Another mapping of the human body to the one and only true God who has purposed every detail of the human body, is the design of the human heart. Through His mind-boggling forethought and purposefulness, God has intentionally designed the working of man’s “physical heart” to be an exact reflection of the expression of the man’s “spiritual heart” (where the heart is the “icon of love”). This same God tells us that the model of true love is found in the two greatest commandments (MATTHEW 22:37-39). And these two commandments work together like the operation of the human heart. There needs to first be an “inflow” from “communion with God”, and then an “outflow” through "community with man". In that way, the heart, being the symbol of love, clearly demonstrates that the fullness of love is a two-way operation, just like the human heart is a two-way operation upon which all of life also depends. And as an expression of the outflow of "God's heart", for those who are children of God, being those who are led by the Spirit (communion) (ROMANS 8:14), out of the abundance of the "heart of man", we get to partake in the greatest privilege of all, which is to share the extravagant love of an astonishingly intimate and thoughtful Father with all who are our neighbour (community).

So in that way, in the operation of the fullness of love, man then becomes that side of the pump house of God’s heart that receives the oxygen-rich (or Spirit-filled) blood from “communion with the Father” and then pumps it to “the body” (just like the physical heart does) through “community with man”. Which is also why He created man’s body in the image of one head and one heart (representing the “oneness” of communion) (JOHN 17:21), and with ten fingers and ten toes (representing the “many” of community) (ROMANS 12:5). In His remarkable way, God has pre-purposed ahead of time, that as His children, we may all be “like Father like son” - being those for whom the apple never falls very far from the Tree of Life. “Under the apple tree I roused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who was in labour gave you birth. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding to the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away.” (SONG OF SONGS 8:5-7).

The God who made man’s body is using the design blueprint of the human body as a teaching to not only show us that our critical dependencies in order to live and be whole “in the natural” works in multiples of THREE, but to also show us that “the law” of the human body’s natural dependency on THREE points to “the life” of our spiritual dependency on THREE, just like “the law” of the Old Testament points to “the life” of the New Testament. The law points to the one true God. Who is ONE, but THREE. Who is living, and not dead. Who came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. So that we may find the truth, and that the truth may set us free. And so it is that when we live in the freedom that is the THREE of “the way, and the truth, and the life”, that we then find the ONENESS that is the wholeness and the fullness of life that is love. And it is the oneness of love that fully completes us. “… and to know the love of Christ, which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up TO ALL THE FULLNESS OF GOD.” (Ephesians 3:19).

What else does the human body tell us about this one true God? In our process of being “filled up to all the fullness of God”, which is mankind maturing into the fullness of life that this one true God would have us all enjoy as His children, “pregnancy” for mankind is where the fetus is filled up to all its fullness of life through the privilege and position of constant connection to the THREE vital ingredients through the umbilical. And pregnancy is also measured in THREES. It is measured in trimesters. Each trimester is THREE months, and there are THREE trimesters. A trinity of trinities when it comes to all that would complete us in the womb of life. And this is true regardless of what god man believes in or not. But the umbilical represents the connection of relationship. And together, the womb and the umbilical represent the promise of that same God to “never leave you nor forsake you”. They personify the abiding intimacy and continuous provision of the Father. So through the Blood, we also have “relationship”.

The veil that withheld personal relationship between man and his God was torn (a tear represented by blood). By severing relationship with Adam, God severed access to the breath, AND the bread, AND the water of life. He essentially severed “the umbilical”. The way to restoration of the severed umbilical is by restoring the connection with the “lifeblood” of relationship - which is accessible only through the Blood. Through the Blood, the spirit of man is sustained by the oxygen (breath of life) and the water (water of life) and the food (bread of life) from “The Blood” that flows from the umbilical of the “last Adam”. Which proves that we need to seek life from a God who is “a living trinity” in order to sustain life. And there is only one God who qualifies. And that is God the Father (the breath of life), God the Son (the bread of life) and God the Holy Spirit (the water of life), the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. The Father of John 3:16. And we gain access to the breath of life, and the bread of life, and the water of life, only through the blood of Christ. For whilst the umbilical specifically represents that by which man “is connected” to the source of life that entirely sustains him, at the same time, the navel is equally the insignia of “being separated” from that very source, from “the womb” that is “the wellspring of all life” (represented by the Garden of Eden).

As such, the navel is the “evidence“ of that separation, just like the scars upon Jesus’ body are the “evidence” of His being separated from His Father. In the natural, the pain of childbirth is not suffered without deliberate reason. On the one hand, it is all about reciprocation. The pain that the one and only true God decreed every woman will suffer during childbirth is so that woman may come to know the intense pain that the Father had to endure upon the agonizing separation from His son and daughter in the Garden of Eden. Up until that time, God had enjoyed complete and uninterrupted communion with Adam and Eve, much like what a mother enjoys with her child during her entire pregnancy. Just like a mother and her child are intimately tied to each other, God was likewise “intimately” connected with Adam and Eve, represented by their “nakedness”. Just like the nakedness of a baby in a mother’s womb is covered by the mother, a nakedness that a baby is completely unaware of, Adam and Eve where covered by God, a nakedness they were entirely unaware of. God walked and talked with them every day, pretty much like a mother walks and talks with a child in her womb. The pain God felt at having to suddenly separate from Adam and Eve primarily due to the role Eve played in the great Fall (the great Separation), as well as the extreme pain God also had to later feel again at the unimaginable separation from His Son on the Cross, which is reflected in the natural through Mary’s angst as she gazed upon her son, and the pain God feels at the separation of all of His sons and daughters as a result of sin entering the world, being a domino effect set in motion by the part Eve played in all THREE, God decreed that “woman” would feel pain when her hour came for separating from her own children. “Whenever a woman is in labour, she has pain, because HER HOUR HAS COME; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.” – JOHN 16:21. “And Jesus answered them, saying, THE HOUR IS COME, that the Son of man should be glorified.” – JOHN 12:23.

