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Chapter 1

Paradigm

Although many have read the forgoing eight books on the subject the LINE which is the conscience, it still takes lots of meditation on the new found knowledge to cause the paradigm shift we have need of to lead successful lives in Christ.

The word ‘paradigm’ comes from the Greek. It was originally a scientific term, and is more commonly used today to mean ‘a model, theory, perception, assumption, or frame of reference’. In the more general sense, it’s the way we “see” the world; not in terms of our visual sense of sight, but in terms of perceiving, understanding, and interpreting.

Because we are created as the old creation and have to grow into being the new creation it is necessary that our frame of reference of the past life, out of Christ, be renewed.

Except for the Ten Commandments that are written on our hearts we have no other frame of reference when born into the earth.   Everything we are today is because of the way we were taught. Some of this teaching goes on without the help of others. When you burnt your hand for the first time, that knowledge went in to the bank of knowledge of things you must not do, automatically. This is for self preservation. To be prepared for the ordeals of life however is another matter. The instructions we receive from teachers will form our frame of reference. This may or may not be correct for they might not have been taught correctly no matter how pure their intention. 

The fundamentals of success are things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity and modesty.

In a materialistic society the above is discarded for the empty wasteland of self. Self-denial is not in their vocabulary except if it is to exalt self.

The Christian walk should be as 1 Peter describes, in my own words; If you are a slave and are treated unjustly, and you bear this ill treatment with patience for the sake of your conscience then God is pleased with you.

J.F.B. on patience: “Endurance. “The word of My endurance” is My Gospel word, which teaches patient endurance in expectation of my coming (Rev 1:9). My endurance is the endurance which I require, and which I practice. Christ Himself now endures, patiently waiting until the usurper be cast out, and all “His enemies be made His footstool.” So, too, His Church, for the joy before her of sharing His coming kingdom, endures patiently. Hence, in Rev 3:11, follows, “Behold, I come quickly.””

As we read and are led by the Holy Spirit to understand the word of God these preformed paradigms will be changed if we are willing to be patient. Forming, this time a solid foundation from which to move in faith in all areas of our lives with great God given authority. The power of the transformed mind being under His control, as we learn to die to our will and except His will. We are to become His Kingdom His power His glory.

Rom 12:2:  “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

This renewing of the mind goes on continually if we are willing to have the mind dealt with. In a Christian’s case we are striving to have the mind of Christ. All of this has been explained many times in the previous books.

This book is aimed at cementing the new found knowledge onto the knowledge of the rock of ages through bringing about a paradigm shift that will annihilate the previous old creation thinking.

Ps 51:10:  “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” (spirit right— literally, “constant,” “firm,” not yielding to temptation.)

Ps 66:18:  “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:”

Ps 69:32:  “The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.”

Ps 112:7:  “He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.”

Ps 119:10:  “With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.”

The Ten Commandments are written in Exodus 20. We received the knowledge of the commandments written in our hearts very much the same way Mosses received the original laws written on stone. By the observance of these original laws the heart would be strong and impregnable as a fortress on the rock. Moses is said to be an educated and humble man who breaks the commandments at the sight of the people worshiping an idol. By this act we see that he lost control and places the idol of self back on his own throne. He took it personally. Going back to God he wanted another set of laws for he had broken the first in a fit of rage. This time however he had to carve them by hand, a slow painstaking process. In this same way these laws have to be re-chiseled into our hearts as we seek the Kingdom of God. We Know the laws, but break them and then have to rediscover the Ten Commandments and the fact that they are Holy and given by a Holy God. We know these laws. This book however will take us into the area of identifying how we break the spiritual Ten Commandments.

Chapter 2

THE GARDEN

 Although we have a thorough understanding of what sin is it seems that we will have to delve deeper into the heart for there are many who are still struggling to see in the garden. For this reason I am writing on the subject of the heart. The heart is the most delicate instrument and also the most tender and fragile instrument in the universe. It is the conscience, which must be kept free from sin. Each of us has the same conscience and it functions with the Ten Commandments. If you love God and do not keep his commandments you are a liar. (1 John 2)

He says in this verses that he gives us no knew commandment but to uphold the original commandment. Furthermore all of the word is for the perfection of the saints

1 Jn 2:5:  “But whoso keepeth his word; in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.” 

Bengel:  “Love and obedience. There is a gradation: 1Joh 2:3, “know Him”; 1Joh 2:5, “we are in Him”; 1Joh 2:6, “abideth in Him”; respectively, knowledge, fellowship, abiding constancy.“

Our steadfast prayer should be to be fulfilled with God. Whenever we long for some person it could be that there is a part of us which needs to be fulfilled. The longing should not be toward people but to be fulfilled with God. We cannot expect people to fill the gap in us; they are not capable of fulfilling the heart, THE HEART BELONGS TO GOD. Remember you gave your heart to God! Our study should be to keep the heart free from sin of any kind by the guidance of the Holy Spirit who lives in the heart. However the presence of the Holy Spirit departs the moment sin enters, perhaps in the form of worry. This is when David would beg God to not let His Spirit depart from him. We are to keep the heart, as was the original commandment to Adam Keep the garden! The garden, heart and conscience are therefore the subject of the Bible. The heart needs to be fulfilled with the knowledge and love of God. When we give our hearts to God we long to read the Bible, we long to be fulfilled with the word of God. Unfortunately we come into contact with others who are trying to understand the Word with their intellect and not the Spirit. They cause the pure fountain of the Word of God to become the bitter waters of Marah. All the arguments of different doctrines lead us into the wilderness away from the original knowing we had within us concerning the truth, for the Spirit lives inside us and will guide us to all truth. Rom 8:14:  “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”

In order to be Spirit led we have to abide by the first law.

Deut 6:5:  “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”

To love God is the greatest of all commandments, for the simple reason that when we keep His commandments we are His dwelling place in us. We are the tabernacle of God. Naturally God cannot live in a sinful heart, for this reason when we give our hearts to God He forgives our sins, and His Spirit comes and lives in us. After this we are to keep the heart free from sin with all diligents for out of it flows the issues of life. (Prov 4:23) Paul however says that there is no good thing in us, in other words we still have to overcome our lower fleshly nature in Christ.

Notice how Paul puts it in the following verses:

Rom 7:19-23:  “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.”

This warring that is going on is the flesh that constantly trying to take back the throne of the mind, but Paul teaches us to take thoughts captive and to die to them daily. We die in Christ and then rise in Christ to take authority as Christ would have, in the earth. However, the heart must be sinless and free from the flesh. The reason why many struggle to see in the garden is simply sin in some form. You might say that you have died and understand atonement but there might be an unknown sin which you are not aware of. (Lev 4) For this reason I recommend that the communion should also enhance the unknown sin as the sinner of old, placed his hand on the head of the lamb to be slain, we also place our sin on the lamb that was slain once and for all. Imagine the crucified Christ, then go and place the unknown sin on His head and receive forgiveness. In this way we understand that Paul wants Christ to be crucified in us. (1Co 2:2) This is our only hope and the cross becomes our center! In this way the heart becomes holy and sanctified and like the imagination of a child. As the child is able to imagine, so will you. As we die to sin even to the unknown sin we die and rise on the life side of the cross. We have entered in because of the cross and blood. The study of the character and love of God will only increase in such a heart. To understand our Father in heaven should be our ultimate quest. We grow ever nearer to God as we are willing to be sanctified. It might be preconceived ideas of right and wrong that cause error in the heart. Perhaps you thought: “well this person is not using this thing and has no need of it and for this reason I will use it and bring Glory to God by creating something useful with it.”  It sounds logical but it is theft in the eyes of God. If we disregard the commandments and precepts of God we do not love the Lord our God with all our heart, which is the first and greatest of all the commandments. If the heart is soft enough it will pick up that the Spirit is not approving. If we obey, all will be well but if not the Spirit departs. After this the heart begins to harden and we can no longer pick up movement in the Spirit, let alone see. It might be just a little pride or obstinacy. You might be thinking; “No Lord, forget it, I will not ask for forgiveness on this subject, I was right.” Our goal should be to die to self; our horizon should be humility, “Thy will be done not mine”. Our horizon should be discipline and self control. God placed us in this world to overcome the evil one –in us; in Christ. Keep the garden; do not allow the flesh to rule. Take thoughts captive and hold them to the light of God’s word. If the heart is pure the blessing will not depart. Please understand that good things will not simply come to you because the heart is pure. We still need to live by faith, more on this in the next chapter.

To have a mind garden should be natural to all God’s children. We are created in the image of God who creates with His imagination. Everything man could possibly imagine in the Spirit has already been created in the physical. For instance, the tales of King Author and his magical sword that lives in a city on a hill called Camelot was a story a person conceived in his spirit and told as a story for the entertainment of listeners. The sword is the two edged sword of Heb 4:12 it is the word of God which helps God’s children become kings in the spirit. Camelot with her high towers and walls of defense compare with Matthew 6 where Jesus calls His church a city on a hill. Below in the dark valley live the dark evil forces that want to posses the city on the hill. As in many fairy tales we see how the once joyful place filled with laughter, flowers and water becomes dark, dirty oppressive, and tear-filled. This is exactly the two different mind sets any person on earth can have. The challenge is to live in the above by self-control and discipline and not allow the darkness any rule in the thought life.

Physical fountains, waterfalls and gardens compare to the language the Bible uses in the book of Songs for instance. The character of God and that which has for each of His children, who will grow into kingship, is overflowing abundance of understanding of the love of God. Imagine being fulfilled with the nature of the same creator who creates flowers and sunsets and stars with His thoughts and words.

At rebirth we all experience a little of the miraculous when we give our hearts to God. The heart is gradually filled with the wonder of prayer and a craving to read the Bible. We pour our hearts out before God and feel more spiritual than others. We talk of God all the time, we pray and receive miracles. However this closeness to God soon disappears. Many Christians tell me that they would do anything if only that wonderful original feeling could come back again. I can think of two reasons why that feeling will never come back again. Firstly, God wants to train us to live beyond feeling –in the spirit, and not feeling. Feeling will lie to us and lead us back into pride. Remember we have given our hearts to God and must not give it to pride. The second reason is that God will lead us out of the rule of emotions into the realm of the Spirit. We will learn to discern whether we are ruled by the flesh or the Spirit. This deception of the below forces which are within, as Paul describes will go on as long as we live and will keep the Christians mind in utter chaos if the rules are not obeyed. The first rule is to love the Lord our God with all our hearts—and not allow the emotional self any space in the heart which is the dwelling of God. We are not to allow the rule of fear or worry or any lower emotion. It’s of great importance that the Christian learn to discern between emotional rule and that of the Spirit. We can never trust the inner voices. It may sound like a revelation from God but it could be the voices of other gods of self. My pride, what about me or the poor I… In order to have a personal garden we have to go through the wildernesses of life in order to have personal revelation on whether we are fleshly or spiritual. It takes time to learn which spirit is ruling in our hearts. We gave our hearts to God but were not taught to keep the heart, the garden or conscience. The heart must become soft and pure, but only under the guidance of the Gardener, which is the Christ Spirit. As we obey the still small voice spiritual growth commences. As we disobey, the Spirit distances himself from us. It takes time to firstly be saved from the rule of emotions, and then to be saved from the hurt full past that was pushed down into the crevices of the subconscious. We were not taught to take problems to the cross, we forgave and forgot, but it is still inside, and not crucified to the cross under the direction of the Gardener. We have a dark side that needs to be faced and dealt with at the cross. The sub conscious is too complex to be cleared by humans; it must be dealt with by its Creator, and the one who died to save us of its devastating effects on the nervous system. The suppressed hurts of the past does cause a hard heart, out of which comes all illnesses, chaos and accident. The heart, all of the heart must become the house of God.  I wish this process could have happened faster but no use trying to hurry the Lord. The story of the Israelite’s who died in the wilderness is the story of many dear Christians who never learned to die to self. Until we learn to trust the Lord with all our hearts we will never have a garden mind. The heart must be blood sprinkled so it can be the mercy seat where the voice of God is heard, between the wings of the Seraphim which really is the spirit. The mercy seat is the conscience.

We have to learn to use physical things to understand the spiritual. Another example would be the rock of ages hymn sung by many. “Rock of Ages cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee. Let the water and the blood, From Thy river side which flowed, be of sin the double cure, save me from its guilt and power”; The rock of ages is Jesus Christ that was slain and the water and the blood that came from His side is the river, is for the sin of all mankind. This particularly refers to the rock Moses was to speak to, but struck and out flowed water out of a rock in the middle of the wilderness. Madam Goyuon tells in one of her books how to use a physical thing to experience the garden. She recommends that one should imagine going to a small harbor where a small rowing boat is tied to the pier. Now climb down into the boat, loosen the rope, and use the oars to push yourself away from the pier and row calmly out of the harbor. Once outside the harbor go hoist the little sail and experience the gentle wind rushing the boat through the water. As an ex sailor this helps me a lot, for nothing can compare to the sense of calm and freedom of sailing away. As I did as she described, I hoisted the sail, and when I turned to go to the rudder of the boat, Jesus was sitting there. I asked what I must do. He said “do nothing”, but I call coil the rope I said.  He said “come sit with me”. Together we became one as we sailed the oceans of the blood washed heart. I have written on the subject of the garden in the book called the Garden. I used the scriptures out of all of the Bible and twelve paintings to cover this area. The mainspring is the heart that must be cleansed. It is a daily process of dying to self, but remember to not stay at the cross. Go to the cross with all the problems and sins you are aware of while eating the bread, and then drink the blood, and rise in Christ. A Christian should rise and take authority over all situations in Christ. Say how thing are going to be today. (Mark 11: 23), speak to the mountain; prophesy over the problem as faith rises in your heart. We only have faith if the heart is pure. There is no point to quoting Bible verses and calling good things if the heart is not pure. If one uses these techniques it will result in soul power. It must not be by might or power it must come out of the spirit. There must be an awareness that God is in this thing that we believe for. There must be no doubt. This thing that you believe for must be seen clearly as if it has already appeared in the physical until it does come in the physical, it takes discipline and determination. If your mind keeps wondering, if the eye is not single it cannot bring forth the things you believe for. You have to stay focused and remain in praise and thanksgiving all the time. However, the main spring is the state of the heart.

I always go to my beach garden in the morning for the sea shows me the state of my conscience. When I enter in and see the sea is calm I wait there until the sun rises and experience the painted skies with the Lord. Here I read the Bible and wait for inspiration and guidance for the day. If nothing comes, that’s fine for I have the peace that all is well. When the sea is stormy I know there is sin in my life in the form of impatiens or worry. In this way I have learned to take thoughts captive and die to them so the heart can be blood washed and sanctified. One morning the fog was covering my sea and bus stop shelters were in my way, I could not see the ocean. This was a result of me being involved in a project for too long. I was tired and I was losing contact with the Lord of the heart garden.

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FOREWORD

 F.B. Meyer:  “Their obedience: As soon as they understood the words they heard, they began to put them into practice. No wonder there was joy, for in the keeping of God’s commandments there is great reward. It was during the Feast of Tabernacles that our Lord spoke of the Holy Spirit entering the heart to remove its thirst, and to pour forth as rivers to a dying world (John 7:37-39). We cannot do much apart from the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Only through Him can we be right with God; only through Him can we be really glad; only through Him can we pass on joy and comfort to others.”

Although I have been a Christian for many years I have always had this one little sad corner in my heart and I always wanted the Lord to fill it. With the knowledge of this book a feast of tabernacles came to my heart

“How much more shall the Blood of Christ, who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” Heb 9:14.

The greatest spirituality a Christian need to achieve is to always be aware of the state of the personal conscience. It should be like walking on a crystal sea right into the morning sun.

(Our burdens are the trespasses against the conscience.)

Allot of the drawings that you will find in all our books we give thanks to the Strong’s concordance, Strong was also criticized for his work because he was not fluent in Greek and I know that there is a school of thought who rejects his work. I do hope however, that the many proofs that I have received from God in the form of drawings prove themselves over and over again. I also hope it will strengthen those who use this concordance, for I believe Strong was Spirit led.

Strong’s Concordance was created by J. Strong (1822 – 1894) he was an American Methodist biblical scholar and educator, Professor of Exegetical Theology.  He did not construct it by himself but with the help of more than a hundred colleagues.  

A short biography of Ron Van Zyl

This book was written by an artist who gave his life to God at the age of five and saw heaven for a moment. From that day he was conscious of the difference between a heavenly and earthly life but had no one to guide him into these truths. The traditional teachings children received at that time were of no value in his quest to find that place again. He recalls the calm of the heavenly place which he saw and it was as if he received the message, that to be calm in all situations is what God requires. Unfortunately, the environment he grew up in was not acquainted with self control.

After six years as a sailor in the South African Navy he established himself as a road side artist close to his family in the Eastern Transvaal on the tourist route, which today is called ‘the Panorama route’.  Conversations with tourists whilst on holidays, always led to the subject about God. Questions like, why do so many good people die? What was the reason for wars, cancer and the uncertainties in life? Thus it came about that the author set himself the goal of finding the answers to these questions. 

He created the 15 meter rock sculpture depicting HELL on the one side of the rocks face and lots of other works for tourist attraction, not knowing that all this would eventually be part of the answer to all the questions he was seeking. There after he met Yvonne and married. The two of them set about living an experimental life in faith without outside interference and preconceived religions and traditions.

Ron had nothing but he built a house for his wife with his own hands out of indigenous rock.  He made sculptures and she played house while learning to cook, which would come in handy later when they built the guesthouse at the SHOE. In the meantime they had no water or electricity. Nevertheless they were content. The year was 1975, and together they learnt life’s lessons. After a few years of living there they had to break down their home. They rebuilt it on land a farmer gave them in a nearby area. This time they actually had water and electricity. Together they built a wooden house and also a roadside store out of which they sold Ron’s sculptures and curios. Here Yvonne patiently listened to the problems people shared and offered advice out of their personally acquired experiences during a time when financial crisis’s were setting into SA.

While sitting outside one night he saw a cave in a vision that he had. It was so real that it felt as if he was personally walking through a cave that explained the spiritual world. He saw people moving through the rooms which were lit with many colored lights. They would walk in with a frown and walk out with a crown. It never occurred to him that he could create such a fantasy for they did not own any property and no sure income.

Their children Aldo and Michel were born into these unique circumstances and in 1990 the family bought the property where they built the SHOE and guesthouse.  When all was in place and there was no debt, Ron felt that he was released to dig and build the cave. The only problem was that he was so tired after all the building and construction of the cave, together with his carving to provide for his family. He was by this time going through the actions of creating without being personally involved, which turned out to be the door through which the Holy Spirit would create a work of art which no person at that time understood. The size of the cave rooms depended on finances. To Ron’s disappointment, the rooms were large enough for only twelve people at a time. The children were still young but helped as they could and three and a half years later they had build and completed seven underground rooms with what their own physical powers allowed.

Aldo at the age of thirteen guided the first group of people into the cave over an Easter weekend. People cried and others were upset because it was not possible to satisfy everybody. The Van Zyl family suffered much criticism. However, much praise also greeted them and this was the encouraging factor.  At first there was confusion as people would unload their burdens and bring their problems to the Shoe Cave.  The family worked hard for they were alone. There were never people who understood their criteria and mission from God. For this reason it was impossible to get help even if there was enough money to afford help. Eventually they decided to try and sell the place. They believed that anyone could tell the story that they thought was in the cave. They were so convinced of this move that the children left their parents for jobs in England and Johannesburg for they were sure the place would sell, but it did not. After the children experienced life outside, they came back. Shortly after this Ron painted the first painting and God revealed “THE LINE”. A spiritual division between the two spiritual Kingdoms! This revelation led to the cave and the work done in it by the Holy Spirit to be understood for the first time. This also led to masses of revelation which eventually earned Ron a Doctor’s degree in divinity. The children also followed with pastoral degrees and the ministry is evolving and becoming a Bible school.  The family was trained by the Holy Spirit and also rewarded by the Holy Spirit. With personal revelation throughout the years of abuse, slander and judgment by the public, in the midst of this they stood their ground for the Kingdom of God. Together they have a vast store of information on every doctrine, theology, religion, tradition, every person’s philosophy and mythology that could be dreamt of. They are open to the public and will talk to anyone earnestly looking for solutions.    

