"Yes... you are correct... the double mind comes after we are declared sons... or maybe it is just OUR AWARENESS of our double mindedness that comes after our epiphany in Jesus? We may have always been double minded, AND JUST NOT REALIZED IT!" Quote
Yes, I agree, we just functioned as the natural man before being awakened in God, living without an awareness of the difference of the mind of the spirit from the mind of the flesh.
Everything about us is in 2's in this realm......we have 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 distinct sides of our brain......because everything about us was designed to testify that we are where both realms meet....where heaven and earth comes together.
"Duality and the world go hand in hand..because it takes two hands to climb the ladder of consciousness. It takes two feet to walk the path of righteousness. It takes two eyes to be able to have depth perception lest we dash our foot against a stone.
Who created duality? Was it not God who separated the light from the darkness? Was it not God who put two trees in the garden (our mind).....all a part of the will and purpose of God in the training and outfitting of a grown up Son. Or we can instead play "dress up" and pretend that we already know everything that God knows and can do everything that God can do in the here and now.
Yes, we have to know how to go within to that Most Holy Place of Oneness (the spirit) where all things are finished and at rest, but we have to know how to bring that truth out, first into Our Holy Place (our soul or mind) and then outside into the field of this world where the work of our Father is done. Didn't Jesus the Shepherd go and seek the lost sheep. How will we find them in the Most Holy Place if they are in the outer court yard?
Yes, this world of duality will surely pass away, but I AM still in the world to save (awaken) them.
If Jesus believed as some do that this world isn't real, just an illusion to be dismissed nor considered, then why would he have bothered healing bodies that weren't really ill? Why feed bread to the hungry who just imagine that they are hungry? After all they don't have any real bodies to feed.
Obviously Jesus believed they were real and treated them as so....God meets us where we are. So perhaps it would be better to think of this world as a lower world that is serving a purpose in the plan of God.
Duality is not an enemy, but a tool...like a ladder that consciousness uses to climb." And as we ascend this ladder, we don't take the rung that we just left with us, its already served its purpose, but we leave it for the next guy coming along.
It's possible to try and cut short or truncate anothers steps by insisting they be where we are on the ladder but perhaps they haven't yet made all the steps in consciousness to arrive there yet......they may have to yet have a little more room made in their inn in order to birth higher truths.
Jesus said:
"My prayer is that you not take them out of the world, but protect them from the evil one."
"In the world you shall tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, November 07, 2011
The Making of a MAN
"Let us make man in Our image and likeness and let them have dominion...."
God is not making God.
God is making a MAN.
I believe the brother is right when he says the words in Gen 1 and 2 are prophetic.
I think where we fall into division is we think that the natural man, the first man is the one that God was speaking of when he declared this. The natural man was a step in the process of the making of a God Man, the Second Man, the Lord from heaven. He was not the finished product and I agree with one that said it is only a temporary change of clothing. It is our tabernacle of David, our temporary movable dwelling, but we have a Temple of Solomon, our Promised Land where the glory of the sun glinted upon the outer walls of this gold covered dwelling and could be seen afar, and upon its dedication the glory so filled this temple that no 'man' - that's man with a little 'm' could stand because the MAN, that's man with a big 'M" was now filling the temple.
And yes, of course, God said in Gen. that what he created was good! He calls those things that are not as though they are!....are not what?....are not yet manifested in this realm.....because in the realm of the Eternal all things coexist simultaneously but in this realm they are "testified of in due time".
But we are bringing the ordinances, and the oracles of God into the Earth through God's MAN. Jesus was the express image of the invisible God. God is God whether he is ex-pressed or not, but when he wishes to reveal his Invisible Self, he needs a vehicle for ex-pression. And that was his purpose in making a MAN.
We know that natural man has been more of a caricature of God than an exact image of the Father. So we are still a work of God's Art in progress.
Just as Jesus our Pattern demonstrated. He was made perfect by the things he suffered. He grew in grace and knowledge. We live and move and have our being in Him (heaven) and He lives and moves and has his being in Us (Earth).
But I love the scripture that says, "While beholding him, we are made into his same image from glory to glory."....or from one understanding to another. Because Jesus came to show us what we are and what we can become, so, in beholding him I am looking at myself as a glorified son. So I do hear where those who declare they are finished and need no perfecting are coming from. When I behold him I am looking at my future self and declaring him glorious and beautiful. I don't think we can build our house aright without looking at the blueprint and following the pattern shown us in the "Mount". And you know we were instructed to be careful how we build.
It requires two or three witnesses for every word to be establised. Some are satisfied with just spirit and soul - they don't see that God still needs a Body in which to manifest as the third witness.
We are to see that we do not forsake the assembling of ourselves together.......our spirit, soul and body.
1. Spirit (heavens)
2. Soul (the bridge or interface between spirit and body, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind (Soul)...our mind, will, emotions, and desire aligned with spirit provides streets of gold, a highway of wholeness for the spirit to walk into our Earth)
3. Body (earth)
Love and Grace to all,
Karen
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I know that we each hear the other from where we are in consciousness and wherever we each are is the only place we can be until we are moved into another glory. I am thankful for every level of glory that has been revealed in me. Remember when Paul said, "that it pleased the Father to reaveal his son in me". Well, it could not have been revealed in him if it wasn't there all the time. Our immortal, perfect self, called the Christ was there all the time, but I believe it was just still wrapped in the grave clothes of our old understandings until the word, "loose him and let him go" was inacted in our lives. \o/
Not long ago this understanding was given me:
I am/ we are first a child of God by CREATION.
But we are a mature God by FORMATION.
Everybody is a child of God, but not all are behaving as mature Gods. That is where Jesus our Pattern comes in. It calls him our Forerunner in Hebrews. That means we have had the path marked out well for us. We, too, have had to take up our cross and follow on to become what we already are. One of those enigmas again.
Paul, remarked that "he was travailing in birth until Christ was FORMED in them." And it is always the feminine that takes the seed and forms it for the man. Without having "the eyes of our understanding enlightened" or without having our mind penetrated by the spirit word or the man, we cannot FORM the CHRIST a body in which to manifest his nature, or we cannot be the express image of the invisible God.
Creative formation to all you lords,
Karen
God is not making God.
God is making a MAN.
I believe the brother is right when he says the words in Gen 1 and 2 are prophetic.
I think where we fall into division is we think that the natural man, the first man is the one that God was speaking of when he declared this. The natural man was a step in the process of the making of a God Man, the Second Man, the Lord from heaven. He was not the finished product and I agree with one that said it is only a temporary change of clothing. It is our tabernacle of David, our temporary movable dwelling, but we have a Temple of Solomon, our Promised Land where the glory of the sun glinted upon the outer walls of this gold covered dwelling and could be seen afar, and upon its dedication the glory so filled this temple that no 'man' - that's man with a little 'm' could stand because the MAN, that's man with a big 'M" was now filling the temple.
