Someone asked the following question:
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" There is the account of a blind man coming to Jesus to be healed and Jesus lays hands on him. He then asked him if he can see. The man says "I see men as trees". Jesus didn't quite get it right the first time so he goes in a second time and fully heals him. Why would Almighty God need a do over? Why wouldn't he get it right the first time if he was Almighty God? It just makes no sense."
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The following is just a few thoughts that I feel Jesus may have been demonstrating allegorically in the healing of the blind man.
Hebrews 9:28
"Even so it is that Christ having been offered to take upon Himself and bear as a burden the sins of many once and once for all, will appear a second time, not carrying any burden of sin nor to deal with sin, but to bring to full salvation those who are waiting for and expecting Him."
It takes the two comings of the Lord to show forth his corporate coming or collective coming. The first was fulfilled in the singular man Jesus Christ, for the "testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy".....what was he prophesying about or testifying about?.....it was US he was givng testimony to!...we would be the fulfillment of his prophecy....He said in John 17 that "the glory you have given me, I have given them...and "in them is my glory achieved".
Isa. 42: 16
I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and uneven places a plain. These things have I determined to do for them, and not leave them forsaken.
"Yes, who is blind as the Lord's servant? You see many things, but you do not observe or apprehend their true meaning....Isa. 42:19
Our blind man, has been our unawakened consciousness and even when first touched or awakened, it still does not automatically see all things clearly, but must be touched yet again. There is only one spirit, one baptism, etc, but there are more than one unfolding of that One.
That is what I see Jesus doing metaphyically by touching the blind man twice.
There are many truths taught by the "twos" in the word.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Ascension Glory
The following is an excerpt from a writing by Bro. Bill Britton called the Seed Line of Deity:
"Jesus appeared on the scene and overcame all bearing the image of His Father. He was a new creation man. There was not another like him on the earth. He was the first born of the creation of God.
At this point, God could have said: “This is what I have been looking for, this is the Son in whom I am well pleased. So now I will find another virgin to be his bride, and let him populate the earth with His own likeness”. In the first place, this would have left us out. And God loved us too much for that. In the second place, every seed brings forth after its own kind, and Jesus could only have produced earthly children with the same limitations that He had while He was here in the likeness of men. For being glorified and exalted at the right hand of the Father in heavenly places did not come until after His resurrection.
(Eph. 1:20)
"And so that you can know and understand what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength,
Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the the heavenly [places].
Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named - above every title that can be conferred - not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come.
And He put all thing under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church."
The Spirit Poured Out
The sons that Christ is bringing forth will not be reproduced in the image of that man in human form, walking the shores of Galilee. As wonderful as that might be walking in his authority and power, and healing the sick and raising the dead, he has something far more glorious than that in mind for us.
We read in John 7:37 –39
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as, the scripture hath said, out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.”
Did you get what it said in verse 39? “The Holy Ghost was not yet given.” Doesn’t it say that John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb? And even his mother and father were also filled with the Holy Ghost. (Luke 1:15, 4l, 67). And didn’t the Holy Ghost come upon the Old Testament prophets? Then what does it mean that “the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified”?
The answer is that John 7:39 is speaking of the Holy Ghost coming into a people for the purpose of producing a many-membered son in the likeness of the ascended glorified Christ.
In John 16: 7 Jesus tells us that it was necessary for Him to die, and be resurrected and glorified, in order for the Spirit of the glorified Christ to come to us. For this is the likeness He is producing in us. Glory to God! The likeness of the Son who has been resurrected and exalted to the throne is what we are to bear!
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I find it very significant that Jesus made a distinction in the way the Holy Spirit is experienced before his ascension and glorification and how it is experienced after his elevation into Fatherhood making him a Life-giving spirit.
There had never been a "man" that had attained to perfection prior to Jesus. He is the firstborn from among the dead that put on glorification reality not just resurrection...for many were resurrected prior to Jesus, but Jesus is He:
"Who alone has immortality [in the sense of exemption from every kind of death] and lives in unapproachable light, Whom no man has ever seen or can see. Unto Him be honor and everlasting power." 1 Tim. 6:16
There is no man (no carnal man) that has ever seen this place for it is the place that the "vultures eye has not seen, nor the proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it." Job 28:7
This to me is the difference in a knowledge about a cosmic Christ principle and actually being baptized into Him experientially beyond mere knowledge.
