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Godliness means God-like-ness

Posted on October 8, 2014 by ADMIN

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Godliness means god-like-ness. The scriptures instructs us for godliness. This is putting Christ on. It is by our relationship with Him now that as we see Him and learn from Him it is like Him we become. It is from the power and the work of the cross in our lives that changes us and we become more godlike. 

 
2 Timothy 3. says that “in the last days perilous times will come.” and that the people of the last times would “have a form of god-like-ness but deny the power of it. from such turn away”. These are those who suppose god-like-ness to be something they get when they see Jesus at a 2nd coming, but it is “He who is immortal, invisible, only wise God” who displays Himself to us now in His true nature, broken down in His various invisible attributes for our understanding and for our consumption. This is our bread of life that what we eat (spiritually) we become that comes down from heaven. We see him now by this and put Him on by faith and become more and more like Him. This is our transformation in the here and now. This is what the gospel is all about. This is the purpose of our sojourning here.
  
2 Peter says that “His divine nature has given us everything that pertains to life and god-like-ness through the knowledge of Him who has called us to glory and virtue” now. That “through these promises we are partakers of the divine glory having escaped the corruption that is in the world”. This he writes of our current reality for those “in Christ”.
 
But it is the predominant gospel of the 21st century that teaches of a new creation in the future at the return of Jesus Christ for a transformation for us to be god-like. That message denies true god-like-ness which is now a fruit of the finished product of the work of Christ and the cross now in or lives. They succumb to the senses of their humanity and think, surely this is not now but to be seen later, but even Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5 that “that if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation. Old things have passed away, all things become new”. This is the gospel. The truth. The good news.
 
The gospel of another day for god-like-ness denies the power of the Christ of the cross and supposes another day of a future resurrection as the power of God of a 2nd  coming. This is another gospel and another Jesus and unfortunately the popular Jesus of our day, having a form of -like-ness but denying the power thereof”. But “Today is the day”. 
 
This is where we are in our time spoken by Paul in 1 Timothy 3.13 “Evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse deceiving and being deceived”. And they have and they are. Godliness is a cliche, a pious act, a collection of religious duties. An exchange of truth for a lie. It is our carnal man that just loves the idea of a carnal Jesus to come to earth and save us then rule mankind as a man, and this will simply not do. You will have this man the son of  perdition sitting in a place called the temple of god proclaiming to be god. But you are the temple of God if His spirit dwells in you. Who is sitting on your throne? The Jesus of a second coming? Or the Christ of the cross?
 
Do you believe the Christ of the cross has the power to save you and transform you now? Or are you waiting for the Jesus of another day at a future coming has to come save you? Do we put on Christ now? Or at a 2nd coming? Is your Jesus now in His original state  being immortal and invisible? Or is your Jesus to be seen as a man to rule planet earth at some point in time?
 
Putting on Christ has never meant to be a physical thing. If it did then when Jesus said “He who has seen me has seen the Father” Then we would be able to fix our hair up like His and wear a robe and sandals, but it was Him who said “Tear this temple down and I will rebuild it in 3 days. They thought He meant the physical temple. Do you? He came in the flesh to reveal the invisible and will not become something of time and matter for He is the same yesterday, today and forever. The creator does not become the created. 
 
This is the condemnation of those Paul wrote of in Romans 1.23 That they traded the truth for a lie “and changed the Glory of the incorruptible God into the image of a corruptible man. That is the portrayal of the 2nd coming Jesus man to save you later denies Him who now saves, but; “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord”. And He did, He came.  And He is still saving and transforming today.
 
It is now that we become more and more god-like. This is true godliness and the continual work of Christ in our lives. The second coming doctrines, and they are many, are just illusions and distortions to keep you distracted. So yes, as Christ first stated “the kingdom of God is at hand.” And it still is. Why wait for another?

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1st or 2nd coming Jesus?

Posted on October 8, 2014 by ADMIN

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Jesus Christ is no longer wrestling with sin or fighting against Satan. He is not strategizing or dispatching heavenly angels in a battle. He is seated waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool.

The cross was so absolutely crushing and defeating to all His enemies, foes and obstacles that He is now seated with the Father. It is He who blazed for us a path into the presence of the Father His enemies now are not Satan, sin or principalities for they were obliterated at the cross. (Hebrews 2.14) The only obstacle now is unbelief. People do not believe the gospel.

Christ said at the cross “it is finished” and it is. He saved, secured, and redeemed us. He delivered us from this wicked world and translated us into the Kingdom of His Son and has fully reconciled us to Himself through faith in Christ. And it is finished at the cross not left for a 2nd coming Jesus to do this. He is not coming back to wage a battle. He is already victorious or He could not be seated in all power and Glory.

There are 2 distinctly different Christ’s. The one who saves through the cross or the one who saves at a 2nd coming. One of these Christ’s is an impostor. If Jesus has yet an enemy to be defeated He is not victor and not glorified or seated.

The enemies of Christ now are doubts fears and unbelief of the carnal mind which is why the holy spirit was sent to; 
 
John 16.8-10 “convict those in the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. Of sin because they do not believe in Me. Of righteousness because I go to the Father and you see Me no more. Of judgment because the ruler of this world is (already) judged. 
 
You become transformed by the renewing of your mind by these truths in scripture, as you accept Gods word at face value and apply it by faith as being spiritual facts, that you believe these, that you receive the gospel, the good news that you receive your place “In Christ”  
 
The same one who spoke the creation we experience now into existence in 6 days said words in the gospel to bring us into His presence as soon as you believe and receive the invitation. He who said “let there be light” and immediately there was light, also said something else more permanent. And it just is, because He said it. Jesus Christ is the word of God and another creation other than the one you have been common with.
 
We all identify with the 1st physical creation by a physical birth. It is by rebirth in Christ that you experience the new creation. Which is not new for it always was it is only new to you but it never fades or gets old for it is eternal.  And we experience this because of Christs work here on earth from the cross. It is not a product of a 2nd coming. And you do this by faith. Having faith “In Christ” puts you “In Christ” by spiritual birth. Faith is the invisible action which gives you access into the invisible creation.
 
So at Christs final coming when the mystery is complete and this old creation has served it’s purpose in raising up offspring of God to the fullness and stature of Jesus Christ (Ephesians 4..) then time will cease (Rev 10.6), matter will be removed (Heb 12.28) elements of this age will dissolve (2 Peter 3..) So it can be said “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 still. And he who is holy let him be holy still. (Rev 22.11)  What you have become here is what you always will be. What you have chosen and believed or disbelieved will be manifest. The gospel will expire, the invitation will be retracted and the age of transformation will be over. You are what you are and those who have not believed the gospel, those who have not judged themselves and passed from judgment to life through the gospel, those left who have not entered the “Kingdom at hand” by associating with Christs death and resurrection, will have to stand alone to be judged.
 
When what is now invisible is manifest, faith will be no more, for it will be undeniable. There will be no more reward for faith, because faith is not necessary, for all will see. And transformation will cease. The age for each to follow Christ and go through our own transfiguration will be over. For it is now in this age of faith and grace that “we all with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the Glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same full image from the glory to the glory, by the spirit of the Lord. (2 Corinthians 3.18)  This speaks not of a 2nd coming but in the here and now by the power that was displayed from the cross when Christ Jesus was elevated far above all powers and principalities, all enemies having been subjected to Him back then. Not a 2nd coming.
 
For to what you have attained in your sojourning here on earth, what you have received by faith will be your manifest reward. Like Daniel wrote 12.3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like
the stars forever”. 
 
2 Peter 3.10-13 talks about this final day when the Lord that comes as a thief and wraps up this age, when this creation clashes with eternity “in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will burn with a fervent heat, both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up”  And if the earth and the works are burned up it is for the eternal unchangeable to remain. You cannot change then. But here you can through the gospel message salvation from the Christ of the cross.
The 2nd or last coming Jesus doesn’t offer grace and transformation to get you there which is why 2 Peter also says 3.14 Therefor brethren looking forward to these things be diligent to be found by Him in peace without spot and blameless. Why? Because “all things will be manifest for the day will declare it”.
 
So now is your time of transfiguration/transformation by the message of the cross that produces faith “In Christ”. A 2nd coming as a physical event cannot bring spiritual transformation, faith does. When the end of time and matter come, it will be a fact and not faith, and it is only by faith that we please God and our faith is why He rewards us. (Heb 11.6)
 
If you understand this message then you can see the danger and the peril for trading in the Christ of the cross for a 2nd coming Jesus to save you. These two are contrary to one another. The concept of a 2nd coming Jesus becoming a physical fact for humanity to see to believe Him, that they will see Him and be transformed, are ignoring Him who does that now. That concept spits in the face of Jesus on the cross and disrespects those who have believed Him throughout the ages.  You will see and believe? It is those who believe without seeing that are blessed with this.
 
It is second coming seekers who need to repent and believe Him who is from the beginning. Trade in him who is coming later to save you for Him who stands at the door and knocks now (Rev 3.20)  For if it is (a wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign” then the second coming seeker message is the mother of all harlots. All the denominations that speak of another day for their Jesus to save them and transform them, deny the work of Christ at the cross who said “It is finished”. That is a message if possible to deceive the elect.
 
They know Him not by faith, but need facts. And with our transformation being a work of His spirit in this age by faith in the Christ of the cross, the enemy is anything that keeps us from our transformation now. Ephesians 4..to no longer be children tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive but speaking the truth in love, growing up in all things into Him who is the head. Till we all come to the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure and stature of the fullness of Christ.” in the here and now. “Today if you hear His voice!” 
So where do you get from these verses that a 2nd coming has anything to do with Gods work in you now and your purpose for being here? Put on Christ now so you will not be found naked and ashamed. 
However fascinating end time speculations may be, when is the rapture? How many resurrections are there? Are they building the temple yet? When will they start the sacrifices? Are they ready to set the cornerstone? These are all blind denials of what Jesus already did. And if you the reject what he already did then you reject the gift and count yourself unworthy. You make yourself an enemy of Christ. Especially if you are spewing this nonsense. You are making your converts twice the sons of hell as yourself. You are anti-christ  
 
Jesus Christ is no longer wrestling with sin or fighting against Satan. He is not strategizing or dispatching heavenly angels in a battle. He is seated waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool. The cross was so absolutely crushing and defeating to all His enemies, foes and obstacles that He is now seated with the Father. It is He who blazed for us a path into the presence of the Father His enemies now are not Satan, sin or principalities for they were obliterated at the cross. (Hebrews 2.14) The only obstacle now is unbelief. People do not believe the gospel. Christ said at the cross “it is finished” and it is. He saved, secured, and redeemed us. He delivered us from this wicked world and translated us into the Kingdom of His Son and has fully reconciled us to Himself through Christ. And it is finished at the cross not left for a 2nd coming Jesus to do this. He is not coming back to wage a battle. He is already victorious or He could not be seated in all power and Glory. There are 2 distinctly different Christ’s. The one who saves through the cross or the one who saves at a 2nd coming. One of these Christ’s is an impostor. If Jesus has yet an enemy to be defeated He is not victor and not glorified or seated. But now He is.