This book is written as a summary of all the information received up to date, but for deeper insight you need to read all seven of the books that were written in the way revelation was imparted to the family. These books will give you the only shortcuts there are to sanctification, spiritual awareness and it will lead you into the Kingdom of God. This is the great commission— Mat 6:33  “But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (KJV)

CHAPTER 1

THE PAINTING

Part 1  –  The Line by Michell

It was amazing and a life changing experience to grow into this painting with my family.  We guided in the cave for 6 years before this painting came and when it did it changed our entire tour.  The sculptures and paintings never change but as we grow in the Spirit so we understand more. We are actually the ones who learn the most here. We are three guides in total and all three of us have developed our own unique ministry.  I, myself like to keep things as simple as possible so that even a child can understand.  So I am asking the reader to accept what we say in this book with your spirit, and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal to you. Just as He has and still is revealing to us. The first thing we learnt was that the Bible was written for children and being intellectual about it won’t get you anywhere.  After my Dad painted this painting we learnt that there is a picture language in the Bible and without it we couldn’t understand the Bible.  As you can see the centre on the painting is Jesus, the cross and the mountain (A).  This mountain is called Mount Zion.  Mount Zion is a spiritual mountain. It represents the hard times of life.  If life could be compared to climbing a mountain we would all agree that we are aiming for the top. We want to become kings of the mountain.  I asked the Lord once, “Why is it that He doesn’t place us at the bottom of the mountain so we can immediately start to climb”?  He answered “We should all choose if we want to climb this mountain”. Once again it is a matter of choice.

We started studying the Psalms.  Psalm 1 says that we are trees planted by streams of water.  This is the tree with the water pool at number E on the left of the painting. Just above it you see the hand of God in the cloud.  We come from God, and through his hand we are born into the world.  The cloud represents the water with which we were surrounded in the womb.  Through God’s hand we are born into this world and we start off at the Psalm 1 tree.

Ps 1: 3:  “And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”

I remember that Psalm 1 was one of the Psalms we used way back when I was still a youngster. I also remember that we never really understood the meaning of it, until we started learning about the picture language of the Bible.  God taught us that the tree represents us, and the water is the Word of God. When we are rooted and grounded in his Word (water) the hard times (A-mountains) would come but we would continue to bear fruit in season.  The Psalm made sense for the first time.  Then the Holy Spirit started leading us through the Psalms and revealed Psalm 2 to us:

Ps 2:6 -9:  “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the degree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

In my own words the Psalm says that we will become kings of mount Zion (M) and we shall rule over the earthly things (G). We all understand that God wants us to rule and become kings of the mountain but we are still at the Psalm 1 tree.  We think that the desert (I) will be a shortcut to the mountain but in fact we get lost in the desert.  We asked the Lord “Why is the desert such a hard place”?  He answered, “Because I doesn’t really want you in the desert”. That is why it is a hard and terrible place but He never leaves us and you can see the hand of God (J) once again in the cloud above the desert.  This time there is thunder and lightning underneath the hand. At the bottom of the painting on the left are examples of things that happen to us in the desert.  At the letter (H) you see a deep waterfall. There are two main types of people being described by this painting. The first type is the ones who are always looking for the truth. They would call themselves ‘the seekers’. They use to camp out by the Psalm 1 tree. They tried to understand the Word of God but couldn’t, and so they went in search of other truths.  At the deep waterfall they found ‘deep truths’ when they started studying other religions and eastern philosophies.  The other type is the ones who stay in the materialistic world (G).  They are the ones who try to be good and go to church, hoping that they too will understand the Word of God. They spend their time accumulating earthly things but with these earthly things the roaring lion comes along and causes terrible problems.  Sometimes these problems get too much and like the guy in the painting would run to the pub each night hoping that he would at least sleep peacefully. In the end he lost his head. (Bottom left)

All of this is what happens in the desert.  We only mentioned two examples here but we have all experienced some kind of desert before.  Eventually we realize that we shouldn’t be in the desert we should be climbing the mountain!  We fall off the cliffs and start to climb the mountain from the bottom (K).  For instance we would go to church but then we would meet all these demons, they live in churches too! Here in the picture above you see (1) judgment, (2) accusation and (3) sickness. These things keep us from climbing the mountain, but eventually we do get past the first stage and we get to the halfway mark (L).  This seems to look like a prison or jail.  When I asked my father about it he said it represents the Pentecostal and Charismatic church.  I didn’t grow up in a church. Living out here far away from towns and cities; I had no idea what he was talking about.  When I prayed about it I was told that it was like the church service that I liked to watch on TV.  So I went back to the TV and this time watched my favourite church service, the whole time thinking to myself; what would make this a prison? When the service was over the Holy Spirit asked me if I would physically go to that church and why?  My answer was, “Yes I like the music”. I know this sounds funny to others but my personal reason for going to church would be for the music.  I ended up in my room with the same music in my CD player and I was worshipping God.   By the third song I was standing in worship and suddenly saw myself on top of a high mountain and the cross was there with me. (M) After discussing this with my father he pointed out that the mountain in the painting is not only Zion but it also represents Golgotha because of the cross standing on it.  The word ‘Golgotha’ means ‘the skull’.  With this in mind my dad said, “Imagine the cross is standing on a skull”. Now I say, “The blood is atonement for the soul.” He said it a few times because I couldn’t understand it.  Eventually he said to me that the blood of Jesus is for the forgiveness of the mind of man! The blood of Jesus fell on the skull to bring forgiveness to the mind of man. (Lev 17:11)

We ended up making a study of the word ‘soul’.  A guy once said his soul is in his big toe. Very few people understand what it is.  The complete study can be found in book 2, The Short Sword, in the series The Line, written prior to this book.  The study comes down to this:  The second time the word ‘soul’ is used in the Bible is when God blew breath into Adam and Adam became a living soul. (Gen2:7) This word ‘soul’ is translated by the Strong’s, Hebrew and Greek dictionary as will, intellect, emotion, lust and animal.” This sounds terrible.

Then the word ‘breath’ of God is translated among other things such as: “spirit and soul.”

We made the conclusion that God blew into Adam the ability to be spiritual minded and to be soulish. In other words, God blew into me, life. This life gives my mind the ability to hear the voice of God and to be like God, dwelling in his presence and He in me. With this very same mind I can think dark thoughts and have evil imaginations.  This is the reason why the soul (mind) of man needs to be forgiven.  To be blunt; if you are soulish, your mind is dark, but if you are spiritual your mind is focused on God. This is actually what Jesus came to do on the cross. He came to save you and me from dark thoughts.

We only learnt this much later on. At the time I asked my dad what happened that I was able to stand on top of the mountain when I was in worship?  He explained that if we focus our entire mind on Jesus and awe  Him (look only to Him), we become a king of the mountain.  Just like in Hebrews 12:22-26:  “But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”(KJ)

The only thing we knew at that stage was that if I wanted to be a king of the mountain I had to focus my mind on Jesus.  This would make me a king. It was not difficult to be a king. It was difficult to stay a king all day long for we can’t keep our minds on Jesus all day long.  An hour after my quiet time in the morning I would be off and about fighting with my brother. Going to church helps us in the sense that it brings us into the presence of God. In other words it makes us a king of the mountain because we are all focused on God while we are in church. After the service we return to our normal lives down at the bottom of the mountain.   We started realizing that God was calling us higher.  He wants us to become holy as He is holy.  He wants our minds to belong to him as well as our thoughts.  I remember someone once said that we can’t say what we want but we can think what we want! In this case God is saying I sent my Son to die for your mind so that your mind can be a holy place which belongs to Me! (Amen & Selah!!) 

The problem was that we knew we were supposed to keep our minds on Jesus but we had no idea how to do it. I became frustrated because I knew I was spending more time at the bottom of the mountain than what I was at the top. One morning I threw a tantrum at the cross.  I said to God that I intended on staying here at the cross in worship until he showed me how to stay a king all day. Hours later Jesus came and picked me up off the floor, where I was begging him to do something, at the foot of the cross. He took me and hooked me onto the cross so that I was hanging on it just as He did.  As I said before I didn’t know anything about the soul yet. Jesus just told me that He is the way the truth and the door to the Father, and told me that if I wanted to live at the top I had to give him my mind, and that He would keep it safe for me.  As I surrendered to Him on the cross, giving him my mind, I became like that breath of God and I passed through the cross like a breath into the chest of Christ.

The next moment I was standing in front of the throne of God (N) looking like this man (O) wearing the armour in the painting.  We once thought we knew what the armour (Eph 6) meant. We had to learn that we put Jesus on, every piece represents Jesus. We are now in Him, and we look like him, that is what the armour is for.   Jesus started washing me with His blood which was dripping from the cross above me.  There I was standing right in front of the throne of God and actually God looks at us through the armour and the blood with which we are washed. He doesn’t even see us as we see ourselves, He sees us as His son.  We look like Jesus to Him.  The next moment the Holy Spirit represented by the long hair of Father, came and sat around my hips like the belt of Truth.  He said that He was going to lead me and teach me what righteousness (breastplate) means. I was just about to start complaining about not wanting to learn a lesson right now…when suddenly my mind started wondering off and thoughts of what I was going to do later that day entered into my mind.  Thoughts of what I would cook for lunch, thoughts of yesterday and the movie that I saw the previous night, when the Holy Spirit very gently reminded me that I was now back at the bottom of the mountain.  Thinking to myself how impossible this is to keep my mind, I asked the Spirit what I should do now.  He replied that I should return to my previous state.  I then started to fill my mind with God and His wonders, the next moment I was back in my position in front of the throne.  Amazed at this, I asked the Spirit how this was possible.  The Holy Spirit led me into a study of righteousness.  During the study I found out that the word ‘righteousness’ means ‘to stand right in front of God’.  He taught me that because I entered in through the cross-door. I was forgiven and able to stand right in front of God all day long and that nothing could keep me away from this position.  I entered into Christ and that makes me the righteousness of Christ.  Righteousness means that even if I did allow my mind to wonder off into darkness, I could come back just as easily and continue as if I never left. This way I am able to be a king all day long, but tomorrow morning I make sure that I enter in correctly, through the cross again.

At that stage my dad told us that he had dreamt about the horizontal sword of the angel on the far right side of the painting.  We studied the sword but couldn’t see anything.  Eventually we noticed that the sword of the angel on the right of the painting and the cross beam of the cross makes an exact straight line if it were to connect them.  As you can see in the picture, here it seems like the painting is now divided into half.  All the heavenly images are at the top and all the earthly dark images are at the bottom. That next day we woke up with: Heb 4:12:  “For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

There is a division between the Kingdom of Light (heaven) and the Kingdom of Darkness (earth). This division divides between soul and spirit! We wanted to know where this division came from. We could understand that there should be a division because in Genesis it says that God made the light and the dark then divided it from each other and it was good.  Then after reading Hebrew 9 we understood that the blood of animals was sprinkled for cleansing. Just like that Jesus entered into the heavenly (spiritual) un-seen tabernacle. There He sprinkled His blood for the forgiveness of all man’s souls. This line that you see in this small picture is the blood of Jesus.

Now we can get some perspective. In other words when we wake up in the morning we wake up at the foot of the mountain. We are naturally dark, we are flesh.  The word ‘flesh’ means ‘dark inner nature’. The thing is we try to be good and holy. We immediately start to pray when we wake up but we are mostly praying about the problem. Our minds are dark! We are thinking about the problem while we are in the problem.  We have no power down here at the foot of the mountain. We are not in Christ and we have not died or risen yet.  Therefore what we should do when we wake up in the morning is to fill our minds with Christ.  Personally I like to worship him and think about how wondrous He is. By doing this I am climbing the mountain and when my mind is completely focused on Jesus, I become a king of the mountain.  I have just conquered the mountain. I have just conquered my own self and pride, therefore I am mount Zion.  Do yourself a favor and go read through Psalms, you will see that God loves Zion, He abides in Zion and His habitat is Zion.

In order to stay a king today I must enter into the cross-door.  I can only do so by dying the same death Jesus died. I will then rise in Him and live the same life he lives.  I go and hang on the cross and put my head there where Jesus’ head would have been.  I also crucify all my problems here, as well as the things that caused me to look down the previous day. As I surrender all the problems and my whole mind to God there on the cross, the blood of Jesus comes and sits under my chin, the blood of Jesus now seals my mind from the below, dark world.  My mind becomes a Holy Place in which God comes and lives.  The whole right side of the painting of the throne now resides in my mind.  If we look at the picture of the first painting, the size of one’s mind there on the cross is only tiny. The whole top part of the painting fits into my mind that is because it is as big as we can imagine!  We are His image and were created in His likeness.  Yes, we are allowed to imagine all of heaven in our mind. We are now the Kingdom of God. It is amazing to see how all this new knowledge about the line, has changed the way we think and do things. 

Prov 23:7:  “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:”

This word ‘heart’ used in this text above has the Strong’s number of H5315, and other than the fact that it means almost the same as the word ‘living soul’ in Genesis, it also means ‘mind’.  The ‘heart’ God refers to and the ‘heart’ we speak of are two different things.  The whole study on this subject “The heart” can be found in the 5^th book: A Room with a View. This heart the Bible speaks of refers to the centre of our minds.  This is also the most important place, for it is suppose to belong to God. The very first commandment says we should love the Lord our God with our whole mind and our whole heart. It is also this very first command that we fail to obey for our hearts belong to our pets, family, friends and money.  When any of these things depart from our lives we are heartbroken.

We need a complete new mind!  Therefore it is essential for us to die to all these things daily. Then rise in Christ and rule over them. When I enter in through the cross I have the boldness to stand in front of the throne of God because I know that the blood of Jesus has washed me and sealed me from all the darkness below, I am righteous, I am crowned with loving kindness and I am protected.  While I am standing here in front of the throne we use Psalm 103.  When we read the Word here in this protected position, the Word finds entrance into us and our souls are quickened. We understand the Word of God.  When we speak the Word of God here in this position of authority and righteousness our Angels will do everything we command them to do.  The last verse of Psalm 103 says that the Angels listen to the voice of God’s Word. I look like Christ when I am standing here and therefore I sound like him too!  I give my Angels charge over myself to protect me and I declare that I am an overcomer.  When I do this, they go and make my enemies a footstool for my feet.  This causes every knee to bow (R) and every tongue to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.  This changes our whole perception because if I try to fight the enemy I allow them into my mind. Therefore it is not my job to fight the enemy but it is my job to stand in authority, righteous in front of God and rule by looking like Christ and abiding in Him.  Some people would ask, “But what about the sword which is part of the armour of God?”  The sword resembles the knowledge that I have of the Word of God.  The more my knowledge the longer my sword will become.  No, the sword is not for fighting, the sword is for dividing.   The sword of the Spirit will help me to divide between soul and spirit, to know when I’m looking down and when I’m looking up.  

As we were learning these things we would try and come to the throne daily.  One day I stood there in front of the throne, and as I spoke the Word of God, my angels started running off into all directions.  I saw how they brought down the strongholds and suddenly I thought to myself: “But what am I suppose to do now?”  As I turned to Jesus with this question, He answered that I should come and sit with Him, just like the child in the painting.  He said that He missed me and wanted to spend time with me.  I realized just how selfish we really are.  We run into the throne room of God, give our orders for the day and go on with our day. In the meantime Jesus longs for a relationship with us.  He made us in His image and therefore only we can be His friends. He longs to make us like Him and to have fellowship with Him. Here Jesus taught us how to love.  We were reminded that love is the biggest and yet the most important principle of this entire truth of the cross.

Here on His lap we discuss with Jesus the day that lies ahead and we become totally calm about all the tasks we must go and do. After giving the day to Jesus, we go and do the things in calmness and we experience how everything goes according to plan. Here I sit with Jesus and share with Him my heart.  (You know what the ‘heart’ means now.) Here I would sit with Him and He would ask me what the desire of my heart is, because He wishes to give me all the desires of my heart. How would you know what God’s desire is or His will for you? Since we have learnt how to enter into this fellowship through the cross we have entered into a deeper and higher will of God for our lives.  We simply sit here and imagine.  At first we will imagine how we drive that amazing car, but later that will become less important and we would start to imagine how we help other people.  Now that is the will of God for your life.  It is also here on His lap where we learn how to hear the voice of God.  We came across a book written by Madam Guyon – In this book she suggests that one should go sit quietly by yourself and read the scriptures back to yourself as if God is saying it to you. By doing this we learn to recognize the voice of God and later on we won’t need to use this method. You will be able to hear His voice because you have grown to know the character of God.  We always read books or listen to sermons of people who had an encounter with God, and then we wish we could have that too. Unfortunately we tend to walk around with a dark conscience and even when we do come into the presence of God we feel that we are not worthy of Him and we have a dirty conscience for we lack the knowledge of the blood of Jesus.   Now we can all have these encounters with God.  These people who we hear of or who’s books we read, they humbled themselves to God in such a way that He allowed them to enter into this place above the line, and they saw God. Now we have the knowledge of the cross and we understand that it is the cross and the blood of Jesus that saves us from our dark nature, so that we too can dwell with Him above in His presence.

One day I came to sit with Jesus and even after been to the cross with this problem I had, I still felt like I needed to do something about it. I started talking to Jesus about this person who is giving me a hard time and it was like He was turning His face away from me.  I immediately stopped and asked Him what I did wrong.  He said that we should not bring the problem into this Holy Place above the line.  The cross is where we leave the problems when we come to Him we should come in faith.  Faith is to see that which is not as if it is. In other words, I am to sit with Him and then together with Him I will imagine how this person walks up here with the Holy Spirit blowing over him and how his entire attitude changes.  We will see how he loves the people around him. How he reacts towards them and me with kindness. We see the end result as to how we want this person to be.  A week later that very same person came to me and apologised for his behaviour. The same thing with the things we need.  We will see it up here with Jesus.  Personally I like to imagine a pond of water here. I have big trees and beautiful gardens with plants and flowers I have never seen before.  As a family we refer to this place as the ‘Garden’. Remember it is as big as you can imagine!  This is also the same place to which Jesus referred when he told the parables.  Each parable started with, “The Kingdom of God is as…” a sower who planted in the different soils. The good soil refers to this place above.  Whatever we sow in the good ground we will get a hundred fold in return on earth. This place is the vineyard he spoke of and can be compared to a mustard seed.  When Mary saw Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane after his resurrection she called him the gardener.  He is the Gardener of this Garden place, it is under the shadow of God’s wing.  It is called the Kingdom of God and has many other names.  All these names can be found in the fifth book, ‘A Room with a View’. What we can see up here in the Kingdom of God is what we will have down there on the earth.  As we think so will our lives be (Pro 23:7).  We should seek first the Kingdom of God and the rest shall be added.  Whatever this person in the painting see’s and speaks up here, flows into him like streams of living water, then flows out of his belly and fills the earth (bottom right corner) with God’s glory.

This knowledge of the line has changed my life!  I remember how I use to get up in the morning determined to be like Jesus and make a difference in the world.  Just to be overpowered by my own emotions and dark thoughts at the end of the day. I also had ‘blue Mondays’ just like anybody else and I made no difference at all. I use to feel defeated and lousy. How is it possible that I call myself a Christian but my life is no different from any other person’s life? The answer is: before I had no knowledge of the blood of Jesus and I didn’t know that the blood seals my mind so that the darkness from below cannot enter into my mind. Now I understand what the blood of Jesus does for me and I make sure that I die to self and my own pride on the cross, so that I can rise up in Christ and rule over the darkness below. The Holy Spirit will help me to divide between soul and spirit and continually call me back up and remind me to look to Jesus.