Many people of the more new age persuasion will readily speak of Christ, but almost universally draw back from any association with Christ Jesus....and of course, the reason for that is usually the same reason that many of us have had trouble with the systems of Christianity. They have seen the hypocrisy and mistreatment of humanity in the name of Jesus so have deemed the gospel of Jesus Christ as less than truth.
So they have pursued other roads and I will agree that many times there is truths to be learned in some of these other things, but it is also true that if you just exchange one set of ideas for another set, you are not really going anywhere....its still just another horizontal slide and not the vertical. It can prove to be just more knowlede without the anointing and quickening of the Holy Spirit.
"Jesus appeared on the scene and overcame all bearing the image of His Father. He was a new creation man. There was not another like him on the earth. He was the first born of the creation of God.
At this point, God could have said: “This is what I have been looking for, this is the Son in whom I am well pleased. So now I will find another virgin to be his bride, and let him populate the earth with His own likeness”. In the first place, this would have left us out. And God loved us too much for that. In the second place, every seed brings forth after its own kind, and Jesus could only have produced earthly children with the same limitations that He had while He was here in the likeness of men. For being glorified and exalted at the right hand of the Father in heavenly places did not come until after His resurrection.
(Eph. 1:20)
"And so that you can know and understand what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength,
Which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His [own] right hand in the the heavenly [places].
Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named - above every title that can be conferred - not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come.
And He put all thing under His feet and has appointed Him the universal and supreme Head of the church."
The Spirit Poured Out
The sons that Christ is bringing forth will not be reproduced in the image of that man in human form, walking the shores of Galilee. As wonderful as that might be walking in his authority and power, and healing the sick and raising the dead, he has something far more glorious than that in mind for us.
We read in John 7:37 –39
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as, the scripture hath said, out of His belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.”
Did you get what it said in verse 39? “The Holy Ghost was not yet given.” Doesn’t it say that John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother’s womb? And even his mother and father were also filled with the Holy Ghost. (Luke 1:15, 4l, 67). And didn’t the Holy Ghost come upon the Old Testament prophets? Then what does it mean that “the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified”?
The answer is that John 7:39 is speaking of the Holy Ghost coming into a people for the purpose of producing a many-membered son in the likeness of the ascended glorified Christ.
In John 16: 7 Jesus tells us that it was necessary for Him to die, and be resurrected and glorified, in order for the Spirit of the glorified Christ to come to us. For this is the likeness He is producing in us. Glory to God! The likeness of the Son who has been resurrected and exalted to the throne is what we are to bear!
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I find it very significant that Jesus made a distinction in the way the Holy Spirit is experienced before his ascension and glorification and how it is experienced after his elevation into Fatherhood making him a Life-giving spirit.
There had never been a "man" that had attained to perfection prior to Jesus. He is the firstborn from among the dead that put on glorification reality not just resurrection...for many were resurrected prior to Jesus, but Jesus is He:
"Who alone has immortality [in the sense of exemption from every kind of death] and lives in unapproachable light, Whom no man has ever seen or can see. Unto Him be honor and everlasting power." 1 Tim. 6:16
There is no man (no carnal man) that has ever seen this place for it is the place that the "vultures eye has not seen, nor the proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it." Job 28:7
This to me is the difference in a knowledge about a cosmic Christ principle and actually being baptized into Him experientially beyond mere knowledge.
Many people of the more new age persuasion will readily speak of Christ, but almost universally draw back from any association with Christ Jesus....and of course, the reason for that is usually the same reason that many of us have had trouble with the systems of Christianity. They have seen the hypocrisy and mistreatment of humanity in the name of Jesus so have deemed the gospel of Jesus Christ as less than truth.
So they have pursued other roads and I will agree that many times there is truths to be learned in some of these other things, but it is also true that if you just exchange one set of ideas for another set, you are not really going anywhere....its still just another horizontal slide and not the vertical. It can prove to be just more knowlede without the anointing and quickening of the Holy Spirit.
Two and Three Witnesses
"...so that every word may be confirmed and upheld by the testimony of two or three witnesses." Matt. 18:16
Now we know that each of us are 'a' word of God and together we make up 'the' Word of God.
So, if every word is to be confirmed and upheld by the testimony of two or three witnesses...who or what are these 2 or 3 witnesses?
