The God-Pattern
The one pattern to rule them all
Patterns have fascinated me for decades. But what are patterns? How do we find them? And why are they important to study? While digging into the histories of every culture, of every religion, and of every generation, God has helped me find countless patterns that repeat here and there. But is there one pattern that is found all around us? A universal pattern? The God-Pattern? I’ve found a pattern that may fit the bill.
Come on a little adventure with me, and let’s see if you agree with me by the end.
Contents.
Adam.
Patterns.
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, a pattern is an “outline, plan, model, an original proposed for imitation.” In other words, a pattern is like a blueprint that has a set of instructions (whereas each instruction is its own sub-pattern) that an executor follows to bring about a physical product — to give a material form or vessel to an immaterial idea. Most importantly, a pattern can be used endlessly and by different executors. All that is required is to supply the materials (or inputs) the pattern calls for. But of course, the person executing a pattern must also know how to read the pattern and must, in many cases, have tools and/or laborers that obey the instructions of the executor.
Tailors use patterns to make clothing, auto manufacturers use patterns to make vehicles, builders use patterns to build marvelous structures, and more. All planets and stars follow patterns, world history follows patterns, as do all things in nature. We even use patterns in our own daily lives without realizing it. For example, we have daily routines, habits, addictions, and more. Our bodies also function according to a pattern, as DNA is nothing but the pattern for our bodies that has instructions on how to develop and mature the body and how to handle anything it encounters. It also has instructions (sub-patterns) in the pattern that help it learn how to handle things it’s never encountered before. DNA is truly amazing.
Take note that although a pattern may call for specific materials, the executor can ignore the specifications and use a different (counterfeit) material — a material that appears to have the same form and function, but is at its most basic level not the same as the material called for. While this may seem insignificant and harmless in most cases, it’s possible the material called for was for a very specific purpose and using something else results in a flaw in the final product — a flaw that can be potentially fatal. Similarly, the executor can choose to alter the pattern to tailor it to his desires. But if the executor doesn’t understand the reasons why the pattern calls for specific things, altering the pattern can lead to potentially fatal consequences.
Thus was the case with Adam eating the Forbidden Fruit — a substance that was not intended to ever be taken into his perfect body. His DNA caused the counterfeit fruit to be digested like any other, but the consumption of improper materials into Adam’s body disrupted his celestial pattern and began the collapse of the delicate perfect body. And this was undoubtedly the intent of the serpent: to disrupt God’s pattern, believing such would defeat God. Let us be grateful that the world God has prepared for us in the future will not possess any substance contrary to our nature, removing death and decay as a possibility in our future lives.
The Allegory of the Olive Tree.
One of my greatest drives in my study of history has been finding patterns, and as I’ve studied diligently I’ve come to understand that patterns are not just temporal (meaning, applying to our physical, tangible world) but echo through the eternities. Christ affirms this in Matthew 6:10, “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” What is the will of God? His will is to bring about the perfect world with as many righteous souls as may be acquired. Moses 1:39 tells us, “For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” Souls are God’s currency.
Early in my tenure of studying patterns, I began to wonder … or, maybe God inspired me to wonder … if there was a universal pattern that could be found all around us. It was illusive and evaded me for years. But after searching almost everything I could find, I finally found one that seems to fit the bill; and once I found it I began to see it everywhere. My eyes have been opened and they cannot be shut.
Take note that I don’t think this pattern applies in every facet of existence. Rather, it is the master blueprint wherein all sub-patterns arise from.
The revelation finally came to me as I was reading The Book of Mormon, in the Book of Jacob, chapter 5 (and chapter 6 compliments it). This chapter describes what is called the Allegory of the Olive Tree. While this allegory is not found in its entirety in the Bible, it is heavily referenced in Romans 11 (the whole chapter is about it, but the emphasis begins in verse 13) and there are many other inferences to this pattern. Regardless, it was a prophetic allegory given to describe the path the Israelites had followed and would follow from the time they landed in the Holy Land (Israel) until the Second Coming of Christ. In other words, it’s a pattern. If you want to read the original text, you can read it here. But I’ve summarized it below. After the summary, I’ll dissect the pattern and show you where else I’ve found it.
