The Resurrection of The Body of Christ.
Scripture defines the body of Christ as the conglomeration of believers. They are the bricks He assembles. The picture given was Christ the Chief Cornerstone, and that we are living stones built up (or assembled together) a habitation for God in the spirit”. And to Peter first, Christ said “And you are Petros and on this rock (rock in Greek is petros) I will build, to mean (assemble) My church (church) from Greek word “Eklisia” correctly translated “the called out ones” having nothing to do with man made building called church.
So then when we are gathered in the name of Christ, we are His body of which He is the head, He is “The Chief cornerstone, and “we are living stones built up a habitation of God in the spirit” of which Simon Petros/Peter was the first of those called to occupy that role.
It was the “Eklesia” that means “those who are called out” erroneously translated “church” was to mean an assembly of believers as operating off of these truths and NOT a physical structure at all like the word “church” gets inserted into. But we as living stones, and as Christ said “where two or more are gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst”. To “gather” in other places translated assembled. How then have we fallen prey to the idea that God’s place of worship is a man made building?
Of which the word church has no Greek correlation and is etymologically associated with the Scottish words kirk, curse, circus, circle and sorcery and has no real relevance with the Hebrew and Greek scripture at all, other than what people have been taught to believe about church today. The church refers to visible, physical structures. And most are identified by their “denomination” which is admittedly a fraction of a greater whole. And in this case competing against each other as factions of fractions instead of unity for the greater good. Just as penny’s nickels, dimes and quarters are fractions of the dollar. But the point is, God does not dwell in structures of mans devising.
God had previously made it clear in Exodus 20. That “if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of (chiseled or) hewn stone; for in the day that you use your tool on it? You have profaned it, Do NOT associate Me with such”.
And in New Covenant lingo “22 In whom ye also are assembled together for an habitation of God in the Spirit. To mean us, that we are His work and His building. And not a physical man made structure of any sort at all, ever. “God in the Spirit.? And you being “born of the spirit? ”
So when you are in a meeting place, that is a physical structure, do not confuse that as important or holy, because since kind begets kind, and Christ is (proverbially) the Chief cornerstone, we are (proverbially) living stones built up)an assembly built up a habitation for God “in the Spirit”, who is, being “bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh of glorious spirit and truth” referred to us who are”born again”, and “borne of the Spirit” and “borne from above”, and not made of physical structures at all. Because begets kind according to kind. And Christ only became flesh, for us to see that you can be born of God, while you are in the flesh, and still be able to quote “old things having past away, behold all things become new and all things are from God”. To mean the old that became new, was the inner you. For that is where the fall of Adam took place. And the proof of this is that there were no boo-boos, cuts or bruises when Adam fell, just an inverted way of thinking. So nothing physical, be it your carnal person and especially earthen structures of any sort, are all disqualified from being an interest to the Godhead body of which we become through faith, our only link and cross over point from the old to the new, in understanding only. behold all things become new and all things are from God”.
But so goes the whole of Christendom today with man made churches and cathedrals. But we were warned!! That as “The wheat and the tares grow together? How much more deceptive can you get than building with bricks, and over look us as the body and building of Christ altogether. How much more blasphemous can the final era church extend her defiance in the face of these scriptural evidence and, with the obvious observation of a lack of knowledge or repentance. That “if per chance God gives them a knowledge of repentance, so as to escape the snare of the Devil who has taken them captive to do his will”, so as to repent and change. For it is the fallen angels that prosper from the degradation and the contending of churches.
And from Peter “it would be better off NOT knowing the truth than to know it and turn from it. And with more quotes directly from our Savior, “when the Son of man comes, will He really find faith on earth?” Yes, but few that qualify. Even as Christ was asked, “are there many or few that will be saved? Who told the disciples. “Strive to enter (not the church, but) “the Kingdom of God” “for the narrow gate, but broad is the gate that leads to destruction”. And “wicked men and impostors grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived”. You may find you have to go it alone in the flesh. And if you do advance against the tide of indifference, the validations from Gods Holy Spirit will reward you tremendously for doing so. For He had said “ come out from among them and be ye separate. Then I shall receive you and you shall be My sons AND daughters”. This is the Body and Building of Christ.