 

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General Assembly, church of the firstborn

Posted on September 27, 2014 by ADMIN

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 Hebrews 12.22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstbornwho are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

 
Here we have in scripture from the holy writ, a verse that is overlooked by the greater portion of Christian denominations. It flies in the face of carnal thinking and understanding. It by-passes time and matter and ascribes what is seen by most as a future event at some event in the sky at a final moment in eschatology, or end time scenarios and talks about a current reality in the spirit as fact to experience saying “but you have come”.
 
I will draw first from the phrase “General Assembly” also translated “Festive Gathering”. This is a direct correlation to the feasts celebrated by the Israelite’s. The 7 feasts that the whole body of believers partook of was the partaking of the body of Christ (1 Cor 10.1-14). This they displayed 3 times or seasons a year at Pass-over, first fruits and End gathering also called Tabernacles and Atonement. And they gathered for these when they were instructed by the trumpet blasts from the leaders. As they gathered for these events it was all the rituals and articles being eternal concepts and timeless realities of Jesus Christ “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world”. These things that they practiced carnally were suppose to imprint these eternal concepts indelibly in their hearts and minds to understand them as spiritual truths to be realized or actualized in a believer. These practices, rituals, and concepts of truth were to train them for proper relationship with the Father as they were able to understand. 
 
They gathered together as one man in the Son of God (Exodus 4.22) partaking of Israel His first born to learn from these things then trade in the physical for the eternal “each one in their own time” (1 Corinthians 15.23) That when faith had come they were no longer under the tutor” (Gal 3.23). This did not happen to the whole nation at once but each person in their own time. And anyone back then who realized and actualized this by faith were a new creation even as it was said of Joshua and Caleb that “they were of a different spirit. They wholly followed the Lord”. If this were not true and as most believe, that no one was born of the spirit before Pentecost then Paul could not have said that the flesh man persecuted the spiritual man like Ishmael persecuted Isaac (Gal 4.29). Or even Cain and Abel 
 
This is why Jesus chided Nicodemus for not knowing that one must be born again saying “are you the teacher of Israel and you do not know these things?” It is so easy for us to think dispensation-ally in our humanness because we have to see to believe, but the gospel message was not new with Jesus. It was that all the patterns that Moses saw on Sinai where He took his sandals off because the ground was holy, was now poured into the person of Jesus Christ of whom it is said “I am not worthy to loosen His sandals”. Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of all the law and the prophets. They all had their end and all have expired in the life and times of Jesus Christ. “God who in times past spoke to the fathers by the law and the prophets has in these last days spoken to us by His Son Heb 1.1). There is no more speaking. There is no more prophesying. We however do have the prophetic word delivered to us that is more sure than anything they experienced even more sure than having Jesus in His transfigured form (2 Peter 1.16-19) We look back to the cross and the power of the resurrection that propelled Jesus to the highest place in all created realms as our source for transformation for our own transfiguration in the here and now. We learn the eternal value of all the feasts, rituals and articles and are re-newed in the mind by them. We put them on. This is putting on Christ, and the highest degree they learned in the spirit by their feast’s is tabernacles and atonement of which we have received the atonement/reconciliation now in our tabernacle/tent or also translated Booths. “Know ye not that you are the temple of God?” and of Jesus “Through whom we have now received the Atonement”.  
 
And 2 Corinthians 5.17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,
 
The whole purpose of all the feasts was this. Atonement, meaning at-one-ment now, reconciled, joined together now. Not at an end time event. Even as Paul went on to say “I implore you! (I am begging you) on Christs behalf be reconciled to the Father. This is the General Assemble, the Festive Gathering if you are able to receive it. It is all the law with it’s feasts and articles complete in Christ.
 
So you see it is not as end timers view of something in the future to happen in time and matter as they wait for the feast of trumpets so they can be gathered together and be one with Jesus. That is a foolish cause and focus, for it denies the works Jesus did. Jesus Christ was the expectation and all that the law and the prophets taught is not our future expectation but our starting point. They are the foundation on which we stand not a future event “for no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid which is Christ Jesus”. And again “all the law and the prophets were until Christ. Now the Kingdom is preached and all are pressing their way into it”. 
 
This brings us to another phrase in our beginning verse of Hebrews 12. 22-23, Heavenly Jerusalem. So we will stop here for now and continue later with the place of our citizenship which is when?
 
Ephesians 2.19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
 
Blessings 

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Last time anti-christs and Elijah

Posted on September 21, 2014 by ADMIN

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Deceptions of the Last Hour

1 John 2.18 Little children, it is the last time; and as you have heard that the[c] Antichrist is coming, even now many anti-christs have come, by which we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us. 

 

1 John 4.1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that[a] Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. 

 

 

The writer John here talks about some who were among them, who would leave them and teach other things. John was safe guarding the believers from these anti-christs who went out from them. It is easy to think of other beliefs and other religions when thinking about this anti-christ spirit that was then and expected to grow. But it was from among them that the falsehood would come.

 

As part of his safe guard John coined some new phrases, and these phrases are relevant to the message about those trying to deceive them and you. And if they were aware that this falsehood was coming they needed to certainly be aware that it already was. If it was small then to get bigger, what is it today? 

 

Well let’s unlock that by associating it with Johns newly termed phrases.  Two of them are related to time. “that which was from the beginning” and “the last time”. These terms were for our safe guarding as well as the term “anti-christ” being those who left them to manifest a new spirit or teaching that violated the truth that Jesus Christ had come in the flesh and need not do so again. Those who deny this, who came out from them, believe something different but similar enough to deceive. If it was not similar it would be no threat but this threat that now 2000 years later has become the threat of all threats to violate the faith once and for all delivered to the saints. This threat ignores the message “from the beginning” and teaches another “last time” for John to have to clarify that they were already in “the last time”.

His message is that the anti-christ that came out of them is a counterfeit to the truth that obscures “that which is from the beginning”, that also obscures “Him who has come in the flesh” who brought salvation. They teach another last time or end times and another coming in the flesh and another saving from planet earth. Hmm! Who might that be?

That is right. The message preached from end timers of a coming 7 year tribulation speak of another Jesus to come again in another end time on the world scene to save His people and bring salvation to planet earth. Yes, another Jesus to appear on the human stage. This just leaves people in the mindset of having to still be saved by a savior.

 

Johns point in us needing to believe that Jesus the Son of God has come, is that what end time seekers expect Jesus to do at a 2nd coming, is what He already did in the beginning, and we already have what they expect to get.

Look what else John said about this.. 1 John 5.4 “and what is the victory that overcomes the world? Even our faith!” Now that verse discredits a 2nd coming as our victory focus altogether. To overcome the world is not an end time, last time or another day event. And the anti-christs are those who teach another end time with another Jesus for delivering us from this world. And they do this because they do not believe the true gospel. Jesus Christ has come in the flesh and brought salvation to us once and for all… 

 

This is scary stuff if you are mixed up in it. Is it the gospel message of the 2nd coming that saves us? Or that which is from the beginning” that John teaches and affirms? John felt it important enough to address this by letter. Is it the message of the cross and the blood of Christ?  Or a tribulation a rapture and a future resurrection that overcomes the world and saves you? So when Jesus came to save, did He do that then? Or just give you a promissory note? Is He King of Kings now or must He become that at a 2nd coming? Is He in full Glory now or must He come here to claim the victory? Did He defeat satan sin and death already? Or does He do that for you later? 

If you are not sure I am afraid for you for you walk in darkness. But we walk in the light for no lie is of the truth. In Him is no darkness or ambiguities. And we are “In Him” this is true to the one who has faith. The 2nd coming message is based on supposed future facts for the carnal senses which violates all the principles of faith. being “the substance of things not seen”. (Hebrews 11.1)

 

Jesus said in John 12.31 “Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world is cast out!”

 

Was this a prophesy of a future event? Empty words with no immediate value? I think not if you have faith in the one who said it “from the beginning” for He cannot lie. Every word He ever spoke was accomplished the moment He said it as evidenced by Him speaking forth creation. He who said “Let there be light”? He said “arise and walk”.

 

Another “last time” or another end time teaching of another deliverer to save you keeps you from the gift of God that is “In Christ” now.

You cannot receive this reward because you are closed off thinking it is later. You have faith in a fairy tale of fallen fairies.

You shouldn’t just ponder this message but you should flee. I mean if John equates another last hour, end times with “anti-christ”? It is anti-christ because it rejects the truth that he has saved, delivered, redeemed, and atoned for His people. He put away transgression, made reconciliation for inequity, He brought us everlasting righteousness, He sealed up vision and prophesy and was anointed Most Holy as Jesus said “Now the Son of man is Glorified. And if God is Glorified in Him, God will also Glorify Him immediately.” And He did.

Now there is the Father and Son I know. Who is this 2nd coming deliverer? An impostor to steal your focus from the truth!  He is anti-christ as is the whole message of another coming one to save. You clearly have not accepted that Christ already came in the flesh to do that, and who is anti-Christ. He who believes Jesus must come again in the flesh to save. This is antichrist 

 

That which we have seen we have heard we have handled”. Not what you will see hear and handle later at a 2nd coming, but that which is “from the beginning”.