One of the biggest mistakes we made was to run past the cross straight to Jesus. The time we spent with Him was so wonderful that we couldn’t wait to get to the Garden. These experiences in the Garden just became hard work again. If we don’t die to self we won’t be able to adhere to the leading of the Spirit and our own will, will come in again.  The things we do now will be Ishmaels.  (Not God’s will but mine)

The cross is not a quick fix. It is a way of life – a new mind set.  If we don’t use the cross we will end up praying, imagining and doing all the things we do down there at the foot of the mountain.  Our prayers will be prayed in our own will. It won’t have power or authority.  Only a clean conscience can pray the prayer of faith.

Now Ron will explain the painting and also show you how this line runs all the way through the cave.

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INTRODUCTION

Because I have to make an immensely controversial statement in this book it is necessary to present the before going conclusions, in the form of a summary of the past six books.

I do not expect that anyone who has not read the six previous books will understand this summery. It is however necessary to go over all the events that took place in order to once again see the hand of God in revealing knowledge of the glory of the Lord without us being aware of it.

In the first painting, the “line” was revealed to us in a miraculous way. The “line” divided the “flesh” from the “spirit” and this is accounted for in the book ‘The Line’. We were taught by the Spirit of the Lord about highs and lows, above and beneath. Jesus said to Nicodemus “you must be born from above” (Joh 3:3).

During tours through the cave, on the subject of the Line, we were excited to see how sick people could be healed by looking up. By having the natural mind, changed into the Christ mind. We also learned that it must be at least two who agree concerning any matter (Matt 18:19).

We learnt about “looking up” and began to discern about when we were looking down. In this way families began to find out how to help each other to look up, by loving each other and learning to tell each other about dreams they wanted to achieve. Things that were hidden in our deep recesses were beginning to submerge as we told each other intimate details of un-achieved dreams and needs. It became a family matter to look up together, and see how the Lord provided when these basic principles were applied. At the same time it glorified the Lord as we learnt about disciplining the mind to look at the solution and not the problem. To “overcome the enemy by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimonies” (Rev 12:11). The reason why the church does not walk in victory is because the last part of this verse was not understood and applied… “And they loved not their lives unto the death”. We have to partake of the dying process, which will be explained in this book.

The first painting helped many people for it explained that the horizontal beam of the cross, which divided the painting into two halves established that the LINE is, the blood of Christ. We learnt that the above state of mind could only be held through the work of the cross and the blood. We learnt that this above state of mind where one can be safe, in a fenced estate, is the garden and is the dimension lost by Adam. We understood that to live in this above state we needed to have the mind of Christ. Also we realized that our minds would have to be transformed by disciplining ourselves to look up. The horizontal beam of the cross explained that, the garden (above) which have been lost by the first Adam has been once again made accessible by the last Adam. If man would understand Calvary he can once again live in the presence of God.  

Next we found out that the “line” was already drawn inside the cave, that was created by the artist and his family, without their knowledge six years before the line was discovered. We found that the line was inside the cave and ran true throughout all the rooms, dividing flesh from spirit.

The artist and author of these books built the cave under inspiration of the Holy Spirit. I was so overworked that I was physically dying. Because of this physical state, I was usable by the Spirit, and the cave was built as a monument of dividing flesh and spirit, because this important message of Romans 6 is hardly preached (Figure 1).

As the knowledge of the “line” increased by applying it to the Bible, much of the Bible that could previously not be understood, was suddenly clear. This resulted in many paintings and the two books ‘The Garden’ and the ‘Short Sword’. These studies went on to prove that the Bible is not only prophetically, archaeologically and historically correct, but that it is spiritually correct. By drawing the human form onto the plan of the tabernacle it was found, that we are the tabernacle of God, exactly as the Bible says. (Figure 2) (1 Cor 6:19).

In this way it was possible to see that the fenced garden that was lost, is the Holy of Holies. We also see that we are as a three story temple where we grow out of the outer court into the Holy place and then into the above, where the presence of God is in the Holy of Holies. Also this compares well with the three stories of Noah’s ark. To understand even more of this truth we have to start at the Genesis creation. In the beginning, it was ‘dark’ (wicked, sorrow, ignorant, (Strong)), and when God said “Light” it translates as ‘morning sun, happiness and lightning’. (Figure 3)

This brought about the Genesis sketches, where it is proven that when God created the earth, he was saying how our spiritual growth would be created out of chaotic darkness, in to the seventh day lifestyle, in the rest.

Furthermore it showed the reason for the thorn crown. Adam was fenced, Job was hedged and lost it, but Jesus wore the thorn hedge to bring us into the sheepfold. (Figure 4)

It is into this height we enter into via the Christ mind to become kings of the Kingdom of God. During the revelation of these childlike drawings, it was revealed that we can see, as we look into the face, where each Christian is in the mountain of the Lord. This mountain shape in the face is called the A-zone by beauticians and is where the age lines are located which are to be painted out. (Figure 5) Paint however cannot hide the spirit that is ruling in a person. The shape of this mountain is used in the movie industry by Paramount pictures for instance, and is a snow-capped mountain. After the mountain is shown, little stars appear and then settle in the shape that is drawn here in Figure 6. This symbolizes that it is in the mountain heights where the imagination soars like an eagle. Other movie industries draw castles, sometimes on the mountain, and then almost as if in an afterthought the morning sun shape appears to finish the logo off, and place it in the mind. Moses fetched the commandments of the law in the mountain, Abraham sacrificed his son in the mountain, Jesus preached His first sermon on the mount, was transformed on the mount… etc.

The difference between the pyramids and the Mountain of the Lord is possible to be understood because of the comparison between the pyramids and the mountain of the Lord. The pyramid structure represents the rigid laws of the world structure. (Figure 7)  Loan your money, pay back with interest or else lose all your possessions. But the mountain of the Lord (Figure 8) represents the holy presence of God which is where Zion is, which is above. We are a city on a hill, and when the sun rises over the mountains, it is a daily reminder that Jesus was a ‘crack of dawn’ person. This was also the time the resurrection took place. Joy comes in the morning and too many scriptures to mention is proof of this except for this knee buckling scripture:

Song 6:10:  “Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?”

When Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea, the sun came up.

Mar 16:2:  “And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.”

The shape of the mind is the shape of the morning sun, and should always be as holy as compared to the rising of the sun. Lots of stuff became very easy to understand and there are too numerous to mention. The important thing we need to remember is that when one draws the cross onto the forehead of a person the centre appears where Goliath was slayed, Hindus wear the spot and the Jews the square box.

(Figure 9)

Nursery rhymes and stories began to fit into these drawings as for example, Jack and the beanstalk. The giant was living above, and it was slayed into the below. Notice where the wealth was!

In this case the upright of the cross is the beanstalk and the cross beam the ‘above’ that was lost by Adam, to the flesh, or giants, and conquered by Christ. After which He poured out His soul for the sin of mankind. Much more of these in the books ‘The Short Sword’ and ‘Room with a View’.

The next miraculous thing that happened was that the artist had to start painting by inspiration, which resulted in paintings that proved that all of scripture speak of the above and below in different ways. The artist painted things he was not aware of, like for instance, the spiritual sea. He started to learn that all people are like a sea of emotions, also that it is the language of the Bible. For instance the ‘beast’ or ‘dragon’ or ‘whore’ is on the sea.

As the reader may have noticed we are finding that physical things reveal the spiritual. In the sixth book, we realize that we are a sea of emotions which reaches to the neck (Is 30:28).

The Bible speaks of the sea as the flood, in the days of Noah.   Noah was saved from the flood, in a sealed ark, to the tops of the mountains. This compares to the statement Jesus made concerning the flood: “the house must be build on the rock” (mountain or above) so it can withstand the flood. The flood is also the emotional storms of ‘Life’. This word “life” is the one we have to lay down or deny (Luke 9:23) and is translated as ‘animal’ and is carnality. Each one of us have the sea of emotions inside us, it comes from below into the above. We are as a rock in the ocean, continually bombarded by the storms of life. Sometimes calm, but open to the mood changes of the mighty deep. We are all in the same boat on the sea. Horror stories are made up of slimy things that come out of the deep sea, jaws is in the sea, and so are the wrecks of our past, which lay at the bottom of the sea. Not one of these sea creatures are mentioned at the throne of God, but Baal is the fish god. I will leave it to the imagination of the reader to find out which of the major religions still wear the fish shape hat during ceremonies. The point is that we are a sea of emotions, which want to rule in the above, or mind of a person.

The word emotion is not used in the Bible but it is the FLESH. To explain the mysteries of the flesh Jesus never spoke directly of the spiritual and fleshly, but left it to mankind to find the Kingdom of God, by searching earnestly, as if for a treasure of great value.

(Figure 10).

By first speaking to the physical storm and calming it, He then goes across the lake onto a mountain, where Legion is living among the graves with a thousand demons ruling him. Although He calmed a physical storm it was showing the spiritual work He loves to do in all of us, and teach us about this. After this he calmed the spiritual sea in the mad, naked man of Gadara’s mind. Notice where the demons were – they were in the mountain. Compare this to the holy mountain of the Lord in Is 14:13 and Eze 28. The demons were in the man and caused storms at will, while he lived among the graves. The man was naked as Adam became, which compares to our spiritual state. We are naked to the comings and goings of the sea of emotions. We did not know how to do anything about it. As in the nursery rhyme of Itsie-bitsie- spider. I believe it must have been a mother who was telling a child, that some days the mind would be calm but other days, stormy, and we can’t do anything about it. But this is not true, for this is what the cross was designed to do. When there is no life in the mountain, there is death, which is carnality. After this, Jesus allowed the demons to enter the swine, which went back into the sea.

The conscience – The Line, is holding true as we find the Line to be the surface of the sea where Jesus walked on. This is the Line on which the sun rises and is where we wear a crown or cap. The line is thus above the eyes and becomes the subject of the Bible in many different ways. It can be drawn as the circle  inside the head and compares to the circle of the horizon, above which is the “air”. (Figure 11) Above the line is the ‘above’ thought life in Christ, and below is the emotions, intellect, will and feelings. This is also the subconscious, for in the sea lay all the wrecks of the past which Jesus wants to save us from.

When the sun rises in the morning, our Lord is asking how is your mind today, did you manage to keep it, or did the below come above again? Adam can you keep your mind?

No person on earth can keep the mind, therefore, come to the cross.(Figure 12)

As we take thoughts captive daily we are honest with ourselves and allow the two edged sword to divide between spirit and flesh. We can at this stage identify what sin is! Sin is when the below comes above. When we have sinned, we go to the cross to crucify the sin, in Christ, and be saved from the effects of what sinful thoughts had on the condition of the heart or conscience. We go to the cross daily, to die in Christ and then rise in Christ. In this way our thought life is being dealt with to be transformed into the mind of Christ. As we are willing to die to the flesh, the effects the past has had on us will also be dealt with by Jesus, who is our Gardener. He will save us from the torment of the past that destroys us daily, and make us free. This is achieved by having a relationship with our Lord, who prepares us to go to the Father by the cross and blood.

The conscience must become clear, holy and compare to a pool of clear water after the rain. Clear and tranquil and reflecting the rain clouds and rainbow after the rain. If the tiniest leaf should fall onto the surface of the conscience, we should immediately be aware of it in order to discern between flesh and Spirit.

These studies were done in the sixth book ‘The Spiritual Sea’. Incredibly, the preachers of old, also spoke this language of parallels and this author found comfort in their work, which proved that he was not alone in his thinking.

F B Meyer:

“There is the mighty ocean of power all around us, but for some reason we cannot tap it. It is like the electric current, which refuses to help us unless we have instruments precisely adapted to transmit the driving-power. Faith is absolutely necessary for the conveyance of God’s power to meet the need and sin and sorrow of the world.”

The word ‘ocean’ is used in a spiritual sense, and should really have been the word “air”, for electricity is in the lightning, in the “air”. The word ‘lightning’ is a descriptive Hebrew translation for ‘light’. When God said: “let there be light” (Gen 1:3) it is also where the power is. When we give our hearts to God, light comes, and our sins are forgiven because of the work of the cross. We are now in the “air” in Christ and the POWER surrounds us, the heart is blood washed and in contact with the heart of God. Because our sins have been forgiven and the heart is pure we have faith. BUT! We lose this exalted position in Christ, when we become fleshly or carnal again.  If we do not guard the heart we become naked, naked to the sea.

Read the piece by Meyer again and you will see that he was thinking that faith alone can bring the vast ocean of power. But there can only be faith if the heart is pure. The subject of the Bible is the heart that must be kept. The word ‘keep’, is translated as ‘guard’.

Gen 2:15:  “…and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”

Pro 4:23:  “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

THE GARDEN AND SIN

This brings us to the garden which I believe is the heart, for the following reasons.

Physically we compare to the spiritual tree of Psalm 1. The tree is referring to a human being as a tree that is planted by waters, and will bring forth fruit, if it meditates the scriptures. The water is the word of God. We realize there are trees, but we are as a tree.

When I sketch a tree into the brain of a person, it looks like a tall tree. There are many scriptures to prove this. When we draw the leaves and branches of the tree into the brain it is a drawing of the basic nervous system. When we add all the nerves that are spread throughout the body, leading from out of the spinal cord, it looks like a tree with lots of roots. (Figure 13) Out of the brain comes the commands that are relayed by nerves to every part of the body.

I do not find it strange that the Egyptians believed the brain was to cool the blood down, for they were carnal in their thinking. The Hebrew people on the other hand were spiritual in their thoughts. Abraham for instance was looking for a city.

Heb 11:10:  “For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”

Abraham was a man of faith. The God kind of faith can only come if the conscience is kept clear. He walked in a thought life that was above, while yet on earth. The Egyptians on the other hand were bringing the below into their above. Yet they were completely convinced that their Gods were superior to the Hebrew God, as many still think today.

Gen 26:5:  “Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

 Because he did this, God could bless him.

Gen 26:4:  “And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed…”

The seed of Abraham became carnal in their thinking because of their slave mentality.

The thought life of man is where God makes himself a dwelling, if the commandments are kept. Because the conscience is clear, he is capable of imagining, and bringing the good things, God has in mind for all mankind to earth. (Let thy will be done…)

When the thought life becomes fleshly the tops of the brain tree dies to the things of God as a physical tree would have died. The tree leaves die, where it is supposed to breathe the God “air”, and becomes perches for spiders and vultures. In this way principalities and powers of darkness lives in our high places, and cause strongholds. The thought life is fearful and full of carnality. When the tree no longer fully belongs to God the conscience is seared and nervous conditions take over in the thought life. Where there used to be rest and calm, reassurance that God is providing, the person becomes agitated, loses assertiveness, and all kinds of ailments appear. The blessing has departed and the curse has taken its place.

The curse is not because of a witches brew, it is the result of turning away from God and His law. The commission to Abraham was:

Gen 17:9:  “And God said to Abraham, As for you, you shall therefore keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.”

This word ‘keep’ is the same word (H8104) as Adam was told to keep the garden.

Gen 4:9:  “Cain replied “am I my brother’s keeper?””

As Christians we are to help each other keep the heart.

Gen 17:10:  “This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your posterity after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.”

To be physically circumcised was to cut the flesh, as we spiritually cut the flesh at the cross for the circumcision of the heart. In Gen 18:19 we find that if this covenant was kept, they would be blessed. Each time the blessing departed from Israel after this covenant, it was because they did not keep the heart. We give the heart to God at regeneration and are to keep it free from the flesh. It is however a full time occupation to keep the heart, as we can see in the following verse:

Gen 31:24:  “Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

When we have been offended, as I am sure Laban must have been at this time, we must also consider the offence of Jacob at the same time. They both felt hurt, and this is when we lash out and offend and take offence, become emotional, and loose God’s blessings. This is why Laban was warned in the dream to say nothing, for he was in danger of losing God’s blessings, at the same time causing irreparable offence to Jacob. We say things hastily without getting counsel from God, and in this way loose the blessing. God requires a calm, peaceful, holy dwelling to live inside us. To take offence or cause offence is to block the blessing out.(Figure 14)

Pro 4:23:  “Keep (guard) thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

We are to guard the heart for all things pertaining to life, flow forth from the heart.

Ps 119:2:  “Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.”

Once one has given the heart to God and learnt to guard it, blessings flow continually. FB Meyer explains this process in the following way:

 “Salvation has three stages. It begins with deliverance from the penalty of the past. Our sins are blotted out. The penalty is remitted or turned to benediction. (Blessings) Then we are saved lower down. The process of purification goes deeper and deeper into our nature. Finally, our body is renewed through the resurrection – grace of Christ. And surely there is a sense in which the grace of Christ will ever sink deeper, giving us a profounder realization and participation in the things that will open before us in the eternal progress.”

It is an ongoing process, we are naturally created in carnality, and I will prove it. If we ask any psychiatrist or brain scientist, where emotions live, they will tell you it is in the hypothalamus. Bible dictionaries say:  “the seat of emotions is the heart”. The center of man is the heart, but we are naturally fleshly and proud.(Figure 15).  We are naturally slaves to emotions as Israel was slaves to Pharaoh.

We are saved from slavery if we partake of the flesh of the Lamb, and if the blood is sprinkled, we will pass safely, on dry land through the “Red Sea”, to be prepared in the wilderness, to live in the Promised Land. This also entails the three-step process Meyer mentions above. As he says: “Then we are saved lower down, the process of sanctification goes deeper”. The word ‘flesh’ that is used here is the lower emotional condition of man. The flesh is death (Rom 8:6).

To be saved is not the problem; it is the wilderness that lay ahead. During the initial regeneration, lots of miracles and things happen, but when we go to the wilderness, those miracles are forgotten in the heat of the day. Even though God is still providing for us in the wilderness, by providing all we need. We still have shoes, clothes, shelter and food, but we allow fleshly worries and arrogance to convince us that God is not providing, while He actually is cutting the flesh and providing at the same time. However the requirement for God’s provision is faith. Only a pure heart generates faith. If the fleshly doubts enter, the conscience sears and the blessing departs. We are no better than those who criticized God during the wilderness ordeal.  We were also wandering around in the wilderness because we were in the flesh, while thinking we were above and open to the blessings. Naming and claiming, speaking God’s Word in the face of apparent defeat, yet the blessings did not abide. We find little bits of revelation and we soar for a while and then back into the wilderness. The mainspring is the heart, keep the heart! This is the only way to avoid the prolonged wilderness times. I remember a man who was sent from China to tell me that the Lord wishes that I prosper even as my soul prospers. The man looked past me and he said “you come out of the deep dry wilderness, but I don’t know why”.

My prayer is that the reader will understand why we spend so much time in the wilderness and not in the blessing. If it seems to you as if I keep saying the same thing over and over, it is because of my experience with groups in the cave. They nod their heads at all the right places and promise me they do understand, but they failed. This knowledge sounds easy, but it is hard to do. We naturally want to avoid the straight and narrow and then walk around the mountain one more time. By simply observing the parallels that are drawn throughout the Bible we can see that our spiritual growth, out of the fleshly into the spiritual, is the subject of the Bible.

