Christ. God also knew that the Holy Trinity was what Satan was gunning for and that explains why there were three 23

Felix Wantang

applications in this phase that had God’s expanded divine number (13) for change of season. Application Number 1: Rephidim + Horeb = 13 Application Number 2: Jerusalem + Temple = 13 Application number 3: Deals with the components that were present when the water came out of the rock. Staff = 7 Rock = 2 Water = 4 Staff + Rock + Water = (7 + 2 + 4) = 13. In the Language of Heaven, the supernatural changes that arise from divine number 13 are changes that cannot be reversed immediately; they are usually designed to last for a season. For example when winter starts, summer cannot suddenly show up the next day. Each number 13 represents the effective supernatural change that will occur to each of the members of the Holy Trinity if Jesus loses the battle because the number 13 is God’s number for “End of Season”. The power of water is so significant because it has the hidden DNA of the spirit of God. That spirit was here before God started creating the universe and if you take out water from the universe, life will cease to exist. “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Genesis 1:2. This spirit is the Holy Spirit. When you come to Jesus Christ and invite him into your life as your Lord and Savior through repentance, one of the prerequisite for you to enter the kingdom of God is that you must be baptized to receive the Holy Spirit. Baptism must be done using water; you cannot substitute water for any other item in this process because it carries the Spirit of God. God knew that the devil was after the Holy Trinity and because the Spirit of God is what holds the Holy Trinity together, the devil knew that if he takes out the Holy Spirit then the Holy Trinity will be wiped out. Because the Holy Trinity was at the center of the fight, the locations that God used to give water to the Israelites (Rephidim + Horeb) and the locations that Satan took Jesus to (Jerusalem + Temple) must be the value of water. Rephidim = 10 Horeb = 3 Jerusalem = 5

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Temple = 8 Water = 23 +1 + 20 + 5 + 18 = 67 = 13 Rephidim + Horeb = (10 + 3) = 13 = Water Jerusalem + Temple = (5 + 8) = 13 = Water Going back to the reasons why the devil picked Psalm 91 for this very important battle, we are now going to take a good look at what this Psalm was all about. 91 = 10. This is God’s divine number for Heaven. There are 16 verses in this Psalm. 16 = 7. This is God’s divine number for Holy, Perfect, and Complete. 10 + 7 = 17 Divine number 17 is God’s most powerful divine number to superimpose His power upon the earth on very special occasions for specific changes. From the break down, so far we have God’s most powerful divine number on earth, coming from God’s most powerful Psalm, in God’s most powerful book (The Holy Bible) which also makes reference to Exodus 17 where the water came out of the rock. From the 16 verses in Psalm 91, why did Satan take special interest in verse 11? Why was he very determined to twist and erase verse 11? Expanded divine number 11 is from God’s divine number 2 which is the number for creation. When it was time to create a permanent seat for the Holy Spirit on earth, Jesus used eleven of his disciples because Judas Iscariot was no more. The Book of Psalms was written before Jesus came from heaven to die for our sins on the cross and he expressly reminded his disciple of that truth when he appeared to them after his resurrection. “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” Luke 24:44. Also, before Jesus came to die on the cross for our sins, heaven’s permanent seat on earth was assigned to the angels. That explains why the angels were with Jesus during the temptations. “Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.” Matthew 4:11. However, when Jesus came to take away the sins of the world and after his resurrection, heaven’s permanent seat on earth was transferred to the Holy Spirit who guards us in all our ways to make certain that our ways are in line with the ways of God through Jesus Christ. The underlined text is essentially what the devil meticulously erased from verse 11 of Psalm 91when he spoke to Jesus because this is essentially what the angels used to do that is now the responsibility of the Holy Spirit. When Jesus verbally injected the Holy Spirit into his disciples, it was expanded divine number 10 that he used to do that. There were 11

Felix Wantang

disciples left because Judas Iscariot was no longer a part of the group but Thomas was absent when Jesus formally introduced the Holy Spirit. 91 = 10 (For the ten disciples that first received the Holy Spirit) Verse 11 = For the 11 disciples left when Jesus rose from the dead. From the point of a strategic spiritual warfare, we now know that while Temptation Number One was a direct attack on the Father and the Son, Temptation Number Two however was an attack specifically designed to erase the Holy Spirit. The only thing that makes the Bible holy, supernaturally powerful, and spiritually boundless as the word of God is the existence of the Holy Spirit. If you take the Holy Spirit away from the Bible, God’s Book will be reduced to nothing; it will be just like any other book out there – completely supernaturally and spiritually worthless. It was the supernatural attempt to erase the Holy Spirit from the Bible that led the devil to choose Psalm 91 which is the most powerful Psalm in the Bible and to also choose verse 11 which specifically deals with the Holy Spirit. Regardless of the fact that all three temptations of Jesus Christ were very crucial, Temptation Number Two was the toughest of all three because of the spiritual implications of divine number 11 = 2 which is God’s number for creation. That explains why it involved holy places like Horeb, Jerusalem, the temple, and the rock. If Jesus had lost the battle, the defeat would have given Satan the authorization to wipe out the kingdom of God and replace it by using the same divine number 11 = 2 which also stands for unclean, to create his own kingdom. By now, you are most likely scratching your head and wondering how it can even be possible to think of, let alone execute a mission to dethrone God. Never mind, I was also speechless, dumfounded, and horrified as Jesus was doing the talking. The reason why it appeared possible is because just like God put Job’s faith on the line when He gave Satan authorization to tempt him, God also put a component on the line when He gave Satan the authorization to tempt His son Jesus Christ. That component was the Holy Trinity which is God’s throne. Also, it appears possible because of the equation that holds the Holy Trinity together. On the other hand, the only reason why it is absolutely impossible to dethrone God is because the level of trust that exists within the Holy Trinity is beyond human comprehension. Trust is not a human component and that explains why Jesus never used the word trust when it came to human nature; Jesus used the word trust only in connection with him and God. When I hear people talk about trust in the world, it makes me wonder why. Our job as Christians is to love people but trust only God and Jesus Christ. Love = for the world.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Love and Trust = for God and Jesus Christ. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.” John 14:1. From the words of Jesus in this command, he did not incorporate man in anything to do with trust. When Jesus gave us the greatest commandment he never used the word trust in reference to man. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40. Because of the trust that exists within the Holy Trinity, that’s why God entrusted everything into the hands of Jesus Christ for the battle of the Holy Trinity. It also explains why God spoke from heaven as soon as Jesus was baptized and getting ready for the battle. The baptism of Jesus Christ and the voice from heaven were God’s ways of putting the Holy Trinity upon Jesus’ shoulders. “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” Matthew 3:17. This announcement from God was for the devil; God was officially presenting His son for the battle and God was also saying “Throw your best shot Satan for we are ready.” Jesus will never fail the Father, no matter what. In the Father + the Son + the Holy Spirit relationship, if anything is missing in this equation, the resultant effect will be a zero God. The Holy Trinity is perfectly and uniquely held together in such a fashion that none of the three members can be separated from each other because separation means eradication. The stage was completely set and all eyes in heaven were on Jesus Christ to deliver and make the Father proud. Earlier we talked about the strategy behind temptation number two and we said it was an erosion strategy. Keeping that in mind, when Satan erased part of verse 11 of Psalm 91 that particular verse was no longer taken as the word of God because it was modified by the devil. If we take out that verse from the Psalm, we will be left with 15 verses from the original number of 16. 16 = 7 (God’s divine number for Holy, Perfect, and Complete) 15 = 6 We know that the number 6 is the divine number for man, sin, and dominion. The question is, where was Satan going with the number 6 in this fight? In Book One, we saw that after the fall of Adam and Eve and sin entered the world, the devil decided to make the number 6 his prime number which is also the number for man because man was created on the 6th day and God gave man dominion over the earth the same day. In an attempt to wipe out the human race, the devil had to triple this number to embrace the entire human race which is essentially Father, Mother, and Child.

Felix Wantang

The number for Father = 6 The number for Mother = 6 The number for Child = 6 Another major reason why the number 666 is Satan’s number is because of the three components of divine number 6 (Sin, Man, and Dominion) in relation to the following events: 1. Satan sinned against God which is why he was thrown out of Heaven. This is for the number 6 for Sin. 2. Satan injected sin into man which immediately moved man from God’s Holy Garden to Satan’s camp which is the sinful world. This is for the second number 6 for Man. 3. When Satan was cast down to the Earth, he immediately took dominion of the world which was originally given to man. This is for the third number 6 for Dominion. Because the entire human race is encapsulated in the (Father + Mother + Child) equation, the number for man is 666 = 18 = 9. The number for man is also an expanded divine number for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If Jesus had failed, the same principle would have been applied by the devil towards the Holy Trinity by replacing 777 with 666. If you don’t think that the death of Jesus Christ on the cross for your sins is enough for you to take salvation seriously for the rest of your life, I want you to think about what would have happened if the devil defeated Jesus during the three temptations. If that was the outcome, not only will sin become an unshakable input in your life but Satan will also be your only god with no checks and balance; there will be no force to stop him. We all owe Jesus more than we can ever imagine. Think about it! When Jesus came down from heaven, not only did he save the world when he died on the cross, he also stood the test of the Holy Trinity. Thank you Lord Jesus, for passing the test. --------------------------------------Spiritual Lesson Number 1 The Bible teaches that Satan can perform miraculous signs. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Christians have been convinced to buy into what I will call “Miracle display theatres” and Christians around the world seem to be mesmerized whenever they see these miracles displayed before their eyes. My advice to you is simple; just like Jesus told the 72 disciples in Luke 10:2, stop rejoicing over miracles especially because miraculous capabilities don’t set Jesus apart from Satan. Stop eating filthy

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

bread crumbs from the garbage when Jesus has already prepared a table for you through his blood on the cross. What you should be rejoicing for are those things that completely set Jesus apart from Satan.    

Jesus gave you the ticket to eternal life. Jesus paid the price of your sins on the cross. Jesus stood the test of the Holy Trinity. Jesus defeated Satan in every battle. ------------------------------------------

After the changes from Moses by renaming the two locations for the battle, his actions left two permanent spiritual marks on the temple in Jerusalem. One is the original holy mark of Rephidim and Horeb, while the other is the rebellious mark of Massah and Meribah. These two marks are the reasons why the temple mount in Jerusalem is the most disputed piece of real estate property in human history. The dispute surrounding this piece of property is something very supernatural and no human being can resolve it because it has nothing to do with natural forces. Man’s relentless efforts to find a solution to this problem will never be successful because Moses who established it was transformed by God in the image of Jesus Christ and Moses implemented the changes to prepare Jesus Christ for the toughest battle in human history. Satan decided to use Psalm 91 because in the Language of Heaven, God’s Book which is the Holy Bible contains only one spirit; the only spirit in the Holy Bible is the Spirit of God. In the entire Bible, the Book of Psalm is the only Book with Chapter 91 and part of what makes Psalm 91 God’s most powerful Psalm is because of its corresponding value to the only spirit in the Bible who is the Holy Spirit. The temptation of Jesus Christ is a battle that took place on earth and for Satan to defeat Jesus Christ he must try to destroy God’s most powerful divine number on earth (number 17). Psalm = 61 = 7 (God’s number for Holy) 91 = 10 (God’s number for Heaven) Spirit = 19 + 16 + 9 + 18 + 9 + 20 = 91. Psalm 91 = Holy Spirit Psalm 91 = 7 + 10 Psalm 91 = 17 (God’s most powerful divine number on Earth) Recall that the number 17 is God’s template from the creation of the Heavens and the Earth.

Felix Wantang

Temptation Number Three The Bible teaches that in temptation number three, the devil took Jesus once again to a different location. “Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. ‘All this I will give to you,’ he said, ‘If you will bow down and worship me.’”. Mathew 4:8-9. In response Jesus said to him “Away from me Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’ Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.” Matthew 4:10-11. One very important thing to take note of from this battle is the fact that Satan had the first words in Matthew 4:3, while Jesus had the last words in Matthew 4:10 and with those last words from Jesus, the devil received the final knockout punch. Another important point from all three temptations is the fact that Jesus exercised patience to see what the devil was going to come up with. The point is that every time we talk too soon or diminish the importance of patience in our lives, we end up hurting ourselves. We saw how Jesus was incredibly patient with everything that was happening around him even though he knew that the fate of the Holy Trinity was placed on his shoulders by the Father. That explains why the Bible teaches that we should be patient in life.”Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12. Following the drastic catastrophic changes that were designed to take place if Jesus had lost the battle, we saw how expanded divine number 40 (Bread + Stone) was used to set the stage for temptation number one and expanded divine number 13 (Jerusalem + Temple) was used to set the stage for temptation number two. In temptation number three, God decided to introduce new components that were not a part of the previous two temptations because this was going to be the final battle that will also determine if Jesus will start his ministry on earth or not. Because of divine number three which is the number for the Holy Trinity and the supernatural divine number of Jesus Christ, God decided to limit the number of temptations to three. When Jesus starts his ministry on earth, his first mission is to bring salvation to Israel before the rest of the world can see it. To incorporate the Israelites into the final temptation, God used the battle at Rephidim. “The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. Moses said to Joshua, ‘Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.’” Exodus 17:8-10. From the day God liberated the Israelites from the bondage of slavery in Egypt, this was the first battle the Israelites faced. Temptation number three was going to be used to draft a detailed map of the mission of Jesus Christ and it was also going to be very unique because Jesus will die on the cross for the sins of the world, establish his church, and give us the Bible as the primary tool to worship God. When you come to Jesus Christ as a new Christian, your first experience is that you will be rigorously

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

attacked by the devil using people who are close to you. This attack is some sort of pull back strategy. The devil will attack you because he doesn’t want to lose what belongs to him. In Book One, we mentioned that every soul born to this world immediately becomes the property of the devil as soon as you reach judgment age; you don’t necessarily have to publicly deny or insult Jesus Christ to become the property of the devil. All it takes to become the property of the devil is the absence of Jesus Christ in your life. The attack on the Israelites at Rephidim was used by God to display the kind of attack we just mentioned above. The Israelites were still in the Horeb area (God’s home) when this attack took place and they had just been taken out of bondage in Egypt. The fact that you made the decision to kick the devil out of your life is enough reason to make him upset. Nobody is happy to lose what they thought they will be keeping forever and that is precisely why the devil will attack you because remember that as much as God was responsible for bringing the Israelites to Egypt through the covenant He made with Abraham four hundred years before their release, it is also important to note that the life of the Israelites in bondage is an example of life under Satan. Jesus came to establish his church on earth and because Israel is the Natural Embassy of Heaven on Earth, the Amalekites were used to represent Satan; “So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went to the top of the hill. As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up – one on one side, one on the other – so that his hands remained steady till sunset. So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword. Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.’ Moses built an altar and called it The LORD is my Banner.” Exodus 17:10-15. Joshua had to fight the Amalekites while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up the hill because when Jesus establishes his church on earth, he will not be engaged in any battles to sustain his church; that responsibility will be entrusted to the Holy Spirit. The sword the Bible is talking about that Joshua used to defeat the Amalek army is the same spiritual sword that Joshua used for the fall of Jericho in Joshua 5:13-15. We mentioned in Book One that this particular sword is the Holy Spirit. “Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, ‘Are you for us or for our enemies?’ Neither, he replied, ‘but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come.’ Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence.” Joshua 5:13-14. Looking at the new components God introduced in temptation number three, the interpretations are as follows:

Felix Wantang

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Moses represents Jesus because God made him like Jesus Christ. Aaron represents the Jews (the nation of Israel). Hur represents the Gentiles (the rest of the world). The staff of Moses represents Jesus on the cross. The hands of Moses represent Jesus resurrected. The stone is the church of Jesus Christ built after his resurrection. Both Aaron and Hur represent the world which is why the staff representing the cross, was held above their heads. That is because when the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain in Matthew 4:8 to show him the kingdoms of the world, Jesus was on the mountain looking at the world from the top. 8. Aaron and Hur represent the world and that is why their hands could only touch the hands of Moses, not the staff. Fig. 2 is an illustration of what happened during the battle. The Amalekites represent the sins of the world that Jesus came to take away. Amalekites = 96 = 15 = 6 (Divine number for man, sin, and dominion). Amalekites = Sin Sin = 19 + 9 + 14 Amalekites = 15 15 = 19 + 9 + 14 15 = (19 + 9) + 14 15 = (10 + 9) + 5 15 = 19 + 5 15 = 10 + 5 15 = 15 6=6 In the Language of Heaven, when God said to Moses â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will completely blot out the memory of Aamalek from under heavenâ&#x20AC;? in Exodus 17:14 He was referring to taking away the sins of the world by using His son Jesus Christ. When the Amalekites attacked the Israelites, because it was a supernatural symbol of Satan attacking the Church of Jesus Christ, it explains why God talked about erasing them from under heaven.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

In view of the fact that Satan’s DNA, his crafty nature, and wickedness forbids him from embracing Biblical truth, it was actually very strange to hear him speak the truth to Jesus Christ in temptation number three when he told Jesus that the kingdom of the world has been given to him (Satan); he spoke the truth out of pride which is also a common attribute of most false prophets. “I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. So if you worship me, it will all be yours.” Luke 4:6-7. When the devil said this to Jesus, he was actually telling the truth because the world was handed over to Satan when Adam and Eve lost in the Garden of Eden. When he showed Jesus Christ all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor as a tool for the last battle, it was because the deal at the beginning of the fight at the start of temptation number one was very clear:

Felix Wantang

 

If Jesus loses, Satan will take over the Holy Trinity and keep humanity under the bondage of sin through everlasting death. If Satan loses, Jesus will take back the world that Adam and Eve lost and also take away everlasting death from repented humanity.

When he showed Jesus the kingdoms of the world, it was an attempt to convince Jesus to give up the fight and just worship him (Satan). Before sin entered the world, the number for man was 66 = 12 = 3 which is the number for man and woman. Because it is also the supernatural divine number of Jesus Christ, it explains why a man and a woman are able to physically come together to create another human through birth because all things were made through Jesus Christ. But after sin entered the world, the number for man became 666 which is the number for man, woman, and child. The number 66 was the number for man when God gave Adam the command not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and subsequently created Eve as a helper for Adam. We saw that the three temptations of Jesus Christ were battles for the Holy Trinity and an attempt to stop the establishment of the Holy Trinity in the world. To restore man’s original state in the Garden of Eden which was a sinless state with the number 66, the major component that God will use for that restoration is the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ. When you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior through repentance, it is the Holy Spirit that Jesus sends into your life to overshadow the sin that lives in you. Sin will not necessarily disappear from your system because as long as we live in the world, we will always live with sin. Regardless, the presence of the Holy Spirit in your life prepares you and brings you to that state where Jesus is able to use you and bring you to eternal life. That eternal life is the original state that God gave man when He made Adam and Eve sinless from the beginning in the Garden of Eden with the number 66. It explains why God through Jesus Christ designed His Holy Book (the Holy Bible) with 66 books to help bring us back to the sinless state that produces a spiritual body. The fight between Jesus and Satan during the three temptations was Satan’s effort to prevent the transformation of man to his original state. That transformation comes through the Holy Spirit who dwells in the word of God which is the Holy Bible. The Bible is God’s supernatural weapon to transform man to the original state with the number 66 but in order to get there, sin must be dealt with and that is precisely what Jesus did on the cross. The path that Jesus will take to bring man to that place will involve a journey that will lead man to the kingdom of God. For Jesus to accomplish this mission, he will face off with Satan for the sake of man, the Holy Trinity, and his church. Following God’s divine plan to establish the church for His son Jesus Christ on earth, there must be a detailed plan and manual to operate the church. In the Garden of Eden, the first test and responsibility that God entrusted in

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

the hands of man was when He planted the garden. God asked man to work and take good care of the garden. When God gave man the garden, there was no need for a counselor to guide man in his ways because God made man in His own image, sinless in the beginning. Back in the Garden of Eden, when Adam and Eve failed, it became the blame game because Adam blamed Eve and Eve in turn blamed the serpent. To cut to the chase and avoid future finger pointing, God decided to use a different approach in the next responsibility He was planning to give man. Judging from the responses from Adam and Eve, it sounded to God like they could have used the services of a counselor to constantly brush their memory each time they crossed the line. In the next responsibility which involves taking care of the church, God through His son Jesus Christ who is the head of the church, decided to give us the counselor who is the Holy Spirit. In God’s mind, He was basically saying “No more excuses.” That explains why when you stand before Jesus on judgment day there will be no excuses whatsoever for what you did with your life because I have heard some people say “But the Bible is too difficult to understand.” This type of two-year-old baby excuse is not going to work; maybe you should try another one until you finally come to the realization that nothing is going to work for your lazy attitude towards God. If you really want to live your life for Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit will never turn down a request to help you understand the Holy Bible; so please stop deceiving yourself because Jesus has no time for games. Salvation is the most serious spiritual business you will ever come across in life. Your life is on the line; how you chose to navigate this world is entirely in your own hands, blame nobody for your failures because nobody will take credit for your success when Jesus opens the gate for you on that day to freely walk into Paradise in the kingdom of God. “All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” John 14:25-26. To operate the church which is essentially our life on earth, God gave us a manual called the Holy Bible; not only did He give us this manual, He also gave us a counselor to help us understand what is contained in the manual. In the supernatural job description of the Holy Spirit, God’s number one priority for humanity is for the Holy Spirit to give us all the supernatural help we need to understand the Holy Bible. One thing is certain; you have to sincerely ask for this help before you can receive it. The Holy Bible which is God’s word is not like any other book in human history. It is true that we have Bible Schools scattered all over the world; regardless of how many years we spend studying the word of God from Bible teachers, the truth is, none of them is equipped with the supernatural knowledge to dissect the Holy Bible.

Felix Wantang

From Table 3, we can clearly see that The Old Testament has a total value of 39 while The New Testament has a temporary total of 33. To balance the equation, the New Testament column of Temptation Number Three must be balanced with the corresponding Old Testament column. Jesus did not establish the church to make us rich or happy; he established his church to deal with the damaging effects of sin in the world. The church was established for sinners. To balance the equation, sin must be added to the New Testament column of Temptation Number Three. He died at the age of 33 for the sins of the world which gave birth to the New Testament. Church = 7 Sin = 6 Church + Sin = 13 36

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

This will bring the sub total of temptation number three under the New Testament column to 13 and will also balance the total to 39 = 12 = 3 which is the supernatural divine number of Jesus Christ. These three temptations are considered to be the road map that God designed to give us the 66 books of the Bible. Each number 13 was designed to trigger the effective supernatural change that would have occurred to the Holy Trinity if Jesus failed the test. The 66 Books of the Bible are also a representation of the original sinless number (66) for humanity before sin entered the world. 1. The first number 13 = To change the Father. 2. The second number 13 = To change the Son. 3. The third number 13 = To change the Holy Spirit. After losing these three battles to Jesus Christ, because of the significant supernatural force embedded in divine number 13, it will play a vital role once again in the End of the Age. Out of shame and humiliation, the devil through the antichrist, will use the number 13 to try to rule the world in preparation for the End of the Age.

Summary of the Three Temptations In temptation number three, Satan told Jesus what will happen if Jesus worships him; he promised to give Jesus all the kingdoms of the world. Regardless of the fact that Satan doesn’t know how to tell the truth, this promise however definitely had some element of truth in it because the kingdoms of the world are indeed in the hands of the devil – Satan. In temptation number two, Satan also told Jesus what will happen if Jesus throws himself down from the highest point of the temple in Jerusalem; he promised Jesus that God will command His angels to protect Jesus from any possible harm. From a spiritual strategic point, there is also some very strong element of truth in this promise from Satan. The reason is because God had only one specific plan for the death of his son Jesus Christ for the sins of the world; it must be done through the cross because the cross is a spiritual symbol of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. I will give you a detailed explanation of this supernatural spiritual connection in “Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3”. The reason God will definitely send His angels to protect Jesus if he fell from the top of the temple is because if God allows His son to die through any other process specifically stipulated by Satan, the result will be a huge failure and blow to God’s plan. In temptation number one, when Satan asked Jesus to perform a miracle of turning stone to bread it turned out to be the only temptation that Satan did not promise Jesus any possible outcome. Satan craftily withheld this piece of information

Felix Wantang

from Jesus because he knew that it was definitely an outcome that Jesus will not buy. Satan knew that the outcome will be: “Getting rid of God” Regardless, Jesus knew immediately and that explains why he fought back with a statement that strengthened and defended his relationship with the Father. ---------------------------------------------------Spiritual Lesson for Parents Whenever you have an enemy who desperately wants to wipe you out, when the enemy eventually fails to successfully take you out, their next move is always directed towards your child. The enemy will go after your children because you are ultimately considered to be too strong for elimination. It explains why temptation number one was designed by Satan to dethrone God but when he failed, all his efforts were then directed towards Jesus Christ in the last two temptations. It also explains why the second and third temptations were designed by Satan to hurt Jesus Christ. ------------------------------------------------------

The Sins of the World In the Bible, John 3:16 is probably the most commonly used verse that summarizes the reasons why God sent His son Jesus Christ to the world. It clearly states that God gave His only son to take away the sins of the world. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16. We know from Bible teachings that Jesus had to die on the cross to fulfill this very important mission of a life time. Unfortunately for most Christians, the Church has not been able to properly address the mystery of this mission. We know that Jesus Christ went through the following steps: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Step 1: Step 2: Step 3: Step 4:

He was tortured and crucified on the cross. He died on the cross and was buried. He rose from the dead on the third day. He ascended into heaven 40 days after his resurrection.

Inside these four steps, the supernatural mystery of what it took to take away the sins of the world is completely buried by God. The question is: In the process of fulfilling God’s mission, at what point did Jesus actually take away the sins of the world?   

Was it in Step 1: The Cross? Was it in Step 2: His death and burial? Was it in Step 3: His resurrection? 38

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2



Was it in Step 4: His ascension?

To properly solve this mystery, we have to gradually trace the supernatural mystery of the origin of sin in the Garden of Eden. We know that sin entered the world through Adam and Eve when they disobeyed God’s command. The Bible gave us the source of sin in the following chronological order: The Birth of Sin 1. Stage 1: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was in the Garden of Eden. 2. Stage 2: There was a fruit from the Tree. 3. Stage 3: Satan became a Serpent. 4. Stage 4: The serpent took the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. 5. Stage 5: The Serpent gave the fruit to Eve and she ate the fruit. 6. Stage 6: Eve gave the fruit to Adam who also ate the fruit - (Conception of Sin). 7. Stage 7: Sin was born into the world (The Birth of Sin). 8. Stage 8: The wages of sin is death – sin gave birth to death in the world. 9. Stage 9: Death from sin without Jesus Christ will take you to eternal condemnation in Hell. Now that we have successfully traced the birth of sin, it is time to also trace the supernatural mission of Jesus Christ from the Father in heaven commonly referred to as the Birth of Salvation because it is this mission that God used to take away the sins of the world. The Birth of Salvation 1. Stage 1: God took the fruit from the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden and gave it to the Holy Spirit. 2. Stage 2: The Holy Spirit gave the fruit to the Virgin Mary. 3. Stage 3: God took the fruit from the Virgin Mary and placed it on the cross. 4. Stage 4: The fruit was tortured, crucified, and died on the cross for the sins of the world. 5. Stage 5: The fruit was buried. 6. Stage 6: The fruit resurrected from the dead on the third day. 7. Stage 7: The fruit ascended into heaven 40 days after resurrection. 8. Stage 8: The fruit is seated at the right hand of the Father where he originally came from.

