The Translators of scripture were given something to translate that they did not understand as a collective whole. Meaning that there had to be a consensus. The original writings they transcribed from did not have the ambiguities that English has. Words like, could, should, might maybe and, in order to, are all used at the translators discretion. Meaning that if they had not received a promise of God as touching the invisible, then they quite obviously being carnal, must see to believe, and thereby nullify the need to believe as being the only necessity for a thing to be true. In essence they inserted ambiguities to convey falsities as though the promises from God were meant to be fulfilled later at another carnal event called a second coming as opposed to implementing when you have the faith to believe and are doing so in the right progression. And because the faith is progressive, some things have to be received in a certain order. For this we are called to press in to attain, to reach out and lay hold of why Christ laid hold of us”.
The loss and mis-conveyance of this truth became the birth of the now popular and pervasive idea that Christ must come again in a “second coming” scenario because they have to see a thing to believe. But “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” For they shall receive the thing that is said. Because it does not take any faith to believe a thing you can physically prove. And so they sit in the pews and wait week after week, and say in their hearts like the wicked servant who said “my Lord delays His coming”. But Gods hands are stretched out still.
And The New Will and Testament translators bludgeoned the texts with this kind of a physical sense that becomes nonsense when it comes to the things of God because in truth “one must first believe that He is, and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him”. And since our Heavenly Father rewards us with new portions of Himself each time we allow, then why would we reduce his word to the expectation’s by those who have no understanding of the invisible? Because “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence that there are things not seen’. It is by these that the elders gain repor with the Father. As touching the invisible.
We are talking about real encounters by the invisible God and His Son who said “I will never leave you or forsake you”, but never the less most still sit and wait for another savior. And they call it a second coming” a saying that is NOT found in the scriptures. And because Gods things don’t take on a form in creation, if we expect it to, we have false expectations of what God and His Word are about.
His words are about our transformation and our transfiguration to be like Him. To be spitting images of the Father, and not the other way around. As a matter of truth, the gospel itself becomes useless in a people that expect spectacular events to validate their faith.
And more dangerous than that is a people who have been so inverted from the faith to believe in “just the facts”. This is the generation that we are warned of who would expect a second coming Jesus in the form of a man as the focal point of their gospel “a coming one who is according to Satan with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect”. It is because that (maybe even today with us) they take all the scriptures that define Gods “Heavenly places”, to include the parables and Old Testament word pictures meant to take them into the Eternal, and they reinterpret them to be manifest again on earth as if that was ever Gods intention or the purpose of the gospel. Because if it is, and God wants a Jerusalem on Earth with the modern day Jews, (a name that has no true association with the original language). Then God would have to apologize to and make reparations to the Jews of old for expiring, putting them out of business, destroying their livelihood, subjecting their mothers to eat their babies, to then have “not one stone to be left upon another that shall not be rummaged through by the armies of Titus first, and bring them to the point of extinction, because that is what the testimonies said happened to that era. A genocide. Even as The Christ and Savior cried saying “41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city (That Jerusalem), and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. 45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; 46 Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves. 47 And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to kill him, Read full chapter
And from Matthew “ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Which indicates an extinction.
How is it that now again in our day that it is okay for a people to reclaim that land to renew it as it was?? That is so far off the mark from “Gods good, acceptable and perfect will, that here today they’ve aligned themselves with the thief of the things of God because Gods things are Heavenly. They are Eternal. They are indestructible, for this we know because “we look to the city whose builder and maker is God”. And to tie this back to the beginning with Moshe, God said “when you build a temple unto Me, the minute that you have used tools upon it? You have violated it. Do NOT associate Me with such”. But nevertheless the people world wide are glorying over that monstrous rendition of the last blasphemy. All the while they think God is behind it. But as it is written “when you see the abomination spoken by Daniel the prophet in the Holy place? Let those who read understand”. And the understanding is that if you see, and since we do see a modern day expectation, then you know the time is ripe for the judgment from God.
If this doesn’t strike you as blasphemous, then think about this. If the gospel was given for our benefit for godliness, and we then in turn, turn it around to make God a man again. Wouldn’t that be a problem. Because if that was Gods plan, He wouldn’t have to wait. But because the change and the transformation belongs to us? That is what He is waiting for, the final number to transform. But if we are found waiting and watching without our own transfiguration, then for what purpose were you given this life?? Because if you are tracking the scary stuff in the news, you know what? You my friend are being carried away by the flood of lies by the mouth of the dragon referred to in the Revelation. And if you are familiar with the foolish virgins who went to the world for their wedding feast preparations and were left outside with the damned? It is because they got caught up in the visuals and DID NOT CHANGE! The Gospel had no lasting effect but only temporary entertainment. And just as condemning is that their Jesus had to come as a man again because they were let unchanged.
Do you really think the gospel is about Christ putting on the flesh again?
