"Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." Genesis 3:16-19

"For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the Devil." I John 3:18

"And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, He came unto the Sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis." Mark 7:31

"And He took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to His disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children. And He sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala." Matthew 15:36-39

Greetings, friends! May this day be one of great blessedness in your life; and that it certainly will be, if you will only use the Keys to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, for our here and for our now.

Don't you know that Christ our Lord opened a spiritual Kingdom for earthlings here and now before He departed into the heavenlies? That is what He came to earth for. Clearly did He say that He would not leave them bereaved but would come unto them, and still again He said, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the age" (Matt. 28:20). Unto Pilate He answered that to be a King had He been born into earth (Jn. 18:37). A king implies a kingdom, and since He did not establish an earthly one, that means that of necessity He opened a spiritual one for all earthlings here and now. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Him to truthfully say that He would be with His own even unto the end of the age. That statement clearly implied that He – as the King of a spiritual kingdom – did superimpose that Kingdom upon this earth, so that whosoever would look unto Him and live as His citizen and act as a son or daughter of His, would have the unstinted – yes, even the unbounded – blessings of God Almighty upon them, and the ever-present power of Christ the King and the Mighty Deliverer for every moment and situation here and now!

Well can I understand the lament of Jesus when He said unto them, "Ye faithless generation, how long must I be with you?" (Mk. 9:19). Although I do not intend to imply a comparison between me and the Christ, yet I keenly recognize the same problem of bringing people into understanding, and into that faith and assurance which is founded in understanding. Most good and simple Christians have been so brainwashed by Lucifer's interpretations of the teachings of Jesus Christ, that they can only keep their fingers crossed, hoping for what they call the "salvation of your soul" in the mists of an unknown world and a hoped-for tomorrow. Utterly has Christendom failed to realize, or to come into that blessed understanding, that the God-Spirit came to earth to accomplish a work for earthlings here and now. Were not Adam and Eve people of flesh and blood like unto ourselves? Was it not in the flesh that they sinned? Was it not upon their flesh and earthly labors that the curse descended? Then of necessity does it follow that if, as, and when God were ever to undertake to remedy that curse, or open up a way for man out of it, that the said work of redemption had to be wrought for earth-man here and now!

Look back into the Genesis account and search it carefully: you will fail to find the slightest hint that God's sentence and curse had anything to do with the soul of Adam or Eve; in fact, it is utterly impossible to arrive at such an interpretation of it, providing we abide in our right senses. Turn to I John 3:8, where you will find his writing about this very fact, wherein he states that "for this cause (or purpose) was the Son of God manifest in human flesh, to destroy the works of the Devil." Where are we ever told anything about the works of the Devil as having been confined to the "soul" of man? It was the objective consciousness of Eve into which he intruded, and in their bodies they entered into disobedience or sin, and upon the bodies of flesh and their earth-life descended the sentence and the curse, which introduced pain, sorrow and suffering, strenuous toil, grief and disillusionment. All of this was for the physical and the objective man. Wherefore, when Christ came to destroy the works of the Devil, then ten thousand times do I repeat, "Of necessity, that redemptive work had to do with the earth-man and his earthly life." I do not wish to imply anything against the soul of man; but the soul, the spirit, and whatsoever else man may have, is a part and parcel of his being, constituting his manifold being as one complete entity.

Supposing you were to see a child fall into a filthy mud-hole and get thoroughly drenched. Supposing you were then to hear the parent say unto the child, "I will wash your underwear," yet give not a word about the outer clothing, nor do anything about it. What would you think of such a parent? Do you not know that it is written in the Bible that man is "body, soul and spirit" (I Thess. 5:23)? This constitutes man a threefold being: the spirit is the life and the soul is a finer sheath within the physical body which the spirit wears after so-called death. So here, by this little parable of the youngster who got drenched in the filthy mud-hole, I am using the living youngster as representing the life-spirit within man, his underwear as representing the human soul, while the outer clothes, the physical body. I am sure you wouldn't think too well of the parent who was willing to wash the undergarment, but did nothing whatsoever about the outer and filthier garments. Yet an absolute parallel to this does Christendom postulate when we claim that the Son of God came to earth to accomplish a work for the "soul" of man, yet to do nothing for the physical and objective man – it is utterly fantastic and has no trace of common sense to it!

What! Do you not know that following the Last Supper, when Jesus was with His disciples, He laid aside His garment, and took a basin of water and a towel, and washed the feet of His disciples (Jn. 13:4-5)? By what stretch of the imagination can we postulate that washing their feet symbolized their souls? Our feet constitute the most earthly part of the body. They are that which forever come in contact with the ground we walk upon and, in a warm climate, as in the days of our Lord, the feet are the dirtiest part of the body, and that perpetually. My beloved friends, think about these things that you may come into understanding, and realize that the work of the Christ wrought out on Calvary was an absolutely completed one for the objective man in the here and for the now. And if you are not too certain about this, I suggest that you order The Kingdom Keys, which Kingdom is for our HERE and for our NOW! Then may you too learn from actual experience that the Christ opened up a spiritual Kingdom for earthlings (to be operative for us while we are on earth), that our lives may take on a glory and blessedness which good and brainwashed Christians never dreamt was possible. "To that end was I born" said the Christ (Jn. 18:37); or think you He was born in vain?

