©Matt Hebert
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Eve Comes Full Circle
In understanding the Holy Days, it's important to get a mental image of what is truly being manifested through them, and what they represent. Picture an image of a woman—picture this in your head, which sits atop your shoulders. Picture a young woman who has just begun her menstrual cycle, that is, whose womb has just become alive. Following this stage of development, or state of being, she is getting ready for two things. First, she is preparing for a marriage, and, now that her body is mature enough, she is ready for childbirth. There's a 7 day waiting period following the menstruation cycle before she's considered clean to enter so that she can conceive.
There's 7 days a week in the creation account, 7 days of Unleavened Bread, and 7 weeks of counting between the Wave Sheaf and Pentecost, and a 7 year tribulation period. This is the woman seen in Revelation 12, but this woman does not stand alone, for she is the chiral image of the whore of Babylon.
For more information on chirality see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)
To see Homer's notes:
http://www.aboutprophecy.com/About_Prophecy_Chapt4.html
http://thephiladelphiachurch.org/whoisrael6.html
http://www.rereadingprophecy.com/RPR_Chap5.html
For many years, about 7 years, Homer and I conversed often about a man not marrying his own body. At first Homer would say that the 7 weeks between the Wave Sheaf and Pentecost were significant. Later, he would say that the 7 weeks were feminine. He had realized, over time, the passing of weeks like he hadn't understood them before. You could see his growth. I'd like to say it here that I miss him in words that I can't describe. I never have seen him as anything more than a man, a very humble man. I never set him up as an idol is what I'm getting at. He displayed the perfect position of a teacher to his student. The patience that he extended to me will never be forgotten, and now at this time, I greatly miss him for what I'm realizing as his days have come to a close, which can be likened to the rising and setting of the sun each day, is being as pages flipping in a manuscript.
A woman's average menstrual cycle is roughly 28.5 days, very close to the average lunar moon cycles in which the woman can be seen turning from darkness and begins trekking towards her husband as seen in the new moons, then reflects the glory of her husband shown in each of the full moons when she comes full circle, that being 29 days. Just an interesting case of numbers, no implications. The average age of menopause in women is between the ages of 49-51, very close to a jubilee year. Again, just an interesting case of numbers. The moon has no illumination of its own, is a dead surface…it only reflects the light of the sun.. A woman in a marriage reflects the glory of her husband, is covered by her husband's righteousness, as Christ covers the sins of His body, the Christian church (1 Cor. 12:27). But in Christ, we see Head and Body, two as one, and in Christ, we see Him twice sacrificed, as Homer worte:
"The man Jesus of Nazareth as the unique Son of the Logos was this twice-over sin offering, sacrificed once when the Logos entered His creation [a heavenly sacrifice] and then sacrificed a second time at Calvary [the earthly sacrifice]. And it is this second sacrifice that permitted human persons to receive indwelling eternal life in the form of the breath of God [pneuma Theou] in the breath of Christ [pneuma Christou]."
The entire plan of God is represented in both the spring and fall feasts, with the Spring High Sabbaths and the Fall High Sabbaths being enantiomorphs, just as the two women of Revelation are.
Homer wrote more about it here:
There is in the Holy Day calendar the essence of the transitional physical/spiritual model: in the harvest year of ancient Judea, there was a spring barley harvest and a main crop wheat harvest, which together represented the grain harvest of Judea and as such were the focus for the seven annual High Sabbaths, three in the Spring and four in the Fall. However, in the spring are also two assemblies that do not rise to the status of High Sabbaths: the Passover and the Wave Sheaf Offering. These two assemblies give to the three Spring High Sabbaths theological equality with the four Fall High Sabbaths, with the seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread equating to the seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles, and with First Unleavened that precedes the Feast of Unleavened Bread making for a Spring eight-day assembly that forms the mirror image of the seven days of Tabernacles and the Last Great Day, making for a Fall eight-day assembly.
From http://www.rereadingprophecy.com/RPR_Chap5.html
It was revealed to Homer that the Holy Days, the Spring and Fall feasts, were mirror images of each other. The creation "P" account is about a man and his shadow. The physical being the shadow of the spiritual. But this spiritual being has a chiral image, or a mirror image.
Homer and I once talked about living water, and that if a person couldn't discern the difference between living water and dead water, that they shouldn't continue reading his work. I sent him this picture:
This is a picture I had taken while sitting on a river where I duck hunt.
