How can you know that end time mysteries are really being pieced together in The Cry of the Watchman?
When you are on to spiritual truth the similitudes become endless. Following the right trail to spiritual truth does not lead you to a dead end. When you make a true spiritual discovery, the similitudes take a sudden jump and multiply.
For example, until you understood that salvation was a gift by grace through faith you had no accurate concept of salvation. After you “saw” grace you began to see multitudes of verifications of the “new” truth in the scriptures and in other believers. The truth was old, but it was completely new to you. The multitudes of verifications of the truth of salvation by grace are everyone a similitude of the one truth. They are all in harmony with the truth.
Once this event is achieved, you can begin experimenting with spiritual knowledge to increase it. You experiment by searching out the truth with more similitudes and fitting what you learn into the scheme of things. This should yield even more similitudes.
Similitudes become testing agents with which to search out the structure and agreements that exist in the harmony of abstract relationships. The harmony of the relationships is set by spiritual principles, and then the harmony becomes the framework for the discovery process. This process, in its elementary form, is the same as revealing truth by parables—for parables are similitudes. The seal of the Savior is on this method.
It is an incredibly fun way to build knowledge. It is much like creating nursery rhymes, or blowing bubbles, or finding form in the game of like-dislike. Little children love to play with similitudes. Children’s riddles and jokes are similitudes. Similitude is the fundamental learning process. Little children delight in similitudes.
Little children enjoy similitude so much because it is the way they construct their understanding of the world around them. This is the way of the Kingdom, for the way of the Kingdom is the way of little children. Here is a similitude for you: To be fit for the Kingdom of Heaven we must all grow up into the spirit of little children. This is mystery, and this is spiritual truth, and I am sure you have the picture of its meaning. You have not grown too old to understand and enjoy similitude. A Christian will learn by similitudes for eternity.
All spiritual truth is expressed in similitude. Prophecy is similitude—it is one similitude after another—and similitudes are solved by similitudes. Similitudes create mystery and similitudes solve mystery. Similitude is a faith-based method of knowledge building. It is the only method that can give full structure to the building of knowledge of the things of God.
Similitude is harmonic. It is the harmonic of knowledge. It is like the harmonic of the scale of music, and the harmonic of the table of elements, and the harmonic of the spheres of the atom, and the harmonic of mathematical base. The functional harmony of the physical realm is described by mathematical harmonics. This harmony enables the theorist to predict and discover natural processes simply by the use of equations. The harmonic of physical similitude has been used on numerous occasions to make key breakthroughs in building physical knowledge.
Here is a mystery: Similitude is the unseen—but often used—basis for building physical knowledge. Here is another mystery: Similitude is the unseen—but often used—basis for building spiritual knowledge.
The harmonic of spiritual similitude is at the heart of true revelatory insight. Revelation is the testimony of God in similitude. Here is an insight based on faith: Similitude will be used in the kingdom to make key breakthroughs in building spiritual knowledge.
There is a harmonic between the physical and the spiritual. That is why the princes of rebellion have been cast down to the earth. All the events of human history are similitudes of spiritual events. This is why the short period of end time events are so significant. They constitute the similitude-based distillation of all other human and angelic events. The spiritual struggles behind those events are that significant.
Human redemptive history and angelic legal history are inextricably intertwined, much as if they are one in the same. The physical realm is a similitude of the spiritual realm. It is spiritual allegory in the flesh, but it is more than allegory. Assurance of its truth will only come by the work of the Holy Spirit, in the testimony of the harmony of similitude. Here is a mystery: Human history and angelic history are intertwined—they are the one in the same. For they are the history of the testimony of God. The tribulation proves it.
Once the harmonic structure is ‘caught’ or seen, you can quickly fill in long stubborn blank spaces and greatly increase your knowledge in unexpected ways. Door after door is opened. The way their opening is realized is in your spirit—by the witness of the harmony of the Spirit. It is the testimony of the Spirit. The harmonic of similitude, witnessed to by the Spirit, is the true means by which we are taught the things of God.
Christian, do you long to gain true spiritual knowledge? Do you long to teach spiritual knowledge to your children? This statement is for those who can understand: faith is the epistemology of the kingdom, and similitude is its pedagogy. For the method to work you have to abandon presupposition, you must then follow the similitude, and trust that the testimony of God will be revealed.
Faith is the only means by which this system of knowledge can work. It is what we have needed all along. Faith based similitude will be the heart of education in the millennium kingdom. It will be a ‘new’ system of knowledge building, which is a new system of education that will be at the heart of the growth of the kingdom. There will be no Christian academy—for this is rooted in the teaching of the Nicolaitans, which Jesus hates and has testified against twice. A Christian academy is an oxymoron.
What I have been describing is the essence of the way to knowledge, and it is based on nothing but faith in the truth of the testimony of God. This is its great strength. This is its great power. It is the means of knowledge reduced to its essence—and it is the way of little children, and it is the way of the kingdom, and it is the way of Jesus. It is the way to truth.
This is my joy. Building knowledge of the things of God, sharing it with others, and drawing them into the kingdom.
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