CHAPTER ONE
ALL THINGS BEGIN WITH THE REASON. THE REASON POINTS TOWARDS GOD. THE REASON IS GOD. ALL OF CREATION CAME TO BE BY MEANS OF THIS REASON AND NOT ONE THING COMES TO BE APART FROM IT. IT IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE AND THE LIGHT FOR MANKIND. THE LIGHT CONTINUES TO SHINE IN THE DARKNESS AND THE DARKNESS DOES NOT PERCEIVE IT.
JOHN WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD. HE CAME TO GIVE EVIDENCE OF THE LIGHT, SO THAT ALL OF MANKIND BY MEANS OF HIM WILL TRUST IN THE LIGHT. JOHN WAS NOT THE LIGHT, BUT RATHER WAS SENT TO GIVE EVIDENCE OF IT.
THE TRUE LIGHT ENLIGHTENS ALL OF MANKIND COMING INTO THE WORLD. THE LIGHT IS IN THE WORLD, AND ALTHOUGH THE WORLD CAME TO BE BY MEANS OF IT, THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW THIS LIGHT. IT COMES INTO ITS OWN, BUT ITS OWN DOES NOT RECEIVE IT. THOSE WHO DO RECEIVE IT AND TRUST GOD'S AUTHORITY, ARE GIVEN THE ABILITY TO BECOME SONS OF GOD. BEING BIRTHED, NOT FROM BLOOD, NOR THE INTENTIONS OF FLESH BUT RATHER THEY ARE BIRTHED FROM GOD.
AND SO, THIS REASON CAME TO BE WITHIN FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US, AND WE LOOKED UPON ITS GLORY. THE GLORY AS BEING A UNIQUELY BORN ONE OF THE FATHER. IT (HE) WAS FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.
JOHN GAVE EVIDENCE OF IT (HIM), AND CRIED "THIS IS THE ONE WHO I SAID, THE ONE COMING AFTER ME IS TO BE BEFORE ME (IN RANK), BECAUSE IT WAS FIRST (ORDER). AND FROM ITS FULLNESS, WE ALL RECEIVE GRACE UPON GRACE. THE LAW WAS GIVEN BY MOSES, YET GRACE AND TRUTH CAME TO BE THROUGH YESHUA, THE ANOINTED OF GOD. NO MAN HAS SEEN GOD (WITH THEIR PHYSICAL EYES). THE UNIQUELY BORN SON, WHICH EXISTS IN THE BOSOM OF THE FATHER, MAKES THE FATHER KNOWN TO US.
THIS IS THE EVIDENCE JOHN GAVE WHEN THE JEWS SENT PRIESTS AND LEVITES FROM JERUSALEM TO ASK HIM, ‘WHO ARE YOU?’. HE CONFESSED AND DID NOT DENY, BUT CONFESSED ‘I AM NOT THE ANOINTED OF GOD’. THEY ASKED HIM, 'WHAT THEN, ARE YOU ELIJAH?' HE SAID, 'I AM NOT'. THEY ASKED, 'ARE YOU THE PROPHET?' HE ANSWERED, 'NO'. THEREFORE THEY SAID TO HIM, 'WHO ARE YOU, SO THAT WE MAY GIVE AN ANSWER TO THE ONES SENDING US. WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT YOURSELF?' HE SAID, 'I AM THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING OUT WITHIN AN EMPTY PLACE, STRAIGHTEN THE WAY OF THE LORD, AS THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAID'. THOSE WHO HAD BEEN SENT, WERE SENT FROM THE PHARISEES. AND THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING TO HIM, 'WHY THEN ARE YOU WASHING SINCE YOU ARE NOT THE ANOINTED ONE OF GOD, OR ELIJAH, OR THE PROPHET?' JOHN ANSWERED THEM SAYING, 'I AM WASHING WITHIN WATER, BUT THERE IS ONE THAT CONTINUES STANDING AMONG YOU THAT YOU ARE NOT PERCEIVING. HE IS THE ONE WHO COMING AFTER ME IS TO BE BEFORE ME. I AM NOT SUITABLE TO LOOSEN THE STRAP OF HIS SANDAL. THESE THINGS CAME TO BE IN BETHANY, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN, WHERE JOHN WAS WASHING.