Look at it. What do you see? Look at it again.
The living trees can be seen in the reflection only when the water isn't moving--when the water is dead. The dead water shows a reflection of what's living, of what has life. If the river was running that day meaning the water was moving or had life, then there would be no image of the living trees--no mirror, no reflection. If a veil was placed between the living and the dead, the living could not be seen. The living is seen from the dead through its mirror image. This is how a chiral image works. A living reality has a dead mirror image, the living and the dead, with the living reality casting a shadow, the image reflecting this shadow.
Homer would write that for the Bible to be understood, more specifically, in understanding prophecy is to understand that two are one, that one single day consists of a dark portion and a light portion, the physical and the spiritual, with the physical preceding the spiritual as Paul described to the Corinthians in 1Cor. 15:46.
In that one single day in the Genesis "P" account in which the man was formed, Adam, the man of mud, was formed on the dark portion of this one day, while the Second Adam was formed on the light portion of this same day. This was the formation of one Adam, a man and his shadow. The first Adam and the Second or Last Adam.
Paul wrote:
There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. (1 Cor 15:40-49 emphasis added)
The woman of Revelation 12 is seen through her chiral image, the reflection of herself. This mental image needs to be driven in. This is what happened in the heavens. The rebellion, inward rebellion, produced death for this woman, who is just an image—not the reality—she is just a reflection of what is alive. Homer had written:
But the dynamics of timelessness [heaven] will not permit "change" to occur that is not compatible with "what is."
Creation of a physical world (non-spiritually living) was given so that this woman, this image of a woman, can have movement apart from her reality, like a reflection in a mirror. Mankind has worshipped this image of a woman, the body to whose head is the Adversary, as a whole, who appears as an angel of light—appears in this physical world as a deity of old represented in the sun–worshipping feasts, that the physical world still has—still does these activities involved in sun worship. To allow a demonstration of how this rebellion occurred and is to be defeated, there needed to be a chamber in which this woman could have a canvas, a background in which this display can have movement, to allow this reflection to have movement apart from its reality—so it can be displayed to establish what leads to death—for us to see and witness, and also, to where it—the location of the demonstration, could be demolished, or erased, with one moment in time decaying into the next, and to be no more once this canvas or mirror of matter is destroyed.
This woman (of Revelation 12) is the living reality of the rebellion which occurred in her, which is displayed in her image. However, once the reality moves away from this physical canvas composed of matter—the mirror, the dead reflection or image will be no more—and cannot be worshipped anymore.
The dead image of the erect man of colored metals in the visions of Nebuchadnezzar has a chiral image—a mirror image, which is living—the Son of Man, the spiritual temple. About the Son of Man as the living temple, Homer had this to say:
Disciples of Christ Jesus, born of spirit through the indwelling of Christ, are God's temple, with God's Spirit dwelling in them. This is the temple that is not built by human hands, nor built of dead sticks and stones, but built by the Lord from living stones (1 Pet 2:5). One temple that includes all of believing humanity. Not many temples are separated by circumcision or color or ancestry. This temple is the living Son of Man. Its head is the cornerstone, chosen and precious, but rejected by builders able only to work with dead stone and mortar.
From http://thephiladelphiachurch.org/whoisrael4.html
Now in saying the above, picture a man, one with a head of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. (Dan. 2:32-33) This man also has a chiral image, that being the Son of Man, the spiritual temple, who is the lively representation of the dead man described using the colors of metals for us to get this mental image in the book of Daniel. The images of these two men will be facing each other, as a man looks into a mirror, as one reality casts a non-living image yet a moving one if the real one moves. If the real one stands, the image stands. This male image is vertical—is standing, the Y axis.
This image of a man, a non-moving, standing man, has legs of bronze—legs known as pillars which support the body—holds the body upright. If a man, say Jesus, and His body are one, with His body being the temple of God (1 Cor 12:27; 3:16--17; 2 Cor 6:16), then this spiritual temple casts a shadow back into the time of Solomon's temple, the physical temple which housed the ark, then we begin to get a visual of how this temple is structured. A man is incomplete by himself...he cannot produce another of his kind by himself, and this leads us to a woman, and marriage, with the woman lying horizontally to receive the man for procreation purposes. He needs the body of a woman to produce his offspring—to give life to his seed, and in this union of two who are made one through this marriage, he must penetrate her with the part of her that is missing, the missing piece of the puzzle while connecting the two together making him the head of her. To make a hill, there must be a hole from where the hill comes from. And this gets us back to the temple, which is the body of Christ, not the Head.