John the Baptist appeared on the public scene in the spirit and power of Elijah. His ministry and teaching directed many from the city Jerusalem where our Lord was slain that was spiritually called Sodom, (Rev 10.6) and He made  straight the paths of the Lord. His message was not a future kingdom but came preaching that “the Kingdom of God is at hand” in the here and now even back then.  They rejected him then as those who do so now,  who cannot receive this truth from the scriptures and have changed it for a lie “if possible to deceive the elect”

 The term “2nd coming is not found once in the bible.  It was Elijah who said in his day (1 Kings 18.40) seize the prophets of baal! Do not let one of them escape! And this you should do. Purge your mind and spirit from this garb called “end times”  and make straight the way for the Lord to you. Let this be your Elijah moment for “Elijah has come!” (Mt 17.12) And if you do this then the Lord of Glory can appropriately come take His seat in the throne room of your mind and spirit now like you expect Him to do later.  For “at the appropriate time I have heard, and the day of salvation? I have helped! Says the Lord. (Isaiaih 49.8) “Behold now is the accepted time! Now is the day of the saving! (2 Corinthians 6.2)

So the disciples asked then “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come?” The spiritually blind or dead say the same thing today. If they cannot receive Elijah, they surely cannot receive salvation. If you have received the real Savior. Jesus said “You will see me no more until you say “Save now! Hosanna, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord” Some did in His day. He stands at the door and knocks but it is the door of the heart that is closed because of the lie that says “it is later at the “last time”.

Kingdom of God is at hand

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To be, or not to be. “In Christ” 9/14/14

Posted on September 16, 2014 by ADMIN

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To be in Christ is some what obscured. If we better understand what this means we can better know the gift of God given to us “In Christ” Jesus.

 
Let’s start with the name Jesus. Unlike how we think of names like John or Jane or what ever. Names for the most part have a certain ring without much association. Many parents may research name meanings to pick one but for the most part a name is not also used as a word. The name of our Lord is how ever different in that regard. His name has specific meaning. Like some cultures with the last name. Like Schumaker, or Smith  or Carpenter, the name is also a word and associates with the trade of that family. We will see that Jesus came in the name of the Father.
 
When Mary and Joseph were instructed to give a name it was for this very reason. He meant what the word, or name meant. There is a lot of ambiguity and confusion over this name partially because of how it has evolved over the years. We use the name “Jesus”. But if we dig into how this name was developed into the name Jesus we see that there is a lot just underneath the surface to understand. The name Jesus was properly interpretated “Joshua” in Hebrews 4. All other renderings in the Greek were translated “Jesus”. Both names Jesus and Joshua come from the Greek word #2424 and is directly referenced from Hebrew #3091 and means “Yeshua saved”. 
We can correctly understand more about His name as we study the name Joshua. The Hebrew concordance shows # 3091 broken down comes from #3068+7 meaning Jehovah, or Yehovah, which is commonly translated into “Lord” and # 3467 and in Hebrew pronounced “Yahsha”. It means “savior” to make safe, free, delivered and succor. So when people heard the name they understood that Joshua/Jesus was the savior, or deliverer by His name. Isn’t that the very role Joshua the successor of Moses pictured?
 
And here again. When the people cried out of Jesus saying “Hosanna, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord”. They understood that Hosanna was this same name. As you trace it back from the Greek into Hebrew we see from Psalms 118.25 which is worded “Save now! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. Nah means now. So what you would have heard would’ve been Yasha now! (save now) Blessed is He who comes in the name of Yasha. The name and the phrase are completely inter-changible.
 
When people said “Jesus” they knew His name meant savior, the one who makes free, safe and succor. The deliverer and  redeemer.
 
So the one from God who comes in His name and saves. His name is what He does. When we say that we are “in Christ” we should understand it as they did that we are in the anointed of God who saves, frees, delivers, redeems and makes save and succor because we are “in Christ” and not because He must come back to do that later. If we think the Jesus Christ must come again to do that then we do not have faith in what His name means and I guess His name really doesn’t mean what the word means. So be it according to your faith. Is He or isn’t He what all the testimony says He is? 
 
So when John the baptist sent message to Jesus asking “are you the coming one, or do we seek another”. “Jesus denied not but said “go tell John what you see and hear. That the blind see and the lame walk”. All this accomplished immediately at His word. He demonstrated the gospel with “power unto salvation” which is to be with Him where He is in spirit and truth
Okay then His name means all those things. Now if we see that it means that in contrast to something then we get a bigger picture. God created the contrasts of light and dark and such for definition and the contrast of being “in Christ” is to not be “in Adam”. Here we have the old creature and the new creature. So when scripture says we are a new creature this is what it means. Just as all things are in Christ, it is the “all things” of the new creation. All things have their fulfillment “in Him”, in Jesus Christ. The first man Adam of the flesh with earthly possessions to return to dust and the new man Christ born of the spirit with heavenly possessions seated in the heavenlies. One creature with a sin nature and the new one “Righteous even as He is righteous. (1 John 5..)
 
So when scripture says that “He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies”. It is as it was pictured “in Joshua” They had to move forward into the promises and appropriate them by faith. We do this now that we have become a saint, meaning one whose identity is “In Christ” “If God said so, we are able”.
 
Didn’t we take on our new identity at baptism where we bury the old man by the working of faith to be raised new “In Christ”? That the Adamic nature has passed away and “all things become new” as we associate with Christ’s death and His resurrection?
This is what baptism means, and if we take our proclamation from baptism at faith value then we do not have to look to our physical body to die for our being risen “in Christ” to be our new reality. We died because He died. We are risen because He is risen, we are seated with Him because He is, and we are all that right now because “As He is so are we in the world”. So if we are “In Christ” We are where He is and we have forgone the need to personally experience death to be resurrected at some future point in time, for “He by the grace of God has tasted death for every man”.
So the price is paid. Even as Christ told His disciples ” As I said to the Jews that you cannot follow me, you too cannot follow me now, but you shall follow me after ward”. He spoke of His death and resurrection. We follow Him now. And this means to follow Him where He is as He prayed in John 17. This is W.W.J.D.? Not random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty, but “That where I am you may be also”. To “follow the Lamb wherever He goes”.
 
Here then we no longer identify with our old Adamic sinful nature by being “In Adam”, but we take His gift we identify as “In Christ” in His death and His resurrection now becoming our death and our resurrection gifted to us from the working of the cross and the life of Jesus Christ on earth. We proceed forward in this new life.
If Romans could be reduced to a main theme it is this which we speak. The new life in the spirit.
 
It is as if you are in a car race and you see a jalopy off the track, broke down headed the wrong direction with your name on it. You can go stand next to it in shame or go to the winners circle where the victory party has commenced. Are you in the old creation of the flesh? Or the new being “In Christ”? And from Joshua “choose you this day!”
 
So our first step was baptism which was also symbolized in the Passover. This is your cross over from death to life. Even as the Egyptians lost their first born, you became one of Gods. We do not follow Moses for their dead bodies died in the wilderness because they would not believe. They had not faith. But we do however resume our journey with Joshua/Jesus. Our promise land is His word full of promises. And if you are new “in Christ” and all things are new, then unlike Adam who walks the earth created for him by the first word, Christ being the Word of God, and we walk in the promises, this happens “in Christ in the heavenlies, and not “In Adam” on earth. Then after we are in the land of His word we journey to the heavenly city that was portrayed in the earthly city called Jerusalem. You see even as Joshua was instructed to lead the people into the land to give them their inheritance and He did so, he still spoke of another day symbolizing that what they did only mimicked the spirit but that there was also more.
The same way with Jerusalem. And this was the reason the Lord had them build up and inhabit Jerusalem, to be evicted some 30 plus times. From 1 Corinthians 13.– when that which is perfect has come that which is in part is done away with”. This is speaking about spiritual harvests into the ever ready Kingdom of God when He takes away the physical. Hebrews 8..”He takes away the first to establish the second. The physical has trae in value for the eternal. Gal 4 But after faith has come you are no longer under the law, and other teaching tools.
 
So if we can see all the Old Testament earthen pictures as spiritual realities to pursue and obtain, then we do not need a physical city anymore at all. They had the old pictures, but we have the prophetic word more sure. Their very accounts written down for our understanding sustain us in the here and now if we take them as heavenly manna and not being ignorant not knowing His word and power in the gospel actuated by faith.
The only thing that keeps us out of truly being “in Christ”is believing in false doctrines. There are many who trade the truth for “the lie if possible to deceive the elect” That Jesus must come again to save us as though He didn’t perform salvation right the first time. Salvation is not a down payment as though it’s a holding cell. “You are complete “in Him” who is the head of all power and principality” now if you are “In Christ”.
You cannot be “In Christ” and not be with Him. And if you are “In Him” and with Him who said “Lo I am with you always”. Who also said “I will never leave you or forsake you”, why then must He come a 2nd time to do something as though you do not have?  Pursue the matters in faith.
 

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Jesus sown corruptible Vision

Posted on September 1, 2014 by ADMIN

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The Christmas Jesus Vision

I was driving a vehicle like a golf cart. Along came this man who I would define as despicable having characteristics of every wicked person I have ever encountered. I knew this man to be evil but I also knew that I was divinely instructed to go with him against my will. I proceeded to drive backwards looking over my shoulder but then cooperating I turned the cart around to better see where I was going.. I then knew we were visiting the lower ranks in the spirit.

 
Having reached a building we entered into a very confusing place with many levels rooms hallways and doors. The halls reminded me of a hotel but upon looking in the rooms each wall was full of doors and I thought it strange because to me it was obvious that they didn’t go any where but into the same rooms they had already been. Kinda like a house of mirrors at a county fair but it was a place of many doors.
People were occupied with these doors and rooms with a degree of amazement without realizing that they were not going any where but where they had already been. That didn’t seem to bother them tho, but I knew it was futile.
 
Another important observation was that this building was cheaply made, it was rickety. It was under constructed and you could feel the floors sag as you walked and the sound was almost like a drum. It was obviously of a 2 by 4 construction or less for even the walls shook when opening and closing doors.
 
I proceeded to go through some halls and twists and turns and then down stairwayst to a basement that resembled a musty old house. All down the steps the condition of the people in this place got worse and worse. I knew we were going to the bottom of the building, to a pit. 
 
Now going down the final staircase I remember stepping over people I would define as lifeless zombies like wiggling worms. Alive but dead and limp. Like a basement it was very dark, mildewy and musty. All these people were waiting in line as if to enter a movie or a play or a staged event. They had all been waiting a long time. 
 
At the bottom of the steps the line continued and stopped at a desk that resembled a hotel check in counter that was dimly lit in front, but there was no one behind the counter. There was however a young lady waiting at the front of the line in front of the counter, sitting holding her sick child and rocking back and forth crying. This seemed to be the main event for all eyes were on her and her child. They were expecting something from this mother and child. They were part of the main event.
 
