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The Sign of Jonah: Three Days and Three Nights, Part 2

“What did Yahshua Do the Three Days his Body was in the Grave?”

PART TWO - PART ONE

During the three days of the Sign of Jonah, Yahshua’s remains rested in the tomb. His body was dead.

1. Yahshua was born as a man but he wasn’t a man.

John 1:1. [In the] beginning was the Word (Logos / Dabar)

John 2:1b,3. all things came to be through him ....

Colossians 2:9 For in [Messiah] the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily ...

Revelation 2:9 ... the first and the last, who died and came to life.

Revelation 3:1 ... him who has the seven spirits of Yahweh and the seven stars.

Revelation 3:14 ... the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of Yahweh’s creation.

In fact, these verses imply that Spirit Yahshua couldn’t be killed at all. The great miracle was the taking back of his crucified body after three days and before it corrupted.

2. Here are some of Yahshua’s titles from the Bible and elsewhere: the Word, the Firstborn of Creation, the Angel of Yahweh, the Son, the Son of Man, the Son of Righteousness, the Metatron, the Only Begotten, the Right Arm seated at the Right Hand, seated in heavenly places, King of Kings etc. As such, Yahshua, the Dabar, the Angel of Yahweh (Isaiah 9:1-4), could not die and may not have even been subject to destruction in the lake of fire.

3. Next we go to the realm of perception. Modern scientists have proven that the reality we sense is only an illusion. Stimulus received through the senses is processed by the brain – what we know is a chemical creation, interpreted very subjectively. Yahweh designed us this way so we could effectively deal with the very small amount of information we receive through our senses and “make sense of it.”

Ohio has now passed a law that its schools will teach that a creator has intelligently designed the universe. Had we as part of the creation been designed differently, more astute and open, our brains would not be able to handle the incredible amount of stimulus. We would certainly be a race of people much madder than we’ve proven to be.

Consider if we had to deal with simple things like radio waves, cosmic radiation, sound waves beyond our hearing range, etc. We are limited to seeing in the realm we call “the natural.” We are limited primarily to the first heaven. We neither see the supernatural nor usually sense it, though some have a sixth sense for it.

4. Next to time, space, energy and matter: Our sense of all four of these things is mere perception interpreted by the brain and other organs. Godly scientists like Albert Einstein, who’s intention it was to learn the nature of Elohim, proved that both matter and energy are concentrated forms of space and time. We call this “the time / space continuum.” Such is the realm of the physicist and mathematician.

Suffice it to say that Yahweh has revealed to man that spiritual matters do not run in accordance with our limited perception. There are many hints of this disparity in the Bible, but none clearer than

Psalm 90:4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

2 Peter 3:8. But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with Yahweh one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Time, space, matter and energy are perceived radically differently by spiritual or multi-dimensional beings like the Metatron; who, in Hebrew lore,

is Prince of the Divine Face, Angel of the Covenant, King of Angels, Lesser YHWH. Metatron is charged with the sustenance of the world. In the Talmud and Targum, Metatron is the direct link between Yahweh and humanity.

We know the Metatron as Yahshua, son of Yahweh.

5. Next to spiritual dimensions: The Bible and biblical literature refer to “dimensions of space / time” as “the heavens” / shamayim / ouranoi / ouranoi.

Psalms 50:6. The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah!

Matthew 3:16. And when Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of Yahweh descending ...

2 Corinthians 12:2. I know a man who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven--whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, Elohim knows.

Much of the Hebrew literature refers to seven “heavens” or dimensions. Others refer to ten. Most of this literature has been purposely omitted from the Bible, but there’s a lot of it, both from Old Testament times and New. You may acquire the literature from a Christian book dealer or free on the internet. Books include 1 – 4 Enoch, Baruch, Apocalypse of Abraham, Moses, Peter, Paul many more. 4 Enoch speaks specifically of Metatron and 2 Enoch of the Son of Man journeying through these dimensions (“heavens”). Primarily, we read about these:

First shamaymah (heaven): earth, sky, stars – that which we can perceive as humans;

Second shamaymah: a prison “abyss” in the earth inhabited by the spirits of the giants;

Third shamaymah: Sheol in the earth and Eden on the earth separated by a rift;

Fourth shamaymah: Stratosphere – sun, moon, stars and myriads of angels that run them;

Fifth shamaymah: Tartarus in the earth – an prison “abyss” of disobedient spirits;

Sixth shamaymah: High angelic managers, cherubim, seraphim;

Seventh shamaymah: Yahweh, Yahshua, Metatron, certain archangels.

If Paul was caught up into the third heaven, then he might either have viewed a paradise or a hell, or both.

Apocalypse of Paul (excerpt) Then the Holy Spirit who was speaking with Paul caught him up on high to the third heaven, and he passed beyond to the fourth heaven. The Holy Spirit spoke to him, saying, “Look and see your likeness upon the earth.” And he looked down and saw those who were upon the earth. Then he gazed down and saw the twelve apostles at his right and at his left in the creation; and the Spirit was going before them.

Generally, those in the higher heavens may manifest themselves in the lower ones. Only by special dispensation may those in the lower experience higher plains. Angels may make themselves plain to us if they will. Demons often make themselves plain.