Didn't Jesus say that you know a tree by its fruit? So, the fruit testifies and makes valid the tree's claim.....its claim that it is a fruit tree.
So, if two is the number of witness, what two things about us provide this double witness? And if three is the number of resurrection, what about us testifies to resurrection life?
Jesus said that you would know them by their love....its the only catalyst for making all things One.
I guess my short version is that spirit, soul and body in the full image of God are the three witnesses that confirm the word.
Spirit=I AM
Soul= I Am Conscious
Body= I Appear
I was drawn too to what Jesus said about what his "two and three witnesses" were when the Jews would question his authority.
"If I alone testify in my behalf, my testimony is not valid and can not be worth anything.
There is Another Who testifies concerning Me and I know and am certain that his evidence on my behalf is true and valid.
I do not receive [a mere] human witness - the evidence which I accept on my behalf is not from man.
But I have as my witness something greater than that of John; for the works that the Father has appointed me to accomplish and finish, the very same works that I am now doing, are a witness and proof that the Father has sent me.
And the Father who sent me has Himself testified concerning me." John 5
and then again in John 8:
"Whereupon the Pharisees told him, you are testifying on your own behalf; you testimony is not valid and is worthless.
Jesus answered, Even if I do testify on my own behalf, my testimony is true and reliable and valid; for I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
...my judgement is true - my decision is right; for I am not alone in making it but there are two of us, I and the Father who sent me.
I am one [of the two] bearing testimony concerning myself, and my Father who sent me, He also testifies about me."
So, the Father and Son are the "two witnesses". One is the visible manifestation of the invisible, the son.....and the other is the invisible, the source of the son, the Father. Could we say this is the Spirit and the Word that are the two witnesses, and whenever these two agree, there is an appearing.
And Jesus said there was a third witness....his works.
Jesus saids his works provided a witness or were the fruit that validated his claim.
Now I know that works has come to be known as that 'anathama' word, for most associate it with carnal efforts at pleasing God. But Jesus was not talking about that kind of works. He said he only DID what he saw his Father DOING. Father must have been working, if Jesus said that his works were an assignment that brought validation or proof that the Father had sent him.
If Jesus said that every word must be established or confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses....testimony, means something or someone is giving forth a witness.
Jesus is our pattern....he is every man in finished form, actively at work doing what he sees his Father doing. What is Father doing?......"Let us make Man in our image"........He's involved in the making of a Man that is the Finisher of his creation.
Now we know that each of us are 'a' word of God and together we make up 'the' Word of God.
So, if every word is to be confirmed and upheld by the testimony of two or three witnesses...who or what are these 2 or 3 witnesses?
Didn't Jesus say that you know a tree by its fruit? So, the fruit testifies and makes valid the tree's claim.....its claim that it is a fruit tree.
So, if two is the number of witness, what two things about us provide this double witness? And if three is the number of resurrection, what about us testifies to resurrection life?
Jesus said that you would know them by their love....its the only catalyst for making all things One.
I guess my short version is that spirit, soul and body in the full image of God are the three witnesses that confirm the word.
Spirit=I AM
Soul= I Am Conscious
Body= I Appear
I was drawn too to what Jesus said about what his "two and three witnesses" were when the Jews would question his authority.
"If I alone testify in my behalf, my testimony is not valid and can not be worth anything.
There is Another Who testifies concerning Me and I know and am certain that his evidence on my behalf is true and valid.
I do not receive [a mere] human witness - the evidence which I accept on my behalf is not from man.
But I have as my witness something greater than that of John; for the works that the Father has appointed me to accomplish and finish, the very same works that I am now doing, are a witness and proof that the Father has sent me.
And the Father who sent me has Himself testified concerning me." John 5
and then again in John 8:
"Whereupon the Pharisees told him, you are testifying on your own behalf; you testimony is not valid and is worthless.
Jesus answered, Even if I do testify on my own behalf, my testimony is true and reliable and valid; for I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
...my judgement is true - my decision is right; for I am not alone in making it but there are two of us, I and the Father who sent me.
I am one [of the two] bearing testimony concerning myself, and my Father who sent me, He also testifies about me."
So, the Father and Son are the "two witnesses". One is the visible manifestation of the invisible, the son.....and the other is the invisible, the source of the son, the Father. Could we say this is the Spirit and the Word that are the two witnesses, and whenever these two agree, there is an appearing.
And Jesus said there was a third witness....his works.
