INCARNATE: What does the word mean? ... by R.E. Sutherland, M.Ed./sciences

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SUBJECT:  Incarnate…What does the word mean?

By R.E. Sutherland, M.Ed./sciences

INTRODUCTION: The season of miracles has arrived when pagans and Christians give high praise, albeit most of it misplaced.  Review some terms, reformulate false concepts, and proceed with caution.  Change is upon all of us.  Nations, you have been warned for 2,000 years.

FIRST: What does INCARNATE really mean?  

QUOTE:  Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It refers to the conception and birth of a sentient being who is the material manifestation of an entity, god or force whose original nature is immaterial. In its religious context the word is used to mean the descent from Heaven of a god, or divine being in human/animal form on Earth.

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarnation

QUOTE: “Around the second millennium B.C., texts began appearing on the inside of wooden coffins.  These texts were derived from the earlier Pyramid Texts, but they reveal more about the spiritual concepts involved.  Their focus is givn in spell number 76, which is entitled “Ascending to the sky…and becoming an Akh.”  The Akh is “the shining one,” a “being of light,” and is the root of the word AKHET, or “horizon.”  It describes the end sought by the BA: to convert into pure spiritual radiance.  In terms of the dead, it reveals that the person after death, following a period when he is free of his body in his Ba form, eventually ascends to enter a state of transcendence and merges with the radiant Source of all…”

Source: The Jesus Papers, by secular Professor Michael Baigent, Page171.  ISBN13:978-0-06-082713-7.

Genesis 3:1
Bereshis 3:1  Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

3 Now the Nachash was more arum (cunning, crafty, wiley) than any beast of the sadeh which Hashem Elohim had made. And he said unto the isha, Really? Hath Elohim said, Ye shall not eat of kol etz hagan?

Definition of NACHASH:  Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance

Certainly, divine, enchanter, use enchantment, learn by experience, diligently observe.  A primitive root; properly, to hiss, i.e. Whisper a (magic) spell; generally, to prognosticate — X certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) X enchantment, learn by experience, X indeed, diligently observe.

 Genesis 3:1

1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)

1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field, which the Lord God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God indeed said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

QUOTE: One of the problems we face when seeking to understand the early religious practices of the wide variety of ancient cultures is that until writing was not only invented but sufficiently developed to record ideas and beliefs, we do not know what our ancestors believed.  Although a symbolic recording system for commercial transactions using small clay tokens began around 8,000 B.C., it did not develop into writing until around 3,000 B.C.  An example of this problem is seen with the excavation of the great ziggurat at Eridu, once a prominent Sumerian city in what is now Iraq…”

Source: The Jesus Papers, by secular Professor Michael Baigent, Page163.  ISBN13:978-0-06-082713-7.

QUOTE: This dual perspective is very different from our modern concept of time in which we are ever tumbling onwards into a future that we can only hope will be perfect–a hope that for many religions rests upon the fulfillment of a promise that a messiah will someday appear to win the final battle against the forces of evil and in so doing will usher in a perfect world.  Our political philosophy too is very dependent upon linear time, on a trajectory stretching from the past into the future where, if we manage our legislation correctly, we will achieve satisfaction for all citizens, as if legislation is something that does more than plaster over cracks.  And yet, those of our culture who have stepped out of time–the mystics–report, like the ancient Egyptians, that the world of the DEAD is indeed a world of the living, that it is ever present and very close…

Source: The Jesus Papers, by secular Professor Michael Baigent, Page12.  ISBN13:978-0-06-082713-7.

QUOTE: The main aid of those who would preserve Ma’at was the great god Tehuti–called Thoth by the Greeks and identified with Hermes.  He knew the deepest secrets of Ma’at and could INITIATE both the dead and the living into its wisdom.  Thoth knew “the secrets of the night.”  The FAR-WORLD was where perfection reigned, and with Thoth’s aid–that is, with an education in the correct techniques–humans could visit there.  They could visit and return from the kingdom of the gods.  Since the earliest records began, we can see that all the temple rituals were designed to maintain universal harmony.  And in these temples both men and women were initiated into its secrets.  Buth they were also told that they had to keep silent about wht they saw.  In fact, everything about the temple secrets was guarded.  Among many texts carved on the walls of the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the blunt warning: “DO NOT REVEAL WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN IN THE MYSTERIES OF THE TEMPLES.”

Source: The Jesus Papers, by secular Professor Michael Baigent, Page163.  ISBN13:978-0-06-082713-7.

SECOND: How does the concept of incarnation tie into our understanding of modern understanding?

 Genesis 6:1-6

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

 Isaiah 5:25-26

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

25On this account the anger of the Lord has burned against His people,
And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down.
And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
For all this His anger is not spent,
But His hand is still stretched out.
26  He will also lift up a standard to the distant nation,
And will whistle for it from the ends of the earth;
And behold, it will come with speed swiftly.

 Isaiah 9:1-7  (700-600 B.C.)
New American Standard Bible (NASB)

1 But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles.

2 The people who walk in darkness

Will see a great light;

Those who live in a dark land,

The light will shine on them.

3 You shall multiply the nation,

You shall increase their gladness;

They will be glad in Your presence

As with the gladness of harvest,

As men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

4 For You shall break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders,

The rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.