And yes, of course, God said in Gen. that what he created was good! He calls those things that are not as though they are!....are not what?....are not yet manifested in this realm.....because in the realm of the Eternal all things coexist simultaneously but in this realm they are "testified of in due time".
But we are bringing the ordinances, and the oracles of God into the Earth through God's MAN. Jesus was the express image of the invisible God. God is God whether he is ex-pressed or not, but when he wishes to reveal his Invisible Self, he needs a vehicle for ex-pression. And that was his purpose in making a MAN.
We know that natural man has been more of a caricature of God than an exact image of the Father. So we are still a work of God's Art in progress.
Just as Jesus our Pattern demonstrated. He was made perfect by the things he suffered. He grew in grace and knowledge. We live and move and have our being in Him (heaven) and He lives and moves and has his being in Us (Earth).
But I love the scripture that says, "While beholding him, we are made into his same image from glory to glory."....or from one understanding to another. Because Jesus came to show us what we are and what we can become, so, in beholding him I am looking at myself as a glorified son. So I do hear where those who declare they are finished and need no perfecting are coming from. When I behold him I am looking at my future self and declaring him glorious and beautiful. I don't think we can build our house aright without looking at the blueprint and following the pattern shown us in the "Mount". And you know we were instructed to be careful how we build.
It requires two or three witnesses for every word to be establised. Some are satisfied with just spirit and soul - they don't see that God still needs a Body in which to manifest as the third witness.
We are to see that we do not forsake the assembling of ourselves together.......our spirit, soul and body.
1. Spirit (heavens)
2. Soul (the bridge or interface between spirit and body, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind (Soul)...our mind, will, emotions, and desire aligned with spirit provides streets of gold, a highway of wholeness for the spirit to walk into our Earth)
3. Body (earth)
Love and Grace to all,
Karen
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I know that we each hear the other from where we are in consciousness and wherever we each are is the only place we can be until we are moved into another glory. I am thankful for every level of glory that has been revealed in me. Remember when Paul said, "that it pleased the Father to reaveal his son in me". Well, it could not have been revealed in him if it wasn't there all the time. Our immortal, perfect self, called the Christ was there all the time, but I believe it was just still wrapped in the grave clothes of our old understandings until the word, "loose him and let him go" was inacted in our lives. \o/
Not long ago this understanding was given me:
I am/ we are first a child of God by CREATION.
But we are a mature God by FORMATION.
Everybody is a child of God, but not all are behaving as mature Gods. That is where Jesus our Pattern comes in. It calls him our Forerunner in Hebrews. That means we have had the path marked out well for us. We, too, have had to take up our cross and follow on to become what we already are. One of those enigmas again.
Paul, remarked that "he was travailing in birth until Christ was FORMED in them." And it is always the feminine that takes the seed and forms it for the man. Without having "the eyes of our understanding enlightened" or without having our mind penetrated by the spirit word or the man, we cannot FORM the CHRIST a body in which to manifest his nature, or we cannot be the express image of the invisible God.
Creative formation to all you lords,
Karen
Monday, September 05, 2011
3rd Day Consciousness - 5th Dimensional Reality
"At that very hour some Pharisees came up and said to Him, Go away from here, for Herod is determined to kill You.And He said to them, Go and tell that fox, Behold I drive out demons and perform healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish (complete) My course. Nevertheless I must continue on My way today and tomorrow and the day after that, for it will never do for a prophet to be destroyed away from Jerusalem." And the passage: " And I tell you, you will not see Me again until the time comes when you shall say, Blessed is He who come in the name of the Lord!"
What Jesus accomplished in his earthly assignment deposited into the collective consciousness or the collective gene pool of all men, resurrection and glorification reality. Because we are all spirit creations, at our deepest level we are all connected to that unlimited field of God energy. Scientists even call it the 'unified field'. Jesus effected a change in the consciousness of man at the subconscious level. For all are not yet living in full consciousness or awareness of their first estate as spirit beings. But he said he was a Door or he was an Opener, a Portal or an Energy Vortex showing man what was possible.
It only took one man to build an airplane and to become airborne to show that it is possible to do. It only took one to show that the laws of gravity can be overcome and that the new law of aerodynamics is greater. Once this possibility of flying was deposited in the consciousness of man, look what has transpired in the airline industry. We even flew a vehicle to the moon and back - all because a door of possibility was opened up in man.The past two days or 2000 years have been spent in having this great seed of resurrection truth rising ever nearer the surface into full consciousness and awareness. We have had to have our 'demons' cast out and great healings done in our land, to allow for this Christ seed to spring forth. We have had to have all of our misperceptions about God healed in us to come forth as the full-grown plant.The past two days has not been for the salvation of the world, but for the calling out of a people for his name. Act 15:14-18
The raising again of the Tabernacle of David proceeds the full manifestation of the Temple of Solomon or the raising of a Collective Resurrected Glorified Christ Son proceeds the full ingathering of all men to God. I know that the word tabernacle depicts a temporary dwelling and I only use that here in the sense that the Collective Prototype or God Elect is only temporary until there is a Temple of God or until all men are alive and awake in Him providing him an unmovable Temple. Paul was caught up into the third heaven. This is not telling us he was caught up into a third heaven like layers in a cake, but he was caught ahead into the awakening of the third day consciousness that brought forth a Collective Christ. He was caught up into some of the things we are hearing now and are going to have unfolded in us in even greater glory as we embark into greater vistas of light.
As earth dwellers we live in a 3rd dimensional world of height, width and depth, and the added 4th sense of time, but 5th dimensional reality is when heaven invades earth superimposing (covering) the earth with its greater glory! \o/
Much love and light to all,
Karen
"The Son aspect of God, the Christ, is the Father expressed, journeying through its creation for the purpose of experiencing its own potential."
"I gave you life, you give me a living-together we will give life and light to the world"
What Jesus accomplished in his earthly assignment deposited into the collective consciousness or the collective gene pool of all men, resurrection and glorification reality. Because we are all spirit creations, at our deepest level we are all connected to that unlimited field of God energy. Scientists even call it the 'unified field'. Jesus effected a change in the consciousness of man at the subconscious level. For all are not yet living in full consciousness or awareness of their first estate as spirit beings. But he said he was a Door or he was an Opener, a Portal or an Energy Vortex showing man what was possible.
