THE SYMBOL OF THE CUP
4-17-1963
We turn in our thinking this afternoon to the subject of the Cup. There is no doubt that historically there is an important and interesting portion of history surrounding the Cup itself. Even a different and deeper one around what the Cup was to symbolize. Something new was experienced by the disciples, but nothing new in the mind of Yahweh, for He had known these things before the foundation of the world. We have described for you some of the conditions in Palestine during the time of Christ’s ministry, and how the powers of darkness and the forces of evil by usurpation had usurped the power of the Priesthood and taken over the power of the Temple. That true Israel.. Judah and Benjamin understood that the Temple was not in the hands of a proper Priesthood. They perceived that the defense of true Judah and Benjamin was not these soldiers under this false Priesthood. Although they knew they were under the Roman Empire and that Rome considered Palestine only a vassal province, still they realized that their greatest danger came from this evil which had penetrated deep into the Temple. This is why the Essene Company had gathered together and were trying to preserve their records, and scrolls, and doctrines, and were planning for the rebirth of Israel in Palestine. This company of the Essene’s met in secret caves and in homes of the peoples of Palestine, and there they continued to maintain the true scrolls of the Scriptures, and where out of this organization came the defensive organization which rallied an army which would have crowned Christ King. Even today all Christendom is talking about the Palm Sunday entrance of Christ into the City of Jerusalem. As we have told you in the past this was not something that was spontaneous, but was something organized and designed throughout the entirety of Christ’s ministry. That He was to take over the Kingdom, that He was the Hope of His people, that He would break the power of the Roman Empire and free them of the force of influence that had dominated the Temple. Then the Priesthood would be returned under the righteousness that the Kingdom of God would bring. That the Kingdom of God would come in with great Power and that all of the children of God would come in with great Power, and all the Household of Israel would stand forth as One Mighty Power. They anticipated that when this came forth the Light would go out to the ends of the earth and the Great Day of the Kingdom would come. Now; there isn’t any doubt about that day of the Kingdom, and there isn’t any doubt abut the fact that we stand now on the other end of the cycle of events, almost at the end of an era. We, like they in Old Judea, are hoping to see the Kingdom with all it’s power come in with great quickness. When it comes in we then hope to see the Power of God’s Kingdom extending as His covenant’s proclaimed until the Nations of Israel rule over the earth from one end to the other until Christ, as enthroned ruler all over the Universe, has visited His power upon earth and has manifested Himself with His people. We also, like they, are close to realizing that this Kingdom is to be made manifest in an unusual way. They were close to the hour of atonement, and we are close to the hour of deliverance. We look back over those events and find that our hearts are tied to every event that transpired, by every act of God when He walked the earth and dwelt among us.
The promises were made to us before the foundation of this era and this Cosmic order of creation. Every conscious spirit within this room has been in the presence of the Eternal Father, in the great assemblies of the heavens long before the creation of this Universe. The essence of the very being of your own spirit has been begotten out of the essence of His own Life. You are life of His Life, and spirit of His Spirit. Your being placed in earth and embodied as sons and daughters of God, is a part of the great miracle of God’s purpose when He said He would send His Kingdom from Heaven to Earth. It is by the increase of His sons and daughters of His Kingdom that His Kingdom expands, for of the increase of this Kingdom there is to be no end. But to produce the condition of Heaven to earth then it had to transfer from Heaven to earth the populations of the Most High, and it had to embody them in physical bodies and that is why Paul tells you in Hebrews that.....we the children of God are now in bodies of flesh so then God Himself was to take part of this same flesh and dwell among us as our kinsman and our relative. Because we are the children of God, therefore, He was to identify Himself with us, but He knew the conditions that would transpire when His Kingdom came into this earth’s environment ruled over by a fallen Archangel who dominated the other races of earth. Having brought catastrophe and chaos and problems to this part of the Universe then God Himself had designed the great and masterful program of sending His Kingdom to earth. You then still pray for it:...Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in Heaven.
Though your fall was as complete for you as any race’s fall could be, for by the violation of Divine Law was lost for your race in the earliest hours of your original physical parents, the Aura of Life, and the Glory from the Spirit which would have continued to have made you immortal. From the beginning of your race’s first parents then death descended upon your race, not death of the soul, for the soul does not die, not death of the Spirit, for the Spirit does not die, but death descended upon this physical body, and bondage has descended over the patterns of the mind.