5 For every boot of the booted warrior in the battle tumult,

And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us;

And the government will rest on His shoulders;

And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

7 There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace,

On the throne of David and over his kingdom,

To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness

From then on and forevermore.

The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.

 Micah 5:2-5

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

2 “But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
Too little to be among the clans of Judah,
From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel.
His goings forth are from long ago,
From the days of eternity.”
3 Therefore He will give them up until the time
When she who is in labor has borne a child.
Then the remainder of His brethren
Will return to the sons of Israel.
4 And He will arise and shepherd His flock
In the strength of the Lord,
In the majesty of the name of the Lord His God.
And they will remain,
Because at that time He will be great
To the ends of the earth.
5 This One will be our peace.
When the Assyrian invades our land,…

 Luke 1:11-17

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

11 And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense. 12 Zacharias was troubled when he saw the angel, and fear gripped him. 13 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, for your petition has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will give him the name John. 14 You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth. 15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb. 16 And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God. 17 It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children, and the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous, so as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

 Luke 1:35-37

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

35 The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God. 36 And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month. 37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”

 Luke 2:1-16

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

1 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. 2 This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. 4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, 5 in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child. 6 While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

8 In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; 11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” 13 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

14 “Glory to God in the highest,

And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.”

15 When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, “Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger.

QUOTE:  Many do not realize that Micah further prophesied that kingship would come to the “Daughter of Jerusalem” at Migdal Eder:  Micah 4:8 “As for you, O watchtower of the flock [Hebrew Migdal Eder], O stronghold of the Daughter of Zion, the former dominion will be restored to you; kingship will come to the Daughter of Jerusalem.”

Migdal Eder was a watchtower located in the northern part of Bethlehem built to protect the Temple flocks.¹“During lambing season the sheep were brought there from the fields, as the lower level functioned as the birthing room for sacrificial lambs.”²

Priestly shepherds “would wrap the newborn lambs in swaddling clothes” and place them in a manger “until they calmed down”³ to keep them “without defect”⁴, suitable to be sacrificial lambs for the sin of the Israelites.

Bethlehem was special because the shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem raised lambs for the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. The shepherds who heard the angelic choir and came to see the baby Jesus were certainly familiar with the technique to birth a sacrificial lamb, and were likely puzzled by why a baby was birthed in the manner and location of a sacrificial lamb.

In fact the angels did not have to tell the shepherds precisely where to go in Bethlehem to find Jesus, because there was only one manger where sacrificial lambs were birthed, the cave under the watch tower of Migdal Edar.⁵

With hindsight we can clearly see that the manner of Jesus’ birth foreshadowed the purpose for Jesus coming into the world:  John 1:29 “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!””

Source:  Why was Jesus born in a manger?

http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~tim/study/Why%20a%20manger.pdf

THIRD: How does science relate to incarnation?  What is the meaning of “the WORD?”

 John 1:1-5

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

FACT: The WORD is a frequency; an energy event.  The Electromagnetic Spectrum of frequences includes the following array of frequencies: Radio, Microwave, Infrared, Ultraviolet, X-ray, and Gamma.  In 2012, physics learned there is no such thing as MASS; instead, everything is pure energy, including humans.  Newtonian physics was proven to be FALSE, and Quantum Physics took the lead of discovery.  Hence, science understands that the Creator is energy and can bring matter into being, which humans are just learning how to do.  Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, and Einstein all understood that “Life is not a crap shoot”, and that a divine source of mathematics ruled over the universe.

QUOTE:  Sound is a mechanical pressure wave traveling through a medium. On this site we will look at some of the physical properties of sounds and how they are produced and detected. But first, let us look at what sound really is.

A Mechanical Pressure Wave Traveling through a Medium.  Sound is a pressure disturbance that travels through a medium, thereby transporting energy. The medium is whatever matter the pressure wave is traveling through. When you stand by the side of train tracks and hear a train coming, the medium is air. If instead, you place your ear on the train tracks, the medium would be the steel rails.

Source:  http://www.sound-physics.com/Sound/Sound-Waves/

QUOTE:  ASPEN, Colo. — Physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a potential key to an understanding of why elementary particles have mass and indeed to the existence of diversity and life in the universe.

Source:  New York Times, July 5, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

 Revelation 22:6

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

6 And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true”; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His bond-servants the things which must soon take place.

 Revelation 22:10-17

10 And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. 11 Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy, still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous, still practice righteousness; and the one who is holy, still keep himself holy.”

12 “Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

14 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the city. 15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost.

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AUTHOR:

R.E. Sutherland, M.Ed./sciencesFreelance Investigative Science Reporter since 1996
24 years – Virginia Licensed Science Teacher (biology, chemistry, physics)
9.3 years-Nuclear lab and Nuclear Radiological Protection Inspector
1992 – Certificate of Completion for “Teaching Nuclear Topics”
Author:  American and Russian Alliance of 1858 (ISBN: 13: 9780595215010)
1998 – GOP Primary candidate for SC State Superintendent of Education
2000 – GOP Primary candidate for SC Governor
2004 – Libertarian candidate for US Senate
Web Archive in the Library of Congress:

http://webarchive.loc.gov/lcwa0016/2004*/www.reb4liberty.com/

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