Scripture is given for our transition, our transfiguration and our metamorphism. Christ became a man once and blazed for us a trail to the Father. Him now calling us to Himself, even as Paul said “therefore I plead with you by the mercies of God, BE YE RECONCILED to the Father. For He made Him who knew no sin, to become our sin, for us to (in turn) become His righteousness in us”. That is our transfiguration in the here and now that we are accountable for and what scripture is given for. If you throw all of your end time fascinations away and walk away with this one truth you will be okay. But if not? If you go back to your addiction of end times fascinations? BEWARE! For God may not spare you either but give you the tribulation you have been glued to because you become your dominant focus. And since God has given us everything that pertains to life and god-like-ness through the knowledge of Him who calls us to His Glory and virtue”? If you got NOT these, you’ve got nothing but the burning sensation of lost opportunities. Woe are they! For the time is upon us when “10 And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. 11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him [a]be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”
With that,now maybe we can be as serious about our transfiguration as is our Heavenly Father, and NOT be so focused on making scripture palatable to the carnal mind having been translated by such. Let us go up from here.
PAUL TEACHES ABOUT THE RESURRECTED CHRIST HE SAW WHO WAS A BRIGHT LIGHT FROM HEAVEN, NOT A MAN!
Seeing Christ AFTER the boulder was rolled away from the tomb is the qualifier to be an apostle as being greater then The Old Will and Testament prophets. Even as we were told speaking of John the Baptist being the greatest of All the prophets “Those in the Kingdom are greater than he”. Such are we. Here is the qualifier.
1 CORINTHIANS 15.1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, (it did not come by man nor was it taught by man but by revelation of Jesus Christ) 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain (if you need to see to believe).
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by [a]Cephas, then by the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once (Matthew 27.52), of whom the greater part remain to the present (in that day), but some have [b]fallen asleep. 7 After that (His resurection) He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born in my own time. (But these who saw Him, saw Him differently then those before or this demarcation line would not be described here because only people away from the event of the crusifixion did not see the pre-crusified Christ. Only these saw Christ in His post incarnate form of being a resurrected man, along with the 500.
9 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
The Risen Christ, Our Hope
12 Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ cannot be risen. 14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty (and unchanged) and your faith is also empty (and still looking for a saving to rescue you from a dying world). 15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. 16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 17 And if Christ did not rise, then your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! 18 Then also those who have [c]fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.
The Last Enemy Destroyed
20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have [d]fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all are made alive. 23 But each one in there own order (not first and second coming only): Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His (successive) comings. 24 Then afterwards comes the closing of the invitation, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. 25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy death is destroyed. 27 For “He has put all things under His feet.” But when He says “all things are put under Him,” it isevident that (only) He who put all things under Him is excepted. 28 Now all things are made subject to Him, and the Son Himself is also subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all. (It is in Him we live and dwell and have our being).
Effects of Denying the Resurrection
29 Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized to be dead (as you vowed to be buried in tge likeness of His death to be raised in the likeness of His resurrection as yo promised (vowed) at your own baptism in your own order when you were able to believe unless your vows are broken promises you made to resmain waiting for another resurrection that is not by faith for another Jesus of another resurrection), if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead? (To be on hold for another saving the cross couldn’t deliver on?)30 And why do we stand in [e]jeopardy every hour? 31
I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I recon my old self dead daily. 32 If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus (to profess and defend this newness of life), what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die (anyway)!”
33 Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.” 34 Awake to (the) righteousness (of God by faith), and do not sin (disbeleive)for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
A Glorious Body
35 But now you may say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” 36 Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. 37 And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. 38 But God gives it a body (completely different from the one you use to interact with on earth) as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind [f]of flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, andanother of birds.
40 There are also [g]celestial bodies and [h]terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for onestar differs from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption (at your baptism acknowledgement). 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body, IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY! (To further assist you here, read John 3. …
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam (Christ verse…) already became a life-giving spirit.
46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the earth, made[i] of dust; the second Man is just like the Lord from heaven (that was seen by Peter first, then the 12, then the 500, then Paul as one born in his own order). 48 As was the [k]man of dust, so also are those who are madeof dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the man-of dust, we also bear the image of the heavenly Man. (Old things have passed away, behold all things have become new and all things are from God” and not earth)
Our Final Victory
50 Now this I say brethren (at this stage of my faith), that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a [m]mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” (For this reason we profess that we have passed from death to life as vowed at baptism, and we press on in this main feature of faith to grow in it till it consumes our carnal nature not being a physical body but a body of beliefs of weaknesses and fears we’ve adopted from fallen Adam. To cast these aside to associate wuth tge last Adam. Flesh Nd blood does not inherit tge Kingdom? Correct, but tge re-spirited mind of faith does. And even Adam in the garden was made resurrected because he could not fall if he was not made upright. And that is all resurrection is, is being stood back up from the fall. It is the reversal of the fall, hence resurrected and raised back up to “that which is from the beginning”.
55 “O[n] Death, where is your sting?
O Hades, where is your victory?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Because the Law was given to make sin exceedingly sinful, so that you being good and dead from the law, being delivered from that law by the deliverance of Christ, for you to walk in newness of life now like Adam had. This is a restoration to that which was from the beginning. That is your do over, you born again.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (Nor are you on hold or in limbo left waiting for another Jesus as though the cross was insufficient.