The Capstone: The Supreme Cornerstone
The identity of the Messianic Capital was, ineluctably, linked with the Mystic Rock, Zion:
Thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, I am laying a Stone in Zion [Ahaba], a tested Stone, a precious Cornerstone, as a sure foundation: he that believes in it shall not be moved’ (Isa. 28:16).
While this passage was associated superficially with Jesus (and the Old Zion), being the Pre-Exalted Christ, it is literally and consummately, identified with the Exalted Christ, the Holy Spirit (and the New Zion: Ahaba) through Nnebisi. This is indeed consistent with the role of the Holy Spirit as the Supplanter. Thus, He is identified with Jacob, and referred to sometimes as the God of Jacob.
Nnebisi was born a slave in the town of Nteje, in Nigeria, East of the Niger River, and of a Mysterious Mother, absent a Father (Heb. 7:3). In His youth, He suffered much humiliation as a lowborn: One such incidence related to the annual custom of honoring the town’s most heroic and strong man. On this festive occasion, a strong bull was let loose into the wild, and all the young and able men of the town were challenged to corral and lead it back to town. Whoever succeeded in doing so was greatly honored with the emblem of strength and courage: the bull’s tail.
Nnebisi was powerfully built and stood head and shoulders above all in the town. When He came of age to participate in this festivity, He succeeded on His first attempt in corralling the bull. But, instead of honoring Nnebisi as was the custom, the event’s judges, without explanation, let loose the bull and sent the young men after it a second time. Nnebisi subdued and led it back to town again. This sequence of events was repeated a third time. Instead of honor, it was shame and deep hurt that Nnebisi felt.
On the heels of this experience, Nnebisi’s Mother resolved to set Him free. She invited Him to rendezvous with Her in the town’s marketplace, at dusk, after business hours. As Nnebisi approached the deserted marketplace, He observed His Mother walking towards Him upside down with Her basket atop Her feet. Nnebisi’s Mother performed other such disturbing feat to test Nnebisi’s courage, and to determine HIs fitness to strike out on His own (on His chosen Mission to the world). Nnebisi, however, held His ground and was not terrified.
Subsequent to passing the tests, Nnebisi’s Mother gave him a Table Stone to carry across the Niger River: to a, then, sparsely populated land west of the river. She instructed him to inhabit wherever the Stone happened to drop (that is, by chance). Upon reaching the opposite bank of the river, the Stone dropped at the foot of a hill (now the Shrine of Onishe: The Threshold of New Jerusalem). Thereupon, Nnebisi exclaimed: Ahabam (I settle here); whence came the name of the town, Ahaba, in fulfillment of the scriptural prophecy: “[Jerusalem] shall be called by a new name, proclaimed by the mouth of the Lord” (Isa. 62:2).
Indeed, the Spirit of the Lord has settled in Ahaba, signified by the Table Rock that came to rest on that occasion. Thus, through Nnebisi, this passage was, consummately, fulfilled: “I am laying a Stone [the Cornerstone and Capstone] in Zion”, says the Lord. As the earthly descendant of Nnebisi, the Inaugurator of the New Covenant, the Consummate Messiah is, indeed, the Tested Stone”—the Alpha and the Omega; the Beginning and the End–the Cherubim. Thus, the above excerpt from Scriptures is literally fulfilled in the Consummate Messiah.
Come to Him, a Living Stone, rejected by humans, but chosen and precious in the sight of God (1 Peter 2:4).
To you, therefore, who believe, the Stone is [a refuge, and as such] precious; but to unbelievers, it is rather a Stone which the builders rejected that has become the Head of the Corner [the Capstone]; a Stumbling Stone and a Rock that will make them fall. Those who stumble are the disbelievers in the Word of God [Olisadumkwu]*; it is their appointed fate to do so (1 Peter 2:7-8).
This Rock, Zion, the Table of the Consummate Law, the Eternal Ark of the New Covenant, is the Supreme Throne of God: The Seal of the Secret Bond of kinship between God the Mother, Onishe, and Nnebisi—the Impersonal and Personal Absolutes. It is presently evident in Asaba. Hence the Scriptures prophesied:
For that which has not been told them they shall see, and that which they have not heard they shall understand (Isa. 52:15).
Jeremiah espied these Events and, accordingly, prophesied the transience of the phantom ark. He was moved to prophesy further:
At that time, they shall call [New] Jerusalem the Throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord: [The Rock] (Jer. 3:16-17).
The Cornerstone was identified abstractly with the pre-Exalted Christ, Jesus, but it has now been made manifest concretely with the Exalted Christ, Elijah. These observed correlations are even so with other Messianic Emblems, such as the Divine Seal, the Divine Fire, and the Spiritual Sword.