One of the great and important programs of God is to restore the soul consciousness of His people, and to renew their minds, and set them free from all the areas of the thinking of their consciousness which might hold them bound. To take this guilt complex and lift it from them and set them free. This is a part of the great and mighty program of atonement, also by this and to do this then God had to, once again, join Himself as only God could assume it.... the fullness of all the responsibility of all the transgressions that His sons and daughters had wrought while in the earth. He also had to, as one of them, pay a price such as no one of them could have paid by themselves, in order to assume upon Himself with all the legal authority which God could assume, the transgression of all His people. Having assumed them, having paid the price for them, having set them aside, then could say unto those who are His children that......No one can condemn you, for I have assumed this, I have paid the price, you have now passed from condemnation unto Life.
A people who shall dwell in the earth and in the course of time as the children are begotten, the seed of the spirit comes forth into the world in physical bodies. A holy seed not to be mongrelized, integrated, or contaminated, but lifted and elevated, and glorified because your Father has ordained this is true.
If there was any guilt complex to suppress the human soul, if there was any condemnation which rested upon our race, then these events which we celebrate in these Lenten periods culminating with Christ’s Resurrection should set you free from all this and for all time. It should have left no fear, and all guilt complexes, all promises of great catastrophes ahead. It should have let you see by Light that you are a people that are free. There can be no doubt of the fact that the great crowds organized skillfully by the Essene’s and by the work of the Disciples wanted to crown Christ King. As those throngs went out the Gate’s of Jerusalem to watch Him approach, as we have described to you in the past, they were prepared for this, for the Army’s of Christ stood by. In this instance Barabbas who was a Nationalist, and whose armies had been prepared to serve Christ, also thought and hoped that the time had come when He would take the Crown. As He entered into the City of Jerusalem as the Scriptures say....He came riding on an ass, the foal of an ass walking alongside and the people cried, Hosanna in the highest to the son of David. Hosanna to Yahshua who comes in the name of Yahweh. These people not only understood the writing of Isaiah, but they knew that this was the embodiment of God who was their promised Messiah. They threw down the Palm branches before Him, and they shouted Hosanna and their children scattered flowers, and valiant men now lifted flaming swords of steel that were in their hands to defend their King. Their Tunic’s were uncovered and the blue Tunic’s with the crossed golden Fish on the front flashed in the sun. Those who stood on the Temple steps trembled at this display and before these people.
As we have told you before, the people now came before Christ to offer Him the Crown, but He did not take the Crown that day but He said this to those of His people standing there and to you as well....I cannot take the crown, altho I am a King and it is my right to reign. But if I took the crown today I would rule you in bondage, I would rule you under the guilt complex of transgression of sin. So I will take the crown, and that day my servants will fight and my kingdom will not be given to the Jew’s.
What a Cup it is! Jesus had spoken of such a Cup. He spoke of it in just a little difference of significance than that for which it had been so skillfully wrought. Joseph of Arimathea, the Uncle of Mary, and the Uncle of Christ symbolically, and what a privilege and experience to be the Uncle of Christ. He was a member of the secret Essene Company, the way the people of today belong to Patriotic organizations....for fear of the Jew’s. At the same time Joseph of Arimathea spent his time and a considerable amount of his money trying to bring in the Kingdom as he thought it would come. He had believed faithfully that Christ would rise and take the power to bring in the Kingdom, but also he had been a devout student of those things that John the Baptist in the spirit of Elijah had proclaimed in the mysteries of revelation when he was but a small boy in the Essene Company. He had prepared for this hour also because John the Baptist had constantly proclaimed that Jesus would take the Cup, and not at this time take the Kingdom crown, but John the Baptist spoke of the appearances of Christ as though not once but again, that he would make two special ministries to earth.
Believing there was some mystery in this then Joseph of Arimathea felt compelled to prepare a Cup, and what would this Cup be? It would be a Legal Cup, a Cup that was used for the pattern of ceremony, and that which would be used, would symbolize like a sacrament, a Cup which would require a Chalice on the outside of an inner Cup. So Joseph sent to Greece and he found one of the rarest of all of the engravers named Demetrius, the Silversmith, and he brought him to his home. There as Christ talked with His disciples so many times around the table and in this home about the things pertaining to the Kingdom, the purposes and the plans and the program, then there behind a curtain in an alcove sat Demetrius the Silversmith and he drew up this outer Chalice which would hold the inner Cup. On this outer Chalice were the faces of Christ and all the disciples except Judas of Iscariot, and only his turned face was shown. Six times the Silversmith tried to form the face of Judas and failed. Then the 7th., time he showed his face turning away.