People were there for them with great expectation. So I was compelled to pay closer attention to them. She was obviously putting on a show, drawing attention, acting and pretending. The child however, as I looked closer, I noticed he had a mans face and he was not pretending. He was white as if he was sick and he rolled his eyes and rocked his head back and forth as if to say “get me out of here”. As I looked more intently at his body, the child clothes he had on just covered his upper half like a mask and his real legs up to his waste were in the ground. As he rolled his eyes and squirmed you could see the dirt move at his waste but he could not get up. He was held against his will and wanted nothing to do with this charade. He wanted up and out but the people were content to just watch and wait and rot in this cellar in anticipation of the main event.
Having recognizing this man held against his will and this lady pretending to be sad, I blurted out “This is a big lie and a scam! This lady is an actor! Then the vision stopped.
 
I have thought back on this and the building that was full of people mused with the rooms and doors with the hope that just on the other side of the next door was what they were looking for to fill their emptiness. 
They were all there because of the play down stairs but they were content with the distractions and displays built above of the rickety building with many rooms of distractions and doors, until the festivities commenced down stairs. (A religion built on frail understandings of God)
They did not know they were like mice in a maze with no cheese but never the less they smiled in great pretense and stayed there in hope and expectation that at any moment for the time was imminent, that the clerk would show up at the counter downstairs and then act 2 would commence for their hope to be full.
 Implications of the Vision
I think that for most who recognize the stagnancy of the modern church and being impatient with the continual weekend charades going in and out of the same multiple doors in that rickety old place going over and over the same things week after week, but having no real power to change, that you can identify with this vision with the rooms and the doors and rumination of the same concepts over and over as you look to a baby Jesus or a second coming Jesus to bring you something to fill your desire.
This Jesus is held captive against his will. Being planted in the dirt He is sown corruptible, but never raised to Glory. But “wasn’t it necessary for Christ to suffer these things to enter His Glory?” And so He did, just not in their thinking. What a cute little man. They will not allow him to rise incorruptible to His place in prominence and Glory. He is viewed as a cute baby Jesus. How inoccuois, a Christmas Jesus. Not just an ordinary man but even more insulting a helpless little baby.
The very work and victory of the cross is lost and now redefined as something to be provided for later at a second coming or another life. That Christ died fruitless and in vain. These believers believe eroniously and unchanged, in a different Jesus then the one in scripture that gave us the power of the resurrection.
As Paul prayed that “18 the eyes of your [f]understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality[g] and [h]power and [i]might and dominion, and every name that is named”.
They have a truncated gospel of select scriptures to substanciate their cause but are largely ignorant of Him who said “The Kingdom of God is at hand” but it is not in the basement, nor is it in that structure. It is in Spirit and Truth, a place that is unfamiliar to them.
It is the innocuous baby Jesus and the 2nd coming mindset that rejects the real Christ. The kingdom is already, but just not in their thinking.
Christ is in full glory in His Kingdom, in His heavenly city, on His throne waiting for you to acknowledge the truth. Just as the Jewish leaders were chided by Christ saying “you are entering into the Kingdom of God, but you are also keeping out those who are trying to enter, so your condemnation will be greater.
Are you content with a baby Christmas Jesus? Are you satisfied with a kingdom that is not yet that must come later after a tribulation and a rapture?
Beware of disregarding the eternal value of the gift of Kingdom of God as being pre existent having been finished from the foundation of the world. They twist scripture to their own musing and destruction and create an alternate reality for people to be contained, or better yet a fable and a side show of a baby Jesus to be occupied with, and a soon coming king to rescue planet earth so you can all live happily ever after when Jesus comes back to planet earth to be a king in a future kingdom called Jerusalem. And they believe that at that time their salvation will be complete and then they will be a new creation. 
I guess then all that Jesus secured at his 1st coming and the cross was an “I.O.U. a kingdom” coming later to be redeemed when the imminent charade brings on the conclusion of a second coming. A phrase not found once in scripture.
  
Here is probably the most concise verse I can offer you right now. But the whole of scripture changes when the veil of darkness of a kingdom later dissolves from your thinking.

2 Corinthians 5:13-21New King James Version (NKJV)

13  For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; or if we are of sound mind, it is for you. 14  For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15  and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

16  Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, (a man or a baby) yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is (now) a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

20 Now then, we are ambassadors for (and citizens from)  Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christs behalf, be reconciled to God (not in the rickety rooms or the basement but where He is in His Kingdom now). 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

I don’t know how someone could read this as something actuated at a 2nd coming for it is all past tense and actuated by the working of faith.

 

The fact is the first words out of the mouth of the man Jesus is still our starting point with Him “today!” if you will hear His voice. And that is? 

Repent! For the Kingdom of God is at hand.

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To the intent that NOW! Eph 3.10

Posted on August 29, 2014 by ADMIN

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 To the intent that now the manifest, declared wisdom of God would be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavens. To make all of us see the dispensation of this mystery. Paul said these words then and it is as true for us today.

 
It is Christ’s body, the church that fills all and all now (1.20) It was by His death and resurrection that He was seated far above all powers in this age and every age for all eternity. And this is a reality not at a 2nd coming but by the work of the cross.
 
If we reject this fact and ascribe it to some 2nd coming where He will be seated and rule in all power, we are disconnected from the head that supplies the nutrients that make this truth your reality by the working of faith. So not only is He seated in all power, so are we because we are seated with Him and “In Him” All power and principality subject to us now. Not at a 2nd coming. This is the fellowship, the stewardship, the fullness and the mystery that Paul describes that is given to us now. All things being subject to us.
 
Because ” in the fullness of time God sent forth His son born of a women” to activate this reality by the working of faith. To be far above all powers being in Him, seated with Him, powers being subject to us.
 
We do not have to strategize how to fight those powers. (I beheld as Satan fell from heaven) Satans fall is more the truth that we have been seated far above him. Way above a battle. This is by the blood of Christ and not relegated to a 2nd coming. Satan loves it that some refuse the gift by not going up and wait for a 2nd coming. We do not wait to be seated at a 2nd coming of Jesus but sit down with Him now.
 
So we do not have to wring our hands or wrangle over an enemy for we have been delivered from this current age by faith. Even as 1st John says “You have overcome the wicked one”
 
So Satan is a topic of discussion and an obstacle for those who have not accepted the invitation to sit down with our Lord in the heavens by the working of faith.
“To the intent that NOW the manifest, declared wisdom of God would be made known by us believers. This is not a 2nd coming event but is gifted to us NOW. Eph 1.3 of Christ ” who has given us every spiritual blessing in Christ, in the heavens.
 
In the gospels Jesus said “destroy the temple and I will rebuild it in 3 days” was speaking of His body. And He meant more than a physical body dressed in a robe. We are His body, the fullness of Him who fills all and all, everything every where, heaven and earth. And He is the head we are nourished from.
 
It was at the cross He said “Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani”. Then the temple was then torn from top to bottom signifying that the all the levels in the temple were exposed and that we were granted access to the top. This was “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. To the intent that NOW!. But some look for this as a 2nd coming attraction for Jesus to come to earth and rule like a man as a king. But Hosanna came. “Blessed is He who came in the name of the Lord” All powers being made subject to Him, as He said “All things have been given to me from heaven and earth”.
 
The only reason He would have to come again like the 2nd coming seekers expect, would be to convince your carnal mind that it is so. But He does not convince unbelief with tangible facts for that violates faith. For why then would we need faith to please Him?
 
 
He has come and taken away the partition walls that kept us out of the Kingdom by the works of the cross. Not a 2nd coming.
 
The law and the prophets were until John. Now the Kingdom is preached and all are pressing their way into it. The kingdom has come to earth as it is in heaven. This is the mystery that was hidden that Paul finally learned to understand and presented it in the book of Ephesians. The kingdom has come, Christ is the Kingdom come, He is the kingdom at hand. He is the head and we are the body. We are “In Him”. 
 
2nd coming seekers are like a headless body because they believe that they rule later. But I read scripture that says “to the intent that NOW! It was said of those who looked to the apostles and prophets that, greater is the one who is least in the kingdom” meaning greater than the prophets . Wen stand onthe accomplishments and the understanding of what they learned and brought forth for us. “Having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets”. We stand on their works and are greater.
 
The Kingdom of God is at hand

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When that which is perfect has come, that which is in part is done away with

Posted on August 17, 2014 by ADMIN

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When that which is perfect has come, that which is in part is done away with. 1 Corinthians 13.10
 
 
Abraham was waiting for a city whose builder and maker, or fabrication and anatomy is God. This place of our inheritance being eternal is God. The gift of eternal life that we are receiving is not something being made as though it had not been. If it had once not been it could not be eternal.

 
The word talks about the buildings and structures  of Jerusalem. But the buildings and structures and Jerusalem had their invisible counterpart. Meaning that they teach of and represent eternal realities. Not that the buildings on earth had any other significance then to build the kingdom within you. God establishes those realities in you.
 
This is why Jesus is the way, and that He came preaching “The Kingdom of God is at hand” or at your finger tips. He is speaking of His anatomy. Not a thing to be made, but something He is. It is “In Him”. This is why the Jewish leaders were befuddled when He said “destroy this temple and I will rebuild it in 3 days. He is the temple, He is the city and He is the Holy Land.
 
This too then is our rebuilding. We walk in His promises. This is the Promised land. This is why there is no mention of a promised land in the new testament as though that is outstanding to be fulfilled for “all the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ”. If you are “In Christ” then you are in the place where the promises are fulfilled. They are in Him, they are Him.
 
All the Old Testament tools of teaching, be it the Sabbath, the Land, the city or a feast, these are all for our instruction and understanding of things invisible and eternal. “But when that which is perfect has come then that which is in part will be done away with. The end meaning of all those things are “in Christ” All the old testament teaching tools have a trade in value. Temporary for the eternal. This is a redemption and a cross over point is that in the renewed mind this is the new and living way, the new creation. This is the “when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part is done away with”
 
This takes place not as a single event called the 2nd coming, but by His assorted comings to us He presents Himself now by His word and He shows us how these things are fulfilled “in Christ” by His Holy Spirit. That which is in part that is done away with are things of the 6 days of creation. This is also called “the shaking” from Hebrews 12.27. That which can be shaken will be shaken so that the eternal remains. He is speaking and shaking even now.  
 