Just as Abraham marked the beginning of the Old Covenant that terminated with Jesus, so Nnebisi personified the Budding Spirit, Alpha: The Beginning of the New Covenant, which culminated in Elijah, the Omega. The Former Covenant is associated with the transitory ark and the Aaronic-high-priest, whereas the latter is identified with the Eternal, Messianic-High-Priest and the Heavenly Throne, Zion. Even so, they are both integral parts of God’s Grand Plan for humanity.
Nnebisi’s River Crossing
In the two-dimensional, earthly sense: By going from east to west, Nnebisi crossed, as it were, from the domain of the unjust to that of the just, from the realm of the natural to that of the potential spiritual, as symbolized by the baptism of water.
In the higher-dimensional, supernal sense (on surface b—see Cryptogram-schematic), however, Nnebisi’s river crossing is the consummate archetype of a pilgrim’s mystical journey (symbolized by the baptism of water and the spirit). He typifies the pilgrim bearing the burden of innate limitations (the baptism of the spirit), as it wades faithfully across the uncertain currents of Cosmic Stream (the baptism of water), towards that contrary Bank of Repose (the New Jerusalem). Thence, the burden is disposed of, and transposed into a resource (a rock-fountainhead: the gift of the Spirit).
From the Supreme Godhead [d] humanity came by imperfection, and thus have fallen (on surface-a); and to It all must strive, freely, to rise (on surface-b) and thus return—to Perfection—through these transitions in the Structure.
Further Evidence for The Ultimate Messiah
The origin of The Messiah, the Exalted One, had been rightly a point of contention for Jews of Jesus’s time:
Yet, we know where this man [Jesus] is from. When the Messiah comes, no one is supposed to know His Origin [insofar as He is not of Judah’s stock, but a type of Melchizedek] (John 7:27 c.f., Gen. 49:10).
Accordingly, Heaven divulged to Ezra:
One shall reign whom those who dwell on Earth do not expect . . . and One whom the many do not know shall make His voice heard by night (4 Ezra 5:6-7 or 2 Esdras 5:6-7 Revised Standard Version).
It is all in keeping with the testimony in the Scriptures:
[S]he concealed me in the shadow of H[er] arm . . . In H[er] quiver [S]he hid me (Isa. 49:2).
Indeed, mystery is another Messianic motif: from the Cryptogram to His Cryptonyms; hence, the Messiah is the Seal of Secrecy—the Mystic Rock.
Paul observed:
I do not, brethren, want you to be ignorant of this mystery lest you be conceited: blindness has afflicted part of Israel until the full number of Gentiles enter in, and then all Israel will be saved. As it is written: ‘Out of [New] Zion [Ahaba: The Dwelling of God the Highest] will come the Deliverer who shall remove all ungodliness from Jacob . . .’ (Rom. 11:25-26)
If Jesus were truly the Ultimate Messiah, then the need for another Deliverer, as prophesied by Paul, would not exist. Various passages in the Scriptures depict Messianic characteristics that do not align with Jesus as a person: “the Despised One rejected by men… one of those [a race] from whom men hide their faces; spurned and held in no esteem” (Isaiah 53:3); “the Servant of rulers, loathed by nations” (Isaiah 49:7); “a Worm and not a Man, scorned by mankind, despised by the people” (Psalms 22:6). Yet, the given name of this Author—Olisadumkwu (“may God help me speak”): The Word of God; Obiaya (“One who has come to war [against (the Evil in) God]”): Israel (Revelation 19:11-13; Isaiah 49:3)—aligns Him with the Ultimate Deliverer and Revelator, indicating the fulfillment of the times in Paul’s prophecy. The name “Obiaya” embodies what was attributed in the Scriptures to the Chosen Servant: “[S]he made my mouth [words] like a sharp sword… [S]he made me into a polished arrow…” “[Indeed], [S]he has given me my name…” (Isaiah 49:1-2)
As the foregoing passage testifies: “Blindness has afflicted part of Israel, until the full number of Gentiles enter in, and then all Israel will be saved” by the Deliverer; thus, the first is last and the last is first.
The Ultimate Messiah and His clan were often differentiated from the tribes of Jacob; and His earthly origin identified with Zion (c.f., Dan. 9:26; Isa. 13:4-5). Indeed, the above passage distinguished the Ultimate Deliverer and Zion from the tribes of Jacob and identified the Deliverer as coming from without to redeem Jacob: “Out of [New] Zion will come the Deliverer” (the Standard Spirit: The Consummate Law and the Word of God) so prophesied Paul.
Other passages affirmed Paul:
And many peoples shall go and say, ‘Come and let us climb the Mountain of the Lord [Zion], to the house of the God of Jacob [i.e., the Holy Spirit]; and He will teach us of His ways, and we may walk in His paths.’ For out of [New] Zion [Ahaba] shall go forth the [Grand] Law, and the Word of God [Olisadumkwu] from [New] Jerusalem. And He will judge among the Nations and will rebuke many people . . . (Isa. 2:3; Micah 4:2).