The Scriptures tell us that we did not receive the spirit which the world received but the spirit which is out of God. Therefore we are not of this world as He was not of this world, because we are of Him. We are out of Him, and the covenant of His reappearing manifestation seals this constantly and continuously with the Element of the Cup. With such a Cup also in the symbol of this Unity could the Priest’s seal off the responsibility. Or could one who could assume responsibility close such a covenant filling the Cup with clear water or the fruit of the vine. One could empty such a Cup and assume upon it the full responsibility.
That day of Palm Sunday in the early hour when the people were ready to crown Him King, they knew not what was meant by that Cup. Nor had His disciples understood it when He had spoken of it to them at an earlier hour of what was to transpire. It was not long, you know, after this experience of Palm Sunday when the time of the preparation for the Passover was approaching and Jesus told His disciples to go to a certain man whom they would find carrying a Vessel of water, and they were to ask this man to give them the guest room that the Master might eat the Passover with His disciples. Thus it was that Peter and John found this man going into his house carrying this Vessel of water, and they said to him...The master has asked for the use of your guest room so that He would eat the Passover with His disciples. The man opened up his house and Jesus sent His disciples to prepare the Passover. Thus it was that in the interlude in which Christ had rejected the Throne, not rejecting the people, but acknowledging the people, and telling them of a more important mission that He had for them. That He might rule them some day without any fear, transgression, or guilt. Rule them as free people without any imputation of judgment. Altho they could not understand in all what this was significant of, we point out to you that in that upper room as the disciples were seated around that table...that even Judas was there.
As these Priest’s spoke to Judas Iscariot then they said that it is imperative that we do this in our own way, and that we seize Him without a great demonstration because if we take Him in the daytime when people can see then there will be trouble. So you, Judas, you know where He goes at night and where He spends His time, so we will give you 30 pieces of silver if you will identify Him for our guards of the evening so that we can take Him in secret. We think then of how Judas made his arrangements, but the actual design of where it would take place would depend upon the events that would follow.
Here upon the day of the Passover, Judas sat with the other disciples with Jesus. We think of these things Jesus talked about as He spoke of the Kingdom and how He told them it would not be long because He was going to be leaving them. He talked about the areas of their responsibilities, and some of them were wondering who among them would be the greater, but Jesus said that in a very short time that this would not be a problem. Others were disturbed about what was ahead, and did not understand some of these things Jesus had referred to, actually meant. He talked about the test that would be made of their Faith and remember how Peter said...”don’t worry about me because I will go with you to prison, or even to death.” Jesus said to Peter...”even before the cock crow’s thrice you will deny me, and Peter said....not I.”
In these instances I want to point out to you that here at the Last Supper, Jesus had re-identified Himself, He laid the formula for the table which He ordained the Apostle Paul to instruct the Church to follow. The symbol again had been the Cup which He had accepted that day. The outer Chalice so beautifully wrought holding the inner Cup, and this was the Cup which Joseph of Arimathea had handed back to him for a moment, and then taken back by Christ, and this Cup was used for the Passover. Here at the Last Supper, Jesus had said as He broke the Bread....this bread which is being broken is my body, and it is being broken for you. As they partook of the cup Jesus said, divide it among yourselves for this cup is my blood of the new covenant which is being shed for you. They received this and in the explanation of what Jesus gave them to understand was....that the Unction of His Spirit was consecrating these elements and rejoining them and recharging them, flesh of His Flesh, and bone of His Bone, and now even blood of His Blood. Also adding unto them by this pattern of this new covenant the assurance that these things to come were to also be shared by them in that He had become for them the substitute. This the disciples did not at that moment fully understand, tho they understood that the Passover Lamb had been the substitute for their errors and transgressions and had become the Sign of their deliverance.
Uniquely as Jesus continued to speak to them of things of importance concerning the earth. I point out to you that every once in a while we have people who are not very realistic about the program of God’s Kingdom and do not realize that in the midst of these events that there was no changing of the plan or the purposes of God from these things taking place. His atonement of great magnitude was just ahead. His plan was all ready for His disciples to go out and spread the word, and was already in unfolding revelations. He had told His disciples some of these things, and here after breaking this bread, having given them the sacraments He said to His disciples.......
