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The Lords Supper 8/17

Posted on August 17, 2014 by ADMIN

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The Lords Supper

 
Matthew 26.26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.

 

Here we have at the Lord’s supper Him saying that He would not drink from it again until He drinks it new in the Kingdom. It is the bread and the wine that become new first. Simply put it is us who put off our old nature symbolized at baptism that become new to drink it with Him, for it is the bread and the wine of the new covenant which is in effect now that His blood has been shed. (Hebrews 9.15)

It is in this way that we drink it new. He nourishes the spirit not the man. It is our spirit that is new that allows us to drink it new in the Kingdom. His words are spirit and they are life and this is what we partake. This is the Lords Supper. It does not refer to a future coming kingdom that does not exist yet like those who suppose it to be at a 2nd coming of something yet to be fulfilled. It is filled full now. The Kingdom is preached and men are pressing their way into it. Luke 16.16

This is how we are filled now that we are new. We partake of His word and His spirit. It is not like meat on a BBQ to be cooked that you see but His holy word that is perceived so you can receive it by your new person. It is not His Kingdom that is being made new to have a grand opening at a second coming for it already is or Jesus could not have already said “The Kingdom of God is at hand”.

It is us eating this new in the spirit of our mind that makes it new. But it is the silly Adamic nature that postpones the spiritual nourishment until a 2nd coming for a coming Kingdom that does not exist yet waiting to be finished that it may be revealed. Yet the Kingdom never was  not yet as though it still needs to be but only in our minds, this is where He builds it. You see then to drink it new in the Kingdom is not for a future kingdom. The newness has to do with us. It is us who are changeable and are changing. God and His Kingdom are not. So when we come together to eat the Lords supper, it is to eat it new in the Kingdom.

1 Corinthians 5.7 Therefore purge out the old leaven that you may become a new loaf since in truth you are unleavened.

This “drinking it new in the Kingdom”, the eternal kingdom is not as though it must be something later is not already.  It is as eternal as He is for it is His home and cannot change. Or where would He be King until His kingdom is finished. You think He is subject to time as though He is ringing His hands in heaven just hoping for His kingdom to be built. Everything about Him is timeless, hence “enter the Kingdom prepared for you from (b4) the foundations of the world (ages). So it is us that becomes new not Him.

And how do we do this? By partaking of Him any day and every day. To us who “love His appearing” not as something future but daily and continual. We “eagerly await His appearing”. We look to the author and finisher of our faith”. Not of a 1st and 2nd coming but to Him who delays not His coming. We do not forsake the assembling and so much more as we see the coming day. Till the dawn of the old and morning star of the eternal day that needs not a jump start except in our thinking and understanding.

This is “the Kingdom that comes not with carnal observation” as the 2nd coming seekers are stuck on. It appears not to the eyes in your head but the eyes of your understanding (Eph 1.18) He appears to our perception and this way we are renewed, we recieve, we become what we receive. This is our spiritual growth. Not like food for the carnal man that nourishes the human but a new nutrition for the new man who is raised incorruptible. For He says “My words are spirit and they are life”. So if we believe His words, we ingest them, and we keep them. We become what we eat. We put this on. We put Him on. We put on Christ. This is putting on the new man. We perceive Him as He is and we become like Him. Today!

And we do this before a 2nd coming as is taught by others for if you do not do this now you will be found naked. If you have washed off the old man by baptism what is it that you wear now if you expect your new garments at a 2nd coming?

This is why the 2nd coming seeker churches are “poor blind and naked”. They think a 2nd coming is the fulfillment but now we can be filled full. Till we become a perfect man” (Eph 4.13?) They are poor because they reject the true riches of which we speak. They are blind because they do not see the “Kingdom of God” which is “at hand”. And they are obviously naked because they cannot put anything on they perceive to be later. In this they condemn themselves.

1 Tim 4 the spirit speaks expressly that in the later days men will depart from the faith giving head to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.” And again “after my departure you will be devoured by savage wolves. They have and they did. We are that.

They think to “drink it new in the Kingdom” is when they see it with human eyes, and this scoffs at the faith that pleases God. It is anti-faith and anti-Christ to ignore Him who speaks from Heaven now as though He must come in bodily form to appease our carnality and stand where we can see Him to believe.

But it is He who even now says, He who has been saying. Him whom you ignore “Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door.” This is whom we ingest at the Lords Supper. “I will come into them and dine with them and them with Me.” This is drinking the fruit of the vine new in the Kingdom with Him. The new covenant is in full force, “the Kingdom is preached and men are pressing their way in” This is that which was from the beginning. Let that abide in you. Not a silly 2nd coming man you can see with the eyes in your head. What a powerless gospel with no transformation that leaves many disappointed and unchanged while they wait for something that is at their fingertips.

“For him who has ears to hear, hear what the spirit says to the churches” The words of this prophesy are not sealed for a 2nd coming. What I say to you I say to all watch. For if you do not watch, if you think I have delayed my coming, I will come upon you as a thief and take even that which you think you have. But to those who anticipate My coming, and love My appearing, I come quickly (unnoticeable to the carnal senses in the wink of an eye) and My reward is with me to give to each one according to their work. Blessed are they who do My commands for they have the right to the tree of life and enter through the gates into the City in the Kingdom. Yes, press into this. But outside are sorcerers, adulterers and whoever loves and keeps lies”

Where are you?

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More on the Eternal Day

Posted on August 2, 2014 by ADMIN

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Hebrews 3.13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end,
 
10.25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
The main theme of the book of Hebrews is the “Rest of God, the true Sabbath where He is” This is the gospel, this is the message “Today! if you will hear His voice” Which is the voice that calls even today saying “refuse not Him who speaks from heaven”. This day being the eternal day, not the days of time and matter, but the everlasting day for the everlasting God, the day before creation where He rests from His creation to which we are of the called, hearing His voice to be with Him where He is before He ever spoke a word, before all creation. This place which has no night where Christ is seated right now and if we are truly “In Him” we are there now “in spirit and truth”. That is if you can see it and receive it, saying; there remains a rest to the people of God, and we who have believed have entered that rest” the place of time before the time of matter. We who have believed is the act of faith being the conduit by which we have received it.
 
So it is of this day that is not related to time as we know but to a greater reality which has no beginning or end like Melchizedek. This place is a place even higher than angels saying “for He has not put the world to come of which we speak in subjection of angels. And this world to come in which we speak is not in subjection to time either saying “Today” as it goes out even in our day.
 
Now “this world to come in which we speak” is pictorialized and memorialized throughout the scriptures but never meant to be earthly. For if it was of the earth “Joshua would not have spoken of another day” It is the carnal man and immature believers that see this in a linear time line to be revealed at a 2nd coming, meaning not “Today”
 
This mindset of looking for another day called the 2nd coming is a faithless testimony and confession. All the gossip, hoopla and energy spent investing “another day” a later day to be actualized by the human senses, is really quite a faithless act. (Heb 4.6) Thereby judging themselves being unbelieving, they receive nothing. “Be it according to your faith” and if you believe it is later then it is not “Today” for you. You have judged yourself unworthy of the full gift of God which is “in His Son”. We walk in the light as He is in the light” He is the light and “IN HIM” there is no darkness or nights at all.
But you say the Son will come later, but it is He who is coming now. As it was said back then so too in our time “There are some standing here today who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming in His Kingdom with great power and Glory” and they did. So “Today” enter this. And He is coming not as a man, but in His true personage being eternal and invisible. It is the carnal mind hooked up to the senses of the flesh who are dead to Him who whisks about them beckoning them to “wake up”.
 
So cast off your ignorance and unbelief. Throw away the foolish notion that you cannot have Him now in His full Glory, that He must come again a 2nd time to do another work to the flesh to give you something you don’t have.
His visitations are many. Not just a 1st and 2nd coming.
 
It is He who stands at the door and knocks who always wants to sup with you, with your spirit for His words are spirit and they are life. Do not be like the evil servant who said “my Lord delays His coming” for He does not. It is you who get caught up in this life too much to enjoy Him who knocks, who is always coming. As He says “come to Me and I will give you rest” is “the world to come of which we speak” and is always coming.
Or would you rather gather with those of  a 2nd coming mindset and live in uncertainty and confusion? I mean really, who’s message do you think that is anyway?
 
From Hebrews 3.13 says we are exhorted to encourage each other while it is called “Today”. It does not say to exhort about another day like a tomorrow or like a 2nd coming. And Hebrews 10.25 furthers this concept saying to “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves as we see the day approaching” is not about a 2nd coming concept that is not said anywhere in scripture that it is a 1st and 2nd. The whole book of Hebrews speaks of the eternal day that was before time and matter as the place of our calling. 
 
The term from Hebrews 10.25 “so much more as you see the day approaching” is correctly rendered from the Greek as “see the day at hand” meaning at His fingertips. To give to you if you will receive it by faith. This is the same verbiage as “the Kingdom of God is at hand” And the place from 2 Peter 3.18 rendered  correctly in the Greek “To Him be the Glory both now and the eternal day” Again not a 2nd coming day as though it is not yet.
And again in Revelation “seal not the words of this book for the time is at hand” to enter now. What is not clear in your mind is settled in heaven. It is becoming in your mind not on earth. The things that are at hand are not the judgments and woe’s for those repeat themselves like with Antiochus Epiphanies and such. It is the revelation, the unveiling that is at hand. History repeats its self. Get your mind off things of the earth and seek that which is in heaven. In “that day” “Today!” the “eternal day” the time “at hand” the “coming day” that cometh not with (carnal) observation Luke 17.22. The kingdom finished from the foundation of the world, before God ever spoke a word. Settled in heaven.
 
Hebrews 4.3 We who have believed have entered. The Kingdom of God is at hand.

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Sad estate of the modern Prophet and eschatology

Posted on July 26, 2014 by ADMIN

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Yes modern Christianity has been hijacked and has become as ineffective as the Jews in the time of Christ. They are not entering the Kingdom, nor are they allowing those to enter who are trying to do so. Mt 23.13

 

For even John the baptist asked “are you the Coming One or do we seek another.” And Jesus could have gone through a discourse of His 2nd coming and define the supposed raptures and resurrections and 7 year tribulation or whatever you see as the kingdom come and a future coming one to save and resurrect you but instead He said “Go tell John what you see” Then He describes of those who see hear walk and are resurrected then. But He must come again to do that?

 

It is the basic tenants of your faith that you announced at your baptism that you go into the water to put off the old person to be resurrected, raised up new “in Christ”  that you  now deny?

 

But our Lord has come! Hosanna, Oh Lord save now! Blessed is He who comes in the name of he Lord!” Whom are you seeking?

