Jesus sends them Two x Two

By: Gabriel Merigian

The issue of two by two is often understated in many different religious teachings when discussing the gospel of when Jesus sends them out two by two. There are three key points to every parable, action, or story that God is trying to relay, and I'll utilize this story as a representation of that. Firstly, with the appearance of Elijah and Moses on the mount and the two angels in the tomb, the appearance of God the Trinity is in every instance where God the Father and the Holy Spirit are also enacting an absolute plan or an absolute truth.

The Father and the Holy Spirit are identified in two other beings in the presence of Jesus, made to represent that everything Jesus does. So what does, so what does this mean? The meaning and purpose of the absolutism surrounding the, appearance of the Trinity in three format, physical and spiritual, in the written gospel is to assign several things: the first being the teaching of Jesus, the second being the teaching or identity core of the purpose for the Holy Spirit, and also for God the Father, the Godhead. Now, the interesting thing is, God, the Godhead, is the one who institutes knowledge, as can be seen from Jesus saying, you would not have known these things unless my Father had granted it to you, when he's speaking to Peter, or when he's speaking to the rich man, he says, you are not far from the kingdom of heaven, and he relates to him the side of the story which is specifically understanding what the covenant and the most important commandments with God the Father are.

So, in these two instances, he relays this in the prodigal son. He also relays that the Father is the one who is providing information and instruction when he discusses a father and two sons. Once again, we see a Trinity figure, so the three pops up again, but we also see that the Father is the one who is proclaiming things. Thus, Jesus, the Son, in physical form, is still representing the Trinity in its actual physical presence in his teachings and in the eternal and spiritual meanings of what he is saying. So with the Father saying, my son, we had to be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is now alive, he's lost and now found, he is telling people the reality of living in sin and a state of sin, but he's also showing that the Father is the one who is providing this insight and that it is absolute and beyond reproach, and not just for an understanding of the deeper meaning, but also to show how Jesus is only relaying information to human beings that is already approved for distribution by the Father.

How do we make sure or understand that it is already the Father's say-so? It's because of when Jesus is discussing things and says, I thank you, Father, for revealing these things to these little children and not to these learned men. So he is allowing the Spirit to reveal things to the children, i.e., that is the Father allowing things to reveal, allowing the Holy Spirit to reveal things to little children and the Son to reveal and recognize the Father's authority in the distribution of the information that's being provided. So, the interesting thing is, there is a reason why Jesus sends them out two by two, but it is always going to be a tri-reason when he gives a command and, or there is an absolutism event within the gospel.

So, as we saw with the mountain, having the Father and the Holy Spiritrepresented in Elijah, the one who was taken up by fire, and Moses, the one who holds the covenant and reflected the face of God to Israel, to the people, thus we also see Jesus being the one who is the covenant, fulfiller and the one who represents man and the one who represents eternal life-giving water, which is a representation of the Spirit. So while he is there, the physical representation of the Father and the Holy Spirit are also there on the mount and in the tomb when Mary comes and sees the two, one at the head, one at the foot, and the one who is foreseen as, or sorry, perceived originally as the gardener, then calls her by name and she understands it is God, Lord, the Christ, Jesus, her master, Rabboni.

So, the interesting thing and the point of this one is to say, there are many different reasons why, Jesus, when he gives commands, all of them have a three-part, core message because each member of the Trinity has to be represented in every command that exists. So we can go through that at another time, but, but for this one, we'll simply talk about the two by two. So, there is three core things that exist in two by two. The first is that two by two, Christ says, where there are two or more of you who are gathered in my name, i.e., Jesus' specific name, not God the Father or the Holy Spirit, there are two who gather in my name, there I am present also, meaning Jesus is setting them up to do exactly what the mount did and the tomb did with the Father and the Holy Spirit being represented by the angels, one at the head, one at the feet, and then also with the Elijah and Moses where the fire and the covenant, the one who provided the covenant, are also present.