Jesus saids his works provided a witness or were the fruit that validated his claim.
Now I know that works has come to be known as that 'anathama' word, for most associate it with carnal efforts at pleasing God. But Jesus was not talking about that kind of works. He said he only DID what he saw his Father DOING. Father must have been working, if Jesus said that his works were an assignment that brought validation or proof that the Father had sent him.
If Jesus said that every word must be established or confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses....testimony, means something or someone is giving forth a witness.
Jesus is our pattern....he is every man in finished form, actively at work doing what he sees his Father doing. What is Father doing?......"Let us make Man in our image"........He's involved in the making of a Man that is the Finisher of his creation.
"She" is Saved
Yes, I agree....its like when the three Hebrew children were thrown in the fire....the three became the One like unto the Son of God......body, soul and spirit burned free of all bondages brings the appearance of Christ in His Glory. It is also like the lampstand....the seven lamps or lights together forming the Light of the Spirit.
That's how I see resurrection life or immortality of the body as being the child of the union of soul and spirit....they "form a more perfect union" .....just like in the natural a child is the combination of the genetics of both parents. "For this reason shall a man leave mother and father and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh." The only way possible that a man and women can become one flesh is in their child.
Christ left Mother and Father (the paradise of God) to be joined to his wife (the soul in each man) in order to birth their child, the New Creation Man.
All of mankind or creation, I believe, is actually the feminine factor or the soul of God. What God took out of himself was his feminine. Even in a natural fetus' development in the womb, the 'default' setting is always female unless testosterone interrupts the setting. Testosterone is what keeps man from diverging into the female pattern.
So, in the earthly pattern of the heavens, God likewise took out of Adam his feminine.
And the pattern goes on to be repeated at the cross, when Jesus side was pierced as was Adam's and out of Jesus' side flowed blood and water. Isn't blood and water what is present in every natural child's birth? Jesus Christ was birthing his bride, the church from his heart-womb. And the only way that she can bring forth a son is if she rendevouses with the spiritual man.....testosterone has to interrupt the default setting or feminine soulishness. "She" is saved in childbearing...bearing the Son of God.
That's how I see resurrection life or immortality of the body as being the child of the union of soul and spirit....they "form a more perfect union" .....just like in the natural a child is the combination of the genetics of both parents. "For this reason shall a man leave mother and father and be joined to his wife and they shall become one flesh." The only way possible that a man and women can become one flesh is in their child.
Christ left Mother and Father (the paradise of God) to be joined to his wife (the soul in each man) in order to birth their child, the New Creation Man.
All of mankind or creation, I believe, is actually the feminine factor or the soul of God. What God took out of himself was his feminine. Even in a natural fetus' development in the womb, the 'default' setting is always female unless testosterone interrupts the setting. Testosterone is what keeps man from diverging into the female pattern.
So, in the earthly pattern of the heavens, God likewise took out of Adam his feminine.
And the pattern goes on to be repeated at the cross, when Jesus side was pierced as was Adam's and out of Jesus' side flowed blood and water. Isn't blood and water what is present in every natural child's birth? Jesus Christ was birthing his bride, the church from his heart-womb. And the only way that she can bring forth a son is if she rendevouses with the spiritual man.....testosterone has to interrupt the default setting or feminine soulishness. "She" is saved in childbearing...bearing the Son of God.
Beyond the Good Report
God is magnifying himself within us with each new vista of light that comes our way.
I wanted to pick up on a point in this message that expands on our understanding of spirit, soul, and body, I think.
David says he has learned that everything "is ultimately made of the same substance, tiny packets of light, quanta, vibrating at different speeds. This does away with the division of the body, soul and spirit completely. Some things vibrate highly, and some slowly. Some so slow, that they appear as rocks and minerals. Others that are a little faster, manifest as plants and animals. A certain frequency is human beings and the faster ones are T. V., radio signals and etc. All of that is the same thing, energy vibrating at a different frequency as it manifests itself."
So, everything is vibrating Light substance.....just operating in different frequency bands.
Our spirit, of course, the higher frequency that is unlimited.
Our soul, slower and more contained until it is is married to spirit.
And then the body, the slowest and most dense spirit frequency.
These three are the two and three witnesses by which every word is confirmed and upheld.