 

We have forward  speaking prophets that are proclaiming a 2nd coming, and another  resurrection and another kingdom to come, but the message was and still is “The Kingdom of God is at hand”.  This is that which was from the beginning. That which we have heard and handled, for we speak what we have heard and testify what we see.  

 

The false forward speaking prophets being naked and unashamed, show their ignorance and  spread confusion and lies and disruption to the body of Christ in our day by speaking of another coming one. Who authored that? The law and the prophets were till Christ. The scriptures having been fulfilled then, now we can only speak of the accomplishments of Him who said “it is done”.   For the law and the prophets were till John, now men are pressing into the Kingdom.
The prophets of old spoke forward of a coming one and the prophets of our day should be speaking of Him who came. The law and the prophets were finished with John. Jesus having fulfilled them need not fulfill them again
Even Jesus said these words to His disciples “there are some standing here today who will not taste death till they see the Son of man Coming in His Kingdom, see the Kingdom of God present with power.  Christ is not just being manifest at a 1st and 2nd coming. That is the conclusion of all the visual seekers but He says “I stand at the door and knock” Who is opening? Who is listening?
They say in their hearts “He has a second coming after certain events” of which these always change to fit the carnal fascination of the day. When the truth is He has come for some and they have received it like those of the day like Peter, “We were eye witnesses of His majesty when we made known to you the coming of our Lord”.
And it is not as though if we see Him we would be a better believer for even Peter having said these words said to us; but you have the prophetic word which is more sure than what we heard, and you do well to pay attention to it as a light that shines in a dark place till the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. This is where and how the Lord is coming for He does not come with observation for the Kingdom of God is within you (Luke 17. 20+)
It is “He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and the Lord of lords who alone has immortality dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To whom be honor and everlasting power. AMEN! (1 Tim 6.15+)
For more on topics of His ever ready always present Kingdom, go to; His [email protected]
Blessings forever “in Him” in His Kingdom already.

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Creation serves God

Posted on July 26, 2014 by ADMIN

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Just as it is commonly thought that the gifts of Christ are actuated at a second coming, so too with the wrath of God.  But Romans 1..18 says that “the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness. The wrath of God is not so much  a physical place as it is a spiritual reality. Although it can manifest at a place of time and matter, but it is more so the condition of the inner man.

In Ephesians 2 Paul talks about how we were children of wrath but when the grace of God appeared (not to the eyes) He quickened us. He gave us a new spiritual address. Instead of being a subject to the “prince of the power of the air, He made us alive in Christ.

In our being made alive our quickening,  even creation itself changes its disposition towards us. When the Israelite’s came out of Egypt it was through water they were saved and it was the same water that was a burning judgment from God on those who chased them down.

Of this new way creation served them like at Passover, when the angel of death passed over the Israelite’s picturing the first born of God, it killed the first born of Egypt. The same thing that kills makes alive depending on your spiritual location or disposition..

So we see too with the quail. Numbers 11.31 31 Now a wind went out from the Lord, and it brought quail from the sea and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.”

The very sea that produced living things with fins and gills brought forth birds to feed His people. So too with the rock Moses smote for water. The creation itself in that way was renewed serving the new man in a different way

You can be in the form of a man and think it not strange to be equal with God (Phil 2.5) and you can likewise be in outer darkness gnashing your teeth in hatred like those who despise the testimony of  Christ    Your man can be on planet earth but in what is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt where our Lord was slain. (Rev 11.8) Physically it was Jerusalem.

So the Lord uses the physical for us to understand what we can’t otherwise see, and He appears at will for He is not subject to time and matter. The time delay is for us to grow in understanding. This is the age of salvation but there is coming an end where “time will be no more (Rev 10.6) and when it will be said …

Rev 22. 11 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 be righteous[a] still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.”

This is the age of grace. and what you become of it with your free will. What you receive in the spirit is your reward. Be it according to your faith. if you are able to receive.

To be “In Him” is your port hole into eternity. Not just a promise of a later time like in a 2nd coming but now in the presence of God. This is the reconciliation to the Father now. (Rom 5.11 and 2 Cor 5.18-21).  What you hope the 2nd coming to accomplish, has been done, “in Christ”

2 Peter 2. 9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

This being reserved in judgment is usually seen by an addictive nature. The prince of the air fuels this by taking them captive to do his will. (2 Tim 2.26)  Many people are captivated by their physical senses doing service to that which they do not see. Holding to a pattern of self destruction..

So the wrath is now and has a culmination. When that light comes on then each one shall be judged for what manner of work they’ve  done.

Be on the watch for He is coming at a time when you think not, to execute judgement and reward, and He is also coming in a way you do not suppose Him to be for He comes as a thief. Why? Be cause most people are expecting Him like the commonly taught 2nd coming. To some He is even now standing at the door knocking for Judgment begins with the house of God. And if so, what will happen to the ungodly and sinners? ( 1st Peter 4.17-18)

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In My Fathers house are many dwellings

Posted on July 26, 2014 by ADMIN

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Jesus Christ in John 14.2 Says ” In my Fathers house are many mansions. If it were not so I would have told you so. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will Come Again and receive you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

And this He did. The mansion with the rooms were already there. The preparation was His word. This was accomplished by the word of God as was the first creation. Jesus Christ who spoke the creation of time and matter, spoke these words to the Father.John 17. I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word;21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me”.

These are the words of the new creation, if you are able to receive it. Just as certain as when He said “let there be light” and there was. So He too spoke saying “that they (meaning us) may be one as we are one”.

This is what it means to be “in Christ”. And as He said “I go to prepare a place for you”. And He did too. The same voice created the physical creation by His  word. One creation for the visible, one invisible as is He.

Christ is hidden and we are hidden “In Christ” as well. This is the new creation that is the same as “when Christ who is our life is revealed then we also shall be revealed with Him in Glory”. 

We have to learn to see Him as He appears with the eyes of our understanding, as He who always was, and we have to see him as He truly is for He was a man for only a short time. But His true person is better understood from the mouth of the Father who said in Hebrews 1.8-10 But to the Son He says “Your throne Oh God is forever and ever, a scepter of righteousness is a scepter of Your Kingdom, (the eternal, always was Kingdom) You Lord in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are a work of Your hands. They (all time and matter) will perish but You remain; and they will all grow old like a garment. Like a garment You will fold them up and they will be changed. But You are (always) the same and Your years will not fail”
 
Those are words from God the Father about God the Son, ascribing all things to Him, deserving of all Glory and honor, showing that Jesus did not become something He already wasn’t in the eternals, but just that He came here and walked it out as a man, for our understanding so that we could follow Him, that “where He is we would be also”. And “Father that they may be one as We are one” And this is as much an act of faith as your first confession of faith “In Christ”.
But eternity has never been under construction. It just is. This age we live in was made in 6 days and God in Christ rested from all His works to not create like that anymore. The only construction hence forth is offspring of His Kingdom. The only thing that changed was an earthly name which came with a path change.
 
You see the old way failed. “Father if there is any other way” And having expired the earthen model called “Jerusalem” where those went up for the feasts, Christ the new and living way being not patterns and pictures and earthen articles in an earthen city of “likenesses of the Kingdom of God. Christ being in heaven now to appear on our behalf is not waiting to come back here to build something. For that carpenters son is a Son of another carpenter, God. And the building they are doing is not in heaven, and not on earth, but in your heart and mind and soul.
 
So in the old model that people were walking out by going up to the feast of at-one-ment, was what should have been taking place in their hearts. “Father that they may be at-on-ment with us that they may behold My Glory”
That is why the man Jesus said to the Jewish leaders “you are not entering the Kingdom and you are keeping out those trying to enter”. They were in old Jerusalem and never had the kingdom but just an earthen model for instructional purposes only. To to learn of the invisible never changing reality in the spirit. The carnal mind idolized those buildings and knew not God of which Christ fulfilled all the the buildings artifacts and procedures passed on by the house of Moses and the house of David which shadowed heavenly, but the body is of Christ, not a future 2nd coming kingdom.
 
As the Lord said in Isaiah 1.11+ What is the purpose of your sacrifices to Me? I have had enough!, when you come appear before Me who has required this of you to trample My courts? Bring to Me no more futile sacrifices, your sacred assemblies I cannot endure, your appointed feasts My soul hates. How the faithful city has become a harlot”. 
 
These are pretty harsh words about a model that people want to return to. Rebuild Jerusalem so God can come? There is a certain curse for those who pursue this for this is the sin of what is spiritually called Sodom. (Isaiah 1.10 + Rev 11.8)
 
Jesus instructed us to “seek the Kingdom of God”. And in Colossians 3. Paul says “being raised with Christ, seek those things that are above”. And this is done NOT by laying out a chart of a timeline of how this jesus will come back to planet earth to set up a kingdom because “like a cloak you shall fold them up, but Your years shall not fail”. Seek Him, be “In Him’ be “In Christ” Seek this. Not a coming thing as though it had not been but that which always is “the kingdom of God at hand” ever present always open to the one of faith.
 
So these wall charts plotting out Christs return on a time line is a faithless thing that at heart does not know Him.
I understand that to some it is so ingrained that Christ will come in a certain way, to see the truth will take some time. It is those who taste the new wine, some like the old better. But new wine goes in new wine skins. You must be renewed in the spirit of your mind. This is where the building project of God takes place, not on earth.
 
The eternal cannot be created for it pre-exists all creations visible and invisible.
The 6 days of creation that exist now only serve the purpose for us to receive the Kingdom that “cometh not with (carnal) observation” (Luke 17.20) That we may seek the above for as the Father said of the Son, “You Lord in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, the heavens are the work of Your hands, they will perish, You remain, like a cloak You will fold them up and they will be changed.
 
That is why Jesus said of Jerusalem “not one stone shall be left one upon another”. Not that he foresaw a coming enemy and was sad but He being God, judged and expired that idolistic concept of Himself as being the enemy.
That which detained people was taken away for Him to establish another and He became a “new and living way” to the Father. This is your salvation already accomplished. Not Him coming back to planet earth to live here. That was never the intent of God. That too is an idolistic notion that separates you from God.
For all the law and the prophets were until John the baptist, now the Kingdom is preached and all are pressing their way into it. (Luke 16.16) Are you? Or are you waiting for a 2nd coming?
In My Fathers house are many dwellings. I go and prepare a place for you. And from there, Christ had a conversation with the Father. And this is the account in John 17. 24-26
 
24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me, may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them. 
 
