X2M.134 Procreator — Anointer of God’s Temple △
Zechariah’s fifth vision culminates in an astonishing image: “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth” (Zech 4:14, NET)¹. The olive trees feeding golden oil into the menorah represent inexhaustible supply — priest and king in perpetual anointing, the Spirit’s generative act sustaining the house of God. Procreator names this climax: the Spirit as fathering agent, generating not just an office but a living temple-people.
The Songs of Ascents, Psalms 120–134, echo this generative movement. They are songs for going up, pilgrim songs marking ascent to Zion. The collection climaxes with Psalm 134 — the final ascent into temple blessing². Procreator inhabits this same trajectory: ascent from humiliation to glorification, from despised branch to enthroned Messiah.
Yet against this stands the counterfeit: the “dark triad” of human power — Machiavellian manipulation, narcissistic pride, psychopathic violence³. Fleming’s James Bond novels ironically expose this parody of will to power, where appetite and domination masquerade as strength. Nietzsche’s Übermensch, reimagined in Fleming’s play with “will power,” becomes a foil for the true Procreator⁴. Divine procreation is not self-exaltation but Spirit-generation, not domination but holy anointing.
Psalm 17 marks the reversal: the world fills its belly with treasure, but the faithful awaken to God’s face: “I shall be fully satisfied, when I awake beholding Your form” (Ps 17:15)⁵. This is the Procreator’s fruit — communion, not consumption.
Vision five of Zechariah, as Meredith Kline observed, is a great divine reversal: the mountain brought low, the capstone raised high, Satan’s Olympus collapsed, and the Branch enthroned⁶. Hannah sang the same arc: “The Lord will give strength to his king; he will lift up the horn of his anointed” (1 Sam 2:10)⁷. Psalm 110 confirms: the head struck down in wrath is followed by the Messiah’s head lifted up in glory (Ps 110:6–7)⁸.
Thus, X2M.134 Procreator names the Spirit’s work of reversal: pruning the dark triad, overturning false mountains, and anointing the Branch with oil unceasing. It is the Spirit’s fathering act that generates the temple, lifts the horn, and installs the Messiah in glory.
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¹ Zechariah 4:11–14 (NET).
² Psalms 120–134; cf. Craig C. Broyles, Psalms (NIBC; Peabody: Hendrickson, 1999), 461–62.
³ Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams, “The Dark Triad of Personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy,” Journal of Research in Personality 36 (2002): 556–63.
⁴ Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (London: Jonathan Cape, 1957); cf. E. Anthony Rotundo, “He Who Eats Meat Wins: Appetite, Power, and Nietzsche in the Novels of Ian Fleming.”
⁵ Psalm 17:14–15 (AMP).
⁶ Meredith G. Kline, Glory in Our Midst: A Biblical-Theological Reading of Zechariah’s Night Visions (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2001), 155–57.
⁷ 1 Samuel 2:10; cf. 2 Samuel 22:28–32.
⁸ Psalm 110:6–7.
