Manna Is Present

Manna  Is  Present

Grace Van Duzen   September 18, 1998

In the Book of Revelation: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come.” That is the key verse in Revelation. We have heard of the present moment. All that was and is to come is here.

A numeral has been drawn to my attention, the number nine. It is magical. It is in a class by itself; there is no other number like it. You can multiply the number nine by anything and it will come out nine. Take from one to nine and resolve the numbers: eighteen—one and eight are nine. Twenty-seven, thirty-six, fifty-four, sixty-three, eighty-one. You could multiply nine by a number with any number of digits—a hundred, a thousand—it will come out nine. It is a number of containment. Everything that went before it, one to nine, is contained in it. In a way, it's the last number. The next one is ten, but that is starting one again, with a cipher, the unknown, undefined. That's where we are.

What about the date today? The ninth month, the eighteenth day, and a nine year. Nineteen ninety-eight is a nine year. [and this date, April 1, 2020 resolves to 9] They are all years of the Lord, but this is a very special time we are in. The number nine is a number of containment. Everything that was is here to be resolved into that enfoldment, containment, completion.

This verse I just read is in the first chapter, the eighth verse—“which is, and which was, and which is to come.” And of course the whole world is in this place, this present moment—it is not just we here, and yet this is a special body. It is a mixed company, and that to me does not mean we have good and evil. It means that everything is represented here, and I believe it is. But it's true of each of us as individuals as well. In Revelation 21: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away... And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband”—the bride, the new earth; and the husband, the new heaven. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.”

A new heaven and a new earth and, in these days I'm sure—it was always true, but very especially in this nine time—it's easy to observe the old earth. I think, as never before, anyone can see the need for something to pass away. It self-destructs. We can look at governments, presidents, kings. Something needs to change; here it says “pass away.” The effort in the man-made world is to fix it up. Martin commented once, in his unique way, “They can only make it worse.” In self-active function, that is true, but that means it is passing away—worse until it gets the worst, and then where is it? What a wonderful time to be alive. Let's remember that. Let's remember where our emphasis is—on the new heaven, not on the old one. Forget about the old one. That new heaven is the vibrational realm. It determines the nature of the earth. It determines what the new earth will be, and not just will be—it all forms together. I've heard in recent days that the new state coming is purely vibrational. I'm not sure what that means. It says a new heaven and a new earth. Whatever the nature of that vibrational state, the earth is included. I'm glad about that. I love the earth. But the new heaven is where we need to have our whole attention, and that is in every moment. Where is my attention? Where is my love? The new heaven is love, unconditional love. That is what changes everything.

I'm going to take the liberty of asking you to stretch a little bit. I'm going back to Exodus. We've been in the last Book of the Bible, and now we're going to the second. This is the setting of the Children of Israel when they were in the wilderness. It is a wilderness. The whole world is in a wilderness. It has lost the landmarks. You feel your way. Where is the path, where has anything gone? Wilderness. Perhaps very briefly I can outline what was going on worldwide during the time of the Exodus—if you're familiar with my friend Immanuel Velikovsky. If not, perhaps I can just give enough for you to understand. There was a comet in the heavens very close to the earth. It was not any kind of comet you'll see across the sky; they usually spend themselves and are gone. They vary in size, but this was a very special one; it was a protoplanet. In other words, eventually it became a planet. But because it was flying, streaking through the heavens, the tail made it a comet. Had that body struck the earth's body, it would have been the end, probably of both. However, their heavens, their auras did touch, and the meteorites and bits of the tail came through the atmosphere of the earth. It nearly destroyed the whole world. Velikovsky's wonderful research reveals that there is a record of this everywhere on the face of the earth—it wasn't just with the Children of Israel. But there was a focus there, and there always is a focus. It may not be seen, it may be invisible, but there is a design. Everyone has a point of focus, and also everyone is a point of focus.

So we have the Children of Israel having crossed the Red Sea, by a seeming miracle. By the way, I believe in miracles. It is not belief—I'm sure we have all had the experience—it is the natural working of the Law, but has been long forgotten. It’s time to remember. At this point in the story, these meteorites and dust from the planet, radioactivity, all of it, had ruined the surface of the earth to the degree that nothing was growing. There was no food. I think there has been an idea these days with respect to prophecies, predictions. I'm not talking about prophecies in this book, but present day predictions that possibly money will be gone. Horrors! Really, what can you have without money? How can you have food without money? Well, there was no food. Now, I'm not bringing this out to say that anything like this will happen, but we know something is happening—not will happen; we're in it! Turn on the news anytime. Disasters. It's a time when it was said that men's hearts would fail them for fear. We hear of terrorism all the time.

