A Wheel within a Wheel
Chapter 6
The Spiritual Overlay
(Note: This chapter comes from chapter 1 “Spiritual Dynamics” from the book “His Secret” with minor edits)
Let’s look at a scripture that is an excellent example for metaphoric interpretation and gives us an understanding of the Spiritual Overlay.
1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Anybody reading this would see that this verse is speaking about human beings, beasts which would include lions, and bears, dogs, and cattle, fish of the sea and birds of the earth. This would be the obvious interpretation. They do have different flesh because they are different species.
This is a however, a verse that has an underlying meaning to it. When you apply the language of metaphor you will find an entirely different meaning.
These groups of men, beasts, fishes, and birds are representative of the church. The church is divided into 4 groups; the 144,000, the Multitude, the Serpents, and the Scorpions. When the 144,000 came out of the church, the church is divided into thirds. All of this information is available in two books entitled “The 144,000 and the Multitude,” and “The Trumpet Judgements Unveiled” (See these books when they are posted on this website shortly)
The flesh of men is a metaphor for the 144,000. The flesh of beasts is a metaphor for the Serpents. The flesh of fishes is a metaphor for the Multitude, and the flesh of birds is a metaphor for the Scorpions. These metaphors of men, beasts, fishes, and birds are figurative. They represent something other than what is read as literal.
This verse is actually telling us when you know “His secret” that there is a division that occurs within the church. The symbology that is used for each of these groups can be traced through the Old and New Testaments. There is an additional clue to understanding how we are to approach prophecy in the end of days in the verse that follows.
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 1 Corinthians 15:40
This verse is describing on the literal layer heavenly bodies, i.e. the sun, the moon, and the stars. They are terrestrial bodies which are referring to earthly or fleshly bodies. Or is it? What was the previous verse speaking about? It was speaking about men, beasts, fishes, and birds. Then it changes and is speaking about the sun, moon, and stars and saying that they are different than earthly bodies. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when you read it that way. Let’s interpret this in the metaphoric figurative.
The celestial bodies are the heavenly bodies which everyone immediately thinks on the physical layer as being the sun, moon, planets, and stars. In the figurative, this would be referring to those that are in the spiritual realm for “we are seated in heavenly places.” The church is being referred to here as celestial or spiritual bodies. Terrestrial would be referring to physical bodies. This verse is telling us that there are men, beasts, fish, and birds the previous verse was referring to are both celestial (Spiritual) and terrestrial. (Physical)
These verses are telling us that there are two layers to this. The first one that you see and read is literal on the physical layer. There is the physical layer that the world has been seeing and trying to figure out to no avail. Hidden right in plain sight is the spiritual layer which when the metaphoric understanding of what the symbology represents is now thoroughly understood. It shows us exactly where we are and what is coming.
The literal interpretation of these verses is the terrestrial bodies are the real lions, tigers, bears, fish, men, and birds, sun, moon, and stars that are around us all day. The celestial symbolic interpretation are as follows: the men are the 144,000, the beasts are the Serpents, the fishes are the Multitude, the birds are the Scorpions, the sun is the Scorpions, the moon is the multitude, and the stars are the Serpents.
I refer to this concept of reading the scriptures and applying the spiritual figurative to the verses as the “Spiritual Overlay.” It is like putting a template over the words of the Bible and seeing what is behind the words that are printed on the page. We are finding out the true meanings of what was stated by the prophets, Jesus, and the Apostles.
In the next few verses, this concept is reiterated by Paul. We have begun our journey as a Christian in the natural; the flesh. We finish in the spiritual. We read the Bible when we began in the natural; we now read it in the spiritual. What literal understanding of the end time events we had at one time has now transformed to represent the spiritual understanding of the coming events.
These events will play out in the physical. They will play out in a way that the unrighteous will not expect or perceive for they are looking for a literal physical fulfillment. Remember, it is hidden from them and opened up unto us. We on the other hand now read the scriptures in the spiritual which when interpreted into the figurative using the spiritual overlay; we can clearly foresee how these events will play out in the physical.