In my last message I shared with you about our Lord feeding the 4,000 with five small fish and seven loaves of bread, and how seven basketfuls of fragments were gathered up at the conclusion of their feast. You were also shown how this prophetically bespoke 1,6441/2 years, plus some months and days, as added to the time of the Christian dispensation opening for the Gentiles in about 311 and 313 A.D., which would reach into 1958 A.D. But I also showed you how in the account by St. Mark, we are told it was "about" 4,000 men. Therefore, we cannot pinpoint the year 1958, for it would not take many men over the 4,000 mark to add to the prophetic measure quite a number of years. (Even 45 to 50 additional men would measure into 2003-2008 A.D.) However, there was another event attached to that miracle, even as there was unto the miracle of feeding the 5,000, which constitutes an additive measure of time, and this I propose to show you very shortly. But first let us look at a number of the other factors: there were three fish. The number 3, according to the Bible, we find as the number of the spoken word and of the teacher; in the plan of God it is the number of the priest or the priesthood. Now, in this miracle which dealt with the Christian dispensation unto the Gentiles, we see wherein these three fish bespoke the priesthood of Christ and of His ministers, who worked down through the centuries, dispensing the Word of truth and life unto the masses. Bear in mind that the fish is a living creature in the depths of water. It is life, but obscured by the water; and so similarly has been the "life" preached by the ministers of God: just as obscure and mysterious as the life of a fish in the depths of water.

There were seven loaves of bread bespeaking the Bread of Life as ministered by His Church, which is represented scripturally by the number seven. And this I brought out to you a few talks back: that we have exactly seven parent-bodies among our Christian organized churches. All the others are offshoots of the seven primary organizations.

Then after the multitude was fed, the disciples gathered together seven basketfuls. This unused portion of seven baskets of fragments was a prophetic portrayal of how the Gentile Church would be gathered together, or called out of this world, by the Lord of Life. But let me again remind you that we are distinctly told these were fragments, indicating that there are to be but fragments, or a small portion of the organized Christian Church which is going to hear His call, or be the "leftover" to enter into His heavenly Kingdom.

In connection with this, observe that as soon as the multitudes were fed He sent them away; that is, He dispersed the crowd. That tells the same story as does the fragments – showing that most of Christendom is not acceptable for His heavenly Kingdom. Again, let me draw to your attention that when He fed the 5,000, that took place on a plateau shortly above the foot of a mountain, and that after they were fed, He sent them away, and He personally went up to the top of the mountain to pray by Himself alone. That miracle had to do prophetically with His Own people – that is, the Jewish nation. And the details of that miracle show us beautifully how the Jews in His time were represented as slightly having ascended the mountain unto the level of a plateau, where they heard from Him the words of life. But that shortly thereafter, because they rejected Him, He personally ascended to the top of the mountain, which symbolizes a kingdom (that is, the heavenly Kingdom, to which He ascended by Himself). But here in the miracle of feeding the 4,000, which prophetically dealt with the dispensation among the Gentiles, we are told that He first went up to the top of the mountain, beautifully symbolizing how Christ the Lord first ascended into the heavenly Kingdom before the Christian dispensation opened unto the Gentiles. They had to come to Him guided by His disciples and servants in order to receive the Word of life, while He was on the mountaintop (or the heavenly Kingdom).

In the previous chapter of Mark's Gospel (chapter 7), we are told that our Lord departed from the coasts of Tyre and Zidon, and came unto the Sea of Galilee through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. The word means "the 10-city region," and, according to history, was a Greek settlement. Previously I told you how 10 is the number of the Gentiles, and here that thought is added to by the Greek factor introduced. Bear also in mind that Greece was the land of learning, and its language that of the arts and sciences. So we see how in every way possible, God contrived to bring home to us this thought of how the Christian dispensation would move throughout the Gentile lands until it approached the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee, where Gadara was located (that being one of the ten cities of the Decapolis region). The south portrays the human soul, and thus shows us how symbolically this bespoke the fullest extent to which Gentile Christendom could receive the Christ. When the multitude had been fed, which we have just seen measured prophetically into the last years of the decade of the 1950s and beyond, then immediately did He get into a boat and cross over to Magdala, which is on the west coast of the Sea of Galilee. The west in Scripture bespeaks God and the things pertaining to God. Magdala means "a tower" or "a watch-over"; it was a high place.

How can we fail to see the thinly-veiled symbology, beautifully portraying how Christ takes His close and devout followers across the Sea of Galilee, or throughout the entire world (which Galilee represents), to that high place or watchtower on the west, or on the side of God? Since we do not know the precise spot from which the Lord and His disciples departed (because the region of Decapolis covers a considerable area), we are not in a position to determine exactly how far they had to travel before they arrived at Magdala. That becomes the additive prophetic measure of His grace us-ward, as He draws unto Himself from out of Gentile Christendom that people which shall be for His Name. HEAR the verdict of God: our time is short....

But HEAR The Voice of Tomorrow: the Lamb of God died for your here and now. HIS power and Presence may be yours to enjoy in this life NOW. You need not wait until after you are dead to receive His smile and grace: NOW His abundant grace awaits to enfold you.

"COME! And let him who HEARS say, Come" (Rev. 22:17).