Felix Wantang

9. Stage 9: Through the fruit (the Son), the Father decided to send the Holy Spirit to the world who will help to prepare us for God’s Paradise in Heaven. Notice that Stage 4 under the Birth of Sin corresponds to the stage where Satan had a conversation with Eve in an attempt to convince her to eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This stage also corresponds to Stage 4 under the Birth of Salvation which is the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ on the cross. It was at this stage that Satan gained an upper hand over the power of dominion that God gave man on the sixth day of creation in Genesis Chapter One. The dominion God gave Adam and Eve was the power of judgment (decision-making abilities and complete discretionary powers). Remember that at no point did Satan have a face to face conversation with Adam. By successfully convincing Eve to eat the fruit from the tree, Satan did nothing extra to bring Adam on board because the influence of Eve was enough to accomplish that task. By effectively coaxing Eve to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, it therefore implies that in the spiritual realm, the serpent took the fruit and gave it to Eve. In the natural world, we call it brainwashing. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross in Stage 4 was God’s way of taking back the dominion over God’s creation that was lost by Adam and Eve. It explains why the cross of Jesus Christ is the only place you can successfully take dominion over Satan in any spiritual battle. This also explains why Jesus was crucified by man because this dominion was in the hands of man. Even though the point of his death on the cross marks the point where Jesus takes back dominion from Satan on behalf of man, that transformation will only occur at the moment when his death is made supernatural by the Father. The reason is because the dominion God gave Adam was not a natural control over all of God’s creation; it was a supernatural force. As much as the death of Jesus Christ takes care of the dominion God gave Adam, supernaturally speaking, Jesus must first take away the sins of the world before he supernaturally takes back the lost dominion. Because his resurrection is what creates the supernatural capability of his death on the cross, that supernatural reaction must be born first to trigger the switch that brings dominion back to man. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil produced sin the moment when Adam ate from the tree because sin was conceived in Adam as soon as he ate the fruit. This conception led to the birth of sin to the world. God’s creation of life starts at conception; not at birth. If the death of Jesus Christ was all that was necessary to take away the sins of the world, then God would have taken him away from the cross after his death, back to heaven. God would not have given man the opportunity to bury His son in the world which also means that his resurrection would have been eliminated from the process. If sin has to be taken care of once and for all, God must attack the source of sin.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

The supernatural source of the sins of the world or the point where the life of sin starts is that point where sin was conceived; not the point where sin was born to the world. The point of conception was that very moment when Adam ate the fruit because he was in charge of the Garden of God. When you fix the source of a problem, you effectively eliminate the problem. Sin was conceived in Stage 6 under the Birth of Sin. The death of Jesus Christ on the cross was the punishment for our sins because we are all descendants of Adam who produced the first sin. “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5. Keep in mind that Jesus was not the only one that was crucified on that day; there were two thieves that were crucified with him who also died the same day. It explains why his mission to take away the sins of the world cannot be restricted to his death on the cross. For Jesus to defeat the wages of sin which is death emanating from the birth of sin, he must transform the wages from death to life through his resurrection. If the resurrection of Jesus Christ under the Birth of Salvation represents the point where Adam ate the fruit (Stage 6) in the Birth of Sin process, therefore his resurrection was designed by God to reverse the supernatural transformation that occurred in Adam as soon as he ate the fruit. Before Adam ate from the tree, he was still in the image of God which is a sinless state. Precisely because Eve is a product that came out of Adam, God knew that by addressing the supernatural defects of Adam, the fix will automatically take care of any issues with Eve. The consequences originally produced by sin, was everlasting (spiritual) death but when Jesus resurrected from the dead, it was God’s way of saying that our everlasting death from sin has been transformed to temporary death (natural death). This new transformation gives us the opportunity to rise again just like Jesus rose on the third day. For us to share in this unique experience, the same body of Jesus Christ that was tortured, crucified, died, and was buried, must also resurrect from the dead. From the stages of the Birth of Sin, we can see that sin was born in Stage 7 which corresponds to the ascension of Jesus Christ into Heaven from the Birth of Salvation process. This is the point where Jesus effectively completed his mission on earth because birth marks the end of a conception (pregnancy) process. When a woman gives birth to a child, the seed changes location; the seed moves from the woman’s body to the world. When sin was born, it changed location from Adam’s spirit to the world. Likewise at this stage, Jesus changed location through his ascension from the world to heaven. We know that he was crucified by man; if God’s mission of using His son to take away the sins of the world is a supernatural move, then God must achieve this goal at a point where no human input is involved. That explains why Jesus took away the sins of the world when he was resurrected from the dead by the Father because this miracle had nothing to do with man. His resurrection is what made his death on the cross completely unique and supernaturally

Felix Wantang

set apart from humanity. When sin disappeared in Stage 6 which is his resurrection, the next stage was his ascension into heaven. We share in his ascension at a point where Jesus gives us spiritual bodies after taking our sins away when he comes back to judge the world. The Bible teaches that the dead shall rise again and the only way we can go to Paradise in Heaven after repentance is through the spiritual body that comes from Jesus Christ. “Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day, you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.” John 14:19-20. God assigned His son two distinctive divine numbers: 1. Natural divine number 2 for his natural death on the cross. 2. Supernatural divine number 3 for his supernatural resurrection. Jesus was given the two divine numbers because in God’s plan, Jesus will leave Heaven which is the supernatural world where he is the center of the three Godheads and he will temporarily dwell on earth where he will die a natural death at the age of 33. He will leave a supernatural legacy on earth by establishing his ministry at the age of 33. After the death of Lazarus in John 11:1-44, before raising him from the dead, Jesus said to Martha: “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” Martha responded by saying: “Yes Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the son of God, who was to come into the world.” John 11:25-27. While Jesus was talking about the resurrection, Martha on the other hand was talking about the Savior. The Messiah is the Savior who will come to die on the cross. While Jesus was talking about the supernatural which is precisely what the resurrection is all about, Martha was specifically thinking of the natural which is the death of Jesus on the cross. In this conversation, Jesus used two words to describe himself – Resurrection and Life. What Jesus was trying to say to Martha was very simple: “I am the supernatural (the resurrection) that came down from heaven to conquer death. Also, I am the irreversible transformation; I am the Eternal Life.” Resurrection = 165 = 12 = 3 Cross = 2 Death = 2 Life = 5 Salvation = 5 (God’s divine number for Everlasting Life). Whenever the supernatural is added to the natural, the result always produces a supernatural component. In this case, 42

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Natural Death (Death) + Resurrection = 2 + 3 = 5 (Everlasting Life). Salvation and Everlasting Life = The Supernatural. The combination of the Natural and the Supernatural (his death and his resurrection) is precisely why his resurrection is what makes his death on the cross to become supernatural. Without his resurrection, there will be no supernatural outcome from his death on the cross for the sins of the world. While God used the Ten Plagues to cripple Egypt, His Passover was uniquely and supernaturally used to free the Israelites from the bondage of slavery. On the other hand, God’s Passover in Israel was what He used to free the world from the bondage of sin. We know that the Natural Passover Lamb that was slaughtered in Egypt on the 14 th day is spiritually synonymous to the Supernatural Passover Lamb (Jesus Christ) that was slaughtered in Israel which brings us to: The Natural Passover Lamb in Egypt = The Supernatural Passover Lamb in Israel. In the Language of Heaven, the spiritual code for the Natural Lamb in Egypt is God’s divine number 14 which He gave to the Israelites in Exodus 12:5-6 “The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.” If the Natural Passover Lamb in Egypt and the Supernatural Passover Lamb in Israel share the same divine number, then the sum of God’s Passover in Israel must be the divine number of the Passover Lamb which is divine number 14. God’s Passover in Israel is a supernatural combination of the following components: 1. 2. 3. 4.

God’s son Jesus Christ. The Cross of Jesus Christ. The death of Jesus Christ. The resurrection of Jesus Christ.

God’s Passover in Israel = Jesus Christ + Cross + Death + Resurrection. Jesus Christ = 74 + 77 = 11 + 14 = 2 + 5 = 7. Cross = 2 Death = 2 Resurrection = 3

Felix Wantang

God’s Passover in Israel = 7 + 2 + 2 + 3. God’s Passover in Israel = 14. If God’s Natural Passover Lamb in Egypt is synonymous to God’s Supernatural Passover Lamb in Israel, then: God’s Passover in Egypt = God’s Passover in Israel……….. (Equation Psv.) Israel = 10 Egypt = 10 From (Equation Psv.): God’s Passover in (10) = God’s Passover in (10). It is therefore spiritually indisputable that God used His only son Jesus Christ to free the Israelites from the bondage of slavery in Egypt. When Andrew brought his brother Simon Peter to meet Jesus Christ, the first thing Jesus said to him was: “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas (which, when translated, is Peter).” John 1:42. If this statement from Jesus was about a name change, then he would have given Simon Peter a new name like God did with the following people in the past:    

Abram was changed to Abraham. Sarai was changed to Sarah. Jacob was changed to Israel. Moses changed Hoshea to Joshua.

Instead of giving Simon Peter a new name, all Jesus did was discard one of his names (Simon). In God’s divine plan for His son’s death on the cross, the divine number 2 which is God’s number for ‘Unclean” was reserved for the disciple that was chosen by heaven to betray His son Jesus Christ. God picked the 14th day of the month for the slaughter of the Natural Passover Lamb in Egypt. When it was time to slaughter the Supernatural Passover Lamb (Jesus Christ) in Israel, the natural input from humanity to facilitate this process must also be the divine number chosen by God which is the number 14. It is for this specific reason that Judas Iscariot was supernaturally designated by heaven to betray Jesus Christ. Judas Iscariot = 55 + 94 = 149 = 14 In compliance with God’s divine number 2 for “Unclean”, as soon as Simon Peter came to Jesus Christ, it was absolutely necessary to get rid of one name because each of the twelve disciples will only be allowed to keep one name. But when it came 44

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

to Judas Iscariot, notice how Jesus allowed him to keep both names. Judas Iscariot was the only disciple with this exemption because he was chosen by heaven to be the unclean spirit that will betray Jesus Christ in preparation for the cross of salvation. The Birth of Salvation clearly shows that Jesus Christ had to go through many stages to bring salvation to us. Unfortunately popular Christian belief states that all you need to do to find salvation is by just reciting a simple prayer. As soon as you make that prayer, Jesus will instantly had you a salvation ticket to Paradise in Heaven. This principle is nothing but a spiritual joke designed to make a complete mockery of the stages God put His son through to bring salvation to the world. If this principle holds the truth to salvation, then Jesus would have given us a carefully crafted prayer to accomplish that task. Again, if this principle is the truth, then after giving us a well designed prayer to that effect, Jesus would have said to the world: “See you later guys, my job is completed here on earth; I am going back to Heaven. You guys don’t need me on the cross to save the world.” God did not find Noah and Job to be righteous because they recited a well crafted prayer. God found them righteous because they obeyed Him and lived by His Law.

The Gift of Temptation The Bible teaches that when Jesus was born, he was presented with some very unique gifts by the Magi. “On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.” Matthew 2:11. The type of incense they brought was frankincense. After these gifts were presented to Baby Jesus, there were no additional comments of these gifts in the Bible. What exactly happened to the gifts? What did Mary and Joseph do with these gifts? What did Jesus do with the gifts when he became an adult? These are legitimate questions that should be answered. With the time value of money and because the Magi knew that Jesus was the new born King of Kings, the gold alone will be worth trillions of dollars today. You don’t bring pocket-change gifts to a King let alone the King of Kings. From Biblical perspective, these gifts were more than enough for Mary and Joseph to raise their baby (Jesus) in a wealthy environment. The common Biblical spiritual denominator for material wealth is money which is what the gold translates to. We know from Bible teachings that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil with divine number 9, is the root of all sin and evil in humanity. By the same definition, the Bible also teaches that money is the root of all evil. “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wondered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” 1 Timothy 6:10.

Felix Wantang

Money = 9 Frankincense = 11 Myrrh = 10 Money + Frankincense + Myrrh = 30. The fact that Jesus was still raised as a carpenter’s son in a household not different from the modern average family struggling to put food on the table, was enough proof that Jesus Christ and his parents did not keep the wealthy gifts from the Magi. If that was the case, then what exactly happened to the gifts? In the Language of Heaven, we know that the value of the three gifts is 30 which is the age at which Jesus started his ministry on earth. The gifts have a value of 30 because remember that the Magi were sent by Heaven which explains why through an angel, God spoke to them and gave them directives on which way to take back home. These gifts were supernaturally designed with respect to God’s divine plan for His son as opposed to being a collection of material gifts. Excluding his parents, just like the Magi were the first people to set eyes on Jesus after birth, the gifts were also designed for the first events of the life of Jesus Christ as soon as he is ready to start his mission on earth at the age of 30. These events are the three temptations from Satan shortly after the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist. The Gift of Gold (Divine number 9 for Money) When Satan asked Jesus to worship him in temptation number three, this was in relation to the gift of gold. The gold was a symbol of the wealth of the world which is what Satan was willing to offer Jesus in exchange for his allegiance. Because Jesus refused to accept the offer, it explains why neither Jesus nor his parents kept the gold gift. The Gift of Myrrh (Divine number 10) In temptation number two when Satan asked Jesus to throw himself down from the highest point of the temple, it was literarily an attempt to convince Jesus to commit suicide. Satan knew that Jesus came to die on the cross for the sins of the world but he also knew that if he could successfully convince Jesus to die without the cross and before God’s time which opposes God’s plan as well, then sin will prevail. If Jesus commits suicide and dies a natural death, his body will be embalmed with myrrh which was exactly what happened after his death on the cross. In John 19:3839 after the death of Jesus on the cross, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes to prepare Jesus’ body for burial. The divine number for myrrh (10) also explains why Satan used Psalm 91 for this temptation. 91 = 10. 46

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

The Gift of Frankincense (Divine number 11) When Satan asked Jesus to turn stone to bread in temptation number one, it was an attempt to stop the Holy Spirit from coming to the world through Jesus Christ. If Jesus performs this miracle, the Father (the Stone or the Rock) will disappear and because the Holy Trinity is inseparable, when one Godhead disappears, all three will also disappear. When Jesus introduced the Holy Spirit to his disciples after his resurrection, there were eleven disciples left because Judas Iscariot who betrayed him was no more which brings us to the divine number of Frankincense, the number eleven. From a supernatural perspective, because Jesus Christ did not fall for any of the three temptations, it explains why there are no Biblical traces of Jesus or his parents using any of the three gifts from the Magi. From this Biblical truth, it also explains why prosperity gospel is not only anti-Biblical, but it is also an act of retaining the gifts presented to Jesus Christ (who is the church). In effect, prosperity gospel is a total betrayal of true Biblical principles (the truth) to the devil who is Satan, in exchange for the pleasures of this sinful world. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fool yourself; Jesus Christ is watching every move you make and your day in his court is very close. Repent or perish!

CHAPTER 2

PREPARING FOR THE MISSION The Last Passover Lamb

fter Jesus performed the wine miracle that took place at a wedding in Cana Galilee, Heaven immediately made preparations to design his next move. By following a divine plan set aside for him by the Father, in Book One, we elaborated that the wine miracle was used to display what happened to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. One aspect of human nature that we strongly share with God is the process that we go through when we lose a loved one. Nobody rejoices over the loss of a loved one because it is very painful. It is the same feeling of pain that God experienced when He watched His son Jesus Christ being crucified on the cross. When Adam and Eve failed, God went through the same painful experience because He loved Adam and Eve very much as His treasured possessions. After the wine miracle, the next stage God prepared for His son was the stage that had to do with God’s reaction after the fall of Adam and Eve. God was certainly angry and that explains why right after the wedding which represents the fall of Adam and Eve, the Bible teaches in John 2 that Jesus went to the temple. “When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, ‘Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!’ His disciples remembered that it is written: ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’” John 2:13-17. Although it definitely looks like Jesus was angry when he arrived at the temple courts because of what he saw, the truth is from a supernatural perspective Jesus was not surprised with his findings because he knew that the Father was going to set the stage for him even before he visited the temple. The Jews thought they succeeded in upsetting Jesus Christ but what they did not know was that God only used them for

Felix Wantang

the prophecy fulfillment of what happened after the fall of Adam and Eve. Jesus was not angry precisely because of what he saw at the temple; his anger was nothing but a demonstration of God’s feelings of disappointment in the Garden of Eden because losing a loved one is often associated with some feelings of anger. The Bible teaches that it was very close to the Passover when Jesus visited the temple and we also know from Bible teachings that it was also very close to the Passover when Jesus was arrested. The Passover was therefore a very crucial element of his mission marking the beginning and the end because God designed His son and sent him to the world to die for our sins as the last Passover Lamb. That explains why we saw in Book One how Jesus used his visit to the temple courts to wrap up his mission to the cross. For Jesus to perfectly replay God’s reaction in the Garden of Eden, God had to properly set the stage in the only venue designated by man as the house of God which was the temple in Jerusalem. Before Jesus died on the cross, the temple was commonly known as the house of God which was synonymous to the Garden of Eden also known as God’s Garden. It explains why Jesus drove everybody out of the temple because after Adam failed, God literarily drove everybody out of the Garden of Eden – Adam, Eve, and the animals, were all kicked out of the garden. “Then the Jews demanded of him, ‘What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?’ But the temple he had spoken of was his body. After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said.” John 2:18-22. When Jesus made reference to rebuilding the temple, while the Jews thought he was referring to the physical building that housed the temple courts, Jesus was actually referring to the temple that was destroyed by man when Adam and Eve failed God in the Garden of Eden. That explains why he asked the Jews to destroy the temple because the spiritual temple in the Garden of Eden which is the soul of man was not destroyed by Jesus; it was destroyed by man’s actions. God did not send His son to the world to rebuild a physical structure; Jesus came to the world to pay the price that was required by the supernatural laws of heaven to rebuild the soul of man that was destroyed when sin entered the world. When God created the world and made all kinds of creatures to live on earth, He made them in four different groups – man, creatures of the land, creatures of the sea, and creatures of the sky. The Bible teaches that after God made man, He brought the creatures of the land and the creatures of the sky to Adam. “Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.” Genesis 2:19-20.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Keep in mind that before God brought these creatures to Adam, the Garden of Eden was already established with the five rivers that God used to water the Garden. Now, if God was going to trust Adam with naming the creatures He had made on earth, why did He exclude the creatures of the sea from this ceremony? With the creatures of the sea already living in the five rivers, there was no reason for God to exclude them from this very important event unless there was something that He was deeply concerned about Adam, the creatures of the sea, or both. Was Adam spiritually allergic to the creatures of the sea? When God planted the Garden of Eden, He used some very special features to design the garden.

Felix Wantang

“Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name. But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. He did not need man’s testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.” John 2:23-25. Jesus knew what was in mankind because through him all things were made and he was there with the Father when all things were made. Jesus also knew that what was in man was sin from Satan because he witnessed the fall of man as sin made its way into the soul of humanity. When he walked into the temple courts that day, he looked around and immediately knew that the only feature of the Garden of Eden that was not present at the temple at that very moment, were the creatures of the sea; everything else was there. There were people, money, birds, animals, and the Serpent who was sin through the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil rooted deep in the soul of man. The creatures of the sea were missing at the temple because God knew that Adam was going to fail at some point and because God’s spirit hovers over the waters, He was certainly not prepared to take any chances of allowing Adam to name the creatures that dwell in the same place where His spirit lives. It also explains why God took the initiative of naming the first spirit that directly came out of Him who in this case, was Adam. This strategic approach explains why God did not ask Adam what name he preferred when Adam was created but as soon as the first human (Eve) was created from Adam, God passed the naming rights to Adam. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Genesis 1:1-2. Jesus knew everything that God did during the creation process involving the creatures of the sea and that explains why Jesus used the creatures of the sea (miraculous catch of fish) to perform three significant miracles during his ministry with all three miracles strictly dedicated to his disciples, excluding the public; this rule was established because his disciples will be the gateway of the Holy Spirit into the world. Each miraculous catch of fish was designed for a specific feature of the Garden of Eden. 1. The first miraculous catch of fish was performed at a time when Simon and his friends were still fishermen. Fishing was their only occupation when Jesus called them to follow him. This miracle was therefore performed in relation to the occupational feature of the Garden of Eden. “When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, ‘Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.’ Simon answered, ‘Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.’ When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

break.” Luke 5:4-6. This miracle took care of the number 9 feature, from Table 4. 2. The second miraculous catch of fish occurred when Jesus and his disciples were about to pay their income tax. This miracle was designed to take care of the freedom from death feature inversely associated with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. “But so that we may not offend them, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.” Matthew 17:27. The Bible teaches that in the mouth of the fish was a coin that Jesus used to pay taxes for himself and his disciples. By paying their taxes, Jesus and his disciples, became free from any legal consequences because during the Roman Empire, death was the prescribed punishment, for tax evasion just like death was the prescribed punishment for eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. This miracle took care of the number 7 feature from Table 4. 3. The last miraculous catch of fish was a miracle that was specifically designed for the purpose of the food feature of the Garden of Eden. That explains why Jesus performed the miracle when he was preparing food for his disciples. “When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread. Jesus said to them, ‘Bring some of the fish you have just caught.’ Simon Peter climbed aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn.” John 21:9-11. This miracle took care of the number 6 feature, from Table 4. The three miraculous catch of fish took care of the number 3 feature. After using three miracles to address four of the features of the Garden of Eden, there were still six features from Table 4 that these miracles failed to address. These six features are what God systematically addressed by using the visit of His son to the temple courts in Jerusalem. From the list of creatures that God used to establish His Garden in Eden, the group of the creatures of the sea which represents God’s spirit was the only group that was missing at the temple when Jesus showed up. Everything that was present at the temple was used to defile God’s holy place and for that reason, the only spiritual component that was missing at the temple was the Spirit of God because the Jews turned the temple into a market place. Jesus knew that the temple was God’s staged spiritual replica of the defiled Garden of Eden. From the Table of Special Features of the Garden of Eden, the temple showed the following:

Felix Wantang

One common attribute of all the living creatures that Jesus drove out of the temple was that they were all created by God on the 6 th day – the people and the animals. “And God said, ‘Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.’ And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day. God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:24-25, 27 and 31. The Bible teaches that when Jesus came to the dove sellers, instead of driving the birds out of the temple, he literarily asked the sellers to take the doves out of the temple. The doves were part of the creatures of the sky and the creatures of the sea that were made on the 5th day. “And God said, ‘Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.’ So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And there was evening, and there was morning – the fifth day.” Genesis 1:20-21 and 23. In the Language of Heaven, if our soul is the temple of God and God’s holy nonblemish spirit is missing from our soul because we stupidly replaced it with sin through the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, then all the living creatures that Jesus drove out of the temple are synonymous to the sins of man. Likewise, the missing

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

living creatures at the temple – the creatures of the sea, are also synonymous to the missing Holy Spirit of God that disappeared from man’s soul when Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. For sin to make its way into the soul of man, the supernatural spirit of God that was originally a part of man’s soul, had to disappear from man. To get a better picture of what Jesus was trying to accomplish, we have to look at the entire picture once again because I don’t want you to lose sight of where Jesus was going with these events. With the three miraculous catch of fish, Jesus took care of the following features of the Garden of Eden: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Occupation Food The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil Creatures of the sea

When Jesus visited the temple, he took care of the following features of the Garden of Eden: 1. People. 2. Creatures of the land (The livestock). 3. Creatures of the air (The Doves). Up to this point, out of the nine features of the Garden of Eden (excluding the Tree of Life), seven of them were successfully taken care of, leaving just two more to go – money and the serpent. These two features are one and the same because just like the serpent, the gold and all the precious stones were also spiritual symbols of Satan who is the root of the sins of the world. That explains why Jesus made no attempts to get the money out of the temple; instead he scattered the money all over the temple floor when he overturned the table of the money changers. While everything else was kicked out of the temple, the money on the floor was still there when Jesus left the temple. The reason the money had to stay was because that particular feature will be addressed by using a special supernatural component. The only way God was planning to deal with the serpent and the sins of the world was by sending His son to die on the cross. It also explains why money had to change hands for Jesus to be betrayed and crucified on the cross. The Jewish leaders had no reason to pay Judas Iscariot in order to arrest Jesus because they were not afraid of Judas and Jesus was not a slave or property of Judas Iscariot. It all happened because of God’s supernatural divine plan staged by Heaven. Supernaturally speaking, because the creatures of the sea appeared to be the only creatures missing when Jesus arrived at the temple, Heaven therefore used these creatures to symbolize the Holy Spirit of God that was also missing in the temple because of the sinful ways of the Jews.

Felix Wantang

The three miraculous catch of fish dealing with the creatures of the sea were therefore supernaturally used to portray God’s spirit in the Garden of Eden. God’s spirit was inherent in the first conversation He had with Adam which also embraced His first law to mankind. That conversation is found in Genesis 2:15-17. “The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.’” That law had to do with man’s principal occupation, man’s freedom, and man’s physical survival in relation to food which were the three areas covered by the three miraculous catch of fish. Because God used the temple-stage to represent the beginning and the end of Jesus’ ministry, it explains why after Jesus scattered the money on the temple floor in the beginning phase of his ministry, the closing phase of his mission was also fulfilled when Judas Iscariot scattered money (thirty silver coins) on the temple floor as well after betraying Jesus. “When Judas who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was seized with remorse and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders. ‘I have sinned’, he said, ‘for I have betrayed innocent blood.’ ‘What is that to us? They replied. ‘That’s your responsibility.’ So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.” Matthew 27:3-5. When the chief priests and the elders said it was Judas’ responsibility, from a supernatural standpoint, inadvertently, they were referring to the supernatural responsibility that was assigned to Judas Iscariot through prophecy fulfillment from heaven to betray Jesus Christ. Judas was chosen from the beginning to execute this task and it was no supernatural secret to the chief priests and the elders because they were representatives of Satan in the process. However, from a natural standpoint, they were referring to the deal they made with Judas Iscariot. It is one thing to betray Jesus Christ; but it is another thing to be able to arrest him with no supernatural resistance. Unlike Joseph who was over powered by nine of his brothers before they sold him as a slave, Jesus Christ was not over powered by Judas Iscariot because the keys to the supernatural powers that God injected into His son were not in the hands of Judas Iscariot. If money was the breaking point, the Jews could have paid Judas one trillion dollars worth of gold coins and still not be able to arrest Jesus. The only reason why they succeeded was because God allowed it in His perfect timing and plan. If God was going to put up a fight when His son was arrested in preparation for crucifixion, it would have been a supernatural fight insurmountable by any natural human force and capable of wiping out the entire universe. Supernaturally speaking, Judas Iscariot therefore had nothing to do with how and when Jesus was going to be subdued for the cross. When Judas left the money on the temple floor, it was God’s way of saying that Jesus still had one feature of the Garden of Eden from Table 4 that

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

needed to be erased from the temple. That feature, which was money, is synonymous to the sins of the world which is deeply rooted in the temple of God spiritually and supernaturally known as the soul of man. Before he came to the world, God put a supernatural price on His son; that price was the cost of our sins, translated to the blood of Jesus Christ. But while in the world, man put a natural price on the life of Jesus Christ; that price was the money Judas Iscariot collected from the Jews to betray him. Since God used His son in exchange for the sins of the world, by selling Jesus for thirty silver coins, money was therefore naturally and physically used to represent the sins of the world as well. If Jesus is the price of sin and he still went to the cross for the sins of the world after Judas sold him for money, it therefore means that money alone was not enough to take care of the sins of the world. This analysis brings us to the equation of our freedom through Jesus Christ. With the price that God put on His son, the equation of our freedom through Jesus Christ was: Jesus Christ = The Sins of the world…..( Equation Sn8). By putting a second price on him through Judas Iscariot, the final equation of our freedom through Jesus Christ became: Jesus Christ = Money + The sins of the world. This brings us to:  God’s Natural Equation for the Sins of the World = Money ……………. (Equation Sn9).  God’s Supernatural Equation for the Sins of the World = The Blood of Jesus Christ ……… (Equation Sn7). From this equation, it is absolutely imperative to remember one of the most important teachings of Jesus Christ. “No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” Luke 16:13. By the same token, the left hand side of Equation Sn8 represents God while the right hand side represents sin and the world; you cannot serve both sides. You cannot serve both God and money because you cannot serve both God and sin. When Jesus went to the temple:  Let the natural component which is money that was left at the physical temple be X.

