Bully’s Blog

or Suffering as the Most Holy Place

The content of this post has been revised and included in Bible Matrix II: The Covenant Key.

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See also James B. Jordan, In the Fish or The Church as Tomb.

Extra note: At Passover, the lamb or kid was slain at midnight. At Atonement, the blood was presented during the day but in the darkness of the Most Holy Place. At the crucifixion, midday became midnight, and the Temple veil was rent in this darkness. Atoning blood is presented in the dark.

Pic: Jonah by Michael O’Brien, www.studiobrien.com
Artist Commentary: Jonah the reluctant prophet is swallowed by the whale, and will soon be spewed out onto a shore. In the belly of the whale he must surely feel that his life and his mission have ended. Yet in a sense he is about to be born.

“…the crisis of fatherhood, in its many forms, is at the root of most disorders in this late stage of Western civilization. And the root is intimately connected to the loss of our consciousness of the hierarchical nature of the created order. Large numbers of people not only seem unable to believe in God, but also cannot conceptualize Him in their thoughts and their hearts. The icon in the heart—the icon of fatherhood—is either damaged or absent entirely. Continue reading

They sent therefore fifty men. And for three days they sought [Elijah] but did not find him. And they came back to [Elisha] while he was staying at Jericho, and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?” (2 Kings 2:17-18)

It seems the Ark was “taken” like Enoch. If it was carried to Babylon, perhaps it was melted down with other conquered “gods” to contribute to Nebuchadnezzar’s “golden calf.” It fits the pattern if the Ark “died” on the altar of false worship “outside the city.” Continue reading