So what Jesus is doing in this is assigning us the immediate need of the Trinity when it's being revealed or when anything's being relayed. Meaning there, in Jesus' empty spot, Mary is the first to be greeted by the gardener, and then Jesus, the one who has put her and prepared that place for her. One absolutely beautiful part about Mary at the tomb is that we see what Christ has said to us fulfilled, in that Christ is not taking our place of the conquered dead body form. We are sitting in that spot. We are prepared that spot by Jesus who is already risen. So, the tomb with the spot does not just represent Christ's resurrection. It is far more profound than that because it represents God the Father and the Holy Spirit recognizing that your spot after death has been prepared by the one who has risen from death, i.e., the one who is already outside the tomb.

So, in Mary, we see our absolute salvation being represented by an empty tomb and a spot between the Father and the Holy Spirit, meaning she sees, physically, in person, written in the text in real time, the evidence of our place beyond death prepared for us by the one who died. So, she walks in and sees her spot that Jesus has prepared in between the Father and the Holy Spirit, represented by the two angels. And we can also see something pretty awesome in this with the Holy Spirit being recognized as a tongues of fire in the Pentecost moment in the upper room. That has to do with the fire of God's word via the power within the word that is carried out by the Holy Spirit, the one who is the determinant of life, represented by fire and water.

So, water we see wiping out the earth and the covenant with God to never do that again with Noah, and that the Holy Spirit now will purify those with fire. So, we see Elijah represented because the covenant and the fulfillment is about to occur, thus the fire, that which cleanses all and which would be our eternal damnation if the Son had not come, is present in Elijah, the one who destroys all the false idols and those who follow false idols. And we see the law represented by the Father, by the person who reflected the Father, i.e., Moses. So, Moses' reflection of the Father is represented in that mountain of transfiguration as well, meaning that the Father and the Holy Spiritin elemental, spiritual, eternal, and law are represented also from the mountain to the moment of the completion of that law through the power of the Holy Spirit.

So, we've seen the Father in Exodus and the Holy Spirit in Elijah and Elisha, both being represented as what is to come in the moment that Jesus is about to fulfill what God's covenant with those two was, but through those two with man. And we see them in the transfigured version, i.e., the holy angels that are there in glory to praise what the Father and the Holy Spirit and Jesus have done. So, we see before death, the two who were tied to our covenant of death, and we see at the outset of the passion, i.e., the fulfillment of the covenant and with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Noah, and all those through the line of David, we now see the transfigured version.

So, we intentionally are given a visual of the afterlife. So, before Jesus' exodus and death, we see two humans who were the Father, i.e., the law, represented and reflected in Moses, and his intention to lead his people out via Jesus, and we see the Holy Spirit, i.e., the fire and the water, the life-giving water, which is what Jesus brings. I go now, and the Holy Spirit will come. The Holy Spirit is the life eternal, the water that is represented. So, Mary is the one who is identified in the gospel by Jesus earlier when John and James are asking about the place of honor in heaven. He lets them know the last of those shall be first. So, God the Father is the one who is going to make that decision. He tells them, that's not up to him, that's up to the Father. That's not even a thing that his death and his authority that God gives the Son after death, which is absolute.

In this, we see the real person who is the first to show up, and that is Mary Magdalene, the one who put herself last by utilizing what Eve ruined. The one who is the last to be created is the one who is anointing Jesus' feet in the moments before his last moments of mortal humanity and going into eternal humanity. So, she is the one who represents the honor provided and what is due to the king. Thus, she is given the place of honor where we literally see that spot mentioned by James and John and Jesus in real time in the gospel where she shows up and sees her spot between the representatives of the eternity, those in heaven, i.e., the two angels, rather than Elijah and Moses. This is not meant as something to remind her of the promise because the promise has just been completed. Behind her is Jesus, the one who has prepared that spot in the empty tomb for her, the one who lowered herself beyond everything by wiping the bottom of his feet because the hair in the Jewish tradition is a representation of the ability to create, thus it is covered and kept sacred, and this is why uncovering it in the presence of a Pharisee was considered that level of sinful, like stonable offense, evil, something that that person misunderstanding the law thinks that externally, now he is internally forever damned and he does not need to create her a spot because an imperfect form cannot bring forth a perfect form, thus she is already going to heaven and was not necessary to be redeemed by Christ.