As soon as the “death of the Son of man” became the “resurrection of the Son of God”, God no longer remembered the anguish, because of the joy He felt at having His Son back again through being raised back to life (born). “Those who sow with tears will reap with joy” – PSALM 126:5. Which is the same reason a woman’s joy soon supersedes the pain of separation. And is also the reason the first thing a child does “is cry” when it is born. Because it also realizes that the sanctuary and safety of its season of umbilical connection has now been summarily severed, a separation that endures until that baby later latches back onto its mother. Just as for the intense pain Jesus felt at being cut off from His Father, when He took on the sin of the world, where the Father had no choice but to sever and separate all communion and connection with His beloved Son, the sons of man likewise experience the same pain of separation. God’s had no choice but to entirely cut Himself off from His Son, for “what communion has light with darkness?” – 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14.

So when REVELATION 2:14 speaks of no more mourning and crying, what it firstly tells us is, there will be no more “separation”. What a future and a hope. And God further steers us to a deeper understanding of the purpose and wholeness of togetherness through the nature of a relationship between a new born child and its parents. Being unable to speak or to walk for an extended period of time ensures that the child re-establishes dependence on its natural source of love and life. God hard codes that even though we go through the pain of separation when that umbilical is cut, that we all find our way back to togetherness and wholeness through the blessing of our “relationship” with our parents and our “dependence” on those who physically participated in our personal creation. This is the intense forethought and the forerunner representation of the restoration of our umbilical in the spiritual with the Spirit of He who created us. So whilst the pain of childbirth is one hand about reciprocation for the pain God and His Son had to suffer, so that we may ourselves then be able to relate to that pain through our own pain, on the other hand, then, the pain of childbirth is the wisdom that ensures that we value what it is “to not be separated”. Which is also why man and woman feel the intense pain they do when they suffer the tragedy of divorce. God detests separation. Which is why He also says, “What God has joined together, let no man separate.” – MARK 10:9.

God has encoded our DNA with a predisposition to connection, to togetherness and to relationship. The only reason that mankind became separated from all that is “living authentically” is because sin suddenly entered the world. As such, since death came through man’s “sin”, death falls directly on man’s shoulders. But since life came through Christ’s “perfect righteousness” and “unfailing love”, life falls squarely on “love’s” shoulders. All “sin” is a preemptive strike against “love”. When Jesus surrendered His life on the Cross, He spent THREE days in the tomb. And we know that in the spiritual domain, “three” represents a “complete” work by a “complete” God so that man may once again be “complete”. THREE. Which, expressed in another way, is so that man can once again live and walk in the fullness of “living authentically.” The “authentic life” that was the blueprint of the Garden of Eden intimacy and communion, that place where man was “permanently connected” to the source of all life, went from being a “womb” to a “tomb” for all of mankind, the second sin entered the world. But the “complete work” of “the life, and death, and resurrection” of Jesus (THREE), by a “complete God” of “the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit” (THREE) during the “three days” that Jesus spent in the tomb, completely reversed this. A trinity of trinities.

What had become a “tomb” for all of mankind through sin entering the world was turned back into a “womb” when love entered the world (JOHN 15:13), it is now no longer necessary for man to EVER be separated from the Father ever again, just as for the state of a child that is in the womb. Because whilst by one man sin entered the world, it is by one Man that sin also left the world (ROMANS 5:12-20). Jesus had to “live” a sinless life, He had to “die” for the sins of others, and he had to “come alive” so that they who are dead in their sins may yet once again come alive (THREE). The complete work of “all three” were required in order to turn what has become “a tomb” into what is now “a womb” for all who believe in their heart (soul), and confess with their tongue (mind), that Jesus is the Son of God who lived and died and was raised to life (ROMANS 10:9-10). For if we don’t believe it, we remain constrained and confined to “a tomb”. And just as for Jesus, the days we spend in the tomb will likewise be “a complete work”. But if we DO believe, then what is a tomb NOW becomes a womb. By definition, a womb is that place and position where one is connected (not separated) to the “river of life” that flows from the river “source” (God) to the open river “mouth” (man) waiting to receive the very substance of life. “For since death came by a man, by a man has come the resurrection of the dead.” – 1 CORINTHIANS 15:21. Through the life (womb), the death (tomb), and the resurrection of Christ (womb), a complete God performed a complete work so that through “the way, and the truth and the life" (THREE), man may once again be whole and complete. Now to the King, eternal, immortal, invisible (THREE), the only God, be glory and honour, for ever and ever, amen (1 Timothy 1:17).