Although we are saved by our Lord, He still has to deal with the way we thought before being saved. Because of our old thought life we still think carnally, and die in the wilderness, as that wilderness generation did. This death is the death of the conscience, the conscience is non life giving. It means that the Spirit through whom everything was created cannot bring forth life, for the flesh is ruling. This life is the power we have to change the atom through our thought life. Not only in our bodies but everything that surrounds us. The difference between the rich and the poor is the way they think. The slave mentality caused their death, even as Christians die today of every kind of sickness imaginable. I know what I’m talking about, for I was there in Egypt, I was saved as they were, but almost died in the wilderness. There was no one to help me. I heard that everybody thought they were Caleb and Joshua’s generation, but they were as fleshly as I was. I was taught that the law is a curse, and everything is grace, but I was still dying. I simply could not find out how to turn things around, until I found out that the “line” is the conscience. The man from Galilee walked on my stormy sea and He saved me! Then He taught me how not to sin.

After this He started dealing with the ship wrecks, most embarrassing moments and disappointments so I could heal. I needed healing, for the past was brewing up a great chaos up inside my deep and was beginning to kill me. He saved me, healed me, redeemed me and crowned me with loving kindness and tender mercies (Ps 103). Notice the three step process.

If we would meditate the word of God constantly, we will be able to teach our children the difference between flesh and spirit by example. These are the generations that will inherit the Promised Land.

THE HEART IS ALSO ZION

The place where children play is the imagination, it is where toys become real things, and children partake of the magical in their thoughts. The rainbow becomes the physical comparison to the mind that flies and goes into a different dimension without drugs. If only we could live this way always, if only we could “keep” our minds constantly. Well, this is the subject of the Bible. The imagination is where we receive inspiration to be creative in our particular field. Some religions are so busy being religious that the imagination is allowed no freedom. All creative abilities come out of the imagination. The outcome of the creative force in us will depend on what is in the imagination. What force is ruling in the citadel, is it from below or above? To be able to discern whether the heart is fleshly or spiritual is the constant quest of the believer. When the principles of the cross is applied; when we have died to self daily, and raised in Christ we are able to discern. When we are in the flesh, principalities, powers and rulers of darkness are ruling, and the decisions we make will end in chaos.

Col 2:10:  “And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power…”

If you have died with Him, now joined in Spirit to Him, we are to abide in him!

This is where the heart is circumcised (Col 2:11) and the heart is God’s dwelling, not that of the flesh.

This is the only way to find out whether thoughts or inspiration, that come to us, are from God or not. This is what is meant by, “the Devil appears as an angel of light”. In actual fact the inspiration came out of hell and will lead us on another useless circle through the wilderness. We have to deal with the “flesh” at the cross.

Jesse Penn Lewis : “The ‘flesh’ cannot be taken into Him. It must be cast of.  ‘For with Him you were buried in your baptism (into death) wherein you were also made partakers of His resurrection, through the faith wrought in you by God, who raised Him from the dead.

The severing work of the cross takes place as we abide in Him; the cutting of the ‘flesh’, even the casting off, of the whole body of the flesh takes place as we abide in Him. This circumcision is not done by human hands, for it is wrought by the Holy Ghost as the believer consents….It is the Spirit of God who baptizes us into Christ and gives the believer the power to cast off all the  “body of the flesh” and to carry this out in detail.”

It takes time to deal with the flesh, even under the guidance of the Gardener, some situations will seem as if they come out of hell, which is exactly where they come from, but it is for the sanctification of the saints. All work together for good, for the fires are melting and moulding us into pure gold, so that we may live according to God in the Spirit.

2 Cor 5:17:  “Whosoever, then, is in Christ, is a new creation; his old being has passed away, and behold, all has become new.”

We are going into the sphere of Christ, we leave outside the “old”. It is the Christ-mind we are being transformed into. We can discern by the Spirit, and live in the Spirit, no more mistakes; whatever happens to us, is from God.

Bad things do happen to Christians who are partaking of the “cutting”, for it is God’s way of dealing with the old creation and bringing us to the cross with preconceived religions and traditions. Most of us, simply will not listen to good advice, and have to spend time in the wilderness to learn, to hear the still small voice. This is the immature child who learns by chastisement.

2 Cor 5:1:  “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 Cor 5:2:  “For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.”

The kingdom of God belongs to children, and we are to seek the kingdom, then all will be added. In this same way Abraham was seeking for a city that God was the builder and architect of. This city is the “high’ city, the one Gal 4:25 speaks of as Jerusalem above.  Jerusalem below is slavery, carnal, but Jerusalem above is free.

Heb 12:22:  “But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels…”

This city is the “highway”; it is where we are seated “above”, in Christ.  Joined to the risen One to be lifted up in the spirit, “far above all”, in Christ, however deeply it may have been “down”, under the bondage of the flesh, or mingled with the “life” of the old nature of the soul; “we are seated with Him in the heavens”. It helps me to imagine the glorious cloud formations and sunrise colours over the sea, it brings this above spiritual state of mind into perspective. The sea creatures that were previously only in the imaginations of artists are being found thousands of meters below in the deep. In the same way we are also discovering how we were ruled by the deep within. Compare this picture to the burst of light and splendour at sunrise (Figure 16).

Mal 4:2; (Ps 37:6 NIV):  “The one is below, the other above.”

The line between these two dimensions is the horizontal beam of the cross. “Finally…let your hearts be strengthened in the Lord, and the conquering power of His might…”

The cross beam is also representing the conscience or heart – “let your hearts be strengthened in the Lord…”  We are to “keep” the heart—but did not! Out of the deep the beast came and rules on our sea. The Lord Christ, Paul said in chapter one, is above the principalities and powers. He is not under them, and the believer is also seated with Him, “far above”. Now let us be strengthened in the Lord, be confident, be sure, know for certain the position of victory, and be strong in the conquering power of His might. If the reader can grasp who he is in Christ, he will live constantly in the victory of the cross. But to stay above is a lifelong task of constant self discipline, self control and study of who we are in Christ. The moment we think we have arrived, we fall short again.  For this reason, “put on the whole armour of God that you are able to stand”. But you were seated a moment ago! Yes, you cannot fight external foes if you have a conflict within! You must be ‘sitting down’ inside!

If you lose your inward peace, you are at the mercy of the devil.

To have the inner calm we must understand the armour, by placing the state of the conscience first. We go to the cross to have the conscience dealt with. We need the ‘pure heart’ in order that God may put us in our right place. When sins have been dealt with at the cross and the blood is sprinkled, we have died and risen in Christ, we are above in thanks giving, praise and worship and can ‘enter into’ the presence of our Father. When the conscience is clear, we are saved (helmet) we are the righteousness of God (breastplate) and so on …lastly the shield is biggest of all, and is Faith.

When the conscience is clear we have faith! We can go pray the prayer of faith! Because we have died, and then risen in Christ, we are in Christ.

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Foreword

This book, the Spiritual Sea is written as the previous five books, in this series ‘The Line’, in diary form. After ‘A Room with a View’ was completed, Yvonne and I headed for the sea-house for some hard work, renovating and adding onto the old place. I picked up the book ‘The Spiritual Man’ by Watchman Nee and I thought, as an afterthought, I would be adding to ‘A Room with a View’ while building in Natal. However, the book was simply impossible to read. I could not concentrate for more than half a page at a time. It seemed that I would be sleepy after only a few lines. Putting it down to being tired, I would try again the next day with the same results. This cannot be happening I thought, and set out to underline each word I could understand with pencil. After which I would take a walk around the house and then reread the same lines again, lining it with pen this time and then found the meaning was completely different from the previous pencilled understanding. This experience forced me to take the matter of the book to the Lord who immediately explained that the way to understanding of this book was through the tabernacle. This changed my attitude toward the book and I would approached the book with more care, but after a while I would feel my mind could not take it in, it seemed cloaked, and this would force me back to the Lord’s leading, who explained that there were a few things we must discuss. I was of course at fault and had to rededicate my life to God all over again; then I had to learn how to listen with the Spirit and not the intellect, and leant that I was not spending as much time listening and seeing in the garden as before. I am relating these details for your own scrutiny of your personal relationship with the Lord. You know, we are so busy working for the Lord’s things; we do not get to the Lord of the things.

Watchman Nee is a Chinaman; if you have read the previous books you will know how a Chinaman called Francis Coo kick started this series ‘The Line’.

In The Line’s first painting it is the cross beam of the cross that divides between the Kingdom of Light and the Kingdom of Darkness and to the far right there is the sword of the angel at exactly that same height, and if one draws this line the heads of all the figures involved are above the line.

This is where the spiritual division is, between the spirit and the soul.   (Figure 1)

God has given the revelation of how to divide the spirit and the soul of man to Nee, who made it his business to study this important spiritual action by studying the works of people like Madam Guyon, F.B Meyer, G.H. Morrison, Jessie Pen-Lewis and Evan Roberts.

His book ‘The Spiritual Man’ was written June 25 1928, the work was of course edited by an Englishman of the time and is to say the least; the most difficult work I have ever read.  After a while, I noticed that I could understand the man if I drew ‘The Short Sword’ pictures while reading his explanations of the spirit and soul.  It was with great relieve that I was amazed to see that his experience of the spiritual realm was very much alike to that of my own. Lately I had been feeling lonely, and felt that I could do with the company of somebody who had seen the spiritual realm the way I did. I was thinking that I should get into the company of different theologians but I had tried that before, and was not going to go there again.

After talking to some people that read Nee’s book I came to the conclusion that his work is considered deep and people that do read it, (if they really did) feel regenerated and enlightened but still fall back into old thoughts.  Let me be recorded as saying that I have heard the old preachers preach some of Nee’s words but have not heard it preached lately.

Things like: “deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me” and teachings that says that going to the doctor is not the way for the believer. Unfortunately, Watchman Nee did not receive the full revelation of the tabernacle and therefore there is a lot of talk about how we must be disciplined and capable of keeping our own minds. We however cannot keep our minds nor could Adam and Eve and this is why we must understand the cross.

For this reason, let us begin this study by recapping on the tabernacle in chapter 1.

For refreshment of the readers mind, I am quickly listing a few words that are frequently used for the ‘mind’ or the ‘place above the line in which we live with God’ if you prefer it to be explained like that we can even call it the ‘imagination’ or all of the following words:

Chapter 1

The Tabernacle

Jesus is the Gardener and only He can explain Christ crucified. In the beginning we start at the cross, we enter through the cross like a child, and in time He teaches us to die as He did, and to realise the full implications of Calvary. The tabernacle designed by God in the wilderness was the place where God’s presence was, and He spoke on the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies. The priest, when sacrificing walked into the Outer Court and faced the sacrifice immediately when he entered.

When I draw the plan of the tabernacle, it looks like this.  (Figure 1, and from above Figure 2)

And when I draw an outline of a person on the tabernacle (as in figure 3) we realize that after the crucifixion we are the tabernacle of God and are His dwelling place. Where the mind is, is the Holy of Holies and it is this dividing veil that was torn and now we have full access to the Holy of Holies.  Also note that the mind is now in the shape of the rising sun.

Noah built a three storey ark, and the ark saved the animals as well as himself and his family from the flood.

Thinking about it I realized that the temple Ezekiel talks of also has three storeys, and if we are God’s temple, we also have three storeys. Please consider my picture in figure 4.

When I place the mountain in the Holy Place, this Second Storey or mountain area becomes the captivity of mount Zion (Ps 126:1), because it is in the middle of the top and bottom ‘storey’s’, we grow up into the Holy of Holies from here, we must climb the mountain. (We all know by now that the mountain represents the hard times in life. The mountain can be seen in Figure 5.)

Moses fetched the law on top of the Mountain of Sinai, thus the minds of these Old Testament people were held by the law.

Noah most certainly lived in the top story from where he fed the beast within. (Figure 6)

Is this not also our story? We should live above and stay above but we feed the beast within. How else will they stay alive? Well our mission is that the sea within us shall become the Dead Sea.

Noah was saved to the top of the mountain.

George H. Morrison:  “It was on a mountain that Abraham prepared to offer Isaac and that men received the Law of Moses, and from a mountainside the law of Christ. The bitterest conflict between Elijah and the prophets of Baal was on Mount Carmel. John was on a great mountain when he saw the New Jerusalem descend; and on a mountain occurred the transfiguration.

It was the very love of God that sent Moses and Elijah to the mount. For Moses and Elijah were the past. They were the spirits of the law and prophecy. Now the past hands on its work to Jesus. All that the law had vainly striven to do, and all that prophecy had seen afar, was to be crowned on Calvary.”

Cloud

Another interesting point is that God spoke out of the cloud:

Mark 9:7:  “And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.”

1 Cor 10:1:  “Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;”

1 Cor 10:2:  “And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;”

But they never touched the water for they were baptized into Moses.

Heb 12:1:  “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.”

The weight of sin is surely a clouded conscience, and the past that comes into the mind. It is only the cross that handles this sin.

1 Th 4:17:  “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air (chill) and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”

A heavenly lifestyle right here on earth while we are seated with Christ in heavenly places.

Well, we know this is true, even children know this is true but why do we not get all the things we need if God is living in us? Surely, God is good and then we should have all things we have need of, seeing that we are His dwelling place. Yes, this is correct, then there must be a reason why God cannot supply our needs. This is what this book aims to answer.

Warning: If you the reader are serious about finding out the answer to this question, be prepared for emotional upheavals as never before in your life.

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Foreword

It was during the writing of this book that our friends suddenly became sick and we very quickly had to extract some of the things contained in this book in short form, presenting only some of the juicy bits so that a child could understand, which resulted in “ The Short sword” Book 2.  I hope you are familiar with by now.

This is the fifth book in the series “The Line”.  It is written in diary form, exactly as the Lord gave me personal revelation on ‘the line’.  It contains in depth scriptural studies on all controversial biblical subjects without any judgement.  Full of incredible revelation the body of Christ have immediate need of.

This book is for mature Bible readers and seekers of the truth, the same Jesus referred to while speaking to the woman by the well. He said that there will come a time when they who worship will do so in spirit and in truth. It is aimed at filling all the theological gaps and placing new foundation from which to complete your own personal questions.  Everything you will find in this book is within us and you will see how closely we resemble the earth.  SPIRITUALLY WE GROW FROM WITHIN, FOR THIS IS WHERE GOD DESIRES TO DWELL – WITHIN.  And you know the KINGDOM of God is within you. 

I am using E-Sword as study reference.  E- Sword can be downloaded free from www.e-sword.net.  If you have purchased the PDF you will find the main installation file on the disc.     

Through this program you have access to all Bible translations of importance ever written and also the commentaries of Bible scholars like Wesley, Henry, Mathew and many dictionaries. Apart from this Nelsons Quick reference Bible dictionary has been of enormous value to this study. Whenever you see a ‘G’ or a ‘H’ with numbers (example: G1442 or H6643) this refers to the Greek and Hebrew translation and the number is the Strong’s Dictionary’s reference number. Using E-sword you can check on the translations of these words by using the reference number.

In order to understand the book of Revelation, I’m sure that might be where we are heading; we have to understand Genesis.  I love Genesis. I would always read the rest of the Bible quickly to be able to start all over again at the beginning.  I was sure that the key to understand the Word of God must be in Genesis.  You will very shortly see that Revelation is revealed in Genesis.

We know that the power is in the mind, and many have brought about healing through confident suggestion to the mind.  That by touching the bones of a particular person for instance they would be healed, but when the bones are replaced with a different corpse the healing still goes on.  In cases like this we must conclude that it was mental suggestion and this is how many non Christians and Christians have experienced miracle healing.  I am sure that you have many of these stories of your own of how people simply see themselves healed and it happens, without committing their lives to Christ, think about the things they need and it comes to them in a supernatural way. All ‘positive mind’ books will tell of these true cases yet most of these people do not even believe there is a God.

However what about us, the Christians, we want to experience our healing and success through Christ, therefore we do not study the mind and are afraid that this kind of tampering with the mind, will cause us to be demon possessed. In the meantime others are walking away with the miracles.

Can it be that we are so bound up in different traditions and religious thoughts that these simple truths about the power of the mind and the simplicity of childlike imagination has been removed from us so far and distant that it is now beyond our understanding? What is it about this statement Jesus made; The kingdom belongs to children; that we don’t get?  And this one; Seek first the kingdom and all will be added. Can “all” actually mean ALL!?

I would like to remind you at this stage of the First painting in the book the Line, where we concluded that the soul is the mind.

And throughout all the following books we see; GOD so loved the world

that Jesus gave his life for the soul of man.  Here is a key scripture.

Eph 3:20:     “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that work in us.”

Where do we think and ask?  Where is the power?  I believe all agree, it must be the mind. In both the Old Testament and New Testament, the soul and heart is the mind and centre. 

Then we have words like ‘conscience’ and ‘subconscious’.  Eventually we will also study these words, but I believe this is what kept us from understanding the power of the mind.  Therefore for the sake of this study, the mind is what you think and imagine with. (As if you didn’t know)  Let’s give you an example: We say this person has an angry spirit. Why is he angry?  Because of the way he thinks, we look at his face and see what he has been thinking all night.

The following is the prayer I open all studies with:

Eph 1:17-19:   “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power.”

We pray Ephesians 1: 17—19 that we may receive the spirit of wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of the power (G1411, miraculous power)

Matthew 6:13: And Your kingdom power and your glory.  (Also G 1411)

We want God’s thoughts for that is where the power is.

Matthew 10:1:  “And Jesus summoned to Him His twelve disciples and gave them power and authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out, and to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of weakness and infirmity.”

This power Jesus gave them was the knowledge of who Satan is. This

power the Lord gave them is G1849 which means: Force, freedom, mastery, magistrate, authority, and jurisdiction.

This is the authority with which we speak when we explain the cross to all people, first take authority, make sure that darkness bows the knee, then speak boldly. We are all veiled to a certain degree, but it is the knowledge of the truth that sets us free.

What happened to the disciples? Their minds were transformed in the company of their Lord and they learned to think high or above thoughts.

Let’s get back to the power that is in all people.

Zechariah 4:6:  “…Not by might or power but by the spirit.”

In this sketch we are showing the power in us as a dash of colour in the head.  (Figure 1)

Gen 2:7:  “And the LORD³⁰⁶⁸ God⁴³⁰ formed^{3335 (853)} man¹²⁰ of the dust⁶⁰⁸³ of⁴⁴⁸⁰ the ground,¹²⁷ and breathed⁵³⁰¹ into his nostrils⁶³⁹ the breath⁵³⁹⁷ of life;²⁴¹⁶ and man¹²⁰ became¹⁹⁶¹ a living²⁴¹⁶ soul.⁵³¹⁵” (K.J.V)

Gen 2:7   “Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being. (I Cor 15:45-49.) “ (Amp)

The Amplified Bible calls him a living being and the King James a living soul.  This word soul is H 5315 and is translated as; breathing creature can be animal, appetite, beast, creature, Fish, ghost, or lust.  All this is what a living being can be like. Man now has a will and emotions. What is will and emotions? It is the breath of God! All  emotions are the breath of God, we do not only have good emotions, some are bad and we refer to them as the beast within or the sea within.

In the “Short Sword” (book 2 in the series) we have shown the sea of

emotions as within, here are some scriptures to prove this truth that is being revealed daily.

Hab 1:14:  “Why do You make men like the fish of the sea, like reptiles and creeping things that have no ruler (and are defenseless against their foes)?” (Amp)

Here is the comments of Vines dictionary on the sea (H3220—yam).

Vines: “ In some instances the word yam (sea) may represent the Canaanite god Yamm, ” (Job-9:8). “which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.”

Note the word ‘sea’ is a Canaanite god called Yamm.  In his following passage Vines identifies the sea as the enemy.

Vines: “If understood as a statement about Yamm, this passage Job 9:8  would read: “and tramples upon the back of Yamm.” The parallelism between “heavens” and “seas,” however, would lead us to conclude that the reference here is to the literal “sea.”

