THE HOUSE THAT GOD BUILT
Volume
2, Chapter 2
The
Cell
DNA -
Building The House
By Bob Torango
John 1:1‑5
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. (KJV)
John 1:14
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (KJV)
As we have stated in past articles, DNA is the central intelligence
of the cell, and hence the body. It is the mind, or intellect, of
the whole organism that over 30 trillion cells depend upon to grow
and develop and to reproduce. One of the most important things for
us to understand in this study concerning DNA is that it does
nothing outside of the cellular holiest of all, the nucleus. It does
not work or toil, it gives information and passes hereditary traits
along to each new cell. It is a vast library of instructions, filled
with minute details and blueprints of each and every part of your
body.
Just as God created the heavens and the earth in six cycles and on
the seventh cycle rested from all of His labor, DNA is in a similar
state of being. Just as God made all that was to be made in this
creation in the beginning, in one cyclical period of time, and spoke
all things into existence out of the Logos of His being, and
henceforth He is now in a state of “expectation” to see the
fulfillment of the process of redemption He has set in motion since
the genesis, so it is with our DNA. It is a living Logos in the
body, a book of life that is read over and over again by each cell.
It is the same book of instruction that each one of the trillions of
cells access, because the Creator God instituted a marvelous method
of replication of the book that ensures each cell an astounding rate
of accuracy of duplication of each word in this vast library of
complex directions.
Is it not a wonder that each one of us has the same amount of God in
our being and we are all able to access His Word written on the
tables of our heart without fear that something was left out of our
book? I can assure you that you have the same Christ in you that I
have in me, in all of His fullness and completeness, and not one of
us has any more resident power and glory than any of God’s children.
But, you say, how can that be? Look at the darkness in the world and
how some are without doubt more spiritual than others and some serve
God and others curse Him and still others are “spirit-filled” and
others are obviously “spirit-empty.” Yes, I can see how you might
say this, according to what you have heard from the religious
systems today. But I do believe that we are not seeing the whole
picture when we come to that conclusion. After all, the carnal
actions of men and their devious ways are not signs that they don’t
have the wholeness of God in them, it is just that they have not
“read the book” that is written on their hearts! Others that seem
more filled with God, in keeping with the scriptural reality of God
living in every man, are not living with more amount of Christ than
others, but they are accessing more of His book, reading more of the
instructions that give them understanding and put them into a
position of having more power and glory in their outward walk. This
is not a result of having more or less of God residing in you. It is
rather a result of having more availability and knowledge of His
will in your life.
So it is, that each cell has the whole book of life within it, but
of those trillions of cells there is a great diversity of structure
and function, some more readily seen and enjoyed and others that are
more obscure and hidden. In our body there are liver cells, brain
cells, muscle cells, blood cells, skin cells, big cells, little
cells, cells that do little, cells that do a lot, cells that are
seen externally, cells that are never seen by the naked eye. They
all, in the beginning of their existence, read from the same book,
but in order to have this diversity there has to be a way for the
book to “hold back” some of its instructions to create different and
distinct types of cells to carry out the cellular economy of this
vast organism, the human body. Can we not also see, how God has
hidden from some the total Logos of His revelation so that He could
let His plan work out in the past ages, choosing to have periods of
explosions of glory and power in one age and letting only a few rays
of His light shine in others, always working out a harmony of the
scriptural prophecy and the unfolding of it in the world, from the
glorious and miraculous time of the early church to the dark ages to
the times of reformation to the period of humanism to the time of
Holy Ghost outpouring and so on. All of the ages operated under the
same heavens, the same throne, the same spirit of Christ, but to
some it was given and to others it was not. “And the Light shineth
in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” The Light is
where? It shines IN darkness, and the darkness has no perception or
availability to it. None of us have read the whole book of God, only
portions of it that have brought us to this place, but we will!! In
the ages to come we will eventually know Him as the ALL in the all
and we will be just like Him! Praise the Lord.
DNA is kept isolated inside the nucleus of the cell because it
is not to be touched, or read, by anything other than the
“priesthood of the cell”, a molecule known as “messenger RNA”.