It only took one man to build an airplane and to become airborne to show that it is possible to do. It only took one to show that the laws of gravity can be overcome and that the new law of aerodynamics is greater. Once this possibility of flying was deposited in the consciousness of man, look what has transpired in the airline industry. We even flew a vehicle to the moon and back - all because a door of possibility was opened up in man.The past two days or 2000 years have been spent in having this great seed of resurrection truth rising ever nearer the surface into full consciousness and awareness. We have had to have our 'demons' cast out and great healings done in our land, to allow for this Christ seed to spring forth. We have had to have all of our misperceptions about God healed in us to come forth as the full-grown plant.The past two days has not been for the salvation of the world, but for the calling out of a people for his name. Act 15:14-18
The raising again of the Tabernacle of David proceeds the full manifestation of the Temple of Solomon or the raising of a Collective Resurrected Glorified Christ Son proceeds the full ingathering of all men to God. I know that the word tabernacle depicts a temporary dwelling and I only use that here in the sense that the Collective Prototype or God Elect is only temporary until there is a Temple of God or until all men are alive and awake in Him providing him an unmovable Temple. Paul was caught up into the third heaven. This is not telling us he was caught up into a third heaven like layers in a cake, but he was caught ahead into the awakening of the third day consciousness that brought forth a Collective Christ. He was caught up into some of the things we are hearing now and are going to have unfolded in us in even greater glory as we embark into greater vistas of light.
As earth dwellers we live in a 3rd dimensional world of height, width and depth, and the added 4th sense of time, but 5th dimensional reality is when heaven invades earth superimposing (covering) the earth with its greater glory! \o/
Much love and light to all,
Karen
"The Son aspect of God, the Christ, is the Father expressed, journeying through its creation for the purpose of experiencing its own potential."
"I gave you life, you give me a living-together we will give life and light to the world"
Now???
There is much talk about living in the now. One of the best seller books that came out not long ago was about one man's experience of being caught up into the Now of God and he was so 'blissed out' that he just sat on a park bench for two years in awe of this awesome Presence before he was able to function in this world again. "The Power of Now" is his story.
I have been saying I need to live more in the Now (the Today of God) for a long time, but how do you do that and just what do we mean by 'now'? You know, a "stop and smell the heavenly roses" kind of thing.
It is living in and being aware of your Eternal Presence.
When for just one moment, you can see yourself as you really are, you have left the realm of time, death and hell. Some call it "the Gap" because it is the ability to slip between dimensions or it is the ability to come and go by the spirit. But I do not believe that requires an actual exit bodily out of here for we have been called to be saviors upon Mt. Zion. We just need to have our heavens opened as Jesus our prototype did at his Jordan baptism while our feet still walk this earth.
It means holding a 5th dimensional awareness (heaven) while walking in a 3rd dimensional body (earth). There is no way that you can set the oracles of God in the earth without this awareness of spirit.
As for past and future, I believe they meet in us in the realm of no time, or our awareness of the Eternal Presence.
There exists no time in eternity. It all happens at once, or it's the whole loaf. The Alpha and the Omega and everything in between exists here. This is the Full Mind of Christ, or the 100 Fold Realm and the only way you can have righteous judgment, for you know the end from the beginning, as only a God should.
I see the two arms of the cross picturing this embrace of the past and future, in the ever present Today of God which Jesus typified.
Jesus hung at the juxtaposition of where these two realms crossed. The vertical shows the realm of no time(spirit) and the horizontal is the picture of linear time (earth). They were brought together in Christ. His arms were outstretched in the horizontal embracing all of creation and all the experiences it brings, and his heart was where the horizontal and the vertical met, or where X marked the spot - God being the X factor. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself". Jesus was God's Heart Revealed.
The Cross is the longitude and the the latitude or the creative coordinates of The New Creation man! This Land of the Interface is the Matrix, the Manger of Manifestation or the spiritual springboard for this new creature that is neither spirit nor flesh. Some have coined the word 'splesh' for this New Species. Trancducers of the Divine into New Form!
Heaven and earth will pass away the scriptures say, not because they cease to exist but because they become as one.
It says in Gen1:1 that God created the heaven and the earth. They were one before any divisions that came about. We are pulling it all together in our Now as we become one in our awareness with the Eternal Presence while in a body.
This to me is what Jesus meant when he said he only did what he saw his Father do. For any given situation that he was confronted with, he reached into the Mind of Christ, that Eternal Presence where our alpha and omega exists and spoke that man's spiritual script into visibility as he was the express image of the invisible God and was able as a life-giving entity to do the same for others.
I love you and thank God for each of you as we explore together our new heavens and new earth and re-member Ourself.
PS. Are we seeing what we believe (spirit creations) or just believing what we see(flesh creations)?
Karen
I have been saying I need to live more in the Now (the Today of God) for a long time, but how do you do that and just what do we mean by 'now'? You know, a "stop and smell the heavenly roses" kind of thing.
It is living in and being aware of your Eternal Presence.
When for just one moment, you can see yourself as you really are, you have left the realm of time, death and hell. Some call it "the Gap" because it is the ability to slip between dimensions or it is the ability to come and go by the spirit. But I do not believe that requires an actual exit bodily out of here for we have been called to be saviors upon Mt. Zion. We just need to have our heavens opened as Jesus our prototype did at his Jordan baptism while our feet still walk this earth.
It means holding a 5th dimensional awareness (heaven) while walking in a 3rd dimensional body (earth). There is no way that you can set the oracles of God in the earth without this awareness of spirit.
As for past and future, I believe they meet in us in the realm of no time, or our awareness of the Eternal Presence.
There exists no time in eternity. It all happens at once, or it's the whole loaf. The Alpha and the Omega and everything in between exists here. This is the Full Mind of Christ, or the 100 Fold Realm and the only way you can have righteous judgment, for you know the end from the beginning, as only a God should.
I see the two arms of the cross picturing this embrace of the past and future, in the ever present Today of God which Jesus typified.
Jesus hung at the juxtaposition of where these two realms crossed. The vertical shows the realm of no time(spirit) and the horizontal is the picture of linear time (earth). They were brought together in Christ. His arms were outstretched in the horizontal embracing all of creation and all the experiences it brings, and his heart was where the horizontal and the vertical met, or where X marked the spot - God being the X factor. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself". Jesus was God's Heart Revealed.
The Cross is the longitude and the the latitude or the creative coordinates of The New Creation man! This Land of the Interface is the Matrix, the Manger of Manifestation or the spiritual springboard for this new creature that is neither spirit nor flesh. Some have coined the word 'splesh' for this New Species. Trancducers of the Divine into New Form!
Heaven and earth will pass away the scriptures say, not because they cease to exist but because they become as one.
It says in Gen1:1 that God created the heaven and the earth. They were one before any divisions that came about. We are pulling it all together in our Now as we become one in our awareness with the Eternal Presence while in a body.