This is the intent of God and our call to the eternal Kingdom of God “In Christ”.
If you are “in Him”, you are in the Kingdom and you must grow into a greater reality of this truth. This is the place He prepared for you is “In Him”. And it is not that the place is new. It is the realization in your heart that is new. This is the work of God, and this is why “the Kingdom of God is at hand.

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The High Priests Breastplate

Posted on July 26, 2014 by ADMIN

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Caiaphas the high priest made the statement that “it is expedient that one man (speaking of Christ) should die for the people, and not only that but that He would gather together in one (in Christ) all the children of God scattered abroad.

 
This is about believers scattered about in different doctrines, beliefs and denominations. and a great truth. As He said “where two or more are gathered together in my Name there am I”, gathered “in Christ”. And as we are gathered to eternal truths that were with the father, we are gathered to something much more than a city  at a specific point in time. We are gathered to something more solid then a mountain of granite. For the form of this world passes away, so that the eternal remains. And it is not as if the eternal has to be brought down or brought back like at some 2nd coming. No it is much easier than that.
 
Deu 30.11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?” 14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.   This is the word of faith we preach.
 
What we are gathered to are these transparent stones of truth. It is from this quarry that we are hewn. Like Peter being a living rock, we too are living stones being built, assembled, or gathered up a spiritual habitation for God.
 
 The High Priests ephod with 12 stones
 
The high priest had an ephod which was a breast plate with 12 stones positioned on the front, over his heart. And it is these 12 stones gathered together that he holds very dear. 12 is the number of tribes of Israel and the number of disciples and symbolizes the foundation of the house of God. (Rev 21) We are His house. It isn’t until the high priest puts these on that he goes into the Holy of Holies. Without them He does not enter. What he holds dear he takes into the very presence of the Father Himself. 
 
Isn’t that what Christ prayed in John 17? Father that they may be one with us? And this prayer was said by the same person who said “let there be light”? And that did not take some 2000 plus years but “it was so”. And isn’t this He who said “take up thy bed and walk”? So too in Gethsemane He spoke and prepared a place for them and us that “where I am they may be also”. This was for them and is operational for us today. This is the message. He became sin for us to become righteous “in Him” so “be ye reconciled”. Be one with. Be gathered to the Father now, be gathered to the truth. For we have such a High Priest eternal in the heavens now appearing to the Father. For this reason we can go boldly to the throne room of grace. This is a current reality of life in the spirit to all who believe. Take caution that no one rob you of this reward of faith for your heavenly Father desires this with you. This is what He paid for with His Son. He does not come back to do this.
 
You see this is the age of transformation and transfiguration. For we are being transfigured into the same full image from glory to glory by the spirit. (2 Corinthians 3.18)
 
But there are those who believe that they are left in limbo waiting for Christ to come back and do something. That they will not believe to receive. But when Christ does come back, it is not to pick up where He left off to finish a work in you as though He did something half way. For the just shall live by faith, and without faith it is impossible to please Him. For when He comes he would not save for He already did that. For when you see it, it is not of faith, for we are saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope.
 
There is a coming a time when “time is no more” (Rev 10.6). That only the eternal remains (Heb 12.27). That which we have acquired in this age, that which we have received from Him we keep. This is our whole purpose to lay hold of why He laid hold of us. But what about when He comes? 
 
Revelation 22.11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous[e] still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.” Again, time is no more. The time we live in is to put on Christ now. This time has an end.
So if we have the notion that His work will continue later we may be found slothful stewards. For He is close at hand who judges us and His reward is with Him to give as He wills. And He wants to today. “It is the Fathers good pleasure to give us the Kingdom” But if we are looking for it with our eyes it is passing before us like the wind. This is not an event but a life style. The flesh will return to the dust like it came. The transformation of our heart, mind and soul and putting on the new body is now. If we do not put on Christ and the invisible truths about Him that are Him now, we may be found naked and ashamed when He comes to wrap up this age. For we groan within ourselves not to be unclothed but to be further clothed in immortality. This is the invisible work of the “Kingdom of God at hand”.

 

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7/23 The Transfiguration. His and ours.

Posted on July 23, 2014 by ADMIN

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Matthew 16.27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. 28 “Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”  And this was almost 2000 years ago.

 

Jesus spoke these words to His disciples. That some then would see Him coming in His Kingdom. That they would see the Kingdom of God present with power. It was then that Peter, James and John witnessed Christs transfiguration. We think, how lucky they were to witness such an event. Wow! To see “his face shine like the sun, and His clothes become white as light, brighter than any launderer on earth can whiten”.
 
As it says in 2nd Peter that they “were eye witnesses of His majesty” where the Father said “this is My beloved Son”. Christ as He is seen here is the culmination of everything the law and the prophets had ever spoken or seen. The purpose of all the law the prophets and testimonies was of this. To see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom. Jesus Christ in His fullness just like His Father. A chip off the ole block, His spitting image, bone of His bone. “Him you shall hear!”
 
Wow! If we could have been there and seen that. Surely if that had happened to us, we would all have apostolic faith. We could go door to door, heal the sick and raise the dead. We could save the world in no time. Our ministries would be huge! Yes this is facetious.
In 2 Peter he talks of the transfiguration saying”we made known to you the power and the coming of our Lord” and “we were eye witnesses of His majesty”. They experienced the very thing some Christians see as the“2nd coming”. They saw a full revelation of Jesus Christ as “My beloved Son”. This Coming is not a one time event as some presume, and it is not just a future event except for those who do not understand yet and those who flat out deny. It is not an event but an eternal reality to experience. To understand this is to be awake and watchful.
Think of it like this. If it is not true now, then it is not eternal. It must come to be, and some of Christianity thinks it is a physical development to some day become a physical reality and that is the blunder.
 
How could this Jesus who is “the same yesterday, today and forever” become something He is not yet? You have the wrong Jesus if He is still coming or soon to be, then He has not been something, and is in the process of becoming and by this nature He is excluded from being of God. Right here many cults can nail you to the ground and make the case that Jesus was not divine, but just a man. And by that definition they are right. A becoming one is not an eternal one.
 
A main theme in the book of 1st John is that he who believes that Jesus came in the flesh is of God. He is not referring to a man but of Him “whose goings forth or from old and ever lasting. (Micah 5.3) Meaning “Him who always is. As he also teaches “that which was in the beginning” not that which will be at a 2nd coming but that which always was and is, and Jesus Christ does not change to have to become and be something for He already is.
 
2 Peter speaks that through this understanding of His divine power, that “He has given us everything that pertains to life (eternal) and God-like-ness (the power of transformation) through the knowledge of Him who calls us”. And adding to our faith,  “for so an entrance will be supplied abundantly to us into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ”. (2 Peter 1.11)  This is not speaking of a 2nd coming but an immediate reality to those who do this. It says”He who lacks these things is short sighted even to blindness and has forgotten that he is purged from his old self” ( Verse 9).
 
So we are supplied abundantly access into His Kingdom, this Kingdom which is “at Hand”. The eternal, the always was, always will be, never ending, having no beginning a place having the same make up and composition as the one who lives there in the time before time, or else where would He stay and wait like He has no home? He waits for a kingdom? Him who came and said “the Kingdom of God is at hand” also said “Heaven is my throne and the earth is My footstool. Where is the house you will build for Me?”  But He is where He was before a word of God was ever spoken. That is why the kingdom cannot come as such to those who want to see it like 2nd coming seekers. Whom do you seek? Him who will be or Him who was? Will the real Jesus stand up! And HE did and He is knocking.
This Kingdom Peter further expounds on saying that he would continue to remind them of these things. “For we did not follow cunningly devised fables (like blood moons and Nibiru) when we made known to you the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ but we were eye witnesses of His majesty”. This coming had nothing to do with what is described as His 1st coming as a baby then grown a man but Him is His eternal state in his eternal place, in Himself, for in Him all things exist. What they saw was not a preview as though it was still future. For how could they have been supplied abundantly access into the Kingdom if it was still becoming to be some day.
Now here is the point. Peter said “in doing these things an entrance will be supplied abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ”. He didn’t say anything about waiting for a 2nd coming. Is he lying? Is there access to His Kingdom before He comes so we can see Him? Yes! This is the very place where He is transfigured.
Yes they saw Him coming in His Kingdom with great power, but peter goes on to say “but you (yes us) have a prophetic word which is more sure than what we saw, (yes more certain than the transfiguration)”. Meaning the prophetic words and the testimony of Christ will yield the same result. Wow! To see Him in His natural state without the flesh, in the place and habitation where He belongs, being Glorified and in full power. Him you shall hear! Yes! Hear His words.
 
So as it was said then and again has been accomplished to many throughout the ages and is still offered to us “TODAY” if you can hear His voice”. Even now it is just as true that there are some standing here today who will not taste death before the see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom with great power and Glory”.
 
So this is our transfiguration, our “being transformed into His same full image” not at some 2nd coming but “from Glory to Glory as by the Spirit” in the here and now. What does that have to do with a 2nd coming? That happens now! Today! “He who will come is coming and he does not tarry! And it is by faith, it is from faith to faith and “if anyone draws back My soul has no pleasure in them; says the Lord. But we are not of those who draw back into the perdition of unbelief, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul”. Hebrews 10.37-39
 
Here is the danger that has befallen us in this 21st century. The promulgation of the faith of a Jesus at a 2nd coming denies Him who came and is coming and still at hand. We can lazily put off our change and our responsibility to believe for a hope that He will do it later.  The 2nd coming concept puts people in a perpetual state of forward looking thinking that says “Oh that His day would come and He would save us”. That He needs to still do something for us. Please take some time to process that. You see He already did that. 2 Peter 1.3 says “as His divine power has given us everything that pertains to life and godliness”. What exactly is it you need that you don’t have? Be careful what you answer for you shall have your reward. It is the evil servant who says in his heart; my master delayeth  His coming. What do you say?  
 
Yes, The Kingdom of God is still at hand.

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THE PURPOSE OF THE GOSPEL

Posted on July 13, 2014 by ADMIN

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           The purpose of the Gospel is to enter the Kingdom Now!

 
The Jewish leaders in the time of Christ were chided by Him saying “you are not entering the Kingdom, not only that, you are not allowing those to enter who are trying to do so”. They could enter then as we can now. The kingdom of God is now!

 
The whole purpose and the sole purpose of the gospel is to get people into the Kingdom of God now. To be reconciled now. Not just a saying or a document but an eternal reality. All the work of Christ had no other purpose then reconciliation. “Be ye reconciled” A second coming doesn’t do this, the gospel does, for the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Unto. It takes you all the way there, to the presence of God in Christ. 
 
