SPIRITUAL COVENANT BY FAITH
(Part One)
By Dr. Henry C. Kinley
The complete title of this lecture is the: "Spiritual Covenant by Faith according to the Promise given to Abraham, not by the Works of the Carnal Law," 1966, Los Angeles, California, Transcribed by Patricia White; Originally recorded by Dr. Carl F. Gross. NOTE: Although the True Names were revealed to Dr. Kinley in a vision in 1931, he used Lord, God, and Jesus Christ until he published Elohim, The Archetype Original Pattern of the Universe in 1961. Minor editorial changes also have been made for clarity and to preserve the flow of thought.
(In this article we have extracted exerpts from Dr. Kinleys lecture that deals specifically with the above topic. We purposely have kept block of ideas together in this transcript to unify the flow of thoughts on the topic. Within the original lecture, serveral ideas were scattered throughout his discourse.)
During Dr. Kinleys discourse he compares the ordinances imposed on Israel under the Law of Moses to the Abrahamic dispensation when only faith was required. Dr. Kinley illustrates the similarity of the faith of Abraham and the faith of the sons in this Present Age of Grace. [Note: See illustration on p. 8 and the "Three Ages in Time by the 3-fold Tabernacle Pattern" chart, p. 31 in the Complementary Issue of the "PLIM REPORT"].
The tape recording begins in the middle of Dr. Kinley's lecture. Hebrews 9:9 is being read. The Apostle Paul is explaining that the Mosaic Law is a type and shadow or figure of the Messiah to come.
Reader: "Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; (Heb. 9:9)."
Dr. Kinley: Perfect. Wait a minute. Who served in that tabernacle? The high priest. He held the highest tribunal at that time. He was going in and out of the tabernacle, that is the sanctuary, appearing there in the Most Holy Place. He went in by himself. He had no company. He was alone, but he did not enter without blood. If the Mosaic Law couldnt make the priest perfect that performed the service, how could it make somebody else perfect? The Apostle Paul said that it stood for the time then present in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to his conscience. Read on.
Reader: "Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances,
Dr. Kinley: Listen, which stood o - n - l - y, cant you read? It stood only, in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances. Carnal means natural, physical, literal. It stood only in that. Everything Israel did was from a natural stand point. The Law stood only in that. Listen, youre dealing with people without the Holy Ghost. Youre dealing with a carnal people, or people with a carnal mind from the high priest on down. Therefore, youre dealing with them through carnal ordinances only. All right read.
Reader: imposed on them until the time of reformation (Heb. 9:10)."
Dr. Kinley: What is a carnal ordinance? Name some of them. Some of these are so stupid, we dont even realize what a carnal ordinance is. LISTEN. PHYSICAL, LITERAL WATER BAPTISM IS A CARNAL ORDINANCE. That high priest had to perform divers (many different kinds) of washings. The sacrifices were washed in physical, literal, natural water. Everything that they had was just as natural as it could be. It was that way for a purpose. The Law stood only in many different kinds of washings and carnal ordinances. Listen to the next word. IMPOSED on them: them who? Theyre not imposed on you. They were not imposed on Abraham. They were not imposed on the Gentiles. You heard me youre not blind. The Mosaic Law was for the time then present and was imposed on the Jews through that dispensation. Imposed on them how long?
Reader: until the time of reformation.
Dr. Kinley: Until the time of reformation or until God chose to reform Israel. Yahweh gave them a law of carnal ordinances and imposed it on them. ... Lets return to the Abrahamic dispensation. I told you there were no carnal ordinances imposed on him. He didnt have any set routine there, Abraham didnt.
Now then, it was imposed on the Jews until the time of reformation. Heres where the reform comes in. At Pentecost the Holy Ghost that they didnt have, the folks or the preachers, the Apostles Im talking about, they didnt have it. He told them to tarry there in Jerusalem until they got it, and then when they got it, then they should start to preach right here at Jerusalem.
. . . Begin in Jerusalem. If you look in the 4th chapter of Pauls epistle to the Galatians youll find this: that Jerusalem beneath is allegorical to Jerusalem above (Gal. 4:24-26). You'll find that the carnal ordinances that youre dealing with, every last one of them, were typical of spiritual righteousness. The ordinances only typified it, therefore the Law was imposed on them until the thing that it typified came. Youre reformed by the Holy Ghost.
"Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is the Messiah (Christ). And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of Elohim (God) in the Messiah (Christ), the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but Elohim (God) gave it to Abraham by promise. Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator (Gal 3:16-19)."
. . . Look, God said in Abrahams seed He would bless all the families of the earth. Right? Hed have to say it that way because Abraham had an effect on a whole entire population, both Jew and Gentile. Thats all there is in the earth.
. . .The Law here was added (Gal. 3:19). I didnt say the promise. (Im saying what I mean, meaning what I say, and placing the words in their proper order. I dont want them twisted up or confused with something else. I dont want someone saying I said something that I didnt say.) Now the Law here, not the promise was added. The promise was made because in Abrahams seed, all the families of the earth were to be blessed, which means the Jews and the Gentiles, both of which came from the loins of Adam and Eve. Theres no man living, neither Jew nor Gentile, that didnt come from their loins back there. So then based on that, God has to make that promise to Abraham while the seed was yet in his loins.
. . . The Law, was given exclusively to Israel. It was contained in carnal ordinances only. It was 430 years to the day after the promise was made (Gal. 3:17). This is a dispensation of Melchisedec and Abraham. Abraham believed God and that FAITH that he had in God was accounted unto him for righteousness. He didnt offer up but one sacrifice and he did a thorough job of that. God told him to offer it.
