X2M.233 — Katabolē

Series: CR17 Combat Runtime October 19, 2025

Runtime Thread: The Descent That Builds

Before the world ever turned, the Infinite stooped toward nothingness and breathed being into it. This is katabolē — the laying-down of foundations, the moment when creation itself became the first act of mercy. In this descent, the universe received its shape from humility, not domination. The theologians later called it proto-kenosis, the self-emptying that makes space for life to emerge¹. Every act of true creation, whether cosmic or human, follows this same trajectory of relinquishment before realization².

Katabolē is not failure — it is divine strategy. The downward motion of God is the secret architecture of existence. What looks like loss becomes the groundwork of renewal.

This principle pulses through the ancient stories. David’s exile becomes a royal kenosis. Driven eastward by Absalom, the king walks barefoot across the Mount of Olives, surrendering his right to rule³. Yet this humiliation conceals a deeper sovereignty: only the ruler who yields his throne can inherit it anew. His return west across the Jordan is not simply restoration; it is resurrection written in geography⁴.

Elijah and Elisha enact the same descent in prophetic form. The Jordan divides; the elder crosses east into mystery while the whirlwind lifts him to heaven⁵. But the ascent of the master releases the descent of the mantle — the Spirit cast downward to the waiting apprentice⁶. Elisha’s double portion arrives not by ambition but by posture; power is transferred through humility, not through grasping. The prophets prove that divine inheritance always travels the direction of gravity.

Ahaz, by contrast, refuses the law of katabolē. When Isaiah offers him a sign from “the depths or the heights,” he declines⁷. His fear drives him north — toward Assyria’s iron altars and his own illusion of control. By shifting the bronze altar, he shifts the axis of faith itself. Where David and Elisha move with the river’s flow, Ahaz builds dams. Yet grace answers rebellion with incarnation: “Behold, a virgin shall conceive.” The sign he refused still descends. God Himself crosses the river the king would not⁸.

This is the pattern behind all patterns — the downward river of God that becomes the foundation of worlds. The Jordan, whose name means to go down, runs like a vein through Scripture. It carries the current of proto-kenosis: power traveling downward so that life may rise upward⁹.

Katabolē reveals that descent is not the opposite of glory; it is the hidden road toward it. Every cave, every mantle, every womb is a foundation stone in the architecture of divine humility. The Infinite still bends low — through creation, through Christ, through every soul willing to become a riverbed of grace¹⁰.

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Footnotes

¹ On the concept of divine self-emptying (proto-kenosis) in Trinitarian cosmology.
² Creation as humility preceding manifestation.
³ 2 Samuel 15–19 — David’s exile under Absalom.
⁴ Return across the Jordan as type of resurrection.
⁵ 2 Kings 2 — Elijah’s crossing and ascension.
⁶ Transmission of spirit through the falling mantle.
⁷ Isaiah 7 — the refusal of the sign of Immanuel.
⁸ Incarnation as God’s own Jordan crossing.
⁹ The Jordan as symbol of downward grace and renewal.
¹⁰ The ongoing kenosis of God in creation and redemption.

CR17 X2M.233 Katabolē

GLORIFICATION: THE FINAL FRONTIER

You are awesome, created and designed a royal—authentic and integrous. If you are seeking to grow deeply in your relationship with Jesus, this podcast series will encourage you to receive all that He paid for at the cross by His blood and has applied in the heavens at the mercy seat.

The royal remnant is on the brink of a hidden capacity unveiled, no more to be forlorn in an interchangeable void of orphaned darkness. A light has dawned upon creation; the finality of the restoration of all things is upon us—the awakening of the galactic progeny. (Acts 3:21)

This podcast series is devoted to Jesus’ passionate intercession to have an extended family and to come out of retention to be with us.

These podcasts are intended to be listened to in order. There are 12 main phases plus three introductory phases in the AutoBio episodic series. You may get a taste of what it means to be awakened as part of the galactic progeny by listening randomly to tracks posted on this page, but to receive a full understanding please proceed to PHO.X Blackhole.

Autobio Series

PHOOO Trinity Option
X Alpha Bleed
1 Potter’s Clay
2 The Pixel
3 Once a Man
4 Twice a Child
5 Supralapper

PHOO Final Frontier
Y Final Frontier Intro
Z Triple E Light
A CRSLX

PHO Blackhole
X Blackhole
1 No Compromise or Illuminati
2 Ericson Call
3 Tikkun Olam
4 Antichrist
5 P–Obadiah
6 Kitty Hawk Way
7 P–Dark Knight
8 J1E–Trinitarian Fire in the Mind
9 J2D–Black Widow Box
10 K–Eastern Prince

PH1 Ol Factory
11 Mitchell Codex
12 Genesis 0

PH2 Shulamite Prototype
13 Warhorse Aglow
14 Signet Ring 

PH3 Building a Philanthropic Base
15 J–Shellshock 
16 A–Mandela & Beyond
17 B–Abrahamic Revolution
18 E–Key of David & The Vineyard
19 Z–JP Morgan & The Clearinghouse

PH4 Progeny Encompassed
20 Formula 1
21 Tesseract

PH5 Crown Reaper
22 The Lucifer Appeal 
23 A12 to Senior Crown

PH6 Taking the Subterranean Transit
24 MZHOP Version 7.5
25 Riseroot 

PH7 Sublime Heroics
26 Joseph Reveal
27 Enoch 65|300

PH8 Staff Deflection
28 Palace of the Eighth Wonder
29 Stars to Men

PH9 Max Factor Infinity
30 Reuben’s Restoration
31 Capstone 

PH10 Spinning Up the Launch Vehicle
32 Sapphire Throne | Exped 22

PH11 The Indestructible Element
33 Time to Notdie

PH12 Extending the Galactic Crown

CR17 X2M.233 Katabolē

GALACTIC PROGENY