Well we ask, why then do we look to the second coming? The second coming is not in scripture. He is always coming, appearing and being revealed to the mind of spirit by faith. The culmination of the age is not the actuating of the word of God. Faith is.
Romans 1.16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,[a] for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith 
Faith is the eternal substance that pleases God. The evidence of the things not seen by the carnal nature. That which will be already was, and this too is the placed for the called, the ekklesia, (we translate church). This place which is actually a who, and that who is… the one we know as Jesus Christ. In Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead body, and we are complete “in Him” who is the head of all principalities and power. He governs all in His full Glory now a reining King of kings and Lord of lords, not a future one at a second coming. That is un-faith, the sin of unbelief, denying His eternal attributes and existence. Repent from that foolish mind set and receive the truth.
 
The purpose of this article and every article here is to enter the Kingdom of God and explore His greater reality. The kingdom is at hand now, and this is the eternal gospel, as much so as it was in the beginning. “The kingdom prepared from the foundations of the world.” Mt 25.34 Heb 4.3
 
You see when God rested on the 7th or Sabbath day, He rested from His works. He went back to where He came, the before time and matter of the 6 days of creation that occupies our flesh. And it is in this place we are called to and rest “in Him” the true Sabbath that all others mimic. This is the home for those of faith. Not just a focus once a week or a thing at a second coming. This place is everything that is not created. The only thing that matters is there. Everything else is being shaken. 
 
You see nothing of God can be pin pointed to a place in time for it exists outside of time and is everywhere, being ubiquitous. That is why when the temporary is removed the eternal remains because that is what was there the whole time. This is real, this is a faithful and true witness. This is what is substantial. The substance of non-substance being more durable and enduring than the hardest elements on any planet of all creation.  
 
Hebrews 4.4 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them,[a] not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:

“So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest,’”[b]

although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; [c] 5 and again IN THIS PLACE: “They shall not enter My rest.”[d]  Not a Saturday or a Sunday service, but the true Sabbath but eternity 

6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, (unbelief)

 

So the Sabbath is another name for eternity and is also understood as being “in Christ” for He is our Sabbath. He said come unto Me all who are weary and need rest. This is that. Not something some day in a future time pin pointed on planet earth. That is silly.

 

Revelation 22.10 And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand (NOW not a second coming)

12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, (immediately and consecutively) and My reward is with Me, (the fullness of the Godhead and it’s body) to give to every one according to his work.” Not of flesh but faith right now. If you can believe you can receive right now. Be it according to your faith. 

 

James 5.8-9 “The coming of the Lord is at hand” (immediately and consecutively) “The judge is standing at the door”. 

 

Christ’s coming being “Immanent” was not designed to keep us on good behavior like for parents who want to keep their kids good while they are gone not knowing when the’re coming back be it a day a week a month or a year. He is not gone that He needs to come back. You just need to wake up from the Adamic deep sleep passed on to all humanity having senses that sleep to things of the spirit. Quit believing those eyes and awaken the eyes of your understanding. Be of those who have “eyes to see and ears to hear.” 

 

“Abraham rejoiced to see my day and saw it and was glad.” Do you see it? Do you see Him? Do you see them? Abraham did. And it is this faith that He is a father of.  He believed God not for a second coming but the reality of realities. The before time Kingdom of God. He saw “the Lords day”.  The day others call the second coming.

 

And as Christ spoke to His disciples in Matthew 16. 28 “Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.” This was 2000 years ago, not at a second coming. They saw Him coming in His Kingdom back then. Immediately and consecutively. Do you see this?  “To him who hears, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches”

 

1 Corinthians 2.6  We speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 

9 But as it is written:

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”[c]

10 But God has revealed (by epiphany) them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy[d]Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?”[e] But we have the mind of Christ. 

 

The mind of Christ being before the Word was spoken, where the Word and Spirit originate. This is the place of Gods eternal rest in Himself where we are by being “in Christ” the place of our calling, the purpose of all scripture. To be here. 

 

John 17.24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

 

This being spoken by the one who said “let there be light” and there was. Said these words not in vain. He is the way, the truth and the life. This is the glory that transforms.

 

We are called not to focus on the end like a second coming but…

 

1 John 1.That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life— 2 the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us— 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things we write to you that your[a] joy may be full.

 

Take your eyes off a second coming lest the truth pass you by.

The Kingdom of God is at hand.

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Antiochus Epiphanes And the Appearing of God

Posted on July 12, 2014 by ADMIN

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Antiochus Epiphanes was a historical figure known as the anti-Christ spoken by Daniel the prophet. We learn that his birth name was “Mithradates”. He changed his name when he ascended the throne. He gave himself the name Antiochus Epiphanes, and means “God Manifest”. 
 
Epiphanes comes from the greek word “epiphane” which is where we get the English word “epiphany” which means a manifestation, a striking appearance. Antiochus was in the place of God proclaiming that he was God. That he was God Epiphanes, meaning God manifest. In other words “look at me, I am God” What a pompous remark.
 
What gets me about this is not so much that he made the statement as much as what the word “epiphanes” means itself. If “epiphanes” means “God manifest” and all the world knew he was claiming to be God, why is it in our bible the same Greek word which is translated “appearing” is used in a future tense? I am Antiochus Epiphanes didn’t mean to say “I will be God manifest and I will take my throne in some 2000 plus years?” For he had ascended the throne. His statement was what he thought his current reality was, which was God of the known world. He was not making a promise of his future reality like we now use the word “epiphany”, which from the Greek is translated into “appearing’ with Christ .
 
Epiphane from the Greek broke down is “epi” means a distribution over or upon. A superimposition. And the word “phane” means, to lighten, to shine, to show, to be seen. This is where the biblical words like; appear, appeared, appearing, shine, shining, manifest, manifesting and manifested come from.
 
We understand in English this to be like a light bulb turning on in our head. Isaac Newton had an epiphany when the apple fell on his head. He saw something in his head and had a new understanding. He had a revelation. A revelation not of something new for gravity always was but it was just a new understanding to him.
 
This is the way all revelation works about Christ. It becomes new to us. He is the true Epiphany and manifest God. He said “He who has seen me has seen the Father”. He is a series of consecutive epiphanies, appearances, manifestations and revelations. And what is the purpose of these epiphanies? Till we all come to the knowledge of the son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4.13)In the here and now. 
 
You see so the whole concept of the event of the second coming of Christ to come and do something for us, is really more of a myth. We cancel the promises of God made known by His word to be applied by faith and trade it for an illusion. Not that Christ is not coming, but that He is not coming for what you think, in the way you may think.
 
When He does come and asks you about your stewardship and what did you do with the gifts made available to you by His word? How were you transformed by all things I spoke? Where are you at in becoming a measure to the stature of the fullness of My Son? How are you “putting on Christ” and His truths?
It is un-beleif to think the transformation is future. That at a second coming we will be transformed in a twinkling of an eye.
All transformation happens by way of manifestations of revelations, one after another. Did you see your body die when you were baptized? Well that is what that act proclaimed. Did you see yourself get quickened? To be resurrected into a new life? Well that is what happens when you receive His spirit, and what you vowed at baptism.
Did you or anybody see you get ascended and seated with Christ in the heavens? Well that is what His word says He did. (Ephesians 2.6)
For those who sit in misery just exacerbated and waiting for the day when Christ delivers us from this evil world, is just a sin, the sin of unbelief. You do not believe His word. You deny His word. You reject Him by doing so.
2nd Peter 1.4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Yes, the price was paid the gift was given, salvation was accomplished. This is truth. And you think, “Oh! I thought He was gonna do that when He comes back the second time”? (By the way, the term “second coming” is not in scripture. It is a concept made up by man).
Question for you. Since Christ left His Glory to become a man for a time, having accomplished salvation, and He did, and now we regard Him as human no more (2 Cor 4.16) with what body shall He appear? With what body shall we appear? The body that is sown physical and corruptible to be raised spiritual, our first man like Adam, our new man like Christ a life giving spirit? (1Cor 15) Him whom when we see Him we shall be like Him? Well what does this look like? Well he is spirit and indiscernible to the human eye. If he appears, He appears as He is and He is invisible to the human eye. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom! A rapture of the human body? Really? How silly and un-scriptural. “That which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit. Ye must be born again”. 
He will appear then as He does right now. Spirit and truth. So just take it now by faith. That is what faith is for. It is believing what God says, contrary to the physical findings because “flesh and blood does not inherit the kingdom. But a re-scripted mind if faith taught by the Holy Spirit does. 
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He cometh with the clouds and every eye shall see Him. Ya when their eyeballs melt in their sockets for He comes in a flaming heat dissolving the elements so that only what’s eternal remains. (2 Peter 3.10+) For our God is a consuming fire. (Heb 12.29)
 
The thing is He is now continuously appearing, being manifested and unveiled in the spirit of our mind. This is the epiphanies, that equal the Epiphany. Him who said ” I have many things to say to you however you are not able to bear them” all at once, “however the spirit of truth comes and teaches you all things” that pertain to Him. And this one “will take what is mine and show it to you” as you are able to bear. (John 16.12-15)
This is His body broken for us into bite size pieces for human consumption to feed the mind, soul and spirit, to become the accumulative of all truths that are embodied into the Truth, Jesus Christ not dressed in flesh but something much greater. As you have received from Him, put Him on. Now, not at a second coming. The transformation is now to those who hear what the spirit says. The baptism of putting off the flesh and the putting on the new man is now, not at a second coming. If we remain ignorant of these spiritual truths we are surely in no better shape then the Jews who thought the same thing. They were waiting for the kingdom to appear.
 
Hebrews 2 “Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, 3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? (of a current reality not a future promise, ) 
He is not just a manifestation or a revelation or an epiphany like an event of a second coming but a life style. If we take this back to the old testament we see many appearings, usually in dreams and visions and by the word. He appeared to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob multiple times. Gen 12.7, 17.1,18.1,26.2,35.9, And of Moses Ex 3.16,. And the Glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud and a pillar of fire and in the tabernacle, in Shiloh, and to Solomon 2 times. What about the prophets who were taken “in visions of God”? We can go on and on. Of Paul who was stuck and blinded by a great light. Peter who was instructed to eat meat when the sheet was let down for him. I mean why must we put it all off when He is right here right now in His natural make up and composition with His natural habitat. The transformation, the Exodus and experiencing Him is right now.
 
John 14.21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
 
His Kingdom is at hand as always to the re-spirited mind of faith. Amen!

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Transformed by the face of God.

Posted on July 6, 2014 by ADMIN

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1 John 3 New King James Version (NKJV)

3 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God![a] Therefore the world does not know us,[b] because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure”.