Felix Wantang

 Let the supernatural component which is sin that was left at the spiritual temple of God (our soul) be Y. Jesus Christ = X + Y Jesus Christ – (X + Y) = Salvation This brings us to: (Equation Sn8) = (Equation Sn9) + (Equation Sn7) This explains why money and sin are inseparable partners. It also explains why when you hoard money, you also hoard sin. Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

Dreams It is always a good thing to repent and give your life to God through Jesus Christ but one big mistake that comes with this move is that as soon as people proclaim themselves as Christians, they start acting like God owes them a revelation of their purpose in life. They suddenly pick up something they will love to do in the name of “God’s work” and proclaim it to the rest of the world as “God’s purpose in my life”. I am sorry, but you are completely wrong. As much as what you have chosen to do may be a very good thing for you and humanity, it is not God’s purpose because God’s purpose is driven by time. God’s purpose in your life is very simple – to serve Him and allow Him to take absolute control of your being through His son Jesus Christ. It has nothing to do with what you have chosen to do with your life because you suddenly became a Christian. It is out of God’s purpose in your life that He picks a dream for you, which is like the job description in His kingdom. You neither have the power nor the authority to make that choice of determining God’s purpose in your life – you cannot make that choice. As far as God’s purpose is concerned, you don’t have to be a Christian for you to be a prime candidate for the job. The life of Paul who was formerly known as Saul is a very good example. He never thought in his lifetime that he was going to spend the rest of his life doing the work of God as he became the greatest apostle through Jesus Christ; God had a purpose for him before he became a Christian. Moses was still an idol worshipper when God called him for a supernatural purpose. Back in Jericho, Rahab was not a Christian when God used her to fulfill the dream of the nation of Israel when Jericho was conquered. I did not apply for the job of writing these books but Jesus gave me no choice as I find myself trapped in his arms. Just because you are a Christian doesn’t mean that every good thing you’ve

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

decided to do with your life is essentially translated to God’s plan for your life. Solomon and Joseph did not ask for a dream but out of God’s purpose in their lives came the dreams that mapped out their destiny. It is very disturbing to see Christians picking up all kinds of careers, tossing them up in the air for the whole world to see because they strongly believe they have discovered God’s purpose in their lives. You can’t even figure out why your twoyear-old child is having a temper tantrum or why your spouse is walking around the house with a long face but you claim to be able to read God’s mind to ultimately discover His purpose in your life. If you can’t read the mind of the human being who wakes up next to you each morning, what makes you think you can read God’s mind? You don’t come to discover God’s purpose through years of strategic thinking or academic studies; neither do you discover God’s purpose in your life by checking out different occupations. If God’s purpose is revealed through any of these channels, then Jesus would not have wasted any time in calling the twelve disciples; he would have just picked all those who already found God’s purpose in their lives. God’s purpose in your life has nothing to do with human input and it is not some sort of discovery from a spiritual treasure hunt. What makes God’s purpose in your life very unique and completely different from anything you can ever think of is the fact that when He calls you with His purpose, you will do it far better than anybody in human history because He will equip you with tools that have never been unleashed before. God’s purpose in your life has nothing to do with the choices of man and that includes you because His purpose will come in His perfect timing. Stop running ahead of God and stop walking in front of Him; walk with God. Your journey with Jesus Christ is a trip to God’s kingdom. When God led the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt, He led them in a pillar of cloud and fire because He wanted the Israelites to walk with Him. “By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light; so that they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.” Exodus 13:21-22. When Jesus came to the world, he knew God’s purpose in his life; he knew that God sent him to die on the cross to take away the sins of the world. If Jesus wanted to walk around performing miracles at the age of ten, he could have done that perfectly because he had the supernatural power to do anything. Instead, he waited for thirty years to start his mission because when it comes to God’s purpose, the most important component is time. It is true that the Bible is full of promises for us when we come to Jesus Christ but just because God made a promise to give you something does not necessarily mean that you have the right to decide when God should deliver. When God promised Abraham a son, what Abraham did not know was that God was going to give him something more than a son. Abraham in his desire to inject

Felix Wantang

human input into God’s purpose, decided to take his wife’s offer by sleeping with Hagar because Abraham thought he had the right to decide when God should deliver the promise. It is true that Hagar had a son who was named Ishmael and even though the result appeared to have temporarily satisfied Abraham’s desire for a son, that outcome however, did not override God’s purpose in Abraham’s life. God’s purpose in Abraham’s life was Isaac, not Ishmael. Anybody can have a son but not anybody can have Isaac. God promised Abraham a son not because Abraham wanted a son but because God planned to use three male seeds to create a covenant with Abraham. The fact that Abraham did not initiate the covenant was enough reason for God to reject any seed initiated by Abraham as part of the covenant which explains why God rejected Ishmael. It was for the same reason of creating the covenant that unlike Abraham, even though Isaac did not ask for a son, God still gave him two sons – Esau and Jacob. Abraham’s decision to take matters into his own hands became his worst nightmare when God asked him to send Ishmael and Hagar away. When God makes a promise to you or gives you a dream and you decide not to wait for Him, you will only run into problems because your actions will never give you what God originally planned for you. You will be making the mistake of a lifetime.

The Ten Commandments-Prayer The Ten Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer were both handed to us from God respectively through Moses and Jesus Christ. We know that prayer is nothing but a conversation with the Father but Jesus still took the time to give us The Lord’s Prayer as a guide to teach us how to pray. The interesting part of this process is that even though Jesus called it how to pray, God still answers our prayers when we use other forms of prayer that are completely different from what Jesus gave us. Positive results from other forms of prayer are a clear manifestation of the truth that our prayers are not constrained within the boundaries of what Jesus gave us – The Lord’s Prayer. Our Prayers on the other hand are completely judged from our hearts. If this is the case, then why did Jesus spend the time to teach us how to pray? Was it a waste of time and effort on his part? The reason is because in our effort to map out a systematic daily prayer module, we cannot fully cover all the aspects of what God wants to hear from us. Our prayers in most cases are filled with requests for selfish desires and things that God knows will eventually harm us at the long run. A good example is when people pray for God to help them win a lottery. A few years back, I made this type of prayer as well and when nothing happened, I got frustrated because I was convinced that if God gave me the money, I knew exactly what I was going to do with it to please Him. The point is, what I did not

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

realize was that God refusing to answer that prayer was actually a very good thing for me because a few months later God opened my eyes to see that most of the people that were in my life at that time who called themselves friends and relatives, were nothing but enemies who were looking for ways to destroy me. If God had given me that lottery winning, there is no doubt in my mind that it would have invited more enemies into my life. When this was revealed to me, I actually decided to thank God for not answering my prayer. As a Christian, we should develop the habit of thanking God for the prayers He refused to answer because we have no clue of what the future holds for us; only God knows. By giving us the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus is saying that regardless of how we chose to pray to God, we must also pray the Lord’s Prayer every day. The prayer Jesus gave us is the only prayer that completely addresses our compliance with The Ten Commandments. Every time we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we get God’s attention. The Lord’s Prayer is strictly an unconditional obedience to the Ten Commandments. Jesus introduced the Lord’s Prayer right at the beginning of his ministry. As a Christian, if you develop the habit of using the Lord’s Prayer daily, and mean it from the bottom of your heart, your relationship with God will be highly improved.“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.” Matthew 6:5-8. The prayer form of babbling like pagans is something that we could easily drift into without realizing that we are actually doing it. Every time our prayer is not constrained within the boundaries of The Ten Commandments, we are essentially babbling. Jesus then continued by giving us the prayer module that God wants to hear from us daily. “This then, is how you should pray:

Felix Wantang

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Felix Wantang

To get a better understanding of the reasons why Jesus gave us this prayer, we are going to take a closer look at The Ten Commandments in Exodus 20:1-17 and the spiritual relationship it has with the Lord’s Prayer. We will use Table 6 to study both of them. When you say “Our Father in heaven” you are basically telling God that you acknowledge Him as your only God and that you have no other gods before Him. It also tells God that since you have no other gods before Him you also do not have any idols that you worship in your life. When you say “Hallowed be your name” you are telling God that you give due respect to His name and have no intention of misusing His holy name. You are also telling God that you consider His name to be holy. When you say “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” it is with respect to the holy nature of heaven. Regardless of how hard we try to please God, we can never live up to the expectations of Heaven because the holy standards of Heaven are not achievable by any human. Heaven is a place where the angels are constantly praising and worshipping God. As much as it is our responsibility to try and live a holy life that pleases God, He also decided to set aside one day each week to honor heaven. When God said “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy” what He is saying is that because heaven is holy, the earth must dedicate one day each week to honor heaven by keeping that day holy. Because everything that is done in heaven is holy, the only way God’s will can be done on earth as it is in heaven, is by doing something that honors Heaven. When we say “Give us today our daily bread” God immediately looks at our relationship with our father and mother. God is saying that He is pleased to give you what you need for each day but you must honor your father and your mother because these are the same people that He used from the moment you were born, to provide you with your daily needs. As a child, your life and what shapes your day are things that God completely entrusted into the hands of your parents. Any child who is arrogant towards the parents will never find peace in life because if you chose not to have a healthy relationship with your parents, don’t expect to find one with God until you restore whatever is broken in your relationship with your parents. This phase of the law is exclusively dedicated to our relationship with our parents and no one else. When we say: “Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” These two statements cover the following: 1. 2. 3. 4.

You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

5. You shall not covert your neighbor’s house. This section covers all aspects of human temptation and evil acts against our fellow man – our neighbor. Your neighbor is anybody. One of the most remarkable platforms that God laid down when He created the world and put man in charge is that life comes from God who will hold everybody accountable for their actions. God is very organized in such a way that He did not design life to complicate it; we on the other hand through our messed-up minds came up with theories that complicate life. God designed life to function in some sort of auto pilot mechanism where everything has its predefined function with no surprising results. When we say: “Forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors.” It doesn’t get any better than this. It is very straight forward; don’t come to God asking for forgiveness from anything unless you have completely forgiven all those who sinned against you. Before you come to God for forgiveness through Jesus Christ, you must first examine yourself, repent from your sins and forgive all those who sinned against you. Jesus made it very clear when he concluded the Lord’s Prayer with this statement: “For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” Matthew 6:14-15. With such a firm condition, there is no way around it. You be the judge each time you come before God for anything; examine yourself properly and if you want to play around it or be very serious about it, the choice is yours. Nobody has anything here to lose but you. This condition is so powerful that your relationship with Jesus Christ is definitely determined by your desire and willingness to repent from your sins; you must also be prepared to forgive all those who sinned against you regardless of what they did to you. If God could forgive us for our sins that sent Jesus to die on the cross, then what makes you think you have the right to refuse to forgive other people? God understands that the driving force behind our fall into any of these temptations is the devil and for that reason, Jesus carved out a statement that helps us to ask for God’s unbeatable intervention to deliver us from the evil one. Because of the divine nature of the Holy Trinity with divine number 3, God also divided The Ten Commandments into three sections as follows:

Felix Wantang

When Jesus started his teachings on The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, after using the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blessedâ&#x20AC;? 9 times, he started right away by talking about the following, in the order listed below: 1. Salt and Light. 2. The fulfillment of the law. 3. Murder. 4. Adultery. 5. Divorce. 6. Oaths. 7. Eye for Eye. 8. Love of Enemies. 9. Giving to the Needy. 10. The Lord`s prayer. 11. Fasting. 65

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

12. Treasures in Heaven. 13. Do not worry. 14. Judging others. 15. Ask, Seek, Knock. 16. The Narrow and wide gate. 17. A tree and its fruit. 18. The Wise and the Foolish Builders. Jesus started by talking about Salt and Light. This was his attempt to address who we are before diving into the Law. When he started talking about the Law, he did not hesitate by clearly stating the reason why he came to the world. “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” Matthew 5:17. The Law Jesus is referring to is completely summarized in The Ten Commandments. After setting the record straight, he immediately started with the issue of Murder. Not only is this law the 6th Commandment, it is also the first law that deals with our relationship with other human beings other than God and our parents. The next law in The Ten Commandments is law number 7 which says “You shall not commit adultery.” That is why Jesus made that his next topic right after murder. He also addressed the issue of Divorce as soon as he was done dealing with adultery because according to Jesus, unlawful divorce definitely leads to adultery. That’s why he said “But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.” Matthew 5:32. In dealing with Adultery, Jesus systematically made his way into the next law on the list which is Commandment number 8 – “You shall not steal.” This law is basically saying that you shall not take what doesn’t belong to you. In other words, “Do not touch another man’s property.” This is what Jesus was addressing when he concluded the Divorce teachings with the statement “Anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.” He is saying that a wrongfully divorced woman is still married to her husband; don’t touch her. The next law, Commandment number 9 says “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.” That is why Jesus made his next topic the same issue by talking about Oaths. Testimonies are usually given under oath and he wanted to make sure that our testimony at all times is nothing but the truth. The next law is the last one, Commandment number 10 which prevents us from forcefully taking anything that belongs to our neighbor. Jesus dealt with this law by touching three topics in which he stressed the need for us to constantly give. He used the following topics to make his case:

Felix Wantang

 Eye for Eye.  Love of Enemies.  Giving to the Needy. If we follow the teachings of Jesus on these three topics, we would develop the love that prevents us from coveting our neighbor’s house. As soon as Jesus was done with his teachings with respect to The Ten Commandments, he wasted no time to give us The Lord`s Prayer as the main reason for his teachings so far. When he addressed the issue of “Fasting” all the way to the end of the eighteen topics “The Wise and Foolish Builders”, Jesus dedicated this section to our quest for the kingdom of God. After dealing with the 18 topics, he performed the miracle of healing a man with leprosy in Matthew 8:1-4. For many centuries, the early Christians took the Ten Commandments very seriously as the foundation of God’s law; it was usually viewed as the guiding principle of the checks and balances by which most Christians examined their spiritual lives. As humanity and the church gradually started shifting from the true teachings of Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible, more attention was directed to finding ways of making the Ten Commandments less applicable in human life. This dramatic shift also affected the Lord’s Prayer. More than 80% of churches today do not even recite the Lord’s Prayer. We live in a world were churches have designed all sorts of prayer modules to meet specific human needs. The church has successfully convinced Christians that there are specific unique prayers for the following situations:        

When you want a lot of money. When you are sick. When you need a job. When you want a big home. When you need a car. When you need a spouse. When you need a child. When you are afraid.

If this modern Christian approach holds any Biblical truth, then why did Jesus call the Lord’s Prayer “How to pray?”

CHAPTER 3

THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST John the Baptist

hen John the Baptist was ready to do what he was called by God to accomplish, he did not play games. Armed with the spiritual wisdom to prepare the way for Jesus Christ, he decided to set the record straight in his teachings. While he was in the Jordan preaching and baptizing for repentance and the forgiveness of sins, many people came to see him. The Bible teaches that the people were in three groups namely:  The crowd.  The tax collectors.  The soldiers. These people came to see John because they were hungry for the word of God and eager to see the promised Messiah. As they listened to John preach, they were also eager to know what they had to do in order to please God and go to heaven. Since John was preparing the way for Jesus Christ, he told each group what Jesus expected from them. As a Christian, you must find where you belong in these three groups that came to see John in Luke 3:10-14. The crowd asked John “What should we do then? John answered “The man with two tunics should share with him who has none, and the one who has food should do the same.” The tax collectors asked him “Teacher what should we do.” John replied “Don’t collect any more than you are required to.” Finally the soldiers asked him “And what should we do.” John said to them “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely – be content with your pay.” John also told the people to produce good fruit. “Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves: ‘We have Abraham as our father! For I tell you, that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.” Luke 3:8. John was saying that it is not enough to just repent; you must also produce fruit to justify your repentance. Notice how John did not mention anything about tithes or

Felix Wantang

money that you must give to God. John was more interested in one thing - our relationship with other people (our neighbors). Our relationship with God was something that John reserved for Jesus to address. As we saw in the eighteen topics that mark the introductory phase of the teachings of Jesus Christ, he did not mention or make money the center point of his ministry. One very simple rule in life is that anything that beats the scope of common sense will definitely not pass a spiritual test. When we look at the parameters John the Baptist gave the three groups that came to see him, they all fall within the framework of common sense and very simple rule â&#x20AC;&#x201C; those who have more should share with those who have less or nothing. This is a very simple rule that comes from the heart â&#x20AC;&#x201C; share your bread with the hungry. There is no place in the Bible where it teaches that those who have less should share with those who have more or that the poor should share their bread with the rich. With this in mind, the fact that a preacher lives in a million dollar mansion, displays an expensive lifestyle, owns a private jet, and collects money regularly from the poor, is something that cannot pass a spiritual test. This type of spiritual arrogance is exactly what made John the Baptist very upset. This kind of approach makes no sense and that makes prosperity gospel non-Biblical. It is an evil spiritual exploitation that makes life almost unbearable for the poor.

The Supernatural Conception When God sent Angel Gabriel to go deliver the news about the coming birth of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ in Luke Chapter 1, God took the time to also allow Gabriel to give us some details that were very crucial to the arrival of these two babies. For the birth of John the Baptist, God supplied us with the following information: 1. Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth were both from the descendants of Aaron. 2. The conception was a natural process. 3. The child was eventually named John the Baptist. For the birth of Jesus Christ, God disclosed the following: 1. Joseph who was going to be the earthly father of Jesus Christ was from the descendants of David. 2. Mary who was going to be the mother of Jesus Christ was from the descendants of Aaron just like her relative Elizabeth. 3. The conception will be a supernatural process. 4. The child will be named Jesus the Christ.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

5. For the conception to be made supernatural, God will introduce a new component called the Holy Spirit from Heaven.

As much as these two babies supernaturally came from God, there was one thing that separated them. The conception of John the Baptist was a natural process because Zechariah slept with his wife Elizabeth. On the other hand, the conception of Jesus Christ was a supernatural process because Joseph did not sleep with Mary. The natural process is associated with the earth while the supernatural process is associated with Heaven. If we add the heavenly component that made the conception of Jesus Christ a supernatural event to the total value from Table 7, we get (The Holy Spirit + 32). The missing supernatural component is the Holy Spirit because Angel Gabriel said to Mary â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month.â&#x20AC;? Luke 1:35-36. Holy Spirit = 7 New Total for Jesus Christ in the Descendants Table =32 +7 = 39 = 12 = 3

Felix Wantang

Recall that this was also the value of the three applications from the three temptations of Jesus Christ which gave us: 13 + 13 + 13 = 39. Remember the number 3 is the supernatural divine number of Jesus Christ. The Bible teaches that soon after Mary’s experience with the angel, she decided to go visit her relative Elizabeth. As much as Mary was happy to carry God’s child, there was still that part of her that was very terrified and that’s why she decided to go visit Elizabeth. “At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.” Luke 1:39-40. Elizabeth described the feeling to Mary as a leap for joy. If Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, it was because something supernatural was transferred from Mary’s voice to Elizabeth womb. The child in Elizabeth’s womb moved because God’s most powerful divine number to deal with the earth was triggered at that very moment. John the Baptist coming from a natural conception = Earth. Jesus Christ coming from a supernatural conception = Heaven. Heaven = 10 Earth = 7 Heaven + Earth = 17. It was divine number 17 that God released at that very moment. Every time God activates divine number 17, something supernatural happens. Remember in Genesis 7:11, on the 17th day of the 2nd month, heaven was unleashed upon the earth and a supernatural reaction started right away. In Luke 3:1-20, the Bible talks about John the Baptist preparing the way for Jesus Christ. Was Jesus not capable of preparing his own way to navigate life and ultimately fulfill his mission of dying on the cross for the sins of the world? No I don’t think so. If Jesus could die on the cross and rise on the third day then he is capable of doing anything and that includes preparing his own way. The reason the Bible talks about preparing the way for Jesus is because of the sole reason why God created John the Baptist. He was created to represent the flood that God used to destroy the world through Noah. John the Baptist prepared the way for Jesus Christ because since Jesus is the ark, it could not sail without the flood. As much as the ark was led by the Holy Spirit, it was the flood that prepared the way for the ark to sail through the world. Before God made the decision to tear down the earth and create a new one in Genesis 7, 8, and 9, He saw that the wickedness of man was at its greatest height.“The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on earth had 71

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.” Genesis 6:5.When God used Noah to create a new world through the ark and the flood, He asked Noah to build the ark with the following specifications in Genesis 6:15-16: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Make the ark 450 feet long = 5400 inches. Make the ark 75 feet wide = 900 inches. Make the ark 45 feet high = 540 inches. Use cypress wood to build the ark. Coat the ark with pitch inside and out. Make a roof of it and finish the ark within 18 inches of the top. Make upper, middle, and lower decks. Make rooms in it and put a door in the side of the ark.

5400 = 9 900 = 9 540 = 9 18 = 9 Cypress = 105 = 6 (God’s divine number for sin). The Volume of this ark would be 5400 x 900 x 540 = 2,624,400,000 cubic inches or 218,700,000 cubic feet. 2,624,400,000 = 18 = 9 218,700,000 = 18 = 9 God asked Noah to finish the ark 18 inches from the top. This means that the finished part of the ark will be the overall height minus 18 inches = 540 – 18 = 522 522 = 9. From God’s perspective, all the specifications He gave Noah on how to build the ark were embodied in divine numbers 6 and 9 which is the divine number for sin and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil respectively. It is very important to remember that what made God to ask Noah to build the ark was because man’s wickedness was at the greatest proportion in human history – sin completely overtook human behavior. This wickedness was original introduced into man’s system when Adam and Eve disobeyed God through Satan using the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to create the fall of man. God asked Noah to finish the ark 18 inches less from the top as

Felix Wantang

a supernatural symbol of what the ark was all about; it was about the source of sin which is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil with divine number 18 = 9. God divided the ark into three decks because it took three people to introduce wickedness into the world – Adam, Eve, and the Serpent who is the devil. To preserve part of what He originally created when He made Adam and Eve, God asked Noah to take 7 of every kind of clean animal and 2 of every kind of unclean animal male and female in both cases because the number 2 is God’s divine number for creation and unclean while the number 7 is His divine number for holy, perfect, and complete. For this process, God executed His supernatural plan with the following: 1. On the 17th day of the 2nd month of Noah’s 600th year, God burst open the springs of the great deep and opened the floodgates of heaven for rain to fall on earth for 40 days and forty nights. 2. The ark sailed and came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the 17 th day of the 7th month of Noah’s 600th year. 3. The mountains became visible on the 1 st day of the 10th month of Noah’s 600th year. 4. The water dried up from the earth on the 1 st day of the 1st month of Noah’s 601st year. 5. The earth was completely dry on the 27 th day of the 2nd month of Noah’s 601st year. From Biblical teachings, we know that the ark sailed for exactly 5 months (from the 17th day of the 2nd month through the 17th day of the 7th month). We also know that it took a little over one year for the earth to be completely dry (from the 17 th day of the 2nd month of Noah’s 600th year through the 27th day of the 2nd month of Noah’s 601st year). For many centuries, Bible scholars have spent time and effort presenting arguments justifying the true birth date of Jesus Christ. The sad truth of everything presented so far, is that all of them are arguments or facts based on natural circumstances surrounding the existence of man. Most arguments are usually substantiated by using different seasons of the year. One thing we should always keep in mind is that we can never fully come to understand anything about Jesus Christ if we use natural circumstances to study him. The reason is because everything about Jesus Christ is strictly supernatural. That includes his conception, his birth, his life, his death, his resurrection, and his ascension. For example, the star that God used to direct the Magi to baby Jesus when he was born has never appeared again in the sky. By the same implication, if God wants the snow to fall in the middle of hot summer because His only son has been born to the world, He will do it. It is about time we stop trying to use natural events to study and justify anything about Jesus Christ.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

The Bible teaches that for forty days, the water kept coming on the earth and the ark floated and sailed through the flood. “For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased, they lifted the ark high above the earth. The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.” Genesis 7:17-18. The ark is Jesus Christ and this period was repeated when God allowed His spirit to move Jesus Christ to the desert where he was tempted by the devil. Remember in Genesis 1:2 the Bible teaches that the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.” Matthew 1:1-2.  The 40 days and 40 nights that the flood kept coming are the 40 days and 40 nights that Jesus fasted.  The Spirit of God that was hovering over the waters to help the ark sail through the flood was the same spirit that led Jesus Christ into the desert to be tempted by the devil and the same spirit also moved Jesus to the three different locations of the three temptations.  The flood was John the Baptist who prepared the way before Jesus was tempted. In Matthew 1:17, the Bible teaches that there were three fourteen generations leading to the birth of Jesus Christ. Likewise, in keeping with the supernatural divine number of Jesus Christ which is the number 3, there were also three distinctive Biblical calendars leading to the birth of Jesus Christ. The first Biblical calendar was introduced when God destroyed the world using the flood; the second Biblical calendar was introduced in Egypt using the Natural Passover Lamb to mark the first month. The third Biblical calendar specifically designed for Jesus Christ who is the Supernatural Passover Lamb, was introduced by God using the Conception of the Virgin Mary to mark the 6th month of the third Biblical calendar. In effect, the 8 th month of the first Biblical calendar corresponds to the 6 th month of the third Biblical calendar. The Conception of the Virgin Mary started in the 6 th month of the third Biblical calendar because the number 6 is God’s number for sin, man, and dominion. God’s son will come to the world for one specific mission – to take away the sins of the world. Luke 1:24 teaches that Elizabeth was in seclusion for the first 5 months when she became pregnant with John the Baptist. The conception of John the Baptist marked the beginning of the third Biblical calendar. This five-month period is the duration that the ark sailed through the flood because John the Baptist came to prepare the way for Jesus Christ. The ark sailed from the 17 th day of the 2nd month through the 17th

Felix Wantang

day of the 7th month. While the flood prepared the way for the ark, it also baptized the world with water. The remarkable thing is that as much as God’s anger was directed towards the earth, He was also baptizing the earth in preparation for a new earth. For this reason, while God used the flood to baptize the world with water, He also used the ark to baptize the world with the Holy Spirit. That explains why John the Baptist baptized with water while Jesus baptizes us with the Holy Spirit through his death on the cross. John’s message was very clear: “After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” Mark 1:7-8. These are the same spiritual components that God uses to baptize us when we come to Jesus Christ through repentance. From Table 8, if the 17th day of the 7th month marks the 5th month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, therefore the 6th month of her pregnancy will fall on the 17th day of the 8th month. “In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David.” Luke 1:26-27.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Nine months pregnancy of the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth Biblical Months 17th day of the 7th month 17th day of the 8th month 17th day of the 9th month 17th day of the 10th month 17th day of the 11th month 17th day of the 12th month 17th day of the 1st month 17th day of the 2nd month 17th day of the 3rd month 17th day of the 4th month 17th day of the 5th month

Elizabeth’s pregnancy

Mary’s pregnancy

5th month 6th month

Conception

7th month

1st month

8th month

2nd month

9th month (Birth of John the Baptist)

3rd month

4th month 5th month 6th month 7th month 8th month 9th month. (The Birth of Jesus Christ)

Table 8

The Bible teaches in Luke 1:36 that after the angel was done telling Mary what God was about to give her, the angel concluded the visit by informing Mary that her relative Elizabeth was in her sixth month of pregnancy. This visit marked the beginning of Mary’s pregnancy which is clearly elaborated in the Table of Nine Months pregnancy for the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth. From Table 8, there is no doubt that the 17th day of the month played a very important role in both pregnancies.