Ezra, too, prophesied the co-Manifestation of the Exalted One with His Heavenly “Base”, (New) Zion:
But, He shall stand on top of Mount Zion. And Zion will come and be made manifest to all people, prepared and built as you saw the Mountain carved out without hands (2 Esdras 13:35-36 or 4 Ezra 13:35-36).
Ezra, thus, envisioned the Lofty One “standing on” (the exposition of) Mount Zion. (This vantage point would empower Him to rebuke and destroy the nations—2 Esdras 13:37-38). The manifestation of Zion here implied a New City. Indeed, the portrayal of the Exalted One atop Mount Zion identified Him as the Highest**: the King of New Zion, Melchizedek: “I myself have set up my King on [New] Zion, my Holy Mountain” (Psalms 2:6). His wondrous Emergence from the heart of the sea conveyed the mystery of His Origin [Ahaba] (2 Esdras 13:51-52 or 4 Ezra 13:51-52). And insofar as the New Zion was to be “prepared and built as you saw the Mountain [i.e., the Cryptogram] carved out without hands” from a secret place***, the “Carved Mountain” was to serve as the model of New Zion. So, Ezra’s vision has been validated; since the Lofty One now “stands on” (the exposition of) Mount Zion; the Carved Mountain has become a reality; and the Messianic Capital, the New Zion, has been revealed.
Again, it was mystically prophesied in the Scriptures♥ of the coming of an Exalted Messiah, a Most Holy One: A Supplanter of another Anointed One. He who is to restore all things and establish New Jerusalem, the Eternal Jerusalem, to replace the old, temporal city and sanctuary; as, indeed, desolation is foretold for the old city. He (the Anointed Prince from a different race) would supplant another Anointed One, Jesus (1 Cor. 15:24, 28).
Jesus recognized Elijah as this (Anointed) Restorer: “Elijah truly shall first come and restore all things . . .” (Matt. 17:10). Again, the Scriptures bore witness:
And He said, it is a light thing that you should be my Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will give you as a light to the Gentiles that you may be my salvation to the end of the Earth . . . (Isa. 49:6)
Thus, the Servant of the Lord is the Consummate Salvation of the world: the Consummate Messiah for both Gentiles and Jews.
{This is an excerpt from the Book between Pages 200-206 (pdf) and 180-186 (text)}
* Accordingly, the pilgrim’s “Goal” is, at once, a Stumbling Stone and a Rock of Refuge: In one respect, It is a Gemstone at the Ridgepole that steers the faithful to refuge in New Zion; and in another respect, a black, hidden Rock in a dark seamy Valley, by whom the unwary stumbles. And so, He is both a Cynosure and a Pitfall on Mount Zion.
** Here, the Emblem served to express the Elect One’s Eminence; otherwise, It gives voice to His Mission. It is remarkable that the title of the God of Melchizedek, a Canaanite, was acknowledged in the Scriptures: The “Most High”. This title anticipated Nnebisi: (God the) Mother is “Supreme”. Thus, Nnebisi’s priesthood connotes the order of Melchizedek.
*** The “Carved Mountain”—the Cryptogram—is abstract: Derived from combustion, it is independent of place. Hence, Ezra could not tell where the Mountain came from (4 Ezra 13:6-7). It is, also, distinct from Mount Zion, being the model of Mount Zion instead of the Real Place.
♥ (Daniel 9:24-27). This prophecy circumscribed a period for the Jews and their holy city—as interim Agents of Justice—before Divine Authority would shift to a New Princedom. The time is up for the Jews and their holy city. And so, a New Leader (Elijah) has been anointed, and the Old Jerusalem forsaken for a New One. Significantly, the prophecy specified milestones in the Succession Era: “Everlasting Justice [firmly based upon science] will be introduced; vision and prophecy will be ratified; and a Most Holy One will be anointed”. Then, the “transgressions [of Judah] will cease; [her] failings will end; and [her] atonements for sins will end”. Moreover, the New Leader was said to be of a different race (v. 26), distinct from another Anointed One who would be cut off (Jesus). Much as in Ezra’s vision (4 Ezra 9:23ff), the destruction of the old sanctuary (Jerusalem) was prophesied here, too (v. 26). And in concert with the time limitation for the Jewish holy city, the rebuilding of Jerusalem here accords with a New City. (Again, the Exalted Messiah has been linked with the New City, v. 25). While Ezra’s vision focused on the relocation of the Messianic Capital and the demise of Old Jerusalem, (See last ¶ in Blog Post 2), here the shift of Authority related to the Messianic Succession: from One Anointed who would be cutoff to the Most Holy One [c.f., Gen. 49:10]. (Again, the use of specific times—weeks—in this Daniel’s passage had been a red herring. The relevant markers are the specified milestones.)