12.1 A New Language

The term “society” means the interactions of sentient beings, humans and angels together. Interaction is communication; even physical touch includes the transfer of meaning. The term “ecosystem” is larger than the concept of society because it includes all non-sentient things, living or non-living, that are included in and contribute to the lives and relationships of humans and angels. The Kingdom of God is the ecosystem in its entirety, but the society of humans and angels is its primary feature.

Two things are essential to the building of the Kingdom of God inside of heaven-earth. Those two things are a new Language (communication) flowing out from a new Spirit.

What Language Will Be Spoken? This brings a fascinating question. Will everyone on earth during the Age of Tabernacles speak the same language? And, will people also retain their native languages? I think the answer is yes to both. Each unique language spoken by humans is an expression of the Father through the Word. Yet it is a great asset to all to be fully fluent in a second universal language, as Latin served in the Christian West, and then as English has served throughout the world of our day.

When we say a new language, then, we do not mean that all other languages vanish and all humans and angels know and think and speak in only one universal language. Rather, we mean that each language spoken takes on the traits of knowing Jesus Sent into us as every Word God speaks.

I. A Pattern Language
A. Words as Communication. A communication is a bridge between two places. Words are communication. Through words two persons share together. God is Fellowship. Fellowship is the flow of words back and forth between two and among many inside a Spirit knowing of meaning and intent.

Fellowship is always Words and Spirit together. In communication, Spirit could be called “face and intention,” or it could be called “image and desire.” The expressions of the face and the intentions of the speaker shape the meaning of the words passing between. Yet all Spirit Word is always for relationship.

Out from a Shared Language. For communication to happen, however, both speakers must share the same definitions for the words they use. When there are differing definitions, communication is broken. Ephesians 4:16 tells us that the body of Christ, the temple of God, and by extension, the entirety of the Kingdom is constructed out from fellowship.

It is out from a shared language flowing among many that the Kingdom of God unfolds organically into its intended shape. The kingdoms of this world are built in the same way. Words always have power, for life or for death. The River of Life, the Golden Oil flowing, the streams of fire from the throne, all signify the flow of a pure Spirit Word.

B. A Pattern Language. Few books reverberate all through my soul in the way that The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander does. Alexander suggests that the life we build together, including the physical structures in which we live, comes out from the meaning of our shared language. He calls this language that builds our homes “a pattern language.” In his books, he describes every aspect of how this shared pattern language enables a village or a kingdom to grow organically out from the fellowship of its inhabitants.

There is nothing more beautiful to me than the villages that grew organically out from the shared languages of northwestern Europe. Yet Africans or Chinese, etc., see their own organic villages from their own languages the same.

Life Flowing into Space. Language itself follows the meaning of “patterns.” Language has two parts, first the multitude of individual words, each of which is a symbol or representation of something, and second the morphological or grammatical rules that govern how the differing kinds of words flow together into a sentence.

A pattern language is not just a utilitarian language, however; rather, it is the language of life flowing into space, taking on the many forms and patterns that life takes on inside any given space. Thus Alexander also developed what is called “pattern theory,” a way to describe the essential components of the spaces into which life flows. He deduced fifteen elements that describe those spaces and their relationships together.

Not Easily Explained. Here are two of Alexander’s several explanations of a pattern language. It takes ongoing explanations because the flow of life is not something that can be easily explained.

“A pattern language is a system which allows its users to create an infinite variety of those three-dimensional combinations of patterns which we call buildings, gardens, towns.” – “A finite system of rules which a person can use to generate an infinite variety of different buildings—all members of a family—and that the use of language will allow the people of a village or a town to generate exactly that balance of uniformity and variety which brings a place to life.”

Alexander was primarily interested in architecture, but his theories apply to any field of human study.

C. From Patterns to Life. The authors of Patterns of Home, a text I have used much, were disciples of Alexander and worked with him to turn these patterns into very practical ways to design a home. Yet those who build that home use a different kind of language to speak of the construction process. At the same time, another pattern language is used to speak of the life lived inside of the home.

Every field of study and of human endeavor creates its own pattern language, the words used and the rules of engagement by which they are used. The purpose of any pattern language, then, is to enable individuals to work together in every aspect of the unfolding of life.

A Shared Life and Home. Yet all of this is summed up in the Pro-Thesis, John 1:1-14. The Word, Christ Jesus, is Life and that Life gives light, understanding, to all, that Life becomes flesh, that is, flows into the form that is creation, making all things whole. Life is the knowledge of God. God is Word. Life is the Word spoken, Christ Jesus, entering into us to cause us to know the Father. Yet in knowing the Father, we also know one another.