 

Now we are His children, not of a carnal nature which is why “the world does not know us”. For as it neither sees, or knows Him, we being in Him, or “in Christ” are like Him now. This is why the world cannot see us. They see our man but that is not us in Gods eye. “for even the angels in heaven see the face of the Father in these little ones. Carnal man cannot.

 

So when we see Him as He is, we shall be like Him. Well when does this Happen? At the illusive 2nd coming? If the world does not know us as scripture just said, what is this “us” they do not know?. I mean I go to work, I shop and get gas. I have neighbors and friends but “the world does not know us? 

 

That is right. That part of us that is new is like Him and the world cannot see Him and that part of us that is like Him is also unseen by them because we are “a new creation”, and this “new creation” is what we put on when we see Him. And just as the world does not see Him so they cannot become Him, we do see Him, and to the degree that we do see Him, not with carnal eyes, we having eyes to see and ears to hear, these are gifts and components of the “new creation” not being flesh and bone of our Adamic nature. His gift to us is Himself, this is what we become.

 

It is the Adamic nature that wants to see Him in bodily form. The one who was on the cross, they would like to put their fingers in the nail prints, then they will believe for “they think they will see Him as He is, but that is a false Jesus. So you who have that silly notion? This is not for you. For if you say that you see Him and you see that, your sin will remain. Not the sins of the product of your man, but the sin of unbelief. That is the parent sin.

 

1st John 3.  6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins (un-believes) has neither seen Him nor known Him.

 

And we see Him even now in this age as He is but not with our man. He is now in His Glorified true state of eternal existence, the same yesterday, today and forever. He is not of the Adamic nature of the dust of the earth. “For the Lord is not a man that He should relent”. And we see Him how? With our physical eyes? No! This is for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear even us whom the world cannot see. 

 

John 14. And Philip said “Lord show us the father and that will be sufficient for us”. Jesus said ” Have I been with you this long and you still do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father”. 

 

And this is not a physicality like a winged creature or an orb or a visible light. No, much more than that. But we have to stop trying to see Him with our carnal senses. It is the mind of unbelief that needs proof in the world, but scripture says “Whom the world does not know”. So then as Paul prayed in Ephesians 1.18 “that the eyes of your understanding being enlightened”. This is how we know Him and see Him. 

 

So for us to see Him as He is does not take place at some second coming of Christ when the body is dead for if you are “in Him’, that already happened by faith at baptism.

1st John 3.3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

This purification is not a religious edict that creates monks living in monasteries avoiding the things they are afraid of but takes place inside by dealing with traditions and religious garb that clogs our thinking and our ability to “see him (now) as He is. Like the concept of Christ coming a second time to do something for you He hasn’t already done. “For you are complete in Him who is the head of all power and principality. And “He has given us everything that pertains to life and god-likeness through the knowledge of Him who calls us by glory and virtue”. (2nd Peter 1.3) So those who look for Christ to complete His work at an illusive 2nd coming so they can become like Him, are looking for something they already have, or I mean they could have if they did not abide in the sin of un-beleif. Like we read here…

 

John 3.6 Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him.

 

So as we see Him we shall be like Him, we see Him, we know Him, we put Him on. And this is much more than just putting on the armor of God like in Ephesians 6 which cloaks us from the world,, but we put on inner workings of God, His very anatomy, and we are renewed in the spirit, mind, heart and soul. Our invisibleness.

 

And this all takes place where? In front of the mirror.

 

2nd Corinthians 3.18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

You thought I was making this up. It is not at the second coming beyond a supposed rapture that you are transformed. That belief is a form of denying Christ. 

The word “transform” come from the Greek “metamorphosis” and is used twice in scripture. At Christs transfiguration and our transfiguration in the mirror, as we just read. I don’t think the author (God) meant to separate this as being different. Meaning as Christ was transfigured or metamorphosed we too do the same. Where? In the here and now in the mirror of His word by His Spirit, “because as He is so are we in the world” (1st John 4.14) This is for us who believe. We have been quickened and we have been seated. You just need to learn to believe and put it on. This is about those of us whom the “world cannot see”.

 

2nd Corinthians 4.3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. 6 For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

You get that? This face whom no man can see and live can see is seen “In the face of Jesus Christ”. Who said “he who has seen me has seen the Father” Meaning not a man with long hair dressed in a fitted sheet and sandles, but “he who has seen me” sees the invisible working of God” We see His anatomy and His invisible works with “unveiled face beholding (seeing) the Glory of the Lord (as He is) are being transformed from the glory to the glory. We see God in the face of Christ and are transformed into them, God and Christ by the Spirit. We are in Them, They are in us We are one in Them in Glory. This is our transfiguration. Not into a new carnality, but from the Glory to the Glory. And as the disciples said “Lord it is good for us to be here, let us make an altar here for you Moses and Elijah. There are no physical structures here for they all detain.

We turn into what we behold. If Jesus has to finish something for us at a second coming then He is not done. If He is not done, He is not Glorified. If He is not Glorified we cannot share in His glory till He is. If he is not glorified we cannot “behold the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” and there is no transformation apart from the glory that is why it is “from glory to glory” or “from the glory to the Glory, you become glorious through this transformation. If not you are still in your sins. You are blinded by the God of this age who would love to detain you. The transfiguration is in the here and now. We see Him as He truly is. We see Him face to face but not a carnal face. We want to transform from what we were to what He is. As Paul says that we don’t want to be found naked, (like those who wait), but to be further clothed in immortality. To Lay hold of why Christ laid hold of us. Eternal glory.

For we are not seen hiding ourselves with clothes of fabric or cloaked with degrees and diplomas of this age but clothed with the righteousness of Christ. Unlike the Levites who kept the temple, were clothed in a pure white that radiated, only having a form of holiness, we are clothed not in a white of radiance but the clear/ invisible to the carnal eye righteousness of Christ. We are clothed in Him because we see Him as He is only because we are in Him, we see Him as He is because we see from the inside out.

Romans 8.28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. Where are you in this process? Are you waiting for the man Jesus to come and do this for you?

 

The Kingdom of God is at hand.

 

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Repetitious patterns and cycles

Posted on July 6, 2014 by ADMIN

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We mentioned in previous articles that the purpose of the church,  meaning “the called out ones, is the same purpose as the general assemble or festive gathering of the Israelite’s. It is to learn and apply, or put on the truths practiced through the repetitious patterns and cycles, which are designed to bring us to a full knowledge of Christ.. “Till we all reach the full stature of the son of God”

The repetitious patterns and cycles were the acts and the observances that can become redundant and un-profitable, like the Sabbath, the Passover, baptism, and so on. These are the things we do to understand eternal realities. Israel (a people and not a place) did the feasts and all the hoopla that went along with it and lost sight of the fact they were doing those things to learn truths about the Kingdom they were called into. They thought doing those things pleased God but they learned nothing.

They were still waiting for the King man Jesus to come to Jerusalem. They had their own form of eschatology and Christ rejected any notion of being crowned on earth stating “my kingdom is not from here, if it was I would call a band of legions and they would fight.
The whole gospel message is for us to return to the Father, not Him to come here. He already did that so that through His Son. “The hour is coming and now is when you will no longer worship in Jerusalem, for God is spirit and He is truth and He seeks such to worship Him.  Jesus said “follow me that where I am you may be also” And He prayed “that they may be one as You Father are in Me, and I in You, that they may be one in Us”. And  “I am no longer in the world but these are in the world, keep in Your name those whom you have given me that they may be one as we are one”. And “Father, I desire  that they whom you have given Me may be where I am, that they may behold My glory”.
You have to start confessing and believing these truths to realize them. His precious blood didn’t buy us a ticket at a bus stop to depart for a kingdom some 2000 years later. We are not waiting for Him to come and help us, He did that. He has given us everything that pertains to life and godlikeness by these precious promises having already delivered us from the corruption that is in the world. We have been quickened, translated and seated next to Him. And if these words are from the scriptures they are more true than all the earthly facts. Facts and dates are enmity against God. He is not in a time capsule, the old man is. But there are portholes.
 
Our Transfiguration and looking at the face of God in the mirror of the spirit
We all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror are being transfigured into the same full image (unless our mind sees Jesus a mere man) from glory to glory by the spirit of God. He is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who has shone in our hearts to bring to light the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ”.(can you see Him?)” He who has seen Me has seen the father”
This all happens in the here and now. Our transformation is the process of knowing Him, NOW. We see Him as He is and we become like Him, now, TODAY if you will hear His voice. 
 
To put all this off till a second coming stops Him from working in us. We reject His Holy Spirit, our mirror. (Wis of Solomon 7.26 and 2 Cor 3.18) for our old man is dead symbolized by the repetitious pattern of baptism, and when we come up it symbolizes being resurrected now, today, not at some rapture. This is the main teaching in Romans. And if we are raised and a new creation then we have eyes to see and ears to hear. We can see the true light. Not the sun but the light that shines into the heart of every man. The baptisms and Lords supper and the Sabbath  are the repetitious patterns that are designed to take us to the Father as Paul pleaded. “Be ye reconciled!” Are the patterns working at your church?
 