THE NEXT DAY, WHILE LOOKING AT YESHUA, JOHN SAID, ‘LOOK, GOD’S LAMB!' HE REMOVES THE ERRORS OF HUMANITY. THIS MAN IS THE ONE WHO I SAID, ‘COMING AFTER ME IS TO BE BEFORE ME’. I DID NOT SEE HIM UNTIL NOW, BUT I KNEW THAT HE WOULD BE REVEALED TO ISRAEL. THEREFORE, I CAME WASHING WITHIN WATER. JOHN GAVE EVIDENCE, SAYING, 'I PERCEIVE THE SPIRIT DESCENDING FROM THE HEAVENS LIKE A DOVE, AND IT IS REMAINING ON HIM.’ I DID NOT SEE HIM, BUT HE THAT SENT ME TO WASH WITH WATER SAID TO ME ’ THE ONE YOU PERCEIVE THE SPIRIT DESCENDING AND REMAINING IS WASHING WITH THE PURE SPIRIT’. I PERCEIVE AND GIVE EVIDENCE THAT THIS ONE IS THE SON OF GOD.
AGAIN, THE NEXT DAY, JOHN WAS STANDING WITH TWO OF HIS STUDENTS. JOHN LOOKED AT YESHUA AS HE WAS WALKING AND SAID, ‘LOOK, GOD’S LAMB!’ THE TWO STUDENTS HEARD AS HE SPOKE AND THEY FOLLOWED YESHUA. YESHUA TURNED AND SAW THEM FOLLOWING, SAYING ‘WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?’ THEY SAID TO HIM, 'RABBI (TEACHER), WHERE ARE YOU STAYING?’ HE SAID TO THEM, ‘COME AND PERCEIVE’. THEY WENT AND PERCEIVED WHERE HE WAS STAYING AND THEY WERE STAYING WITH HIM THAT DAY. IT WAS ABOUT THE TENTH HOUR.
ANDREW, THE BROTHER OF SIMON PETER, WAS ONE OF THE TWO AT JOHN’S SIDE THAT CONTINUED HEARING AND FOLLOWING HIM. ANDREW FIRST FOUND HIS BROTHER, SIMON, SAYING ‘WE FOUND THE MESSIAH, WHICH IS TRANSLATED, THE ANOINTED ONE’. HE BROUGHT HIM TOWARDS YESHUA AND YESHUA LOOKED WITHIN HIM, SAYING, 'YOU ARE SIMON, THE SON OF JONAH. YOU ARE CALLED CEPHAS, WHICH IS TRANSLATED A 'STONE (PETER)'.
THE NEXT DAY, YESHUA WANTED TO GO OUT INTO GALILEE. HE FINDS PHILIP, SAYING TO HIM, ‘BE THE SAME WAY AS ME’. NOW PHILIP WAS FROM BETHSAIDA, THE CITY OF ANDREW AND PETER. PHILIP FINDS NATHANAEL, SAYING TO HIM, ‘WE ARE FINDING THE ONE WHOM MOSES WROTE ABOUT WITHIN THE LAW AND PROPHETS: YESHUA, THE SON OF JOSEPH, FROM NAZARETH’. NATHANAEL SAID, ‘CAN SOMETHING GOOD BE OUT OF NAZARETH?’. PHILIP BEGINS SAYING, ‘COME AND SEE’. YESHUA SAW NATHANAEL COMING TOWARDS HIM AND BEGINS SAYING ABOUT HIM, ‘PAY ATTENTION, A TRUE ISRAELITE WITHIN WHOM THERE IS NO DECEIT’. NATHANAEL BEGINS SAYING TO HIM, ‘WHERE YOU DO KNOW ME FROM?’ YESHUA ANSWERS, SAYING, BEFORE PHILIP CALLED OUT TO YOU, AS YOU WERE UNDER THE FIG TREE, I SAW YOU’. NATHANIEL ANSWERS, SAYING TO HIM, 'MASTER, YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD! YOU ARE THE KING OF ISRAEL!’. YESHUA ANSWERING, SAYING TO HIM, ‘YOU ARE TRUSTING ME BECAUSE I SAID TO YOU THAT I SAW YOU UNDER THE FIG TREE? YOU WILL CONTINUE SEEING GREATER THINGS THAN THESE’. HE CONTINUES SAYING, IT IS CERTAINLY TRUE, I AM SAYING TO YOU THAT YOU WILL PROCEED IN SEEING THE HEAVENLY REALM OPEN AND THE MESSENGERS OF GOD WILL CONTINUE ASCENDING AND DESCENDING UPON THE SON OF MANKIND’.