6. Next, spiritual beings hierarchies: From the Bible we know of several classes of spiritual beings: “the angel of Yahweh,” seraphim (“flamers”), cherubim (“wise ones” or “guards”), malachim (“messengers” – “angels”), ophanim and irim (“watchers”); and the names of some – Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Azazel, Satanel, Beliar, Belial, Beelzebul, Beelzebub, Ashera, Asmodeus, Asclepius, Mithras, Tammuz and many, many more in banned literature. Paul speaks of a hierarchy of enemy spirits:

Ephesians 6:12. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

The hymnal has a great, ancient song about the hierarchy of angels:

Ye watchers and ye holy ones, bright seraphs, cherubim, and thrones,

Raise the glad strain: “Alleluia!”

Cry out, dominions, princedoms, powers,

Archangels, virtues, angel choirs:

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

O higher than the cherubim, more glorious than the seraphim,

Lead their praises; “Alleluia!”

Thou bearer of the eternal Word,

Most gracious, magnify the L-rd;

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

7. Now it’s very important to realize that there was a time in the dimensions that

Job 38:7. the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of Yahweh shouted for joy.

The ruler and creator of all these myriads of spiritualities, planets and extra terrestrial beings is known to us as Yahweh Elohim. In the state of timelessness and space, Yahweh’s high potentate over all is Yahshua, the Metatron, the Son of the Most High Elohim. We can’t measure when this arrangement was made of for how long – it’s beyond our ability to measure time.

8. However, six thousand years or so ago,

Rev. 12:7. War broke out in heaven.

Matthew 11:12. (Yahshua:) “And ... now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

Luke 16:16. (Yahshua:) “Since then the good news of the kingdom is preached, every one enters it violently. 17. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one dot of the law to become void.

There was law in the Kingdom of Yahweh, in force over all the dimensions of the shamayim – all heavens. One law we know of is that angels were not allowed to procreate with humans. The extent of the disobedience of higher forms is apparent from the Bible, since disobedience came upon even the godly generations of Adam. Throughout the Bible, wars on earth are corresponding to wars in heaven(s). Even now, in the midst of the Third World War, we can clearly see (though our government evidently can’t) that this war is a religious war on a very great scale.

9. The fallen angels before and since took human form to enlist and enslave humanity through procreation, bringing forth godless human / angelic monsters, many of whose bodies were destroyed in the flood. The spirits of these monsters were imprisoned in the second heaven abyss. The fallen angels themselves were imprisoned in the fifth heaven abyss. They were separated.

Yahshua made it perfectly clear that angels were still falling and procreating and bringing forth monsters:

John 8:40. But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of YHWH: this did not Abraham. 41. Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even YHWH. 42. Jesus said unto them, If YHWH were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from YHWH; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. ... 44. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.

Angels still come and wreak havoc on the earth. The word is “devil-filled.”

In the earthly dimension, the first heaven, we have great buildings we call “penitentiaries” where the disobedient go to serve their prison terms. This is the same in the heavenly kingdom of Yahweh. There are undoubtedly many prisons for spirits. The ones we know about are in the third and fifth dimensions, which are, in some way, IN THE EARTH. They are termed “pits.”

1 Peter 2:4. For if Yahweh did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell (tartarus, tartarwo, the fifth heaven) and committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until the judgment; 5. if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven other persons, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6. if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction and made them an example to those who were to be wicked ... etc. etc.

10. When the heavenly war escalated fully upon the earth, the Metatron Yahshua came to enlist certain obedient human beings to join in the last battle for the universe we know. That’s in our temporal future, though we continually fight in the present, often what we can’t see.

But unlike the fallen angels, he wasn’t procreated from sexual union, but through the direct intervention of Yahweh. It made him similar in make-up to the giants, for the angelic part in them couldn’t be killed, only imprisoned.

However, Yahshua, though half man, was also fully Yahweh Elohim. And though his body constrained him to human existence, being freed of that body would let the Spirit of Yahweh out, so to speak. The horror is that the devil’s crew knew this but was like wolves on a hare – they tortured him and killed him, knowing they would “let the angel out of him.” Since that time, the Spirit of Yahshua has been engaged in recruiting the ‘elect’ for the final showdown with evil.

11. So this knowledge brings us to an understanding of the answer to our initial question – “What did Yahshua Do (in Spirit) the Three Days his Body Was In the Grave?”

a. He went through all the heavens:

Ephesians 4:9. In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10. He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

b. He fought a great battle:

Colossians 2:15. He disarmed the principalities and powers and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in him.

c. He proclaimed victory in the third and fifth heavens:

1 Peter 3:18. Being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit; 19. he went and preached (proclaimed) to the spirits in prison, 20. who formerly did not obey, when Elohim’s patience waited in the days of Noah...

d. He rent the temple curtain – no man could do that:

Matthew 27:51. And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom; and the earth shook, and the rocks were split.

d. He resurrected the uncorrupted dead (saints):

Matthew 27:52. the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53. and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

e. He returned to revive his dead body, and live in that body for certain days.

John 20:16. Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabboni.” 17. Jesus said to her, “Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to Eliy and Eloheyka.”

Undoubtedly, there were many other acts, a millennium of acts (360 books of them) that he accomplished while three days went by here. But they remain a mystery. What is pertinent is that we understand that we have been enlisted (elected) to win the battle with him, and we have a very important mission to accomplish in the meantime. Though we don’t understand its importance now, when we too are glorified, the meaning will come clear.

1 Corinthians 13:12. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.