This to me is what Jesus meant when he said he only did what he saw his Father do. For any given situation that he was confronted with, he reached into the Mind of Christ, that Eternal Presence where our alpha and omega exists and spoke that man's spiritual script into visibility as he was the express image of the invisible God and was able as a life-giving entity to do the same for others.
I love you and thank God for each of you as we explore together our new heavens and new earth and re-member Ourself.
PS. Are we seeing what we believe (spirit creations) or just believing what we see(flesh creations)?
Karen
Friday, September 02, 2011
Morning Has Been All Night Coming
The Evening and The Morning Was the First Day
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth was passed away; and their was no more sea." Rev. 21:1
Isa. 65:17 "For, behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. (isn't that what happens when a woman births a child, she forgets her pain in the joy of her child) But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy."
If this present world and world system is a projection or creation from the mind of unenlightened men out of touch with their Source, then what will the projection or creation be of a resurrected Collective Christ be. All of history up to this time has been nothing but "our evening", our time spent in darkness (the womb) [and when I say 'our', I mean all of humanity] but God's days always start in the darkness, just as all natural human life in the womb does, and ends in the light. "The evening and the morning was the first day, etc."
The only reason that there is anything in this outer world that manifests darkness is because it is a projection of man's inner world of darkness. This is the first man who has created the first heaven and the first earth that must pass away. When you are 'entombed' or 'enwombed' in a dark watery world, you can't imagine what 'morning' awaits you just the other side of the birth canal. You enter a brand new dimension, live by entirely new criteria. You breathe air, and now live in the light.
"The Collective Resurrection of Christ is so profound, so powerful, so contagious that it is retroactive. There is going to be a global shift in consciousness "when all who are in their graves/womb/tomb shall hear his voice and live", but the personal experience of the Resurrection is available here and now to those first born cells of the Body, as islands of the future, prototypes of the Body of God as this powerful Resurrection reality reaches back into time drawing all forward into the Completion. But every event, every terrestial process, all its creatures and conditions will pass through the veil of transition, the fire of transformation, ie, the birth canal into a world that offers brand new creation tools at its disposal." quote by Ken Carey Creatures that cannot but help to manifest outwardly what they are inwardly, a new heaven and a new earth! \o/
Love and blessings,
Karen
Isa. 65:17 "For, behold, I create a new heaven and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. (isn't that what happens when a woman births a child, she forgets her pain in the joy of her child) But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy."
If this present world and world system is a projection or creation from the mind of unenlightened men out of touch with their Source, then what will the projection or creation be of a resurrected Collective Christ be. All of history up to this time has been nothing but "our evening", our time spent in darkness (the womb) [and when I say 'our', I mean all of humanity] but God's days always start in the darkness, just as all natural human life in the womb does, and ends in the light. "The evening and the morning was the first day, etc."
The only reason that there is anything in this outer world that manifests darkness is because it is a projection of man's inner world of darkness. This is the first man who has created the first heaven and the first earth that must pass away. When you are 'entombed' or 'enwombed' in a dark watery world, you can't imagine what 'morning' awaits you just the other side of the birth canal. You enter a brand new dimension, live by entirely new criteria. You breathe air, and now live in the light.
"The Collective Resurrection of Christ is so profound, so powerful, so contagious that it is retroactive. There is going to be a global shift in consciousness "when all who are in their graves/womb/tomb shall hear his voice and live", but the personal experience of the Resurrection is available here and now to those first born cells of the Body, as islands of the future, prototypes of the Body of God as this powerful Resurrection reality reaches back into time drawing all forward into the Completion. But every event, every terrestial process, all its creatures and conditions will pass through the veil of transition, the fire of transformation, ie, the birth canal into a world that offers brand new creation tools at its disposal." quote by Ken Carey Creatures that cannot but help to manifest outwardly what they are inwardly, a new heaven and a new earth! \o/
Love and blessings,
Karen
Monday, August 29, 2011
Only Dead Men
Only dead men experience Resurrection Life!
Philippians 3:10
"....And that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers]; and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] TO HIS DEATH, [in the hope]
11. That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] OUT FROM AMONG THE DEAD [even while in the body]. (Amplified)
Out of death comes Life.
We die to sin
We die to self (flesh)
We die to our reputation
We die to the world
We die to fear
We die to unbelief
We resurrect into Life
We resurrect into Joy
We resurrect into Peace
We resurrect into a Sound Mind
We resurrect into Power
We resurrect into Love
WE RESURRECT INTO THE FULLNESS OF GOD!!
As we put on the New, the old dies away for lack of energy. We cease feeding on our false identity and are changed into the New Creation Man while beholding Him.
1 Cor. 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
Philippians 3:10
"....And that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection [which it exerts over believers]; and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] TO HIS DEATH, [in the hope]
11. That if possible I may attain to the [spiritual and moral] resurrection [that lifts me] OUT FROM AMONG THE DEAD [even while in the body]. (Amplified)
Out of death comes Life.
We die to sin
We die to self (flesh)
We die to our reputation
We die to the world
We die to fear
We die to unbelief
We resurrect into Life
We resurrect into Joy
We resurrect into Peace
We resurrect into a Sound Mind
We resurrect into Power
We resurrect into Love
WE RESURRECT INTO THE FULLNESS OF GOD!!
As we put on the New, the old dies away for lack of energy. We cease feeding on our false identity and are changed into the New Creation Man while beholding Him.
1 Cor. 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Yehoshua
"Hebrew - Yehoshua translates as "YHVH is salvation"
or
"He who is (or will be) saves"
Yeshua is a masculine noun that means:
"He is salvation" or "He saves".
The Greek "Iesous" is pronounced: Ee - ay - sooce or Yaysoos.
The Greek Iesous then got tranliterated into Latin as "Iesu[s], and then into Old English as Jesus, but initally the "J" was at that time, still pronounced like the German J, which was pronounced with more of a "Y" sound. This is the way that it still is spoken in Germany today. Over time the J sound eventually began to harden into sounding more like the French J which is where the Modern English orginated from. The end result is the current English pronounciation of Jesus.
There is no Yahshua to be found anywhere in Hebrew scriptures.
It is Yeshua or Yehoshua."
or
"He who is (or will be) saves"
Yeshua is a masculine noun that means:
"He is salvation" or "He saves".
The Greek "Iesous" is pronounced: Ee - ay - sooce or Yaysoos.
The Greek Iesous then got tranliterated into Latin as "Iesu[s], and then into Old English as Jesus, but initally the "J" was at that time, still pronounced like the German J, which was pronounced with more of a "Y" sound. This is the way that it still is spoken in Germany today. Over time the J sound eventually began to harden into sounding more like the French J which is where the Modern English orginated from. The end result is the current English pronounciation of Jesus.
There is no Yahshua to be found anywhere in Hebrew scriptures.
It is Yeshua or Yehoshua."