Critical Thinking. The Book of Mormon was translated by a 24-year old Joseph Smith, who had no formal education and could barely write a coherent sentence. The Joseph Smith Papers is an excellent repository of Joseph’s writings that you can see for yourself how horrible of a writer he was. Nonetheless, he just so happened to write a complete book of scriptures without a single spelling or grammatical error, where each book has been proven to have a different tone suggesting a different author, that have stood up to all criticisms and skepticisms over time. Furthermore, when you see how things like the Allegory of the Olive Tree actually align with so many other things in amazing ways, to me it’s further proof of the divinity of Joseph. Trash the imperfect man as you may, the work he did was the work of God.
Terms.
Master = God the Father.
Servant = God the Son.
Vineyard = The world.
Servants of Servant = Saints of Christ.
Tree = Israelites, collectively.
Branches = Tribes or Nations.
Fruit = Israelites, individually.
Pruning a tree means removing weaker branches cluttering around where strong branches are to ensure the strong branches can grow unimpeded to bring forth sweet fruit.
Digging about a tree means loosening the soil around the roots to make it easier for nutrients to soak into the soil providing all the nutrients the roots might possibly desire (viz. aerating a yard so that fertilizers can soak in further).
Nourishing a tree means supplying the soil with nutrients, (viz. fertilizer).
Laying fruit up against the season means to put the fruit in a storage for the duration of the season (or until the end of the season). This infers a person is taken into paradise when he or she dies, being hand-plucked by the master or his servants, where they remain until the end of the season (viz. until the resurrection).
Summary.
The master of a vineyard brings a tame olive tree (the first tree) into his vineyard and nourishes it there.
The first tree grows, waxes old, and begins to decay.
Pattern: The master designs a plan to prune the first tree, dig about it, and nourish it, hoping it will grow young and tender branches to spare the tree.
The master does as he planned.
After many days, young and tender branches begin to grow, but the top of the tree begins to die.
Pattern: The master plans with his servant to pluck branches from a wild olive tree then bring them to him. The master and servant will then pluck off the branches that are withering to cast them in the fire. The master says he will take away many (not all) of the young and tender branches to hide (graft) them into trees in the nethermost regions of his vineyard. This ensures that the master will ultimately be able to gather fruit even if the first tree dies entirely. His servant will then graft the wild branches into the places where the young and tender branches were plucked from. The master says he will burn any branches he plucks from nethermost trees (to graft in the young and tender branches) so that the loose branches don’t clutter the ground.
The servant goes and does as the master instructed, gathering branches from a wild tree and then grafting them into the first tree where the young and tender branches were plucked.
Pattern: The master plans with his servant to dig about, prune, and nourish the first tree in hopes of preserving its roots for reasons he conceals from his servant. While the servant is doing this, the master will graft the young and tender branches wherever he wishes to preserve branches of the natural tree and bring forth natural fruit to be laid up against the season, that he might still secure fruit even if the first tree is unable to be saved.
The master goes and hides the young and tender branches out of sight of the first tree, in (at least) three places.
A long time passes away, and the master takes his servant down to labor in the vineyard.
The master and his servant come to the first tree, finding wild branches had been successfully transplanted and were producing good fruit that was like unto the first fruit. He teaches his servant that the wild branches succeeded at empowering the roots to absorb moisture with great strength, and the strength of the roots forced the good and pure moisture into vessels of fleshy fruit (like blowing up a balloon), giving a form to the sweet moisture. Even though the fruit didn’t look 100% identical to the first, it had just as sweet a flavor. If they had not grafted in the wild branches, the whole tree would have perished. And because the tree has brought forth sweet fruit, the master is able to preserve its fruit and lay it up against the season.
As the master and his servant continue on into the nethermost regions, they come to the place where the trees are that the master hid the young and tender branches at, of which the master had nourished each with much care.
