Contents Chapter One The Word Chapter Two Salvation & Appropriation Chapter Three Evolution & Science Chapter Four Suffering & The Law Chapter Five The Christian Life Chapter Six The Church Chapter Seven The Supernatural Chapter Eight Time, The Past & The Future Chapter Nine Further Revelations From The Third Heaven THE REVELATION OF THE THIRD HEAVEN and, THE MEAT OF THE WORD by E. Law Last Edited: 3rd January 2004 INTRODUCTION This book contains the unspeakable doctrines, spoken of by the Word (2 Cor 12:4), that originate from the Third Heaven or Paradise (2 Cor 12:4). There is a single spiritual Heaven (Gen1:1, 2 Chron 2:6, 6:18, Neh 9:6, Mat 5:45, 6:9, 16:17, Rev 20:1), which has many heavens within it (2 Chron 2:6, 6:18, Neh 9:6, John 14:2, 2 Cor 12:2). These doctrines are not lawful for a Man to utter (2 Cor 12:4), that is they explain how Christians are not under the Law and the full implications of being under Grace (Rom 10:4, 2 Cor 12:4). Indeed to be a Christian is to be unlawful (Rom 10:4). These doctrines are not lawful for a Man under the Law (2 Cor 12:4), Mankind in general being under the Law (Rom 3:10, 19), but are appropriate for the Christian (Rom 10:4, Gal 5:4). This understanding has come from the interpretation of the Word, by the Word (1 Cor 2:14, Rev 22:18-19), with the guidance of the Holy Ghost (John 14:17, 26, 15:26, 16:13, 1 Cor 2:10-14). The Word is the sole Godly source of doctrine for Christians (Deut 4:2, Prov 30:5-6, 1 Cor 4:6, Rev 22:18-19). This book is not that Word (Rev 22:18-19). This book comes to meet the need of Christians for a correct interpretation of the Word, the strong meat of the Word (Psalms 145:14-15, Isaiah 28:9-10, 1 Cor 3:1-7, Heb 5:12-14). This is in accordance with God's process that leads over time to the correct interpretation and understanding in the minds of believers (Isaiah 28:9-10), as against the self-generated deceits of false interpretation attained through hermeneutics and exegesis (Isaiah 28:13) which together appear superficially similar to proper interpretation as all counterfeits do (Isaiah 28:9, 13). I glory only in Christ (Gal 1:5). What I know, I know by Christ (1 Cor 8:2). I claim no infallibility (Job 9:20). THE WORD: Identity and Nature The Word is ONE word (Deut 30:10, John 1:1, 10:35, 12:48, Gal 5:14), always indivisible (John 1:1, 10:35 ), discrete (Deut 4:2, 12:32, Rev 22:18-19), integrated (John 1:1). Every word of the text is to be understood in the context of the rest of the entire text and by the operation of the Holy Ghost within us (John 1:1, 1 Cor 2:10-11, Rev 22:18-19). The complete Word is the interpretation of every word (Isaiah 28:9-10, Rev 22:18-19), it is therefore holistic (John 1:1). We need to be delivered from erroneous doctrine by the operation of the key of knowledge and this an attainable objective (Luke 11:52, John 14:17, 26, 15:26, 16:13). The Word is the sole Godly source of doctrine for Christians (Deut 4:2, Prov 30:5-6, 1 Cor 4:6, Rev 22:18- 19). Anecdote, habit and experience which lead onto Tradition, good or bad, are not to be compared with the Word and neither is man’s logic (Mat 15:1-9, Mark 7:1-13, Col 2:8, 2 Thes 3:6, 1 Pet 1:18). The tradition in 2 Thessalonians 3:6 was only trustworthy as it was derived from, and in accordance with, the Word (2 Thes 3:1, 14) as defined in the Word (2 Tim 3:16, Rev 22:18-19). The Word is God (John 1:1, 12:48, 1 Pet 1:23) and is therefore alive (1 Pet 1:23), Christ is the one Word (John 1:14, 12:48), and therefore shares all the attributes of God one of which is that His Mind can not be known (Romans 11:33-36, 1 Cor 13:9) except to the extent that the Holy Ghost reveals it (1 Cor 2: 11-16). The mind of Christ is the necessary understanding that a Christian needs in order to obey Christ and is given by the Holy Ghost to the spirit of a Christian (1 Cor 2:16, 1 John 1:8, 3:6). The Word can never be fully understood (Job 36:26, 1 Cor 2:11). Since its message is Salvation (John 