So many teach that the body, the 3rd witness, is just a container for spirit, (a disposable one, at that) and that is true at a certain level. We would not stay anchored in this realm unless a part of spirit hadn't coalesced into a form providing an avenue of expression for the Invisible.
But this 3rd witness has not yet been fully raised to its highest spirit level to operate in the same band or frequency of our spirit man, although I believe we are experiencing very pregnant signs of its imminent birth. I am not talking about maintaining a healthy body or experiencing divine healing.....that is longevity, not immortality. There is even supposed to be masters or gurus of the East that many claim have lived to be 200 or 300 years old.....still not immortality. Maintaining life in a body that is suseptible to death is not putting on immortality or eonian life, the kind that Jesus was raised into.
All the saints before us received a "good" report....they "conceived" immortality, That Holy Thing, through the marriage and intimacy of their spirit and soul, two witnesses, but they did not bring to birth The Child, the third witness. These are the 'spirits' of just men made perfect.
"These people all died controlled and sustained by their faith (substance of things not seen, or not yet manifested but there in unformed potentiality), but not having received the tangible fulfillment of [God's] promises, only having seen it and greeted it from a great distance by faith.
And all of these, though they won divine approval by [means of] their faith, did not receive the fulfillment of what was promised.
Because God had us in mind and had something better (not just good, but better) and greater in view for us, so that they [these heros and heroines of faith] should not come to perfection or maturity (spirit, soul AND body)apart from us." Heb. 11
"If that same spirit dwell in you that raised Christ from the dead, it shall also quicken your mortal body".
This mortal gets quickened or speeded up to a Light frequency equal unto the frequency band of our spirit. This is the 'match made in heaven'. We are then able to transcend the 3rd dimension not just in spirit as we now do as we are seated with Christ in heavenly places, but we are able to take our bodies with us moving in and out of dimensions as Jesus did by the direction of spirit.
All the apostles still taught of the coming of the Lord even after Pentecost.....there's tons of scriptures speaking of this. I believe that this coming they were speaking of was not his first coming IN our flesh, but this coming is INTO our flesh.
I wanted to pick up on a point in this message that expands on our understanding of spirit, soul, and body, I think.
David says he has learned that everything "is ultimately made of the same substance, tiny packets of light, quanta, vibrating at different speeds. This does away with the division of the body, soul and spirit completely. Some things vibrate highly, and some slowly. Some so slow, that they appear as rocks and minerals. Others that are a little faster, manifest as plants and animals. A certain frequency is human beings and the faster ones are T. V., radio signals and etc. All of that is the same thing, energy vibrating at a different frequency as it manifests itself."
So, everything is vibrating Light substance.....just operating in different frequency bands.
Our spirit, of course, the higher frequency that is unlimited.
Our soul, slower and more contained until it is is married to spirit.
And then the body, the slowest and most dense spirit frequency.
These three are the two and three witnesses by which every word is confirmed and upheld.
So many teach that the body, the 3rd witness, is just a container for spirit, (a disposable one, at that) and that is true at a certain level. We would not stay anchored in this realm unless a part of spirit hadn't coalesced into a form providing an avenue of expression for the Invisible.
But this 3rd witness has not yet been fully raised to its highest spirit level to operate in the same band or frequency of our spirit man, although I believe we are experiencing very pregnant signs of its imminent birth. I am not talking about maintaining a healthy body or experiencing divine healing.....that is longevity, not immortality. There is even supposed to be masters or gurus of the East that many claim have lived to be 200 or 300 years old.....still not immortality. Maintaining life in a body that is suseptible to death is not putting on immortality or eonian life, the kind that Jesus was raised into.
All the saints before us received a "good" report....they "conceived" immortality, That Holy Thing, through the marriage and intimacy of their spirit and soul, two witnesses, but they did not bring to birth The Child, the third witness. These are the 'spirits' of just men made perfect.
"These people all died controlled and sustained by their faith (substance of things not seen, or not yet manifested but there in unformed potentiality), but not having received the tangible fulfillment of [God's] promises, only having seen it and greeted it from a great distance by faith.
And all of these, though they won divine approval by [means of] their faith, did not receive the fulfillment of what was promised.
Because God had us in mind and had something better (not just good, but better) and greater in view for us, so that they [these heros and heroines of faith] should not come to perfection or maturity (spirit, soul AND body)apart from us." Heb. 11
"If that same spirit dwell in you that raised Christ from the dead, it shall also quicken your mortal body".