So now we have the visual of the temple. No physical life comes to a man without the body of a woman, no spiritual life comes without a temple (body). What is seen in the woman is the temple, with the temple walls being feminine too, since it's the body, not the head, that is the temple, with the body (female) being the one who bears children, or houses life. As the chiral image of the Son of Man (Daniel's image) will have two bronze thighs that support the body, we see the physical consort of Solomon's temple having two bronze pillars (thighs) supporting the entry way to the temple (female), lying in the horizontal position.
To enter the physical temple, you had to be circumcised; nothing on a male's head as he passed between the bronze legs penetrating the opening which led to inside the temple, represented by the body of a woman, which produces life. This geometry of penetration and the shedding of blood is seen when the marriage covenant was made with YAH and Israel, when the Levites would take the bodies of bulls, split them in two, and all of Israel would pass through the split halves as Moses splashed the blood of the bulls in the basins onto Israel as they passed through, as a male penetrating his bride for the first time, splitting the hymen causing the man's head to be covered in blood, this shedding of blood being the consummation of a the marriage covenant.
Moses came and told the people all the words of [YHWH] and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do. And Moses wrote down all the words of [YHWH]. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to [YHWH]. And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient. And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words. (Ex 24:3--8)
And,
The men who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces. The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf, I will hand over to their enemies who seek their lives. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth. (Jeremiah 34:18-20)
I will leave off with the marriage covenant to pick up on it on a later date. The point driven here is to show the temple as being the body to which only spiritual life can come, as only physical life comes through the body of a woman, while putting emphasis on the temple being feminine, the temple being the body of Christ, and how the Holy Days describe this woman whose womb first becomes alive, then splits from being the body of Christ into being the Bride of Christ, to producing offspring.
The temple corresponds to the garden of Eden. Before Adam was placed in the garden, he stood upright--walked around, looked to the left, then looked to the right. Wherever he went, whatever he did, Eve was in him--she was not taken out from within him yet. They moved as one, in a dance of oneness as Homer often described YHWH, where there is no decaying moment one into the other. Eve was not taken from Adam until he was placed in the garden—another pile of dust was not formed for her. She was taken from him, already breathing. She was of him. Everyone should be familiar with the story of how Eve ate what Adam was told not to eat.
From here, circumcision, that is of the heart, is to symbolically return a disciple to being naked in the garden, to overcome the decision that Eve made when she disobeyed her head, and to eat from the Tree of Life. An Israelite could not enter the physical temple unless he was circumcised, a spiritual Israelite cannot enter the temple unless spiritually circumcised, that is of the heart. If the human body functions as the temple of not only a twice born disciple, but following the Second Passover, those who are filled with the spirit—whether they are male or female outwardly, their outer body functions as a temple, and this inner man will fight with the flesh, will be at war with the flesh...or the flesh will be at war with the inner man.
The head is responsible for what the body does. If you walk into a store and steal a bag of chips, and you're caught—you can't say with your mouth my right arm did that—I was unaware. Despite what comes out of your mouth, you know what you did, what your arm did, and you, head and body, will be fined and imprisoned.
In this woman depicted by the Holy Days, she's seen becoming a bride to which she'll become one with her husband through marriage and will be ready for childbirth. It's through the woman that physical life comes. It's through the temple that spiritual life comes. Ultimately, this woman will become one once again with her man, with her husband, and when the promise to Abraham is fulfilled, the promise that his seed will be as numerous as the stars in heaven, with circumcision being the ratifying procedure to which the promise was made, when this promise is fulfilled--
And Abram said, Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir. And behold, the word of [YHWH] came to him: This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir. And He brought him outside and said, Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them. Then He said to him, So shall your offspring be. And he believed [YHWH], and he counted it to him as righteousness. (Gen 15:1–6)
There will be no more need for the temple…
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. (Rev 21:22)
Circumcision gets an Israelite into the temple, circumcision of the heart gets a spiritual Israelite into the spiritual temple—aka the Son of Man. Once returned to the garden through spiritual circumcision, following the great wedding feast and a disciple figuratively eats from the Tree of Life, there will be no more physical creation...it will roll up like a scroll. There will be no more temple, for now the Bride is truly one with her husband, is inside him—actually, He'll be in Her, the great city Heavenly Jerusalem. In order to move, for these two who are now one, I in you and you in me, they must be in perfect harmony, and move together as if in a dance...the dance of oneness that Homer wrote about so often. If there is fighting, if there is rebellion, if the house is divided, there would be a halt in movement which would result in another wound which actually produced the physical realm. But, for the woman of Revelation 12, her fate is secure; her Head has been faithful—she speaks only the words of her Head, for She is now—Him. This perspective being spoken from outside of time.