Monday, August 22, 2011
Less Equals More!
"Physicists declare that when one reduces from the atom to the nucleus of the atom, you have reduced in size 10,000 times. But when you have reduced in size by 10,000 times, you have increased in power by 10,000,000 times! I believe this law also holds true spiritually."As He increases, we decrease but in our decrease, we are increased! \o/
Larry Hodges
Suddenly
Malachi 3
"And the Lord whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple."
We are being prepared for the "suddenly" realm.
Luke 2:13
"Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host."
This was at the incarnation of Jesus as the Word being made flesh into this earth.
Acts 2
"And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting."
Pentecost - this was the incarnation of Christ Jesus appearance as Spirit into his disciples and this world.
Acts 9
"Suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. And he fell to the ground."
This was Paul's first encounter with Jesus Christ in his glorified Light Form appearing to him and speaking to him.
Our Lord's appearance is as the thief in the night....this long dark night of man will be pierced "suddenly" by the Light of His appearance within his saints.
"He is coming to be glorified in His saints."
"And the Lord whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple."
We are being prepared for the "suddenly" realm.
Luke 2:13
"Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host."
This was at the incarnation of Jesus as the Word being made flesh into this earth.
Acts 2
"And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting."
Pentecost - this was the incarnation of Christ Jesus appearance as Spirit into his disciples and this world.
Acts 9
"Suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. And he fell to the ground."
This was Paul's first encounter with Jesus Christ in his glorified Light Form appearing to him and speaking to him.
Our Lord's appearance is as the thief in the night....this long dark night of man will be pierced "suddenly" by the Light of His appearance within his saints.
"He is coming to be glorified in His saints."
Friday, June 24, 2011
Bits and Pieces
God's love for you overflows from such a full heart that it floods the universe with Light and whispers your name with such tenderness that if your heart were not eternal, it would melt.
******
Redemption of the Spirit
Transformation of the Soul
Transfiguration of the Body
******
"When the Kingdom of God forecloses upon Babylon, it takes all of its assets in payment of debt. Those assets include all of its people and territory."
Stephen Jones
******
"I AM symbolized by the conjunction of longitudinal and latitudinal - by the sign of the cross. It unites all in a unity of time and space, a unity of Creator and creation."
".....the child of matter is to be heir to the Creator of all that ever was, all that is, and all that ever shall be."
Ken Carey
******
"Jesus was God in the form of man or flesh.
Christ is man in the glorified state of God.
Jesus Christ is God in the form of man bringing man to the glorified state of God."
Bill Lancaster
******
"Everyone of us is a resume of the whole story of creation and I realize that in my atoms and cells the whole evolutionary story exists."
Barbara Marx Hubbard
******
"Because as He Himself is, we also shall be, in that world."
1 John 4:17 (Fenton Translation)
"And why did God make you two one? Because He sought a godly offspring from your union."
Malachi 2:15 (Amplified Version)
******
"Angels - information beings - condensations of consciousness in a sea of universal being. Temporal embodiments whose location creates space and whose movements create time."
Ken Carey
******
'Habit memory' moves forward from the the past. (Adam)
'Conscious memory' moves backward from the future. (Christ)
Our future end state serves as the Omega-pull-point to our lower morphic fields causing them to coalesce into higher form.
******
Jesus was the first to complete His earthly gestation in evil (the womb of time or the incubator of evil). He opened the spiritual matrix. Having completed his prescribed course, Jesus' spirit now contained the power and genetics of resurrection victory.
"And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation."
"For out of His fullness as a Source we all received." John 1:16 (Wuest)
The Divine Antibody, the Life of Christ, is the antitoxin for evil.
******
The Time-Space Continuum
In the beginning = Time
God created the heavens = Space
And the earth = Matter
Genesis 1:1
******
God's Amen!
We bring the visible manifestation of all the work of God through Christ into this world.
We are the AMEN OF GOD! Our life is to "amen" all that God is.
******
Only Sonship brings us into Fatherhood.
No one who disowns the Son has the Father.
"He who acknowledges the Son has also the Father." 1 John 2:23 (Weymouth)
******
"What scientists call "light, energy and mass" are the traditional spirit, soul and body described by Plutarch as 'nous' (divine intellect), psyche (soul), and soma (body).
Michael S. Schneider
******
Having a revelation is a remembering - It is not new information. It is recovered reality! Recalling our predestined inheritance.
******
"We were not delivered from death by the cross - we were delivered to it!"
Larry Hodges
******
The Shed Blood of Christ
"He hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear." Acts 2
The incorruptible life of God - this was what He "shed" or poured forth on the Day of Pentecost. It was His quickening Spirit.
******
"Mortality is the death penalty applied with mercy. It gives mankind time to repent (a grace period) and find the path to immortality and salvation."
Stephen Jones
******
As Passover Christians, we can see the Father in Christ.
As Pentecostal Christians, we can see the Father in our fellow believers.
As Tabernacle Christians, we can see the face of God in our enemies.
******
Redemption of the Spirit
Transformation of the Soul
Transfiguration of the Body
******
"When the Kingdom of God forecloses upon Babylon, it takes all of its assets in payment of debt. Those assets include all of its people and territory."
Stephen Jones
******
"I AM symbolized by the conjunction of longitudinal and latitudinal - by the sign of the cross. It unites all in a unity of time and space, a unity of Creator and creation."
".....the child of matter is to be heir to the Creator of all that ever was, all that is, and all that ever shall be."
Ken Carey
******
"Jesus was God in the form of man or flesh.
Christ is man in the glorified state of God.
Jesus Christ is God in the form of man bringing man to the glorified state of God."
Bill Lancaster
******
"Everyone of us is a resume of the whole story of creation and I realize that in my atoms and cells the whole evolutionary story exists."
Barbara Marx Hubbard
******
"Because as He Himself is, we also shall be, in that world."
1 John 4:17 (Fenton Translation)
"And why did God make you two one? Because He sought a godly offspring from your union."
Malachi 2:15 (Amplified Version)
******
"Angels - information beings - condensations of consciousness in a sea of universal being. Temporal embodiments whose location creates space and whose movements create time."
Ken Carey
******
'Habit memory' moves forward from the the past. (Adam)
'Conscious memory' moves backward from the future. (Christ)
Our future end state serves as the Omega-pull-point to our lower morphic fields causing them to coalesce into higher form.
******
Jesus was the first to complete His earthly gestation in evil (the womb of time or the incubator of evil). He opened the spiritual matrix. Having completed his prescribed course, Jesus' spirit now contained the power and genetics of resurrection victory.
"And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation."
"For out of His fullness as a Source we all received." John 1:16 (Wuest)
The Divine Antibody, the Life of Christ, is the antitoxin for evil.