This mortal gets quickened or speeded up to a Light frequency equal unto the frequency band of our spirit. This is the 'match made in heaven'. We are then able to transcend the 3rd dimension not just in spirit as we now do as we are seated with Christ in heavenly places, but we are able to take our bodies with us moving in and out of dimensions as Jesus did by the direction of spirit.
All the apostles still taught of the coming of the Lord even after Pentecost.....there's tons of scriptures speaking of this. I believe that this coming they were speaking of was not his first coming IN our flesh, but this coming is INTO our flesh.
Breaking the Light Barrier
This mortal gets quickened or speeded up to a Light frequency equal unto the frequency band of our spirit. This is the 'match made in heaven'. We are then able to transcend the 3rd dimension not just in spirit as we now do as we are seated with Christ in heavenly places, but we are able to take our bodies with us moving in and out of dimensions as Jesus did by the direction of spirit.
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Quote:
"Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in Oct. 14, 1947 and ushered in the era of supersonic flight. So Yeager formulated his plan and when hitting the sound barrier, he quickly accelerated through it in his Bell X-15 rocket plane. And once through the turbulence, he reported that supersonic flight was so smooth "that your grandma could drink a glass of lemonade without spilling it." Fifty-five years and twelve days later at the age of 79, he repeated this feat for one last time in his career. He truly was one that had "another spirit" as did Joshua. For he looked death in the face and never blinked - a giant in the eyes of the world had become a grasshopper in his eyes. A sound barrier was broken and spiritually those that are deaf need to hear the voice of the Lord.
In 1948 in the US and Canada, there began an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in great intensity. Has this movement establishing the voice of the Almighty God (El Shaddai Elohim) come to maturity and now God is about to do a new thing in the earth? Instead of the sound barrier, is the next barrier to be broken the LIGHT BARRIER?"
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Quote:
"Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in Oct. 14, 1947 and ushered in the era of supersonic flight. So Yeager formulated his plan and when hitting the sound barrier, he quickly accelerated through it in his Bell X-15 rocket plane. And once through the turbulence, he reported that supersonic flight was so smooth "that your grandma could drink a glass of lemonade without spilling it." Fifty-five years and twelve days later at the age of 79, he repeated this feat for one last time in his career. He truly was one that had "another spirit" as did Joshua. For he looked death in the face and never blinked - a giant in the eyes of the world had become a grasshopper in his eyes. A sound barrier was broken and spiritually those that are deaf need to hear the voice of the Lord.
In 1948 in the US and Canada, there began an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in great intensity. Has this movement establishing the voice of the Almighty God (El Shaddai Elohim) come to maturity and now God is about to do a new thing in the earth? Instead of the sound barrier, is the next barrier to be broken the LIGHT BARRIER?"
Barley Cake Blessings
About Gideon:
First a little about barley, because the barley harvest is tied to Gideon.
The three feasts that Israel were to keep, as you all know, was Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. They are archetypes of many different things, but one of the things they represent is the three kinds of harvests that occured at the time of those feasts.
Passover was at the time of barley harvest, the time when the people brought a handful of barley, a first fruits offering to the Lord as a pledge or earnest of the whole harvest to come. The priest would then take it and on the Sunday after Passover wave some of it up and down before the Lord.
When Jesus fed the 5000 it was with five barley loaves and two fishes because it was during the time of Passover. He instructed them to gather all the fragments that nothing remain. We are the firstfruits unto God that is being, and has been, as broken bread to feed the hungry and every part of "these loaves" is gathered together unto Him that no part of us is lost. The fragments are to be taken up....speaking of resurrection life. "And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I should not lose any of all that he has given me; but that I should give them life and raise them all up at the last day." John 6
Pentecost was the time of the wheat harvest.
Tabernacles was the grape harvest.
We are just focusing on the barley for this post...by the way,I just learned that barley is winnowed but wheat has to be threshed, and grapes, of course, have to be crushed. Each one represents an intensified dealing to extract the fruit from each.
So the barley harvest is the firstfruits of the resurrection.
"Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection..."
"Every man who has this hope, purifieth himself."
We probably are all familiar with the story of how God had Gideon whittle/winnow his army down from thousands to just 300 by taking them down to the 'water'. How they partook of the water determined if they would qualify to be in this army of the Lord.
Gideon was instructed to sneak down near the enemy camp [which was enormous] and he heard a dream that one of them had.