This was referring to the climax of His earth life, and the disciples said to Him...we have two swords, and Jesus said, it is enough. At this point it is enough, then as we have pointed out before, Jesus instructed His disciples to buy swords for the early Church records point out that Jesus instructed them to go forth armed for He said...I send you forth like sheep among wolves. I do not ask you not to defend yourselves, and I do not ask you to make of yourselves a sacrifice, for what I am about to do is the payment for all times. In this instance the disciples had been given their last admonition for their task, and how to prepare for it.
Then they went to the Garden of Gethsemane and again the Cup was with them. What was its purpose? Why the Cup now as they approached the Garden? As they went to this spot where Jesus had gone so many times with His disciples, they stopped to rest and He went a stones throw from where the disciples were. You have this record of this experience in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. How He left His disciples, all but Peter, James, and John, and He took them a little further towards the side of the hill in the Garden, and then leaving even them, Jesus went still a little further after telling them to watch. We are told that He drew apart to pray.
I point out to you that Isaiah had made a declaration of great significance which is vital to your understanding concerning the importance of this Cup which Jesus now carried here in the Garden of Gethsemane. In the 43rd., Chapter of Isaiah we hear the words of the Eternal God speaking through Isaiah...”For I am Yahweh, thy EL, the Holy One of Israel, thy Yahshua.” Then He also makes this statement while talking to Isaiah..(44:8) “Is there any God beside me? There is no God, I know not any. I alone am thy savior, thy maker, creator, husband, father....and He referred to Himself as married to this race. He referred to Himself as the Father of the Spirits of the children of the Household, and in this instance He said “I am thy Savior.” Now; He alludes to His physical embodiment and in the magnitude of prophecy under the spirit, Isaiah (53:1) makes this great statement....”Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of Yahweh revealed?
(Vs.2) For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness, and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him...except that out of himself. (That is what the old declaration says.)
(Vs.3)...He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(Vs.4)...Surely he hath born our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.”
In these declarations this is the prophecies of Jesus the Christ, the Eternal Yahweh dwelling as a man among men. His Divine capacity of Spirit able to commune in full perception with the consciousness of that which had been born of Mary.
No wonder that after His own Heavenly experiences that the Apostle Paul understood the magnitude of this and he could say.....He was the fullness of God dwelling bodily. I want you to understand that this wasn’t God divided into different parts or different beings. This was the Eternal Spirit of God able to commune even in the meditation of the physical consciousness that was about to sacrifice itself. Knowing that in this was the only essence of separation. That this Spirit like your spirit could not die. But by the power of this Spirit and by the intent of its purpose it was going to raise this very body up from the dead afer it had assumed upon itself the fullness of all transgression. Therefore, this was the most important single possible fact that the human consciousness could understand.
No wonder then that Jesus now take the Cup, by the spring in the Garden, and fills it with clear water and then lifts that Cup. Then in the humanity of His physical consciousness feels now the great weight of what is about to transpire. The Scripture says He now felt the weight, the grief, the shadow of the impending death which He knew so accurately was to come. He knew that death for God was an impossible experience except He had prepared this. He knew that altho rightfully His enveloping Aura and His Divine nature should surround His physical body, yet, He had left this off so that He might taste death for you and me. The only time we have record of that Majesty being revealed is when for one moment in His humanity He wanted to reveal to His disciples the Glory of His Eternal being. So, on the Mount of Transfiguration it passed upon Him and then off of Him so that He might finish this task. Had He left on Himself the Glory which is His rightful heritage and was also yours in the hour of the beginning of your race...the crucifixion would have been impossible and His death would have not taken place. The Apostle Paul understood all this and he said...By one man, Adam, came death, by another, the second Adam came life. But the Life had to come in flesh like unto yours, in a body like yours, capable of feeling and being afflicted by pain, and by problems like yours. That in all these things might this Spirit triumph, and having triumphed in this body, fulfilled this work called....ATONEMENT.
To accomplish this it had to be a Lamb without spot or blemish, it had to be an individual without guilt. That is the reason why it couldn’t be just anyone in our race, for no one measured up to this. No one had the purity of mind, the purity of thought and the excellence of perfection that rested upon Yahweh God who walked among men. Thus it was that this Master of excellence in every decision made with righteousness of His Divine perception, now assumes in this Garden all this in.....The Cup.