 Ps 89:9-10 is a more likely place to see a mention of Yamm, for there the word is identified as one of God’s enemies in immediate proximity to the goddess Rahab: “Thou rulest the raging of the sea (Yamm): when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.“

Especially note in the next verse Job is asking whether he is a sea, he is realizing that there is something terrible inside him

Job 7:12  “Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that you put me under guard?”(NIV)

Job 7:12 “Am I a sea (Yamm), or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?” (KJV)(cf. Job 26:12; Ps 74:13).

Ps 74:13  “Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons”

The word ‘sea’ is translated by Strong’s dictionary as; serpent or jackal

in the waters.  ‘Waters’ translated as; waste  urine or semen.

For further study on Job 7:12 check Adam Clark commentaries.

Adam Clark: “Yam is used of the great basin immediately in front of the Holy Place: “And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon” (2Kings 25:13). This is also called the “sea” of cast metal (1Kings 7:23; KJV, “molten sea”) or simply the “sea” (Jer 27:19).”

We need to be washed from the sea before we enter the Holy Place.

Yam is used of mighty rivers such as the Nile:

 Is 19:5:  “And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up” 

As we have learned in my book the Short sword these inner emotions want to rule the mind and the challenge that is before us is, whether we can keep our minds.  Adam, keep the garden for we have a sea of emotions within.

The mind is the soul. There are 682 hits on this word soul in the Old Testament and makes a vast study, for this word is not only soul, and will widen your scope to enter the biblical spiritual realm.

To have a fish mind is most probably a Dagon (fish god).

We do have a beast within us, for instance; obesity or rage.

In the New Testament we have the following:

Rom 8:6:  “For¹⁰⁶³ to be carnally⁴⁵⁶¹ minded⁵⁴²⁷ is death;²²⁸⁸ but¹¹⁶¹ to be spiritually⁴¹⁵¹ minded⁵⁴²⁷ is life²²²² and²⁵³² peace.”

Spiritually minded is (G 4151) translated as; current of air, breath, supper human angel, demon and Holy Ghost.

But to be carnally minded is death, this is why we still physical die, but the last enemy is death. If Adam eats from the wrong tree, he shall surely die. Carnal thinking is death and not life giving, we are to create

in our minds with life thoughts.

He is now a breathing creature (H5315).  The power that is in him is God within. The breath of God is the power within us. He is the ‘I AM’.  He introduced himself to Moses as ‘I AM!’ I am what? I am the power within you!

The name of this power is love, and He gives us everything we think.

There are people who use the power within without giving God the glory. Some bend iron, walk over coals and get healing and call it the power of the mind. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Marconi and Mark Twain asked the infinite Power for inspiration before going to sleep. They would fill their minds with whatever it is they wanted and would wake up expectantly. None of these people were known Christians. My own brother in law was a non Christian, successful, business man and we asked him to speak to a group during a weekend seminar at The Shoe.

He said there is a power within us, he does not know what it is perhaps it is God but he does not believe in God. Through personal discipline he used this Power for financial gain. He would get up early in the morning and dive into the pool, winter and summer this was to train himself to keep his mind focused on whatever he had decided to pursue.  There goes my new car, and he would rub his hands in anticipation. And he would get it!

This non-Christian person made the following statement. ‘Once you have decided what the goal is, you have to look at it constantly, do not worry if there is no money, money will come’. He never envied and was not jealous of others. HE ALSO HAD NO UNDERSTANDING OF HUMILITY. He believed in being good and spoke of ‘Old Nick’ as some sort of personal chastiser.  If you have read my book ‘The Mystery of the Ages’ you will have an idea of these inner wars that go on inside us.  There was however a deep personal sadness inside my brother in law that could not be filled with possessions and a competitive lifestyle.  In my personal studies I have not found one of these successful people to work hard physically.

They spend a lot of time looking at their personal dreams and fill themselves with it.  They are also extremely competitive and have to excel at whatever they put their minds to. He was however not so fortunate in the other areas of his life like his marriage, and relationships.  The purpose of this teaching is for us to have holistic prosperity.

Power

Zechariah 4:6  “Not by might nor Power but by my spirit…”

‘Might’ is; I am going to sort this problem out today with my personal will and might.

‘Power’ is; using a positive mind set to achieve whatever we have set our goal to be.

‘Spirit’ is; going onto the mountain and receiving instruction from God.

As Christians we are not encouraged to use the power as a devil could get into us and in any case it sounds too Eastern. But we do however pray Eph 1:17; The spirit of wisdom and the knowledge of the power we possess in Christ Jesus, And in Psalm1 we are taught to meditate.

We are not taught of this power in the mind in most societies, and as children we were encouraged to loan money from the bank. They say: “You do not need God, loan your money from us and stay in dept for the rest of your life.”

Also the Bible teaches not by might or power but by My Spirit. Many power of the mind books try to explain the mind power and do use it successfully while even quoting scripture. We however know that one can prove anything by quoting the Bible. But we want to know how we can do it by the Spirit and truth. 

A study of the word ‘soul’ in the Hebrew and Greek concordance led to the following discoveries.

Soul

The Soul is the ‘mind’. If I had known this as a child my life would have been far different, for as a man thinks so is he. Sigmund Freud the Father of modern day psychology is mostly responsible for the confusion; most people avoid the subject and leave it to the scholars, but at least he took us out of the dark ages and people were no longer burnt at the stake for being witches.  But let’s see what the Bible says about it.

The VINES dictionary on SOUL:

Vines on Proverbs 16:2.  “The word appears to mean more than just the element of life; it seems to mean “soul”:”

Proverbs 16:2: “All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.”

Vines goes on to say that there are 28 biblical names for the soul but does not say what they are, I therefore made it my quest to find out what they are and will share them with you during the course of this book.

 I found that the word mind , centre  has been translated 666 times as heart

The Soul and Spirit of man is one of the most confused subjects on earth. Most people point to their chests when we ask them where the soul is, when we tell them the soul is the mind they act as if they always new it. This is ridiculous, we should have been taught these fundamental truths as children.

Heart

This word ‘heart’ is translated ‘mind’

Proverbs 4:23:  “Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.”

This word ‘heart’ is translated ‘mind’ and ‘centre’ (H3820). This context of the word is used 666 times in the Old Testament, later this number might mean more to you.

Let’s read it correctly: Keep your mind with all vigilance for out of it flow the issues of life.

In other words as a man thinks so is he.

In Psalm 21:2 God gives us the desires of our hearts, but this word

means mind

Ex 7:1 God hardens the heart of Pharaoh.  ‘Heart’ meaning ‘mind’, we also harden our minds when we say for example; we will never again trust a person for some reason.

Gen 6:6:  “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart(mind).”

Pro 3:5:  “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart (mind); and lean not unto thine own understanding.”

This leads us to the most important verse. The word ‘soul’ is ‘mind’ and is the Strong’s number is H5315. Its meaning is also ‘a breathing creature.’ The same that was breathed into Adam. This word is also the same life in all living creatures.  GOD’S BREATH.

Is 53:10:  “Yet it pleased²⁶⁵⁴ the LORD³⁰⁶⁸ to bruise¹⁷⁹² him; he hath put him to grief:²⁴⁷⁰ when⁵¹⁸ thou shalt make⁷⁷⁶⁰ his soul⁵³¹⁵ an offering for sin”    

Sin is the way we think.

Figure 2 is what we are heading for; we want to be God’s kingdom, power and glory. Others must see we are different for the kingdom is within us.

DID JESUS REALLY DIE FOR OUR MINDS?

Science informs us that we build a new body every eleven months. But if we build defects into your body by thoughts of fear, jealousy, and anger you will have no one to blame but yourself. But science can not tell us how to keep our minds.

The God power inside us is good and abundantly full of every good thing that we can imagine, think, or ask for.  (Eph 3:2)  It is constantly creating and pushing for ‘life thoughts’.  Traditions and religions have robbed us of this constant life giving force and replaced it with fear.  By studying the lives of successful entrepreneurs, great artists, poets, speakers and writers you will always find them asking the inner power to reveal things nobody knows.  Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dale Carnigy, Giacomo Puccini.

 Johannes Brahms said:  “Straight away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God.” To mention just a few. They were not necessarily Christians and did not understand the work at the cross as we do now, although they certainly thought to be good, is good enough to take you to heaven, they did not know about the blood, but they believed in the power of the mind. Most of them say they are the captain of their own souls. Not so with us. We have a Captain who reveals all things to us by His indwelling Spirit. We are guided continually by His truth and are the new generation the earth has been waiting to be revealed (Rom 8) and the nations will come to this light (Is 55:5) in this people is the light of the world. (Matt 5:14) Therefore arise your light has come for the glory of the Lord has arisen upon thee (Is 60:1). The knowledge of the glory of the Lord has now come to us. (Hab 2:14) 

 In the first painting the soul and spirit has been explained, here is a refresher: The soul’s gender is female. Whenever we find a Hebrew or Greek word that refers to female this is referring to the soul realm, as we will find with the musical instruments supposedly found in the devil, (Ezek 28:13)  are female, therefore he (Satan) was in the soul (mind). I am sure you understand by this time that our thoughts can be heaven or hell. If the devil is cast out of heaven it simply means that the understanding of the cross and the blood has come to a person and the soul is sprinkled with the blood. ( The Devil was through out of the mind of man, because of the blood)

Another one that comes to mind is Jesus saying cast out on the right side of the boat; ‘right side’ is female. Therefore Jesus was referring to the soul realm which is female for it is the womb of conception and where we imagine.

We are a tree planted by streams of water (word), this means we soak

in the word conceiving it in our womb of conception, (mind) and then our male part, the spirit, will react as a king.

As we think (female) so are we (male).  Whatever we conceive in our mind today will be worshiped in the heart. Where is the heart? It is the place all preconceived ideas come too eventually, it is of course our centre.  The Strong’s translation for the ‘heart’ in the Old Testament is ‘mind’ or ‘centre’.

The kingdom belongs to children therefore these things are not as complicated as we were led to believe. As we continue with this study it will eventually gel with everything else we have been taught the mind is.

Pro 23:7:  “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” This word ‘heart’ is ‘mind’.

This study was done in ‘The Short Sword’ and the word ‘heart’ is translated ‘mind’ or ‘centre’ 666 times in the Old Testament.

Here is a good example of the biblical connotation, this word ‘heart’ is Strong’s number H5315 and means ‘mind’.

This word ‘mind’ is translated ‘heart’ 162 times in the New Testament alone and should be of enormous value to read it in the correct context, for instance:

Matt 5:8:  “Blessed are thepurein heart for theyshall see God.”

Replace the word ‘heart’ with ‘mind’ (Strong’s H2588) meaning: feelings, thought, mind, middle, broken hearted.

We are broken hearted when the things we believe in dearly has been violated.

Mat 5:28:  “But Isay unto you,   That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after herhath committed adultery  with her already in his heart”. (mind)

Oh! So the adultery is not that deep after all it’s only in the mind but who on earth can have a pure mind then? That is where Jesus comes in.  He died for the mind and only His blood can keep it pure.  I am making this statement based on all the foregone conclusions drawn from the previous books and paintings.

Matt 6:21:  “For where yourtreasure is  there will your heart  (mind) be also.”

This scripture has a huge implication for Bible readers.  This means what ever occupies our thoughts the most is king of the mind.

The Bible teaches we must get the mind of Christ.

Matt 9:4:  “And²⁵³² Jesus²⁴²⁴ knowing¹⁴⁹² their⁸⁴⁶ thoughts¹⁷⁶¹ said, ²⁰³⁶ Wherefore²⁴⁴⁴ think¹⁷⁶⁰ ye⁵²¹⁰ evil⁴¹⁹⁰ in¹⁷²² your⁵²¹⁶ hearts? ²⁵⁸⁸ (mind)

These are the first four scriptures in Matthew alone and if you continue this study it will change your life.  I have never found the Bible wrong it is only in the way we interpret it.

Here is one more just to show, that you must read the Bible with a Greek and Hebrew concordance.

Mat 11:29:  “Take¹⁴² my³⁴⁵⁰ yoke²²¹⁸ upon¹⁹⁰⁹ you,⁵²⁰⁹ and²⁵³² learn³¹²⁹ of⁵⁷⁵ me;¹⁷⁰⁰ for³⁷⁵⁴ I am¹⁵¹⁰ meek⁴²³⁵ and²⁵³² lowly⁵⁰¹¹ in heart; (mind) and²⁵³² ye shall find²¹⁴⁷ rest³⁷² unto your⁵²¹⁶ souls (mind).

Gen 2:7:  “And the LORD³⁰⁶⁸ God⁴³⁰ formed^{3335 (853)} man¹²⁰ of the dust⁶⁰⁸³ of⁴⁴⁸⁰ the ground,¹²⁷ and breathed⁵³⁰¹ into his nostrils⁶³⁹ the breath⁵³⁹⁷ of life;²⁴¹⁶ and man¹²⁰ became¹⁹⁶¹ a living²⁴¹⁶ soul. (Strong’s translate this word as ‘mind’) soul  

If I had to explain the soul the way I see it at this stage it would seem airy fairy, for this reason it is important to read this book, so the reader can get the scriptural background and then afterward understand the

simplicity of the souls function and its comparisons to nature. All this will be explained in the following book called ‘The Spiritual Sea’ where the work of Watchman Nee will be incorporated and summarised.

This is the difference between us and animals.  This power GOD has placed in us to do anything we think, we can. There is power in the soul whether saved or unsaved. All people can turn to this power within and get their healing etc. There are of course many methods and traditional healers who treat their patients with dances, incantations and invocations of spirits, a person may be healed by touching relics, wearing special garments or rituals, drinking mixtures anything that will lead the thoughts away from fear and worry to faith and expectancy will cause healing. All this because we are a living soul. (Figure 3) The little sun in the mind of the sketch illustrates, what ever this person thinks long enough will flood his body, he will be what he thinks he is. (Figure 4)

POWER:  They are using the power of their minds, but the word says not by might or power but by my spirit. (Zech 4)

In our case as Christians we want to achieve the above drawing.  The Kingdom of GOD is called morning sun and the result of this Kingdom of God within will cause us to be completely flooded with this above light and rivers of living water to flow into and out of us.

Unfortunately there are lower emotions within us who want to rule our north (mind) and prohibit the sun from rising within.

Is 41:25: (God) “I have stirred up a king who will come from the north. He lives in the east. He will bring honor to me. He walks all over rulers as if they were mud. He steps on them just as a potter stomps on clay.”(NIV)

And worst of all is God made this darkness.  

Is 45:7:  “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”

Job  12:22, Job 30:36, 38:19, Ps 18:28, 112:4, 139:11, 139:12, Is 5:20, 9:2, 42:16, 50:10, 58:10, 59:10, Jer 13:16, Dan 2:22, John 1:5, 3:19, 8:12, 12:35, 12:45, Act 26:18, Rom.2:19, 13:12, 1Cor 4:6, 1 Pet 2:9, 1 John 1:5, 2:8, 2:9

The reason for all these references is because there are people who do not believe God created darkness.

This book will show you who the devil is and you will no longer fear him, also how the mind works according to the scriptures.  It is guaranteed to make you free and to live in the Holy of Holies here on earth and will prove every statement through hundreds of scriptures and drawings.

Before exempting to understand the Bible stories and the people in it, it is necessary to understand how the geographical chart of Israel also tells the spiritual story of growth from darkness into light.

Map: Figure 5

First memorise this map and note particularly where Ararat is, this is of course where the ark came to rest, very north, and to the east of the continent where Israel will be established. This is where God made the promise to Noah that He and his descendants will live high in ‘Morning Sun’ colours of the rainbow.

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Mystery of The Ages

Foreword

The Mystery of the Ages is of course the spiritual realm. Christian churches still cannot answer the question: How is it possible that I am so holy in the morning and a demon in the afternoon? We have the best intentions, but somehow loose our cool during the day.  We get sick and I have known many Christians that suffer from epilepsy, bitterness, depression and die of cancer. We believe in God, but have few answers for the world, which makes fun of us.

What is it that makes us different from all other religions? 

 And where is heaven anyway?

These are the some of the questions this book will answer for you.

Personally, I had been taught that heaven is on another planet, and that I would go there if I’m good.  Just hold on my brother and sister, one day we will be in glory land.

The only reason why I stuck out as a Christian is because when I was about five years old my mother read me Bible stories,  she said that if I wanted to, I could go on my knees and give my life to Jesus.  To me it seemed that Jesus was the greatest hero of all time and gave my life willingly to the Lord.  Immediately I saw this High place, it was golden and full of love.  Jesus was there and it was a place where you did not worry, and could have anything. As a child I could not stop talking about this wonderful place, thinking that all people knew about it. 

My mother cornered me one day and asked me about this place, I kept talking about.  I explained to her that it is in my mind.  She said that I should never again do this, for meditation is eastern, and of the devil. 

I asked her why she went to church, at which she answered: they told me, I won’t go to heaven if they do not bury me. When I went to church the first time the preacher looked like batman and didn’t look like Jesus at all, and I was uncomfortable in that church.  Looking back now, I should have tried another, for some preachers and their wives are like angels in this world. My father hated the church and called them swindlers, he invented his own religion and called it; ‘be good, do good’.

He encouraged me to clean the chicken run on Sundays, so I never attended church but still picked up religious concepts and traditions at school and so on.

I went through life searching for people who could tell me about this place I had seen as a child. I measured everybody on what I had seen in the High place. 

I joined the navy and met many people throughout the world and no one knew about that place.  Sometimes the elderly would understand, but could not explain how to get there, or how it works. I left the navy after six years and lived in the bush where I was completely dependent on God. If I died in the process, it would also have been acceptable, at least I tried to prove a point. My philosophy is; let God be God, and give God a chance.

It was better than living a day to day life, with manmade rules and laws, and preconceived ideas of who God was and how one should earn a living. Trouble was, I was generally sick of the social structure that had so little knowledge of how a person could survive and be happy without being dependant on the bank and a nine-to-five job, it is so unfulfilling. Does God really want us to be little puppets on somebody else’s string?

 I dreamed that one could be self sufficient, do everything myself, and be completely dependent on God as my source. I wanted to be the architect, builder, plumber, electrician and carpenter of my own house.  At the same time I would provide for my family with the work of my hands and in the process find out who God was.

 I dreamed that my children would look at our life and say; “this is the real deal”.  I wanted to live without pretence and give God a chance to be God. I believed if I could achieve this it would help the many people we met who had no answer to life and its many facets.

 Later I met Pentecostals and Charismatic’. They taught me about the devil, and they would fight the devil and drive him out, but he would always come back.

If there is a devil, I wanted to know; where is he? I was taught that he could be anywhere, live in a door handle, or cause the car to break down. I was taught everything bad was the devils fault; but is it?

So I would spend days and nights fighting the devil, but this also did not help me in my quest to care for my family and help others.

One night I challenged the devil to kill me if he had so much power.  But he couldn’t do that either.  At least this proved he has no power, at least not to kill me.  All that was left, was to find out how do so many bad things happen to me if the devil was powerless.

I tried to avoid all nonsensical teachings and live my life without religions and traditions with foregone conclusions, telling me what God says.  I said: “If God is God and if He is real, let Him talk to me, and teach me His rules”.

And this is what made me decide that if I was going to devote my life to finding out life’s secrets, I needed to get to know God personally if I was going to hear from Him. I was willing to work hard and enjoyed building a house and watching God supply the building material.  When I started to sculpt, I was being led by an inner knowing.  It said: “If you are going to sculpt, then learn human anatomy”.  I did as I was told.  Strangely the right books would always be there at the right time.

I noticed that when I was willing to start a project, He would supply. When I started painting, I had to learn to put paint on the canvas, and leave it before my bed before I went to sleep. When I woke up, I would see figures and so on in the colours, and these are the things I painted. Only trouble was I started painting things I did not understand, I was doing things I had no scriptural knowledge of at that stage, and would years later realize that I was painting the Garden.