Felix Wantang

The Lord Jesus Christ was therefore born on the 17 th day of the 5th involving two divine numbers (5 and 17). While the number 5 is God’s number for Eternal Life and Salvation, the number 17 on the other hand is most powerful divine number on earth because it is a combination of the number for Heaven and Earth.

month divine God’s divine

Heaven = 10 Earth = 7 Heaven + Earth = 17 Divine number 17 is used in most cases whenever Heaven introduces an overshadowing effect upon the earth. The number 5, which is also God’s divine number for victory, is something that we saw many times in Book One. In real life, it is true that a pregnancy may last for more or less than nine months but following God’s divine plan for the world and what Jesus came to accomplish, Mary and Elizabeth both had unique babies. With John the Baptist coming to prepare the way and Jesus coming to deal with the effects of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil with divine number 9 which is the sins of the world, the pregnancies of both Mary and Elizabeth were therefore designed to last for exactly 9 months. Both John the Baptist and Jesus Christ were therefore born 9 months from the date of conception. Unlike most prophets in the Bible, one would think that because John the Baptist came to prepare the way for Jesus, his ministry of preaching the good news and baptizing with water should have lasted a lot longer. On the contrary and from Bible teachings, as soon as John the Baptist was done baptizing Jesus Christ, his job of preparing the way for Jesus was immediately cut short through his arrest. The reason is because God made John with the sole intention of reflecting what He did with the flood through Noah and the ark. The life of John the Baptist was therefore designed to rapidly disappear from the scene just as fast as it took the flood waters to dry up from the earth. As part of John’s testimony when his job was completed, he said “The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. He must become greater; I must become less.” John 3:29-30. What John was trying to say here is that he is the flood and if the ark has to stay high up in the mountains of Ararat where it finally rested, he (John) must decrease. The ark is Jesus Christ and for it to stop sailing and make itself visible to the new world at the top of the mountain, the flood must disappear. That explains why Jesus made no attempts to save John’s life when he was beheaded. Any attempt from Jesus to save

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

John’s life would be like trying to stop the waters from drying to expose the new earth. The ark rested on the mountains of Ararat because of what happened to Jesus before he started his ministry. In Matthew 4:8-9, when the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world as part of the last temptation, it was an indication of the ark that rested on the mountains of Ararat. Remember that before the ark came to rest on these mountains, it was moved to different places through the Spirit of God. That also explains why the Spirit led Jesus through different places during his temptation as we saw from Bible teachings that the three temptations took place in three different locations.

The First Disciples When it was time to start a new world, God called Noah, his family, and all the living creatures out of the ark. Because of how God systematically started the new world by calling Noah and his family out of the ark, that explains why when Jesus finished with the three temptations from the devil and it was time to start his ministry, he decided to call his first disciples in Matthew 4:18-22. The remarkable thing is that Jesus had all places to choose from but he decided to go to the Sea of Galilee to call his first disciples out of a boat. Why did he do that? What was so special about the men he saw when he arrived there? If he was looking for unbelievers, he had many tax collectors, soldiers and money lenders to choose from. If he was looking for believers, he also could have used the groups that came to see John the Baptist. Remember that the two major groups that came to John the Baptist in search of the Messiah were the tax collectors and the soldiers. These guys were already conscious of their sins, which makes them a good start for Jesus Christ. The truth is, because Jesus did not come to the world to do things at random, he had to follow a divine plan from the Father. He went to the Sea of Galilee because every step of his mission was preplanned by the Father including the words that came out of his mouth. That is why Jesus said “Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.” John 14:10. Jesus also reaffirmed this promise when he said, “These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.” John 14:24. When the flood was over, God called Noah and all living creatures out of the ark. “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you – the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground – so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number upon it.” Genesis 8:16-17.

Felix Wantang

The Bible also teaches that there were three sons of Noah who came out of the ark. “The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. From this information, we know that there were four males who came out of the ark. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Noah. Shem. Ham. Japheth.

That explains why when Jesus went to the Sea of Galilee to look for his first group of disciples, he only called four men out of the boat and they were: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Simon Peter. Andrew. James. John.

“As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.” Matthew 4:18. Jesus called these two men and they left their boat and followed him. “Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets, Jesus called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.” Matthew 4:21-22. After the call of these four disciples, why did he not continue along the Sea to call more disciples? The only reason he did not call more than four disciples from the boat was because he was following a divine plan; Jesus will never deviate from the stipulations of the Father. In the process of starting a new world, because God called only four men out of the boat (the ark), Jesus also had to call only four disciples out of the boat for the new world he came to give us with his blood on the cross. Jesus did something very strange when he called Simon Peter. He immediately decided to discard one of his names (Simon). Why did Jesus dislike the name Simon? The reason is because Jesus was going to prepare Simon Peter for an executive position in his church. Remember when God called Abram and his wife Sarai for the same kind of position, God changed their names as soon as He made the covenant with them. He changed Abram to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah. This was God’s way of reflecting the position He had planned for them in Heaven. From the Language of Heaven: Abram = 35 = 8 Abraham = 44 = 8

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Sarai = 48 = 3 Sarah = 47 = 11 = 2 Abram + Sarai = 8 + 3 = 11 = 2 **Abraham + Sarah = 8 + 2 = 10 Heaven = 10 As soon as Jesus saw Simon Peter, he knew that if the young fisherman was going to be used for the position in mind, not only will he require a supernatural makeover, but one of his given names must go as well. Simon = 7 Peter = 10 Simon + Peter = 7 + 10 = 17 The number 7 is strictly reserved for each of the three members of the Holy Trinity and that includes Jesus as well. The number 17 is God’s most powerful divine number on earth. For these reasons, the name Simon had to go and that explains one of the reasons why Jesus decided to call him Peter. “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas (which when translated, is Peter)” John 1:42. In one of his conversations with Peter, Jesus also gave him an idea of the reasons why he decided to call him Peter. “And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:18-20. By addressing Simon Peter as just Peter and also calling him the rock, Jesus was not referring to physical rock. Jesus was referring to the same kind of rock that God used to give the Israelites water to drink during their journey to the Promised Land. This rock is the heavenly rock which comes through Jesus Christ. Jesus knew that what will make Peter the perfect candidate to later head his church will not necessarily come from Peter’s qualities; he also knew that whoever will be appointed to head his church must go through some supernatural spiritual makeover almost like what Moses experienced when God called him to lead Israel out of slavery in Egypt. Armed with the laws of the Language of Heaven, Jesus knew that the first thing he had to do was supernaturally deal with Peter’s names. Any name that was not supernaturally connected to the plan Jesus had for Peter in connection with his church, had to go. By discarding the name Simon, the twelve disciples that Jesus finally called were the following:

Felix Wantang

He came to take away the sins of the world in fulfillment of the covenant God made with Abraham. 7 = Complete, Holy and Perfect. Jesus carefully picked these twelve men in such a manner that the final value for the two groups was the divine number 7 which is the number for holy, complete and perfect. The value of group one above (44 = 8) for the four men Jesus called out of two boats is the same value that God was looking for when He called Abram and changed his name to Abraham. Abraham = 44 = 8 The Bible teaches that when Noah came out of the ark, God made a covenant with him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.â&#x20AC;? Genesis 8:21. The thing to keep in mind is that even though God made these promises to Noah, it was not because God felt bad for what 81

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

He did by sending the flood; it was only because He had a better plan. This new plan will involve His son who will come to die for the sins of the world to free us from the bondage of sin once and for all.

The Second Adam The Bible teaches that Adam was a failure because he couldn’t successfully keep one simple law. “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” Genesis 2:16-17. When you look at humanity, the way we carry ourselves, the increasing rate of wickedness, and how sin ruthlessly ravages through the lives of every living soul, you will undoubtedly see a vivid picture of what makes Adam an immeasurable spiritual failure. If this conclusion holds the truth, then why did God have something to do with Adam in the process of making the second Adam who is, His son Jesus Christ? Adam was created on the 6th day and God sent His angel Gabriel to visit the Virgin Mary in the 6th month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy. “In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.” Luke 1:2627. We know that the number 6 was used to create Adam and it is God’s divine number for man, sin, and dominion. Using it to bring Jesus into the world is like using the parts of a-poorly-designed machinery for a simple job, to later start building a complex technology for a tough job. Does that make any strategic sense? Naturally speaking, with man No; but supernaturally speaking, and with God, absolutely yes. Spiritually speaking, because God’s systematic creation of life starts at conception, it was therefore imperative for the conception of Jesus Christ to start in the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy. Before God created Adam, He made the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

The light on day 1. The sky on day 2. The land, the sea, and vegetation on day 3. The sun, moon, and stars on day 4. The creatures of the sea and the creatures of the sky on day 5. The living creatures of the land, livestock, and wild animals on day 6. He made man on day 6.

He made all these things to prepare the way for the creation of the first Adam. But when He was about to make the second Adam, He made only one thing in preparation of the process; all God made was John the Baptist who came to prepare the way for Jesus Christ. When God created the first Adam and gave him dominion

Felix Wantang

over everything He had made including the Garden of Eden, the disturbing news is that there is absolutely no Biblical record of Adam exercising the executive spiritual supernatural powers of dominion that was vested in him. The first Adam was man and he eventually allowed sin to dominate his soul. Out of the three attributes of divine number 6 (man, sin, and dominion), only two of them (Man and Dominion) were inherent qualities that God established for the number 6; the third quality (Sin) was acquired when Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. As soon as sin entered the world through the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, it also took away the power of dominion from Adam. For Jesus to take back the power of dominion from the devil he must first take away the component that robbed Adam of that power; that component is sin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the sins of the world. Following the chronological order of events of divine number 6, God first made man, gave him dominion over the earth, and sin came thereafter. 1. First was man (Divine number 6). 2. Second was dominion (Divine number 6). 3. Third was sin (Divine number 6). 2 pregnancies of 9 months each = 18 months. In Book One, when we talked about the origin of the Language of Heaven, we saw that divine number 9 came out twice from the Chart of Heaven Sectional Table which was Table 3. We also concluded that divine number 9 which is the divine number for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, had to manifest itself on two occasions from the Chart of Heaven Sectional Table because in the Garden of Eden, it will take two applications of the fruit from the tree to effectively contaminate the spiritual flavor of Adam and Eve. For sin to effectively replace the flawless spiritual flavor of humanity originally placed in Adam through Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s image, both Adam and Eve must eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil with divine number 9. If this is the Biblical truth, then when God plans to restore the soul of man through His son Jesus Christ, likewise divine number 9 must be replicated twice. That explains why the pregnancies of both Elizabeth and the Virgin Mary were back-toback. It also explains why the two pregnancies were supernaturally designed to last for (9 + 9 = 18 months). The Bible teaches in Mark 1:1-3 that John the Baptist came to prepare the way for Jesus Christ whom we know as the second Adam; God revealed this truth to humanity because back in the Garden of Eden, the first manifestation of divine number 9 by Eve when she ate from the tree, was a supernatural failure that prepared the way for Adam. It explains why Satan in the image of the serpent did not have any conversations with Adam to convince him to also eat from the tree. When Eve ate

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

from the tree, she instantly prepared the way for Adam to also eat from the tree; it explains why the Bible teaches that Eve gave the fruit to her husband Adam. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.â&#x20AC;? Genesis 3:6. The woman therefore completed everything that was necessary to bring her husband on board.

When angel Gabriel visited the Virgin Mary, he made reference to Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is

Felix Wantang

impossible with God.” Luke 1:36-37. We know that both Mary and Elizabeth each had a full term (9 months) pregnancy. Why did God send His angel in the sixth month and why was Elizabeth six months pregnant during the time of the visit? Why not the third, fifth or even seventh month? Why not wait for Elizabeth to give birth to her child before using Mary for Jesus Christ? When God sent His son Jesus Christ to the world, the order of his mission was that he will first take away the sins of the world before taking back the dominion that Adam lost to Satan. In Table 10, from the chronological order of events of the three groups of divine number 6, out of these three groups (man, Sin, and dominion) Jesus will not take man away. The three groups of divine number 6 correspond to the 666 = 18 months of the two pregnancies of Elizabeth and the Virgin Mary. The number 18 is the expanded divine number for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. For Jesus to execute his mission, he had to start from the bottom of Table 10 and walk his way up. From the Eighteen Months Pregnancy table above, as Jesus takes away the first and second groups of divine number 6, the only group left will be the third group (man) of divine number 6 located at the top of the 18-month list which corresponds to Elizabeth’s pregnancy. This group also represents John the Baptist. In the Language of Heaven and God’s mission for His son, the third group of divine number 6 (man) which Jesus will not take away, must also be equal to the first divine number 6 (man) that God made before sin entered the world. The first divine number 6 God made before sin entered the world was Adam. The equivalent creature of this divine number 6 must be obedient, holy, humble, and spiritually compatible to His son Jesus Christ. Just like Adam (the first number 6 God made) was made in the image of God and also in the image of God’s son, the spiritual components of whoever is in the third group of the table must be directly proportional to the spirit of God’s son. It explains why not only was John the Baptist the first cousin of Jesus Christ and was able to communicate with Jesus while they were still in the womb, but it also explains why John the Baptist was the only human that God gave the supernatural privilege to baptize His son Jesus Christ in preparation for the biggest spiritual mission in human history. God used two simultaneous pregnancies of 9 months each because there were two trees that simultaneously occupied the middle of the Garden of Eden when sin entered the world. “In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” Genesis 2:9. In the Pregnancy Table, John the Baptist was used to represent the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; it also explains why he died a natural death which is synonymous to the kind of death that awaits every human being because of the consequences of sin from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. On the other hand, Jesus Christ represents the Tree of Life which explains why he died naturally on the cross but supernaturally resurrected on the third day to give us eternal life.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

The unique characteristics of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are proof of the everlasting life that is not only synonymous to the Tree of Life but is also identical to the everlasting life that awaits all those who believe through repentance and accept him as Lord and Savior. Do you have this assurance? If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, then I strongly urge you to find him now because today may be your last day on earth. The wages of sin is everlasting death in unquenchable fire in hell accompanied by Satan. Jesus loves you and he paid the price of your sins when he died on the cross and rose on the third day because he knew you before you were created by God, for all things were made through him. All you have to do is call upon his name today, anytime, and he will answer you immediately because he is always waiting and ready for calls from whoever repents and believes in him as the son of God who takes away the sins of the world. Stop postponing your ticket to Paradise in Heaven. Jesus Christ is the only way.

CHAPTER 4

GOD’S BLUEPRINT Why Jesus started at the Age of Thirty

n Book One, we briefly talked about divine number 4 as God’s number to start and end a process. Divine number 4 was one of the divine numbers that we did not really go into details in Book One. The one area where God clearly demonstrated the use of this number was when He created a new world using the flood through Noah. During that process, God used the spirit of John the Baptist to inject power into the flood. John = 2 We know that the number 2 is God’s divine number for creation and God used four males to carry out the process of creating a new world; the four males were Noah and his three sons. When God created the first world through Adam and Eve, He made the female seed the principal component of His divine plan by making Eve the principal mechanics for moving humanity forward. But when He destroyed the first world and initiated the process of creating the second world, He changed the principal component from female to male by using Noah. This drastic change also produced the qualities of divine number 2 in which each member of a pair is the exact opposite of the other; in this case male and female. That explains one of the reasons why Jesus concentrated his selection of 12 disciples only around the male seed. Jesus has nothing against women but like we mentioned earlier, he had to follow the divine plan of the Father. He had no choice because his job was already cut out for him by the Father. It is very important to keep in mind that God was not necessarily discarding the female seed; He was just temporarily putting on hold the original position of the female seed. When He created the first world, He started with Adam and then Eve but when He created the second world, He started with the ark which represents His son Jesus Christ, but before Jesus was born into the world in human flesh, his mother Mary was already here. The process of the second 87

Felix Wantang

world therefore started with Mary who gave birth to Jesus Christ. Because of the significant role that divine number 4 was going to play in the new world, that explains why God called four males out of a boat (the ark) when the flood was over and Jesus also called four males out of the boat. Remember that when God made the covenant with Abram, He changed Abram’s name to Abraham. Abram = 35 = 8 Abraham = 44 = 8 We also saw that when Jesus called the first four disciples out of the boat and discarded one of Simon Peter’s names, the outcome was 44 = 8 which is also the equivalent of the call of Abraham. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Peter = 10 Andrew = 11 James = 12 John = 11

Total: 44 = 8 The call of these four disciples belongs to one group while the call of the remaining eight belongs to the second group. In keeping with divine number 4, when it was time to establish the gospel, Jesus also used four men to do it. The Bible also teaches in John 1:39 that it was about 4 in the afternoon when the first two disciples of John the Baptist followed Jesus. The number four is also manifested in the four books of the gospel. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Matthew Mark Luke John

Total: The 4 Books of the Gospel When God started the process of creating a new world with four men, God also made certain that when His son comes to retrace these steps, the major component that will determine the right time for His son to start his mission on earth, will be incorporated in the four men – Noah and his three sons. That component will be the value of these four men, translated to the physical age of the son of God when he starts his ministry. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Noah = 11 Shem = 9 Ham = 4 Japheth = 5

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Total: 29 Just like these four men with a total value of 29 were hiding in the ark until God called them out, Jesus will have to keep a low profile for 29 years as he waits for the Father’s call at the age of 30 to start his ministry of retracing the steps of the Father to create a new world. When that time comes, Jesus will call four male seeds out of the boat just like the Father did with Noah and his three sons. At birth, when the Magi brought three significant gifts (Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh) to worship Jesus Christ, it was also God’s way of telling us that His son will start exercising his authority on earth as the King of Kings at the age of 30. Gold = 7 + 15 + 12 + 4 = 27 = 9 Frankincense = 6 + 18 + 1 +14 + 11 + 9 +14 + 3 + 5 14 + 19 + 5 = 119 = 11 Myrrh = 13 + 25 + 18 + 18 +8 = 82 = 10 Gold + Frankincense + Myrrh = 9 + 11 + 10 Gold + Frankincense + Myrrh = 30 The number 30 is God’s expanded number from divine number 3 and we know that this divine number is also the divine number of the Holy Trinity coming from the three Godheads (777=21=3). The Bible teaches that Jesus’ mission on earth was very specific. “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” Matthew 5:17. The first appearance of Jesus Christ on earth was not in flesh; it was strictly in spirit in the image of the ark God asked Noah to build. God used the ark to baptize the world; the ark started sailing on the 17th day of the second month and came to rest on the 17 th day of the seventh month. Divine number 17 which is God’s most powerful divine number on earth therefore played a very significant role in the life of the ark. If the ark is God’s son presented to us in spirit, then when God’s son comes to us in flesh to fulfill God’s law which is the Holy Bible, whatever modifications he will make in the law must reflect the supernatural properties of the ark. We know that Jesus personally modified God’s law by adding the four books of the gospel. We also know that all the teachings of Jesus Christ are compressed into these four books. If the four books of the gospel hold the modifications that Jesus made to God’s law in flesh when he fulfilled God’s mission on earth, then the four books of the gospel must also hold the divine number that God used to bring the ark to rest when Jesus came to us in spirit through the ark. From this Biblical truth, the four books of

Felix Wantang

the gospel (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) must reveal divine number 17. This number is supernaturally buried in the number of topics from the four books. I can give you a comprehensive list of the topics from each book but I really donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it is necessary especially because it is very easy for anybody to pick up the Bible and start counting the number of topics from each book. Table 10b is a list of the first and last topics from each of the four books; it also contains the total number of topics from each book.

Notice that because we are dealing with the Language of Heaven, the Total Number of Topics column must be reduced to values of not more than ten. Heaven = 55 = 10 (Divine number for Heaven)

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

From Table 10b we can clearly see that when Jesus fulfilled God’s law, the modifications he made to the Holy Bible sum up to the age when he started his ministry.

The First Two Miracles of Healing Jesus started his ministry by addressing 18 topics in Matthew 5-7 to mark his arrival on earth to deal with the sins of the world which originated from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil with divine number 18 = 9. These eighteen topics were designed to touch every aspect of our sins. When it was time to perform his first miracle of healing of the flesh, he performed the miracle in Matthew 8:1-4 during which he healed the man with leprosy. Why did Jesus make leprosy the first disease to use for his first miracle of healing? The reason is because he came to retrace the steps of Moses and Joshua in taking the journey to the Promised Land. That explains why as soon as Jesus was done healing the man, he mentioned Moses. “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” Matthew 8:4. Jesus was working with a divine plan from the Father and because that plan had everything to do with the original plan God gave Moses, the 18 topics that Jesus covered before performing this miracle were designed to address the first sign that God gave Moses in the burning bush. When Moses’ staff became a snake, it was an indication that Jesus will come to die for the sins of the world and that’s why Jesus spent so much time dealing with every aspect of our sins before he performed his first miracle of healing. In Exodus 4:1-9, God gave Moses three signs. The second sign was a miracle of healing during which Moses’ hand became leprous. That explains why Jesus used this disease to perform his first miracle of healing. Jesus knew that God gave Moses and Aaron three miraculous signs to perform before the elders of Israel back in Egypt not to show off God’s power but to convince the elders that God heard their cry and remembered the covenant He made with their father Abraham. God never breaks a promise and because of the promises He made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob He decided to rescue the Israelites from bondage in Egypt. The three signs God gave Moses and Aaron were as follows: 1. Moses’ staff turned into a snake. 2. Moses’ hand became leprous. 3. Moses was to take some water from the Nile and pour it on the ground for the water will become blood. All these three signs were to be performed before the elders of Israel. God was very convinced that the first two signs will make the Israelites believe but He still gave Moses the third. God gave them three signs because the mission was all about

Felix Wantang

His son Jesus Christ with supernatural divine number 3. David used the same supernatural spiritual approach with his divine number 5 when he picked 5 stones to fight with Goliath even though he knew that he was only going to use just one stone to defeat the giant. When Moses and Aaron met with the elders of Israel, they ended up performing only the first two signs to make the Israelites believe. The first sign covers the sins of the world which Jesus will come to take away – all of it. That is why Jesus spent the first part of his ministry teaching from the beatitudes plus the eighteen topics that he covered right after that. They were all designed to address the sins of man. The second sign God gave Moses and Aaron had to do with the healing of the flesh. Jesus knew precisely what his first miracle of healing of the flesh was going to be and that’s why he healed the man with leprosy right away after dealing with the eighteen topics involving the sins of humanity. The third sign God gave Moses is what Jesus was demonstrating when he healed the centurion’s servant in Matthew 8:5-13. Remember when God gave Moses the three signs, they were designed for the sole purpose of making the elders of Israel believe in the God of their fathers. If Moses and Aaron were to perform the third sign, they would have taken water from the Nile and then travel to the home of the elders to perform the miracle. There is definitely some distance apart from these two locations. Now take a look at what the centurion said to Jesus “Lord, my servant lies at home paralyzed and in terrible suffering.” Matthew 8:6. And the response from Jesus was: “I will go and heal him.” Even though Jesus was ready to go to the man’s home to perform the miracle, he eventually did not go because the man’s next statement changed the whole scenario. “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.’” The Bible further teaches that when Jesus heard this, he was astonished and that is why he said: “I tell you the truth, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.” Matthew 8:10. Jesus concluded the conversation by saying to the man: “Go! It will be done just as you believed it would.” Matthew 8:13. To get a better understanding of how Jesus meticulously replayed this miracle from the days of Moses, we are going to break it down as follows:  When God gave the third sign to Moses and Aaron they were convinced that the elders of Israel will believe only after they’ve seen all three signs. Moses and Aaron were astonished as well when the Israelites finally believed after the second sign. Jesus is never the kind of person that naturally becomes astonished just because somebody expresses a strong faith in him. His reaction was nothing but a replay of how Moses and Aaron reacted when the

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

elders of Israel surprisingly believed after the second sign. Before travelling to Egypt, they were very convinced that the only reason why God gave them the third sign was because the Israelites will not believe the first two.  The faith of the centurion was designed to set a third party free – his servant. Likewise, the faith of the elders of Israel was designed to set a third party free – the people of Israel.  The faith of the centurion developed because of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the miracle Jesus performed on the man with leprosy. The centurion was not born with faith in Jesus Christ. Remember we said that the teachings of Jesus Christ before he performed his first miracle all addressed the sins of the world and they also represent the first sign God gave Moses. Likewise, the first miracle of healing Jesus performed (leprosy) represents the second sign God gave Moses that involved Moses’ hand turning leprous.  Just like the elders of Israel were moved to believe after watching the two signs from Moses and Aaron, the centurion was also moved by the teachings of Jesus Christ and his first miracle of healing. That is why he demonstrated such level of faith in Jesus Christ. It also explains why Jesus talked about Israel when he expressed astonishment in the man’s faith.  Just like Moses and Aaron were ready to go to the home of the elders of Israel to perform the third sign, Jesus was also ready to go to the centurion’s home to perform the miracle of healing on the servant. In both scenarios, Moses, Aaron, and Jesus did not go to their respective destinations for the miracles in question because the faith of the parties involved stopped them from taking further actions.

The first attribute that these two miracles have in common is the fact that they both had to travel from one place to another and they can only be activated at the

Felix Wantang

point of destination. The second attribute is the fact that no words were supposed to be spoken to the third parties involved (the recipients) for the miracles to be activated. Just like Jesus said nothing to the centurion’s servant for healing to take place, Moses and Aaron were also not supposed to say a word to the elders of Israel if they had to perform the third sign. God designed it to be a silent miracle. Also, since the centurion was older than his servant, God used him to represent the elders of Israel and that is another reason why when Jesus talked about the centurion’s faith, he mentioned the nation of Israel. In every practical sense, the centurion’s faith was not stronger than the faith of the two disciples of John the Baptist who left everything and followed Jesus without witnessing any miracle from Jesus Christ in John 1:35-42.

Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man When God made the decision to free His people from the bondage of slavery in Egypt through Moses and Aaron, not only was God setting His people free to get them ready for the Promised Land, He was also using that opportunity to set the stage that marks the supernatural pathway for His son Jesus Christ. In Book One we talked about Jesus being the supernatural glue that held together all the miracles that God performed in Egypt. After the freedom of the Israelites from Egypt, the Bible teaches that Moses and Aaron took the Israelites towards the desert where they camped for a short period. Without notice, God decided to change the plan when He asked the Israelites to turn back and camp by the sea. “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon.” Exodus 14:2. Why did God suddenly change the original travel plan He gave Moses and Aaron? God changed the plan because the miracle His son will perform to commemorate this moment will be carried out in a town that overlooks some sort of water like a lake, river, or sea. That is exactly what Jesus did when he stepped out of the boat and went to the region of Gerasenes across the lake from Galilee in Luke 8:26-39. When Jesus got out of the boat, he was approached by a demon-possessed man. Keep in mind that Jesus did not go looking for this man. In compliance with God’s divine plan, Jesus handled the situation in a very unique fashion. One would expect Jesus to immediately cast out the demons from the man but the whole thing took a different twist. “When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, ‘What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torture me!’” Luke 8:28. The Bible teaches in Mark 5:1-20 that after Jesus commanded the evil spirits to come out of the man, they identified themselves as Legion. The demons also begged Jesus to send them to a particular destination. “And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.” Mark 5:10. The Bible also teaches that there was a large herd of pigs 94

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

feeding on a hillside, not far from the scene. “The demons begged Jesus, ‘Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.” Mark 5:12. Jesus gave them permission and the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs. The herd was about two thousand in number and they rushed down into the lake and perished. 2000 = 2 (God’s number for unclean) Notice that when the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, Jesus did not command the pigs to go perish in the lake. It was a decision made by the demons and the pigs. In the second part of the story, the Bible teaches that those who witnessed the drama reported the incident to the town and countryside and the people rushed to see Jesus. When they arrived at the scene and saw the demon-possessed man completely healed and normal, they were afraid and begged Jesus to leave their region. As much as the people blamed Jesus for the death of the pigs, he actually had nothing to do with it. To get a better understanding of how the twist relates to God’s original plan for His people from bondage in Egypt, let’s break it down as follows:   

The demons represent Pharaoh’s army. The herd of pigs represents Pharaoh’s horses and chariots. The man represents Pharaoh and Egypt.