VUE OF WORDS...
REASON (WORD, MESSAGE, IDEA, THOUGHT, EXPRESSION OF TRUTH)
LIFE (AWARENESS OF GOD AND SPIRITUAL VITALITY)
DARKNESS (UNKNOWING MIND AND WITHOUT VISION)
PERCEIVE (KNOW OR HAVE AWARENESS OF)
JOHN (FAVORED BY GOD)
ALL (WHOLE AND EVERY)
SON (SPIRITUALLY RE-BIRTHED BY GOD)
BIRTHED (REGENERATED BY GOD AND GIVEN SPIRITUAL VITALITY)
UNIQUELY (ONLY, SOLE AND FIRST)
YESHUA (GOD SAVES - ORIGINAL OF THE COMMONLY TRANSLATED NAME JESUS)
WASHING (BAPTIZED, CLEANSE)
ANOINTED ONE OF GOD (CHRIST OR MESSIAH)
BETHANY (FERRY HOUSE OR TRANSITION PLACE)
ERROR (SIN, WRONG WAYS AND MISSING THE MARK)
ISRAEL (GOD WILL RULE)
SPIRIT (MIND, LIFE-FORCE)
ANDREW (HUMAN)
SIMON (HEARING)
PETER (ROCK)
MESSIAH (ANOINTED ONE OF GOD)
JONAH (DOVE)
CEPHAS (STONE)
GALILEE (CIRCLE, AS IN A CIRCUIT)
BETHSAIDA (FISHING PLACE)
NATHANAEL (GIVEN OF GOD)
MOSES (DRAWING OUT OF THE WATER)
JOSEPH (ADDING)
NAZARETH (??????)
WHAT COMES TO MIND...
• WHEN YOU HEAR THE PHRASE 'WORD OF GOD'? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN TOLD BEFORE?
• WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER THE TERM 'LIGHT OR DARKNESS'? DO YOU PERCEIVE WHAT THEY MEAN?
• WHEN YOU SEE IT WRITTEN THAT 'ALL MANKIND WILL TRUST IN THE LIGHT'?
• WHEN YOU ARE TOLD THAT YOUR ERRORS CAN BE REMOVED?
JOHN WAS A MAN SENT FROM GOD. HE CAME TO GIVE EVIDENCE OF THE LIGHT, SO THAT ALL OF MANKIND BY MEANS OF HIM WILL TRUST IN THE LIGHT. JOHN WAS NOT THE LIGHT, BUT RATHER WAS SENT TO GIVE EVIDENCE OF IT.
THE TRUE LIGHT ENLIGHTENS ALL OF MANKIND COMING INTO THE WORLD. THE LIGHT IS IN THE WORLD, AND ALTHOUGH THE WORLD CAME TO BE BY MEANS OF IT, THE WORLD DOES NOT KNOW THIS LIGHT. IT COMES INTO ITS OWN, BUT ITS OWN DOES NOT RECEIVE IT. THOSE WHO DO RECEIVE IT AND TRUST GOD'S AUTHORITY, ARE GIVEN THE ABILITY TO BECOME SONS OF GOD. BEING BIRTHED, NOT FROM BLOOD, NOR THE INTENTIONS OF FLESH BUT RATHER THEY ARE BIRTHED FROM GOD.
AND SO, THIS REASON CAME TO BE WITHIN FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US, AND WE LOOKED UPON ITS GLORY. THE GLORY AS BEING A UNIQUELY BORN ONE OF THE FATHER. IT (HE) WAS FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH.
JOHN GAVE EVIDENCE OF IT (HIM), AND CRIED "THIS IS THE ONE WHO I SAID, THE ONE COMING AFTER ME IS TO BE BEFORE ME (IN RANK), BECAUSE IT WAS FIRST (ORDER). AND FROM ITS FULLNESS, WE ALL RECEIVE GRACE UPON GRACE. THE LAW WAS GIVEN BY MOSES, YET GRACE AND TRUTH CAME TO BE THROUGH YESHUA, THE ANOINTED OF GOD. NO MAN HAS SEEN GOD (WITH THEIR PHYSICAL EYES). THE UNIQUELY BORN SON, WHICH EXISTS IN THE BOSOM OF THE FATHER, MAKES THE FATHER KNOWN TO US.