Later when I started feeling lonely I asked God to give me a wife. Firstly, I have never seen a happy marriage up until that stage, and secondly, I knew that no person could make that choice. Where would I find somebody mad enough to marry me in any case? I thought of myself as a social misfit, but convinced myself I was unconventional. But this story was told in my book ‘The Line’. 

We could sense that we were being led, and together Yvonne and I went from strength to strength. Somehow however, I started working so hard physically, sculpting hard wood and building new houses and businesses, supplying for my family and listening to the problems of by passers, that I could no longer hear God, because of continued hard slog.  When finally I had finished what I thought I should do for Jesus, I was tired and dying.  I asked my wife, Yvonne, to agree with me that I should ask the Lord to take me home to Heaven. For I had done more in that 30 years, than 10  people would have in a life time. The Lord in His gentle way started teaching me that I could partake of Heaven right now. 

At this stage we had finished building our home and business on our present property, here at the Shoe, and had finished the Cave. The Cave was helping people, and I thought I had done what I was supposed to do with my life.

Yvonne and the children could live here and carry on, being a friend to the lonely confused and depressed.

 But I was tired and could not hear God anymore, and so I set out to find someone who could.

We drove all the way to Cape Town, a thousand eight hundred kilometres away, where an elderly lady folded her hands in her lap and asked the Lord why he wasn’t talking to me anymore. Eventually she looked up and said the Lord says: “Tell him I am not talking to him”.  The lady said; “I have never heard of such a thing.” And so we drove all the way back home. On the way back she phoned and gave me Job 11:16, which basically say: When morning sun comes, trouble will go away.  We were very confused.

I went home and built a room where I could be alone and wait for God. Two weeks later He came into that little room with a vengeance, claiming back my mind which I had given over to hard work.

He said:  “I died on the cross so I could always be with you!”  He had me in tears for weeks.

Since that day, I have given the first three to four hours of every day to Him, and this is how I got the knowledge I have been able to share with you in the previous books, and now finally in this book the Mystery of the Ages.

The ‘morning sun’ referred to in Job is one of the names for the Kingdom of God. (According to Strongs Greek and Hebrew dictionary) The other names are ‘happiness and lightning’.

The first time this is mentioned in the Bible is when God said: “let there be light” (illumination) Genesis 1:3.

 This book will give you insight into:

• What happened at the crucifixion in the spiritual world, and show why Jesus had to die.  No person could ever give me a satisfactory reason for the cross.

• It will show you how deep we are.

• Why do bad things still happen to me when Jesus is the Lord of my life?   

• Where is heaven, and what does it look like? 

• Where is hell?

• What is epilepsy?

• Can the power of heaven work in my life now?

You will find all these answers written between the lines, and the Spirit who lives in you, will explain all as you read prayerfully. I promise you, many myths will be laid to rest.

Introduction

his book is a result of spending a month with the Lord. I could see perfectly in the spirit how my friends and family were but did not receive any revelation knowledge during that time.  This book helped me personally as I always wanted to know what happened in the spiritual realm during the crucifixion.  If you feel the passion movie did not do it for you; this book will complete the picture.

It is written as if for a movie script for I was only writing down the things I saw in the spirit.  I thought it was something like ‘The Lord of the Rings’, only problem was that no one could understand the book and that is why we ended up writing the first three books to explain this book.  Also the painting you are about to see was given to me, because of the book and will help explain the book.  

We have no problem with having demons outside us, but what happens if you look at your inside, and find you know this place all too well?

This is the mind of an unsaved person…

Towers

Man still wants to build towers and make a name for himself.  It’s for self! (Pride) (Figure A1)

Is 30:25:  “And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.”

This word ‘tower’ is translated by Strong’s dictionary as: pulpit, castle or flowers.

Remember Jesus comes to look at your flowers at night.  

The J.F.B commentary says: (Is 30:16) “towers,” that is, mighty men (Is 2:15). Or else, the towers of the Assyrian Sennacherib, or of Babylon, types of all enemies of God’s people.

When we do not have Jesus we are self centred.  We dream our own selfish dreams and set our own goals.  This is the mind of an unsaved person.  You can see this person is dreaming a personal dream, or have set a goal for himself.  He can of course achieve his dreams although it takes a lot of discipline to keep your eyes on the goal.  Such a self centred person will force his will on everybody and will have difficulty keeping relationships.  Divorce will come or his family will fall on the way.

His dream is continually under attack from self.  These people are so absorbed with themselves that they say they don’t need a God.  Therefore give no honour to the Creator deep inside them.  There is a cry and a longing for light in the dark hours. 

Fires   

The tower is under attack, this person might be attaining his goal but he is under attack.  It might be self-doubt; it could be jealousy from another person.  It is becoming more difficult to stay focused. (Figure A2)

These people are willing to live according to the world system and don’t ask questions.  They see the material things and work for nice things all their lives. They measure everything materially.  It is your house or your car and that must make you happy.  They are in dept all their lives and don’t mind it, because it’s the world system.  They live for adoration and applause because of their own achievements.

Satan is the prince of the world system.  The cross is the end of this world system

– If you choose.

We used to walk in the world according to the power of the AIR.  This word, ‘air’s meaning is also ‘breath’ or ‘Spirit’.  Is 30:28 says: “It is my breath; it is for the sifting of the nations”.

This word ‘breath’ or ‘Spirit’ is not only good.  It can also mean ‘anger’.  The breath of God can mean both good and bad things.  God created the earth and all in it.  Things don’t evolve. 

The Psalm writer says we live only a while and then die.  What’s the point of life if I can’t live for a reason?  Life is not about self; we have a deep longing inside to worship this Creator and live for Him and bring glory to His name.  Most people want peace or peace of mind as they call it. The mind has all the power.  For normal everyday people, fluttering around with different whims, fashions and self-indulgence will not get to use a fraction of the mind’s power that is available to all.  Some go to extraordinary lengths to get it.  They go and live in convents, where no rage or anger can affect them.  But no matter how far we hide we are still stuck with ourselves.  How can I get away from my own thoughts?

How can I be so holy in the morning and a devil by lunch time?  Why can’t I keep my mind?  Sometimes it feels as if there’s a fire inside me, and my head hurts.  Mostly I can’t decide which way to go.  This is the mind of an unsaved person.

And we are calling ourselves ‘the saved’, are we much better off? During times when I show these paintings in a seminar I see the dread on the faces of the people when I pull this one out, they take a deep breath and hold themselves because we all know what goes on in our minds at times. 

Many people ask me:  “Why does God allow bad things to happen?”  This is the question that is being answered in this book.  For now remember God made good and bad, the Kingdom of Light and Darkness, and we have a choice.

The Mountain on the left

Do you remember the Hebrews 12:22 mountain, (the place where we meet every morning together as the city on a hill, described in the third book, The Garden)

This Mountain of this unsaved person is off to the East where the cherub is still closing the Garden until this day. There is no water on his mountain, no revelation of the Word. (Figure A3)

Lightning

Morning sun, happiness or lightning is flashing in the east.  The knowledge of the gospel of the Kingdom of God is flashing in. Light is coming into the darkness.

Valley

The valley is lurking despair and the bones of dreams that never came true.  It looks like hell.  Perhaps it is. (Figure A4)

The corpses of unfulfilled dreams are falling out of the heaven of the mind and landing in rotting piles, where various demons crawl out of their lairs to feed on the unfulfilled dreams and excreting into the valley floor adding to the rotting mess. 

The demons are hysterical because of the lightning flashes and immediately rally together to block the light out.

The temple

The temple is in the chest of this person. This is where the demons congregate every evening for the gushing. The gushing is a result of who won in the valley today. Was it fear, pride or perhaps bitterness?

Some people have conversations with their demons.  And we discuss them among ourselves.  We are born jealous and we know every demon personally.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a cool mind all day long?

(Figure A5)

Some people worship gods.  There are so many of them.  They are all different mythologies and all figments of our imaginations.  If this person worships Buddha for instance, he will have to calm his demons by acknowledging that they exist and pay homage to them.  They burn a candle tonight and all is calm.  But tomorrow morning they are alive and well!  They are placing this god in their centre (the centre of their minds) and believe for healing or wealth.  Remember other religions do get miracles.  All people have power in their minds. 

Whatever we set our minds on we can have.  It’s a matter of discipline.  There is however no salvation.  Only Jesus can take you High and teach you to be cool.

When we are trying to get things by some other way we are placing a foreign god in our centre.

When our minds are set only for materialism we are worshipping money – the root of all evil is money.

If I want to keep my mind, I need salvation to be saved from my enemies.  (Luke 1:71)

No person on earth can keep their mind on their own, for we naturally have Babylon-minds.

Many people have asked me why they cry when they think of Jesus.  It’s because you have given your life to Him but are not living for Him.  You are crying below the line and he is crying above. There is a place in the Garden where I have seen Him many times standing on a rock with a sea of people below. He stands there waiting for an arm to be stretched out and will pull you up high immediately.

One morning coming into the Garden I saw the Lord standing on this rock looking down and it seemed he hadn’t noticed me at all. Then I noticed this sea of people who had these books in their hands and they were coming to Jesus, to the rock, washing up against Him in waves.  It was great to see and there was a lot of joy everywhere, just as the Lord had promised me this a long-long time ago. But even He seemed amazed at the amount of people who were coming. 

Tribulation in the Old Testament means; narrow, tight or sorrow, which sounds like the dark (wicket, sorrow) that was separated from the light in Gen 1:4. This painting certainly looks like this Tribulation.

Jesus said to the Pharisees; I am from above and ye are from beneath. Your father is the devil.  He (Jesus) is the light of the world.  They (Pharisees) were of course dark.

The mercy seat was above the ark. God met with his people on the mercy seat with people who could look up.  Remember the snakes in the wilderness, and the snake on the pole which they had to look up to.  If you can’t trust God at least look up.

In Jacob’s dream with the ladder, the Lord stood above. Showing him there is a High place in his mind where he can dream where God would give him the desire of his heart, if Jacob would trust God.

 If you have read the three previous books you are now fully prepared, and equipped to read and understand; The Mystery of the Ages.

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Foreword

he following is a no-nonsense, non-thumb sucking, solid Bible based teaching aimed at getting the body of Jesus Christ into their personal Garden, to get to know their Lord and have a personal relationship with Jesus the Gardener.  We learn how to enter in to the Garden and also how to get the things we need.  Here in the Garden we learn how to get answers to the questions in our lives.  We learn how to pray and how to visualise and to get divine instruction, intervention, and inspiration.  The paintings are a result of a 50 year long search of the artist Ron van Zyl and his quest to find the garden since he had seen it as a child.  These paintings are not for sale and can be viewed at their home at the Shoe where the cave is situated. There is also a DVD seminar available on this subject.

After this book you will also echo his plight that we as Christians are not religious but have a relationship with our Lord God!

Introducing the Garden

Recap on the previous two books; ‘The Line’ and ‘The Short Sword.’

 The Kingdom of Light is above and is morning sun, happiness and lightning.  Below are wicked, sorrow, and ignorance.

We have discerned that Jesus saved us to a high life in Christ.  Meaning the cross is the door to a heavenly lifestyle where we are seated with Christ in heavenly places.  As shown in the first painting in ‘The Line’.  The only way a person who wishes to live this heavenly lifestyle can reach the top above the line, life in Christ, is by climbing the mountain.  

The mountain makes the connection between heaven and earth. And is the mountain of the Lord, the Hebrews 12:22 mountain is where we are citizens of heaven.

Let thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. (Figure 2)

We can now draw a scull on the line painting and this will place the Kingdom of God within. (Figure 1 and 3)  The cross is now our center and is where Goliath was killed and our center brain is the hypothalamus (Figure 4).  If we draw a square here, (Figure 4) these measurements coincide with the heavenly city and Ephesians 3:20 

Eph 3:17:  “So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,”

Eph 3:18:  “May have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ”

Eph 3:20:  “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (NIV)

We need a Christ mind and our minds are transformed during the mountain climbing experience.

To climb the mountain successfully we need to follow the following instructions carefully:

1 Pet 5:6:  “Therefore humble yourselves [demote, lower yourselves in your own estimation] under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you”

1 Pet 5:7:  “Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully. [Ps. 55:22.]” (Amp)

You see God dwells with him who is of a humble and contrite spirit and lives with them in high and lofty places (Is 57:15).

Christ has to become the captain of our minds; we are not to think five minutes ahead without him.

Because I had seen this high place as a child, I kept searching, thinking mistakenly that I will find a short-cut for my children and loved ones.  Yes, my wife and children are where I am spiritually but they still have to climb the mountain.  To die to self is extremely difficult and it takes the mountain process to trust in the Lord completely with all thy heart [mind], and not to make an Ishmael.  Abraham and Sara tried to help God make his promise come true, and found it difficult to wait on God’s timing, just like us. The mountain climbing process is a reality and we need to love each other while doing it.

The seven Genesis sketches (from the Short Sword) prove that we are on this planet to grow spiritually.

Why is it so difficult to give our lives over into God’s complete control?

Because we are dark and deep.

We have a mind of our own, a will, intellect, and emotions. (Figure 5)

No longer my will but God’s will.  This is not so easy.  We have found out that we have lots of emotions and senses; and our intellect wants to rule our minds.  Perhaps the biggest problem is the past.  Where do these emotions and reminders of our past come from?  They come from within!

Do you remember Genesis?  We are a deep, very deep, surging mass.  Our emotions are constantly restless.

Gen 1:2:  “The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep.”

And we were dark. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ‘FACE’ means part that turns.

The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters. For we are filled with a sea of emotions that wants to rule our minds.

 Let’s briefly remind ourselves of the Genesis sketches:

WE have a sea of dark emotions within us, that wants to rule in the mind; where the little sun is in figure 7.

The Genesis sketches show our spiritual growth out of darkness (Figure 6 A), through first finding the light (B), then understanding the Word (C) ,we go through spiritual dry places (D) to grow in the knowledge of what is within us (E) and then we become the garden dwellers (F) who still have a choice  whether we will finally trust the Lord with all our heart and lean not unto our own understanding, to experience a constant seventh day of rest (G).

This sea within us will eventually become the dead sea. Further explanations on this subject in the book: ‘A Room with a View’.

In the Short Sword we have found out that Adam had exactly the same problem.  As long as Adam was willing to eat from the tree of Life, (carpenter, Jesus) (Figure 8) he would have a safe mind.  Having communion with God causes a safe garden.  The word ‘garden’ means ‘fenced’.  Adam had to keep the garden mind by trusting and communing only with his Lord God.

Adam could not do this and lost the garden to the serpent, who later became so large (Figure 9) through the imaginations of man that it became the dragon on the sea.  What sea?  The sea of emotions, who ruled the minds of the people of Israel. (Figure 10) On the left in figure 10 the dragon is on the sea, and on the right is an Egyptian.

Spiritually we are Israel, we are slaves to our emotions just as Israel was to Pharaoh. We need to understand the blood and the pass over lamb, so the sea can turn red and then be parted so we can live in the Promised Land.

 We are the seed of Abraham who conceived a star generation by believing God and counting the stars (Figure 11) to generate faith in his imagination where God’s power resides and gives you the desire of your heart (mind). 

Later the law came through Moses and the mind of man was now filled with the law instead of the serpent (Figure 12).  

But the enemy ruled in the minds of man constantly as it still rules ours, and it would take the life of the Son of God to clear the mind forever. 

Just as Samson died (Figure 13) with the enemy so Jesus gave his life.  The only difference between Samson and Jesus is that Jesus sprinkled His blood and declared that it is finished.

Now the mind was cleared, and then Jesus sprinkled His blood this high. As high as the cross bar of the cross,(Figure 14) and tore open the veil so we could not only enter in to the Holy of Holies but also live a totally safe life from the inner enemy within us.

The idea is that we will live up here in His presence constantly and receive revelation, inspiration, and safety.  Just as Noah was saved from the sea, so we are saved from an inner sea to live high. (Figure 15)  Noah had to stay in the ark until all the water drained off the earth.  Then God gave the rainbow promise (Figure 16) which means mercy and grace.  We can live in His presence constantly above the issues of life in a safe garden mind, where Jesus is the gardener.

In the past we Christians would declare victory, cast out the enemy, but somehow it came back and it would be worse than before.

This is exactly what Jesus said: we would cast out the demon and it would go to dry places, (we are the sea, outside of us it is dry) then it would come back with seven more and the last state of the man is worse than the first.

What demons are they?  They are anger, pride, greed and judgement etc.  Where did they come from?  They come from within.  When I say fear, you know exactly what I’m talking about for we all have the same sea within us.

Be honest now, is there anybody who can keep their minds?  People are considered great if they can do this.  Monks might have achieved this living in a monastery surrounded by brothers in total unison.  Some of these monks could levitate during worship but it took incredible discipline and dedication.  Is it necessary to abstain from the natural life God meant us to enjoy to reach these spiritual heights?  Most agree there must be an easier way!

I have asked many groups this question; can we keep our mind?  The answer is always the same: we cannot; therefore something drastic will have to happen.

We realise the Power of God is within our minds (Figure 17).

But we have lower emotions to contend with, for instance pride, jealousy etc; these emotions seek to occupy the mind with self.  We can waste a lot of precious dream time by allowing these emotions access to our minds.

We are to become the generation who will understand the cross and the blood and live above our inner emotions in a garden.

This garden is not far, and it is not for the super spiritual, or intellectual, it is the place you used to play as a child.

Dreams

We were created in the image of God to imagine and dream our original dreams in our ‘womb of conception’ (mind).  Just as Abraham was taught by God to visualise his descendants.  Jacob and his goats, and Joseph would never have become the second most powerful man in Egypt if he did not dream the God-dream to save his people from famine.

The all powerful mind is created to imagine our original dreams, more on this later in this book.

If we can look at our dreams constantly, God gives us the desires of our minds (hearts).

God is not Santa Clause.  He does not give us things because it seems the right thing to do.  God gives us whatever we think long enough.  If we think we are sick even if we are not we will eventually be sick. This is how this power in the mind works.  You already knew this through personal experience.  Now we need to find out how we can keep our minds during the incubation of good things that will glorify God.

The tabernacle in the wilderness was designed by God as a place where His presence could dwell constantly.  If we can be in his presence constantly, we will know what He wants us to do and all the time we will be provided for as His people.  As you have seen in previous studies God always does things physically before establishing it in the spiritual. For instance; Jesus calms the physical storm and later the spiritual storm in legion.

At this point I would have loved to bring in all the hundreds of scriptures where it proves that God wants to be with us.  If you are a Bible reader you will know this is true.

This craving of God to be with His beloved is written throughout the Bible starting with Adam and ending with Revelation.  God wants to rest in us, dwell in us so He can provide for us

(Ps 113:13).

Whatever it is you have to do for God will flow out of you like a river, if God is present.  He is the Creator and wants to create through you.

I believe that we are all in agreement; we will first have to get a God mind.

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Foreword

This book is completely out of the ordinary.  It is the life’s work of a man, who, as a child, had a vision of God and His glory. Needless to say, his experiences were not understood by those around him because of the then ‘popular human perceptions’ toward anything supernatural. Consequently he was ‘shut down’ by his superiors from verbalizing his experience with God. However, the vision never faded; in fact it grew over time.

This is not a long drawn out autobiography but rather tells of a practical, down to earth,

Biblically based lifestyle lived out by a family which has proven that they can lead without bowing to the social pressures and norms of society.

You will find this story intriguing, fast-moving, spell binding, but you cannot read it quickly with full understanding, as there is simply too much information.

You will want to keep this book with you always and use it as a tool to show the ‘Gospel of the Kingdom of God’ to anybody you meet, by simply explaining the many pictures provided by the artist/sculptor.