Just like the demons rode on the pigs to perish in the lake, Pharaoh’s army also rode on horses and chariots. The Bible teaches that the demons called themselves Legion. As we know, this is a very common term used to describe the army. We know that Pharaoh’s army came out of Egypt, just like the demons came out of the man who in this case represents Egypt. The Bible also teaches that the man was very strong and powerful. “This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him any more, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him.” Mark 5:3-4. The description of this man’s strength is a carbon copy of the strength of the Egyptian Government which is also Pharaoh. Remember that Egypt was not only the richest country in the world, it was also the most powerful country on earth. To get a better idea of what Egypt was like, think about the super power status of the United States. Another name for the President of the United States is “The most powerful man on earth.” Another remarkable twist is that as soon as the man saw Jesus, his first reaction was that of fear and submission. It was almost like he had seen Jesus before or they knew each other because he called Jesus son of the Most High God. This reaction is in line with how Pharaoh reacted when he saw the devastating effects of the plaques God unleashed in Egypt especially the plaque on the firstborn. Remember this plague

Felix Wantang

was designed to kill all the firstborn of Egypt while the Passover which represents Jesus Christ, was designed to boost this plague. This in effect spiritually indicates that the man had seen Jesus before and he knew Jesus very well. After the plaque on the firstborn, Pharaoh’s immediate reaction was that he became genuinely submissive for the first time and just like the man begged Jesus not to torture him Pharaoh also begged Moses and Aaron to take the Israelites and leave Egypt as soon as possible so he could live. When the Egyptians pursued the Israelites into the Red Sea, although Pharaoh’s army, horses, and chariots all perished in the Sea Pharaoh himself did not die in that tragedy. That explains why after the demons left the man, went into the pigs, and perished in the lake, the man survived - he did not die. He lived because he represents Pharaoh and Egypt. God designed the miracle in this fashion because unlike Sodom and Gomorrah, God’s plan for Egypt did not involve erasing Egypt from the world map. The Bible further teaches that after the man was healed, he begged to follow Jesus but Jesus refused to take him. The reason Jesus said no to the man was because nothing that represents Egypt was allowed to enter the Promised Land and since this man does not only represent Pharaoh but also represents everything that Egypt was all about, Jesus was in no position to take him along after the healing process.

Marah After healing the demon-possessed man, the next two miracles God placed on the fulfillment list for His son were the miracle of raising a dead girl and the miracle of healing a sick woman in Mark 5:21-43. When God designed the staff of Moses, it was a weapon capable of performing all kinds of miracles for the Israelites as they made their way out of Egypt to enter the land promised to their forefathers on oath. It was the same staff that God used to separate the Red Sea for the Israelites to cross on dry ground. With the memory of the Red Sea and other powerful miracles that God used the staff to perform in Egypt, you will expect that after the Israelites crossed the Red Sea and travelled for three days without drinking water, the staff of Moses should have been used to perform daily miracles for drinking water. The Bible teaches in Exodus 15:22-27 that when they came to Marah after travelling for three days, they eventually found water but it was very bitter and for that reason, they were unable to drink it. In life, we often talk about the bitterness of pain and the sweetness of joy. To make the water drinkable, God showed Moses a piece of wood. When Moses threw the piece of wood into the water, instantly the water became sweet and the Israelites were able to drink it. “Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water,

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

and the water became sweet.” Exodus 15:25. The disturbing question is: Why a piece of wood? Why did God make the Israelites travel for three days without drinking water? Why not one or two days? Was God trying to punish them for something they did wrong? Was He trying to teach them a spiritual lesson? If all that was needed to make the water sweet was nothing but a piece of wood, then why did God not command Moses to touch the water with his staff? Why use a strange piece of wood when Moses’ staff was also nothing but a piece of wood? Why did God suddenly decided to invent another piece of supernatural wood separate from the staff of Moses only to discard it after one miracle? The reason is because of the miracle of healing that Jesus will involuntarily perform on the woman that was suffering from bleeding for 12 years. The Bible teaches that as soon as this woman touched the garment of Jesus Christ, she was instantly healed. “When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, ‘If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.’ Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.” Mark 5:27-29. The Bible also teaches that this woman had visited many doctors and no one was able to help her. “She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.” Mark 15:26. The agony this woman had to go through over the years was what God used the bitter water to portray. God showed Moses the piece of wood to demonstrate how power can be transferred from the staff that Moses was holding and from Moses himself whom God made like Jesus Christ. When Moses touched the piece of wood, power left the staff through Moses and was transferred to the piece of wood. Remember Moses was holding the staff in one hand while using his other free hand to pick up the piece of wood. The power that was transferred to the piece of wood is what made the water sweet. That is exactly what happened when the sick woman touched the cloak of Jesus Christ. When God made Moses like His son Jesus Christ, everything that embodied His son was crafted into the staff and because Moses was holding the staff at all times supernatural power was constantly flowing between Moses and the staff. After the woman harvested healing from Jesus’ cloak, he reacted immediately in a manner that surprised his disciples and all those who were around him. “At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched my clothes?’” Mark 5:30. Just like Jesus knew immediately when the woman touched his clothes that power went out from him, Moses also knew as soon as he touched the piece of wood that power had gone out from the staff through him and into the piece of wood. When God showed Moses the piece of wood, He did not tell Moses what to do with it. All He did was direct Moses’ eyes to the piece of wood at a time when the Israelites

Felix Wantang

desperately needed water to drink after travelling for three days in the desert without water. Just like the woman was in the highest level of imaginable pain, the Israelites were also in the highest level of imaginable thirst for water. Notice how nobody advised the woman on what to do as soon as she saw Jesus. The Bible teaches that she did what she did because she only thought to herself. It was the same case with Moses. When God directed Moses’ eyes towards the piece of wood, God did not say a word to Moses on what to do with it. Moses picked up the piece of wood because he thought to himself “If I just throw this piece of wood into the water, it will instantly change the taste and make it sweet for the Israelites to drink.” We all know that when you are very thirsty, sugar is not the best solution. God allowed the water to become sweet because natural water was not the main reason behind this miracle. God used this miracle to naturally demonstrate the sweetness of joy that comes with supernatural healing after many years of excruciating pain. Just like Moses had unshakable faith in what the staff was capable of doing for the Israelites, the sick woman also had insurmountable faith in what the garment of Jesus Christ was capable of doing for her. We know from the Biblical calendar God gave the Israelites in preparation for the Passover in Egypt that He specifically asked them to slaughter the Passover Lamb on the 14th day of the first month. In Book One, we concluded that the Passover Lamb was used as a spiritual symbol of Jesus Christ. If the Passover Lamb was a spiritual symbol of His son who will later come to die on the cross to take away the sins of the world, then we must also consider the resurrection that will follow. From this new calendar, the Passover Lamb will be resurrected on the third day which will fall on the 17th day of the first month; keep in mind that the number 17 is God’s most powerful divine number on earth. The Bible teaches that the Israelites left Egypt on the 15 th day of the first month – the day after the Passover celebration. If they travelled for three days without drinking water, it therefore means that God eventually gave them water to drink on the 18th day of the first month. If the mission of God’s son to the world will reverse the spiritual mess that Adam and Eve created in the Garden of Eden that gave birth to sin, then for God to systematically accomplish that task, every step of the process that was used for the fall of man in the garden must be strictly retraced. Keep in mind that the fall of Adam and Eve came from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil with divine number 9 and expanded divine number 18. The supernatural process that will effectively reverse the events that took place in the Garden of Eden will only come from the death of Jesus Christ on the cross as payment for the sins of the world. It is true that Jesus died a natural death on the cross for his body to experience a natural burial. God however resurrected him on the third day because it is his resurrection that injects the supernatural component into his mission for the world.

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

When Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the fruit was not bitter; it was sweet. But as soon as they finished eating the fruit the consequences thereafter was the bitter birth of sin to the world. One of the reasons why God made the water in Marah sweet was because in the course of using His divine number 2 to reverse the effects of the fruit from the tree, God decided to start with bitter water. If this was all about the Garden of Eden, you may be wondering why God did not use a fruit to demonstrate His intentions in Marah when the Israelites asked for water to drink. God used water because the events that took place in the Garden of Eden were absolutely supernaturally spiritual. The Biblical component for the dwelling place of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supernatural spirit is always associated with water as indicated in Genesis 1:1-3. From a natural perspective, we know that the flavor of every fruit is usually buried in the juice. What Adam and Eve ate in the Garden of Eden was a forbidden spiritual wisdom. The spirit of sin from the fruit that Adam and Eve ate in the Garden of Eden is essentially buried in the juice of the fruit. Just like the first fruit or tasteful liquid (the juice from the fruit) that Adam and Eve ate and drank in the Garden of Eden came from expanded divine number 18, God also wanted to make sure that the first tasteful liquid which is sweet water (juice) that the Israelites drank after leaving Egypt for the Promised Land was also given to them on the 18 th day of the first month (three days after their departure from Egypt). But before that happens, instead of using the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil located in the middle of the Garden, God decided to use the Tree of Life who is Jesus Christ also located in the middle of the Garden. For the body of Jesus Christ to provide the supernatural liquid (juice) that God will spiritually use to reverse the effects of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the resurrected body of Jesus Christ must produce the supernatural component required to supernaturally implement the process. As a symbolic display of this entire process, it explains why God made the Israelites travel for three days before they could drink their first water (sweet water) after leaving Egypt. It also explains why the resurrection of the Passover Lamb falls on the 17th day of the first month which is a day before the Israelites could drink their first water (juice) on the 18th day of the first month.

Felix Wantang

The miracle of sweet water in Marah was specifically designed by God to reflect Isaiah 53:5-7. “But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.” Supernatural powers from heaven are usually transferable to man only through the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross. When you look at Table 12, you will notice the following:  The staff of Moses represents the cross of Jesus Christ and his blood. When Moses picked up the piece of wood, supernatural power was transferred from the staff of Moses to the piece of wood through Moses.  When Moses threw the piece of wood into the water, the bitter taste of the water was transferred through the piece of wood to the staff of Moses. This indicates that the death of Jesus Christ on the cross took away the bitter taste of the sins of the world.  When the woman touched Jesus’ cloak, supernatural power was transferred from the blood of Jesus Christ to the woman through Jesus Christ.

100

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

 When the woman was healed from the bleeding, her affliction was transferred to the cross of Jesus Christ through Jesus’ cloak. By his wounds we are healed.  The cross of Jesus Christ is where God initially deposits all our afflictions and the wages of sin.  At point C under Moses, the woman was in bitter pain from many years of bleeding.  At point D under Jesus and Moses, the woman was healed and she was filled with sweet joy.  Point J is used to show the starting point of the woman’s bleeding while point D marks the end of her agony.  Point J marks the beginning of the woman’s bleeding which is also the cross and blood of Jesus Christ because when he was crucified on the cross and pierced for our transgressions, it resulted to severe bleeding. His bleeding on the cross is synonymous to the woman’s bleeding because while on the cross, no human was able to stop his bleeding which was also the case with the woman’s bleeding for twelve long years.  From our lessons in Book One, we know that God made Moses like God (Jesus Christ) and we also know that the staff of Moses is essentially Jesus Christ on the cross. In Table 12, Points J to D embraces Isaiah 53:5 because by the wounds of Jesus Christ, we are all (including the woman) healed. After using this miracle to show us that His son will take all our sins away, the next water God gave the Israelites to drink was when they came to Rephidim in Exodus 17:1-7. To give us a practical demonstration of how the miracle of using His son to take away the sins of the world will unfold, it explains why God asked Moses to strike the rock with his staff for water to come out. His son who is the staff of Moses will be bruised by the Rock who is God for living water who is the Holy Spirit. That living water will overshadow the sins of man when we drink it so that we can be righteously presented before God in Paradise, through His son Jesus Christ. Notice that the Israelites did nothing wrong when they asked Moses for water to drink because they were thirsty and neither was Moses arrogant when he cried out to God in Marah. Regardless of how the two parties approached the problem, God on the other hand, responded with some very strange out-of-the-topic words. “If you listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes. If you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians for I am the LORD, who heals you.” Exodus 15:26. God made His response a topic of healing instead of water to drink because when Jesus comes to replicate that moment it will involve the healing of a woman who

101

Felix Wantang

suffers from bleeding. There was no reason for God to keep talking after showing Moses the piece of wood. God is usually very good at introducing a seemingly unrelated item into an ongoing event or conversation because the event has something to do with a plan that He designed for the future. In Book One, we saw a typical example when He called Moses through the burning bush in Exodus 4:11. Moses complained that he was not an eloquent speaker but God responded by introducing the issue of blindness into the conversation and Moses had no idea that God was using blindness to talk about Aaron. The miracle of sweet water and the miracle of the woman with bleeding were both designed to be silent miracles (no words spoken) because of one specific aspect of the mission of Jesus Christ as Biblically stated in Isaiah 53:7. “He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.”

Supernatural Spiritual Flavor From a supernatural perspective of the mission of Jesus Christ, why did God give the Israelites sweet water in Marah, in Exodus 15:22-26? The generally acceptable flavor of every fruit is that is must be sweet. Within the context of human judgment, the general rule is that for any fruit to be considered desirable for human consumption and satisfaction, the fruit must exhibit a considerable level of sweet flavor. It explains why after eating the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil the Bible described Eve’s reaction as being satisfactory. “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.” Genesis 3:6. As soon as Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the tree, a supernatural transformation took immediate effect: The spiritual flavor of Adam and Eve changed from Righteousness to Sin. Righteousness = 179 = 17 Sin = 42 = 6 The spiritual flavor of Adam and Eve changed from God’s most powerful divine number on earth (17), to God’s weakest divine number on earth (6). The flavor of a fruit is usually registered in the human mind; it is also very important to understand that from a Biblical perspective, it is the human mind that determines the spiritual condition of the human soul because every spiritual battle occurs in your mind. Jesus used the sin of adultery to help us understand that all sin against God is committed not necessarily when the flesh acts but rather, when the

102

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

spiritual mind generates the activity.”But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” Matthew 5:28. The lustful look is the conception and birth of adultery in your spiritual mind before you physically sleep with the woman. The Bible teaches that God started His creative process of the human mechanism by forming the flesh from the dust. “The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” Genesis 2:7. The act of God breathing into the nostrils of man was a process of injecting His spirit otherwise known as the soul that lives in man. In compliance with His divine number 2, it explains why we all have the following: 1. The flesh which is the Natural. 2. The soul which is the Supernatural. While the flesh is God’s natural component of the human mechanism, the soul on the other hand is the supernatural component. The natural component (the flesh) is sustained by blood and water. The supernatural component (the soul) is what powers spiritual life in the natural component. The Bible teaches that while on earth, your soul is where the Holy Spirit resides when you become a child of God through Jesus Christ. We also know that when you die, while your flesh (the natural component) is buried on earth, your soul (the supernatural component) on the other hand returns to God because no supernatural component is capable of dwelling and operating on earth without a natural housing. It explains why Jesus was born in human natural flesh through the Virgin Mary; it also explains why demonic entities systematically operate through humans. For you to be able to survive, operate, and do all kinds of things freely on earth, the tools that supply life to your flesh (the natural component) must receive the supernatural power of God from your soul. The tools that supply life to your flesh are blood and water. For you to operate on this planet as God’s creation, His supernatural presence in you must be embedded in the tools that supply life to your flesh. It explains why I mentioned earlier that no amount of knowledge or technological advancement can bring humanity to that place where man can successfully manufacture blood and water. With God’s supernatural presence embedded in your soul which in turn gives power to the blood and water that flows inside your body, it explains why God used bitter water in Marah to represent the spiritual juice from the fruit that Adam and Eve ate in the Garden of Eden. Jesus did not use his flesh to pay for the sins of the world; the Bible teaches that he used his blood on the cross to take away the sins of the world. The liquid composition of blood is: Blood + Water = Blood.

103

Felix Wantang

If Jesus is the fruit from the Tree of Life and he used his blood to take away the sins of the world, it therefore means that the juice from the fruit was used to pay for the sins of the world. By the same implication, the juice that came from the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was also used to bring sin into the world. With this truth, there was no reason for God to give the Israelites the fruit from the Tree of Life when they asked for water to drink in Marah. All God had to do was give them the juice of the fruit and that’s exactly what He did by giving them sweet water. When God gave them sweet water, He supernaturally added the flavor of the fruit from the Tree of Life who is Jesus Christ. We know that the birth of God’s spirit on earth supernaturally started with water. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Genesis 1:1-2. From this Biblical truth, it therefore means that God started the creation of humanity with water which has no flavor whatsoever. When Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the juice from the fruit produced a bitter flavor in God’s original liquid which was water. This bitter flavor is synonymous to the sins of the world. It explains why in God’s attempt to show the Israelites how the supernatural process of reversing the events of the Garden of Eden (The bitter flavor) will unfold through His son, He decided to start with bitter water in Marah. Fig. 2A is a graphic illustration of what God was trying to accomplish with the water in Marah. Keys to God’s Spiritual Flavor The Path of Bitter Water:  Station 1 = The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Station 2 = Eve  Station 3 = Adam  Station 4 = Sin and bitter flavor. The Path of Sweet Water:  Station 1 = Sin and bitter flavor  Station 2 = Sweet flavor.

104

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

    

Station 3 = The Israelites Station 4 = The Tree of Life The Tree = The Tree of Life The Word = God’s Law The Blood = The blood of Jesus on the cross.

In the Language of Heaven, if God used the bitter water as a symbol of sin that entered the world from the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden, then the following must be supernaturally manifested as well: The numeric value of Bitter Water must be perfectly balanced with the numeric value of Sin. Sin = Bitter + Water …… (Equation Flv-1). Sin = 19 + 9 + 14 Bitter = 2 + 9 + 20 + 20 + 5 + 18 Water = 23 + 1 + 20 + 5 + 18

105

Felix Wantang

From (Equation Flv-1): 19 + 9 + 14 = (2 + 9 + 20 + 20 + 5 + 18) + (23 + 1 + 20 + 5 + 18) 19 + 9 + 14 = ((2 + 9 + 40) + (5 + 18)) + ((23 + 1 + 20) + (5 + 18)) 19 + 9 + 14 = (51 + 23) + (44 + 23) 10 + 9 + 5 = 6 + 5 + 8 + 5 (10 + 9) + 5 = (6 + 5 + 8) + 5 19 + 5 = 19 + 5 10 + 5 = 10 + 5 15 = 15 6=6 The number 6 is God’s divine number for sin. Why did God, specifically used Marah to revisit the events of the Garden of Eden? If God used the sweet water as a symbol of the spiritual flavor from the fruit of the Tree of Life, then in the Language of Heaven, the numeric value of Marah must supernaturally balance the location where the Tree of Life produced the sweet flavor from the fruit. We know that the Tree of Life is Jesus Christ and if his blood represents the sweet flavor from the fruit of the Tree of Life, then the location we are looking for is the cross. However, since the cross of Jesus Christ was not physically and naturally unique in any way shape or form (was not different from any other cross), the only component that made his cross supernaturally unique was his resurrection that brought us salvation. Therefore in compliance with Biblical truth, the unique name for the cross of Jesus Christ is definitely Salvation. If the cross of Jesus Christ is Salvation, therefore the supernatural location we are looking for is Salvation. The numeric value of Marah must therefore supernaturally balance the numeric value of Salvation. Marah = Salvation ………… (Equation Flv-2) Marah = 13 + 1 + 18 + 1 + 8 Salvation = 19 + 1 + 12 + 22 + 1 + 20 + 9 + 15 + 14 From (Equation Flv-2): (13 + 1 + 18) + (1 + 8) = (19 + 1 + 12) + (22 + 1 + 20 + 9 + 15 + 14)

106

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

32 + 9 = 32 + 81 5+9=5+9 14 = 14 The number 14 is God’s expanded divine number for the Passover Sacrificial Lamb who is Jesus Christ on the cross. The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ is our salvation.

Divine Number 12 After crying out to God and He made the water sweet in Marah the next stop for the Israelites was a place called Elim. The Bible described this place with two important qualities. “Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.” Exodus 15:27. The last miracle God gave the Israelites before they came to Elim was the miracle of sweet water in Marah and the only thing the Israelites did in Elim was that they camped there. It was their second camping since they left Egypt after observing their first camping between Migdol and the Sea in Exodus 14:1-3. Elim was their first official camping after crossing the Red Sea. Notice that as soon as the water in Marah was made suitable for drinking, God issued a decree and a test. “There the LORD made a decree and a law for them, and there he tested them.” Exodus 15:25. Why did God suddenly dump a test on the Israelites just because they were very thirsty and asked for water to drink? What was wrong with their request? We know that God works in very mysterious ways. The reason God issued a decree and a test was because He was about to introduce and bring them to the next stop where they will observe their first camping after crossing the Red Sea. This camping was also going to be the first stress-free camping because the Egyptians will never pursue them again. God was going to use their next stop in Elim to spiritually remind them of their forefather Abraham because God tested Abraham and made a decree after Abraham passed the test. The Israelites were in Egypt because of Abraham and that decree was extended to Isaac and Jacob. It was also because Abraham passed the test that God decided to fulfill His promise to free the Israelites from the bondage of slavery in Egypt. Even though it was more than four hundred years ago that God tested Abraham and established a covenant with him that will allow his descendants to inherit the land He promised on oath, as soon as the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, God recalled the covenant He made with Abraham. Crossing the Red Sea marked the beginning of real freedom for the Israelites because there was no way that Pharaoh and his army will be able to pursue them again.

107

Felix Wantang

After the woman with bleeding received healing by touching Jesus’ garment in Mark 5:21-43, Jesus still had to continue on his way to raise the dead girl. Keep in mind that he was already on his way when the woman touched his cloak and his trip to the little girl’s home came to a temporary stop. The actions of this woman was a temporary distraction from what Jesus intended to do next in his supernatural agenda because before this woman touched his garment, his next move was the home of the dead little girl. When the woman touched Jesus’ cloak without authorization, he could have stopped the miracle from happening but he did nothing to stop it. Was the woman’s behavior a sign of disrespect? Did she deserve to harvest the miracle from Jesus without permission? After the woman was healed right there before the crowd, you will expect that everybody will rush to grab Jesus’ cloak in an attempt to harvest a miracle as well; the truth is nobody moved. After this incident, as Jesus travelled through Israel to continue with his mission, no one ever came very close to emulating the actions of the woman with bleeding. This was the only miracle with such a unique process in the life of Jesus Christ. The reason no one else attempted to copy this woman was because the woman’s miracle and that of the dead little girl that Jesus was on his way to perform, were both designed by God to mark the first two stages of the life of the Israelites after they crossed the Red Sea. These stages were designed for the covenant God made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. In Mark 5:21-43, the Bible gave us a clear distinction between the woman with bleeding and the little girl. The Bible teaches that the woman had been bleeding for 12 years and that the dead girl was only 12 years old. In Book One and previously in this book as well, we talked about the number 12 as God’s divine number for freedom. As much as these two females share the number 12, it is very obvious that the woman with bleeding was older than the dead girl. The reason the Bible gave us this stack difference is because the two females represent the following: 1. 2. 3. 4.

The two females are the two wives of Jacob (Leah and Rachel). The older female (the woman with bleeding) is Jacob’s first wife Leah. The younger female (the dead girl) is Jacob’s second wife Rachel. They both share the number 12 because Jacob’s twelve sons were given to him through these two females and their maids; also, God used Jacob to establish the twelve tribes of Israel. 5. The nation of Israel, through the twelve sons of Jacob is the gateway to spiritual freedom for humanity. After God made the covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, it was Jacob who finally brought the nation of Israel to meet Joseph in Egypt and God used Jacob’s seed (Joseph) to start the practical process of fulfilling the covenant. The Bible teaches in Genesis 29:15-30 that Laban tricked Jacob into marrying his first daughter 108

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Leah who was older than Rachel. From the beginning, Jacob had no intentions of marrying Leah because he loved Rachel very much and would do anything to marry her. We also know from the Bible that after Laban forced Leah unto Jacob by deceiving Jacob to sleep with her, he had no choice but to marry her after that incident. Because Jacob loved Rachel very much, after the deception from Laban, he decided to marry Rachel who eventually became his second wife. Just like Leah forced herself unto Jacob and he had no choice but to marry her after the incident, that explains why when the woman with bleeding who represents Leah forced her way and touched Jesus’ garment without his permission, Jesus made no attempt to stop the woman from harvesting the miracle from him. Also, just like Jacob’s original plan was to make Rachel his first and only wife, Jesus was on his way to raise the dead girl and had no plans to first heal the woman with bleeding when suddenly she touched his cloak. The Bible also teaches that after Jacob married Leah, there was some delay of about seven years before he could marry Rachel. That also explains why after the woman touched Jesus’ garment while he was on his way to the dead girl’s home, there was also some delay expressed when Jesus turned around to address what had just happened with the woman. To answer the question we posed earlier, just like Jacob did not and in actual fact could not refuse to marry Leah after sleeping with her, Jesus did not take back the miracle from the woman because it is something that heaven does not approve of. Unlike today, back in the days of this miracle, other than a prostitute, if you sleep with a woman she becomes your wife. The Bible teaches that when Jacob and his family arrived in Egypt to meet Joseph, his wife Rachel was not part of the group because she died before they arrived in Egypt. That explains why the female that God used to represent Rachel was the dead little girl. When Jacob saw his son Joseph, he broke the news to him that his mother was dead. “As I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan while we were still on the way, a little distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath – that is Bethlehem.” Genesis 48:7. The Bible teaches in Genesis 46:1-29 that there were 66 direct descendants of Jacob that travelled with him to meet Joseph in Egypt. The Bible also teaches that after Leah gave birth to four sons, God temporarily closed her womb. “Then she stopped having children.” Genesis 29:35. Rachel on the other hand was not able to conceive at this point and if we take a look at Jacob’s household at that moment excluding Rachel, we can see a picture of his family using the illustration in Table 13. By temporarily taking Rachel out of the picture in Table 13, the household of Jacob had five males and one female. The Bible teaches that Jesus took three of his

109

Felix Wantang

disciples to go raise the little girl back to life. “He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James.” Mark 5:37.

The Bible also teaches that when Jesus and his crew arrived at the synagogue ruler’s home to raise the girl, although there were people crying and wailing, Jesus did not allow anybody inside the house except his disciples and the girl’s parents. “After he put them all out, he took the child’s father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.” Mark 5:40. The first reaction from Jesus when he arrived at the house and saw the crying and wailing was that he immediately said something to the crowd.“Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but sleeping.” Mark 5:39. The Bible teaches that the crowd laughed at Jesus. Why did Jesus send the crowd out of the house? Was he concerned of any negatives forces from the crowd? Was the crowd too noisy for the miracle he was about to perform? The truth is, none of these reasons apply. The reason Jesus sent them out was because he was about to replay the conversation Rachel had with Jacob after Leah gave birth to four sons. When Jesus went into the room to see the little girl, inside that room, Jesus made sure that the stage was set to replicate the household of Jacob excluding Rachel, after Leah gave Jacob four sons. Jacob’s household had five males and one female. Inside that room there were also five males and one female excluding the dead little girl who in this case, represents Rachel: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Jesus. His three disciples. The girl’s father. The girl’s mother.