And this does not have to happen visibly but by faith. You do not see it with your eyes for “no man (of the Adamic nature) shall see God and live”. You must be born again of His composition of spirit not that of time and matter. You must be renewed, tried and transfigured. And again, this is not done at a singular event called a 2nd coming, but by a lifestyle of walking with Him.
 
If this transition takes place at a 2nd coming then many scriptural concepts are un-necessary and lost. How can you become holy? “Be ye Holy as I am Holy”. Peter quotes this as a continual occurring reality. The gospel of Jesus Christ is according to godliness, meaning god-like-ness. This is not a religious concept of piety and self righteousness. “Be ye holy as I am Holy” is become His Holiness, by faith. He has given us everything that pertains to life and god-like-ness.
 
Titus 2.11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation (which is not the 2nd coming) hath appeared to all men,

12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly (god-like), in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing(s) of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify (by the transformation of putting Him on) unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

15 These things speak, 
 
And this we do. We look to Him now and and He appears as He truly is now in His Glory and this is what we become. This is our transformation now. This is “the prophetic word more sure”. Put this on, put Him on. You cannot put Him on now if you are waiting to see Him at a 2nd coming. You are deprived of the truth of transformation and have traded it for something else. You have lost your reward. Are you not called “saints”? What do you think that means? Do you accept this? Do you receive this? This god-like-ness in this age? You mean it is later? Do you see what happens to your thinking? That means salvation is later and Christ died in vain to have to redeem you at a 2nd coming.
 
If we learn to receive this then this too becomes us. As He said “He who has seen me has seen the Father” Most don’t understand this. When people interact with us they see something they don’t understand. They see the invisible light and the truth that resides in each one of us, being Gods Holy Spirit. Some admire this, some are jealous and try to squelch this. This is sharing His persecution. On our part he is glorified.
 
This is not done by calling people to a 2nd coming for even Islam, and Buddhists and other religions believe in a coming Messiah and a renewed earth later. It is the gospel that brings salvation in the here and now that is an offence. The work from the cross is our point in faith, not His return. And we love His appearing but this appearing is continual, not a 2nd coming
 
We become holy now in this age and “we have this treasure in earthen vessels so the excellency and the power may be of God not ourselves for we do not preach ourselves but Christ crucified”. That is the power of transformation. Look to that for change.We are like a light on a hill that cannot be hid, a bushel of light under a bed.
 
Doesn’t Paul say that we are living epistles written not on stone but on the heart by the Holy Spirit? That we are read by all men? And if we reject our calling for holy living now, for god-like-ness now, and live for a hope only to be realized at a 2nd coming then we are of all men most pitiable. What a shame and what a sham, for the good news of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation “Today” not tomorrow or 2000 years later. If we are not saved we have nothing. If we are saved then we have the redemption, the adoption, the justification, the reconciliation and the at-one-ment now. Today!
 
The price has been paid and the only thing that stands in your way is that you want to have a visible confirmation of these truths. So you lump together what you cannot receive by faith and say it is coming later at a 2nd coming and associate yourself with doubters of Gods Holy word. Hath God really said?
 
If we live only in the hope of a change at a 2nd coming we are of most men to be pitied. What a shame. What a sham. For isn’t the gospel the power of God unto Salvation for today? Now? Or are we in limbo for a 2nd coming? 
 
This is where our cultural Christianity stops short of His fullness. We do become holy and grow in god-like-ness even now or why would the word say “As He is so are we in this world”? This is not just the same as the man Jesus was because Jesus said “Greater works shall you do for I go to the Father.” And if we can only be like the man Jesus who walked the earth we could not become greater. But as we see Him as He truly is through the gospel we become like Him. This is our mirror to put Him on. Him who is with the father is He who displays a greater reality of the Father. And this is Him in His transfigured, eternal state. This is what we behold. “Tell the disciples that I have ascended to My God and your God, to My Father and your Father. Cling to this. perceive this. Look upon this and become transfigured from the glory to the glory. (2 Corinthians 3.18)
 
It is enough for a student to become like his teacher and all students perfectly trained do so. So if we see Him as He truly is, it is enough to be like Him as He is. Not a man on earth but raised incorruptible. He is the last Adam who has become a life giving spirit. So too this becomes us. This becomes our greater works. “Good master what must I do to do the works of God? Believe in Him who was sent.” This one who was sent returned and it is there we behold Him, that we are seated with Him, “In Him”. And if we see Him any less we see Him in part. But when that which is perfect has come, that which is in part is done away. This is His gift to us. Eternal life and life is in the Son where He is with the Father. If it is any less then He has not given us of His fullness, but He has. John 1.16. Either He has or He hasn’t, black and white. The gray exists only in a wavering mind.
So do you want to do the greater works? Then believe in Him who was sent from where He came from and where He returned. It is He who calls us to Himself that we may “behold the glory given to Him from the foundations of the world”
There is not much transformation in a man named Jesus. And there is even less in a Jesus who must come back to work salvation. But there is all we need in Him who said it is done, and sat down to prove it.  

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Baptized into Christ and to His fullness by the working of Faith

Posted on August 11, 2014 by ADMIN

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Colossians 2. 9 For in him (Jesus Christ) dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, 

 

This is our calling and purpose to identify with Him. This is our salvation to be found “in Him” in his death, His resurrection and His quickening. Not ours. Not our physical body but His. This is what it means to be “In Christ” in the body of Christ, and not be in ourselves. It is to actualize these things by faith which is our salvation. He is our salvation. This is the full work of God in us in our lifetime. To be complete in Him is to know, understand and actualize this free gift by faith. This is to be to the measure of the full stature of Christ, to a perfect man. Ephesians 4.13

 

Unlike the 2nd coming seekers who deny that the work of Christ is now supposing Him to do it later when He comes again. This message creates refuge detainees to wait in a holding cell of un-belief for some 2000+ years, or at least until you physically die before you can activate the gift of God in Jesus Christ. But the price was paid in full and He said “it is done” having completed His task of salvation for that was His name, He returned from the flesh in His appearance. The new covenant in full effect now.  

 

But this is what the Adamic mind of the flesh that is connected to the carnal senses fabricates. It says; I must die to be separated from my body for my soul to rise to God for His promises to be realized by me, for me to fully receive the gift of God. Or another mindset which is popular to 2nd coming seekers is “I will be raptured to the clouds in my carnal body, and my carnal body will take on a glowing status like the man Jesus who will occupy Jerusalem on earth and be King here. This is all quite reasonable and believable from a human standpoint, for this all follows the progression that seeing is believing. But this overlooks the basic tenant of our faith.

Hebrews 11.1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” The unseen being more weighty than all matter from the 6 days of creation.

Faith is of another substance of non-substance, other than the substance experienced by the Adamic, carnal mind connected to the senses of the physical body. There is a reality that is non-human that takes precedence. This reality is not being made or created for God quit that on the 6th day. This place already is and you must enter it by learning and understanding after death and resurrection. 

 

Now you are confused because all Christians believe that. But it is not our death that is important but His. And it is not our bodily resurrection that we must see but His. The gift of salvation is activated by identifying with His death and resurrection that has already happened,. Not an event like a 2nd coming to happen later. Were you not baptized into His death to identify with His life? What are you waiting for? Physical proof? Yes this is what the Adamic nature does. Are you “in Adam”? or “In Christ”? So we die in Christ’s death, we resurrect in His resurrection and the overlooked one is that we ascend in His ascension, we see Him as He is and we join Him there. This is all actuated by faith in the unseen. Your human body cannot add to it or take away from it. Being in a flesh body cannot itself deny you access. You can just deny or believe in the spirit of your mind. The choice is yours. It already is and never not was so you don’t have to wait like for a 2nd coming.

 

Think of it like this. You have a free pass that includes travel, hotel accommodations, food clothing and entertainment to the Kingdom of God. But you have to use the coupon. This is our faith and appropriating His word grants us His fullness now like we read in Colossians. Not actuated by a 2nd coming, but faith. From faith to faith, as it is written.

 

Most of Christianity agrees that we have the keys to the Kingdom of God, but most hold it as a promise to be redeemed at a 2nd coming like a Rapture or when their body dies. But this is not faith but the carnal mind that is enmity against God. (Romans 8.7)

Here is sound reasoning. You heard the gospel message and you were baptized. There you confessed Christ and identified with His death to be raised in newness of life by faith. What was it then that you saw with your eyes that you think you need to see something today? Like Paul said “O foolish Galatians who has bewitched you? You whom Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? Having begun in the spirit you are to now be perfected in the flesh? Let me put this in context for today. O you foolish Americans. Having begun in the spirit will you now be perfected at some 2nd coming? You have lost your focus, your purpose and rewards. The 2nd coming mindset has robbed you from your inheritance now.

 

 It was Abraham that believed God and was Gifted righteousness being a perfect standing with the Lord. 

 

You see the Galatians too were side tracked from the spiritual invisible. They were circumvented and short circuited back to earth like the 2nd coming seekers who suppose they are going to see something and receive it but not as it were by faith. This will not happen because “without faith it is impossible to please God”. If the 2nd coming seekers get it without faith then God would have to apologize to all those throughout the ages who have believed without seeing. That would be unjust.

 

Colossians also says 1.12+ that we are partakers of this inheritance with the saints in the light” and there is no illusion to this being activated at some 2nd coming or that it is even later for it is not. And “He has delivered us from the power of darkness” Again no illusion of this being later. And He has (already) translated us into the Kingdom of His Son”. All of this is past tense and are His words not mine. Believe it or not. We are raised with Him through the working of faith, and He has quickened us together with Him through the work of the cross. This has all transpired un-noticeable to the human eye, in the blink of an eye like all the works of the spirit. According to Colossians all of this has nothing to do with the illusive 2nd coming but the cross, and like we spelled out from Galatians 3 that it is a work of the spirit not a perfecting of the flesh visible to the carnal eye.

 

So this all happens not after your physical body is buried and not after some supposed rapture at some 2nd coming but at the death of His mortal body and His resurrection and His ascension, not ours. To be “in Him” “in Christ” “in His body”. This is His body of believers, not those who borrow the name who dis-believe.

 

 Your keys to the Kingdom, your ticket to paradise, is your faith. From faith to faith in the person of Jesus Christ who was displayed for our Glory 2000+ years ago. As soon as you segregate any part of this gift to a 2nd coming you step outside of faith. You disbelieve the word of God.

