Alpha food, Omega food in The Forty Days

 Alpha Food, Omega Food in The Forty Days

AFTER we have the greater exodus from death to life in The Lord’s Supper (at Passover, which originally was from the death cult of Egypt—and read Wright ‘The Day The Revolution Began) we have the strange (to me) alpha food and omega food of the 40 days (a significant number?) between Resurrection and Ascension.

I’m proposing the Our Lord’s action then were 1—proleptic, a shadow of what was to come, 2—prophetic theater, speech crystallized in Symbol, 3—commands.

[These could be ravings of a madman on the back porch!]

THERE AS NO BREAD (ok, broken at Emmaus). But there as the Word. (‘1^st temptation answered by ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth……)

There was also breathing on commands re: sin.

What could be omega food? Maybe fish. (Honeycomb is a flw is this argument).

SUMMATION: Alpha food, word. Omega food, fist.

What do do? Thanks for all the fish.

Implications? AFTER we’ve been transitioned from death to life by The Lord’s Supper, and after the third temptation has been overcome by Ephesians 2:6, the new Alpha food is also…music, glorified speech, and the new Omega food is…presence? This is AFTER The Lord’s Supper. Fish are Gentiles/nations/evangelism, eating them is incorporation into the body Body. Feed fish!?

[To repeat, these may be the ravings of a madman on the back porch.]

Chuck

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New Kind of Man

 Rosenstock in 'TheChristian Future' p. 223: 'It is the whole content of Christianity that we are free... . The meaning of liberty is our power of creating a new kind of man.' What new kind of man, one my ask. Let's start with Jordan, Total Bible Saturation. We have his 49-book Bible. We have his 146 Psalms (150 in KJV). Rosenstock again says in 'Out of Revolution' (1938) that until recently every educated Englishman had the Psalms by heart. Surely we can get the 'Bible in miniature' (Luther) so that we know what each is about. Sing 3 a week! Go from there.

Who does Wine-Bread-Wine?

 Who does Wine-Bread-Wine as in Luke 22? Why or Why not?

(JBJ mentions this in 'Trees and Thorns, iirc)

Pope vs. Pax Silica

 

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT

The Church says the person comes first. The system says the credential comes first. The collision is not between two institutions. It is between two visions of what a human being is.

https://wendywilliamson.substack.com/p/the-pope-vs-pax-silica

 

Chuck, very surprised

Rosenstock Liturgy Celebrate Change World

 p. 76 'Origin of Speech'.  Rosenstock : 'And to celebrate means to cumulaate and condensein one short moment the events of long peroods of time'.

In liturgy this can be done, for we know the start (Creation) and the end (Final Judgment, Lake of Fire, New Heavens and New Earth).

One can use appropriate Bible Verses and symbols.

For instanc Paul's '...it is more needful for you' after Communion.

 

More later.  This is key to Will (not Knowledge) and to changing the world.

 

Chuck

'Historical life is a sequence of imperatives.': Rosenstock

 'Historical life is a sequence of imperatives.': Rosenstock

Thus, the '42s' of '1000' must be improved.


Chuck
What commands in the future. What unfulfilled from the past?

Learning from Mennonites...

 Learning from Mennonites, Lutherans, ERH, Baptist brother, 40 Days: Imperatives

 

I started reading 'Oxford History of 
Christian Worship' at Mennonites.

 

Keyly, they have/had a 3-sided seating plan, so that the would be more 'one another' than listening to 'sage on stage'.

They also did a lot of 1 Cor. 14.

 

Lutherans light a candle at start, extinguish at end. Evening and morning = Day, and light has come.

 

ERH ('Origin of 
Speech')  talks of time cup. We lose the strength of the imperative when we go to an analytic mode before the imperative cup is filled.

 

My brother has written 'New Testament Imperativity' which list all the commands of the New Testament.

 

Are the 40 Days between Resurrection and Ascension (and see Ephesians 2:6) a further prophetic speech/action, and proleptic to Pentecost? Thus, the Word is bread (Man shall not live by bread alone, but...) as alpha food, and the fish/Gentiles?/nations?/ichthys omega food? Thus, add to the Passover bread/body and wine/blood, another layer? Give fish as leave service?

 

I think so.

 

Chuck

PS: And DO Psalm 146 (JBJ, 150 in present Bibles) don't only sing about praising with timbrel (tambourine) and dance, etc.