As I have said before, I am constantly amazed at the way that
science has adopted some terms in their description of the
workings of the cell that are very familiar and relevant to us
in this kingdom word. “Messenger” is a scientific word used in
all the textbooks and in everyday scientific communication
concerning this specific molecule, RNA. The word “messenger” has
a great meaning for us also, as it is one of the translations
from the Greek where the word, “angellos” is used, which is
translated “angel” in the King James Version. The word Angel can
mean both heavenly beings or earthly beings, but specifically
refers to something that bears a message, or instruction, from
God.
The cell can only survive and continue to function if it has a way of communicating with the DNA in the nucleus, which is a very protected area of the cell, and has a direct correspondence with the holy place of the Tabernacle. Just as Israel could not communicate with God directly, even so, the cell cannot communicate directly with the DNA. In Israel’s situation, the Lord called Moses and spoke to him face to face and then he spoke to the people. After Moses was taken from the scene there remained a Levitical priesthood of Aaron’s lineage that were instructed to serve the Lord in the tabernacle and to have the high priest come before the ark of the covenant, and to communicate with the presence of the Lord. Because the Lord could not communicate with Aaron or his sons like He did with Moses, He gave them a urim and thummim to at least have a yea or nay communication. The problem with this is that the priesthood had to think like one does when playing the popular game show, Jeopardy. In other words you had to already know the answer you wanted, but you had to ask it in the form of a question. What a way to communicate with God! Talking about frustrating! Think about it. The urim and the thummim could only give answers in a “yes” or “no” format, so one could only communicate in questions. Such as, “Are we to go up and fight the Philistines?”, would be the limit of your inquiry, an inquiry that mandates that you had to have a reason to ask the question in the first place. Instead of asking the great theological questions that you and I would love to ask, the kind of questions concerning where God came from, are there other creations out there, what will I look like when He’s done with me, etc. etc., the Levitical priesthood were limited by the amount of Logos they could read from.
However crude and limited this method was, it did perform the
job. Man did have a method of talking with God and getting
instructions. The priesthood was the “messenger” and the Logos
was the Book from which they read. In the cell, “Messenger RNA”,
which we will refer to as, mRNA from this point on, fulfills
this mission also. It is, however, a much more profound and
accurate way of the cell to communicate with the DNA than the
levitical priesthood, although it is limited with certain
restraints which we will discuss.
DNA is used by the cell to give forth blueprints for
constructing proteins. Just as every builder can take a
blueprint of a certain kind of house and build an exact replica
of that model of home, the DNA contains all the blueprints of
every protein in your body. Your body contains an estimated
amount of 30,000 different proteins, of which, only about 2
percent are completely mapped out by scientists today. Proteins
are a vital part of the cell and of the human body and make up a
large part of our mass, accounting for about 50% of the dry
weight of our bodies.
Proteins were first discovered in the early 19th
century and derived their name from the Greek word, “proteios”,
meaning “holding first place”. They are large molecules made up
of Amino Acids, called the building blocks of the body, strung
together end to end to form a chain. Just as a block layer
builds a wall by collecting blocks of material at the site of
construction and then starts laying each block one at a time
next to each other and than on top of each other until he
constructs the specified wall, even so, the proteins are built
in the cytoplasm of the cell, which we refer to as the “outer
court” of the cell, by connecting “blocks” of amino acids in
certain sequences, dictated by the DNA, which when done makes up
a specific protein that is needed by the body.
There are 20 standard or alpha amino acids that are used as
building blocks in the human body to form the 30,000 different
proteins. By putting the 20 different blocks together in
different sequences, the body is able to build an enormous array
of differentiated proteins. Of the 20 basic amino acids used in
protein synthesis, 10 cannot be synthesized within your body in
sufficient amounts and must come from your diet. For this
reason, they are termed, “essential amino acids”. The following
is a list of the amino acids that are “non-essential”. You may
recognize some of the names as familiar to products you have
seen or use on an every day basis.
Alanine, asparagine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glutamine,
glycine, isoleucine, proline, serine, and tyrosine.