This is an amazing sentiment. This is why Mary, the second named Mary in the gospel, but also representing Eve, represents the fallen nature of Mary. We had Mary the perfect, the one who brought forth Christ via the power of the Holy Spirit through the will of the Father. Now, the one who is there in the state of sin, the last of us, the one who has given up all of her rights as the representation of the creation capability, she unveils and puts her most valuable representation of herself and her life via, i.e., the hair within this culture and tradition to go beneath the feet. So, that means she is putting herself in a fallen position, recognizing her return to dust beneath the feet of the one perfect, true, and holy living God, sacrifice, the Son, Jesus.

So, she is anointing via doing the will of the Father and through the power of the Holy Spirit, but is also represented as one who is dead because she is putting her place in the representation of the whole world in that moment by taking the world's ability to create and to continue and to procreate and do what God has given us in the first command, go forth and be fruitful and multiply, she is putting that into dirt, saying, I am dirt, to dirt I shall return, I am fallen, I have already fallen, and my creation or my continuance of creation, i.e., the reflection of God the Father's plan, I put beneath your feet, showing that I have no place being the one who anoints anything above the dirt because I am also dirt, unless you are to continue and redeem us all.

Thus, she makes herself the ultimate person who is last, thus she ends up being the one who is the first to see her spot created and laid bare before her. And the gardener returns and calls her woman and then calls her by her name, meaning she in that moment is recognized as both human and fallen and mortal and then eternal because when we are called by the master home, we recognize his name. Or sorry, we recognize our name in his voice. My sheep hear me, and they recognize my voice. So, in that moment, the sheep has been seen as both a woman, i.e., the fallen mortal version, and in her physical literal presence is also given the title of her name, beyond just a fallen member of the world. Now he separates her, and that spot in front of her eyes is prepared for her. An interesting point as well, when he does this, we see our eternal moment of when we go before the Lord and the Holy Spirit and our moment of judgment. Christ is in the position behind us. What does that ultimately represent? Something even more beautiful.

So too do the doves show up when Jesus is baptized, an official wiping clean and welcome into the family of Jesus in this moment. So, rather than two doves in the moment of the, baptism, we see one, and we see the voice of the Holy Father and the will of the Father being enacted by John the Baptist. So, we only are required to have one dove because the Holy Spirit is in that moment as it was with Noah with the two doves in the water, wiping clean the earth and God allowing for life to continue. We see the dove return in the moment when life is wiping sin away from the earth on the body of Jesus. So, it's for this reason that the earth and the cleansing of earth is the Holy Spirit's divine right and role. Thus, the Holy Spirit is represented in the transfigured Christ spot, which is prepared for us in the tomb, by the one who stands at his feet.

So, two by two ends up being not just a command, but it is something that is much more profound than we could have thought initially, because it's mirroring those absolute, uh, moments. Those moments where Christ is showing us, and so is the Father and the Holy Spirit, something that is eternal and absolute. In this version, being two by two and going forward in the name of Jesus, it is an absolutism because we move forward as a three-part. We, two by two or more, move forward with Christ, thus the three of us represent the true and only one triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, being one God. Amen. God bless you and enjoy the rest of your day.

Read Back (as if spoken aloud): So, two by two ends up being not just a command, but it is something that is much more profound than we could have thought initially, because it's mirroring those absolute, uh, moments. Those moments where Christ is showing us, and so is the Father and the Holy Spirit, something that is eternal and absolute. In this version, being two by two and going forward in the name of Jesus, it is an absolutism because we move forward as a three-part. We, two by two or more, move forward with Christ, thus the three of us represent the true and only one triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, being one God. Amen. God bless you and enjoy the rest of your day.