There will be no more need of a temple, for the temple was a vessel used to create spiritual life. In speaking of a temple used to create and house this spiritual life, Christ Jesus talked about a house divided...about Satan being divided against Satan. As for Satan and his divided house...the strong man finishes his story.
How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. But no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house. (Mark 3:24-27 emphasis added)
Homer wrote:
The Genesis creation narrative of Adam and Eve contains theological and biological problems that causes its historicity to be questioned, but this creation narrative serves well as a prophetic account for the creation of the last Adam and of Body of Christ as the last Eve.
There are also questions about the historical accuracy of the Samson story, with some saying the story was copied from another ancient text which showed the exploits of the Sun God, with Samson's long hair simply being compared to the light beams extending from the Sun Gods head being displayed as hair. It was claimed that Samson's name was a variant of Shamash, the Babylonian God of the Sun, and with this Sun (light) god, there comes night (Lilah), depicted in Delilah.
So the story will exist, throughout several different cultures. Greek mythology is Iron Age mythology with Roman mythology overlapping this Greek thought because the Roman myth was a successor to the Greek in the Mediterranean. The Indian, Teutonic and Norse myths had many layers extending over from one culture overlapping with Greek mythology. Greek astrology or Hellenistic astrology as what it had become was an Egyptian importation, meaning that the Greek advances while in Egypt influenced Greek mythology, which had Greek spellings of Egyptian words. Same gods, different words naming these gods in their own cultural languages. Horus and Isis are not Egyptian words, but are Greek spellings of the Egyptian words.
In saying the above, the counter argument to the historical accuracy of the Samson story in the book of Judges would be—yes, there must be similarities between a historical figure such as Samson being a type of Christ in the temple, and a sun god in his temple, Dagon the fish god—which comes from the story of Nimrod plunging into the waters of the Euphrates River, being reincarnated as his son entering or plunging into the waters of the womb (of a temple, where life comes forth) to be worshipped as a savior.
If there is a historical account of a God seen being worshipped by the Hebrew people dwelling amongst mankind, there will be a chiral image of this God, seen in some form of a Pagan god, a sun god, being worshipped for the most part, among the remainder of mankind.
In this world, there is night and day, light and darkness, foreshadowed by good and evil in the heavenly realm.
Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. (1Samuel 5:2)
The Adversary currently rules over this world—Babylon, which is his body, and appears as an angel of light (2Cor. 11:14), setting himself up as a sun god. We can't see him with physical eyes—cannot grab him with our physical hands. He is the gold head of his body, his body being Babylon, where all this life is created. This body of Babylon, this house, the house of the sun god, a house divided—cannot stand, for a strong man has been placed between the pillars—the legs, where children are born from, and in His death He has pulled down the pillars which has supported the temple, causing destruction of this temple, which will render it useless for bringing forth additional life. With the destruction of the sun god's temple typified in Dagon's temple being pulled apart by Samson, he, the head of this world, the god of this world, the head of his temple (body) has been divided—IT SHALL NOT STAND He has come to his end (Mark 3:25-26).
His (Satan's) end has come, his covering (his gems) is/are removed, revealing his body, which is frighting in appearance once his stones are removed. Christ's covering is removed at the Second Passover, revealing His body … and the lawlessness for what she had done. But at this point, the separation has been made. A man doesn't marry his own body, but marries his bride. Adam (the firstborn son of YHWH, the left hand) in the garden reveals through his disobedience the rebellion that occurred in the heavens through Lucifer, when the separation was made transforming him from a signet of perfection, covered in fine stones, to Satan. And this mirror image has a reality, which can be seen that once the temple is completed by living stones and spiritual creation of sons comes to an end, these same stones that covered Lucifer are given to the Bride of Christ, the New Jerusalem or Heavenly Jerusalem. Homer sums it up perfectly here, in one of his last written pieces:
For example, the chirality of Adam in the Garden of Eden (left hand) after he was no longer "clothed" in belief of God [covered -- keth-o'-neth -- by his belief of the Lord God] and the Adversary as an anointed cherub in Eden, the Garden of God (from Ezek 28:11-19) versus the Adversary as seen in Nebuchadnezzar's vision (right hand) shows "loss" of a sort not discussed by theologians:
The Adversary in Eden,
You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared. (Ezek 28:12-13)
But the Adversary as king of spiritual Babylon in the Affliction (the first 1260 days of seven years of tribulation) no longer has the gems:
You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. The head of this image was of fine gold … . (Dan 2:31-32)
All he has after iniquity was found in him are the gold settings—the gold—in which gem stones as his covering [garment] were set when he was in Eden. He lost what was intended to cause him to be "perfect in beauty." And he became frightening in appearance.
