BOB: Descending Below All Things

Thoughts on Davidic Kingship.

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In this review of Born of the Blood, we will continue with our discussion that we started in our last chapter, which was the pattern of descent and then ascent. Where we introduced the concept of a descent before an ascent with Adam and Eve, wherein Adam Eve “descended” into mortality to experience good and evil so that they could "ascend" and be like God in eternity knowing good and evil.  Moreover, we’ll see how this concept of descent before an ascent applies to Yeshua the Savior of Mankind.

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The Process of Perfection
Our Process of Perfection looks like this:                                                                 

Individual Salvation

Born of the Blood Redemption ​

Sanctification Born of the Water > Born of the Spirit > Born of God

Introduction
Descent before Ascent, Ascent before Descent
“According to Isaiah’s theology—which he develops systematically in his seven-part literary structure—every ascent to a higher spiritual level is preceded by a temporary descent. That descent phase consists of God’s trial of a person’s faith equal to the level of that person’s ascent. In other words, the higher one ascends, the greater the temporary descent that precedes it. Ruin may occur cyclically before rebirth to a higher spiritual level, as may suffering before salvation, humiliation before exaltation, and so forth—intensifying each time a person ascends. Even Messiah descends below all before he is exalted above all to sit on his Father’s throne.”
 
“Trials of faith escalate as one ascends because the terms of God’s covenants on ascending levels grow more exacting, each representing a higher law than the one before. The terms of the covenant Messiah keeps, for example, are to atone for humanity’s transgressions. Still, on their level, God’s servants, too, fulfill saving roles when keeping the terms of God’s covenant. In effect, the lower the spiritual level, the less demanding are its covenant’s terms. The very lowest levels, on the other hand, keep no divinely ordained covenant’s terms. Instead, they seek to ascend by oppressing and lording it over others, causing them to descend even more than before.” (Gileadi)

Beginning Status

​V Descent into a Lower Status/Tests/Trials

Ascent to a Higher Status ​ ^ ​^

​Adam and Eve's Descent
As we saw with Adam and Eve, to be like God and know good and evil they had to descend to a world subject to corruption, but then in eternity they would be raised to higher reality in eternity - having an immortal body with a knowledge of good and evil.  Moreover, as descendants of Adam and Eve, all humanity experiences this descent and ascent.  ​

In the Garden	>	Descent	>	Ascent
				Eternity Retain Knowledge of Good/Evil
Adam and Eve in the Garden		V		^
		Mortality Experience Good/Evil		^

​Yehovah and the Pattern of Descent and Ascent
We can also see this pattern of descent before an ascent with Yehovah – ancient Israel’s God. Yehovah descended into mortality and took on a body of flesh as Yeshua and suffered for all humanity to reverse the effects of Adam and Eve’s transgression and for the injustices of humanity.  Not that He "paid the price" for each and every sin of all humanity but that He suffered more than any other person who ever lived or who will ever live and thereby obtained God's mercy and justice for all humanity.  Having met the Father’s conditions to suffer and die for all humanity – Yeshua descended below all things through His Atonement, Death, Resurrection, and became the Savior of an entire world. Yehovah-Yeshua having successfully redeemed an entire world then ascends to be not only as God, the Millennial King of Zion, but that He ascended and became like His Father – a Most High God.

The God of Israel	>	Descent Below All Things	>	Ascent to a Higher Status
				King of Zion Savior of a World Like the Most High God (The Father)
Yehovah		V		^
		Yeshua Atonement/Death/ ​Resurrection		^

Endtime Descent and Ascent
During the Endtimes, believers and all humanity will be subjected to the cruel reign of the Anti-Messiah and must decide if they will follow his system of false ideologies and laws or suffer for the true god. Those who endure will enter the Millennial Age.