When he tells Satan to get behind him in the desert, it is because he is not to be something between the Father and Jesus. Jesus is out there enacting the forty days. We can go into that. We can go into all that and the meaning of that later. But the position is, he says, get behind me, Satan, putting himself as a servant to the Father, but removing the position between the Father that the fallen, i.e., Satan, has chosen. So, he commands him to return to the fallen place from which he will now be eternally damned, the earth, which is why he gets behind. And this is why the Son, when he is behind Mary, and she is in front of the Father and the Holy Spirit represented by those two angels, yet, rather than a third judging her, she is not judged by the one who says, then neither do I condemn you as well.

So, she shows up to a grave representing all of our graves and all of our mortal cells, and the gardener who removed the woman says, woman, and she recognizes the gardener, meaning she, as a woman and a human, recognizes and is reminded of the garden. Then he calls her by her name, and she is taken home by Jesus who says, Mary. And he is behind her, meaning there is nowhere for her to go other than forward into that spot from which he has created for her and for all of us. That which is a spot which is conquered death and is seated between the Father and the Holy Spirit, i.e., we are now a member of the family, the prodigal daughter and son are given a spot, and we see it represented. Thus, we have an immediate and absolute, because remember the Trinity is there and present, law of all time.

The spot which Jesus creates for us is the spot which he prepares and vacates himself to go as a servant before us for our salvation, creating that spot. I go to create a spot for you in my Father's house in heaven, meaning he's going to tell the Father the spot that he has created, which Mary was able to see with, and this is important, the untransfigured Christ. He could not be touched in that moment with Mary. Thus, we know he is not yet ascended to the Father. Thus, we know that spot that is absent, even though Christ has conquered death and risen and made the sacrifice, is for us. He's prepared it for us. He was not transfigured holistically, having seen the Father after the death. Everyone else gets to touch him and feel the wounds and everything else.

So, what we see in that moment is so beautiful and profound. We see Jesus letting us all know that the most sinful among you still have this spot, and I have prepared it, and I have told the Father of this spot. Meaning it was also absent because he had not returned to the Father yet. But she still had that spot because he was behind her. Thus, it was her spot. Thus, even though he has already died and resurrected, he is also once again representing the resurrection story, being our salvation. So, while he died for us, we now live because of him in that spot, and he shows us this by giving the one who has not yet ascended to the Father the right, via the Father having given this to him, to assign who will be there, which is the last of us, the one who is not condemned by Jesus, the one who Jesus stands behind as a servant to fulfill her return to the heavenly host. Amen.

One final thing, going back to the two by two. There are two present in the transfiguration on the mount, Moses and Elijah. There are two present in the resurrected tomb, the two angels. The representation of two for the Father and the Holy Spirit are represented by John and the dove. The dove is one thing; we're going to go back to that right now. The dove is a callback to the dove that received the two branches of olive tree that came to Noah and provided them, giving proof of life. So, the spiritual life-giver, i.e., the Holy Spirit, was represented in a pair that returns to Noah after the earth is destroyed by water. So, we see another triune moment with Noah and the two doves, i.e., this is now a canon or an absolute law. The moment in which mankind was destroyed and the earth was wiped clean, the Holy Spirit arrives with the will of the Father to that of the Son of Man, which would later be represented by Jesus.

As we saw, and this is where it's going to all tie back into the two by two, you have two feet and one mouth. You have two things that are means and one that is the witnessing side of things. So too do we see that when two walk, Christ is present, but what are they doing? They're walking, they're going out to all the world, making disciples of all the nations, of all the world. Thus, he also says, if you are welcomed, you have one path of options of what you're going to do, and then, if you're not welcomed, shake the dust from your sandals. The mode of operation, a light and a lamp unto your feet, will be the Holy Spirit, the lamp, the fire-giver; the fire is unto your feet.