The essential amino acids are: lysine, methionine, valine,
tryptophan, threonine, histidine, leucine, phenylalanine,
arginine, cystine. Unless you are getting a sufficient amount of
these essential amino acids in the food you eat, you will
experience some sort of breakdown in your optimum health and
your body will not develop properly. The “wall” will be missing
some vital “blocks” and will fail to hold up.
On the molecular level, the proper amount of amino acids is
needed to build all of the tissues and organs of the body that
are composed of molecules of protein. Each protein is made with
a specific function and structure in mind. The DNA “ladder” of
the cell is coded with segments of the ladder containing the
prescribed sequence of amino acids to be put together for each
variety of protein. It involves the construction of specific
organs, such as liver, heart, lungs, brain, and also tissues and
muscles along with skin and bones. Proteins are also used to
make up hormones, antibodies, enzymes, lipids, and many other
essential parts of your body. As you can see, proteins are the
most crucial part of the living organism and without a
sufficient supply of all the needed amino acids the proteins
will be built wrong and the body will become malnourished and
weak and start to deteriorate.
In order for us to all understand the economy of how each cell of
the body functions in building and maintaining the various parts of
this glorious House, I will attempt to explain how the construction
of the trillions of cells and their diverse structures and functions
is accomplished. First, let us contemplate the thermodynamic laws
concerning energy and work. As you know, building is work, whether
it is a man or woman building an addition on their home, or a
squirrel building its nest for the winter, or a spider building a
web, or an ant building a home in the earth, or even a cell building
protein molecules. It is all classified as work and when work of any
kind is done, it requires energy to do the work. Energy can be
defined as the ability to do work. Work cannot be done without
energy, and the amount of work to be done dictates the amount of
energy that will be needed. This is true whether you are plowing a
field with a horse or plowing a field with a tractor. Both horse and
tractor have to have a supply of energy, although one is a living
organism and the other is a machine, both need a supply of energy to
do the prescribed work. In this case, the horse depends on the food
he eats, the tractor depends on the fuel it burns.
All living things, such as our horse, depend on the sun for energy.
The first law of thermodynamics states living organisms cannot
create or destroy energy, only transform it from one form to
another. Energy is a constant, and is constantly being transferred
from one level of the world ecology to another level. All living
things must have an ability to synthesize and store energy. The sun
is the source of our energy which we receive in an indirect way
through our diet. Our ecology is set up with 4 or 5 levels of energy
transfer, with the green plant kingdom being the primary source of
energy gathered from the sun. The chlorophyll of the green plants
store energy from the sun through a process of photosynthesis and
that energy is stored in the cells of the plant. Some of the energy
is used in the work of the metabolism of the plant and some is
released through heat in respiration and what is left over is stored
in the fiber of the plant. The second level of energy transfer is
present when the plant is eaten by an herbivore, such as a cow. The
energy that is in the fiber of the plant is transferred to the body
of the cow. This is a secondary source of energy, with the plant
being the primary. Most of the energy from the plant is used by the
cow to perform the work of metabolism enabling the cow to stay
strong and continue to gain weight and perhaps make more milk. Some
of the energy is used up in heat and respiration and what is left
over is stored in cells of fat and muscle in the flesh of the cow.
The next level of energy transfer is present when a carnivore eats
the cow, as some of us do several times a week. When the cow is
eaten, the energy that is stored in the flesh of the cow is
transferred to the consumer and is used to provide energy to perform
the work of metabolism. What energy is left over is released as heat
in the form of respiration, or is stored in the cells of the body
for a back up system of energy that is accessible whenever the body
needs it. As you can imagine, the energy that is available drops
significantly from one level to the other, so that by the time the
energy that is in the plant reaches the carnivore stage, it is
significantly reduced.
We, as humans, are classified as both herbivore and carnivore due to
the presence of enzymes that can break down both plant and animal
food. Generally speaking, most herbivores must eat plants because
they lack the needed enzymes to break down the elements that are
found in meat. At the same time, a lion, the ultimate carnivore, is
not to be found grazing on plant life, because of the lack of
enzymes for plant food.