******
The Time-Space Continuum
In the beginning = Time
God created the heavens = Space
And the earth = Matter
Genesis 1:1
******
God's Amen!
We bring the visible manifestation of all the work of God through Christ into this world.
We are the AMEN OF GOD! Our life is to "amen" all that God is.
******
Only Sonship brings us into Fatherhood.
No one who disowns the Son has the Father.
"He who acknowledges the Son has also the Father." 1 John 2:23 (Weymouth)
******
"What scientists call "light, energy and mass" are the traditional spirit, soul and body described by Plutarch as 'nous' (divine intellect), psyche (soul), and soma (body).
Michael S. Schneider
******
Having a revelation is a remembering - It is not new information. It is recovered reality! Recalling our predestined inheritance.
******
"We were not delivered from death by the cross - we were delivered to it!"
Larry Hodges
******
The Shed Blood of Christ
"He hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear." Acts 2
The incorruptible life of God - this was what He "shed" or poured forth on the Day of Pentecost. It was His quickening Spirit.
******
"Mortality is the death penalty applied with mercy. It gives mankind time to repent (a grace period) and find the path to immortality and salvation."
Stephen Jones
******
As Passover Christians, we can see the Father in Christ.
As Pentecostal Christians, we can see the Father in our fellow believers.
As Tabernacle Christians, we can see the face of God in our enemies.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
The Friendly Foe or The Second Death by Dora Van Assen
HAVING OUR PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION
"Blessed and Holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath not power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." Rev. 20:6
Before we discuss this text before us, let me draw your attention to Rev. 1:1: "The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto "Him!". (This "Him" is Jesus.) God was unveiling unto Jesus His coming ministry in the believers as Christ and Lord. Acts 2:36. "And He (God) sent and signified it by His (God's) angel unto His servant John." Rev. 1:1
The word "signified", means to reveal by using symbols. In other words, this bok is to be discerned in the Spirit. It cannot be taken literally. The Book of Revelatin is not unveiling future events in the natural realm, but it is ttelling us about the ministry of Christ in and as us. That He is the Head of the Body of Christ. God "gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all." Eph. 1:23
And gives Him as Head over all, to the ecclesia which is his body, the complement of the One completing the all in all." Eph. 1:23 LCNT
Complement means: that which fills up, completes or makes perfect. Christ is our INNER MAN, being resurrected or awakened to our true identity and relationship to our Father! We are the Sons of God being manifested to Creation. Jesus was the first manifested Son of God. He was manifested to Israel, though He looked like everybody else.
John said: "I knew Him not: but that He should be made manifest to Israel." John 1:31. Jesus was manifested as the Son of God in a natural flesh body as a man. We are all so unnatural, (living in a false imaginary world) that what Jesus did naturally seems supernatural to us.
I am so glad that God is awakening us to realize the difference between Jesus and the Christ or The Anointing. When Jesus died on the Cross, The Anointing of God did not die. "For God was in Christ (The Anointing) reconciling the world unto Himself." 2 Cor. 5:19.
Now let us turn to our original text found in Revelation 20:6. What does it mean to have PART in the FIRST RESURRECTION? The Father is quickening some other scriptures to us as we wait in His Presence for the spiritual understanding to this long misunderstood verse.
THERE IS ONLY ONE RESURRECTION
It can be likened unto the the reaping of one harvest of which Jesus Christ is The Head. "but now is Christ risen from the dead, and became the FIRST-FRUITS of them that slept...."For as in Adam all die, even so, in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ's at His coming. Then cometh the end (of the harvest)." 1 Cor. 15:20-24.
I added (of the harvest) because it is talking about a Firstfruits of a seed. The FIRSTFRUITS of a field of wheat is the sign or pre-representative of all the wheat growing in the field.
So Jesus is the Representative Son of all mankind. That is why He called Himself the Son of Man over and over again. Even as the Sprit of God raised the First Son of man, Jesus, from the dead, even so, He will raise up all mankind in their own order and time. Jesus is the first man ever raised from the dead. [my comment: the 1st raised from the dead into The New Creation Man, the New Species Man]
"The Firstfruits of them that slept" 1 Cor. 15:20. "The First born of the dead." Col. 1:18. "Christ cannot die anymore." Rom. 6:9. DEATH HAS NO MORE DOMINION OVER HIM. Rom. 6:9. GOD RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD NOW NO MORE TO RETURN TO CORRUPTION." Acts 13:34. "THOU SHAL NOT SUFFER (ALLOW) THINE HOLY ONE TO SEE CORRUPTION." Acts 13:35.
Jesus did not see (dissolve into complete corruption) because God rasised Him up on the thrid day. Lazarus was stinking because he was in the grave four days. His body had begun to decay. Though LAZARUS was raised so miraculously by Jesus, he died again. Can we say he died twice and must therefore be raised twice?? No! It is appointed unto man once to die; then comes the judging (setting things in order), that a rightous judgement can be made. Heb.9:27
I see only one Resurrection and One Death. The "clinically dead" will all die again. For we must all be changed. - Metamorphosed either by way of the grave or by still being alive when that time comes in God's plan of the ages. God must follow His own blueprint! 1 Cor. 15:51-58
Eternal Life is the Gift of God. We cannot earn it. "The wages of sin is death, but the Gift of God is Eternal Life through our Lord Jesus Christ." Rom. 6:23 See John 17:2-3. As He has power over all flesh, Christ gives Eternal Life to all men. How? By living His life in and through and as all mankind. Christ is our Life!
THE SECOND DEATH
Turn again to Revelation 20:6. "On such the second death hath no power."
What is this Second Death? Is it a warning to sinners or backsliders? Or is it the work of the Christ, The Holy Spirit, as fire purifying the soul and mind from all false ideas and conceptions of God? - the false grandiose personations of ourselves or going to the other extreme presenting a false humility. Being pitiful and weak and self-denying. LETTING THE CHRIST MIND, which we already possess, operate in us will bring us into a true balance of knowing ourselves: Who we are in Christ. Phil. 2:5
The Second Death is only mentioned four times in the scriptures and it is always found in connection with believers. And all are found in Revelation.
Rev. 2:11 - "He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death."
Rev. 20:6 - "He that hath part in the first resurrction on such the second death hath no power."
Rev. 20:14 - " Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev. 21:8 - "And all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which
is the second death."
In these verses we will notice that Rev. 2:11, 20:6, are referring directly to believers who overcome. Christ is THE OVERCOMER. We overcome ourself or ego in Him, by recognizing our identity I AM in THE CHRIST I AM. We are awakened by the Spirit in us to this trueself who we really are! I AM A SON OF GOD. I AM born of the Spirit out of God. His very offspring. I AM A LIVING SPIRIT. I AM MANIFESTING GOD. Without BOTH SPIRIT AND MAN there is no MAN-I-FESTATION. Spirit alone cannot be seen or is not manifest. MATTER alone cannot express SPIRIT-GOD. It takes both SPIRIT-GOD AND MATTER INTEGRATED TOGETHER IN A UNION OF ONE.