As we hope you can recognize these truths here. That “God rewards those that diligently seek Him”. And when you do, you may have to face a time when you feel you have to go it alone, for that is a test of obedience and personal sovereignty acquired as being in His image. We have no surrogates, crutches or abutments other than Gods Word and Holy Spirit.
As affirmed here from Matthew 10, That; “37 Those that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of Me: and those that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
These are the words from Christ. This is a concept we have to face as testing our intentions for that is what our life here is for. A separation process. For 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Nor is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
“The wheat and the tares mature together”? But “first gather the tares in bundles to burn, to gather the wheat into My barn”. To mean that the wheat will see the bundling of the tares into terms and conditions for uncountable counterfeit forms of godliness.
How snug it feels to have comfort in numbers among the man made church buildings, but that is NOT a promise from the Heavenly Father or His Only Begotten.
The Book of Hebrews verifies and validates these truths. To go on any say; 22 you HAVE come to Mount Zion and to the city (and building) of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the [j]general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered (as birthed) in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men having been perfected, 24 to Christ the Mediator of The New (Will and Testament and) Covenant,”
Hear the Heavenly Voice
25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks (from Heaven). For if they (under the Old Covenant) did not escape Him who spoke on earth? How much more shall if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven (to us by His Holy Spirit), 26 whose voice back then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet one more time I [k]shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, so that the things which cannot be shaken (meaning the Eternal) may remain (to mean without competition.)
28 Therefore, since we receive the kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we [l]may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.” To include all man made structures.
For God had said “And if you make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for in the day that you use your tool on it? You have profaned it, do not associate me with such”? So goes all physical structures, to include all your brick and mortar churches, cathedrals or other built structures such as are common to man, as blasphemous, because of how a physical temple distorts our perceptions of these truths. Even as Christ said to Petros, or Peter “For I call you Petros for upon this rock I shall assemble my church, in Greek from “eklesia”, which simply means “My called out ones”. Called out of the old testament teaching tools into the invisible. That is why we are called “Living stones assembled for a habitation of God in the Spirit. And why Peter in Greek is Petros and means Rock. And from the revelation “built up of stones that are the measure of a man that is of an angel”, as once again associated with the part that intricates us with Spirit and truth and not churches. That is part of “the illusion with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect. And if you are NOT sure that you are of the Elect, then if I was you? I’d reconsider my affections for buildings of worship. For sinse “the wheat and the tares mature together”, and “the first shall be last and the last shall be first”. And “if possible to deceive the Elect”, to mean,, if you are NOT sure that you are among the Elect? And your not sure if what we say about the church is true? It may be your view of church that may prevent you from receiving the validation from the Holy Spirit that you are of the Elect. Because if you have not received this revelation by the spirit of what we say about church? It could be because you are hanging on to the concept today that is common about church, that just does NOT fit with scripture. And if you wonder how this could happen? ,,,,,
So for us, we have to scramble through the debris of weakened understandings and translations of Gods gospel of His Son, to uncover these truths. So we borrow this verse that Paul brings up later, to show you where we are going through the mumbled text in its current condition, to say that 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the self same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit.” To use the mirror metaphorically. So as too set aside the notion of some future coming Jesus to give you something later as though we are left here bereft and ill-equipt, waiting for our change to come, when we have the scriptures and the Holy Spirit to deliver us the goods.
That, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these (PROMISES) you can be partakers of the divine nature (NOW), having (already) escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” And how? Through the knowledge, to apply what you know As Paul says “sown in weakness, raised in understanding, sown a physical body, raised a spiritual one” in the spirit of the mind only”. So unless you know where we are going, you might get lost as we fumble through some distorted texts to get through this juxtaposition, to where what we just quoted makes more sense. So you may know that it is in this way, that “The Kingdom of God” is at hand anytime and anywhere. Amen