THIS IS THE EVIDENCE JOHN GAVE WHEN THE JEWS SENT PRIESTS AND LEVITES FROM JERUSALEM TO ASK HIM, ‘WHO ARE YOU?’. HE CONFESSED AND DID NOT DENY, BUT CONFESSED ‘I AM NOT THE ANOINTED OF GOD’. THEY ASKED HIM, 'WHAT THEN, ARE YOU ELIJAH?' HE SAID, 'I AM NOT'. THEY ASKED, 'ARE YOU THE PROPHET?' HE ANSWERED, 'NO'. THEREFORE THEY SAID TO HIM, 'WHO ARE YOU, SO THAT WE MAY GIVE AN ANSWER TO THE ONES SENDING US. WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT YOURSELF?' HE SAID, 'I AM THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING OUT WITHIN AN EMPTY PLACE, STRAIGHTEN THE WAY OF THE LORD, AS THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAID'. THOSE WHO HAD BEEN SENT, WERE SENT FROM THE PHARISEES. AND THEY ASKED HIM, SAYING TO HIM, 'WHY THEN ARE YOU WASHING SINCE YOU ARE NOT THE ANOINTED ONE OF GOD, OR ELIJAH, OR THE PROPHET?' JOHN ANSWERED THEM SAYING, 'I AM WASHING WITHIN WATER, BUT THERE IS ONE THAT CONTINUES STANDING AMONG YOU THAT YOU ARE NOT PERCEIVING. HE IS THE ONE WHO COMING AFTER ME IS TO BE BEFORE ME. I AM NOT SUITABLE TO LOOSEN THE STRAP OF HIS SANDAL. THESE THINGS CAME TO BE IN BETHANY, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JORDAN, WHERE JOHN WAS WASHING.
THE NEXT DAY, WHILE LOOKING AT YESHUA, JOHN SAID, ‘LOOK, GOD’S LAMB!' HE REMOVES THE ERRORS OF HUMANITY. THIS MAN IS THE ONE WHO I SAID, ‘COMING AFTER ME IS TO BE BEFORE ME’. I DID NOT SEE HIM UNTIL NOW, BUT I KNEW THAT HE WOULD BE REVEALED TO ISRAEL. THEREFORE, I CAME WASHING WITHIN WATER. JOHN GAVE EVIDENCE, SAYING, 'I PERCEIVE THE SPIRIT DESCENDING FROM THE HEAVENS LIKE A DOVE, AND IT IS REMAINING ON HIM.’ I DID NOT SEE HIM, BUT HE THAT SENT ME TO WASH WITH WATER SAID TO ME ’ THE ONE YOU PERCEIVE THE SPIRIT DESCENDING AND REMAINING IS WASHING WITH THE PURE SPIRIT’. I PERCEIVE AND GIVE EVIDENCE THAT THIS ONE IS THE SON OF GOD.
AGAIN, THE NEXT DAY, JOHN WAS STANDING WITH TWO OF HIS STUDENTS. JOHN LOOKED AT YESHUA AS HE WAS WALKING AND SAID, ‘LOOK, GOD’S LAMB!’ THE TWO STUDENTS HEARD AS HE SPOKE AND THEY FOLLOWED YESHUA. YESHUA TURNED AND SAW THEM FOLLOWING, SAYING ‘WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?’ THEY SAID TO HIM, 'RABBI (TEACHER), WHERE ARE YOU STAYING?’ HE SAID TO THEM, ‘COME AND PERCEIVE’. THEY WENT AND PERCEIVED WHERE HE WAS STAYING AND THEY WERE STAYING WITH HIM THAT DAY. IT WAS ABOUT THE TENTH HOUR.
ANDREW, THE BROTHER OF SIMON PETER, WAS ONE OF THE TWO AT JOHN’S SIDE THAT CONTINUED HEARING AND FOLLOWING HIM. ANDREW FIRST FOUND HIS BROTHER, SIMON, SAYING ‘WE FOUND THE MESSIAH, WHICH IS TRANSLATED, THE ANOINTED ONE’. HE BROUGHT HIM TOWARDS YESHUA AND YESHUA LOOKED WITHIN HIM, SAYING, 'YOU ARE SIMON, THE SON OF JONAH. YOU ARE CALLED CEPHAS, WHICH IS TRANSLATED A 'STONE (PETER)'.