 

The Kingdom of God is at hand.  

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In My Fathers House are many Mansions 7/26

Posted on August 1, 2014 by ADMIN

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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.

Here we have mansions, dwellings or abodes depending on your translation, with the Father. And we have the way to these Jesus being the way the truth and the light”. The only thing missing was in your mind. When Jesus went to the Father and spoke these words not for His sake for the Father always hears Him, but for the sake of the hearers. Them and us. Jesus created a place with that word saying “Father that they may be with me where I am” Where? To the mansions prepared for you from before time, the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world. (Mt 25.34) Jesus spoke and it was so proving He was like His Father.

 
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 was before time, for He was a man for only a short time. But as He was may be better understood from the mouth of the Father.
 
Hebrews 1.8-10 But to the Son He (the Father) says “Your throne Oh God (Jesus) is forever and ever, a scepter of righteousness is a scepter of Your Kingdom,… You Lord in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are a work of Your hands. They 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 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. 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?” 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. For the mansions exist and the way exists but the path in your mind is obscure.
 
So in the old model what people were walking out by going up to the feasts was what should have been taking place in their hearts the whole time. 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 Jerusalem and never entered the kingdom, but just an earthen model (Jerusalem) for instruction. The carnal mind idolized those buildings and knew not God. 
 
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 build and return to today. 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 Colossian’s 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 temporary millennial kingdom because of Him the Father said “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 for a 2nd coming is a faithless thing for the heart does not know Him. I understand that to some it is so ingrained that Christ will come in a certain way on a certain day,  so to see the truth will take some time for 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 but inside you. The mansions are there. The way is there. Can you believe it is now or must you wait for the next jesus?
 
The eternal cannot be created for it predates all creations visible and invisible. The 6 days of creating ceased now only serving a 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. And from Hebrews 12.28 “We are receiving a Kingdom that cannot be shaken”.
 
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. That which trained or detained people is taken away. As it is written “When that which is perfect comes that which is in part is done away with, 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.
For all the law and the prophets were until John the baptist, now the Kingdom is preached and men are pressing their way into it. (Luke 16.16) Are you?
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 can 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 always “at hand”.

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Revelation of the Bride

Posted on June 8, 2014 by ADMIN

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I don’t understand why the church today thinks that it is the literal bride of Christ. It is no more the bride of Christ than Eve or the tabernacle or the temple. These are all female images displaying eternal things unexposed to the carnal mind, unveiling the intimacies of the living God, His helper, another comforter, the one sent so we would not be orphans. To those who are born of the spirit.

If you have a view from above, a heavenly one, looking down on the tabernacle of meeting with the holies and most holy, or even the temple in Ezekiel, you see it is laid out like a human body taking on human form having the head facing east. The Holy of Holies being the mind and reason.

God called Israel His Son in Exodus 4.22. But Israel was not really Gods son but an image like Adam and Eve. The same with Solomon, meaning peace, (Shalome)and Jerusalem (Yeru-Shalome) meaning city of peace.  These portray the King and His Bride. The male and female working together fully portray God being made “in His image and likeness made He them male and female”. This is what Adam, Israel and Solomon portrayed, but then expired by Jesus Christ who said, “he who has seen Me has seen the Father”.

As with the tabernacle so too with Jerusalem. The twelve tribes are positioned around the tabernacle or the city as if to protect her. To protect her, to cover her. She is hidden in them. Israel is the same picture as the body of Christ, the prophets were the eyes.

We know the prophets cried over the city Jerusalem and called her “mother”, but she was not really their mother any more than Israel was Gods Son. Israel and the kingdom are like Adam and Eve. Unlike with Adam who’s bride was taken out of his side, the city/bride, is hidden inside of Israel, from within ,portraying “In Christ”. And outsiders or foreigners were not to partake in the workings of the temple which are the invisible things of God.

Paul defined himself as a steward of these mysteries of God, to dispense to the elect of God, those in Christ, not Adam. These mysteries are the interpretation of the physical into the eternal spiritual counter part. This is what a prophet does. He is to make simple the eternal realities of God through pictures and patterns and visions. You see the Jewish leaders thought the temporary pictures were the real deal when Jesus said that He would re-build the temple in 3 days, they said that it took Solomon years to build. The Lord was never talking about the physical. The earthen pictures always refer to an eternal counterpart. Jesus was talking about His body, the invisible Kingdom.

Now I hate to break it to the church on earth but what we are is the same as was earthly Jerusalem, a temporary picture of the eternal realities of the Kingdom of God which are at hand, within grasp. If this were not true, why would Paul say of the body of Christ on earth that “prophesies will fail, tongues will cease, knowledge will vanish”, being temporary, but when that which is perfect has come then that which is in part will be done away with. That is right. Tongues and prophecies end with the understanding of what already was.

The church is a means to an end like all the other pictures and patterns given for us to understand God. And what is the purpose then of these things given in part? To hold us over until the illusive second coming? To keep us in a holding pattern til He comes to deliver us? Wake up! He already did that.

These things were given “til we come to a mature understanding, to bring us into the full stature and measure of Christ”. And if that is to happen to each one of us now, what are you standing around for? Know ye not the parable of the talents?

And of Paul again “I press on to lay a hold of why Christ laid hold of me. This is walking with God, to press on toward the upward call in Christ. As many as have this mind are mature.

The church like Israel, is a guardian or a tutor to bring us to faith, but after faith has come, or after you receive the eternal counter part, you are no longer subject to the repetitious cycle of the patterns. It brings you to the eternal invisible, ever ready kingdom of God. You are not at some train station waiting for a man named Jesus to come and save you. He already did that if you have an ounce of faith.

And of those who understand the spiritual counterpart? Galatians 6.16 As many as walk according to this rule, peace (Shalome) and mercy be upon them, (upon us) upon the Israel of God”

We speak what we hear and testify of what we see and man does not receive our testimony. If I tell you earthly things and you don’t understand, how can I tell you heavenly. They were never meant to be earthly, but to teach us eternal.

If we are not talking about the “Kingdom of God at hand” we may be like those who Christ said “you are neither entering the Kingdom nor are you allowing those who are trying to enter to do so. We may be found false stewards if we stop short of this one thing.

Behold I stand at the door and knock!
The Bride is in the Groom.
The Kingdom of God is at Hand!

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She has no epidermis

Posted on June 8, 2014 by ADMIN

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She has no epidermis, but She is covered. Who is she?
Eve was brought out and clothed in flesh to be bone of bone, flesh of flesh and composition similar to her counterpart. This one that has no epidermis is she who was never brought out like Eve. She is not naked, she is not uncovered or covered with flesh, but fully covered in her Lord. Who is she? She is like Sarah was to Abraham.(Isaiah51.2) “Look to Abraham your father and Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone”. But was he alone?
He took Lot his nephew but later split up but was Abraham then alone? No. He had Sarah from the beginning She is his “hidden person of his heart” and who’s image is she?
1st Peter3.3 speaking of beauty he said “Let it not be the adorning gold, but the hidden person of the heart which is prescious in the sight of God, so we can’t see Her. Not only our heart but the Lords first. She is central to the gospel and the adorning of Him who is invisible.
As women is the Glory of man, and man and women resemble who’s image and likeness? So of this one, she is the Glory of God. That’s why “we are transitioned from the glory to the glory for She is His glory”.
In Adam it was said “thou art cursed from the earth” there is a contrast in the spirit of this one she is blessed above all creation. It is She who “comes down of Heaven from God”. She is Heavenly.
She it is who comes not from the earth to return to the earth, but she comes from above to return their with us as Her treasures.
In Genesis 1 she brooded on the face of the waters looking for a reflection. She then Hoovered over the waters of baptism to alight fresh and anew on you. She was seen as a cloud by day, fire by night, and cloven tongues of fire inside the camp with Moses.
It was she who descended on our Lord and received by Him in “bodily form” like a cookie cutter copy, matching Him in size and shape of Christ, being bone of His bone, form like a dove and covered by her Lord, installed in Him, totally protected and sanctified being in Him.
As Sarah abode in Abraham’s tent, it was this One who being in Christ tent/body. She said “Oh Jerusalem how I would have gathered you as a Mother hen gathers her chicks”. This was said not by Jesus but the Holy Spirit resident in Him, His hidden, protected counterpart and the person of His heart.
That is why Jesus said “We speak what We hear and testify to what We’ve seen”.  Being plural, She was in Him and was not to be brought out and exposed like Eve from Adam. She is highly protected and regarded.
This is why Adam and Eve were said to be naked. They portrayed Them inside out by way of contrasts. Visible verse invisible, ashamed verse Glorified, weak verses strong. Adams inner parts were exposed and why he was called naked and needed covering so God make coverings for Adam and Eve’s private or secret parts. But Christ and His Bride are right side in, hidden and protected. This is why no one can enter except those who have the deal of God for She has sealed us as the redeemed.
They are clothed with each other, and because we are truly in Christ, we see His Glory, Her.
So she having never been exposed or defiled by the creation below, having never been adulterated by sinful eyes is this one Eve displayed likenesses, but only in contrasts.
As Eve and all women like her birth from inside out into the world, this one we are birthed into, NOT to come out crying of those like Eve. We go out with joy and are led forth with peace. This is why our Savior said “My peace I give you, not as the world gives, give I you” because She is strictly other worldly/Heavenly.
This is to be “in Christ” and born into the family of God. And of Eve, she could bring forth one or a few at most, but this other one, the comforter whom Jesus called His helper bringing to mind Adams helper. She is “the Mother of us all” of those who are born of the Spirit. These two are one with each other and compliment each other perfectly. These truths are known only from inside. These are family secrets. This is why the book of “The Revelation of Jesus Christ” finishes with His Bride. She is hidden in Him and part of Him as Sarah was in Abraham and Eve was in Adam before she was taken out as a rib. Eve was in Adam in the beginning as is the holy city “come down from God” is in Christ. She being of his kind, composition and make up is just as invisible and eternal as is He.
Our Lord was born King? She is “the Kingdom from (before) the foundations of the world” that He’s been King of who at His Inquisition said “you have rightly said I am King. However my Kingdom is not from here (meaning the world) or I could send uncountable legion of angels and they would fight, but My Kingdom is not from here”, meaning if time and matter.
These are the two who are one and accurately portray for us God in male and female, the two halves put back together in us that were divided in Adam. We are the New Creation, or the newly created as having these things refreshed in us. They become new in us. This is the completion of the gospel. The tare that started with Adam and Eve is mended in us and we are the restored, redeemed and made new, back to the beginning. This is the purpose of the gospel.