In this ecology of energy transfer, only one concern is on the minds
of the inhabitants. “To eat, or to be eaten, that is the question.”
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. It really is a wondrous thing that God has
created. Each level is a supply to the next, and without the
supporting levels, the most fiercest of the predators would have no
hope of existence. Without the rays of the sun, earth and all of its
inhabitants would perish. It is interesting how much Hollywood is
involved in this doomsday scenario of the earth without the sun. Two
movies come to mind, “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon”, both having the
scenario of a gigantic asteroid hitting the earth. This is a well
known theory that tries to explain the relatively sudden demise of
the dinosaurs, which some scientists have attributed to a similar
event thousands of years ago, where they surmise a huge asteroid hit
the earth with such an impact that dust was kicked up into the
atmosphere and choked the light of the sun from off the surface of
the earth until the ecological system was in such disarray that the
dinosaurs starved to death, along with other prehistoric herbivores
and carnivores. Could be. In fact, it could happen again, or so they
say. At any rate, the ecology is a particularly fragile system and
is one that is made up of many levels of consumption, all dependent
upon the other.
The gist of all this is, you are what you eat. The energy you
receive every day as you eat your meals comes from the sun, to the
plants and grains and seeds, to the chicken and cow and pig, to the
plate on your dinner table. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out
that by consuming more green, leafy plants and wholesome grains we
can get a more direct source of energy than going strictly
carnivorous. Remember, energy levels deteriorate through each level
of transfer. So, the next time you order a steak, have a try at the
salad too, since the steak you eat is just a recycled salad in meat
form. Yuck! Believe it or not, I do eat my fair share of red meat,
but I am trying to eat more of a balance of green things to go along
with it. Remember, the 10 essential amino acids that you must have
are supplied to you by your diet. One of the more fascinating diets
that has become so popular is the protein diet, which has you
consume more protein than carbohydrates, which I am still undecided
about, although it does seem to work for most people. A couple of my
minister friends are on it and they are getting rid of their “built
in pulpit”, otherwise known as their belly. I do think one needs to
pay close attention to a balanced ingestion of food stuffs and mix
it all in with common sense and strenuous exercise.
Let us
continue with the transfer of energy. The main use for energy in our
bodies is to perform the process of metabolism. It is a very
interesting process. There are 2 kinds of metabolism that take place
in our body, and they are constantly fighting for space. One is
called, “anabolism”, and the other is called, “catabolism”.
Anabolism is termed, “constructive metabolism”, and catabolism is
termed, “destructive metabolism.”
Anabolism involves the use of energy to build, maintain, and repair
the cells of the entire body. It is involved in protein synthesis,
which is the process by which the cells manufacture other cell parts
and replace old, dead cells with new living ones. Our body is
constantly removing old cells and replacing them with new ones, a
process that continues until the day the body dies. Anabolism is
particularly in high gear during the fetal stage and during our
childhood and growth period. At this time, our body demands a
hyperactive growth to take place, so we can reach maturity at the
most effective point of our life. As we get older, these processes
diminish and slow down. As we age, our cells start dying faster than
they are replenished, our skin starts to wrinkle and dry out, our
energy level reduces, our anabolic metabolism slows down, and we
eventually become more susceptible to disease and eventually succumb
to death in the flesh.
Catabolism involves the use of energy to break down complex
molecules to more simple forms for our cells to use. It is involved
in providing the energy to do work, both externally and internally.
Catabolism controls the temperature of the body and is involved in
the degradation of complex molecules into waste material that in
turn is removed from the body. It helps to control the temperature
of the body by either using the skin as a third kidney and causing
the body to perspire, thus cooling us off, or it warms the body when
it is too cold, by causing an involuntary shivering to take place in
the muscles, which is one of the methods the body uses to create
heat through work. It is also involved in the recovery of energy
from the stored fats of the body, and in digestion and all chemical
reactions.