Thus the central pattern language, the language of Life, is how we speak together in the building of a home for us and for God, the Kingdom, the New Jerusalem. The two primary words of this entire study are Synergeia and Symmorphy (Romans 8:28-30), a shared Life flowing into, unfolding as, a shared Home being formed together.

D. The Languages of Life and Death. As Noah Webster pointed out, it is apparent that God created Adam and Eve with a language fully formed inside their own consciousness. In fact, this is how they could be “living souls.” Their language was pure, but innocent; that is, it did not yet contain the stories of their lives and all their fellowship together through life’s difficulties over time. More than that, their language did not yet contain the acknowledgement of all that Jesus is written upon our hearts. They did not know the Covenant joining God with us.

Yet there were two sources of knowing in the garden, life or death, and the story of their souls and their shared language together would flow out from whichever knowing they chose.

The Mind Is a Vessel. Adam and Eve chose a language of death, and out from their words sin and death flowed into their world and into the lives of their children. We have chosen the language of Life, and out from our words, life, healing, and provision flow into our world and into the lives of all who receive the language we speak.

The mind is a vessel through which a language flows out into fellowship. It is also the outward part of our human person. The two trees in the garden are the two minds Paul lays out in Romans 8, and there are two laws governing the meaning of the words being spoken, the law of the Spirit of Life inside of Christ Jesus versus the law of sin and death.

Altering the Definitions. It’s not that both languages are found on the pages of the Bible; rather, it’s that the reader causes the words of the Bible to be ruled by one mind or the other, one law or the other. The serpent and his demons possess no power of themselves; that is, there is no evil substance creating its own language. Instead, the serpent is a “spellcaster”; that is, he has the anointing of spirit that enables him to twist the meaning of the words (Jesus sustaining all) into contradiction.

This twist, an alteration of the definition of the words, happens inside the minds of humans and results in three things. The first result is a false story of self (deceit), the second is a break in communication (war), and the third is the manipulation and control of others (witchcraft).

Breaking Communication. The goal of the serpent’s anointing is to break the communication between God and humans (the Covenant) and among individual humans in society (pattern languages) in order to introduce war and thus death. This is actually quite easy to do, just make sure that the speaker and the hearer are using different definitions for the same words.

This is the thing that has relentlessly torn me apart inside for 47 years, that the language Christians speak, the patterns and meanings of their lingo, DOES NOT match the language God speaks in the big verses of the Gospel. And the worst is when they use God-Words to pretend.

Breaking God. It takes very little to alter the meaning of the words, just a simple sleight of hand. Jerome broke God inside the very text of our Bibles by the simple insertion of two words into Genesis 3:22, two words that are NOT in the Hebrew, the words “of Us.” Thus Satan’s definition of God, that God knows evil, prevails.

Then, it took the alteration of only two Greek words in the New Testament to cement the Christian mind into the knowing of good and evil, the mind of death at war with God. Parousia, Jesus here now, became “Jesus coming someday,” making creation now evil by nature, and aeon, a period of time, became “eternal,” cementing evil as enduring forever. These three underlying definitions rule all Nicene thinking.

E. The Role of Face and Intention. When Paul traces the fall of humans in Romans 1, he shows the progression from refusing God to unthankfulness to a psychotic mind to a darkened heart. The darkened heart, according to Jeremiah, is the source of evil intentions, yet those intentions are always deceitful, that is, a human hides his true intentions by the differing masks he puts upon his face.

Intentions of the heart and masks upon the face express the “spirit” side of the words flowing out and are used to shape the meaning of the words and the effect that they have. This is why there must be a “penetrating through” that “is capable of judging the pondering and purposes of the heart.”

According to the Pattern. I want to add a few more thoughts to our perspective. First –  See that you build all things according to the pattern. This corresponds with, Do not come near the Ark, for you have not been this way before. When I hear people speak what I teach them in their own way, making it personal to themselves, I rejoice with all joy. But when I hear others take what I teach and mix it with false things in order to build their own agenda separate from Jesus, I am aghast with all horror. The kingdom they are building will collapse into ruin for many.

Then, we have Jesus’ words. – He who is faithful in little will be given rule over much. – The Kingdom comes out from those who are little.

God’s Thoughts. Two metaphors God uses, two among several, mean this pure language flowing out in a pure Spirit. First is the Song of the Lamb sung by the firstfruits, and second is the Golden Oil flowing out from the second witness of Christ. These are two perspectives of the same thing. The Song of the Lamb speaks of the nature of those who speak this Pure Spirit Language, and the Golden Oil speaks of its impact on the Church and the world through the Church.

God’s thoughts are spoken by Christ Jesus who brings us forth and sustains us by that Word. We then speak the same Word that is Christ now made personal as us. And out from our speaking into others, the entire creation comes into the singing and the harmony of God’s original thoughts.