110

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

When Leah temporarily stopped having children which represents the bleeding from the woman, that’s when Rachel said to Jacob “Give me children, or I’ll die.” Genesis 30:1. That explains why at that very moment, Jesus was dealing with a dead female. When Jesus told the crowd that the little girl was not dead but sleeping, how did they suddenly go from crying and wailing to all of a sudden laughing because Jesus said the child was sleeping? If they were actually mourning the loss of this little girl, they can’t switch gears that fast. The reason why they were able to swiftly switch gears was because when Rachel said to Jacob that she will die if Jacob doesn’t give her children, she said it with crying and wailing and there was also a lot of commotion during that conversation. Not long after that, when she gave her servant Bilhah to Jacob and she became pregnant and bore Jacob a son, Rachel’s reaction suddenly went from crying and wailing to laughter and that’s why she said “God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.” Genesis 30:6. Rachel’s swift mood changes is definitely something we can all relate to. For the first few years of her marriage, because God closed her womb, her sister Leah constantly mocked her. Rachel knew that Jacob loved her very much; she also knew that if she had to keep her marriage, she must do everything in her power to give her husband a child. As a married woman, it is one thing for God to close your womb; but it is another thing for your own sister to make a mockery of your pain and unanswered prayers. There are moments in life when we feel like God has turned His back on us; we come to that place where we spend each day gradually wondering and giving up the little hope that was left inside us. We call out to God but the more we cry out, the more we start to feel like nobody cares. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, then all of a sudden, to make matters worse, your enemies start picking on you as a laughing-stock. They make a mockery of your pain, they call you all sorts of nasty names, they say you are worthless, good for nothing, not fit to live, and disgusting. With the little strength left in your system, you may be tempted to fight back, but in Rachel’s case, how do you start fighting back when the enemy is your sister; your own flesh and blood? King David just couldn’t personally fight back when his son Absalom became his worst enemy.

111

Felix Wantang

112

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

113

Felix Wantang

The Bible teaches that there were 66 direct descendants of Jacob who travelled with him to Egypt.

“All those who went to Egypt with Jacob – those who were his direct descendants not counting his sons’ wives – numbered sixty-six persons. With the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family, which went to Egypt, were seventy in all.” Genesis 46:26-27. From Table 14, we have a

114

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

total of 61 direct descendants of Jacob from his sons that travelled with him to Egypt. We still have to add his great grand children as well. 61 + 4 + Dinah (Jacob’s daughter) = 66 The Bible teaches that Joseph already had a family when his father Jacob came to join him in Egypt. Joseph had two sons named Manasseh and Ephraim. “With the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family, which went to Egypt, were seventy in all.” Genesis 46:27. That brings us to: 66 + Jacob’s wife (Leah) + Joseph + Ephraim + Manasseh = 70 This number explains why as the Israelites made their way to the Promised Land, during their camping in Elim, there were twelve springs representing the twelve sons of Jacob; also, there were seventy palm trees representing the seventy members of Jacob’s family who originally started settlement in Egypt and the first members of the nation of Israel. It also explains why when God changed Jacob’s name to Israel, it was His way of saying that the nation of Israel will start in a foreign land from the bloodline of Jacob with a total number of seventy direct descendants originally from the land of Cana.

115

Felix Wantang

116

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

The total of 3943 = 19 is from three generations (Children â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Grandchildren â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Great Grandchildren). We will see this number repeat itself when we talk about the Three 14 Generations of the Genealogy of Jesus Christ later in this book. The Bible

117

Felix Wantang

teaches that Zilpah was Leah’s servant who also gave Jacob children just like Bilhah who was Rachel’s servant. God has a mysterious way of putting things together in such a unique fashion, that when the final picture is unveiled, we start to see His original plan from many years back. From the Summary Table of Jacob’s Direct Descendants, we can now see the following: 1. Seeds from Leah = 314 + 393 + 261 + 357 + 329 + 251 + 36 = 1941 2. Seeds from Bilhah = 97 + 345 = 442 3. Seeds from Zilpah = 385 + 425 = 810 4. Seeds from Rachel = 223 + 527 = 750 5. Seeds from Leah and her servant Zilpah = 1941 + 810 = 2751 = 15 = 6 6. Seeds from Rachel and her servant Bilhah = 750 + 442 = 1192 = 13 = 4 7. Total seeds from Leah and Rachel including their servants = 6 + 4 = 10 8. The number 10 is God’s divine number for Heaven and Israel. Everything about Jacob was perfectly put together by God, before he was born. This result also explains why God changed Jacob’s name to Israel and why God also used the Ten Plagues to bring Israel out of Egypt. Israel = 9 + 19 + 18 + 1 + 5 + 12 = 64 Israel = 6 + 4 = 10 Israel = The sum of Jacob’s direct descendants. If you were doing a Biblical research and you took Jacob’s story from the beginning to figure out where God was try to take him, no degree of intellectual capability will bring you to the supernatural closure we just saw from Table 16. Only God is capable of putting such a spiritual plan together. When God employs you to work for Him, every aspect of your bloodline becomes a part of the mission. This systematic approach is exactly what happened when God called Moses; instead of using someone else from a different bloodline to assist Moses, God decided to call his brother Aaron to be Moses’ prophet. The same principle was applied when God made Joseph the Ambassador of Heaven while in Egypt. Out of Joseph’s children, God carved out the 13th tribe of Israel. Details of the 13th tribe of Israel, is outlined in “Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3”. When God calls you for a very special mission that involves a significant influence in His plan for humanity, that mission will always have a predefined supernatural closure in the Language of Heaven. All that is necessary for God to 118

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

effectively bring the mission to a supernatural closure involving every member of your bloodline is nothing but faith and obedience. Unlike some of the people that made it to Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first list in Book One but later failed to uphold their faith in Him, Jacob on the other hand was one of the few who trusted God with unwavering faith. When you live by Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s law in faith and trust, these qualities will definitely take your relationship with Him to a higher supernatural level.

119

CHAPTER 5 SPIRITUAL MANDATE Receiving the Holy Spirit

n the 15th day of the second month after they left Egypt, the Israelites arrived in the Desert of Sin which is between Elim and Sinai. This marked exactly one month from the day they left Egypt. The Bible teaches that they were hungry and they grumbled against Moses and Aaron for food to eat. It was their second stop after God made a decree and a law for them in Marah. In response to their grumbling, God gave them manna and quail for food. God said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you.” Exodus 16:4. Notice how God said the bread will come from heaven but not the quail. God was showing another use of His divine number 2. This was the same thing He did when He created the world in Genesis 1. In using His divine number 2 for creation, the Bible teaches in Genesis 1:1-2 that in the beginning, the earth was formless and empty. God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning but only the earth was empty and formless; the heavens on the other hand were not empty and formless. Another clear demonstration of the use of His divine number 2 is in Genesis 1:6-8 where the Bible teaches that God created the expanse (sky) to separate the waters into two. He gathered the waters under the sky into one place and called it seas. But He did not gather the waters above the sky into one place. In all cases, God showed us the characteristics of His divine number 2 where the members of each pair are always the exact opposites of each other. With respect to the manna from heaven, the people were to go out each day and gather enough for that day. “In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.” Exodus 16:4. Recall that when the Israelites cried out to Moses for water to drink in Marah, God tested them as well after giving them water. Now we see God testing them again because they cried out for food. God told Moses to tell the Israelites that He will give them meat and bread at different times of the

120

Felix Wantang

day. In preparation for the manna, God gave Moses further instructions for the Israelites as follows: 1. Go out each day and gather enough just for that day. 2. On the sixth day, gather twice as much as you gather on a regular day in preparation for the Sabbath. 3. On a regular day not associated with the Sabbath, no one is to keep any of it till morning. 4. They will not find any manna on the ground on the Sabbath day. Moses and Aaron said something very interesting to the Israelites. “In the evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of Egypt, and in the morning you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against him.” Exodus 16:6-7. The Bible teaches that while Aaron was still speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked up and saw toward the desert, the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud. That very moment, God said to Moses “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread.’ Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.” Exodus 16:12. Remember Moses and Aaron said in the evening the Israelites will know that it is the Lord their God that brought them out of Egypt. Why was the evening so important for the Israelites to know this? Why was the evening spiritually completely different from the morning? The reason is because the evening is when God said He will give them meat at twilight. Back in Egypt in Exodus 12:1-11, the plague on the firstborn was the final plague that brought Pharaoh to his knees to eventually let Israel go. God used the Passover to boost that plague and the Passover lamb was slaughtered at twilight. It was during the Passover that the Israelites had the last taste of meat back in Egypt. In the evening, they will know; but in the morning they will see. God was just repeating what happened in Egypt when He set the Israelites free from bondage. In the evening of the 14th day of the first month, as they sat down to eat the Passover and saw the plague on the firstborn, they knew that their freedom was for real. In the morning when God marched them out of Egypt, that was when they actually saw their freedom. These two events mark the distinction between the evening and the morning. The Bible teaches that after God finished speaking to Moses that evening the Israelites received their first meal from God. “That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor.” Exodus 16:13-14. While the quail represents the Passover meat, the thin flakes like frost on the other hand, represent the bread that was used to eat the Passover. In providing the Israelites with food for the journey, God never deviated from the use of His divine number 2. The quail that covered the camp was natural because they

121

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

live here on earth while the manna that came from heaven was supernatural and something the Israelites had never seen before. The natural appeared in the evening while the supernatural appeared in the morning; the natural is the Passover Lamb that was slaughtered in the evening while the supernatural was God’s mighty hand that moved the Israelites out of Egypt the next morning. When it was time for Jesus to talk about this miracle from heaven to the Israelites, he started by telling them in John 6:25-59 that the bread (manna) God gave them in the desert was not the true bread; that it was only a symbol of the true bread. The Bible teaches in Exodus 16:13-14 that in the morning a layer of dew covered the desert floor and when it was gone, thin flakes like frost appeared on the ground. Because the Israelites did not know what it was, when they asked Moses, he told them it was the bread from God. “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.” Exodus 16:15. When Jesus was trying to explain the true bread from heaven to the Jews, he made a strange statement. “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.” John 16:35.What makes this statement somewhat confusing is that you have to ask yourself the question: What is the difference between coming to Jesus and believing in Jesus? In life, the general rule is that we eat before we drink. We also need a drink to help push our food down our system – the stomach. When Jesus was teaching in John 6:25-59 about the bread (manna) that God gave the Israelites in the desert, notice how he did not for once mention the quail that God gave the Israelites for meat. The reason he only talked about the bread was because the manna (the bread) was the only supernatural component in that event. There was nothing natural in the coming of Jesus Christ from heaven to die on the cross for the sins of the world. Everything about Jesus Christ is completely supernatural. His conception, his birth, his life, his death, his resurrection, and his ascension are all supernatural. While his birth was made supernatural by the star and the angels that were present, the only thing that appeared to be natural about Jesus Christ was his flesh while on earth before his death on the cross. He had the same flesh like every other human. It was this flesh that was tortured, crucified, and buried. We also saw that God used the Passover lamb to depict the flesh of Jesus Christ when He asked the Israelites to slaughter the lamb on the 14 th day of the first month at twilight. When the Israelites cried to Moses and Aaron for food in the desert, God used the quail to represent the flesh of Jesus Christ before he was crucified. That explains why God mentioned twilight in relation to the quail. “At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread.” Exodus 16:12. God however used the manna to represent the flesh of Jesus Christ after his resurrection. Jesus said to the Jews “For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives his life to the world.” John 6:33. The flesh of Jesus Christ becomes the bread of life only after

122

Felix Wantang

his crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection. That explains why God asked the Israelites to gather the manna daily but only for six days each week. They were not to gather any of it on the Sabbath day because God made all things through Jesus Christ for six days and nothing was made on the seventh day which is the Sabbath day. The number six is God’s divine number for sin, man, and dominion. The transformation process of the manna which started as dew and then turned to thin flakes was God’s way of explaining the transformation process of the body of Jesus Christ after his death on the cross and burial. He will die on the cross, be buried, and resurrect on the third day to become the bread of life. The manna transforms from dew to thin flakes when it touches the ground because it symbolizes the body of Jesus Christ as it touches the ground for burial. When Jesus died on the cross, his body was buried in the ground where it was transformed just like a seed to become the bread of life. The body of Jesus Christ that was crucified on the cross was the same kind of body that we all have but the body that resurrected from the dead was a different kind of body that ascended into heaven. In all practical sense the body that was crucified is heavier than the body that resurrected from the dead on the third day. When God used the manna to demonstrate this unique miracle, He used the dew which is heavier than the thin flakes to define the original body of Jesus Christ when he came down from heaven through the Virgin Mary to die for the sins of the world. That explains why the dew touches the ground first before transforming to thin flakes. The thin flakes, on the other hand are what God used to symbolize the transformation that resulted from the resurrected body of Jesus Christ. It also explains why God did not allow the Israelites to collect the dew in place of the manna because the body of Jesus Christ while on the cross will not to be supernaturally used as the bread of life. God had to transform it to the point where it will serve the purpose for which His son came to the world. His resurrection is what completes that process. To get a better picture of the manna from heaven, remember Jesus said to his disciples “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.” Mark 8:15. When he said this to them, they did not understand what he was talking about because they thought he was referring to real yeast. The body of Jesus Christ on the cross is the yeast of God which after resurrection became the bread of life. Now let’s go back to our question of the difference between coming to Jesus and believing in Jesus. Although most Bible teaches have spent many years teaching Christians that coming to Jesus and believing in Jesus are one and the same thing, the truth is, they are not; they are completely spiritually different in every way, shape or form. Jesus said in Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

123

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

One of the biggest misconceptions and false teachings in the modern church is the idea that as soon as you come to Jesus, you are immediately saved and your ticket to Paradise in Heaven is guaranteed. There is absolutely no truth in this type of teaching. As free as God has designed salvation to be, God however did not make salvation a mockery of His son. Yes, salvation is free but you still have to desperately show God that you want it through repentance, to keep it. Coming to Jesus is not your final stop for salvation rather it is your first stop for salvation. Unlike your first stop which is a decision God allows you to make, your final stop on the other hand is completely out of your control because only Jesus Christ is authorized by God to make that decision for humanity. What I mean by first stop is that when you come to Jesus, your salvation learning curve starts from there. That explains why when Jesus said: “Come to me” in Matthew 11:29, the first thing he wants you to do is learn from him. He will teach you everything you need to know in order to find salvation. Not only will he teach you, he will also take care of all your needs and the first title you receive right away is that he will make you his personal property by drawing you closer to him. From that moment, not even a fly can land on your arm without his permission; that’s how serious it gets. Unlike life in this world where we face all kinds of rejection and abuse, Jesus never sends away anybody that comes to him through repentance because he receives everybody with open arms. As the Israelites made their way to the Promised Land, the Bible teaches in Exodus 15:25 and 16:4 that God tested the Israelites just one month after they left Egypt. Part of the reason why God gave them these two tests within a one-month period was because as much as the Israelites did not fully believe in God, they still came to Him through Moses and Aaron for all their needs. God’s main concern was not so much of providing the Israelites with their physical needs. His biggest concern was that He wanted the Israelites to believe in Him as their only God. Unlike the natural food that He gave the Israelites during their journey to the Promised Land, He also on numerous occasions gave them His word which by far was the most important thing to God. Unfortunately, the Israelites paid more attention to their physical needs at the expense of the word of God. In John 6:25-59, Jesus was trying to teach us that he is the word of God. “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6:40. Unlike the manna and quail that God gave the Israelites, whoever eats the flesh of Jesus Christ which is the bread that came down from heaven, shall never go hungry. Recall that in John 20:19-23, when Jesus first appeared to his disciples after his resurrection, he wanted to make sure that they believe in his resurrection before giving them the Holy Spirit. If his resurrection was not an important factor for the gift of the Holy Spirit, Jesus would not have taken the time to show himself to Thomas in John 20:24-31. Believing that Jesus Christ is the son of God who died on the cross for

124

Felix Wantang

your sins is not enough for you to receive salvation. You must believe in the seven components that describe who he is. There is no way around it and ruling out any of them completely erases your salvation. The seven components are: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

His conception. His birth. His life. His death. His resurrection. His teachings which is God’s Law. His ascension.

These seven steps are called, the Equation of Jesus Christ. This is what Jesus was teaching in John 6:35. “He who believes in me will never be thirsty.” It is the gift of the Holy Spirit that Jesus was referring to. Remember the Holy Spirit who is also the spirit of God is what the Bible talked about in Genesis 1:2. “The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” The blood of Jesus Christ which quenches our thirst forever through the Holy Spirit, completely covers you not when you come to Jesus; it completely covers you when you believe in Jesus from all the seven phases mentioned above. If for any reason you don’t believe in any of these seven mysteries then what you have done is nothing but a step towards Jesus Christ for the wrong reason and be rest assured that you have no salvation because neither God nor Jesus Christ is here to play games. When you do this, you are basically trying to have it both ways by standing on the fence even though the gate in front of you has the bold sign “No standing on the fence.” Embrace the truth or take a hike to the devil’s camp; the choice is yours. The twelve disciples are a good example of coming to Jesus Christ; when he called them to follow him, they left everything and stayed with him for about three years during which all they did was learn from him. That explains why his disciples constantly addressed him as teacher. The biggest headache Jesus had was trying to convince his disciples that he was the son of God who came to take away the sins of the world. Jesus knew that for his disciple to enter Paradise in Heaven, it was not enough that they came to him. They had to believe in everything about him to complete the Equation of Salvation. Equation of Salvation = Come to Jesus Christ + The Equation of Jesus Christ. To get a better understanding of what the salvation ticket looks like, notice how in John 6:35-40 even though Jesus talked about coming to him and believing in him, towards the end of the passage he took the time to clarify the confusion. He described the ticket to Paradise in a more detailed manner when he said “For my Father’s will is

125

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6:40. Jesus used two key words here to clarify the point – looks and believes. Looking to Jesus means coming to Jesus; believing in Jesus is completely different from coming to him. To understand how this works, let’s take a look at the gift of the Holy Spirit. Even though Jesus gave his disciples the Holy Spirit after his resurrection in John 20:19-23, later on, he then made a very twisting statement when he was about to ascend into heaven. “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts.1:4-5. His last words to his disciples before he ascended into heaven were also in reference to the Holy Spirit in Acts. 1:8. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” The question is, if Jesus already gave his disciples the Holy Spirit in John 20:19-23, why did he ask them to stay in Jerusalem and wait for the Holy Spirit? The truth is when Jesus appeared to his disciples, right after his resurrection and gave them the Holy Spirit in John 20:19-23, all he did was establish the throne of the Holy Spirit on earth. During that meeting, his disciples in every practical spiritual sense did not receive the Holy Spirit. For the Holy Spirit to be activated upon the disciples and on earth, two things had to take place:  Jesus must leave the world because only one Godhead is allowed to dwell on earth at any given time.  The disciples must complete the Equation of Salvation. What actually happened when Jesus appeared to them right after his resurrection was that the disciples were still missing one of the seven components of the Equation of Jesus Christ that he wanted them to embrace before they can actually receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. That missing component was the ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven. That explains why God did not make it a secret and decided to demonstrate that miracle right before the eyes of the disciples when Jesus spoke his last words to them. “After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.” Acts.1:9. As soon as the seven phases of his life were completed (The Equation of Jesus Christ) and Jesus was back in heaven, God activated the Holy Spirit upon the disciples and on earth. God activated the Holy Spirit because at that point, after watching and believing in the last phase of the Equation of Jesus Christ, the disciples successfully completed the Equation of Salvation. It is therefore very important that when we listen to people or churches preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, we have to make sure that their teachings fall within the Equation of Salvation. This is the only way we can receive the Holy Spirit who takes

126

Felix Wantang

us to Paradise in Heaven. There is no other way. “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6.

The Laws of God The Bible teaches that the first assignment God gave man after creating the world was when He made man in charge of taking care of the Garden of Eden also known as the Garden of Heaven. Eden = 10 Heaven = 10 After the fall of man and sin entered the world through man’s disobedience by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the next law God gave man was when He made a covenant with Abraham. In that covenant, God introduced a new law called the Law of Circumcision. “For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or brought with money from a foreigner – those who are not your offspring.” Genesis 17:12. Circumcision = 10 The law that God gave to Adam in the garden and the Law of Circumcision both came from heaven; so far, God gave us the following laws: 1. The first law was the law of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. 2. The second law was the Law of Circumcision. 3. The third law was The 10 Commandments or the Old Testament. 4. The fourth law was to complete the 66 Books of the Bible (The New Testament). When God was about to create the nation of Israel through the descendants of Jacob, He started by changing Jacob’s name from Jacob to Israel and thereafter decided to move Jacob’s descendants with His laws mentioned above. The first law He gave man was only one law given to Adam in the Garden of Eden. This law corresponds to the journey of Joseph as a slave to Egypt. Because there was only one law that He used to start His relationship with man after He made the world, it was also necessary that only one of Jacob’s children (Joseph) be used to start the process of establishing the settlement of the nation of Israel in Egypt; the land of Egypt was a Biblical symbol of the sinful world.

127

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

When it was time for God to apply the second law to the bloodline of Jacob, He introduced it into the process by using only one of Jacob’s children to trigger the process of selling Joseph as a slave to the Ishmaelites who eventually took Joseph to Egypt. Remember when Joseph’s brothers threw him into the pit and were making plans to murder him, it was his brother Judah who suggested that they sell him to the Ishmaelites. “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? Come let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” Genesis 37:26-27. The actions of Judah are a representation of the second law (the Law of Circumcision) because it was also one law just like the first law in the Garden of Eden. The Law of Circumcision was between God and Abraham. Abraham = 44 Circumcision = 10 The law or decision that Judah made was designed to sell Joseph as a slave. Judah = 44 Joseph = 10 Every single law from God including the law from Judah and the Ten Commandments, all came directly from Heaven to deal with the consequences of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil with divine number 9. For that reason, the Law of Circumcision and the law from Judah to sell Joseph as a slave (The Law of Joseph’s Slavery) must be the value of divine number 9. God established this supernatural principle when He gave Moses the Ten Commandments. Jesus said, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of the pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.” Matthew 5:17-18. From a supernatural spiritual standpoint, the Law is the same law that God gave to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. God’s law for humanity always has one specific unwavering objective; to make us spiritually acceptable in His presence. The verbal Law in the garden was carried forward by fulfilling it through the first written law which is the Ten Commandments. If in actually fact, Jesus indeed came to fulfill God’s original law that was given to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, then that fulfillment must be translated to the original law. In the Language of Heaven, the fulfillment from Jesus Christ through the Ten Commandments must perfectly balance the root of the original law which is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If the Ten Commandments came to us from the disappointing actions of Adam and Eve,

128

Felix Wantang

therefore in the Language of Heaven, the value of the Ten Commandments must balance the divine number and expanded divine number for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which are the numbers 9 and 18 respectively.  The Ten Commandments = 10 + Commandments. Commandments=3+15+13+13+1+14+4+13+5+ 14+20+19. = (3+6)+(4+4)+(1+5+4)+(4+5)+(5+10)+2. = 9+8+10+9+15+2 = 9+8+10+9+6+2 Commandments = 44 Ten Commandments = 10 + 44 = 10 + 8= 18 =9 (Expanded divine number and divine number for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil).  The Law of Circumcision = Abraham + Circumcision. The Law of Circumcision = 44 +10 = 54 = 9  The Law of Joseph’s Slavery = Judah + Joseph. The Law of Joseph’s Slavery =44 + 10 = 54 = 9 The third law which is the Ten Commandments is actually divided into two phases because God gave this law to Moses twice. Remember the first time God gave the Israelites this set of laws through Moses in Exodus 20:1-17, the stone tablets containing those laws were destroyed by Moses out of anger when he came down from the mountain and saw the golden calf that the Israelites made for themselves to replace God. When God wrote the laws on the stone tablets, there was no contribution from Moses. The stone tablets and the laws both came from God. “Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.” Exodus 32:15-16. Before God wrote the laws on the tablets, He first spoke the words to Moses in Exodus 20 and during that meeting, God asked Moses to go bring his brother Aaron up the mountain where He was speaking to Moses. “Go down and bring Aaron up with you. But the priest and the people must not force their way through to come up to the LORD, or he will break out against them.” Exodus 19:24. The first time God gave the Israelites the Ten Commandments corresponds to the first journey of Jacob’s children to Egypt. That explains why there were ten of Joseph’s brothers who made the trip to Egypt and just like God asked Moses to go 129

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

back down from the mountain and bring his younger brother Aaron that also explains why Joseph asked his brothers to go back to Canaan and bring their youngest brother Benjamin. “But you must bring your youngest brother to me, so that your words may be verified and that you may not die.” Genesis 42:20. Unlike when Moses went up the mountain to receive the first set of the Ten Commandments, when it was time for God to rewrite the laws again on another set of stones because Moses destroyed the first one, God did something completely different from His first approach. For the first trip up the mountain to receive the laws, Moses took nothing with him because God supplied the stone tablets. But during the trip for the second set of the Ten Commandments, God asked Moses to bring two stone tablets that He will use to rewrite the laws.“Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.” Exodus 34:12. God was about to rewrite the ten laws without changing anything. That explains why in Table 17, since the second trip of Joseph’s brothers to Egypt represents a repeat of the Ten Commandments, ten brothers also had to make the second journey just like the first journey even though they left Simeon in Egypt during their first journey. Because God asked Moses to bring something for the second set of laws; that also explains why Joseph’s brothers prepared a gift for Joseph during their second journey to Egypt. This made the second journey completely unique from the first one. Before Joseph’s brothers left for Egypt the second time their father Jacob asked them to take some gifts for Joseph. “Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift – a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.” Genesis 43:11.

Notice that all along from the first through the third law that God gave man, He used the male seed to ratify each of them. Remember that when God gave the first law to Adam in the Garden of Eden, Eve who was Adam’s wife was not yet made. Even after God created Eve by using one of Adam’s ribs, God did not call her aside to

130

Felix Wantang

repeat the law He gave to Adam. That was because God’s main tool of establishing that law was basically the male seed. Eve knew nothing about the conversation God had with Adam prior to her existence. That explains why during the covenant of circumcision, God did not give Abraham a female seed. It also explains why when Joseph’s brothers made two trips to Egypt, Jacob’s daughter (Dinah) was never mentioned in the process. When God was about to give us the fourth and final law, which is now the only law applicable as far as God is concerned, He set aside the male seed and introduced the female seed as the major component of the process. The 4th law which is the 66 books of the Bible came to us through the seed of the Virgin Mary with no male seed participation. The 4 th law is Jesus Christ and it is in compliance with the use of God’s divine number 4 to end a process. It is the final law with 66 books because the 66 descendants of Jacob that travelled to Egypt was the final journey of the Israelites to Egypt and the coming of Jesus Christ to die on the cross for the sins of the world will be the final journey to pay for the sins of the world. The one major area in the Bible that God decided to concentrate the use of His powerful divine number 17 was in everything that surrounded the Biblical birth of the nation of Israel. Some major areas include the following:  To start the nation of Israel in Egypt, Joseph had to be sold as a slave and that incident took place when Joseph was 17 years old. See Genesis 37:2.  When Jacob moved his family to Egypt, he lived there for 17 years. See Genesis 47:28.  When it was time for God to move Israel out of Egypt, Moses and Aaron Appeared before Pharaoh 17 times before Israel could successfully leave Egypt.