The first, which was planted in poor soil, had grown strong and was producing sweet fruit.
The master instructs his servant to take the fruit and lay it up against the season.
The servant asks why the master planted the tree in that poor spot. The master says he knew it was a poor spot, which is why he nourished it with care, and that his labors have proven fruitful.
The master shows his servant the second tree, which was planted in an even poorer patch of soil than the first, and it also brought forth sweet fruit.
The master instructs his servant to take the fruit and lay it up against the season.
The master shows his servant the third tree, which was planted in the best soil in all the vineyard, and which the master also nourished with even greater care, personally clearing out all that which cumbered the ground, but only a part of it brought forth sweet fruit and the other part brought forth bitter fruit.
The master instructs his servant to pluck the branches that produced bitter fruit and cast them in the fire. But the servant pleads instead to prune it, dig about it, and nourish it a little longer that perhaps it might bring forth sweet fruit again, that fruit might be laid up against the season.
The master and servant both nourish all the fruit of the vineyard for a long time.
The master takes his servant to labor in his vineyard, for the end of the season draws near.
The master and his servant come upon the first tree and find that all sorts of bitter fruit cumbered the tree. The master, grieved, asks the servant what might be done to again preserve good fruit. The servant explains that because the wild branches nourished the roots, the roots are alive and have not perished and are yet good. But the master says it profits him nothing for the roots to be good if the fruit they produce is bad. Yet, he preserved the roots for his own purposes, and up until this point they had brought forth good fruit. But the wild branches continued in their full strength and overpowered the roots, bringing forth bitter fruit. And unless something can be done, the whole tree will perish and will be cast into the fire.
The master and his servant go to check on the nethermost trees, and all three were bringing forth bitter fruit, and the once-young-and-tender branches had withered. Even the third, that was half-and-half, was entirely bitter. The master is grieved, as the whole vineyard is corrupt and ripe to be burned. He laments that this great corruption came because they didn’t pluck the corrupt branches when they had the chance. The master asks, what more could have been done? The servant says, the branches overcame the roots, growing faster than the strength of the roots could support, which caused the bitter fruit.
The master says the vineyard should be burned. But his servant again pleads to spare it a little longer. The master allows it, desiring to not lose the trees.
Pattern: The master plans with the servant to take all of the branches that were grafted into the nethermost trees and return them back to the first tree, and pluck the most bitter branches to replace them with the returning branches. Then they will take those bitter branches that were plucked and graft them into the nethermost trees where the natural branches were plucked for return. But the master says to not pluck branches except those that are the most bitter.
The master and his servant did as they planned.
Pattern: The master plans with his servant to nourish the vineyard one last time, and that they will trim up the branches and pluck those branches that are ripe for destruction and cast them in the fire reducing the pressure on the roots until the roots find their strength again. The master instructs his servant to summon other servants for this great last labor, for the end of the season is upon them. He further instructs his servant to pluck the most recently-grafted branches first and work his way toward the first-grafted, that the first might be last and the last first. Once the grafting is complete, the trees should be dug about, pruned, and dunged once more. And as the grafted branches grow, nearby bitter branches should be cleared out to make room, but that all the bitter cannot be cleared out all at once or the roots will be too strong for the graft and the whole tree will be lost. In doing so, the root balances the top of the tree and all things are nourished according to their need. And the bitter branches plucked will be cast out of the vineyard entirely.
The servant goes and does as instructed, calling other servants to aid in the labors. There were very few servants that accepted the call.
The master instructs the new servants to labor in the vineyard in their might, for this is the last time the master will nourish his vineyard. He promises the servants that if they labor with all their might, they will share in the fruits of their labors with the master.
The servants go and labor, and the master labors with them, and they did do all that which the master instructed them.
There begins once more to be sweet fruit in all the trees. And the bitter branches are plucked off and cast away keeping the tops of the trees balanced with their roots. They continue until all the fruit across the whole vineyard were as the first fruits, and the master preserves the sweet fruit against the season.