1:4), and this is a mystery (Eph 5:32, Col 4:3, 1 Tim 3:9), it too is a Mystery (Isaiah 40:28). Nonetheless Christians should have a sufficiently detailed and coherent understanding of the Word, which provides the necessary understanding (1 Cor 2:14-16, 2 Pet 1:20), such that they know the right doctrine on all major issues (Jer 31:33-4, 1 Cor 2:14-15, 2 Cor 13:11, Heb 8:10-13). The Word, as God, judges all those who refuse Christ (John 12:48). The Word is active and interactive with its reader or hearer, analysing the reader along the way (Heb 4:12). The Word is a Person (Rev 19:11-13). The Person concerned is Christ, God the Son (John 1:14, Rev 19:16), for the Word is infused with the blood of the Lamb (Rev 19:13). This is what is meant by the Word being with God and being God (John 1:1). That is God the Son, Christ, the Word, was with God as the three Persons of the Trinity are One and yet with each other, which is a mystery (Gen 1:26, 11:7, the word 'us'). It is God the Son, Christ, that is the Word and as the Word was made flesh (John 1:14). As a person the Word is a living being (1 Pet 1:23). Whilst the Word is a Person, it is not a separate, distinct Person unlike the Father, Son and Holy Ghost which are three Persons in One. This is shown by the Word not being named, although it is its own name (Rev 19:13), in Matthew 28:19 conjoined with the statement that the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost are three and yet one (1 John 5:7). The personal identity of the Word is as Christ (John 1:1, 14). The Word became human flesh to dwell among us and be tempted like us, the Word-in-the-flesh (John 1:14, Heb 4:15), with the Incarnation (John 1:14), but Christ has always been human, with flesh (Psalms 22:16-17 - which describes the future agony on the cross, whilst Phil 3:21 and1 Timothy 2:5 make the point that Christ’s flesh body is eternal and sinless), and Christ will always be human as well as God (Mal 3:6, 1 Cor 15:45, 47, Phil 3:21, 1 Tim 2:5, Heb 7:24) and in flesh (Mal 3:6, John 1:14, 1 Tim 3:16). Christ the human exists in eternity, past, present and future as Melchisedec (Psalms 110:4, Heb 7: 3-4, 8, 10, 17, 21, 22-24). Whilst Jesus was on Earth he ‘dwelt among us’ in human flesh as human (John 1:14) and as Melchisedec he had appeared to Abraham but had not ‘dwelt among us’ as not yet incarnated. Jesus is both fully man and fully God in the Hypostatic Union in eternity (Heb 7:1-3), past (Gen 14:18-20, Psalms 110:4, John 8:56, Heb 7:21), present (Heb 7:17, 21) and future (Heb 7:17, 21). Therefore before and after the resurrection Jesus had/has a fully physical, yet sinless body and flesh, as we will have when we are changed or resurrected (Phil 3:21), which is yet human flesh (Luke 24:30, 39, John 20:27, 21:12) and yet naturally perfect (Eph 5:27, Phil 3:21). Jesus' flesh did not sin despite the Incarnation even though this was the same sin-prone flesh as we have (John 1:14, Rom 7:18, Heb 4:15) which is a mystery. Christ’s being conceived of the Holy Ghost in the Virgin birth and yet being flesh is a mystery (Mat 1:18). Jesus had not been born when Christ as Melchisedec met Abraham (John 8:56). The Word was (John 1:1) and is God (Mal 3:6, John 8:58). The Word’s identity and nature is a mystery both as to God not changing and to the Word being a Person called the Word of God (Rev 19:13) and that Person being Christ. Both Christ and therefore the Word as well, embody all the fullness of the Godhead (Col 2:9, 1 John 5:7). The Word-written-in-the-material (i.e. physical, written text on Earth) is also a mystery to us beyond the comprehension of our logic but is rather to be accepted by faith (1 Cor 2:14). When Christ became sin on the cross (2 Cor 5:21) he was sin in both his flesh and Spirit (John 1:1, 14) and in his humanity and as God (John 1:1, 14), making God at that point both sin and righteousness (2 Cor 5:21) whilst, as a mystery, God and Christ yet remained completely righteous (Mal 3:6).