Authority and Power The remarkable thing that Moses did as a leader was that at all times, he knew that his boss was God who gave him all the powers to free the Israelites from bondage and lead them to the Promised Land. Moses always looked to God for advice every step of the way until his father-in-law Jethro showed up in Exodus 18. The Bible teaches that after Jethro watched Moses on the job of acting as a judge for the entire community of Israel, he decided to give Moses a piece of advice as he condemned Moses’ leadership style. “What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge while all these people stand around you from morning to evening?” Exodus 18:14. In response to this challenge, Moses tried to justify his actions. “Because the people come to me to seek God’s will. Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of God’s decrees and laws.” 131

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Exodus 18:15-16. The next argument that came from Jethro completely took Moses by surprise because it was the kind of statement that Moses will expect to hear from God, not from his father-in-law. “Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their disputes before him. Teach them the decrees and laws, and show them the way to live and the duties they are to perform. But select capable men from all the people – men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain – and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you.” Exodus 18:19-22. The Bible teaches that Moses followed the advice of Jethro and appointed judges for the people of Israel. After the conversation with Jethro, what Moses was about to do with that piece of advice is something that will eventually establish the chain of command in the nation of Israel after they settle in the Promised Land because the duties of the leaders that Moses picked to serve as judges were not limited to the journey; these positions were still in place when the Israelites settled in the Promised Land after the death of Moses. The Bible teaches in Joshua 23:1 that while the Israelites were living in the Promised Land, they still had elders, leaders, judges and officials. This was the first time that Moses had to take advice from anyone one other than God and he had no clue that by taking the advice of Jethro, he was setting up a traditional framework that will stay with Israel forever. When it was time for Jesus to replay this part of the journey, the Bible teaches in Matthew 10 that Jesus sent out the twelve disciples. The disciples were only going away for a few days but Jesus gave them this very long speech to prepare them for the journey. If they were going away only for a few days, why did Jesus give them a lengthy speech? Remember that the disciples were just the type of people that Jethro asked Moses to appoint as leaders for the people of Israel. Jethro described them as men who fear God and trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain. From the series of statements that Jesus made to his disciples in preparation for this short trip, only a very little fraction had anything to do with the trip in question. Most of what Jesus said to them had a lot to do with the future – after his ascension. Jesus decided to use that moment to address the future, a time period when he will no longer be walking on this planet because the system that Moses established after listening to Jethro was one that remained in place after the death of Moses. Unlike Moses who did not realize that the system he was putting in place will later become the permanent spiritual framework for Israel in the distant future, Jesus on the other hand knew exactly what he wanted for the church. When God was about to establish the nation of Israel while the Israelites were still in bondage in Egypt, it would have been very easy for God to send angels from heaven to invade Egypt and

132

Felix Wantang

fly all the Israelites out of there straight to the Promised Land. If He did that, I am convinced that the world will consider such a move to be very supernatural. God can definitely do that but because He has a systematic way of doing things that don’t necessarily reflect just the present but also dates back to many years of His divine plan, God will never do a stunt to impress the world. To create the nation of Israel, God had to follow His divine pattern of creation by using the number 2 which is His supernatural divine number for all creations on earth. To apply it to Israel, He used man (Moses and Joshua) to create and establish the nation of Israel but then used His son Jesus Christ to establish the Church. The one thing that Israel and the Church have in common is that both of them stand for the Embassy of Heaven. Israel = The Natural Embassy of Heaven. The Church = The Supernatural Embassy of Heaven. To get a better understanding of the process, while the nation of Israel is a sinful nation just like every other nation on earth, the church on the other hand is a holy nation regardless of how sinful the members may seem to be. Nothing natural is holy before God. When Jesus gathered his disciples to prepare them for the journey, he started addressing them with the opening statement where he gave them authority over evil spirits. “Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.” Matthew 10:1. If Jesus is giving them authority now before he died on the cross, what other type of authority will he give them after his resurrection? Remember, after his resurrection just as he was about to ascend into heaven, he gave his disciples power which may seem like another authority. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts.1:8. Looking at these two occasions, is there a difference between the authority he gave them in Matthew 10:1 and the power he gave them in Acts 1:8? As much as Jesus gave his disciples this authority as a prerequisite for the journey, Jesus did not at any point take back that authority from them before he ascended into heaven. This was the same authority that Moses gave to the appointed leaders of Israel in Exodus 18. Just like Moses never took back the authority from the leaders before he died, that explains why the authority was never taken away from the disciples even after they came back from the journey and rejoined Jesus. To answer our question, the authority Jesus gave to his disciples before his death on the cross and the power he gave them after his resurrection are not the same. They are completely different in all aspects. The stack difference between them is that the authority came directly from Jesus while the power came from Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Just like the leaders Moses appointed, the authority was limited to the 133

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

twelve disciples while the power was not limited to the twelve disciples because it was extended to whoever believes and accepts Jesus Christ by completing the Equation of Salvation. Recall that God made Moses like Jesus Christ and He made Joshua like the Holy Spirit; we talked about this at length in Book One. After the death of Moses, the Israelites successfully entered the Promised Land under the leadership of Joshua. While Jesus was on earth, he preached to us about the kingdom of God and when he died on the cross, he eventually gave us his blood as a ticket to enable us enter the kingdom of God through the Holy Spirit. After his resurrection, he ascended into heaven where he asked the Father to send us the Holy Spirit who now helps us with the process of entering the kingdom of Heaven. When Joshua was very old and realized that he was about to die, the Bible teaches that he gathered all the leaders of Israel and addressed them.”After a long time had passed and the LORD had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man, summoned all Israel – their elders, leaders, judges and officials – and said to them: ‘I am very old. You yourselves have seen everything the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the LORD your God who fought for you. Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain – the nations I conquered – between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west. The LORD your God himself will push them out for your sake. He will drive them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.’” Joshua 23:1-5. After the death of Joshua, for the first time since they came out of bondage in Egypt, God did not appoint a new leader for the people of Israel; instead God transferred power to the people through Joshua. That explains why after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, before he ascended into heaven, God did not appoint a new leader (teacher) for the disciples; Jesus transferred power to the disciples through the Holy Spirit. Keep in mind that as Jesus transferred power to his disciples while he was on his way back to heaven, the authority he earlier gave them in Matthew 10 was not replaced with this new power. To get a better understanding of what Jesus was about to accomplish here, let’s take a look at the practical definition of “Authority and Power”. When you are given the authority to accomplish a task, it has nothing to do with who you are. On the other hand, power is usually associated with moral and mental efficiency. You can have the authority to carry out a responsibility but lack the power to see it through. For example, you can give a crippled friend the authority to drive your car but he or she still needs the physical and mental power to make that happen. That authority is absolutely useless if the power to enforce it is missing. Authority enables you to act while power enables you to overshadow, engulf, and take control. We all have the authority of Jesus Christ to do things as Christians but that authority means

134

Felix Wantang

nothing if we lack the power of God through the Holy Spirit to enforce that authority. One astonishing thing that Jesus did as he prepared to send his disciples away for the short trip was when he told them to avoid going to the Gentiles and the Samaritans. This is the same Jesus who preached to the Samaritan woman in John 4 and now we see him asking his disciples to go only to the lost sheep of Israel. “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons.” Matthew 10:5-8. Judging from this statement, did Jesus at this juncture have anything against the Gentiles and the Samaritans? No. Jesus asked his disciples to go only to the lost sheep of Israel because when Moses appointed the leaders to preside over the people of Israel, that responsibility was limited only to the people of Israel – it was all about the Israelites. While addressing the disciples, not only did Jesus go into the future, he actually went as far as his second coming when he said: “When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.” Matthew 10:23. There was nothing wrong with this statement other than the fact that it is the kind of statement you will expect from Jesus just before he goes back to heaven, not at this stage when he is nowhere close to his crucifixion for our sins. He decided to talk about his return as an indication of the type of system that will be in place from the moment of that speech to the time when he will return. This is the system that Moses put in place for the Israelites and this is the system that he was setting up for his church. When you receive supernatural authority and power from Jesus Christ to walk the face of this planet and do things in his name after completing the Equation of Salvation, no amount of negative forces can stop you. Notice that when Moses gave the authority to the appointed leaders of Israel it came directly from Moses, not from God or from Aaron. Moses defined himself as the source of that authority because the authority Jesus will later give to his disciples in Matthew 10:1 will come directly from Jesus Christ. On the other hand, when Joshua whom God made like the Holy Spirit transferred power to the leaders of Israel when he was about to die, he did not define himself as the source of that power. The reason is because when Jesus transferred power to his disciples shortly before his ascension in Acts 1:8, even though the Father has given Jesus all authority and power in heaven, Jesus did not define himself as the source of the power his disciples were about to receive. Jesus said the source of the power will be the Father through the Holy Spirit. It is true that Jesus will ask the Father to send this power to the disciples, but he never for once took credit as the source of that power. As much as Joshua represented the Holy Spirit, he was very careful to avoid portraying himself as the source of the

135

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

power he was about to transfer to the leaders of Israel even though he knew that God anointed him with incredible powers. Remember at this point, the Israelite leaders were still operating with the authority given to them through Moses. When Moses delegated responsibilities to the leaders of Israel, he did not give them a manual or a list of restrictions of what they were not allowed to handle. They were given authority to settle disputes and resolve issues for the Israelite community. However, they were advised to refer all difficult cases to Moses. Notice in Matthew 10:1-8 when Jesus was issuing authority to his disciples prior to their departure, not only did he specifically give them authority to drive out impure spirits and heal the sick; he also gave them authority to raise the dead. The Bible teaches in Luke 10:1-24 that Jesus also appointed seventy-two others and sent them out with the authority to overcome all the power of the enemy. The Bible also teaches in Luke 10:17 that when the seventy-two came back from the journey, they gave Jesus a summary account of what happened. “Lord, even the demons subdued to us in your name.” Luke 10:17. Although the disciples and the seventy-two had the same accomplishments from the journey, something very crucial was missing in that summary report. If you go back to the authority Jesus gave his disciples, you will notice that they did everything but they never succeeded in raising the dead. Even though they had the authority of Jesus Christ to raise the dead, they did not succeed in doing any of that because of the clause that was contained in the authority that Moses gave to the leaders of Israel. In God’s divine plan and from the list of authority that Jesus gave them, there had to be something that was going to be impossible for them to accomplish even though they had the authority to do it. They will have to refer this impossible task to the source of their authority who is Jesus Christ. Moses did not stipulate which type of cases (specific cases) to be referred to him because when Jesus will give the list of authority to his disciples, he will not name any cases that should be referred to him. The Bible described the unique cases as the difficult cases. In this case, raising the dead was an extremely difficult task for the disciples and that is why there was no record of accomplishment for this specific responsibility. As the disciples were jubilating over their partial accomplishments, Jesus surprised them with a response that appeared to diminish the level of their success. “However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” Luke 10:20. Jesus said this because unlike what we see in most churches today, miracles or the ability to demonstrate them cannot and should never be used to measure salvation. Salvation has no bearing on any supernatural manifestations by man using the name of Jesus Christ. Salvation is nothing but the inscription of your name in Paradise. Stop following churches that make miracles the center point of their mission. They are using these shows to rob you of the true word

136

Felix Wantang

of God which is the path to salvation because your ticket is buried in the word of God; not the miracles. The Bible teaches in Joshua 23:6 that in transferring power to the leaders of Israel, Joshua was determined to make it as simple as possible by telling them that not only will the source of their power come from God, it is also the Law of God handed to them through Moses that defines the power. After the leadership of Moses and Joshua, for the first time the Israelites will not be relying on any single leader for power because their only source of power will be the Laws of God. Joshua said all these because after Jesus ascended into heaven, for the first time, the disciples will no longer look to any supernatural figure on earth for the source of their strength because all power will now come from the word of God (the Holy Bible) through the Holy Spirit. Since the Law of Moses was not only written for the leaders of Israel but for the entire nation of Israel, likewise the word of God was not only written for the twelve apostles that followed Jesus, but for the entire world. God gave His laws to the world and those laws are the contents of the Holy Bible. As we follow this revelation, I don’t want you to lose sight of two very important supernatural transformations: 1. That God made Moses like Jesus Christ. 2. That God made Joshua like the Holy Spirit. It is true that God gave the Israelites His laws through Moses but after the death of Moses and Joshua took over, there is no place in the Bible where God asked the Israelites to keep honoring Moses. That notwithstanding, when Joshua was referring to the Law of God that the Israelites should obey in Joshua 23:6, he described the law as the Law of Moses. What makes this an astonishing statement is the fact that God gave Joshua just as much authority and power as He gave to Moses because each member of the Holy Trinity represents God. If Joshua decided to call this law the Law of Moses just because God introduced it under the leadership of Moses, likewise Joshua as the new leader of Israel also had every right to call it the Law of Joshua. He could do that because he played the same significant role in the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land. The truth is Joshua called it the Law of Moses for a specific reason. When Jesus started his ministry, the Bible teaches that Jesus said he came to fulfill the law. “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” Matthew 5:17. What Jesus is saying is that he came to give the Law an extreme makeover; not to abolish it. The Law is the same law Joshua is talking about and because Jesus came to fulfill it, that law is now referred to as the Law of Jesus Christ which is the Bible. “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and

137

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

make our home with him. He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.” John 14:2324. As Christians, our source of power comes from the word of God which is Jesus Christ. If the Law of God is rightfully described as the law of Jesus Christ, then Joshua was absolutely correct when he described the Law of God as the Law of Moses because God also made Moses like Jesus Christ when He called Moses to free the Israelites from the bondage of slavery in Egypt. As much as Jesus has given us the authority to do all things in his name, that authority is completely worthless and ineffective if it lacks the supernatural power to enforce it; to this effect, because that ultimate power comes from no other place but the word of God, that authority means nothing every time we step away from the word of God which is the Holy Bible. When Jesus talked about obeying his teaching in John 14:23-24, he was not just referring to one paragraph or page in the Bible, he was referring to the entire Holy Bible. “Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.” John 14:21. Irrespective of the fact that power comes to us through the Holy Spirit, the Law of God which is the Holy Bible, will never be referred to as the Law of the Holy Spirit. That systematically explains why even though God made Joshua like the Holy Spirit, Joshua was correct when he refrained from addressing the law as the Law of Joshua regardless of the fact that the law was transferred through him to the leaders of Israel. Jesus Christ is and will always be the Law. When Jethro spoke to Moses in Exodus 18, he made a very important statement that describes where we are today. “You must be the people’s representative before God.” Exodus 18:19. What he was asking Moses to do is precisely what Jesus did for us. Jesus Christ is our advocate before God. So far, we know that the authority Jesus gave his disciples is something that he never took away from them before he ascended into heaven and we also know that this authority was designed specifically for his disciples, not the world. What we don’t know yet is how that authority is transferred to the rest of the world of Christians after Jesus goes back to heaven. Using Table 18 as a reference, we can see that all authority came from Jesus while power came from God through Jesus Christ. When Jesus goes back to the Father in heaven, things will definitely change because Christians will receive the authority and power through a special format spelled out by Jesus himself. “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” John 14:23.

138

Felix Wantang

From this statement Jesus is saying that if you have him and the Father living in you, then you have his authority and the ultimate power from the Father. The condition for you to have them is that you must obey his teaching; there is no other way. This is also an eye opener to all those Christians who are being deceived by preachers who call themselves miracle workers. If they cannot obey the teaching of Jesus Christ but claim to perform miracles in his name, then those miracles are definitely not from Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. They know that their authority and power to perform these miracles come from the devil but they will try as much as possible to hide the truth from you because all they care about is your money and your condemnation in hell. Their plan is very simple, not only are they after your money, they also want to take you with them to their final destination to be with their master who is Satan.

Satan We saw that Jesus already sent out his twelve disciples after giving them authority over the power of the enemy in Matthew 10:1. But the Bible also teaches in Luke 10:1-24 that Jesus appointed seventy-two others and sent them out to every town and place where he was about to go. When he sent out the twelve disciples, he asked them to go only to the lost sheep of Israel; but the seventy-two were given a different destination; why? To understand what Jesus was trying to accomplish with these two groups, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trace his spiritual steps.

139

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

He came down from heaven. He was born by the Virgin Mary. He will teach and later die on the cross for our sins. He will resurrect on the third day. He will ascend into heaven to be with the Father.

His spiritual steps are grouped into two categories: a) His journey on earth. b) His journey back to heaven. His journey on earth essential involves his effort to bring salvation to the world through the Jews who are considered to be the lost sheep of Israel. This is also known as his natural journey because man will be responsible for his death on the cross. On the other hand, his journey back to the Father in heaven which starts with his resurrection is his supernatural journey because man has no part to play in this phase. As far as his mission from the Father is concerned, Jesus was commissioned by the Father to go to two places: 1. On earth = The Natural. 2. Back to Heaven = The Supernatural. These two places were in keeping with God’s divine number 2 which states that the members of a pair must be the exact opposites of each other and in this case, the Natural is the exact opposite of the Supernatural. The Bible teaches that God invited Moses and a group of Israelites for a meeting. “Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance, but Moses alone is to approach the LORD; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.” Exodus 24:1-2. This invitation displays another demonstration of God’s systematic way of avoiding certain divine numbers during special occasions. This was a very straight forward invitation; it was an invitation that involved Moses, Aaron, and seventy-two elders of Israel. Why did God avoid the number 72? And why did He give us only two names of the seventy-two elders. Before we answer these questions, let’s recall that God is holy and that includes His dwelling place in Heaven. That explains why Jesus Christ is our only ticket to appear before God. We know that the divine number for heaven is the number 10 and the number 7 is God’s divine number for holy, perfect, and complete. Also, remember that the divine number for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is the number 9.We also know that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is directly associated with the devil - Satan. Although in Exodus 18, Moses already appointed leaders that he gave authority to settle disputes

140

Felix Wantang

for the Israelite community, this new mission of appointing 72 elders to go visit God came as a surprise to Moses. That also explains why even though Jesus had just sent out twelve of his disciples to the lost sheep of Israel, he had to appoint 72 others and send them out as well.  The 12 leaders Moses appointed = The 12 disciples of Jesus Christ.  The 72 elders Moses appointed = The 72 disciples of Jesus Christ. The only difference is that unlike the twelve, the seventy-two will be going to a different destination. The 72 that Jesus appointed represent the seventy elders that Moses appointed plus Nadab and Abihu. The Bible teaches that Moses and Aaron plus the seventy-two went up to meet God. “Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky. But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.” Exodus 24:9-11. As much as these men were standing before God, they were not equipped with the spiritual wisdom and eyes to understand what they saw under God’s feet. Before we analyze what they saw, it is very important to first take a look at the Biblical description of what God usually places under His feet and the qualities of Satan as well. “Then you will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the sole of your feet on the day when I do these things, says the LORD Almighty.” Malachi 4:3. “The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.” Matthew 24:44. “The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.” Romans 16:20. “For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve” 2 Corinthians 11:1315. In the Book of Ezekiel, God exposes Satan using sapphire which is the same term for lapis lazuli. “You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl. Your setting and mountains were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared. You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mouth of God, and I expelled you, O guardian

141

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

cherub, from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth.” Ezekiel 28:12-17. The Bible teaches that when Jesus presents us as God’s children before the Father, we will be seating with Jesus at the right hand of the Father in Paradise. On the other hand, the only thing that God places under His feet are His enemies and the head of God’s enemies is no one else but Satan. That explains why when the seventytwo disciples came back to Jesus, just as they were giving him a summary report of their journey, out of nowhere, Jesus made a statement that had nothing to do with what these men were trying to tell him. From a natural perspective, the statement from Jesus had nothing to do with the journey of the seventy-two men. When Jesus spoke, the seventy-men did not understand what Jesus was talking about when he said, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.” Luke 10:18. Jesus was basically referring to what the seventy-two elders of Israel saw under God’s feet. They saw Satan with natural eyes but because God did not give them the supernatural eyes and spiritual wisdom to understand what they saw, all they could see was the beauty – bright blue as the sky; Jesus on the other hand supernaturally understands what these men saw. Because of where these men were going with Moses and Aaron, and what God was about to show them, God systematically and meticulously avoided the number 72 = 9 in Exodus 24:1 and 24:9. When Jesus appointed the seventy-two, the Bible did not make any attempts to avoid this number because the mission assigned to these men was designed to take place on earth which is the dwelling place of Satan. On the other hand, the number 72 = 9 was avoided when the seventy-two men with Moses and Aaron embarked on a mission to heaven where they saw God because the divine number 9 is not permissible in the presence of God. In Luke 10:20 Jesus said the names of the seventy-two men have been written in heaven because as humans, anytime God gives you the privilege to see Him, your name is instantly written in heaven. Since Moses and Aaron already had their names written in heaven as soon as God assigned them the mission of leading Israel out of bondage in Egypt, only 72 more names (Israelites) were written in heaven when Moses and Aaron appeared before God with the group of elders. “At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.’” Luke 10:21. Jesus was full of joy because he saw Satan fall down from heaven as the Father placed Satan under His feet. The wise and the learned in this passage are the seventytwo elders that accompanied Moses and Aaron to see God as He decided to hide the true image of Satan from these men. Based on what happened in heaven, that also explains why Jesus said “All things have been committed to me by my Father.” Luke

142

Felix Wantang

10:22. Also, because of what the elders saw in heaven Jesus said “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.” Luke 10:23. Before Jesus made this statement, he turned to his disciples even though he was not referring to them; it was all about the seventy-two men (elders of Israel) because as far as the miracles that the seventy-two disciples performed during their short journey, prophets and kings have seen miracles before. On the other hand, neither prophets nor kings have seen God’s feet, have eaten with God or heard His voice like the seventy-two experienced with Moses and Aaron. Although Moses and Aaron appeared before God with 72 elders, in the Language of Heaven which is the most important spiritual mix to God, what appeared before Him were as follows:

In the Language of Heaven, the value of the elders that appeared before God is 7 and the value of Moses and Aaron is 3. The value of the total number of people that appeared before God including Moses and Aaron is 7 + 3 = 10.The number 7 is God’s divine number for Holy, complete, and perfect. The number 10 is God’s divine number for heaven. Heaven = 10 Anything that appears before God must be Holy. That explains why God avoided the number 72 = 9 when He gave Moses the instruction in Exodus 24:1 to appoint 70 elders plus two names instead of just asking Moses to appoint 72 elders. By placing Satan under His feet and casting him down from heaven, God was using that moment to demonstrate that He has given all authority to His son Jesus Christ who is revealed in Him – the Father. Remember in John 14:9, Jesus said to his disciples “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.” Likewise, anyone who has seen the Father has seen the Son.

143

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

The 72 elders saw the Father and therefore they also saw the Son who was revealed to them through the Father because when they saw the Father, the Son was not yet introduced to the world. The outcome of the visit to heaven was planned in such a way that God’s Spiritual Acceptability Test - GSAT Score of 17 which is (10 and 7) was manifested when Moses, Aaron and the 72 elders appeared before Him. We will talk about the GSAT Score in details in Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3.

God and Money There are two very common words that are used at random by modern day churches across the globe. In most cases, these words are used interchangeably to describe and set apart some groups of people from the Christian community. These two words are “Blessings and Prosperity.” Most often, we hear Christians and preachers say that you are blessed when God prospers you. Others will say that if God wants to prosper you, He will bless you in every aspect of your life – your finances, your health, your job, your family, and your relationships. The truth is, as far as the Bible is concerned, statements like these neither represent the true character of God nor the character of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Jesus knew that because of the greedy nature of mankind, money will always be an evil powerful magnetic force for the devil to lead many people astray. At the beginning of his ministry Jesus took time to describe blessings for us in Matthew 5:1-12. From the teachings of Jesus Christ, the following people are blessed: 1. The poor in spirit. 2. Those who mourn. 3. The meek. 4. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. 5. The merciful. 6. The pure in heart. 7. The peacemakers. 8. Those who are persecuted because of righteousness. 9. Those who are insulted because of Jesus Christ. 10. Those who are persecuted and falsely accused because of Jesus Christ. When you look at the extensive list Jesus gave us regarding those who are blessed, there is no place where he mentioned the kind of spiritual garbage you hear in many churches across the world in this generation. There was no mention of the word money when Jesus addressed this topic. On the contrary, Jesus made one of the most important statements about money when he said in Luke 16:13. “No servant can

144

Felix Wantang

serve two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” What Jesus was trying to say is that money does not only carry some significant spiritual influence in its DNA, but it is also a god. Jesus was also saying that just like everything else God has created for us, God created money for one purpose. It was designed to worship man and the only way that will happen is when you use money as directed by God. Because of the deadly spiritual DNA embedded in money, it will be childish for any rich person to say that they have control of their money. No, you don’t. The money has control over you because what Jesus said was not just a statement; it was actually a divine law and the last time I checked, no human being can defeat a divine law because divine laws are supernatural laws. I love how many wealthy false preachers try to use Solomon to justify their wealth. They will tell you that if money is not a blessing from God, then why did God give Solomon so much wealth? What they fail to understand and cannot see because they are completely spiritually blind is that everything God gives you is not meant for your personal use. There is absolutely no reward on earth for being a true Christian; if that was the case, there would be no reason for Paradise in Heaven. Your only spiritually assigned job on earth is to serve God. You don’t get rewarded while you are still at work; you get it on payday. This world is nothing but God’s work environment, a preparation center, and a place to help you make up your mind as to where you want to go when God pulls the plug as you take your last breath. God wants us to share with one another because He understands that after the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, the influence of sin injected selfishness in man. God gives you wealth as a test for two very simple reasons:  To test your desire and willingness to share.  To test your love for God. As far as these two motives are concerned, there is no other place in the Bible where God clearly demonstrated them like He did in the life of Solomon. To understand God’s point of view, we have to go back to the process that brought wealth to Solomon. After Solomon became the King of Israel God offered to give him anything he asked for. “At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, ‘Ask for whatever you want me to give you.” 1 Kings 3:5. God gave Solomon this dream at a time when Solomon’s heart was very devoted to God. Solomon saw the relationship his late father David had with God and he wanted the same kind of relationship with God. “You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and

145

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day. Now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who, is able to govern this great people of yours?” 1 Kings 3:6-9. The Bible teaches that in response to Solomon’s request, God gave him wisdom and wealth like no one else on earth. Solomon had the greatest human wisdom and God also made him the richest man on earth. From Solomon’s cry for help, it is clear that he had a soft heart for the people he was about to lead and when you look at his intentions, you can also see that he was not asking God for anything that he was going to use for himself. For Solomon, it was all about the people. It was for this simple reason that God decided to not only give Solomon the wisdom he asked for, but also gave him wealth. From a practical standpoint, Solomon was not expecting what he eventually received from God. -------------------------------------Spiritual Lesson Number 2 Whenever we ask God for something that we need to do His work and He understands that it comes from a faithful heart, God always answers such prayers by giving us more than we asked for. In Exodus 4:10, Moses asked God to make him an eloquent speaker but God gave him more than he asked for because He wants to make sure that we have everything we need for His mission. God knows the future challenges that come with every mission when He appoints you for a position in His supernatural plan. ------------------------------------God gave Solomon wisdom and wealth for him to share with the people he mentioned to God – the people of Israel. God however did not give Solomon wisdom and wealth without a condition; He promised to give Solomon long life if Solomon obeyed His commands. God did not give Solomon wealth because He wanted Solomon to live a luxury lifestyle with some fancy expensive homes, cars, private jets, condos, and expensive clothes. It is true that when God gives you wealth, He expects you to make a living out of it as well but that does not necessarily mean that you become the attention of that gift. The attention is designed for the poor and the needy – those who desperately need God’s help. Keep in mind that it is not your money; it all belongs to God. One of the most laughable behaviors in most churches today is when preachers collect large sums of money from donations and also sell all types of misleading 146