The master sees that his fruit is all sweet and the vineyard is no more corrupt. He calls his servants to him and praises them, blesses them, and gives them their reward. He tells them that for a long time he will lay up the fruit of his vineyard against the season, which end is nigh. And when that time comes, bitter fruit will again come into his vineyard. The master will then gather all of the good and bad that remains and will take the good unto himself and cast away the bad out of his vineyard. At that time, his whole vineyard will be burned with fire.
Dissecting the Olive Tree.
As I mentioned already, the Allegory of the Olive Tree is a pattern — the pattern, in my opinion. But to understand the pattern, we have to dissect the allegory and break it down to a generalized form, stripping all material references to identify the immaterial idea. Here we go!
ENTITY brings a SUBSTANCE into ENTITY’s dominion and supplies waters to SUBSTANCE.
SUBSTANCE quickly runs out of surface-level rewards.
ENTITY executes a pre-learned function that clears away unwanted things, breaks up the ground where SUBSTANCE is at, and supplies waters to draw out things just under the surface.
After some time, young and tender things sprout from SUBSTANCE near its base, but the roots of SUBSTANCE are not strong enough to pull the waters all the way through, causing things at the top to begin to decay.
ENTITY executes a pre-learned function with its CHILD. CHILD brings in foreign things from a separate region of ENTITY’s dominion. ENTITY then extracts the young and tender things so that CHILD can replace them with the foreign things. CHILD continues working with SUBSTANCE, breaking it down, removing unwanted things, and supplying it with CHILD’s waters. ENTITY meanwhile goes to substances in other separate (at least 3) regions and removes things from those foreign substances, replacing those things with the young and tender things taken from SUBSTANCE. Those things that ENTITY plucked to replace with the young and tender things are destroyed.
After a longer time, SUBSTANCE was again sprouting good things and CHILD learns the effectiveness of ENTITY’s functions. Of the three separate substances that ENTITY brought young and tender things, the first two, both in places of poor resources, are producing good rewards but the third, in a place of great resources, was producing half-good-half-bad rewards. By now, ENTITY has secured sufficient rewards for its needs, but CHILD desires more rewards and continues the labors.
Another long time passes, and SUBSTANCE is nearing the end of its journey. But by now, SUBSTANCE and all separate substances are producing undesired rewards. ENTITY is content to purge its dominion, but CHILD still wants a little more and so ENTITY withholds its function.
ENTITY executes a contingency function and ENTITY and CHILD work together to bring those things that were taken from SUBSTANCE into separate substances and return them to SUBSTANCE, plucking the least desirable things on SUBSTANCE to replace them with SUBSTANCE’s natural things. They then take those least-desirable things plucked from SUBSTANCE and place them in the separate substances where those natural things were plucked from.
ENTITY executes another function that causes CHILD to gather SERVANTS to remove all undesired things from SUBSTANCE and all substances and destroy those things allowing the remaining things to be able to more equally distribute waters so all maximally benefit. Not many SERVANTS join, but ENTITY promises they will all share in the rewards. CHILD and SERVANTS are to replace those things that were most recently transplanted, working their way down to those things that were transplanted first. As things are replaced, any nearby undesired things are to be removed and ejected from ENTITY’s dominion, but that all undesired things shouldn’t be cleared out at once to maintain balance.
SUBSTANCE and all substances begin producing good rewards like unto the first. ENTITY gathers rewards for a long time.
After the long time, bad rewards again encroach upon ENTITY’s dominion. ENTITY executes one final function that gathers all good rewards on one hand and all bad rewards on the other. The good is taken up while the bad is ejected from ENTITY’s dominion. Once all is done, ENTITY purges its dominion.
Israelites.
The following summary shows how the Allegory of the Olive Tree is applied to the Israelites.
Note. The bullets don’t perfectly align with the bullets above, as some have been merged.
God the Father brings the Israelites out of Egypt and settles them in the Promised Land (Israel), a land flowing with milk and honey.
The Israelites grow fast, and in doing so they begin to forget their traditions and customs.