The message of Christ from the beginning was “The kingdom of God is at hand” and there is no Kingdom without the capitol city. She was and is and is to come. She is not in Samaria or Jerusalem, but in Christ. Those who are in Christ see Her here and are amazed. She is our marvel and the Glory of God, His hidden secret made known only to the Elect. Not made from dust but spirit and truth. That which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit, ye must be born again? Yes, from above. She is the one who days, come up hither.  And as flesh blood cannot inherit this kingdom of God which is at hand and neither can earthen brick and mortar. These things can portray likenesses of the kingdom but only in contrasts. They can never actually be holy.

The things In Christ are completely impenetrable from the cosmology of creation. Christ momentarily put on the cosmos taking on the same make up as Adam, but never was not God. Of Him and all that is His is not of this cosmology of creation and will never be. And She has to be similar in composition and design to qualify as being “bone of His bone, and flest of His flesh of glorious Spirit and Truth. He is the composition of no composites, the creation of the non- created. That is what Christ is, and everything that is in Him is of this make up of non-matter. There is no mixing Him with things of His creation of dust, no impurities, but holy, sanctified with no leaven in the place from where He had come now seated. In Him is no darkness at all. He is the true light from before it was said let there be light. He is the breath of life from before their was upper and lower firmaments or oxygen. He is the water of life before the seas were divided for dry land to appear. All these things only have faint resemblances of Him that truly is.
He can be seen , but not with your carnal eyes.
He can be heard, but not with your physical ears
He can be felt but not with your hands.
John 1.1 Modified, 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, of the Word of life;

2 For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;

3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us and Them: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ undivided, the new man with His helper inside.

4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

5 This then is the message which we have heard of THEM, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

6 If we say that we have fellowship with THEM, and walk in darkness being unaware of these truths, we lie, and do not the truth:

7 But if we walk in the light, as He is the light and THEY are in the light, we have fellowship one with THEM and each other, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

This is the New Creation, crystal clear, all the residue of the ages wiped away for you. Wipe the sleep, the slumber and the Adamic dust from your eyes and behold, Heavenly Jerusalem, the only Kingdom that never wains or fades in Glory but is eternally forever new, the Bride and His Groom.

The Kingdom of God is at hand, in this way, opperational and activatable today. That’s why today is the day if salvation. Today the mend is fixed by this forever new understanding. Amen

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*Kind begets kind, bone of my bone

Posted on May 20, 2014 by ADMIN

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Kind begets kind and Bone of My Bone.

Here we have Gods eternal laws of the distinction of creatures. From the 6 days of creation He designates categories for the different creatures. He divided day and night, heavens and earth, land and sea, and filled them with their respective creatures. “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures and let the birds fly above the face of the earth; each according to their kind” and “let the earth bring forth the living creatures, beasts and insects according to its kind. And God saw that it was good”. Each had their respected category and family. Each one according to its own kind.
 
We understand that fish don’t mate with birds and cattle don’t mate with insects, man doesn’t mate with beasts. Cat begets cat, dog begets dog, worms from worms. 
 
The rule of kind brings forth according to its kind has spiritual value. John 3.6 “that which is born according to the flesh is flesh and that which is born according to the spirit is spirit”. And Jesus spoke to Nicodemus as rendered correctly from the Greek “You must be born from above”. Not born again.
 
This eternal God given law is why flesh and blood does not inherit the kingdom. It is totally the wrong make up. And just as fish cannot live on earth, and oxygen breathing creatures cannot live in the sea or they would die, so too only spirit can live in the spirit and even the spiritual invisible world has subsections. As the earth has lower depths of the sea, land and atmosphere and the heavens, so too the spirit. And God lives in what is described as the highest heavens. Above all the created realms visible and invisible. He is non-material, invisible, non dimensional, before all things.
 
So here is the mystery. Why is it theologians speak of a bride that is being made to be a wife for the Son of God? If Christ was made then it would be okay, but Christ has always been, for He is eternal. God would have to violate His own eternal laws of creation and make His own hybrid. The very thing the people, creatures and fallen angels were judged and wiped off the face of the earth for in the days of Noah. Saying ” The sons of God came into the daughters of men”. They bore mighty men of old who were renown. The laws of distinction of species of kind begets kind were abridged. 
 
But somehow in peoples understanding God can violate His own principles and not be a hypocrite? No disrespect meant to our creator here. This should jar our mindset. This should help us re-think the concept of becoming a bride, a thing to be made for a Groom with eternal attributes. Him from before time mating with a creation of time and matter? Our brains have committed the same crime as those in the days of Noah. A created thing to beget offspring with the eternal Son of God. Hmm! Sounds like the days of Noah to me.
 
Adam after scanning and naming all the creatures recognized that he had no counterpart and God said “it is not good for man to be alone”. So God brought forth Eve to Adam and he said “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh”. She didn’t have feathers or gills or hooves or antennae. She was in all ways similar to him. Just as pre-school children are taught the male female association for procreation, similarly we need to understand  that the same type of make-up applies to the Son of God and His Bride. His Bride surely is not a building on earth. For He says “Heaven is my throne earth is my footstool, where is the house you will build for me? Can an ant make an anthill to house a human? That is more logical than man building something to house God. Man creating something for the creator? Listen to yourself. 
 
Some would say, well that is silly. We are becoming the bride of Christ. But if the bride is becoming, as though she had not been, she would be totally unsuitable to be the bride of Christ, for Christ just is. (Hebrews 13.8) The same yesterday today and forever. He could not say to her “you are bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, for she is of time and He is from eternity. That is like mixing heavenly beings with earthly like in Noah’s day. But that which is flesh is flesh and spirit is spirit. It violates Gods own laws of creation given for us to understand Him. Christ said repeatedly things like “I am not of this world” “my kingdom is not from here” And if kind begets kind then Christ has a Bride that is not of this world. She is not from the lower created heavens or the earth or sea. She must, according to His laws, be pre-existent. She must be from before time and matter and before the manifestation of the spoken word. She must be before all creation and in the beginning. If she is not then she simply cannot qualify as kind begets kind and bone of my bone but She is.
The Bride of Christ is the complimentary counterpart with the same composition and makeup of being eternal. No feathers no beaks no fins no antennae no fur no flesh no angel. She is before all things and co-creator.  
 
May we introduce to you the third person of the Godhead and seen in the act of creation. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the Spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters”. God the word and God the Holy Spirit created all things by the edict of the Father. He spoke Word and Breath and they are in Him, all co-equally God. The Godhead being original Thought which produced Word, coupled with the Breath, who departed from Thought we call the Father. Who being joined together in the mind and heart of a believer being joined together there. This is what we call The Wedding Feast. We testify with John the Baptist and say “He who has the Bride is the Bride’s Groom” and we are estatic. 
 
The Holy Spirit is the only one who qualifies by being eternal, by being before all things that were created, and by being instrumental in creating. No created thing is bone of His bone. Anything that is becoming is in transition from a beginning and is disqualified. The church on earth is not becoming the bride of Christ. It is only in the understanding by the renewing of our minds that we become aware of these eternal truths. That we awaken to these eternal realities, but She was and is and is to come as is He. Bone of His bone of the same structure of non-matter. All matter is temporary. For the earth and all it’s works shall be burned for the eternal to remain. Heavenly Jerusalem that comes down of God from Heaven,  being “the Kingdom from the foundations of the world. The before time. Being “that which is from the beginning. While we look not to the things that are seen But to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are temporary but the things that are unseen are eternal. In God’s counterpart is as Eternal as is He
Adam displayed a split image of God, but in Christ they are united. John the Baptist said in the Book of John chapter 3  He who has the bride is the bridegroom. It’s a done deal. They are one but not androgynous.
It was God that said “let us make man in our likeness”. This mystery is also pictured with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses and others who married their sisters and cousins. They reunited with their kind all from where they came picturing those from above. 
 
The breath of God is the mysterious 3rd person of the Godhead “whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Her or knows Her, and does not come from, but you know Her for she dwells with you and will be in you”. She is as Christ said “another comforter”. Like Christ but not Christ but another comforter like Him. Yes bone of His bone. Yes the Bridegroom has the Bride therefor this joy of mine is fulfilled. John 3.29 And John 3.31 with better Greek rendering “They must increase, I must decrease, They who come from above are above all, he who is of the earth speaks of the earth. They who come from above are above all”. And who are the they? The Bride and the Groom.They who replace Adam and Eve.They create a new creature. That is us, we are His new creation.
 
This is speaking the truth, this is in the scripture. Adam and Eve the parents of the first man were a type of the Bridegroom and Bride of the new man, and as They are from above it is from Them we are to be born from above. As Paul said in Galatians four of heavenly Jerusalem, she is the mother of us all. We are not waiting for the bride-to-be Manifest or to appear for as it was set of Christ my kingdom of not of this age she is the kingdom. She is that City come down from God Of Heaven being kind of his kind in bone of his bone.
So think about it. If the church is waiting to become a bride, how then are they born again and from whom? If there is not a replacement for Adam and Eve, then there is no new creation, no heavenly offspring, no one born from above. You have to wait for His bride to become for you to be begotten like them. Your hope is in vain. Either you are this new creation or you are still in your sins and what did Christ accomplish if not for us to be new? What did His blood wash us from if not to be new? A limbo creature waiting for another 2000 years? From Him who spoke and immediately it was? But we are new if we are in Him and in His Spirit.
 
Kind begets kind and those born from above are His begat kind. Are you of this kind? Who are your parents? This is the before time kind pictured in Kind begets kind, bone of my bone. Truth from the truth. The Heavenly city that “descends down from God”, being from Him in make up and composition. This is the Kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world. This is why Jesus said “my kingdom is not of this world”, distinguishing it from the “The kingdom of God at hand”. This was Christ’s opening statement in His ministry and the reason for all His words.
The kingdom of God is at hand! And She is Heavenly Jerusalem, the Kingdom prepared from before the foundations of the world.

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THE DAY OF THE LORD IS IMMINENT?

Posted on April 6, 2014 by ADMIN

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THE DAY OF THE LORD IS IMMINENT?