Dressing the part, putting on Christ
 
Having put off the old man by faith,we are to put on Christ by faith. Meaning more than just the armor of God. If we do not accept His gifts and put them on we shall be found naked. But i want to continue being swallowed by immortality as I grow in Him.
Do not wait for a second coming. That is a faithless act. We put on His righteousness like new flesh. His bones are truths. We are bone of His bone, flesh of His flesh, now by faith. His words are Immovable un-shakeable, more solid than granite or any other earthly composition. That is what He is and as We see Him like this we see Him as He is and we become like Him.in the spirit of our mind.You don’t keep the flesh any way  Jn 3.2 beloved now we are the children of God, as He is revealed in the spirit of our mind, we see Him as He is for we shall be like Him. When? When we wake up to these truths. Isaiah 52 Awake, Awake! Put on your strength, put on your beautiful garments, shake yourself from the dust of the earth”. 
These gifts are activated by faith. As you see them, you accept them, you become them. This is the transfiguration, your transfiguration, to see Him as in a mirror seeing “the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, you see God face to face, but not with the carnal eye.
So what is Gods heart about fruitless repetitions we do in His name?
“To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices. I have had enough burnt offerings, Why do you trample my courts? Your new moons and feasts My soul hates. They are trouble to me, I am weary of them”.Isaiah 1.10-15.   They were just repetitious cycles with no transformation.
Israel was judged for not understanding this. If church does not facilitate this they have left their calling. They are not entering nor allowing those who are trying to do so. “In vain they worship Me with their lips but teach my commands as doctrine of men”.
Walking with God, following His voice
Walking by faith is like walking backwards following the voice of God. Abraham went out not knowing where he was going, and this was accounted as faith. (Heb 11.8). When we enter the Kingdom we can only describe where we’ve been. Like a kid looking out the back window of a car ride. Dad knows where He’s going. I can explain them to you but you have to confess these things and start walking backwards. It is easier to wait for a second coming but one has to ignore the voice.
B.T.W. the term second coming is not found once in scripture. I am not saying He is not coming. I am saying He is coming now. In the 1st, 2nd and 3rd watch. And His reward is with Him to give to each according to their faith. Behold I stand at the door and knock. If you sup with Me and eat my flesh and drink my blood you will become like Me. My body was broken down in small portions for you to spiritually digest. My words are spirit and they are life.
When the God spoke, Let there be light, did it take 2000 years? When He said “rise! take up your bed and walk” or “Lazarus come forth” did He not walk, did he not rise immediately?
We have to believe His word or our faith is in vain. Heb 12.25 see then that you do not refuse Him who speaks from heaven, for if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, how much more shall we not escape. Let us not reject such a great salvation. The Exodus is in full swing. The Kingdom of God is preached and men are forcing their way in.
John in the book of Revelation had discourse with an angel He supposed to br Christ. As John started to bow before this one He was stopped by the angel who said “see that you don’t do that, For I am jsut one of your brothers of those who keep the testimony of Jesus Christ”
This one looked like Christ but was not Him but was in all appearances like Christ, but not because of a beard and saddles, but heavenly attire. The question is, How was this one able to put on christ before a so called rapture and second coming? I mean he is totally out of order.
The Kingdom of God is at hand.

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7/20/14 Gods perfect will

Posted on July 2, 2014 by ADMIN

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1st Corinthians 13.12b We know in part and we see in part, but when that which is perfect has come that which is in part will be done away with.  Learn what the perfect is.

 
Rom 12.2 that you may know what Gods good acceptable and perfect will is. And when you know it, you are no longer subject to guardians and tutors of that which is in part. You are no longer held captive to the elements that are bound by days, months , seasons and years. Galatians 3.9-11
 
He who we understand by performing the cycles associated with time and matter, being the Sabbath and all the feasts, have a purpose, and we have a destiny and a goal by serving those tasks. For even the law was given for repetitions to accommodate those who are waking up.
 
The waking up is one of the first effects that one experiences in a spiritual sense. By walking through the cycles that leave an imprint of the one who is invisible, the one who in no other way would be seen or known. It is in this way the cycles are the vehicle for true transformation when you see Christ in them. “Behold I have come in the volume of the book, it is written of Me” You learn to see the one of whom the cycles are about. The law and the prophets reveal the anatomy of God.
 
Ezekiel calls them “wheels within wheels that are dreadfully high”. It is also referred to in the holy writ by Jacob as a “ladder to heaven”. And as much as these men try to describe what they saw, not with human eyes but “the eyes of understanding”, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. They were trying to describe something that is invisible but “like”. However this invisible they experienced was indelibly etched on their soul leaving an imprint or a “likeness” on their hearts and minds.
 
But these things cannot be carnally apprehended for the carnal mind is enmity against God. For the carnal rejects Gods invisible-ness by making Him visible like them. They make God a man like themselves, in their mind.
 
Those of this sort claim to know God but deny His power to save in the here and now. Not just the saving for putting them on ice waiting for the second coming but the power of God unto salvation to all who believe. (Rom 1.17 ) They theorize how the word of God must once again be manifest in the flesh for the second coming of Jesus Christ. They are looking for a distant coming Christ to reign on earth as a man. This is the wrong Jesus.
 
Paul the apostle wrote precisely of this in Romans 1 saying ” although they knew God, (or had the things of God for their knowing) they glorified Him not as God, nor were they thankful. They became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise they became fools, (and their crime) “They changed the glory of an incorruptible (invisible) God into an image of a man. (to be seen physically)
 
Oh what a blunder they have committed. By doing so they reject the truth of God seen in Jesus Christ. Not His human body, for no description of Him was left, but the actions seen by Him. Not knowing this they promote a delusion. By ignoring Gods invisible power and attributes, Him being forever eternal, immortal and invisible in His true nature. They construct the image of a man in the minds of their students of a Jesus with long hair, a beard, a robe and sandals returning to planet earth to save them. What a blasphemous notion condemned even in the 10 commandments. Thou shall not make any graven image in any likeness of anything in heaven. You shall not bow down and worship them. No pictures portraits or drawings. Period.
 
Why was that command given? Because anything that gives the illusion that God is an elemental  creature, blocks the person from receiving the imprint in the mind and soul of the true worshiper, follower and obtain-er of “the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ” who by the correct imprint is their self transfigured into the same full image by the spirit to the Glory. 2 Cor 3.18.
 
Paul was the apostle who was born out of time. The requirements of an apostle is that they had to have seen the Lord. But Paul saw Him not with human eyes but a blinding light that shown from the eternal, and the voice that accompanied it. So having seen God, not with carnal eyes for he was blinded but learned to see Him who is high and lifted up. He saw with the renewed mind something much greater than the eye can see as said in here in 1st Timothy 6.16 of Jesus Christ “who alone has immortality dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see”. At least not with human eyes. 
 
Paul then having been picked by Jesus Christ coming to Him in His eternal Glory, him seeing not a man but the true Christ in His resurrected ascended eternal existence of who He always was, he became qualified to be the 12th disciple, having the heavenly site indelibly etched on the hard drive of his mind, for Paul did not see the man Jesus. And this is what Paul taught, We knew Christ according to the flesh, but hence forth know we Him that way no more” 2 Cor 5.16
Even Peter said that “we made known to you the power and the coming of the Lord”. Meaning a 2nd coming?  No.  But  “we were eye witnesses of His majesty”.  He witnessed what you are looking for in a 2nd coming.
 
So it is not an earthly image of a man that was left for us to know Him, but His word. It is of this that Jesus Christ attested to in John 17 saying “I have manifest your name and your word and they have kept them. Saying ” I am no longer in the world but these are, keep them in your name that they may be one as we are one. Take them not out of the world but keep them from evil. I pray not for just these here but those who are to come (us) that they also may be one in Us. As you Father are in Me and I in You, that they also may be made perfect in one in Us that the world may believe!” (vs 21) 
 
This is a promise spoken to them and to us not of a future event but now! “that the world may know”. The same mouth who said let there be light, and there was light, spoke not these words in vain. Where does a 2000 year interlude enter into any of His words. The kingdom of God is now!  And He goes on to say “Father, I desire that they also whom You have given Me may be with Me where I am , that they may behold My Glory which you have given Me for you have loved Me from the foundations of the world.
To this I say, there is no transformation without seeing His transformation, His Glory, not of a future event but an eternal reality. We are now being transformed into His self same image, perfection, from Glory to Glory. Glory is the power that transforms. If you are stagnant in your faith, receive His words that where He is you may be now! If you believe that His Glory is future, you are missing out of the gift of God “In Christ” Which is to be with Him where He is beholding His Glory.
 
You see Jesus Christ brought the Kingdom with Him from the beginning. For He is the Kingdom. He said these words. “The Kingdom of God is at hand”. Then He spent the rest of His time on planet earth showing that, defining that, showing away for us to escape and be one in Him with Him and the Father in the Spirit.
Follow Me that where I am you may be also. That is… to be In Christ. John 17.7 all things are given to the Son, past present and future. All eternal things are In Christ and the eternal things are not subject to time and events. 
The message saying “The Kingdom of God is at hand” was never retracted as though it left to come a  2nd time in the flesh. Were not the Jews expecting a visible Kingdom?  What was their demise?
 
1st John 5.20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.  (this is the Kingdom)

21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

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God as neighbor

Posted on May 27, 2014 by ADMIN

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God in times past spoke to the fathers by the law and the prophets in fragments through a series of condemnations, judgement, mourning’s, and woes, followed by a promise of renewal. This renewal was never meant to be part of the creation of time and matter but a metamorphosis into something else. It was described in terms mankind would understand as being a kingdom but never meant that the kingdom would be in a physical sense. 

Man thinks of a kingdom in terms of physical components having a capitol city with walls structures and buildings and having a governing body and, from old time terms, a king and a queen with a hierarchy and an army. What about Gods kingdom?
The old testament prophets were taken in visions by seeing “something like” then he would describe this vision in terms the people would understand, like with Ezekiel 40.2 He was taken in visions OF GOD (about God). And he saw, but not with human eyes, “something like the structure of a city” when He saw visions, or likenesses OF GOD. He then explained it in terms the people would understand, words they commonly used like that of a building but not a building but like a building. He distinguished His city as being Holy by saying “This is the place of my throne, where I dwell” and tell them “when they set their threshold by my threshold and their door posts by my door post they defile My Holy Name”,
They profaned God and His kingdom by thinking He was just like them of the earth. They misunderstood Him and thought He was just a guy in the neighborhood a few doors down. This is an abomination to make trite, or common, the things OF GOD. 
The words from the prophet describing eternal realities were interpretated by the people as none other than of earthly composition. The call from eternity was neutralized by the carnal mind. God is not a man, man is made in His image, just a likeness. Man is of earthen dust, the buildings were earthen. This is a far cry from being a Holy God in His Holy city of a heavenly composition. Ezekiel saw a vision OF GOD, of the City from God, not creation being as eternal and pre-existent as God, being components of God Himself.
We need a renewed mind in the things OF GOD (about God). The new testament term is seen in the “transfiguration”. As Jesus was transfigured in view of the disciples so similarly are we transfigured “by His spirit into the same full image from the Glory to the Glory”. And this is an important point. There is no transformation in hoping for an earthly city to be made  for the man Jesus. That is a carnal fascination with zero spiritual value. Redemption is to take us to God, not to bring Him here. He already was and still is just not the way you might understand. We need to “be renewed in the spirit of the mind”, the inner man to the things OF GOD. 
 
What the law and the prophets lacked in presenting Gods Kingdom in things “like” those made according to the pattern in Sinai or Horeb in tents, or even Solomon’s temple of fabulous stones, these were expired when God sent His Son and now Gods Son has spoken and said these words. “He who has seen me has seen the father”. There is no need to resurrect the old pictures and patterns or city because the voice from heaven said “This is my beloved Son, Him you will hear!”
So since Jesus said “if you have seen  Me you have seen the Father”, then does the Father have long hair, a glowing robe and a beard holding a radiating heart as depicted all over the world as the man Jesus? Once again that is the carnal mind trying to bring the Lord down from His Throne to appease the carnal nature. They want to make visible the invisible. They too think God is just a neighbor, like one of us. “When you put your doorway by my doorway you defile my Holy Name”. They think He has a mailbox?
 