So, just take a minute and think about that. The feet are being lit for the path, so you're carrying light, i.e., the light of Christ with you, by the light of the Holy Spirit, which is lighting your path, your ability to walk and traverse the fallen world. So, if the world that you bring that light to, via the two of you representing the third, Jesus, through your testimony, does not accept Jesus, then you are to return the dust, i.e., them, represented by the dust on your feet, to the earth. So, the Holy Spirit is being represented in this moment and in the moment in the tomb by representing that spot at the feet. Your light throughout the world, your separation from the fallen, condemned world, and the one who awaits for you next to you in the position where he is seated in the presence of the Father and the Holy Spirit at the feet, separating you from not just the earth, i.e., the dust, but the condemned eternity.

Thus, the fire keeps you from the fire. So, that's pretty prophetic and amazing too. Just one dude standing one place with one mention of where he's standing, and all of that's encapsulated in a few words before everybody looks at what the rest of that moment is. Yet, the Holy Spirit's entirety is represented in one succinct moment in the same sentence as the Father, with barely any understanding from the rest of the world as to how important those positions were. Praise God, from whom all good things flow. Praise God, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly hosts. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. We see the above, the below, and those that are here in the tomb. We see that also in our lives and in what we are to see to come.

Now, reading it back to you as if spoken aloud, naturally and conversationally: One final thing, going back to the two by two. There are two present in the transfiguration on the mount, Moses and Elijah. There are two present in the resurrected tomb, the two angels. The representation of two for the Father and the Holy Spirit are represented by John and the dove. The dove is one thing; we're gonna go back to that right now. The dove is a callback to the dove that received the two branches of olive tree that came to Noah and provided them, giving proof of life. So, the spiritual life-giver, that is, the Holy Spirit, was represented in a pair that returned to Noah after the earth is destroyed by water. So, we see another triune moment with Noah and the two doves, that is, this is now a canon or an absolute law. Um, the moment in which mankind was destroyed and the earth was wiped clean, the Holy Spirit arrives with the will of the Father to that of the Son of Man, which would later be represented by Jesus.

So too do the doves show up when Jesus is baptized, an official wiping clean and welcome into the family of Jesus in this moment. So, rather than two doves in the moment of the, baptism, we see one, and we see the voice of the Holy Father and the will of the Father being enacted by John the Baptist. So, we are only required to have one dove because the Holy Spirit is in that moment, as it was with Noah, with the two doves in the water, wiping clean the earth and God allowing for life to continue. We see the dove return in the moment when life is wiping sin away from the earth on the body of Jesus. So, it's for this reason that the earth and the cleansing of earth is the Holy Spirit's divine right and role. Thus, the Holy Spirit is represented in the transfigured Christ spot, which is prepared for us in the tomb, by the one who stands at his feet.

As we saw, and this is where it's gonna all tie back into the two by two, you have two feet and one mouth. You have two things that are means and one that is the witnessing side of things. So too do we see that when two walk, Christ is present, but what are they doing? They're walking, they're going out to all the world, making disciples of all the nations, of all the world. Thus, he also says, if you are welcomed, you have one path of options of what you're going to do, and then, if you're not welcomed, shake the dust from your sandals. The mode of operation, a light and a lamp unto your feet, will be the Holy Spirit, the lamp, the fire-giver; the fire is unto your feet.

So, just take a minute and think about that. The feet are being lit for the path, so you're carrying light, that is, the light of Christ with you, by the light of the Holy Spirit, which is lighting your path, your ability to walk and traverse the fallen world. So, if the world that you bring that light to, via the two of you representing the third, Jesus, through your testimony, does not accept Jesus, then you are to return the dust, that is, them, represented by the dust on your feet, to the earth. So, the Holy Spirit is being represented in this moment and in the moment in the tomb by representing that spot at the feet. Your light throughout the world, your separation from the fallen, condemned world, and the one who awaits for you next to you in the position where he is seated in the presence of the Father and the Holy Spirit at the feet, separating you from not just the earth, that is, the dust, but the condemned eternity.