It is taught that the second coming of Christ is imminent. That it could happen at any time. You know, “like a thief in the night”.
Some verses used for this are like from Revelation 22 “these words are faithful and true, the things which must shortly take place”, meaning immediately and without further notice. And “do not seal the prophecies of this book for the time is at hand”. Meaning imminent, or, right now. Or “behold I come quickly and my reward is with Me to give to each one according to their work”. Yes His reward is Himself. Then the last words from that chapter,  “surely I come quickly. Amen even so come Lord Jesus”. So what does “come quickly mean”? Or “must take place shortly”?
Here are some other verses using the same Greek words to help us understand. From the sermon on the mount, agree with your adversary quickly while you are on the way with him lest he deliver you up. After the resurrection “go quickly and tell the disciples”. They “went out quickly and fled the tomb”. And when Mary was grieving over the death of Lazarus. She heard Jesus was coming and “she arose quickly and came to Him”. In Luke 18.8 He will avenge them speedily” or quickly.
This is the same Greek word. Acts 17.15 “to come to him with all speed”. Of Judas at the betrayal “what thou doest do quickly. Also used are “suddenly, shortly, swift. You get the idea.
Now for the term “at hand”. It is also translated, draws nigh, know it is near even at the doors, he who betrays me is at hand, the tax collectors drew near to him to hear Him. Always used as really close, at hand. If we could un-shackle these words from human reasoning and apply them consistently in our understanding we could see what happens “quickly” and what is “at hand”.
It could be said that the flu spread rapidly, that it came so quickly that it caused an epidemic. You may not have it yet but it is close, it draws nigh, you could get it shortly, it is at hand. It is imminent. If you had a relative flying in for a visit who would be here soon, shortly, or quickly, and if they have arrived they could be at your door, at hand. You would never say that of someone who would be here in a month, next spring, a year, and certainly not for someone who is coming in 2000 years. You just broke the meaning of the words or phrases we are talking about. How could you then tell a sick loved one who is in hospital that you would be there shortly? That should mean without delay, or A.S.A.P. And this is what quickly and shortly means. So the nurse could tell them of you, they just checked in at the front desk and they should be right up, meaning shortly or quickly. And if she saw you walking up the hall she could say they are right here at the very door, even at hand.
This is the correct usage of the terms in question. The imminent coming of the Lord or Christ was not meant as a threat to keep you on good behavior. Like “your father could be home any minute” or quickly. That he is imminent. Isn’t that kind of what is portrayed when talking of the elusive 2nd coming? A term not found once in scripture. Of those with that mind set, it is as if you are in a building with the roof collapsing. Everyone does their part in girding it up. Standing on chairs and tables propping up the ceiling and pushing on rafters saying “hurry God, when are you coming?” Holding on by a strand you are doing the work of God and maintaining the image, doing church.
Well learn what this means from Danial 12 When the power of the holy people have been completely shattered all these things will be fulfilled.
You know the very thing you are looking for is really close. It happens quickly. I hate to break it to you but it also does not come with human observation. For they will say to you, look here or look there, but do not go after them. Why? Because they are carnal and the carnal mind is enmity against God. For they want to see with their eyes what needs to be seen in the spirit. “To those who have eyes to see!” You see it is close even at hand. It is in your heart and in your mouth that you may say it and do it. It is at your very doors. This is the word of faith in which WE preach. “Behold I stand at your door and knock. If you open up I will come in and dine with you and you with Me. Revelation 3.20

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TODAY, THE LORDS SABBATH REST

Posted on April 3, 2014 by ADMIN

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In the Melchizedek post we talked about the King from the before time. The priest who is King or more importantly this King that is also priest. Without father or mother meaning no beginning  or end of days who lives continually. Of whom it is witness that He lives. Who? The eternal before time one. Christ.
Let us go on about this eternal topic, the before time, that which is now and is after time. To that day which is not measured by days months seasons and years. To the day that was before anything was made. This place that has no need for the sun because the lamb is it’s light. This place Peter refers to “till the day (of this age) dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts”. This day is not a physical one related to the sun and solar system as we know it.
The morning star for us is an awakening. That sun shines eternally. “Jesus Christ is that light that shines in the  heart of every man”. He is that true light. He is the light of the new day. The day that already was. Like the King and priest who lives continually in a day that is like them. That has  no beginning and no night. For God is light and in Him is no darkness.
The writer of Hebrews expounds on this day as the day of rest. The Sabbath that is not on a Saturday or a Sunday remains a day continually saying “There remains a rest for the people of God”. There is a promise to enter in to this day, to this place. “Let us fear lest any of you fall short of entering in, for the gospel was preached to us as well as them but it did not profit them not being mixed with faith”. This is the gospel finished from the foundation of the world.
You see when God rested from His works, He rested from His creation from what He spoke into existence. He did not rest in what He created, and He says “it is in this place they shall not enter”. So did God rest in the heavens like Orion’s belt or some distant galaxy? No. Those were made on the 2nd day of creation. Well maybe He rested where the angels are. No. For He has not put the age to come of which we speak in subjection to angels. (Heb 2.5). For He made all things visible and invisible by the things that He said and He rested in this place before a word was spoken in what is called the beginning. That place before time and the creation of matter and lower level spirits. The place of His rest is before all things. A place where  a created thing cannot go but to Us the invitation is extended, to this place is Gods rest, from His creation.
It is generally thought that the Sabbath is just not doing our works. That we rest from our labor. But He says “in this place they shall not enter“. This place before time and matter. This place remains the King and a Kingdom continually, eternal, timeless, the be fore time place.For he who entered his rest has ceased from his works as God did from His. We rest in His place, in Him. In Christ the before time.
Let’s look at it this way. There is this creation that we experience with our physicality, and there is a spiritual before time reality. Both of these realms have specific design being distinguishably different from each other. The creation we experience physically has characteristics of getting old. From the day it was made  there was erosion, corrosion, decay, corruption, wrinkling and fading. The apostle differentiates  the two this way “for our outward man perishes but our inward man is renewed daily”. Or new every day always.
So our inward man is brand new always. It is not being made or it is not eternal,  It is forever new.  It is our inheritance ”reserved for us in the heavens that does not fade”.
So there is a getting old creation and the new. But the new creation is not getting new or being made as we think of a new born baby or a new house or car. You see these things are created. They have a beginning. The new in an eternal sense is just not getting old. It is eternally new in it’s perfect unchangeable state at it’s peak point in glory. This is how we know Christ as the Bridegroom and father of the new. The new Adam, the replacement creation. This is how it is new.
The first man Adam is a human being, the last Adam, Christ  is a life giving spirit.. As Adam was born of the dust so are all of humanity and as Christ  was heavenly so too are we, if we are born of the Spirit. The last Adam Christ is a quickened spirit. (1 Corinthians 15.45-49. And are we not quickened if we have this spirit?  Ephesians 2.1
Think about in the physical world all the efforts that are made to create and make new things and to refurbish and to restore. Almost everything man does is related to this. Our jobs and duties as parents and teachers and nurses and politicians are all spent doing this. The health and fitness industries do this. They try to optimize us and make us as perfect as possible. To be glorious.
A  preacher friend of mine always said “no matter how much make-up and lip stick you put on a pig, it is still a pig. And it is our old Adamic nature that we wash up and make sure there is not a hair out of place to be as perfect as humanly possible and doing the best we can and we offer that to God. God is not pleased with that. Like the Israelite’s in the desert with the sacrifices “drag that old carcass outside of the camp”. It is what  is inside that counts.  Rom 12.1 Offer up the living sacrifice. The for ever new.
The new testament teaching of “putting on the new man” is just this. By faith we learn to put on, not the pig and the best we can do but Christ in His perfection that has been gifted to us in it’s complete form.  And when we put Him on, the new man, “in the image of Him who made us” this grants us access to Gods eternal, invisible, before time, always brand new, glorious, non-created, realm scripturally called “the new creation”.
This is what Paul means in the book of Galatians 6.15 when he says that “nothing avails anything but the new creation”. Meaning we are granted access to Gods rest in the before time when we put on the new, in Christ. This is what grants us access.  This is what it means to be “in Christ”.
Feet can’t get you there. Not a car an airplane or a flying saucer but faith. Being re-newed by the washing and the regeneration of the spirit. This is the porthole into that kingdom. Faith in Christ. This is you new in the eternal . The new creation is you. (2 Corinthians 5.17)
Of Adam he was told “in that day you eat of the tree of knowledge you shall die” And mankind with all this creation has been dieing, fading, and falling apart every day since then. But there is another day. It is called in scripture “in that day”, “the day of the Lord”, the “Sabbath day” the day of rest from this creation to be where God is.
As in Adam all die. In Christ all live. All who are quickened enter by faith. And they rest where? In that place, that day finished from the foundations of the world before time and matter. That place from before God ever spoke a word.
There are many who think that the visible creation must be gone, that time must culminate before we see the new. That the new is somehow after this, but if you can truly understand, what they are looking forward to has already been since the foundations of the world. It pre-existed not being subject to time and matter in it’s eternally new glorious state of existence. The things that are in “that day”  are God, it is all God, it is complete, a complete kingdom “and you are complete in Him who is the head of all power and principality. And to be “in that day” is to be “in Christ”. The things that are there is the King in all rule and power in the Kingdom.
When Christ said the Kingdom is at hand, this is what He meant. All the components of the Kingdom are equally God. They exist before a word was ever spoke. If they are not eternal it is because they were spoken into existence. But the King and the Kingdom are equally eternal and before time and are not of the creation of time and matter, emc + square, big bang stuff.
So they are only new, meaning having not been, only in our understanding. But they, meaning the persons of the Godhead, are always. To be in the forever Kingdom is to be in the forever day. This is being “in Christ” if you can receive it. If your ability to recon is working.
As John the baptist spoke “He who has the Bride is the Bridegroom. And yes this is the Bride of Revelation 21- “Therefore this joy of mine is full”. And his understanding is complete. This is the eternal gospel to be preached till we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man  to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”. To no longer be tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine by the trickery, cunning and craftiness of men who lie in wait to tell you of a 2nd coming Jesus. They formulate theories that keep you out of this Kingdom. They direct your attention to another day,  to another work of God.
The kingdom to come in which we speak is “TODAY” If you will hear His voice harden not your hearts as they did in the wilderness. TODAY is the day of salvation. Today is that day of rest.
The Kingdom of God is still at hand. Why do you look for another?
Blessings

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