However true it is that the ones who see Jesus see the Father, He showed us the Fathers true nature, not of manly features to the human eye but by word and deed with invisible attributes. His visage is not for the human eye, and it is not a man named Jesus who comes down to rule the planet in a man made structure that has a zip code in Israel. That ‘s silly. God has shown that He can manifest Himself to us any time and way He would like to, even through a talking donkey but that is not the point or the objective. The objective and purpose of salvation is to redeem a people to Himself. He became small for us to become big, not for Him to become the created, for he already did that . He did that  for us to be renewed, to be transformed. And His Son is the full and final revelation for how can a building or any other created thing be God? They couldn’t and they didn’t so God sent His Son “For the time now is when you will no longer worship in Sameria or Jerusalem or any where but spirit and truth and this is spirit and truth. It is for the invisible God to have your invisible interactive soul to Himself. 
 
As Peter said”receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your soul. This is Gods prize from us and where His prize dwells in us. The body will return to dust as promised but it cannot add or take away what God is doing, for flesh and blood does not inherit the kingdom. Nor can any physical eye see it. (1st Timothy 6.16 + Exodus 33.20) It comes not with observation but it is seen with the eyes of understanding. Eye has not seen nor ear heard, but they have been revealed by the spirit, even the deep things of (about) God. Yes those in His farthest reaches. Wow!
Think of it like this. If I had told you I went  to the house I was raised in and found a box of pictures in the attic, you would think of pictures maybe of my grandparents with an old car, maybe relatives from the old country. But if I then proceeded to show you some children’s building blocks with the alphabet, colored and having images of animals on various sides, you would think I was loopy. What do baby toys have to do with heirloom pictures?
 Similarly  it is written of in Ezekiel 40.2 that he was taken in visions OF GOD, then he talks of “something like the structure of a city” that the carnal mind goes to Israel on planet earth. Excuse me but didn’t the verse say visions OF GOD?  The Lord say’s that His ways were higher than our ways? I mean what does modern day Jerusalem or any day Jerusalem have to do with visions OF GOD? The likeness of a city? It is not a city but an aspect of God and a person of the Godhead 
So when Ezekiel saw visions of and OF GOD who is in heaven. The place before time. This place that is from God is in God. This place God rested from His works and calls us to himself.  In a place that was before anything was made. The things that exist there are only things that can be described as existing before creation. These things being eternal and in contrast to the things created being there before the word was said, this is (about)God, this is God, all of it, all things of God that are with God are God. These things are different aspects and characteristics of the nature of God being the components and inside workings of God being presented as His Kingdom.
Are we not receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken? That the shakable will be removed so that the eternal will remain? That our inheritance that is undefilable is reserved in Christ? The place where after all is burned up righteousness dwells? Well we have that now for those who have eyes to see. God is the only thing Eternal and everything that is eternal is an aspect of Him and this is His gift to us. So when Jesus said that the kingdom of God is at hand, this is that kingdom. “He comes and His reward is with Him” for it is Him. All things eternal are not of this world but existed before it. These are “In Him”, “in Christ”
After Jacob wrestled with the angel of God he said that he saw God “face to face”. He wasn’t talking about seeing with his physical eyes, for that is impossible for no man shall see Him and live, but Jacob did in fact see Him, with the eyes of his understanding. In the spirit. So too with Isaiah, he saw the Lord high and lifted up and the train of His robe filled the temple. And what about Moses? When the Lord was explaining the difference between the prophets and Moses He said the prophets would see him in visions but Moses would speak with him face to face.  Paul at his conversion he saw a light brighter than the sun. This is the light that shines in the heart of every man. Not humanly visible. Wow, if this could happen to each one of us! To have the eternal light from God Himself indelibly scorch His image on our hidden person, and this is what He does, this is called the “new name” but it is not new in that it was not before, it is just never fading but reserved in eternal glory. For whom He foreknew He predestined to be conformed, transformed into the image of His Son, these He called, He justified and He glorified, and this is not something that is actuated not at some second coming some 2000 years later in a distant point in time having a star date and a zip code. That is silly. You cannot pinpoint God in time or matter or any created thing. The eternal God cannot truly be a created. He would present a false self and that is not the truth.
From Jacob to Isaiah, Moses, Paul and all who knew God did so not with human reasoning attached to human senses. They all saw Glorious things of God, from God, about God and explained them from words and concepts common to their day.  “He spoke to them in parables and without a parable spake He not to them” Now He has spoken to us through His Son who said he who has seen Me has seen the Father. Thomas says “show us the Father” and this is what the carnal mind does, but Christ said “have you not been with me this long and have you not known Me?” And yet we formulate a series of events to take place to bring down to earth Him who always was and is and is to be non matter, non time dimensional. This is not knowing God and to do this too many times is actually rejecting God.
So simply put. The spoken things are things that are created to be un-created, and the things that were already are things eternal that cannot be un-created. This is His gift to all who follow Him. Now see if this verse from II Corinthians has new meaning.

17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

18 And all (new)things are OF GOD (from God, about God), who hath reconciled us to himself (not Him to the earth) by Jesus Christ, (to be in Christ where all things eternal are) and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; This is the eternal gospel message

So for those who believe this there is and exchange program. The visible for the invisible. Put these on.
The kingdom of God is at hand.

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See that you do not refuse Him who speaks from heaven”

Posted on May 20, 2014 by ADMIN

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See that you do not refuse Him who speaks from heaven”

He who calls us to His eternal glory through Jesus Christ”
 
This is the place of our calling. We should not be waiting for a kingdom to come but accept the invitation to ascend to the voice now. To “lay aside every weight and sin that snares us and “run the race with endurance. Run where? to the voice. To Him who calls
Scripture lays out the concept of becoming new. We exchange the old for the new now, and we do this by faith. We put off maliciousness, selfishness, anger and hate then we put on the polar opposites. The things we put off are associated with the Adamic nature. We become new.
This is one of the things Christ showed us by Him coming as a man. That this work takes place in our human body. “As He is so are we in the world”. We do not need to leave this world to get on with our eternal life and this takes place by accepting the gift and learn to appropriate that now, to put it on. “As you have received Him, walk in Him”.
It would be a fallacy for the scriptures to say we are new if it were not true, but it says  “Be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind”.  If we can do this our thinking shifts it’s focus off future events and hopes of the next work of God. Future thinking plugs our spiritual ears from hearing “Him who speeks from heaven”. Future thinking comes from not understanding our calling, To Him who speaks from heaven” who “calls us to His eternal glory”. He did not put us in limbo waiting for His next move. His work “comes not with observation”  Christ said “The father has been working and I have been working” This kind of work has nothing to do with time and matter, the old creation for that was finished the 6th day, but the work is “to bring many sons (offspring) to glory.
For the most part all those who seek the kingdom of God want the same thing. And what does scripture say about those who seek this? Romans 11.7-8 “What then Israel did not obtain what it seeks? But the elect have obtained it and the rest were hardened, Just as it is written “God has given them the spirit of stupor, eyes not to see, ears not to hear to this very day”.
Well we ask obtain what? The object of our faith. As then, so also now. The visible church for the most part is hardened with the spirit of stupor and focused on a future work of God to be seen with human eyes, but God finished His work in creating time and matter from the 6 days of  creation. He then completed the work of salvation at the cross. The only work now teaching this salvation by His spirit. This is an invisible work and the reason He says “an evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign”. A visible work. Even back then “No sign shall be given but Jonah”. So too now the sign given is His word. Heb 1 “God has spoken through His Son” All things being accomplished to not need to be redone over and over. Man does that not God
To understand this correctly we are not re-created into a new thing that has not been before but more accurately we are being un-created in the sense that by faith we put off all things from the 6 days of creation and we put on the new man who is created in the same image as He who made us. We put on what already was, we put on Christ and grow in His attributes and share the Glory that never fades. The Glory that is always at it’s peak of brightness that is with Him who never changes or gets old, but always new. This is the new creation.
Blessings

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**THE NEW CREATION MYSTERY EXPLAINED PART 1

Posted on February 9, 2014 by ADMIN

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THE NEW CREATION MYSTERY EXPLAINED PART 1

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God created man in His image; male and female. God chose to display His hidden attributes in the male and female as they came together. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his bride.

We know from the creation account that God spoke. When God spoke His Word came forth. When God spoke His Breath/Spirit came forth. The Father, being the source, then the Son and Spirit. The Spirit brooded over the face of the waters. Not that one was lessor or greater than the other, but different in purpose, being equally God with all the attributes, displaying complimentary characteristics.

It was said of Christ that He declared the Father. He said, “If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father.” It was necessary that Christ was also the fullness of the Father, His completeness, as scripture says, and that if He was the fullness of the Father, He had to be male and female.

For Christ to appropriately display the fullness of God, and He did, for in Him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead, He had to display the same attributes as the Father before it was said He made male and female to display His likeness, before this split.

How did Christ on earth do this? The first creation started with the Word and the Spirit leaving the mouth of God, and they split as they departed. The Word creates, the Spirit incubates. This is what happens inside us when we receive them; the Word and Spirit. The new creation we become occurs when the Word and the Spirit become one again. We can catch a glimpse of this phenomenon in  other unions or marriages. We call this the procreation of a species. The two becoming one and begetting according to their own likeness, be it a mammal or a fish or a reptile. You get the picture.

In heavenly terms, this is what is referred to as the Wedding banquet that we are invited to. It is the coming together to be one in the Holy Word and the Holy Spirit, the true union. This has to take place before there are any offspring. This is the union that takes place in the heart of believers when they accept Christ and The Holy Spirit.

How and when did Christ on earth display the Father in both male and female? It was at His baptism that Christ received the Holy Spirit, thereby fulfilling all righteousness. It was at that time the Father said this is my beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-3-17/ God the Father could only be pleased if the Son were a true chip off the ol’ block, correctly displaying who He was from before the beginning, before His Word and Spirit went forth.

The first creation started with the split. God divided light and dark. earth and sky, land from water, etc. But more importantly, when the Word and the Spirit come back together, being united, or wed, or married, this was the union of the new creation. God Says, For my Word will not return to me void but shall accomplish all that I desire https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/search.php?.  What is it that God desires? That we shall go out (birthed) with joy, and be led forth with peace. We are those born of that union, the union of the Word and Spirit, reunited to procreate true images of that union born in His likeness, in His fullness. We receive the engrafted Word, and are begotten by the Word of truth to be a kind (kind begets kind) of first fruits of His creation. Male and female made He them in His likeness. From the book of John, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the Spirit is spirit, you must be born again.” This is pretty radical if you can grasp what we are saying.