He took the Cup in His hand for the last time and He said....Not the will of the flesh no this consciousness as such, but the will, My Will, as Yahweh-God...and He drank this Cup to the last drop. Upon His sinless nature without one mark, or one fact, or one single act which made this a blemished Lamb, He had taken into the consciousness of His soul the guilt of all transgression, as God the creator alone could alter or stop at any place or time. Do you realize how great this was? So great was that strain that no human experience could compare with the agony of that moment. For even as the tensions came upon His being from the perspiration of His body dropped great drops of Blood. In this moment was the great test of time...this was where Lucifer was losing his struggle for the earth, because the great Deity of the fullment of the Universe in a human body, assumed upon Himself at that moment, the absolute fulfillment, the completion of all transgressions. That He might confirm also that without the shedding of blood there was no remission of transgression. Oh, there could be the great race of Divine nature, the forgiveness of God throughout all times, for the Apostle Paul tells us in the Tenth Chapter of Hebrews that every year the Priest went in and made a substitutionary offer, and every time this was done it was the symbol of Atonement, and each time the Heart of God suffered. But now, for all time, at the end of an age, it was God Himself in human body who became the sacrifice, that He might do away with the fears and darkness, and ignorance, and guilt for all times. That the sin question would be settled, and men could live without the fears of darkness.
There is something which sometime you will understand. The Restoration and the Atonement. This was a oneness with God made for each and every one of you by the Father Himself. This was an Atonement in its fullness, for His Household would not carry out the work of Lucifer. So it had to be a child of Lucifer in the fullness of operation. And it had to be the children of Lucifer who would stand in judgment....and so it was. For Jesus had said to these people that...Ye are of your father the devil, and Judas Iscariot was one of them. As they then identified Jesus in the darkness of the Garden then the Army of the Jew’s approached Jesus and Peter swung his sword, and his aim not being as good as he would have liked, he only succeeded in cutting off the ear of the servant of the High Priest. Turning to Peter Jesus said....Peter, put up your sword. Peter is amazed because a short time before this he had been told to sell his coat if necessary and buy a sword, and how he is told to put up his sword. But Jesus did not need the sword of Peter for His protection for He could have if they had only known, shown them that this place was surrounded by whole Legions of the Celestial plane’s. He could have brought in and materialized great Host’s and Mighty Power, but the hour for that had not yet come.
However, the hour is coming as it is reinterated 3 times in the records and before Pilate, that...My servants will fight and the Kingdom will not be given to the Jew’s. So here and now He told Peter to put up his sword, and then He restored the ear to the servant of the High Priest. And they led Christ out of the Garden and to His trial.
Later as we think upon those events around Calvary, remember that He said...”It is finished.” And when He said that He then dropped His head, then you were Free. This was not for just one moment of time, this was not for just those who had come before Him...this Atonement was for the whole House of Israel, and it also paid the price of all transgression throughout the world, from that time to all time Immortal.
Until in that manifestation of His Power and Glory He was going to transfer this world as the sons and daughters of His Kingdom into one of the greatest hours of Majesty and Victory that this world has every known.
We no longer have before us a promise of the Light going out. Our enemies may be planning to destroy the United States of America, but they are never going to make it. Oh yes, they have a plan and they are pushing that plan on all front’s, and they think the Light is going out when they crush us, but this is just the thinking of the children of Lucifer in all ages.
You are about to see manifested the Mighty Victory of God’s Kingdom and Power. You are about to see the re-entrance again of the Majesty of Christ with a body that you can see, and a body that you can touch. For the Eternal Yahweh...thy Yahshua, is going to fulfill all His responsibilities. I want you to know that in this Lenten period you should think of the greatness of these things which God wrought for us. Now withholding His own embodiment and the experiences which were an agony to the Heart of God, to have taken any possiblity of error upon His sinless nature. He went out of the Garden with the weight of the world upon His shoulders, and because of that You and I are Free.
So let no man place again by Priestcraft or by superstition any fear upon you. There is no destiny ahead of you except that which the Father has planned for His children and which is for your well being. And we shall know that the Kingdom’s of this world shall become the Kingdom’s of Our Lord and His Christ, and they shall acknowledge you. He is going to make them know that He had loved you. As we think upon these things we remember it is a time of testing, but it is also a time of experience which leads to Victory!
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