A reply to a friend over the question of What is the wilderness I am coming out of ....
What I am about to write (you wont hear in a church, or get in a seminary, or attain to at a university;, only the spirit in you reveals the truth both in and to you, and this in one form relates to the truth that the citys (heavenly Jerusalem) light is, in respect to the river that flows out of this throne, where the light of this city is that there is no temple, or something that separates us from the love of the truth) and relates to all of us as the Adam at the beginning of the Bible, where God starts out with one (that became two) and then narrows it back down to one again (or where two become one again) which speaks to the process happening in us, and the way, truth and life that Jesus is to us who fulfilled the pattern without eating of his own reasoning, represented in him by the words that he heard (this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased) that drove him to the wilderness for the temptation to eat of his own reasoning, just as it had happened to Adam (Adam being in picture the image of God and the woman his soul and the wilderness he entered that his soul gave him as a perception he lived in, which relates to Gods three questions, Where art thou, Who told you, and Have you eaten.)
In scripture (though this is found in the whole of creation as well) things equate to truths that deal with the kingdom of God, which is just another way of saying Gods perception of the truth of h).self and is the very same kingdom God appointed to us out of his good pleasure to the end that he would fill all things with himself, which you see in Nebuchadnezzars dream where a stone becomes a mountain and fills the whole earth (even though this glory has always filled the earth as it has filled this temple that we are in whom we live and move and have our being, wherein the treasure has been hidden (a mystery) from the beginning and inclusive of all).
Nebuchadnezzar made an image out of the dream God gave him which brought him to the end of himself found in the seven years where he became no different than a beast of the field, though his wisdom in the end was much like Solomons, or the prodigal son (when he came to himself).
God called Jesus out of Egypt (as he calls every son (no gender not an issue) who was the truth of what Israel was a picture of. The same truth of the woman that comes out of a man is the same truth of Israel coming out of Egypt, which reveals the feminine or the soul in relationship to knowledge where through disobedience in thought sets the foundation of the world as both good and evil (which is the death of innocence, or in picture the lamb that was slain). In this is the picture of the two sons which is manifested as two mountains in the wilderness (which equates to the feast of Pentecost but in relationship to our reasoning and not that of Gods who sees light and darkness as the same), where Israel wanders around for forty years between these two fruits of a tree until all the men/thoughts of warfare die out.
Passover equates to Egypt as the wilderness equates to Pentecost and the land to Tabernacles (and to name a few) you find this same picture in Abrahams three men, or Saul, David, and Solomon, or the outer court, holy place, most holy place (of Moses tabernacle, or Solomons temple, which equate to wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, or spirit, soul and body (which the first representation of the order of this was an Ishmael (or body/saul first), but these all depict the process of the truth being revealed in us of the son that we are). Jesus kept the feasts (which like the creative days (seven) there are seven feasts (rest of a son) within nine months (a birthing of a son and the rest of God, or where God rests) but the year he kept them in was a year defined as acceptable (or this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased).
Let me set this out, that Gods rest is us as he is ours, where we walk as one or where he walks in us, where our thoughts are his thoughts and not a voice that is separate from us as it was to Adam when he ate of his own reasoning and became afraid (which can be seen at the mountain in the wilderness which was supposed to be the mountain of blessing that Paul likened to Hagar and her son, which is just another way of saying our perception of the son that we are), even though he heard the voice of the Lord walking in the cool/spirit, of the Day (the garden representing his/our soul). We must understand that the good as well as the evil both lead to death of self in the day (or in the light) that we eat of it, which is to say a light of our own making which gain deals with our own reasoning based on something outside if us.
There are many views of the feast of Pentecost, which the first picture of this is found in the words, Let there be light, where a duality is manifested, where darkness becomes evil by default when God calls the light good. The first Pentecost like the first son is an Ishmael, or Esau, or Adam, Cain, Saul, etc. (rejected, and whose son is not accepted (which comes in the feminine and relates to our soul as the masculine relates to the image/seed our soul is impregnated by.
The land that one lives as a stranger in is their own soul, where there is no rest, but a wandering around between two fruits of a tree, or two mountains, two sons, which is the picture of an inheritance divided, due to our perception that we are not one with our Father and that all that our Father has, has always been ours. It is a perception seeded by an image without us and speaks to the garden as both Gods and ours, the difference being that Gods garden is a garden enclosed, it is not seeded from without, God finding no truth outside of himself, and his children being no less so, which truth Jesus came to declare and when he left the declaration of where this Christ/son/kingdom would be.
Adam became lost in his own reasoning (as we do) because he did not pick up his cross which is the only way to find the knowledge that leads to understanding of the truth of self, whom only the one we came out of can define.
In all this I have barely begun to scratch the surface of how to enter into the most holy place of your being and remain though it is found in the first commandment as it was in Jesus' word of Take no thought, or pick up your cross.