"Great is the mystery of GODLINESS: God manifested in the flesh, JUSTIFIED IN SPIRIT....PREACHED UNTO THE GENTILES." I Tim. 3:16
When did Jesus preach to the Gentiles? He was sent to the lost sheep of Israel. It is the Body of Christ IN FLESH today who are preaching to the nations.
THE FRIENDLY FOE
GODLINESS MEANS: LIKE GOD. Godliness is being worked in us by the SECOND DEATH. The Lake of Fire is The Holy Ghost Fire within us, bringing death to our Self-life. God is Consuming Fire, Heb. 12:29, consuming all our dross into Himself. He does this as He dwells in us. Our body is the Temple of God.
He walks and talks in and through us, as He is gradually changing (metamorphosing) us unto GOD-LIKENESS - HIS RIGHT-NESS. The outer man, (old man) is perishing (dying-changing) as the Inner Man (New Man) is renewed day by day. A process. The New Man is Christ in You! 2 cor. 4:16. Out of the outer man and the Inner Man, God is making One New Man! Like, out of Jew and Gentile God made One New Man. OUT OF TWAIN GOD MADE ONE MAN. Eph. 2:15
Let me give an example: a husband and wife do not become one flesh just because they are united in wedlock. Only as they reproduce themselves in their child do they become ONE FLESH. This took a death! NO LONGER BEING just husband and wife. Now they are Mother and Father and Son and family. Dying to self is really a friendly foe. In type the Mothers and Son (carrying His Father's seed) go through the channel of death to come forth into Life. So we died with Jesus, the Christ on the Cross and were raised with Him in Resurrection.
We are having our "part" in the FIRST Resurrection. Now! "Christ in you," is proof that we are in His resurrection. Paul said: "That I may know Him in the power of His Resurrection." Phil. 3:10. We know Him is His suffering and being made conformable to His death. Paul said, "I am crucified with Christ." He did not mean on the Literal Cross, but a spiritual Cross in himself. - crossing out every thing unlike God. Only God to be left. The New Inner Man needs to be RE-NEWED DAILY. Like Paul, "to die daily" IS to be "quickened" daily.
"Blessed and Holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath not power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." Rev. 20:6
Before we discuss this text before us, let me draw your attention to Rev. 1:1: "The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto "Him!". (This "Him" is Jesus.) God was unveiling unto Jesus His coming ministry in the believers as Christ and Lord. Acts 2:36. "And He (God) sent and signified it by His (God's) angel unto His servant John." Rev. 1:1
The word "signified", means to reveal by using symbols. In other words, this bok is to be discerned in the Spirit. It cannot be taken literally. The Book of Revelatin is not unveiling future events in the natural realm, but it is ttelling us about the ministry of Christ in and as us. That He is the Head of the Body of Christ. God "gave Him to be the head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all." Eph. 1:23
And gives Him as Head over all, to the ecclesia which is his body, the complement of the One completing the all in all." Eph. 1:23 LCNT
Complement means: that which fills up, completes or makes perfect. Christ is our INNER MAN, being resurrected or awakened to our true identity and relationship to our Father! We are the Sons of God being manifested to Creation. Jesus was the first manifested Son of God. He was manifested to Israel, though He looked like everybody else.
John said: "I knew Him not: but that He should be made manifest to Israel." John 1:31. Jesus was manifested as the Son of God in a natural flesh body as a man. We are all so unnatural, (living in a false imaginary world) that what Jesus did naturally seems supernatural to us.
I am so glad that God is awakening us to realize the difference between Jesus and the Christ or The Anointing. When Jesus died on the Cross, The Anointing of God did not die. "For God was in Christ (The Anointing) reconciling the world unto Himself." 2 Cor. 5:19.
Now let us turn to our original text found in Revelation 20:6. What does it mean to have PART in the FIRST RESURRECTION? The Father is quickening some other scriptures to us as we wait in His Presence for the spiritual understanding to this long misunderstood verse.
THERE IS ONLY ONE RESURRECTION
It can be likened unto the the reaping of one harvest of which Jesus Christ is The Head. "but now is Christ risen from the dead, and became the FIRST-FRUITS of them that slept...."For as in Adam all die, even so, in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ's at His coming. Then cometh the end (of the harvest)." 1 Cor. 15:20-24.
I added (of the harvest) because it is talking about a Firstfruits of a seed. The FIRSTFRUITS of a field of wheat is the sign or pre-representative of all the wheat growing in the field.
So Jesus is the Representative Son of all mankind. That is why He called Himself the Son of Man over and over again. Even as the Sprit of God raised the First Son of man, Jesus, from the dead, even so, He will raise up all mankind in their own order and time. Jesus is the first man ever raised from the dead. [my comment: the 1st raised from the dead into The New Creation Man, the New Species Man]
"The Firstfruits of them that slept" 1 Cor. 15:20. "The First born of the dead." Col. 1:18. "Christ cannot die anymore." Rom. 6:9. DEATH HAS NO MORE DOMINION OVER HIM. Rom. 6:9. GOD RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD NOW NO MORE TO RETURN TO CORRUPTION." Acts 13:34. "THOU SHAL NOT SUFFER (ALLOW) THINE HOLY ONE TO SEE CORRUPTION." Acts 13:35.
Jesus did not see (dissolve into complete corruption) because God rasised Him up on the thrid day. Lazarus was stinking because he was in the grave four days. His body had begun to decay. Though LAZARUS was raised so miraculously by Jesus, he died again. Can we say he died twice and must therefore be raised twice?? No! It is appointed unto man once to die; then comes the judging (setting things in order), that a rightous judgement can be made. Heb.9:27
I see only one Resurrection and One Death. The "clinically dead" will all die again. For we must all be changed. - Metamorphosed either by way of the grave or by still being alive when that time comes in God's plan of the ages. God must follow His own blueprint! 1 Cor. 15:51-58
Eternal Life is the Gift of God. We cannot earn it. "The wages of sin is death, but the Gift of God is Eternal Life through our Lord Jesus Christ." Rom. 6:23 See John 17:2-3. As He has power over all flesh, Christ gives Eternal Life to all men. How? By living His life in and through and as all mankind. Christ is our Life!
THE SECOND DEATH
Turn again to Revelation 20:6. "On such the second death hath no power."
