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Just as the Restoration, through death in Babylon, miraculously reunited Ephraim and Judah in a new body, the attacks on the Firstfruits church miraculously reunited Jew and Gentile. The Restoration body (pictured in Ezekiel 37) was a type of the Firstfruits church. In the big picture, this new body appears in the Bible Matrix at Maturity. It was an army from the grave, a multitude of shiny individuals united and animated by the Spirit of God, moving as a single shining entity. The Creation week pictures this as flocks of birds and schools of fish. The Tabernacle images it as clouds of incense. This is the warrior bride, terrible as an army with banners.

Light - Ark-Word (Sabbath) -
Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit
through the bond of peace.

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(From The Magnificence of Mercy by Geoffrey Bingham)

‘In wrath remember mercy…’

It would seem that Habakkuk had to remind God that in his wrath He should remember mercy towards errant Israel. The covenant revelation of God in Exodus 34:6 was that He was (is) ‘slow to anger’ (Num. 14:18; Neh. 9:17; Ps. 86:15), especially in regard to Israel. The prophet did not have to remind God, so much as he had to remind himself of the love of God, and to see God’s judgment as the wrath of love. If we ask what causes God’s actions of mercy, grace, slowness to anger (long-suffering), steadfast love, faithfulness, forgiveness and even refusal to clear the (impenitent, obdurate) guilty—as set out in Exodus 34:6-7—then we must answer that it is His love.

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Paul seems to use the Matrix consciously in his letters, as Jesus did (the sermon on the mount, the Lord’s prayer, the seven woes to the Pharisees and even the seven words from the cross follow the pattern). There are two possibilities. Either I am seeing things that are not there, or a lot more work needs to be done in this particular area of “progressive chiasmus” based on Genesis 1.

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Genesis (Sabbath) - Grace and peace (Shalom in Christ)
[Ephesians 1]

…..Exodus (Passover) - Children of wrath made members of the
…..household of God by the blood of Christ   [Ephesians 2:1-17]

……….Leviticus (Firstfruits) - Access to the Father as the dwelling
……….place of God. The mystery of God opened   [Ephesians 2:18-3:12]

……………Numbers (Pentecost) - Filled with all the fullness of God,
……………strengthened with might through His Spirit   [Ephesians 3:13-21]

……….Deuteronomy (Trumpets) - Law repeated. The troops presented
……….to God. Inheritance. Music  [Ephesians 4:1-6:9]

…..Joshua (Atonement) - Every saint wears the armour
…..of the High Priest  [Ephesians 6:10-18]

Judges (Tabernacles) - Paul the ambassador to the Gentiles
[Ephesians 6:19-24]