What did they do? There couldn't have been anything survive without some sustenance. And the whole congregation of the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. Aaron symbolizes the Priesthood and Moses was that which was responsible for everything being brought, a magnificent leader. In essence, that murmuring is against the Lord; it goes back to the Lord. Exodus 16:3: “And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died in Egypt when we had the flesh pots and did eat bread to the full. Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you.” Symbolic? But you can't eat the symbol. It was real. And this is what I'm seeking to bring out: it is real. It is a new heaven, but it is a new earth, too. “And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was.”

What does manna mean? It means “We don't know what it is.” OK, we don't know. But we have manna. We have nourishment, and for the mind to try to make it and delineate it, put boundaries on it, is not the way. No, it is manna. And when the mind finally says “I really don't know what it is, but thank you, Lord,” and partakes of it, we have the answer. Partake of it. Ingest it. But then don't just taste it and spit it out. Ingest it, digest it. There's a process of elimination, but it takes care of itself. This miracle had to be eaten each day. It couldn't be left, save it up. No. It was gone if you didn't partake of it that day. It had the fragrance of a lily, and it tasted like honey—this wonderful thing, in a world that looked like, not a new heaven but hell. But it was a new heaven, from which a new earth could emerge, no matter what it looked like. There are records of this happening all over the world; the Greek ambrosia, for example. Men survived on it; it had the taste of honey. Horses ate it. There was nothing else for anything to eat.

Something that struck me as I went through this is the fact that the change was happening not just on this planet. This that was going on with the comet was a process which would restore something. You could say a new planet was born; that's the way it seems; but it may have been restoring something destroyed long before that. In any case, the planet Venus was the end result of all this. “Venus” means “new.” But something was going on beyond this earth. We get so self-centered: not only it is “me”; we may be big enough to say “us,” maybe even the whole world. It is more than that. We don't know what is being achieved in this whole family of the solar system. And the solar system has another family beyond that.

Also, the fact that this substance came through the outer edges, shall we say, of our heaven, the planetary body, means that it did come down from heaven, radioactive substance that we think of as horrendous. Well we do need to be careful. But the Lord can use anything, and does—just what is available. We are available. I don't know whether He thinks there could be a few replacements, but here we are—what we are, who we are—and we can give thanks for that and not depreciate it. This is what the Lord can use.

My friend, Dr. Velikovsky, who was a really great man, did a lot of research into this manna, and he found that there were at least five scientists who undertook in their laboratories to see if they could make something like that. I read about the one, who was Chinese. These were not together, they all did it separately. The results varied, but the basic result was the same. Using the substance of meteorites (available on earth), subjecting it to radioactivity which it came through, and whatever else was involved, it came out a carbohydrate, edible, and had a lovely smell and tasted sweet.

Well, whatever is coming up for this planet won't repeat itself, I'm sure; but in essence it's the same—the Lord's provision. It partakes of something beyond this planet, but it takes the form of manna only in the atmosphere of this planet, which is absolutely essential. What I feel about this is that we recognize the wonder of it, not the horror of it. Our hearts don't need to fail us for fear. Any time in the record in the Bible that one has contacted an angel—which in essence is one's own divinity—the first word was “Fear not.” What is there to fear? Don't we have everything? I think we always shall have what is needed. However, that may not be exactly what we think we need. But that's true now, isn't it? At any point it can be heaven, or the opposite—hell. I prefer heaven. It's love. It's beauty. Regardless of what man has done to the planet, you look at a flower. The perfection of creation has not been changed for this planet.

I was impressed once hearing some news report that one of the efforts in going out into so-called space is to find a habitable planet. We destroy this one; let's find another one and destroy it. It would be the first thing to do. Let's get in and begin the mess. But that's a serious thought with some. Incredible! Man was told to dress and keep this garden, this part of the creation in the whole cosmos. We are a part of the earth. The wonder of the earth comes through to me; it always did—but the skies particularly. These days there is something about the skies that is so glorious. A new heaven and a new earth. And we have no idea of what that could be like. But we do know what the new heaven is, and that is now, in every moment.