I could tell you many things about that. Abraham was an old man stricken in age, 85 years old. Even when Ishmael was conceived by Hagar, Abraham was 85 years old (Gen. 16:15-16). If somebody was 85 years old now, you probably already understand without me saying a thing, that he was far past the age of fathering children. You almost got that one, didnt you? Hagar comes around, a woman with a baby in her arms, says, "Thats his child." Now hes 85 years old. "Thats his child." Now youre going to have some trouble. You see what I mean? Thats when Ishmael was born.
Thats bad, isnt it? But it doesnt stop there. God told Abraham that he was going to bless all his seed through his wife Sarah who has been barren from birth (Gen. 17:16). She never had any children. Abraham was 99 years old going into his 100th birthday when he had a son conceived by Sarah who had previously been barren. Shes 90 years old and hes 99 going into 100. It was no wonder that Sarah laughed when she heard the news that she would conceive (Gen. 18:11-15). You know what I mean? It is comical for somebody that old that hasnt had any children. Its comical. It just doesnt happen like that. It would never have happened in his case had it not been for God. That was a trick. Hes 100 years old when Isaac is born by a woman that had never conceived.
You have to look back, clear on back to mother earth to understand what happened to Abraham and Sarah. Mother earth was also barren and destitute in her beginnings. She was an amalgamated and conglomerated chaos back there, without the seed of vegetation and so forth and so on. The earth had to wait till the waters were moved from the face of the earth and the dry land appeared. On the 3rd day God impregnated mother earth, that virgin who had been barren and destitute, with the seed of vegetation. That is what youre going back to.
Thats mother earth impregnated with the seed of vegetation. Plants are one kingdom. Human beings are another kingdom. Then 3 days from that (on the sixth day), God reached right down into virgin mother earth, and took Adam out of the dust of the earth. She was a virgin. No other man had come from there, so shes got to be a virgin. God was his father; mother earth was his mother. No sin had been committed on mother earth. Its wonderful when you look at it. Thats why these events happened to Abraham and Sarah. [As a fulfillment of Adam being born from barren virgin mother earth.] Thats why whatever things transpired, just anything that happened, thats why these things happened back there in the beginning. [To declare the end from the beginning.] He said His purpose, (Isaiah 46: 9 and 10) would stand, all of His council would stand; He doesnt have any hindrance and obstructions.
. . . When He came into the world He said that no one was righteous from Adam on down through Abraham. (I guess He knew what He was talking about, He set it up. You can see Him about it.) He said theres none righteous, no not one. ... Well, what about Abraham? Oh my goodness. Enoch was the 7th from Adam. He walked so perfectly, that God translated him while he was alive. However, the Messiah said theres none good. Theres always somebody trying to talk about "me and my righteousness, me and my religion." All of our righteousness is as filthy rags. All of it. Talking about the Pope and his holiness. All of our righteousness is as filthy rags. Theres no good.
. . . He says theres none good. He wasnt overlooking anything down there. He wasnt overlooking Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. He translated Enoch and Elijah. I thought you said that Elijah was ascended up into heaven in a chariot of fire. I thought you said that Enoch the 7th from Adam was so good. And here sat the Messiah talking to Nicodemus saying no man ascended into heaven except the Son of Man which came down from heaven (John 3:13).
Listen, heres the part we didnt get, sitting right there on the seat. You dont believe me. Would you mind reading that for me please? I got in an awful argument down here and got some of my people knocked in the mouth about this, but I just want to let you know its in the Book. There He was sitting right down there talking to Nicodemus, sitting down there, talking with him and He said to Nicodemus, no man ascended into heaven. What about Enoch? "I thought you said Enoch was translated" Right here, look. Thats before the flood. What about Elijah who ascended in chariots of fire. Enoch was in the Antediluvian age. Elijah was in the Post-diluvian age. Post means after, the flood - in the Antediluvian. Now here comes the Messiah in that age, Hes sitting down there talking to Nicodemus. Whatd He say to him?
"No man hath ascended up into heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in heaven (John 3:13)."
Dr. Kinley: The Messiah was sitting right there, talking to Nicodemus. Thats where the conversation was, in heaven. We with our carnal minds say, "Heaven is a place where the inhabitants dress in white robes and Elohim jumped on out of heaven and He came on down here." Man, you dont know a thing about heaven. [Note: Dr. Kinley is addressing heaven as a spiritually illuminated state of consciousness (Isa. 26:3; Lk. 17:20).]
. . . Listen, I havent lost the continuity of thought. Im looking at the purpose, Im looking at the Godhead, and then Im looking at the creation as a sum total. If you dont start right, you cant end up right because God has declared the end from the beginning (Isa. 46:9-10). Listen, heres an academic thing. Were talking about natural things. Were talking about faith under the Abrahamic dispensation. Were talking about the Law. We told you, from the very beginning. I went back to Adam to show you. Then I went back into those ages to show you Enoch. Then I came on in to show you Elijah. Then I showed you the difference between the Abrahamic dispensation which was 430 years before the Law (Gal. 3:16-17). You remember that I told you that the man that did the service in the tabernacle was carnal - the high priest and I told you that Israel was also carnal. Isnt that right? I told you that all the ordinances were carnal. All of them were natural because everythings coming down that way. God, from the creation of the world spoke through Paul and said that the invisible is understood by the visible (Rom. 1:19-20).