"Behold, I dreamed a dream; and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of the Midian, and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so the the tent lay flat.
And his comrade replied, This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon...Into his hand God has given Midian and all the host." [take note that he said he believes this is the "sword" of Gideon]
God told Gideon to take his little band of 300 and have them follow and do as he did. All that they had was their trumpet and an earthen pitcher with a torch in it. [we have this treasure in an earthen vessel] When he blew his trumpet, then they were to blow theirs. The trumpet is a symbol for resurrection [ at the last trump] then they were to break their earthen vessels or pitchers revealing their lights and to cry forth this message, "The Sword for the Lord and Gideon." All the enemy cried out in fear and fled or turned on one another.....and nary a literal sword was used.
The Sword of the Spirit, the Word of the Lord came forth in resurrected vessels...their earthen vessels broken to reveal the Light of the glory of God. \o/
So Gideon teaches us of an overcomer people who are the first fruits of the resurrection....the Barley Company waved before the Lord as a first fruits testimony of the full ingathering of all creation unto God.
Barley cake blessings to all
Karen
First a little about barley, because the barley harvest is tied to Gideon.
The three feasts that Israel were to keep, as you all know, was Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles. They are archetypes of many different things, but one of the things they represent is the three kinds of harvests that occured at the time of those feasts.
Passover was at the time of barley harvest, the time when the people brought a handful of barley, a first fruits offering to the Lord as a pledge or earnest of the whole harvest to come. The priest would then take it and on the Sunday after Passover wave some of it up and down before the Lord.
When Jesus fed the 5000 it was with five barley loaves and two fishes because it was during the time of Passover. He instructed them to gather all the fragments that nothing remain. We are the firstfruits unto God that is being, and has been, as broken bread to feed the hungry and every part of "these loaves" is gathered together unto Him that no part of us is lost. The fragments are to be taken up....speaking of resurrection life. "And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I should not lose any of all that he has given me; but that I should give them life and raise them all up at the last day." John 6
Pentecost was the time of the wheat harvest.
Tabernacles was the grape harvest.
We are just focusing on the barley for this post...by the way,I just learned that barley is winnowed but wheat has to be threshed, and grapes, of course, have to be crushed. Each one represents an intensified dealing to extract the fruit from each.
So the barley harvest is the firstfruits of the resurrection.
"Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection..."
"Every man who has this hope, purifieth himself."
We probably are all familiar with the story of how God had Gideon whittle/winnow his army down from thousands to just 300 by taking them down to the 'water'. How they partook of the water determined if they would qualify to be in this army of the Lord.
Gideon was instructed to sneak down near the enemy camp [which was enormous] and he heard a dream that one of them had.
"Behold, I dreamed a dream; and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of the Midian, and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so the the tent lay flat.
And his comrade replied, This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon...Into his hand God has given Midian and all the host." [take note that he said he believes this is the "sword" of Gideon]
God told Gideon to take his little band of 300 and have them follow and do as he did. All that they had was their trumpet and an earthen pitcher with a torch in it. [we have this treasure in an earthen vessel] When he blew his trumpet, then they were to blow theirs. The trumpet is a symbol for resurrection [ at the last trump] then they were to break their earthen vessels or pitchers revealing their lights and to cry forth this message, "The Sword for the Lord and Gideon." All the enemy cried out in fear and fled or turned on one another.....and nary a literal sword was used.
The Sword of the Spirit, the Word of the Lord came forth in resurrected vessels...their earthen vessels broken to reveal the Light of the glory of God. \o/
So Gideon teaches us of an overcomer people who are the first fruits of the resurrection....the Barley Company waved before the Lord as a first fruits testimony of the full ingathering of all creation unto God.
Barley cake blessings to all
Karen
Saturday, November 15, 2008
The Four Winds
"They shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." Matt. 24: 30
I believe these "four winds" are speaking of four different orders, realms or eons that we are passing through in this day. Some are still in the first principles of the gospel, others are coming into the light of the kingdom, others are already tasting of the judgements of God that brings them into a totally NEW CREATION. 2 Cor. 5:17
We see the "Elect Company" fly like an angel in the midst of heaven, having the Eonian Gospel, the Age-Lasting Gospel, to preach to them upon the earth. They have a cleansing, message of deliverance.