Both processes of metabolism follow pathways, although opposite from
each other, that lead to producing end products that are vital to
the existence of the body. During the growth periods of our life,
anabolism is predominant and we gain weight and mass. When
catabolism is dominant, such as when we are starving or have a
disease, we lose weight and become weak. When both processes of
metabolism are equally operating, anabolism building and
replenishing, catabolism breaking down foods and providing energy,
the organism is said to have reached, “dynamic equilibrium.” This is
optimum heath, where both dynamics of metabolism is working and the
organism is building and removing at an equal pace. A scripture
comes to mind when talking about the building and breaking down that
takes place in our body each minute of our life.
Jer 31:27‑28
27 Behold,
the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel
and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of
beast.
28 And
it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to
pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and
to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith
the LORD. (KJV)
Jer 1:10
10 See, I
have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to
root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to
build, and to plant.(KJV)
One can see, by reading these scriptures, that God has been just as
faithful over the tearing down as He is over the building up.
Indeed, the tearing down of the old is necessary for the arrival of
the new. In fact, the arrival of the new initiates the removal of
the old.
2 Cor 3:9‑11
9 For if
the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the
ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even
that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason
of the glory that excelleth
11 For if
that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth
is glorious.(KJV)
The glory of the old ministration of condemnation lost its glory, by
reason of the glory that excelleth. When is the present light not
sufficient? When a greater light appears. The greater causes all
other lights to become dim, by reason of the brightness of its
shining. Until then, the lesser was more than enough. So it is, that
the truths that we pass through, those precious truths that at one
time was the light of our city, no matter that in reality they were
mere shadows of perception, to us they were glorious rays of hope.
But, when the greater appeared, our eyes were enlightened and we
could never view the old things in the same way. They lost their
glory, by reason of the arrival of the greater.
At one time, the old, classic song, “I’ll Fly Away”, brought great
joy to my heart, and saw me through some sad times in this world,
and brought me hope for a better day to come. Heaven awaited me, the
rapture was coming, and I was going home! At that time of my
development in God, there was a glory that filled my heart each time
I sang it, and as Paul says in the above scripture, even though it
was not a lasting truth and it was done away with, it was glorious.
However, the truth that took its place, the truth that took my eyes
off the sky and made me look inward to see heaven and the throne of
God, the truth that made me to know that I was not put on this earth
to live my life in a semi-comatic state of mind, but I was put here
by my heavenly Father to be the answer to the ills of the world, the
truth that lets me be in the world, but not of it, the truth that
remains today and will be ever with me, allowing me to see God in
everything and everywhere, that gives me peace in the midst of the
storm and has set my feet upon the Rock to stay, the glory of that
truth outshines the truth of the old and I can’t imagine singing
that song with any kind of a glory again. But I do like the old
tune!! I guess I’ll have to pray my wife writes new words to that
great little tune! Ha!
Let me comment on the comparison between what we have said about
energy and what we know about God. Some would say that the words
energy and spirit can be interchangeable, that energy is a fit
description of the spirit of God. I would agree to a certain degree,
but do not lump me in with those that vibrate and absorb all
different kinds of energy in the air through crystals and pyramids
and auras and such. Having said that, let me say that I believe God
to be the purest form of energy that exists, and that all other
energy has to come from Him. He has the same properties of the
energy that we are talking about that inhabits all things living.
Scientists have come to the conclusion that energy cannot be created
or destroyed, it can only take on other forms. Sounds like God,
doesn’t it?
Heb 13:8
8 Jesus
Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (KJV)
He is the I AM, the constant One, with no variations or
fluctuations. He is light, and there is no darkness in Him. He does
not grow or shrink, He is complete. He does allow Himself to be seen
and experienced in different forms, however. He showed His hinder
parts to Moses, covering the lowly man with His hand, lying down in
the cleft of a rock, as the presence of the Most High God passed
closely by. One can only imagine what that experience was like. At
other times He appears as a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by
night, as dense smoke in the temple, as a shining, blinding light to
Paul, as a man to John the Revelator. All of these forms are
degraded forms of His true essence, as no man can see God in the
purest form of His energy and live to tell about it.