For the first time we Christians will have pictures of the Spirit world that prove our faith, and confirm that deep ‘knowing’ that comes to you when you give your life to Jesus.  You can now share it with all your loved ones, and those you could never reach before.

You will, along with all who have visited “The Shoe”, echo their findings that these revelations can only be from God.  No person could ever know these things unless they had been given by God.

After so many years of waiting we can finally say, God has used Ron van Zyl and his family in an exceptional way to create a visualization of, what can only be referred to as Unique.  

Introduction

The Artist’s Story

When I was a boy of about 5 years old my mother told me a Bible story.  The one about Samuel who as a boy heard the voice of God.  My mother said that I could also give my life to Jesus and He would talk with me.  I went on my knees and after giving my life to the Lord, I saw this “High Place”.  It was gold in colour and Jesus was there. .  It was full of joy, song, happiness and peace.  It is a place where you can have anything you need.  Being only five years old, I thought everybody knew about that place and so I talked about it freely all the time.  My Mother finally cornered me and asked me: “What are you talking about?”  I told her ‘it’s the picture I saw when I gave my life to Jesus, its here, inside my mind’! 

She was very upset and told me never to do that again because it was meditation and eastern of origin, that it was from the devil and so on. My Mother had come out of a strict religious background with little or no understanding of the “Spirit Realm”, thus, any such ‘mystical’ experiences were, in her opinion, from satan, not God. 

But still I measured everybody I met in life against what I had seen as a child.  When she took me to the church, nothing that I saw or heard there looked remotely like what I had seen that night.  Heaven is full of joy, song, happiness and peace, not so religion!

Not finding anything of substance in the everyday lives of ordinary people around me, in the town of my birth, Cape Town, South Africa. I set out to find my own space, settling in the Eastern Transvaal, now called Mpumalanga. Here I lived the solitary life of an artist.  It being a farming community, I was ignored as an eccentric.

At the age of 24I decided to give my life and talents to the Lord Jesus. I joined my brother who had a mission station in the Eastern Transvaal (Mpumalanga) and together we built a Bible Sculpture Garden as a tourist attraction. 

It is logical, that an artist, who remains in the presence of the Holy Spirit, will be able to reveal through drawings, paintings and sculptures, what the ‘Spirit Realm looks like’.  But it was only in 1974, 19 years  after my childhood vision of ‘ The Heavenly Realms’ and with Holy Spirit instruction and guidance, that I was allowed, by God, to ‘expose the spirit world’ through my art. 

My first attempt was a 15 meter high rock face sculpture, completed at the age of twenty six and named “The Hell”.   My brother Paul helped me build a scaffold and I started at the top working downwards behind a screen for privacy as the tourists would keep me out of my work.  Because of the screen I could never stand back and look at the work.  I was not able to examine it from a distance for uniformity or balance. 

While I was away on a weekend trip my brother broke the scaffold down saying that at the speed I was going I would never finish.  By so doing he forced completion of the work.  On returning I was amazed to see that all the work was in perspective, the figures at the top were seven foot six inches (2,3 metres) tall and at the bottom five foot six inches (1,7 metres). That happened by itself and I began to recognise the Lord’s hand in my work. 

This rock face is where I got rid of the frustration of not finding that heavenly place I had seen as a boy.  It had taken two years to complete, as I was studying anatomy at the same time.  It also put me on the path to reading scripture to find out what hell is.  Out of these studies came intriguing subjects to paint and sculpt.  Most people are familiar with bible stories and my art proved to be a great way to connect with tourists. 

Strangely, there was not even one person who would say what they thought of it, and I began to think that it offended people, until one day my Father came to look at it and he said: “It is alright”. He was a very hard man and if he said that something was alright, that is exactly what it was.  That’s the closest I got to receive any compliment, but again I recognized the Lord’s hand in it – warning me – if I wanted to work for Him the glory would always belong to Him – and Him alone!  Our Merciful and Gracious Lord was protecting me from pride.    

Two years later, in 1978, I married Yvonne and built a house for us.  Along with my wife, we ‘created’ everything we needed with our own hands, together we learnt to live by faith.  From the mountains we took rock to build our home and wood from which to carve.  By means of very hard work and faith in our Creator, God Almighty, we were led through gruelling deserts of life by the Holy Spirit. We discovered that you can have anything you need, supplied by your Father – Almighty God. 

The end result is that we as a family, Yvonne and I and our two children, Michell and Aldo, have become a tower of strength to those around us in a world that has run out of answers.  Through the explanations and living testimonies contained is this book you too will see how you can get anything you need, Yes, anything you need, supplied by your Father – Almighty God – it is His Desire for you.

This is the ‘Heart of God’, summed up in the words “ .. Father of  mercies,³⁶²⁸ and the God of all comfort;³⁸⁷⁴   … “  –  2 Cor 1:3 (KJV) (Strong’s Numbers).

Check it out for yourself. The words ‘mercy and comfort’, sometimes translated only as ‘merciful’, as in ‘merciful Father’ or ‘merciful God’, carry with them the heart of God, which include, interalia, the following:

‘Pity – God pities us in our circumstances’,

‘Compassion – God has co-passion together with us in our circumstances’, and

‘Desire – God desires to give us all good things’.

Isn’t it time that we captured the ‘Heart of our Father’, who is after all God Almighty, and hence enter into ‘Life’ living in ‘His Desire’ for us?

You will quickly find out the general mistakes we Christians make.  You will no longer search for your blessings in the church, but will become a blessing to the church.

The only demands on you, is a disciplined dedication to know and understand the Lord Jesus Christ with all your heart. 

This book is meant to take you there, step by step.  We will take you through a series of sculptures, paintings, drawings, stories, and practical application to where we will watch you walking ‘high and free’ – giving God alone the praise.

We are not religious!  We have a relationship! Religion is Not Freedom!

When they call us religious it is not a complement.  The Sadducees and Pharisees were religious and their religion was hated by Jesus.  He called them scorpions and vipers. 

We have a relationship with Jesus Christ; His Spirit teaches everything we need to know.

This is our prayer for you also.

Please enjoy this book as a revelation of the ‘greater things’ available for each and every one of us in Christ Jesus.

Ron van Zyl

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VOORWOORD

My vrou, Yvonne en ek het besluit om in die platteland te woon en om ons kinders ‘n gehalte manier van lewe te gee. ‘n Plaaslike boer het vir ons ‘n stukkie grond gegee om op te bou en te lewe. Ek het in die omliggende berge, droë hardehout versamel en beelde daaruit gekerf. Yvonne het dit in die padstal wat ons gebou het, verkoop. Alhoewel ons arm aan wêreldse besittings was, het ons ‘n gehalte lewenstyl gehad en die hoop op ‘n blink toekoms.

Ons was egter nie toegerus vir die ‘bagasie’ wat besoekers en toeriste by ons agtergelaat het nie.

Yvonne, met haar sonnige geaardheid, het graag na die besoekers geluister en vir my gevra om met hulle oor hul probleme te praat en hulle te bemoedig. Dit het ons gedoen en hulle probeer versterk deur hulle te vertel hoe ons, ons probleme hanteer, deur te lewe in die geloof en by wyse van ons persoonlike getuienisse. Ons het hulle aangemoedig om die Bybel te lees, God se krygstuig aan te trek en om die Bloed te verstaan. Ons staan vandag nog stomgeslaan oor hoeveel van God se volwasse kinders nie eers hierdie basiese dinge doen nie en dan blameer hulle vir God. Ons frustrasies het al hoe meer toegeneem en toe smeek ons God vir ‘n wyse, om die mense wat ons so ontmoet, te kan help.

Om drie-uur een oggend, het ek buite onder die sterre gesit en mediteer. Die volgende oomblik het ek die Geestes-Wêreld gesien wat in ‘n grot verduidelik word. Ek het gesien hoe dat baie mense op dié manier gehelp word. Van daardie oomblik af, het dit ons strewe geword om ons eie eiendom te besit en om die grot te bou. Hierin het ons uiteindelik geslaag, gepaardgaande met baie beproewinge waarvan ons u in die boek, ‘Die Lyn’ vertel.

Saam met ons kinders Michelle en Aldo, het ons vir ses jaar, duisende mense deur die grot begelei, voordat die Here aan ons ‘n skildery en ‘n bonatuurlike wyse gegee het om te bewys dat daar ‘n geestelike skeidingslyn tussen die Koninkryk van die Lig en die Koninkryk van die Duister is.

Vir die eerste keer het ons nou al die werk wat op Golgota gedoen was en die Kruis verstaan. Al ons persoonlike probleme is deur die openbaringe opgelos. Ons het ook, deur middel van die bekendmaking van hierdie kennis, kon sien hoe ons vriende genees word en van hulle laste verlos word. Ons het nie meer nodig om iemand te besoek vir genesing nie. DAAR IS ‘N HOë PLEK IN ONS GEDAGTES waar ons die Here in die koelte van die dag ontmoet en waar ons genesing ontvang en instruksies kry om probleme op te los.

Die ‘Kort Swaard’ is die resultaat van ons bereidwilligheid om ons geestelike groei te saai en met ons naaste te deel. As jy saai, sal jy maai.

Daar is so baie siek, arm en depressiewe Godvresende mense, wat om een of ander rede, skynbaar nie kan begryp waaroor die Bybel eintlik gaan nie. Die doel van hierdie boek is dan ook, om nie net as ‘n handleiding te dien nie, maar om aan u die kerngedagte van elke Bybelverhaal, makliker te laat verstaan en hoekom God dit hoegenaamd in die Skrif opgeneem het. Verder sal dit u aanmoedig om die Bybel te bestudeer en om uit te vind hoe elke storie lei tot die Christusstorie.    

DEEL 1

DIE GEDAGTES

Dit is algemene kennis dat daar krag in ons denke is. Ons weet ook, dat daar baie mense is wat hierdie krag suksesvol aanwend. Hulle is egter meestal nie-Christene en dit is wat my daarvan weerhou het om die ‘mind’ te bestudeer. Vir ons Christene is dit ‘n ongekarteerde gebied en ons wil ons nie blootstel om deur demone beset te word nie.

Dit is daarom vir my ‘n groot verligting gewees toe ek uitvind dat die ‘siel’ die ‘mind’ is. Jesus het Sy siel vir die mens se sondes geoffer. Sonde is in die wyse wat ons dink. Dit is hoe ek tot die gevolgtrekking gekom het dat Jesus vir ons gedagtes gesterf het.

Soos ons aangaan met hierdie studies en jy ernstig genoeg is om die waarheid vir jouself uit te vind, sal dit baie baat as jy e-Sword op jou rekenaar aflaai. Dit is gratis vir almal. Kyk op ons kolofoonblad (bls.2) vir die posadres. Dan kan u al die stellings en bewerings vir uself nagaan en sommer hoor wat Die Gees van die Waarheid hieroor te sê het.  

Ek wens ons kon net die kerngedagte van elke Bybelstorie vasvang vir u gerief. Maar ons hoop om die aandag te kry van mense op elke vlak van geestelike groei en daarom moes ek redelike agtergrond van elke storie gee. Die doel van die boek is om as handleiding te gebruik vir die teken van eenvoudige sketsies, of om selfs net te deel met diegene wat u op u pad ontmoet. Dit laat my altyd so magteloos, as ek nie al die gereedskap het om die hulpbehoewendes te kan help nie. As jy van nou af besoek by ‘n hospitaal aflê en die Here gee jou die geleentheid om Sy Woord te bedien, haal eenvoudig net jou ‘Kort Swaard’ uit en wys hulle die prentjies. Daar is baie krag in ons denke.

Gen 2:7:   “En die HERE God het die mens geformeer uit die stof van die aarde en in sy neus die asem van die lewe geblaas.” So het dan die mens ‘n lewende siel geword.  (1Kor 15:45-49)

Hy is nou ‘n wese wat asemhaal (H5315). Hierdie nommers in hakies word vir u gerief gegee. Tik dit in jou e-Sword, daar waar die verkykertjie is en kyk wat die konteks is in die Hebreeus Griekse woordeboek. Die Ou Testament is vertaal uit Hebreeus en die Nuwe Testament uit die Grieks.

Die krag wat in Adam is, is God in hom. Die asem van God is die krag in ons. Hy is die ‘EK IS’. Hy het Homself aan Moses voorgestel as ‘EK IS!’ – DIE KRAG BINNE JOU. Laastens, my persoonlike waarneming; Hierdie krag in ons, is God in ons. Dit is die enigste rede waarom ons harte klop. Sonder Sy teenwoordigheid in ons, sal ons sekerlik sterf.

Daar is mense wat die krag van binne hulself gebruik tot groot sukses en God nie die eer daarvoor gee nie. Sommiges kan met die krag selfs ysters buig, oor gloeiende kole loop, genesing ontvang en dan noem hulle dit, die krag van die ‘mind’. Mense soos Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Marconi, Mark Twain en andere het almal die ‘eindelose krag’ gevra vir inspirasie voordat hulle gaan slaap het. Hulle het almal baie tyd spandeer, deur na hul persoonlike droom te kyk en hulself daarmee te vul. Nie een van hierdie mense was bekend gewees vir hul toegewyde geloof nie, hulle het eenvoudig net die negatiewe geïgnoreer en op die positiewe gekonsentreer. Een jong knaap van ongeveer agt jaar oud, het die situasie mooi opgesom deur te sê:  “Oom, dit klink baie maklik, maar dit is nie so maklik nie, nê?”

My eie swaer was ‘n nie-Christen, ‘n suksesvolle besigheidsman. Ons het hom eenkeer gevra om ‘n groepie, tydens ‘n naweek seminaar, toe te spreek. Hy het gesê, daar is ‘n krag binne ons. Hy weet nie wat dit is nie, miskien is dit God, maar hy glo nie in God nie. Deur persoonlike dissipline het hy hierdie krag aangewend vir finansiële gewin. Hy het elke oggend, winter of somer, in die swembad geduik. Dit was om homself te oefen om sy gedagtes gefokus te hou op, wat ookal hy na gestreef het. Hier kom my nuwe kar, sou hy sê, terwyl hy sy hande in afwagting vryf. En dan het hy dit gekry!

Hierdie nie-Christen het eenmaal die volgende stelling gemaak: “Wanneer jy besluit het wat die doelwit is, moet jy konstant daarna kyk. Moet nie bekommer omdat daar nie geld is nie, die geld sal kom.” Hy het nooit iemand iets beny nie, nooit jaloers op iemand gewees nie en HET GEEN BENUL VAN NEDERIGHEID GEHAD NIE.

Hy het daarin geglo om goed te wees en het altyd van ‘ou Niek’ gepraat as sy persoonlike kastyder.

Hy was egter nie so gelukkig in ander gebiede van sy lewe, soos sy huwelik en verhoudings met ander mense nie. Daar was ‘n diepe, persoonlike hartseer in my swaer, wat nie gevul kon word met besittings en ‘n kompeterende leefstyl nie.

As u my ander boek ‘Die Misterie van die Eeue’ gelees het, sal u ‘n idee hê van die oorlog wat binne ons plaasvind. Die doel van hierdie boek is, vir ons om ‘n holistiese voorspoed te beleef.

In my persoonlike studies, het ek nie op een van hierdie suksesvolle mense afgekom, wat fisies hard gewerk het nie. Hulle spandeer baie tyd aan hulle persoonlike drome en doelwitte.  

KRAG

As Christene word ons nie juis aangemoedig om die krag van die denke te gebruik nie, want ons is bang ons word deur ‘n duiwel of ‘n demoon beset en bowendien, dit klink darem baie Oosters. Ten spyte daarvan bid ons Ef 1:17:

Ef 1:17:  “… die Vader van die heerlikheid, aan julle die Gees van wysheid en openbaring in kennis van Hom mag gee, …”

As kinders word ons nooit geleer van die krag van die ‘mind’ nie, maar ons word aangemoedig om geld by die bank te leen. Die banke sê: “Jy het God nie nodig nie, leen by ons geld en bly die res van jou lewe in skuld.” Dit mag dalk net die rede wees hoekom ons in skuld beland, want ons wil dit nóú hê. In kontras hiermee, leer die Bybel ons: ‘Nie deur krag of mag nie, maar deur My Gees.’

Baie van hierdie ‘krag van die verstand’-boeke, verduidelik wel die krag wat in ons is en gebruik dit wel baie suksesvol. Hulle gebruik selfs aanhalings uit die Bybel. Ons weet egter dat ‘n mens enigiets uit die Bybel kan bewys. Wat ons graag wil weet, is hoe kan ons dit doen deur die Gees en die waarheid en aan God die eer gee?

Hierdie tipe boeke vertel in baie gevalle van bonatuurlike gebeure, wat plaasgevind het omdat dit deur die brein gewil is en daarvoor, in afwagting gehoop is. My vriend Trevor Thomson het my van so ‘n geval vertel. Hy sê dat hy een Kersfees vir die kinders ‘n verrassing gebou het. Daarvoor het hy egter baie goiingsak benodig. Terwyl hy oppad is om van die goed in die hande te probeer kry, vind hy ‘n hele baal daarvan in die pad. Nou wat is die kans dat so iets gebeur? Ek kan maar net aflei dat dit die Hemel is wat voorsien het, maar Trevor staan nie sterk op Christenskap nie. Miskien het hy die krag van sy brein gebruik. Hy sê dat hy juis op daardie oomblik geestelik sterk gevoel het. Hy was duidelik op daardie tydstip seker daarvan, dat wat hy doen, reg is en hy het op die Hemel gehoop om te voorsien. Wat is dan die doel van die kruisiging as ons hierdie krag kan gebruik en regkom daarmee, sonder die kruis in elk geval? Vir hierdie rede is dit noodsaaklik dat ons moet uitvind wat die ‘mind’ is.

SIEL

‘n Studie van die woord ‘siel’ in die Hebreeus en Griekse Konkordansie het gelei tot die volgende ontdekking: Die Siel is die ‘Mind’. As ek hierdie feit as kind geweet het, sou my lewe waarskynlik heeltemal anders daaruit gesien het, want soos die mens dink, so is hy.      

Die Vines Woordeboek het die volgende van die SIEL te sê:

Vines oor Spreuke 16:2: “Die woord blyk baie meer te meen as slegs die element van lewe, dit blyk te meen ‘Siel’. In die mens se oë is al sy weë skoon, maar God oorweeg die Gees.”

Die ‘King James Version’ gebruik alleen meer as agt-en-twintig verskillende terme vir hierdie een Hebreeuse woord. Ons sal dit met u deel gedurende die loop van die boek en ook in die diep studie wat gemaak word in die volgende boek oor die LYN, ‘ ‘n Kamer Met ‘n Uitsig’. Dit is dan ook om hierdie rede dat ons deurgaans, waar dit moeilik is om ‘n goeie Afrikaanse ekwivalent te vind,  die term ‘mind’ gebruik het.

Die Siel en die Gees van die mens is van die verwarrendste onderwerpe in die wêreld, maar na alles gesê is, bly dit steeds die krag van die ‘mind’ wat jou in staat stel om ysters te buig en oor gloeiende kole te loop.

Wat is dan die GEES?

Wanneer iemand byvoorbeeld sy woede mediteer, dan kyk ons na hom en sê hy het ‘n kwaai gees. Dit beteken dat sy woede-denke nie bloot meer gedagtes is nie, maar dat dit die meditasie van sy hart geword het.

Soos ‘n mens dink, so is hy. Kom ons kyk nou wat die HART is (3 Joh 1:2).

HART

Wanneer jy die meeste mense vra waar die siel in jou geleë is, sal hulle na die hart wys.

Spr 4:23:  “Bewaak jou hart meer as alles wat bewaar moet word, want daaruit is die oorspronge van die lewe.” 