God the Father brings about David who removes those foreign invaders trying to seize their land, Solomon who builds the temple and allows God the Father to restore those lost customs and traditions, and then observes what follows.
While some young strong families and nations arise in truth and light, the older generations adhere to their old ways and refuse to adhere to those customs and traditions restored by Solomon, splitting the Israelites into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah at Jerusalem.
God the Father instructs His Son to bring upon the prideful Kingdom of Israel a great foreign — the Neo-Assyrian Empire, around 720 BC — who conquers the Kingdom of Israel. As was custom with many of these foreign nations at the time, the population was blended by bringing foreigners to settle in the land and also taking many (about 1/5) of the citizens of the Kingdom of Israel and scattering them into foreign lands. At the same time, God the Son is instructed to take a few of the best groups of righteous people from the Kingdom of Judah and deliver them to God the Father, then have the Babylonians finish destroying the Kingdom of Judah, blending the remnant there in the same manner. One of these groups and their journeys are recorded in The Book of Mormon, whereby they were led by the hand of God the Father to the Americas. In preparing the Americas for these families to arrive, God the Father destroys the wicked remnant of the Jaredites (who were previously led in a similar pattern away from the destruction at the Tower of Babel), also recorded in The Book of Mormon, so that there are no evil influences that can taint the work of God. I have not found records of the other families or groups, but I presume them to have been settled in various places across Eurasia, possibly Rome and Britain, which both arose around this same time. And what are the odds that in today’s day, many conspiracy theorists speak of three entities that are working together to destroy us all: America, Rome, and Britain…
While God the Father tends to the transplanted groups, He has God the Son tend to Jerusalem. The few Jews that had been left in Jerusalem (as a scattering always leaves some in their homeland) were those that still honored the original traditions and customs of the Israelites.
After a while, Jerusalem was thriving in righteousness, as their original traditions and customs had been adopted by those that had come into the land. I presume those groups taken to the Americas were the third tree planted in the best soil, as by this time that group had fractured into Nephites and Lamanites — the Nephites being the good half that adhered to the word of God, with the Lamanites being the evil half that fought against the good. God the Father wants to pluck the evil and destroy them, but God the Son begs for them to be spared. And they were spared, according to His word.
After a while (at the time of Christ in the flesh), everywhere is evil. Jerusalem is occupied by Rome as a consequence of their evil, and the Lamanites are prepared to execute all of the believers among the Nephites if the prophesied signs of Christ’s birth do not come by a certain day. But alas, the sign of Christ’s birth did come, and the Nephites were spared.
As a consequence of Christ’s tenure in the flesh, many are brought back into their original customs and traditions, and there is righteousness for a while.
As the time draws near unto the end of the season, God the Father instructs His Son in how to perform the final labors. God the Son is told to call laborers (Latter-day Saints) to assist in this great work, which work awakens people to their lineages and restores the true customs and traditions that had been lost over time. The first to have their customs restored are to be the last that lost them, and the last to have their customs restored are to be the first that lost them. As families and tribes are awakened and begin to flourish, those corrupt families in their vicinity should be cleared out so that the awakened can be protected and can grow strong. God the Son is cautioned to not root out the bad branches too quickly but to maintain balance between the good and the bad so that neither can overcome the other and become evil as a consequence. The Latter-day Saints are given a promise that they will enjoy the fruits of their labors forever with God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.
Latter-day Saints go and do as they are commanded, and once more truth and light begin to break through the darkness in the world. As the work continues, more and more wickedness is rooted out.
At the end of the season, the world will be clean again so that Christ can present it spotless back unto His Father. This will begin the Millennium, where all will enjoy peace for a season. But at the end, Satan will be loosed and there will be a final battle. After the battle, the good will be gathered on one hand of God and the wicked on the other, and the wicked will be cast out and the righteous will ascend with God into His kingdoms. The rest of the world will be burned with fire.
The Human Digestive Tract.
Now that we have dissected the pattern, let me show you how the human digestive tract follows the same pattern.