1 Corinthians 15:45-49 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
In verse 49, it is stated that we shall “bear the image of the heavenly.” The word bear is defined as; 1504 to have a burden, i.e. (by analogy) to wear as clothing or a constant accompaniment:--bear, wear. Image is defined as; a likeness, i.e. (literally) statue, profile, or (figuratively) representation, resemblance:--image.
This verse tells us that we are to wear or have in accompaniment the likeness or representation of the spiritual. This would include our walk, the things we do, and how we think. We are to think in the spiritual. Our minds are to be in the spiritual mode. This would include our thought processes. All we have to do is follow Jesus’ example. He was in the world but not of the world. He was on the earth but not of the earth. We are to be the same.
Jesus’ thought processes were in the spiritual focused on the things of the spirit. This is evidenced by all of the parables that he spoke of. They were all referring to the spiritual and how the earthly was to convert to the spiritual. He took the earthly (Physical) objects in a parable and applied the spiritual context to them. Jesus shows us how to think and where our thought processes need to be rooted.
An example of a parable that Jesus interpreted for us is the parable about the wheat and the tares in Matthew, chapter 13. Jesus states “…the kingdom of heaven is likened to…” This is a similitude. In this parable, a field owner sows a field of wheat and during the night tares had grown amongst the wheat. The workers in the field notice this and want to pull up the tares. The field owner tells them to let them grow together until the harvest, when the tares can be pulled from the wheat without harming the matured wheat.
Jesus gives us an example of interpreting into the spiritual this parable using the objects, wheat, tares, field, etc. as metaphors. Jesus states that the field is the world, the tares are the children of the wicked one, the wheat are the children of the kingdom, the harvest is the end of the world, the tares will be gathered first to be burned, and the wheat shall be gathered into his barn, etc.
Jesus just told us that these objects represent something else other than what they were. If you were reading it through physical eyes, this story would be about a farmer with a bad weed problem.
We are in the time of the end, and with the spiritual overlay we can more clearly identify the players in this interpretation. The owner of the field is Jesus Christ. The workers in the field are the 144,000. The wheat is the Multitude. The tares are the Scorpions and the Serpents. The world is the church.
The gathering the wheat into the barn represents the death of the Multitude. One by one they are gathered as they are harvested from the field. The gathering of the tares is the bundling together of the Scorpions and the Serpents who will be burned up in the end.
Let’s look at a scripture that is an excellent example for metaphoric interpretation and gives us an understanding of the Spiritual Overlay.
1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Anybody reading this would see that this verse is speaking about human beings, beasts which would include lions, and bears, dogs, and cattle, fish of the sea and birds of the earth. This would be the obvious interpretation. They do have different flesh because they are different species.
This is a however, a verse that has an underlying meaning to it. When you apply the language of metaphor you will find an entirely different meaning.
These groups of men, beasts, fishes, and birds are representative of the church. The church is divided into 4 groups; the 144,000, the Multitude, the Serpents, and the Scorpions. When the 144,000 came out of the church, the church is divided into thirds. All of this information is available in two books entitled “The 144,000 and the Multitude,” and “The Trumpet Judgements Unveiled” (See these books when they are posted on this website shortly)
The flesh of men is a metaphor for the 144,000. The flesh of beasts is a metaphor for the Serpents. The flesh of fishes is a metaphor for the Multitude, and the flesh of birds is a metaphor for the Scorpions. These metaphors of men, beasts, fishes, and birds are figurative. They represent something other than what is read as literal.
This verse is actually telling us when you know “His secret” that there is a division that occurs within the church. The symbology that is used for each of these groups can be traced through the Old and New Testaments. There is an additional clue to understanding how we are to approach prophecy in the end of days in the verse that follows.
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 1 Corinthians 15:40
This verse is describing on the literal layer heavenly bodies, i.e. the sun, the moon, and the stars. They are terrestrial bodies which are referring to earthly or fleshly bodies. Or is it? What was the previous verse speaking about? It was speaking about men, beasts, fishes, and birds. Then it changes and is speaking about the sun, moon, and stars and saying that they are different than earthly bodies. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when you read it that way. Let’s interpret this in the metaphoric figurative.