Energy has the capacity to do work, and, boy oh boy, can God ever do
some work. In the beginning, God worked, and created the lesser
energy fields that give life to the earth and it’s inhabitants. He
filled everything living with these lesser forms of energy and set
up this fantastic ecosystem of checks and balances that has produced
life for millions of years. From the aforementioned levels of
consumption and energy transfer to the interaction of the waters and
the atmospheric pressures that allow the waters of the oceans to be
gathered in clouds of precipitation that are moved by varying
temperatures over land to release their moisture to those areas that
would otherwise be without water, with the great forests of the
world providing life-giving oxygen to the planet, to the
interplanetary pulls of gravity that play a part in our seasons and
tides, all of this was put into motion by a God that was pure,
unbound energy. It is all a mind boggling display of complete
balance of nature, from the microscopic to the macroscopic.
When God put in motion the world’s manifold variety of different
life forms, the Creator designed the organic world with a system of
energy transfer that forms a food chain that feeds upon itself in a
perpetual action of consumption. The plants and the trees and
grasses all get their energy from the sun, the plant eating species
all get their energy from the plants, the meat eating species all
get their energy from the plant eating species, and so on. Death
figures into the process also. When the different life forms cease
to live, then the lower class of consumers take care of the dead
mass, decomposing the mass and using the energy that remains in the
materials to break down the large molecules into smaller,
microscopic molecules. The entire ecosystem is provided for even
after life gives out. Indeed, if it wasn’t for the decomposers the
world would be a very crowded place!
It all returns back to the higher levels of consumption in one way
or another. Rotting leaves decompose and are eaten by worms, which
are then eaten by birds and grub eaters, which are then eaten by
carnivorous predators, who are then eaten by other, bigger and more
fierce predators, and so on, until decomposition takes place at the
end of the food chain. Then, the cycle repeats itself. Through all
of this, energy is passed on by the materials that are consumed. It
is of special interest to us to note that in none of this was energy
created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another,
constantly passed on and transferred to the next level of life form
that used it.
So it is, that the scripture explains many elements of the
indwelling spirit (energy) of the Father God in us, His offspring,
and indeed, in all living things, that coincide with what we have
wrote about concerning the metabolism of the organic, natural world.
Notice the language of a very familiar part of the scriptures,
penned by the Apostle Paul, to the Corinthians, having to do with
what remains after the decomposition of our earthly body.
2 Cor 5:1-4
1 For we
know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of God, an house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
2 For in
this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house
which is from heaven:
3 If so be
that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
4
For we that are in
this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be
unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up
of life. (KJV)
Now, if we have within this earthly house, an ETERNAL building of
God, then this eternal house is not affected at all by the
dissolving of this outer house. Nothing is added to it, and nothing
is taken away. In other words, if we were to go through our whole
life without any “clothing upon”, we would still have a house. Why
are we groaning then? Because we are in need of a transfer of
energy, our spirits are groaning and our hearts are burdened for a
“swallowing up” of mortality, a consumption of an energy, which,
although, is a lower energy, it is still needed for our entire
transformation from the old life into the new life. Without a doubt,
Paul is referring to an ingestion of mortality by the life of God in
us, that will ADD to the eternal house. Properly spoken in the
language of metabolism, this would be an act of catabolism. Let me
explain how this is related to what we have described in the natural
process of metabolism. When you ingest food, it is in macro form. It
is a bunch of microscopic molecules joined together by chemical
bonds that make the small elements all one large lump of matter.
Doesn’t sound appetizing, but that is the way it is. When eaten,
beginning at the moment the food hits your mouth, a process of
metabolism takes place, and it is catabolic in action, or, it is
going through a process of deconstruction, or breaking down, to its
smaller elements. As you chew, the process is helped in getting this
large mass broken down, so your stomach can work quicker and easier
on the catabolic change. Enzymes present in the saliva in the mouth
perform a pre-digestive work on the food and when finally swallowed
the food is in a much different form than when you forked it off
your plate. The process of catabolism continues in the stomach and
small intestine, with different stages of digestion taking place,
with acids and enzymes working away at the large molecules of
material, using the energy stored in some of the molecules to
perform the work of deconstruction. Eventually, the work of
metabolism has separated molecules of the food into its base
molecules, the amino acids having been shuttled off to the cells,
along with the different vitamins and minerals. Whatever is not
digestible, meaning, whatever is left for which there is no enzyme
to break down, such as fibers, is then carried on through the
digestive tract, into the colon, and is passed from the body,
hopefully on a regular basis.