With regard to the new heaven, it is composed of vibrational substance, as is the new earth. And we were placed here to keep it, but first to dress it, and that means to give it form. And that is done in the new heaven. It is where we dwell, and it all works together. Some wording in the Bible contributes to the idea that it is going to come down from heaven, ready made, and somehow plop into substance. It all works together; the new heaven and the new earth cannot be separated. It is because of the separation that we have this state on earth. The fall was separation.

“Heaven and earth are one” is the way we were created. These develop at the same time. The heaven determines the nature of the earth. There is always a heaven, a vibrational surround, and look what's been done to that heaven of this planet. Pollution, and not just of the air. Isn't it wonderful that we still have such a blue sky in Colorado? We also have strong winds which blow away the pollution. But in the heaven beyond, there is debris from space probes and vehicles. We see what a junkyard looks like on earth. It is also out there! That is a big problem. But, again, the Lord uses exactly what is present. He made it. But we are the image and likeness of God on this planet, and we are what He has to work with. Let's never forget that. On the seventh day of creation He said, “Now it's yours.” He is always available. This mind we have is magnificent when used by the Lord.

That was the cause of the fall—all we have to do is look around; the effort is to fix up the earth; forget about the heaven. But the word is “a new heaven and a new earth,” because the heaven determines the nature and the face of the earth. We know that. It's becoming more and more evident, accepted by practitioners. I have a friend who said a medical practitioner told her the cause of the trouble was stress. There is this consciousness change, and I would emphasize that we need to recognize change, among ourselves—not judge by what a person was last year, last week. We readily acknowledge that in ourselves and wish somebody else would see it. Well, let's see it in each other. This is the heaven, and it is essential in individuals—but there must be a body. There have been individuals who did it. If it was up to one, it never would have had to go past 2000 years ago. But His passion was that there be a body. And He accepted that body, twelve close to Him, just the way they were. And He knew what could happen because of these individuals, but His love enfolded all. He worked with exactly what was there. They represented the whole world, and He didn't say, “I'll get rid of this one.” It excludes itself, but it can do a lot of damage.

I was also reminded of what have been called the temptations of Jesus. There are some who say we should not call it a temptation—He couldn't be tempted. He was perfect. He was perfect because the temptations were there, but He couldn't be tempted. He was in the world, but not of it. And whether this voice of the devil came through Himself, or another person—it could have been either way—His answer was the same: “Get out of here!” The third temptation was, “I can give you all the kingdoms of this world if you fall down and worship me”—the fall, the mind. What is being worshipped today? What's greater than being a self-made man, or woman, or something? The mind can produce whatever we want, we think. It is the key to the Lord's function on earth; that's why it was the key to the fall. A mindless person isn't worth anything. It is not getting rid of something; it is allowing it to be used the way it can be used on this planet. That is why the image and likeness of Almighty God, Cosmic God, is here—to be used by Almighty God. It is not an automaton; that is not God. There have been those who said, “Why were we made so we could fall?” An automaton? God has more things to do than operate puppets. There must be God on this earth, and it is all connected. It is One.

I'll go back to our story. The manna did eventually stop, only when the earth began to bring forth. There is an end to what looks like confusion, utter chaos, a yearning for the flesh pots—what, a pizza?—but for something we don't have; it could be anything. But just what we have—this is what the Lord can use, and the quicker we let Him have it, the quicker it sorts itself out. There is a self-destructive current—simply getting rid of itself; it doesn't belong—and there is that which ascends. We have a choice. And when the earth began to bring forth again, as awful as that looked, the planet was saved. It could have been the new earth then; nothing had to be put off. But we're in a final time. We're in “number nine,” where everything that went before is contained, all the numbers contained in nine—complete. The next step is a New Earth, one in a whole new cycle.

But the earth brought forth again, and I'm sure there was a difference in what was brought forth. Something had been brought down from heaven beyond this planet, incorporated. And so it is. We move through in victory. Failure isn't a word we need. Victory, the absolute belief, the strong belief, the knowing, in what seems to be a miracle only because it has been forgotten—that which comes down from God out of heaven and is incorporated in the very soil, using this analogy, so that what is brought forth from that soil is new, the new earth, the fruits thereof.

I am profoundly grateful for what I see before me. A new heaven and a new earth, and manna is present. And the mind can say, “I don't know what it is, but I am thankful.” You could say we are the manna for the Lord. Maybe He's saying, “I don't know what that is.” He'll use it! He is using it. And He also says, “I love you.” And I thank God for you and with you. It was said of these days that God would be with us, with us. So be it.

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