2022/06/13

43. The Eerie Tree of Knowledge

God sought to establish a parent-child relationship over God and people, promising King David about his son Solomon saying, "I will be his father, and he shall be my son" (2 Samuel 7:14). David told Solomon about this. However, when Solomon became king, he loved many foreign women, including Pharaoh's daughter, and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord. He, like Adam, thought he could maintain his power and authority by dominating women who were backed by authority. Similarly, his wives burnt incense and offered sacrifices to their gods (cf. Deuteronomy 11:8-9), which indicates that they, like Eve, had an illusion that they each had a special relationship with their gods making gods their helpers (cf. this blog №42). Eventually, the Song of Songs, attributed to Solomon, was preserved for posterity, and people began to interpret the book's nuptial imagery as an allegory of the relationship between God and his people. In other words, the man's accidental information, which had been called the ''serpent'' in Genesis, evolved with man and possessed man as the ''great red dragon'' (Revelation 12:3) and has become an eerie tree of knowledge. So, God sent the Word to the earth and told people that God is the genuine parent. Jesus, the motherly God as the Word through whom all things came to be (cf. John 1:1-5), was born male to become the prophesied Messiah. Jesus said, "Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me; or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves" (John 14:11), and these words of Jesus, who exhorted his disciples diligently, show that God is the genuine parent with both paternal and maternal qualities. He added: "I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever" (John 14:16), promising the coming of the Holy Spirit, and said, "I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you" (John 14:18). These words of Jesus are full of motherly love. Jesus, who is God, imparted to Mary the knowledge of the maternal God, which he had carried from his heavenly Father, for the sake of the people, the children. Then, on the cross, he tied his mother and the Apostle together in a parent-child bond. The Apostles became those who took on Mary, the mother of Jesus. The "great red dragon" challenged the Apostles, who were thus clothed with the knowledge of the motherly God, but he could not prevail (cf. this blog № 22). The dragon was furious with them and "went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and bear testimony to Jesus" (Revelation 12:17). The first half of Revelation prophesied the formation of the New Testament, and the trainees put the worldview of Jesus Christ into their memory. In the second half, from chapter 13, trainees, still continuing the training of the first half, begin the training to notice and distinguish man's accidental information. We want to recall once more the "blessedness" at the beginning of the book, which has guided us. "Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written therein; for the time is near" (Revelation 1:3).

Maria K. M.