Felix Wantang

merchandise to struggling Christians. While these preachers keep most of these funds for themselves, they turn around to show presentations on how they are helping people in third world countries. How can you keep more than 80% of that money for yourself while spending a little fraction for the poor and thereafter try to justify your actions as doing the work of God? Don’t fool yourself; God is not stupid. Remember when the rich young man came to Jesus to find out what he had to do in order to enter the kingdom of God? Jesus did not talk about ratios; he was very straight with this man. “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasures in heaven. Then come follow me.” Matthew 19:21. What Jesus is also saying is that if you work for him, your reward is not here on earth. You will receive your reward when you go to Paradise in Heaven. Just the thought that wealth is a reward from God as most false preachers will try to make you believe, is enough reason to toss everything else they preach into a spiritual garbage can. If God rewards you with wealth then we should divulge that every rich man has a salvation ticket to heaven. Every time you hoard wealth, you are robbing the poor and the needy because just like all other resources, God introduced money into the world to take care of our needs. God’s plan is for us to learn to share His resources with each other. Think about the air you breath, if a few people were to buy it and bank it somewhere just for their selfish use, what will happen to the rest of humanity who cannot afford to buy it? The rest of the world who cannot afford it will definitely die. That is exactly what you are doing when you hoard money. Spiritually speaking, you are killing God’s children who need that help from you. You don’t have to believe it but it is the heavenly truth and that is why God will hold you accountable. Jesus spelled it out for us very clearly. “For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.” Matthew 25:42-43. Jesus concluded his teaching on this topic when he said “I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” Matthew 25:45. The Bible teaches in John 12:1-11 that when Jesus was anointed with an expensive perfume and one of his disciples complained about the poor, Jesus said, “You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.” John 12:8. Jesus was not trying to diminish the importance of having the poor on earth. Some people have gone as far as preaching that if you are poor, tough luck. They tell you it is because God doesn’t love you and for that reason, the devil is attacking your finances. They will even make you believe that there is something wrong with your relationship with God. What a bunch of Spiritual Himbos and Bimbos! What Jesus was saying is that as long as man continues to be selfish which dates back from Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we will always have the poor. Jesus

147

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

knows that the poor will always be with us because we have no desire or willingness to share that which God has entrusted into our hands. God created man and gave him dominion over everything He made. “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Genesis 1:26. It is very easy for God to step in and take control of distributing all the resources He has made so that everybody can get enough to take care of their needs and that includes money but the problem with such a move is that it fails the test of God’s nature. His nature is such that He never breaks a promise. When He gave man dominion over everything He created it was essentially a promise that God will not break. God is not like man who is good at breaking promises. God has put the responsibility of sharing on our shoulders and how we chose to execute this duty is entirely up to man. Our unwillingness to share and selfish desire to keep it all or save the best part for ourselves was clearly demonstrated for the first time in human history by Cain in Genesis 4:1-5. When you give to the poor, you are actually giving to God. If you think that God puts more value on the money you give to the church than what you have to give to the poor then you are completely wrong because God does not depend on your money to run the church like a businessman depends on finances to keep his business alive. The only reason why God used Himself to demonstrate the sharing strategy with Cain and Abel in Genesis 4:1-5 was because at that time, the earth was not yet populated as it is today. God has not designed the sharing strategy to come from the feel-good part of us. The true attitude of sharing should be that part of us that we struggle with. If we find it very easy to give to God through the church especially because we came to the realization that all we have belongs to Him, we then develop the attitude of giving that stems from fear – the fear that God will take it all away if we don’t give. Some Christians think that God will not give them more if they don’t give to the church. This is the wrong way of looking at the reasons why we have to give back to God or share with those who need our financial help. The true test of our hearts in relation to giving comes when we are forced to give to those who have no relationship with us or no contributions whatsoever toward our wealth and that includes our enemies. This is the area where most people struggle with and that explains why when Jesus asked the rich young man to go give all his treasures to the poor, he was very sad. The church has spent many years preaching that, when you give to God, you are sowing a seed in the kingdom of God and for that reason you should expect a return in the name of a harvest. This is another filthy pile of spiritual garbage. If that was the case, then all rich people will have a huge reward waiting for them in heaven. Also, if

148

Felix Wantang

that was the case, then Lazarus the beggar in Luke 16:19-31 who had nothing to give to the church, will not be sitting today with Abraham in Paradise. When you give your life to Jesus Christ through repentance and develop the habit of giving to the poor, you are essentially paving your way to the kingdom of God. God wants to meet all our needs, not our wants. Living a luxury lifestyle is not a need. It is man’s greed that pushes us to go that far. God has designed money to meet our needs but we are always tempted to live beyond our needs. What we fail to understand is that the more money you keep that you don’t really need, the further it pushes you away from God and that is why Jesus described money as a form of god when he said in Luke 16:13 that you cannot worship both God and money. You must hate one to love the other. In essence, all those who worship money whether they know it or not, have a spiritual hate for God. One of the biggest mistakes most rich people make is that they will try to convince themselves that they can keep all that money, go to church every Sunday to give large sums of money, and still go to Paradise in Heaven when they die. What they fail to understand is that no human being can successfully fight God’s divine law. Jesus said you can’t serve both God and money and if for one second you think you know better than Jesus who happens to be the only judge you will face when you leave this world then I strongly suggest you get your brain not only spiritually examined, but also spiritually shuffled like a deck of playing cards. As much as Solomon had a very good heart toward God before the wealth came, his choice of keeping all that wealth for himself is what systematically pulled him away from God. You can give all your wealth to the church and still go to hell. Jesus did not establish the church for you to finance it. The church is the Supernatural Embassy of Heaven on Earth. If for some reason the whole world stops making financial donations to the church, it will not result to the disappearance of the church from this world. Unfortunately, most Christians including church leaders have been made to believe that the more money a church receives, the more sustainable that church becomes. The church is not a food bank that depends on donations from people to keep it alive. If the lack of large donations eventually triggers the fall or closure of any church, then Jesus Christ was never the foundation of that church. If money is the essential ingredient that keeps any church alive, then Jesus Christ did not die on the cross for that church. The true test of your relationship with God is usually measured in difficult moments. The wealth God has entrusted in your hands does not measure God’s blessings in your life rather it measures your desire and willingness to do God’s work.

149

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

-----------------------------Spiritual Lesson Number 3 The true test of a relationship is not measured by when things comfortably meet your expectations; the true test comes when the uncomfortable unexpected shows up. The true test comes when that which was never a part of the deal suddenly overtakes the situation. Jesus knew that he was coming to die for the sins of the world and he also knew that the Father will take care of any surprises in the mission. What Jesus did not know was that as far as surprises are concerned, the unexpected will not only present itself but will also show up at a time when the Father will decide to pull the supernatural plug while Jesus was on the cross. That explains why Jesus cried out to the Father on the cross. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46. Jesus had the option of saying to the Father “I can’t do this because I did not expect this part of the process.” Instead, he stood the test and finished the job. How do you react each time the unexpected shows up in life? Your strength before God is not determined by how you deal with issues of prior notification; it is the unexpected thrown at you that God uses to lift you up. How you deal with them will determine the next assignment God will bring your way. You may not be Jesus, but any time you see the unexpected, think about Joseph who at all times, confronted the unexpected by trusting God with every step of the way. In every test, there will be somebody who will be the enemy. Don’t hate them; thank God for your enemies because He uses them to test your strength. -----------------------------Regardless of how close we may find ourselves to God, the truth is, we all make very stupid mistakes but the beautiful thing about it is that God knows our hearts and he foresaw those mistakes even before they came our way. What is your reaction when the unexpected shows up? Are you going to pray the popular prayer of most human beings that says: “Lord God, take this away from me,” or are you going to stay still and trust God? Are you going to run around like most Christians do by going to look for preachers who call themselves miracle workers? As far as the unexpected is concerned, this was one area where Apostle Paul failed to exercise patience towards God. When that moment showed up, he went with the popular prayer. “To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’” 2 Corinthians 12:7-9. The only prayer acceptable to God in moments like this is a simple prayer that surrenders our principles. “Father, let your will be done in me.” That explains why Jesus made this prayer shortly before his arrest. “My Father,

150

Felix Wantang

if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.” Matthew 26:42. The devil may not be attacking you at all times because Jesus is supernaturally shielding you but make no mistake about it; the devil is always closer to you than you may think. God’s divine law concerning money is very simple. If you keep more than you need then money becomes your god – you worship money. Since Jesus has already defined money as a god, you cannot worship two gods at the same time. Like Jesus said in Matthew 6:24, you will hate one and love the other. Biblically speaking, the first law of the Ten Commandments says it all. “You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3. With the exception of our God in heaven who is also the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, all other gods are branches of the devil and that includes money. As much as we think that stashing away a lot of money for our personal pleasure is a very wise act, Biblically speaking, there is no truth in this approach. It is actually a behavior that questions the promises of God. Remember Jesus said that the Father will take care of your needs because He knows what you need at all times. “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ Or ‘What shall we drink?’ Or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Matthew 6:31-34. Anytime you hoard more money than you need, regardless of how many times you pray or donate money to the church, you are definitely a pagan. A pagan is not a Christian and a pagan is someone who believes in material possessions. A pagan does not believe in God. Now you may try to justify yourself as being a Christian when you defy God’s law by loving money and not handling it the way God has instructed us in the Bible. The truth is, don’t fool yourself; you are spiritually blind as a result of money. Remember Jesus talked about the rich man who gathered so much wealth for the future in Luke 12:13-21? Jesus described his actions as being foolish. What is the point of keeping all that money only to lose it all when you take your last breath? ----------------------------Spiritual Lesson Number 4 What good is your wealth if he who gave it to you is not willing to accept it for the price of your soul? Just think about it for a minute. Is it worth it? Wakeup from your slumber before it is too late. God is not stupid; you cannot have both God and money operating in your life. No amount of money can bring you to Jesus; only his blood on the cross can save you. ------------------------------

151

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

In Luke 6:38 Jesus commands us to give but that does not necessarily mean that he was referring to a specific location. Unfortunately, most preachers have successfully convinced a lot of Christians that Jesus is asking us to give to the church in this passage. Jesus Christ of all people doesn’t depend on your money to run his church. When he said give, he was referring to what John the Baptist preached in Luke 3:7-14. That preaching was basically about one principle – share your bread with the hungry. There is absolutely nothing wrong with giving money to the church but if the only place you want to give is the church, then your Biblical understanding of this issue needs some serious makeover. God is more interested in the investments you make in your fellowman – your neighbor than what you think you can give to His church. The investment you make in the lives of those who desperately need your help is what matters most to God. That explains why when Jesus made reference to giving to the church when he went to the temple in Luke 21: 4, he was not concerned on the large donations that came from the rich and also when he told the rich young man to go sell his possessions and give the proceeds to the poor, Jesus did not mention the temple or the church. False teachers will tell you that the more money you give to the church, the more blessings you are poised to receive from God. What a joke! Unfortunately, human nature is so messed up that our attitude of giving is completely characterized by what Jesus asked us to avoid. He said when you give it should be done in secret. “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have receive their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:2-4. What Jesus is trying to say is that your giving should be between you and God. What degree of secret is involved in your giving when a pastor tells you to give a specific amount or percentage? With the greed, the selfishness, and the discipleship for the devil that has overtaken most churches today, most false preaches will tell you that any money you give to the church is nothing but a seed that you are sowing in the kingdom of God. This is the biggest joke from the pit of hell. The only seed you can successfully sow in God‘s kingdom is a contrite heart. If your money is a seed you can sow in God’s kingdom then rich people will receive the greatest harvest when they die. “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Mark 10:25. You cannot fool God. A seed is anything that will produce a harvest and your money has no value in heaven because nobody uses money up there. God wants you to give it to those people who need it; and that’s why Jesus stressed about the needy in Matthew 6:2-4. Anytime you associate the things you get from this world as being a harvest of your monetary donations to the church, you make a mockery of the

152

Felix Wantang

mercy and grace of God through Jesus Christ. What about the air you breathe which is the most important gift of life; how much seed did you sow to harvest that air? Was it one million dollars, five million, or one billion dollars? As much as Jesus said in Luke 6:38 “Give and it will be given to you.”, all he is saying is the he who gives will never lack because your provider who is God will never run out of supplies to replenish what you gave away to the needy. God has designed the act of giving in such a fashion that we need not expect anything in return when we give to the needy. One of the reasons why Jesus associated the needy with our giving is because when we give to the needy who are in most cases the poor, it forces us to give without expecting anything in return; the poor has nothing to pay us back. God is not stupid and for that reason He knows from the bottom of your heart when you are using his name to put up a show and display your wealth. This idea of giving in secret is what Jesus also commanded us to do when it comes to prayer. “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have receive their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6. When you give, instead of doing it with the expectation of getting something back from the recipient, you should on the other hand actually thank the recipient for accepting your gift. It may sound strange but think about it! If you were to die today after living a life where no one accepted a gift from you, what will you show God to justify what you did with the wealth He gave you? The needy and the poor are your only justification. God wants your heart-felt mercy and compassion for your fellow man, not the millions of dollars you plan to give to his church. That also explains why Jesus said “I desire mercy not sacrifice.” Matthew 9:13. Everything you do for the poor and the needy falls under mercy; and that is what God is after, not what you plan to sacrifice for His church. Jesus gave us the parable of the Rich Fool in Luke 12:13-21 and he talked about being rich towards God. “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” Luke 12: 15. When Jesus was done with the parable he concluded by saying “This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.” Luke 12:21. This is another passage that many preachers and churches have taken out of context, intentionally chosen to twist, and lost in spiritual translation. Jesus said whoever stores up treasures for themselves but is not rich toward God will be like the rich fool. Some preachers have concluded that:  Being rich toward God refers to your faith in God.  You can store up treasures for yourself and still be rich toward God.  Being rich toward God is when you give large sums of money to the church.

153

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

From Jesus’ point of view, none of these conclusions is true. As far as treasures are concerned, being rich toward God has nothing to do with your money or faith. Being rich toward God with treasures simply means putting the treasures in the right place and that place is the one that God himself designated. The right place is in the hands of the poor and the needy. You cannot store up treasures for yourself and be rich toward God. If being rich toward God when it comes to treasures has anything to do with our faith, then Jesus would not have wasted his time by asking the rich young man to go sell his treasures and give the proceeds to the poor because the man already had faith when he approached Jesus. Being rich toward God has nothing to do with how much you donate to the church. As far as the resources of this world are concerned, God is not a God of waste. He is a God of all our needs - not our wants. As much as we want to keep all that money, God created money to take care of our needs. He understands that when He sends money your way, you need some of it to take care of your needs but that doesn’t mean He loves you more than the poor guy next door. As a matter of fact, you should be scared when God sends lots of money your way because it involves a lot of responsibility to use it to His satisfaction. He is the boss of that money not you. Think about how many people died today that could have used some of the money you stored away? What will you say when you stand before His son Jesus Christ and have nothing to show for all that wealth during all these years on earth? You may choose to keep all that money because you are afraid to lose it all. The truth is, you are still going to lose it all no matter what because when you take your last breath, you will leave it all behind you to face judgment before the one who gave it all to you for his services that you failed to accomplish. At that very moment standing before Jesus, he will give you a summary report of how well you did in two words: Double loss. This summary is because of the following:  You lost all that money.  You also lost your soul. That was the kind of double loss the rich man Lazarus suffered in Luke 16:19-31. Wake up before it is too late! It is not uncommon to hear Christians say “If God loves me, how come I am doing everything I can in my power and working very hard but I am still poor?” The problem with this question is that we fail to understand that God works with divine laws that govern everything He created. Let’s recall that the number 2 is God’s divine number for creation and as a recap, His law governing this number states that members of a pair must be the exact opposites of each other. In this case, the rich and the poor make a very perfect pair under this law. Don’t blame yourself for being poor especially if you are doing your best in life because remember that not everybody

154

Felix Wantang

who is rich got there as a result of working very hard. Some people got there by doing just the opposite – nothing. Contrary to popular Christian belief, poverty is not a curse. If you are poor, the rich should actually envy you because you are a perfect example of how God wants them to live their lives. Asking God to make everybody rich is like asking Him to make every day cold or make every day hot. It is also like asking Him to make everybody male or female. How about asking God to make everybody stay awake without sleep, will you take that chance? God’s decision to use His divine number 2 for creation is a balance strategy. God never created life to make things difficult for us. On the contrary, He made life very simple in such a fashion that every single puzzle fits perfectly in its own designated spot. The problem is that we complicate life. It was never meant to be that way and it was never meant to be where we’ve taken it to. When you start asking God to change anything or some aspects of His divine law then you should also be prepared to accept the changes in all aspects of creation because God is an impartial God. In Book One, we talked about a typical example of this type of request when Jesus arrived at late Lazarus’ home to raise him from the dead in John 11:17-44. Martha wanted to receive salvation from Jesus Christ but she was not willing to believe the truth that Jesus Christ is the resurrection. Because of God’s divine law, Jesus on the other hand was not prepared to give her a free pass just because she is the sister of Lazarus who was a very good friend of Jesus. As the Father’s son, Jesus is not a partial judge; the requirements for anybody to enter the kingdom of God are very clear and because Martha had a hard time accepting it, Jesus wept because he did not want Martha to lose her soul. There is no room for a free pass in God’s divine law; unlike man who is used to giving free passes to friends, close associates, and family, God’s laws are unchangeable because God Himself never changes. That explains why in Exodus 3:1-17 when Moses asked for God’s name, He responded by saying “I AM WHO I AM.” God was saying that He remains the same at all times. For that same reason, Jesus solidified that statement as well for us. “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law and the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” Matthew 5:17. -----------------------------Spiritual Lesson Number 5 Life is not about what you want or like to do. It is about what you need to do. Your needs are part of God’s plan for your life, not your wants. Learn to weed out your wants from your life because they cloud your spiritual path. Life is not measured by what we get out of it; the life of Jesus Christ is measured by what he needed to do and effectively accomplished on the cross. -----------------------------155

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Every time you call God’s wealth “My money” what you are doing is a display of spiritual arrogance. Regardless of what you think, the Biblical truth is indisputable because the reality of what you belief can only be stretched to the point where you take your last breath; on the other hand, the Biblical truth is endlessly stretched to eternity. When Jesus died on the cross, his body that bore the sins of the world was buried with those who will suffer eternal condemnation for rejecting God’s word through His son; the Bible teaches that Jesus was buried with the rich and the wicked. “He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.” Isaiah 53:9. However, when he rose from the dead on the third day, his new spiritual body was sinless because while he physically left all our sins on the cross, the truth is that he supernaturally left all our spiritual sins in Hell where they belong. The sins of the world were upon his physical body that was crucified but when his spiritual body was released on the third day through the resurrection, his physical body with the sins of the world remained in Hell. That explains why all sinners (humanity) who reject Jesus Christ and his teachings will spend eternity in Hell. If you are rich, I strongly urge you to immediately start looking for a way through God’s word to spiritually relinquish that title because you are definitely on a path that will make salvation unattainable for you. From Isaiah 53:9, another Biblical term for “the Rich” is “the Wicked”. You cannot enter God’s Paradise with that title. You don’t have to physically hurt anybody to be considered a wicked individual. What makes you a prime candidate for the Biblical definition of “A wicked soul” is nothing but your childish spiritual arrogance and blunt refusal to comply with God’s Law through His son Jesus Christ. Within the context of Biblical language, if you fail God’s spiritual test of obtaining a ticket to His Paradise through His son Jesus Christ, that result instantly puts you on the other side of the flip coin of salvation which is Hell, specifically designed for the wicked. You are spiritually wicked when you fail to pass God’s Spiritual Acceptability Test GSAT. The details of this test are fully outlined in Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3.  “For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.” Psalm 1:6.  “On the wicked He will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.” Psalm 11:6.  “The wicked draw the sword and bend the bow to bring down the poor and the needy, to slay those whose ways are upright. But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken. Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.” Psalm 37:14-17.

156

Felix Wantang

Jesus clearly defined the destination of all wicked souls when he narrated the Parable of the Net in Matthew 13:47-50. “Once again the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away. This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Notice how Jesus did not say “the pagan from the righteous” or “the unbeliever from the righteous”. Jesus specifically gave us the Biblical definition of all those who will not make it to God’s Paradise. He called them “the Wicked”.

God’s Prescription for Fallen Greedy Pastors God designed life on earth in such a unique fashion that nobody gets away with anything. I don’t care who you are; you cannot get away with God’s divine law. Unlike salvation for the spiritually ignorant that is given to us free through repentance because God considers humanity to be spiritually blind, on the other hand, the prescription for fallen pastors looking for a second chance of salvation is completely different. Jesus through his profound grace understands that there are some pastors who have been carried away by the lavish lifestyle that money offers; but then at some point they suddenly come to the realization that they have to sincerely seek Jesus again to deliver them out of the devil’s camp. If you are one of such pastors looking for a way out of Satan’s financial trap, your only chance is to do what Jesus prescribed through Zacchaeus. “But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, ‘Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.’” Luke 19:8. A mathematical application of this prescription is detailed in Book One “Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ”. It is not enough to ask Jesus to forgive you because your actions were not influenced by spiritual ignorance of Biblical truth. You knew the truth very well but chose to ignore it for Satan’s candy. Regardless of what you believe, the Biblical truth is very simple: “The money you use to fund your lavish greedy lifestyle is nothing but a calculated robbery of what God designated for the poor and the needy.” Jesus Christ cares less if you sold books, sold some fake merchandise, received a gift or even won the lottery. The truth still remains: It is not your money – God owns it all. Follow the prescription Jesus approved through Zacchaeus or perish in hell. It makes no difference to Jesus if you reject his offer because you already live in hell; you just don’t realize it yet. Jesus is not begging for followers; the choice is yours.

157

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Congratulations! Now that you’ve finished reading this amazing book, you will now test yourself. Your challenge is to use the Language of Heaven to spiritually dissect the first page of this book. The cover page was specifically designed by Jesus Christ. There are 10 spiritual mysteries hidden in the cover page of this book; your test is to find them. Before you start, I want you to ask him for the spiritual wisdom to successfully complete this task. For a complete feedback on your test, please feel free to email your answers to: ftfmeetingswithjesuschrist@gmail.com. To help you start with this test, I will give you the first two mysteries: 1. The white box is Jesus’ tomb where he was buried after his death on the cross. 2. The red color stands for the blood of the Lamb of God. Remember that the divine number for the Sacrificial Lamb of God is the number 14. To enter God’s Paradise, we must go through the blood of the lamb who is Jesus Christ.

My Dream I pray that this book enriches your life to bring you closer to Jesus Christ because at the end of the day, that’s what life is all about. A wasted life is a life spent without Jesus Christ and only those who have him will live a fulfilled life. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5. My dream is to someday open a facility to take care of troubled youths. My goal is to provide them with food, shelter, education, teach them a trade, and at the same time bring them to Jesus Christ. God bless you and thanks again for reading.

158

Felix Wantang

About the Author While working for a missionary hospital in a small town called Nguti in Cameroon, Felix Wantang received his first visitation from Jesus Christ in October 1991. After graduating with an MBA from the European University Madrid - Spain, he eventually moved to Canada in 1999 where he started meeting regularly face-toface with Jesus Christ to learn the language of Heaven. During one of the meetings in 2006, Jesus asked him to start writing the Hidden Supernatural Mysteries of the Holy Bible and the Language of Heaven because the Church for the most part has lost its way. His book is a series (trilogy) of Biblical revelations from Jesus Christ in the Language of Heaven titled, "Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ". Felix Wantang lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife and children as he continues to meet face-to-face regularly with Jesus Christ to learn more about the Language of Heaven and God's plan for humanity. Connect with Felix Wantang on: ď ś Facebook ď ś Twitter: @FelixWantang

159

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Other Books by Felix Wantang  Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ  Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3

160

Value Index Name

Value

Aaron Abel Abihu Abijah Abiud Abraham Abram Adam Ahaz Akim Amalekites Ammiel Amminadab Amon Andrew Ard Areli Ark Arodi Arphaxad Asa Asenath Ashbel Asher Asshur

49 20 41 31 37 44 35 19 36 34 96 53 58 43 65 23 45 30 47 73 21 68 47 51 86

161

Felix Wantang

Azor Bartholomew Beker Bela Benjamin Beriah Blind Blood Boaz Body Bread Cain Caleb Christ Church Circumcision Commandments Cross Cured Cush Cypress Dan David Dead Deaf Death Dinah Earth East Eber Eden Egypt Ehi Eleazar Eliakim Eliud Elizabeth Elon

60 132 41 20 68 43 41 48 44 46 30 27 23 77 61 136 134 74 51 51 105 19 40 14 16 38 36 52 45 30 28 73 22 68 60 51 88 46

162

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Ephraim Er Eri Euphrates Eve Evil Ezbon Faith Figs Fish Flesh Frankincense Fruit Gad Gaddi Gaddiel Garden Gera Gershon Geuel Gihon Good Good News Grapes Guni Haggi Ham Hamul Hanok Havilah Hear Heaven Heber Hell Hezekiah Hezron Holy Horeb

70 23 32 113 32 48 62 44 41 42 50 119 74 12 25 42 49 31 86 50 53 41 102 66 51 32 22 55 49 61 32 55 38 37 73 86 60 48

163

Felix Wantang

Huppim Hur Hushim Igal Imnah Isaac Iscariot Ishvah Ishvi Israel Issachar It is Finished Jacob Jahleel Jahziel Jakim James Jamin Japheth Jashub Jeconiah Jehoram Jehoshaphat Jemuel Jerusalem Jesse Jesus Jezer John Joseph Joshua Josiah Jotham Judah Judas Karmi Kohath Lame

83 47 78 29 45 33 94 67 67 64 78 131 31 53 71 44 48 47 68 61 65 70 111 66 104 58 74 64 47 73 74 62 67 44 55 52 63 31

164

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Law Leah Leprosy Let Levi Life Man Manasseh Marah Mary Massah Mathan Matthew Melkiel Merari Meribah Messiah Money Moses Muppim Myrrh Naaman Nadab Nahbi Nahor Nahshon Naphtali Nathanael Noah North Obed Ohad Onan Pallu Palti Paradise Passover Peleg

36 26 110 37 48 32 28 80 41 57 61 57 90 67 64 56 74 72 71 88 82 44 22 34 56 79 81 76 38 75 26 28 44 62 58 73 115 45

165

Felix Wantang

Perez Peter Philip Pishon Pomegranates Poor Prophets Psalm Puah Raised Ram Rehoboam Rephidim Resurrection Reu Reuben Righteousness Rock Rosh Salmon Salvation Sarah Sarai Serah Sered Serpent Serug Seth Sethur Shamua Shaphat Shaul Shealtiel Shelah Shem Shillem Shimron Shuni

70 64 70 81 134 64 117 61 46 56 32 77 82 165 44 65 179 47 60 74 113 47 48 51 51 97 70 52 91 63 73 61 91 53 45 78 96 71

166

Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2

Sight Simeon Simon Sin Solomon Soul South Spirit Spiritual Staff Stone Temple Terah Thaddaeus Tigris Thomas Tola Tree Uzziah Walk Water West Wine Wisdom Woman Zadok Zebulun Zechariah Zephon Zerah Zerubbabel Zoher

63 75 70 42 103 67 83 91 125 52 73 71 52 83 82 76 48 48 91 47 67 67 51 83 66 57 101 79 84 58 94 72

167

Felix Wantang

168