In iniquity being found in the anointed cherub who becomes the Adversary, the Lord God stripped him of his clothing so that he was "naked" as Adam and Eve were naked when Adam ate forbidden fruit and his obedience to God no longer clothed him and Eve. But there is no indication that the Adversary received any "protective clothing" when cast to the ground …
Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
I exposed you before kings,
to feast their eyes on you. (Ezek 28:17)
From the perspective of the heavenly realm, the Adversary is no more; he has been exposed before kings. However, from the perspective of humanity, the Adversary still lives, and remains the prince of the power of the air. He will not be exposed before kings until he is cast to earth after dominion is taken from him and given to the Son of Man (see Rev 11:15-18; 12:7-12).
With being clothed in skin/hide ['ôwr], Adam moves from serving as the chiral image of the Adversary to serving as the chiral image of the second Adam, Christ Jesus, clothed in Light ['ôwr]. And this movement has tremendous significance for angels who succumbed to the Adversary's broadcast of unbelief as Adam and Eve had …
Once the Lord God clothed Adam and Eve in skin ['ôwr], they were free to go where they wanted, but they were prevented from returning to the Garden of Eden, just as the Adversary was prevented from returning to Eden—and we see the Adversary going where he wants in Job:
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, From where have you come? Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it. (Job 1:6-7)
And
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. And the Lord said to Satan, From where have you come? Satan answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it. (Job 2:1-2)
From http://www.sabbatarian-anabaptists.org/09-25-16A.html
If you look at the gems taken from Lucifer, you'll find that they will be given to the Bride of Christ, who is One with Her Husband.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. And he who was seated on the throne said, Behold, I am making all things new. Also he said, Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true. And he said to me, It is done I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death. Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed-- on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And the one who spoke with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls. The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal.
He also measured its wall, 144 cubits by human measurement, which is also an angel's measurement. The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. (Revelation 21:1-22)
One of the latest things that I had written to Homer was a concept about time made holy through the Sabbaths. He pointed out that the first line that I had written was poetic, by which I was somewhat amused.
I'm not a poet, but in thinking of my short time that I had with my teacher, I thought I'd write this in honor of Homer. It's about the pains of this life…the sorrows…the suffering…the darkness that I've wondered through this world in this body of mine, which I did not choose. Or did I?
I look into my young eyes, I feel a broken heart.
You cry, and all I see is blue.
How can that be? How can you be ladened by sin so young?
Mortal man, the fruit reflects its seed, what do you see?
Only darkness…only death.
A fig tree producing no fruit? Chop it down!
Just wait dear land owner, let Us give it fertilizer,
And we'll watch, to see what it does.
Death came for you…stole you from my clutches.
I couldn't stop you, O death, I could not touch you with my hands,
Could not see you with my eyes, I only have one breath.
Has the fruit tree grown fruit? Has the fig tree produced fruit out of season,
Alas! Count him worthy of another breath, return to him the glory He once had.
Alas! What do you see?
No ripples on the water. I see the tree!
I can see you Death, I can finally see you! Your riddle has been solved!
The lion has come. I have awaited this day since I last saw myself,
broken, a heart split in two.
Place me in your teeth, it will do you no good.
Take my possessions, it will do you no good.
I see you! I know your name. I hear you, though your face changes.
All I've known was death, all I've seen was loss. I know you!
Firstborn for firstborn, the exchange has been made. One rides a horse,
One can be knocked off that horse, even if it's a pale reflection.
Death, o Death, I've seen through the darkness, have seen her crying.
I went to her and only He knows what I found.
The riddle eludes you, this riddle you shalt not solve!
She lives in me, and I in her…me and my Father are ONE!!