The point I want to make from this very simplified expository on
digestion, is that mass-wise, very little of the actual mass is used
by the body. The mass is actually just a vessel to introduce the
really essential things into your body. Mortality is the same way.
Although it is not pure life, and we know and understand that it is
a limited, age-lasting life, it is still a life, a form of energy,
that is designed to keep this mortal body alive. The third, and last
salvation for us to experience is the salvation of the body, the
“clothing upon” of this temporal, natural body with the Life that
lives within it. Obviously, it is important to God to redeem this
third part of us, otherwise He would not stress the need for the
“waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” So
then, we see a mystery, that we shall all go through a change, but
we shall not all sleep, or lay this body down, but this corruptible
must put on incorruption and this mortal, immortality. How? By the
transfer of energy produced by a catabolic swallowing up of the old
life. This process will be accomplished whether in this world or the
other, this side of the river, or the other side, there will be a
redeeming of the life of all creation by one company that is
victorious over all the past unclothing, by one ultimate CLOTHING
UPON!! Glory to God
What happens when one lays this mortal life down? I have pondered
this question many times. I have had both the privilege and the
horrendous burden to perform far too many funerals of my friends and
family in the Lord over the years. What happens to their spirit
(energy) and where do they go? To heaven to be with Jesus? Yes, I
would agree with that, but then we must ask, where is heaven, and
where is Jesus? Is heaven off in outer space somewhere, a gigantic
natural city heading toward earth to be set up in the holy land? Not
hardly. Heaven and Jesus and all that makes up heaven can only be
found in one place, and that place is in our hearts. Yes, it is a
place that is UP, but only in the sense of higher forms of energy
versus lower forms of energy. Just as I would get one form of energy
by lighting a match and watching the match burn, which would be a
relatively small demonstration of the release of energy, versus if I
was to perform an act of nuclear fission upon an atom, which would
be a very BIG demonstration of the release of energy.
When chemical reactions take place to break down elements and they
go through a chemical change, the energy that is resident in them is
released and CHANGES FORM, sometimes in heat or combustion or other
forms of change. Thus, when you turn the key in your car, a circuit
is opened from your battery to the starter on your engine, which
transfers the energy from the battery to the spark plug, which
transfers the energy into a spark, which is introduced to a minute
amount of gasoline, which causes a chemical explosion, which pushes
the piston in the engine that interacts with the other engine parts
and transfers the energy into work, in this case, the work of
getting you to work. No gasoline, no energy. No energy, no worky. We
all leave something behind when we depart from one realm into
another. Each and every heaven that we have passed through, we left
a part of our energy force behind, to keep the spiritual ecosystem
alive. I would like you to read the following scriptures and see if
you can see the principle of what I just said in them.
I King 19:9‑13
9 And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
10 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God
of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant,
thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword;
and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it
away.
11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before
the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and
strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks
before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the
wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not
in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he
wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood
in the entering in of the cave. (KJV)
I King 19:19‑21
19 So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of
Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him,
and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and
cast his mantle upon him.
20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said,
Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I
will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what
have I done to thee?
21 And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of
oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments
of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he
arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him. (KJV)
II Ki 2:8‑15
8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it
together, and smote the waters, and they were divided
hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that
Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I
be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let
a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
10 And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing:
nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall
be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and
talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and
horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up
by a whirlwind into heaven.
12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father,
the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him
no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in
two pieces.
13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah
that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of
Jordan;
14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from
him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD
God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they
parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
15 And when the sons of the prophets which were to view
at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth
rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed
themselves to the ground before him. (KJV)
As you can readily see, the catalyst throughout this exchange
between Elijah and Elisha was the mantle, the same mantle that
Elijah clothed his human face in when he went out of the cave to
meet the presence of God. The humanity of Elijah was wrapped in
an energy of life. A catalyst, in biological terms, is something
that initiates chemical reactions, and when that happens, energy
is transferred. You are the catalyst of the Lord in the earth.