A man grabs a desired food and puts it into his mouth. His teeth and tongue break up the food allowing saliva to soak in, blending with surface-level flavors that are absorbed by taste buds. As surface-level flavors deplete, the food is swallowed.
The contractions of the esophagus continue pulling apart the food allowing stomach acids to seep in which have enzymes that draw out desired substances just beneath the surface. As the stomach finishes extracting what it can, the remainder is moved into the intestines.
There are three small intestines the food moves through: the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum. More fluids with enzymes are injected and the contractions of the intestines create cracks that allow the fluids to seep in, which then draw out desired substances — a different substance is extracted in each of the three intestines. Undesired things extracted are collected by the garbage collection system in the body and are eventually ejected via urine.
By the time the food reaches the end of the small intestines, there is virtually nothing good left in the food’s current state to be extracted and all that remains is unwanted. The food is then passed into the large intestines to labor upon the food one last time, extracting the deepest substances out.
Like the small intestines, there are three large intestines: the cecum, the colon, and the rectum. In these intestines, substances extracted in the stomach are brought back to the food via fluids and blended in, but by now these substances have been blended with substances of the body. Thus, the original substances become as spies infiltrating into the original food, where therein they are able to blend with the deepest substances and draw them out toward the surface. These are then absorbed and by the end of the large intestine, there is almost nothing left that can be absorbed.
Food remains in the rectum until enough pressure has built up indicating the contents are ready to be ejected. The only thing really absorbed in the rectum are the fluids that were used to soften and soak into the food. Unlike previous sections, where enzymes gathered desired nutrients, the only things that are taken in besides the fluids are those things the fluids have taken in unto themselves.
Once everything has been absorbed that can be absorbed, the remainder is ejected and purged from the body, while the body enjoys all those things absorbed.
Amazing, don’t you think? The same pattern is found in the operation of our lungs. I won’t go into that, but you can research it yourself and you’ll see the pattern.
Adam.
This pattern also can be applied to world history beginning with Adam. For the sake of the length this article already is, I’ll only begin the pattern and you can do the rest.
God forms Adam. Adam grows and eventually eats the Forbidden Fruit, introducing corruption into his body.
God alters Adam’s body in hopes of preserving the Plan with hopes that Adam’s descendants will adhere to the original traditions and customs.
After a while, some of Adam’s descendants are good, but the main bulk is corrupt.
God the Father has His Son bring in new families from the outside via a comet and bring them to the Father. Then they will take a righteous family (Enoch) out of the world and the waters of the comet will flood the world blending in with the rest…
I’ll stop here, but hopefully you can see the pattern and also see the Flood is at the same place as the stomach in the digestive tract.
Black Holes.
While we don’t fully understand black holes, I wonder if we can apply the God-pattern to it to understand how they work? This is mostly conjecture, as we really don’t know enough about them to make these conclusions.
A black hole begins drawing a planet toward it. As the planet approaches, it goes through multiple “zones” that each have their own effects on the planet. Being caught in the black hole’s gravity is as the waters of the black hole latching on.
As the planet approaches, the first thing that happens is the gravity of the black hole draws the heat of the planet toward it (elemental fire).
When the planet reaches the corona of the black hole, the hot gases break down the planet into chunks and the atmosphere is drawn away (elemental air).
The planet next enters into the accretion disk, where the heat and chaos of the disk further break down the planet and cause all of its waters to evaporate (elemental water).
By the time the planet reaches the event horizon, there are many concurrent forces working on the remnants of the planet from every angle, melting down its foundation (elemental earth).
What happens beyond the event horizon? Well, we don’t really even know what happens before — like I said, this is mostly conjecture. But it does seem as though the God-pattern applies at the micro and macro levels.
Conclusion.
There is a pattern that seems to be found in every level, from the micro to the macro — the smallest to the largest scale. It undoubtedly is found in far more places than I’ve identified. By understanding this pattern (and others), we not only obtain a deeper understanding for how things work, but by following patterns to their conclusion we can actually predict the future!
Are there any other places you recognize that this pattern can fit? Let me know in the comments below.
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