Hierdie woord ‘Hart’ word ook vertolk as ‘mind’ en ‘kern’ (3820) en in hierdie konteks word dit 666 keer in die Ou Testament gebruik. Kom ons lees bostaande skriftuurplasing nou reg:

Bewaak jou ‘mind’ (kern) meer as alles wat bewaar moet word, want daaruit is die oorspronge van die lewe.   

 In ander woorde, soos die mens dink, so is hy.  In Psalm 21:2 sê dit dat God ons die begeertes van ons harte gee,maar die woord beteken eintlik denke (mind).

Dus, God gee aan ons dit wat ons in ons harte dink. Hy gee aan ons diep gemediteerde denke, of dit nou goed of sleg is. As ons dink ons is siek, dan is ons siek. As ons dink dat ons gesond is, dan is ons gesond. Dit is hoekom ons die Bybel moet lees, want ons wil God se denke dink, tyd by Hom spandeer in ‘n verhouding met Hom, wat gelei word deur die Gees, in die koelte van die dag. Die eindresultaat is ‘n Geesgeleide lewe. Ons doen dit nie deur krag of mag van die ‘mind’ nie, maar deur die Gees van die Waarheid. (Sag 4:6).

God het die hart van Farao verhard (Eks 7:1). Hy het nie die pompende spier in Farao se liggaam verhard nie, maar sy denke (mind) teenoor die Israeliete. Ons doen dit ook dikwels bv. wanneer ons sê ons sal nie weer iemand om een of ander rede vertrou nie. Hierdie is ‘n persoonlike keuse en is nie geesgelei nie.

Gen 6:6:  “…het dit die HERE berou dat Hy die mens op die aarde gemaak het, en daar was smart in Sy hart.” (Mind)

Spr 3:5:  “Vertrou op die HERE met jou hele hart (mind) en steun nie op jou eie insig nie.”

Dit bring ons by die belangrikste vers. Die woord ‘siel’ is ons ‘gedagtes’ (mind). Strong’s nommer 5315. Dit beteken ook ‘wese wat asemhaal’. Dieselfde asem wat in Adam geblaas is. Hierdie woord is ook dieselfde lewe wat in alle lewende skepsels voorkom. DIE ASEM VAN GOD.

Jes 53:11:  “Weens die moeitevolle lyde van sy siel sal Hy dit sien en versadig word; deur sy kennis sal my Kneg, die Regverdige, baie regverdig maak; en Hy sal hulle skuld dra.” 

Die wyse wat ons dink, is sonde.

Sonde is nie lewensvatbare denke nie. Niks skeppend kan uit sondige denke kom nie, as jy ongeluk dink, gebeur ongeluk. As ons denke oor so ‘n geweldige krag beskik, wat die lewe of die dood kan veroorsaak, is dit nie nou die tyd dat ons besin oor wat ons dink nie?

Deut 30:19:  “Ek neem vandag die hemel en die aarde as getuies teen julle; die lewe en die dood, die seën en die vloek het ek jou voorgehou. Kies dan die lewe, dat jy kan lewe, jy en jou nageslag,”      

In Openbaring 1:18, sien ons Jesus Christus hou die sleutels van die lewe. Dit beteken dat net HY aan ons ‘n veilige ‘mind’ kan gee waarin ons lewegewende denke kan dink. (Joh 10:10)

Illustrasie 2 is waarna ons hunker. Ons wil God se Koninkryk wees, Sy krag en Sy glorie. Ander mense moet kan sien die Koninkryk is in ons. Hierdie son in die sentrum van ons wese (mind), is die naam van die Koninkryk van God. (Gen 1:4).

Matt 16:19:  “En Ek sal jou die sleutels van die koninkryk van die hemele gee; en wat jy ook op die aarde mag bind, sal in die hemel gebonde wees, en wat jy ook op die aarde mag ontbind, sal in die hemel ontbonde wees.”

Wanneer ons lewe dink en praat, verloor ons die hemel in die aarde.

Het Jesus werklik vir ons ‘minds’ gesterf?

Die krag is in die ‘mind’. Daarom is dit seker die magtigste kragbron op aarde. Maar hierdie kragbron staan onder konstante aanval van nie-lewensgewende, persoonlike en dierlike gedagtes. Gedurende die res van die boek, sal dit bewys word dat DIE WERK WAT BY DIE KRUIS GEDOEN IS, VIR ONS ‘MINDS’ WAS.

Dr J. Murphy se boek ‘The Power of the Mind’ sê: “Wetenskap lig ons in dat ons elke elf maande ‘n nuwe liggaam bou. Maar as ons defekte in ons liggaam inbou deur negatiewe gedagtes soos vrees, jaloesie en woede, dan kan ons niemand behalwe onsself daarvoor blameer nie.”

Die Goddelike krag binne ons is goed en oorvloedig. Dit is vol van elke goeie ding wat jy jou ookal kan verbeel, dink, of voor wens (Ef 3:2). Dit is voordurend besig om te skep en ons te druk vir lewensdenke. Tradisies en geloof het ons egter beroof van hierdie konstante bron van lewegewende mag en dit vervang met vrees.

Wanneer jy die lewens bestudeer van die grootste, suksesvolle besigheids-manne, digters, kunstenaars, sprekers en skrywers, sal jy altyd vind hulle het hulle beroep op die ‘innerlike kragte’ om dinge te openbaar, wat niemand van geweet het nie. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dale Carnegy, Giacomo Puccini, Johannes Brahms, om net ‘n paar te noem, sê almal dieselfde, nl: “Dadelik het die idees my begin binnevloei, direk vanaf God.” Hulle was nie noodwendig groot Christene nie en hulle het nie die Kruis verstaan soos ons dit vandag verstaan nie. Ook het hulle die beginsel van die Bloed nie verstaan nie, maar hulle het geglo in die krag van die denke.

Die meeste van hulle het geglo dat hulle self die kaptein van hulle siele is. Ons glo nie so nie, want ons het ‘n Kaptein wat dinge aan ons openbaar deur Sy indringende Gees.

Ons word voortdurend gelei deur Sy Waarheid en is die nuwe generasie, wat die wêreld voor gewag het om geopenbaar te word (Rom 8). Nasies sal kom na hierdie LIG (Jes 55:5). In hierdie generasie is die Lig van die wêreld (Matt 5:14).

Daarom, staan op, want jou lig het opgekom. Die glorie van God het oor jou gekom (Jes 60:1). Die kennis van die glorie van God het nou na ons toe gekom (Hab 2:14).

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‘n Huldeblyk aan die Skrywer

Dit is nie aldag dat ‘n mens iemand teëkom op wie se verbintenis jy so kan vertrou nie, iemand wie se woord nog sy woord is.

Iemand, so opreg in die waarheid wat hy verkondig, met onwrikbare geloof, wat daardeur in staat is om die groot Waarheid van God te ervaar in eenvoudige opregtheid. ‘n Man wat dit durf waag het om die twyfelagtige metodes van die praktiserende ‘Christenskap’ te bevraagteken en voort gegaan het om te bewys dat God geen leuenaar is nie.  In der waarheid, verder gegaan het en bewys het dat God se Woord die waarheid is en dat Sy beloftes in geglo kan word. En glo dat ons bedoel is om altyd te lewe in die ‘Guns van God’.

So ‘n man is Ron van Zyl. ‘n Baie talentvolle kunstenaar in wie God die verstommende gawe geplaas het om Sy Waarheid op ‘n unieke wyse te verklaar en uit te lê. ‘n Man van integriteit, wat sy God van naderby ken en gereeld saam met hom wandel. ‘n Man wat deurentyd van die Groot Skrywer van sy werk, hoor.

Moontlik die grootste vermeldbare eienskap van Ron is die toewyding waarmee hy sy kinders onderrig en leer van ‘God se Beginsels van die Lewe’. Die bewys hiervan kan gesien word in die lewens van Yvonne en hul kinders, Michell en Aldo, wat elk op hul eie wyse, die paadjie saam met God stap, op die fondasie wat deur hul man en vader gelê is. Wanneer gaan die res van ons ooit die kuns aanleer van sulke onbelemmerde, Christelike integriteit?

Vir my is dit ‘n groot eer om betrokke te wees met die produksie van hierdie ‘Kunswerk’.

Dit is (as ek dit mag sê) met groot trots dat ek my so bevoorreg vind om hierdie werk,

Die Lyn deur Ron van Zyl

aan u te bring.

Wees geseënd deur die ‘God van die Heelal’ terwyl u hierdie ‘kunswerk’ geniet.

Dankie Ron,

Nils Gregersen      

VOORWOORD

Hierdie boek is heeltemal buitengewoon. Dit is die lewenstaak van ‘n man wat as kind, ‘n visie van God en Sy Heerlikheid gehad het. Nodeloos om te sê, sy wedervaringe is nooit verstaan deur diegene rondom hom nie, veral nie gesien in die lig van toendertyd se ‘menslike persepsies van die bonatuurlike’ nie. Gevolglik is hy deur sy meerderes die swye opgelê sodra hy oor sy ervarings met God gepraat het. Maar die visie het nooit vervaag nie, tewens dit het met die tyd net duideliker geword.

Hierdie boek is nie ‘n lang, uitgerekte outobiografie nie, maar vertel eerder op ‘n praktiese, op die man af, Bybel-gegrondveste wyse van ‘n lewenswyse wat gely word deur ‘n gesin wat bewys het hulle kan leiding neem, sonder om gebuk te gaan onder die druk van hedendaagse stres en norme van die gemeenskap.

Hierin sal u hul storie interessant, boeiend en vinnig bewegend vind. Maar u kan dit nie vinnig lees en ten volle verstaan nie. Daar is eenvoudig net te veel inligting. U sal hierdie boekie altyd byderhand wil hou en as ‘n gereedskapstuk gebruik, om aan almal wat u ontmoet, die ‘Evangelie van God se Koninkryk’, aan die hand van die baie skilderye wat deur die skrywer verskaf is, te verduidelik. Hierdie skilderye en beelde is deur Ron, onder die leiding van God self, gemaak.

Vir die eerste keer het ons, as Christene, nou prente van die Geesteswêreld wat ons geloof bewys en bevestig dat ‘n ‘diepe kennis’ van ons besit neem as ons, ons lewens vir Jesus gee. U kan dit nou deel met u geliefdes en diegene wat u nooit vantevore kon bereik nie.

U sal nou saam met almal wat reeds Die Skoen besoek het, hul bevindings kan bevestig en getuig dat die openbaringe slegs van God self af moes kom. Geen mens kan self hierdie dinge weet, tensy dit vanaf God direk, ontvang is nie.  

Na baie jare se wag, kan ons nou uiteindelik sê dat God vir Ron van Zyl en sy gesin op ‘n merkwaardige wyse gebruik het om ‘n visionalisering te skep, wat net met een woord beskryf kan word nl: Uniek.

INLEIDING

DIE KUNSTENAAR SE STORIE

As ‘n seuntjie van ongeveer vyf jaar oud, het my moeder my ‘n Bybelstorie vertel. Die een van Samuel wat as seuntjie, die stem van God gehoor het. My moeder het my vertel dat ek ook my lewe vir Jesus kan gee en dat Hy dan ook met my sal praat. Ek het op my knieë gegaan en nadat ek my lewe vir die Here gegee het, het ek hierdie hoë plek gesien. Dit het die kleur van goud gehad en Jesus was daar. Dit was gevul met blydskap, liedere, vreugde en vrede. Dit was ‘n plek waar jy enigiets kon kry, wat jy ookal benodig het. As ‘n vyfjarige het ek gedink dat almal van die plek geweet het, daarom het ek vrylik en die heel tyd daarvan gepraat. Uiteindelik het my moeder my vasgetrap en gevra: ”Waarvan praat jy?” Ek het haar vertel:  “Dit is die prentjie wat ek gesien het toe ek my lewe vir Jesus gegee het. Dit is hier in my gedagtes!”.

Sy was baie ontsteld en het my vertel om dit nooit weer te doen nie, want dit is meditasie, en meditasie is van Oosterse afkoms, dat dit direk van die duiwel af kom, ensovoorts. My moeder het uit ‘n baie streng gelowige agtergrond gekom, maar het min of geen begrip van die ‘Geestes realm’ gehad nie. Daarom was enige ervaring wat vir haar ‘bonatuurlik’ geklink het, direk van satan af en nie God nie.

Maar ek het steeds almal wat ek in my lewe raak geloop het, gemeet aan dit wat ek daardie nag, as kind gesien het. Toe sy my eenkeer saamvat kerk toe, het ek daar niks gesien of gehoor wat vir my hoegenaamd gelyk of geklink het soos dit wat ek daardie nag gesien het nie. Die hemel vol vreugde, liedere, geluk en vrede! Godsdiens glad nie!

Sonder om enige substansie in die alledaagse lewens van die gewone mense rondom my te vind, het ek my geboortedorp, Kaapstad verlaat om my eie spasie te skep. Ek het my gaan vestig in die Oos Transvaal, wat nou ingesluit is by die Limpopo, waar ek die eensame lewe van ‘n kunstenaar geleef het. In ‘n plattelandse boeregemeenskap is ek geïgnoreer en afgemaak as eksentriek.

Op die ouderdom van 24 het ek besluit om al my talente en my lewe aan God die Vader te wy. Ek het my by my broer, wat ‘n sendingstasie in Limpopo het, aangesluit en daar het ons saam ‘n Bybelbeeld-Tuin as toeriste-attraksie gebou.   

Dit is eintlik net logies dat ‘n kunstenaar wat die heeltyd in die teenwoordigheid van die Heilige Gees lewe, in staat sal wees om deur middel van sketse, skilderye en beelde, die Geestelike realm te kan uitbeeld. Maar dit was eers in 1974, negentien jaar na my eerste visie van ‘Hemelse Plekke’ as seuntjie, wat ek deur God toegelaat is om onder instruksie en leiding van die Heilige Gees, die ‘Geestes Wêreld’, deur my kuns bloot te stel.

 My eerste probeerslag was ‘n beeldhouwerk teen ‘n rotswand van vyftien meter hoog. Dit is voltooi op die ouderdom van ses en twintig en ons het dit ‘Die Hel’ genoem. My broer Paul het my gehelp om ‘n steier te bou en agter ‘n skerm, om nuuskieriges weg te hou, het ek van bo begin met die werk. As gevolg van die skerm, kon ek nie terugstaan om perspektief van die werk te kry nie. Die skerm was egter noodsaaklik, want toeriste het my dikwels uit die werk gehou. Die nadeel was dat ek nie die werk op ‘n afstand kon oordeel vir eenvormigheid of balans nie.

Terwyl ek een naweek weg was, het my broer die steiers afgebreek en gesê, dat teen die tempo wat ek werk, ek dit nooit gaan klaarkry nie. Deur dit te doen, het hy die voltooiing van die taak afgedwing. Toe ek terugkeer, het ek tot my verbasing gesien dat alles in perfekte balans en verhouding is. Die figure aan die bokant was presies sewe voet ses duim (2,3 meters) en die aan die onderkant presies vyf voet ses duim (1,7 meters). Dit het sommer vanself so gebeur en toe het ek tot die besef gekom en die hand van God in my werk gesien.

Hierdie rotswand is waar ek van die frustrasie, deur nie die hemelse plek wat ek as kind gesien het te vind nie, ontslae geraak.

Dit het twee jaar geneem om Die Hel te voltooi en in die tussentyd het ek anatomie bestudeer. Dit het my egter gedwing om die skriftuur te bestudeer om uit te vind wat die hel is. Uit hierdie studies het interessante onderwerpe om te skilder, gekom.

Die meeste mense is bekend met die Bybelstories en my kuns het geblyk ‘n goeie manier te wees om kontak met die toeriste te maak.

Vreemd, daar was nie ‘n enkele persoon wat bereid was om te sê wat hy hiervan dink nie. Soveel so, dat ek naderhand gedink het dat ek hiermee aanstoot aan mense gee, tot een oggend toe my vader kom kyk het hoe dit lyk. Hy het net gesê: “Dit is ‘allright’”. Hy was ‘n baie harde man en as hy gesê het, iets is ‘allright’ dan is dit presies wat dit is. Dit was die naaste wat ek gekom het aan enige wyse van ‘n kompliment. Maar ek het weer God se hand hierin gesien, ook Sy waarskuwing aan my, dat as ek vir Hom wil werk, moet alle eer Hom toekom, Hom alleen. Ons Groot en Genadige God was besig om my te beskerm van die euwel, TROTS. 

Twee jaar later, in 1978, is ek en Yvonne getroud en ons het vir ons ‘n huis gebou. Saam met my vrou het ons alles wat ons nodig gehad het, eiehandig ‘geskep’. Saam het ons geleer om in geloof te lewe. Van die berge rondom ons het ons die klip om die huis te bou en die hout vir die beelde gaan haal. By wyse van harde werk en die geloof in ons Skepper, die Almagtige God, is ons deur moordende woestyne van die lewe, deur die Heilige Gees gelei. Ons het ontdek dat jy alles wat jy benodig, van die Groot Verskaffer, die Vader, die Almagtige God, kan kry.  

Die eindresultaat was, dat ons as gesin, Yvonne, ekself en ons twee kinders, Michell en Aldo, ‘n toring van krag geword het vir diegene rondom ons, in ‘n wêreld waar antwoorde opgedroog het. Deur die verduidelikings en lewende getuienisse wat hierdie boek bevat, sal u as leser ook uitvind hoe om enigiets wat u benodig, te kry. Ja, enigiets wat jy benodig sal deur die Vader, die Almagtige God aan jou verskaf word. Dit is Sy begeerte vir jou!

Dit is die ‘Hart van God’, soos opgesom in die woorde…. “Vader van barmhartigheid” (Strong’s 3628) en “die God van alle vertroosting” (Strong’s 3874). Ook 2 Kor 1:3.

Ondersoek dit vir jouself. Die woorde ‘barmhartigheid’ en ‘vertroosting’ word somtyds vertaal as net ‘genadige’ soos in ‘genadige Vader’ of ‘genadige God’, maar dit dra inderwaarheid die hart van God en sluit onder andere in die volgende:

Bejammering – soos in ‘God bejammer ons in ons omstan-dighede’.

Medelyde – soos in ‘God ly mede (met ons) in ons omstan-dighede’.

Begeer – soos in ‘God begeer om ons alle goeie dinge te gee’.

Is dit nie hoog tyd dat ons die ‘Hart van Vader’ vasvang, wie in elk geval die Almagtige God is, en dan voortgaan in ‘n ‘Lewe’ in en leef in ‘Sy Begeerte’ vir ons nie?

Jy sal baie gou die algemene foute wat ons as Christene maak, agterkom. Jy sal nie langer jou seëninge in die kerk gaan soek nie, maar ‘n seëning vir die kerk word.

Die enigste vereiste wat van jou verlang word, is om Die Here Jesus Christus met jou hele hart te ken en te verstaan.

Die doel van hierdie boek is om jou stap vir stap daarnatoe te neem. Ons sal jou daarnatoe neem met behulp van reekse beelde, skilderye, tekeninge, stories en praktiese wenke vir toepassing en dan toekyk hoe jy ‘ hoog en vry’ loop terwyl jy alle eer aan God gee.

Ons is nie gelowig nie! Ons het ‘n verhouding met God! Gelowigheid is nie Vryheid nie!

As iemand ons gelowig noem, beskou ons dit nie as ‘n kompliment nie. Die Sadduseërs en Fariseërs was gelowig en hulle is deur Jesus gehaat as gevolg daarvan. Hy het hulle skerpioene en adders genoem. Ons het ‘n verhouding met Jesus Christus en Sy Gees leer ons alles wat ons nodig het om te weet. Dit is dan ook ons gebed vir jou.

Geniet asb. hierdie boek as ‘n openbaring van die ‘groter dinge’ wat vir ‘n ieder en elk van ons beskikbaar is in Christus Jesus.

Ron van Zyl.

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