THE NEXT DAY, YESHUA WANTED TO GO OUT INTO GALILEE. HE FINDS PHILIP, SAYING TO HIM, ‘BE THE SAME WAY AS ME’. NOW PHILIP WAS FROM BETHSAIDA, THE CITY OF ANDREW AND PETER. PHILIP FINDS NATHANAEL, SAYING TO HIM, ‘WE ARE FINDING THE ONE WHOM MOSES WROTE ABOUT WITHIN THE LAW AND PROPHETS: YESHUA, THE SON OF JOSEPH, FROM NAZARETH’. NATHANAEL SAID, ‘CAN SOMETHING GOOD BE OUT OF NAZARETH?’. PHILIP BEGINS SAYING, ‘COME AND SEE’. YESHUA SAW NATHANAEL COMING TOWARDS HIM AND BEGINS SAYING ABOUT HIM, ‘PAY ATTENTION, A TRUE ISRAELITE WITHIN WHOM THERE IS NO DECEIT’. NATHANAEL BEGINS SAYING TO HIM, ‘WHERE YOU DO KNOW ME FROM?’ YESHUA ANSWERS, SAYING, BEFORE PHILIP CALLED OUT TO YOU, AS YOU WERE UNDER THE FIG TREE, I SAW YOU’. NATHANIEL ANSWERS, SAYING TO HIM, 'MASTER, YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD! YOU ARE THE KING OF ISRAEL!’. YESHUA ANSWERING, SAYING TO HIM, ‘YOU ARE TRUSTING ME BECAUSE I SAID TO YOU THAT I SAW YOU UNDER THE FIG TREE? YOU WILL CONTINUE SEEING GREATER THINGS THAN THESE’. HE CONTINUES SAYING, IT IS CERTAINLY TRUE, I AM SAYING TO YOU THAT YOU WILL PROCEED IN SEEING THE HEAVENLY REALM OPEN AND THE MESSENGERS OF GOD WILL CONTINUE ASCENDING AND DESCENDING UPON THE SON OF MANKIND’.
VUE OF WORDS...
REASON (WORD, MESSAGE, IDEA, THOUGHT, EXPRESSION OF TRUTH)
LIFE (AWARENESS OF GOD AND SPIRITUAL VITALITY)
DARKNESS (UNKNOWING MIND AND WITHOUT VISION)
PERCEIVE (KNOW OR HAVE AWARENESS OF)
JOHN (FAVORED BY GOD)
ALL (WHOLE AND EVERY)
SON (SPIRITUALLY RE-BIRTHED BY GOD)
BIRTHED (REGENERATED BY GOD AND GIVEN SPIRITUAL VITALITY)
UNIQUELY (ONLY, SOLE AND FIRST)
YESHUA (GOD SAVES - ORIGINAL OF THE COMMONLY TRANSLATED NAME JESUS)
WASHING (BAPTIZED, CLEANSE)
ANOINTED ONE OF GOD (CHRIST OR MESSIAH)
BETHANY (FERRY HOUSE OR TRANSITION PLACE)
ERROR (SIN, WRONG WAYS AND MISSING THE MARK)
ISRAEL (GOD WILL RULE)
SPIRIT (MIND, LIFE-FORCE)
ANDREW (HUMAN)
SIMON (HEARING)
PETER (ROCK)
MESSIAH (ANOINTED ONE OF GOD)
JONAH (DOVE)
CEPHAS (STONE)
GALILEE (CIRCLE, AS IN A CIRCUIT)
BETHSAIDA (FISHING PLACE)
NATHANAEL (GIVEN OF GOD)
MOSES (DRAWING OUT OF THE WATER)
JOSEPH (ADDING)
NAZARETH (??????)
WHAT COMES TO MIND...
• WHEN YOU HEAR THE PHRASE 'WORD OF GOD'? WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN TOLD BEFORE?
• WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER THE TERM 'LIGHT OR DARKNESS'? DO YOU PERCEIVE WHAT THEY MEAN?
• WHEN YOU SEE IT WRITTEN THAT 'ALL MANKIND WILL TRUST IN THE LIGHT'?
• WHEN YOU ARE TOLD THAT YOUR ERRORS CAN BE REMOVED?