So back to Christ’s baptism for a fuller explanation. The Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove and remained upon Him. The Spirit was given to the Son without measure. They received of each other’s fullness.

John the Baptizer knew this, and knew this was his purpose. “Make straight paths the way of the Lord” he said.

John the Baptist did not know Him but was told, “Upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon, THIS IS HE!  I have seen and testify that truly this is the Son of God.”

But it doesn’t stop here. John made an even more radical remark when his disciples were asking about this Christ man. They asked, “Who is He whom you testified of back at the Jordan?” John then replied in present tense. Meaning then! Not later. He said, “He who Has the Bride is the Bridegroom, but the friend [John meaning himself] of the Bridegroom, who stands and hears Him, rejoices greatly because of the Bridegrooms voice.” That is why this joy of mine is full. And from the Greek, THEY must increase but I must decrease, THEY who come from above are above all. That is the two in one, the Word and the Spirit. As Christ said to Nicodemus “WE speak what WE know and testify what WE have see and you do not receive OUR testimony”. How about you?

If you are still here, without any further adieu, may we introduce to you “The Bride and Groom. The Word and the Spirit. For John did not talk about THEM as engaged, or as though THEY would be married on a future date, or the soon to be or THEY would have been called fiance. He said “He who has the Bride is the Bridegroom”. This is an introduction only for the newly weds and completely in-appropriate for the un-wed couple. Stay with us for there is more.

The baptism of Christ was necessary “to fulfill all righteousness”. To accomplish the full task and purpose of the Son on earth. To Accomplish all! For the Word and the Spirit to come together to have offspring. That is those born of Word and Spirit. Which is us! If you believe. And if this is not the truth, and the wedding has not taken place, then those who claim to be born again are born out of wed lock. Then we would all be born from pre-marriage fornication, we would be bastards.

If you are waiting to see a future wedding, you are walking by sight using the reason of your carnal mind as it relates to the physical senses. For “He is the God who calls things that do not exist as though they do”, because they really do where it counts. In Spirit and truth. This is a message for those who are “called out”, which comes from the Greek word Eklisia, the word translated Church. The “called out” of the world. To be be called into. And the into is “In Christ”. This mystery and many more are “in Him”. Which is where “all the hidden treasures of God are”. Be it a mystery or a revelation, be it the Spirit or the body.

None of these are realities to the human senses. Kind begets kind and kind associates with kind and ye must be born of the spirit to associate with us.

If you have stayed with us this far you are of this kind. If this is the first time you have seen and accepted this the Bride and the Bridegroom, Welcome home.

We will explore this new creation in greater depth. What is the new creation? For those who believe, it is you, it is Him, it is us, it is Them. This is how we put Them on. It Is now, He is now, the Kingdom of God is at hand! The King, the Queen, the City, and His government. If this was not true you would have a King without a kingdom. And what is a King without a kingdom? What is a judge without a court? What is a husband without a wife? He is or He isn’t. Check mate. The true King is always standing.

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**GODS UBIQUITOUS KINGDOM

Posted on January 26, 2014 by ADMIN

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Ubiquitous meaning, existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly. In other words every where, all the time, forever.

This is how I explain the Kingdom of God and Christ, also being heaven. This place cannot be defined as a single place and this place is not related to time. It is a timeless truth, hence, eternal. Meaning eternity past and eternity future. We usually think that eternity means from now forward but that is not true. To be eternal is to be timeless. Either God is or He isn’t. We know Him as alpha and omega, beginning and end and this doesn’t do justice to what eternal means either because it points to a start and an end. The truth is time has a start and an end but eternity does not.
Same way with the attributes and characteristics of God broke down for our understanding as seen in the law and the prophets, then seen more clearly in Christ in a human body, which is the mystery of God, the infinite, becoming a digit, a singularity, a man.
But this break down of the nature of God was for us to grow in an understanding of God. God never changed in who He was for that is impossible, but through the word we understand different attributes of God. So we can see Christ as the lamb of God and we can see Him as Son of God and many other aspects, but He is all these things simultaneously.God did not become anything or He was not God. Christ was made man for a little while so that He by the grace of God ,would taste death for every man. He laid aside His deity for this purpose, but He never un-became anything, and He never becomes anything. Hebrews 13.8 Christ the same yesterday today and forever.
Knowing God this way we can say of His eternal gift to us, that it is of His same nature and character that He is, or it isn’t really eternal. His reward is with Him. He is the reward or His gift would have a start and an end. Now this is hard for our brain to apply this principle when reading His word. We like to bring it down here and put perimeters on it, a beginning a timeline and an end.
There are two aspects of creation that define it. The beginning and the end. All of the ubiquitous aspects of God are not of the 6 day creation. They are pre-existent. The 6 day creation can only dimly describe it. But this is what we do. We lay the feast’s out and wait for them to happen. We do this with end time views too. We see on a timeline and think God is subject to that, and He is but not as it relates to time. Some people are under Gods judgment and others confess and are saved, while yet another receives His spirit and another receives the kingdom, but because these are eternal aspects of God, each person understands in his, or her own order. (1 Cor 15).
So Christ came in the flesh to redeem mankind, but there are those who were redeemed before Christ came, showing the timelessness of His gift being the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. As Abraham saw “The Lords Day” and was glad, before it happened in time. And John on the Island of Patmos was in the spirit on the Lords day before the end of the world. Christ died and was resurrected but He was the “resurrection and the life” before He died or Lazarus could not have been resurrected. Or what about the angel John went to worship, who was of those who “keep the testimony of Christ”? How does that fit our human timeline? That person had a glorified body.
Paul referring to Isaac and Ishmael said that the flesh has always persecuted those born of the spirit, meaning them way before Christ came, but in our timely, carnal thinking no one was born of the spirit until after Christ was on earth, putting God on a time frame. And teaching that no one received the Holy Spirit until the time of Pentecost, but Joshua and David and Daniel as others already had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, for in their mind Christ was the already Glorified King. John 7.39 for the spirit was not given for Christ was not yet glorified, pointing to a revelation. You can’t prove this anyway, except with scripture.
Here is the truth of the matter. Yes Christ has to be Glorified in ones mind to receive His spirit but that relates to a sequence of revelations, if you are able to accept it, not a day a month and a year. Like when the disciples asked why the prophets say Elijah must come. He has come if you are able to receive it. Are you? We all have the same stages in our walk with Christ, but because one person knows Him only as having died on the cross does not mean that another cannot know him as being seated with Him.
Here then is the error of time dispensational thinking. It makes it easy for the carnal mind to think that God became, or is becoming and must still do in this age. Leaving people looking for another move by Christ or to come later and be King another day, he has always been a king. But the Holy Spirit has repeated throughout time that “Today is the day” “in an acceptable time I have heard, I have helped” and “now is the acceptable time”. He was born King and never denied He was a king. This thinking puts people in a holding pattern in their relationship with Christ, making the eternal God a subject of His own creation, bound by time. Yes He is revealed through a sequence but of revelations not time. From Hebrews 4 “And in this 7th day they shall not enter His rest, although the works were finished from the foundations of the world”. It is the revelation that takes us closer to God, it is not as the event seen happen, for if it is seen it is not of faith. As with Isaiah, in the year that king Uzziah died he saw the Lord high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Many are still looking for this to happen in time as a 2nd coming.
We can take the same principle of “Ubiquitous” and apply it to the gift of eternal life, and us being joint heirs with Christ. God is, or He isn’t. The gift is or it isn’t. It is Him or it is not eternal. If it is locked into space and time it is not of Him.
When a species is born it is identified by it’s features, A fish by it’s fins, a bird by it’s wings. A human has specific features, a head, arms, legs, and a torso, having fingers and toes. After it is born it doesn’t grow new arms or add toes. As with us, we “are complete in Him who is the head of all principality and power”. And “now we are the children of God”. We each, individually as born again believers have His Fullness.
The point I would like to make is that as His offspring we are now becoming only in understanding not in nature. Meaning, we are or we are not. Now that we bear His image in the spirit, being born again, we put on this new man. That we grow in understanding and applying our new nature, the transformation of our understanding in the inward man being renewed day by day as or outward man perishes, but we have already been birthed or we are not born again.
So we ask, Whats the difference between growing and becoming. Well becoming indicates that He is not yet or we are not yet, that we are partial and limits our ability to understand and receive. But we are complete in Him who is the head of all principality and power. Of his fullness we have all received  And He has given us everything that pertains to life and Godliness through the knowledge of Him who calls us to glory. The work He is doing now is awakening us to this in the spirit, to these realities. As Paul says, I press on to lay a hold of that for which Christ laid hold of me
If we believe we are not yet and that Christ also must become, both being progressive in nature, we take the power out of our conversion and are enticed to lay things out in a time dispensational manner thereby distancing ourselves from some of the promises of God and God himself which is the very nature of our inheritance. . To wait for the work of God to happen like in a 2nd coming for our carnal senses of site hearing, taste and touch, to believe it? This is the very enmity of God by the carnal mind to subject God and His timeless eternal gift to the “time sensitive” created realm by which carnal man is uncapsulated in, not God, and not the new man. Hence “the kingdom of God does not come with observation.
As scripture says “as He is so are we in the world” and “we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the glory and the excellency may be of God”.
An invitation went out from the beginning of creation to enter the rest of God. This can not happen in a dispensational brain for it tell us it is later, being subject to the laws and nature of this creation we need to see it physically. This is the snare of eschatology. But we are a new creation, a timeless one,, a Ubiquitous one.
I challenge you at this point to think about what the Holy Spirit has shown you by revelation the things that are yours now by faith. If we are “seated with him in heavenly places”, what does that mean? To accept the cross and resurrection is really just the basics from baptism. Can we see past the cross? Let us go on to maturity not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works of faith of baptisms, laying on of hands and resurrection from the dead. Resurrection is a foundation doctrine, it is the milk of the word.
John 3.8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
So if we are waiting for another work of Christ, be it a “latter rain”, the “manifest sons”, a “rapture” a tribulation a resurrection or whatever, we make null some promises of God and put ourselves in “unfaith”, “unbelief”.
The old testament picture was to go up to Jerusalem. This should be our current focus in the faith. Colosians 3.1, if you are then raised with Christ seeks the things that are above. And I will add, seek not the things on earth regarding the faith.
Blessings.

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