Wherever you go, whatever you do in the name of the Lord, a
change takes place that transfers energy, spirit, from one
element to another. If we could only walk in this knowledge, we
would never shake hands with someone with empty hands again, but
we would “lay hands upon them”, and the touching of our hands to
theirs would be a catalyst that would break down all the walls
of their life. Isn’t this what happened in the early church?
Peter passing by and in his proximity, without words, without
preaching, without an offering taken up, people were healed,
simply because of the energy, spirit, that flowed from Peter to
them. Even more so than the mantle, what is especially
intriguing is that the scripture says the sons of the prophets
saw the spirit (energy) of Elijah resting upon Elisha, a further
witness that energy remains, even after the house is gone.
Another scriptural reference to this phenomenon is one that
involves Elijah once again, this time found on John the Baptist.
Matt 11:11‑14
11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of
women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist:
notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is
greater than he.
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the
kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by
force.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until
John.
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which
was for to come. (KJV)
Matt 17:10‑13
10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the
scribes that Elias must first come?
11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly
shall first come, and restore all things.
12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already,
and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever
they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto
them of John the Baptist. (KJV)
Matt 16:13‑16
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi,
he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son
of man am?
14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the
Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the
prophets.
15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the living God. (KJV)
Let me give you another scripture concerning Jesus and His
statement that smacks of catabolism.
John 14:12
12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on
me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than
these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (KJV)
The pattern that I am attempting to reveal in these scriptures
is that although some things are taken out of this dimension,
there is something of them that stays behind and lives in
others. Not they themselves, in some form of reincarnation, as
some would preach. We know that we keep our individual identity
even with all heaven inside of us. That is why John could answer
“no” to those that pointedly asked him if he was Elijah, (see
John 1:19-23), or if he was “that prophet” or if he was the
Christ, and each time John answered “no”. What did John say he
was? A VOICE! A sound, a catalyst, a forerunner, in the
wilderness. The mantle was still falling, and this time it fell
upon John, the one that once again smote the waters of humanity
and walked through it untouched! Glory to God! John and Elijah
were entwined together in the destinies of God’s plan, the same
spirit, the same anointing, the same energy, and that energy
came from the SON, the true source of all energy in the spirit
realm. He is the light of the city, He is the light that
lightens every man, He is the shining light that springs up in
the shadows of death, and without His light we would all perish,
for His light gives us LIFE!! Praise His holy Name!
The departure of Jesus was necessary so that the energy that He
was, as Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Mary, might be released
and transformed into an energy that would fill the whole earth
and all time immemorial. The Son of man went through a
deconstruction, a breaking down of His parts, and what was
earthly remained earthly and what was heavenly became even more
heavenly. The carpenter’s son did not die for us, the Son of God
died for us, the blood of a mere man does not save us, it is the
blood of the Son of God that saves us. Jesus shut the door on
His earthly existence, starting at the temple when He found out
who He was at the age of 12, and continuing on through the times
when He refused to give Mary priority over His disciples, and in
a final act of release, from the cross, when, bleeding and
dying, He spoke to Mary in a final discourse of the change of
relationship between the Son of God and Mary the mother of
Jesus.
John 19:25‑27
25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and
his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary
Magdalene.
26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple
standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman,
behold thy son!
27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And
from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. (KJV)
Then, the end. With a great cry, “It is finished”, once and for
all, with far more power than the splitting of an atom, Christ
Jesus, our Lord, split an Adam, and in so doing, He brought an
end to death and corruption. The energy that was contained
within His solitary life on earth was released into all of
humanity, and once again the mantle of anointed life fell on the
sea of humanity, and we are walking over on dry ground,
untouched by our carnal nature, and living by reason of that
catabolic act of the death of one man, the shame and humility of
that solitary life, and the resurrection of that Life in a new,
divine form, the Son of God, the Savior of the world.
To Be Continued:
Written by Bob Torango
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