Rev. 14:6
"Then I saw another angel flying in mid-air, with an eternal Gospel (good news) to tell to the inhabitants of the earth, to every race and tribe and language and people.
And he cried with a mighty voice, Revere God and give Him glory, for the hour of His judgment has arrived. Fall down before Him; pay Him homage and adoration and worship Him Who created heaven and earth, the sea and the springs (fountains) of water."
quote from Dora Van Assen
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"I am the Source of the Wind from the New Heaven that now restructures the human world. It is for these times, for my times, that you have been created and that you have come into the Earth with your talents, your resources, your credibility and your human influence. Use your gifts now, without reservation, to serve the purposes of love. Experience in return the gift that I give to all who love, a share in my own consciousness. Those who best understand these times are those who are offering the greatest healing and blessing into them. Let your earthly agreements echo the spirit of my sacred human song. Let your heart be open to the love that I freely share through you. The time for the greater works is at hand.
During these last few years before the Truth is obvious to all, have mercy on those who retreat into the old order of fear. Do not attack and condemn them. Many of them would accept the ways of love, revise the policies of their enterprises, alter the course of nations, were it not for the constant condemnation of the so-called righteous. Those who attack are part of the problem, not part of the solution. There are evils in the world wherever fear is honored as a god, but attack will not change them. Those who attack - if they persist - become what they criticize.
Do not try to change anyone externally, attacking behavior, though you may see clearly that it needs to change. That is the old approach, the very cause of warfare. Share your own experiences. Tell your own story. Share the wonder, the joy, the excitement, the benefits that you have come to know in the service to the Presence that is rising on the Earth. If ever my Spirit stirs, even momentarily, the seed is sown. Your words may be forgotten, but the Spirit of your words will live on.
Those whom you encounter, aye even those you merely brush past, will go back to their habits altered, more open to love, to the Eternal Love, that continues to rise. This is what is means to have a mission inside of time, preparing the way of the Lord.
quote from Ken Carey in his book Vision
I believe these "four winds" are speaking of four different orders, realms or eons that we are passing through in this day. Some are still in the first principles of the gospel, others are coming into the light of the kingdom, others are already tasting of the judgements of God that brings them into a totally NEW CREATION. 2 Cor. 5:17
We see the "Elect Company" fly like an angel in the midst of heaven, having the Eonian Gospel, the Age-Lasting Gospel, to preach to them upon the earth. They have a cleansing, message of deliverance.
Rev. 14:6
"Then I saw another angel flying in mid-air, with an eternal Gospel (good news) to tell to the inhabitants of the earth, to every race and tribe and language and people.
And he cried with a mighty voice, Revere God and give Him glory, for the hour of His judgment has arrived. Fall down before Him; pay Him homage and adoration and worship Him Who created heaven and earth, the sea and the springs (fountains) of water."
quote from Dora Van Assen
*********************
"I am the Source of the Wind from the New Heaven that now restructures the human world. It is for these times, for my times, that you have been created and that you have come into the Earth with your talents, your resources, your credibility and your human influence. Use your gifts now, without reservation, to serve the purposes of love. Experience in return the gift that I give to all who love, a share in my own consciousness. Those who best understand these times are those who are offering the greatest healing and blessing into them. Let your earthly agreements echo the spirit of my sacred human song. Let your heart be open to the love that I freely share through you. The time for the greater works is at hand.
During these last few years before the Truth is obvious to all, have mercy on those who retreat into the old order of fear. Do not attack and condemn them. Many of them would accept the ways of love, revise the policies of their enterprises, alter the course of nations, were it not for the constant condemnation of the so-called righteous. Those who attack are part of the problem, not part of the solution. There are evils in the world wherever fear is honored as a god, but attack will not change them. Those who attack - if they persist - become what they criticize.
Do not try to change anyone externally, attacking behavior, though you may see clearly that it needs to change. That is the old approach, the very cause of warfare. Share your own experiences. Tell your own story. Share the wonder, the joy, the excitement, the benefits that you have come to know in the service to the Presence that is rising on the Earth. If ever my Spirit stirs, even momentarily, the seed is sown. Your words may be forgotten, but the Spirit of your words will live on.
Those whom you encounter, aye even those you merely brush past, will go back to their habits altered, more open to love, to the Eternal Love, that continues to rise. This is what is means to have a mission inside of time, preparing the way of the Lord.
quote from Ken Carey in his book Vision
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