The celestial bodies are the heavenly bodies which everyone immediately thinks on the physical layer as being the sun, moon, planets, and stars. In the figurative, this would be referring to those that are in the spiritual realm for “we are seated in heavenly places.” The church is being referred to here as celestial or spiritual bodies. Terrestrial would be referring to physical bodies. This verse is telling us that there are men, beasts, fish, and birds the previous verse was referring to are both celestial (Spiritual) and terrestrial. (Physical)
These verses are telling us that there are two layers to this. The first one that you see and read is literal on the physical layer. There is the physical layer that the world has been seeing and trying to figure out to no avail. Hidden right in plain sight is the spiritual layer which when the metaphoric understanding of what the symbology represents is now thoroughly understood. It shows us exactly where we are and what is coming.
The literal interpretation of these verses is the terrestrial bodies are the real lions, tigers, bears, fish, men, and birds, sun, moon, and stars that are around us all day. The celestial symbolic interpretation are as follows: the men are the 144,000, the beasts are the Serpents, the fishes are the Multitude, the birds are the Scorpions, the sun is the Scorpions, the moon is the multitude, and the stars are the Serpents.
I refer to this concept of reading the scriptures and applying the spiritual figurative to the verses as the “Spiritual Overlay.” It is like putting a template over the words of the Bible and seeing what is behind the words that are printed on the page. We are finding out the true meanings of what was stated by the prophets, Jesus, and the Apostles.
In the next few verses, this concept is reiterated by Paul. We have begun our journey as a Christian in the natural; the flesh. We finish in the spiritual. We read the Bible when we began in the natural; we now read it in the spiritual. What literal understanding of the end time events we had at one time has now transformed to represent the spiritual understanding of the coming events.
These events will play out in the physical. They will play out in a way that the unrighteous will not expect or perceive for they are looking for a literal physical fulfillment. Remember, it is hidden from them and opened up unto us. We on the other hand now read the scriptures in the spiritual which when interpreted into the figurative using the spiritual overlay; we can clearly foresee how these events will play out in the physical.
1 Corinthians 15:45-49 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
In verse 49, it is stated that we shall “bear the image of the heavenly.” The word bear is defined as; 1504 to have a burden, i.e. (by analogy) to wear as clothing or a constant accompaniment:--bear, wear. Image is defined as; a likeness, i.e. (literally) statue, profile, or (figuratively) representation, resemblance:--image.
This verse tells us that we are to wear or have in accompaniment the likeness or representation of the spiritual. This would include our walk, the things we do, and how we think. We are to think in the spiritual. Our minds are to be in the spiritual mode. This would include our thought processes. All we have to do is follow Jesus’ example. He was in the world but not of the world. He was on the earth but not of the earth. We are to be the same.
Jesus’ thought processes were in the spiritual focused on the things of the spirit. This is evidenced by all of the parables that he spoke of. They were all referring to the spiritual and how the earthly was to convert to the spiritual. He took the earthly (Physical) objects in a parable and applied the spiritual context to them. Jesus shows us how to think and where our thought processes need to be rooted.
An example of a parable that Jesus interpreted for us is the parable about the wheat and the tares in Matthew, chapter 13. Jesus states “…the kingdom of heaven is likened to…” This is a similitude. In this parable, a field owner sows a field of wheat and during the night tares had grown amongst the wheat. The workers in the field notice this and want to pull up the tares. The field owner tells them to let them grow together until the harvest, when the tares can be pulled from the wheat without harming the matured wheat.
Jesus gives us an example of interpreting into the spiritual this parable using the objects, wheat, tares, field, etc. as metaphors. Jesus states that the field is the world, the tares are the children of the wicked one, the wheat are the children of the kingdom, the harvest is the end of the world, the tares will be gathered first to be burned, and the wheat shall be gathered into his barn, etc.
Jesus just told us that these objects represent something else other than what they were. If you were reading it through physical eyes, this story would be about a farmer with a bad weed problem.
We are in the time of the end, and with the spiritual overlay we can more clearly identify the players in this interpretation. The owner of the field is Jesus Christ. The workers in the field are the 144,000. The wheat is the Multitude. The tares are the Scorpions and the Serpents. The world is the church.
The gathering the wheat into the barn represents the death of the Multitude. One by one they are gathered as they are harvested from the field. The gathering of the tares is the bundling together of the Scorpions and the Serpents who will be burned up in the end.
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