What is this Second Death? Is it a warning to sinners or backsliders? Or is it the work of the Christ, The Holy Spirit, as fire purifying the soul and mind from all false ideas and conceptions of God? - the false grandiose personations of ourselves or going to the other extreme presenting a false humility. Being pitiful and weak and self-denying. LETTING THE CHRIST MIND, which we already possess, operate in us will bring us into a true balance of knowing ourselves: Who we are in Christ. Phil. 2:5
The Second Death is only mentioned four times in the scriptures and it is always found in connection with believers. And all are found in Revelation.
Rev. 2:11 - "He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death."
Rev. 20:6 - "He that hath part in the first resurrction on such the second death hath no power."
Rev. 20:14 - " Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Rev. 21:8 - "And all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which
is the second death."
In these verses we will notice that Rev. 2:11, 20:6, are referring directly to believers who overcome. Christ is THE OVERCOMER. We overcome ourself or ego in Him, by recognizing our identity I AM in THE CHRIST I AM. We are awakened by the Spirit in us to this trueself who we really are! I AM A SON OF GOD. I AM born of the Spirit out of God. His very offspring. I AM A LIVING SPIRIT. I AM MANIFESTING GOD. Without BOTH SPIRIT AND MAN there is no MAN-I-FESTATION. Spirit alone cannot be seen or is not manifest. MATTER alone cannot express SPIRIT-GOD. It takes both SPIRIT-GOD AND MATTER INTEGRATED TOGETHER IN A UNION OF ONE.
"Great is the mystery of GODLINESS: God manifested in the flesh, JUSTIFIED IN SPIRIT....PREACHED UNTO THE GENTILES." I Tim. 3:16
When did Jesus preach to the Gentiles? He was sent to the lost sheep of Israel. It is the Body of Christ IN FLESH today who are preaching to the nations.
THE FRIENDLY FOE
GODLINESS MEANS: LIKE GOD. Godliness is being worked in us by the SECOND DEATH. The Lake of Fire is The Holy Ghost Fire within us, bringing death to our Self-life. God is Consuming Fire, Heb. 12:29, consuming all our dross into Himself. He does this as He dwells in us. Our body is the Temple of God.
He walks and talks in and through us, as He is gradually changing (metamorphosing) us unto GOD-LIKENESS - HIS RIGHT-NESS. The outer man, (old man) is perishing (dying-changing) as the Inner Man (New Man) is renewed day by day. A process. The New Man is Christ in You! 2 cor. 4:16. Out of the outer man and the Inner Man, God is making One New Man! Like, out of Jew and Gentile God made One New Man. OUT OF TWAIN GOD MADE ONE MAN. Eph. 2:15
Let me give an example: a husband and wife do not become one flesh just because they are united in wedlock. Only as they reproduce themselves in their child do they become ONE FLESH. This took a death! NO LONGER BEING just husband and wife. Now they are Mother and Father and Son and family. Dying to self is really a friendly foe. In type the Mothers and Son (carrying His Father's seed) go through the channel of death to come forth into Life. So we died with Jesus, the Christ on the Cross and were raised with Him in Resurrection.
We are having our "part" in the FIRST Resurrection. Now! "Christ in you," is proof that we are in His resurrection. Paul said: "That I may know Him in the power of His Resurrection." Phil. 3:10. We know Him is His suffering and being made conformable to His death. Paul said, "I am crucified with Christ." He did not mean on the Literal Cross, but a spiritual Cross in himself. - crossing out every thing unlike God. Only God to be left. The New Inner Man needs to be RE-NEWED DAILY. Like Paul, "to die daily" IS to be "quickened" daily.
The Friendly Foe or The Second Death - Part 2
by Dora Van Assen
WHAT IS DEATH?
Jesus said, "Lazarus sleepeth." When the disciples said "If he sleeps he shall do well". Jesus realized they did not understand Him, so He said plainly, "Lazarus is dead." John 11:4-13.
In this discussion, I am realizing that Jesus had a different understanding of death than that of His disciples. He said, "I must go and awaken Lazarus out of sleep". And all He said to him was "Lazarus come forth." The SPIRIT had never left. Where could it go? It is everywhere at the same time. There is no time or space or death in Spirit, and we are Spiritual Beings. In Spirit all is already finished perfectly. Heb. 4:3. Jesus said, "Follow Me, let the dead bury their dead." Matt. 8:22. To Jesus death was a lack of understanding of who He really was and a lack of understanding of what it was to be His disciple. A disciple of Jesus is one who has "Come out from among the dead." Matt. 8: 19-21.
There is no turning back. It's impossible! You are being born of an INCORRUPTABLE SEED. This Seed cannot die. 1 Pet. 1:23. It is the Seed of Christ and we are IN that Seed. The outside shell may be perishing, but THE I AM that I AM inside has no end! The life I am living in the flesh has no end, for I am living by THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST. His FAITH shall not fail, for He loves me and gives Himself to me. Gal. 2:20. A gracious gift of life, unspeakable and full of glory.
THE GREAT WHITE THRONE - A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
Now let us examine the scriptures stating that "Death and hell are cast into the lake of fire. This is the Second Death." Rev. 20:14
To arrive at the true understanding of this verse, we must first find the setting around this scripture or the context. It is between Revelation 20:11 to Revelation 20: 15. Here we find that the earth and heaven are fled away from the face of Him sitting on a Great White Throne, "and there was no place for them." If this is literal, where did they go? This a spiritual awakening, coming into a new consciousness. The old has passed away never to return. DUST returns to dust. But we see all things new. Rev. 21:1, 4-5. SPIRITUALIZED - MATERIALIZED MAN! "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God." If this is a literal resurrection of all the dead small and great, who will care for the babies, premature and aborted? And how will it be done without a heaven and earth on which to stand?
This is a Spiritual awaakening in our spirit-soul-mind realm. This is not some future event called: the Judgemnet Day. This is Christ Jesus awakening His Body to a new consciousness in God. We are THE BOOKS opened up and examined now - living epistles seen and read of all men. The Seals are being removed from our subconscious mind. We are beginning to remember our Father, how we were always His delight; there has never been a separation. Prov. 8:30. "and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." Rev. 20:12
THE JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST - Rom. 14:10
This judgement is taking place now in our daily lives. Christ Jesus is cleansing His Temple by the Holy Ghost and fire separationg the wheat from the chaff. The chaff is our humanity or fleshly desire. This fire will not be quenched till the outer worldly life is completely dissolved into the Inner Man. Matt. 3:11-12. The Judgement Seat of Christ is a footstool judgement. It was once held out in the open street where the common people could gather and settle their differences. Now it is called: The People's Court on T.V. It is a judgement concerning our daily walk among our fellowman. Read 1 Corinthians 3:11-15. "If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: But he himself shall be saved: yet so as by FIRE.
Christ is seated within us judging our talk and walk, not to condemn but to bring us into life and truth and victory over the "death and hell" within our own carnal minds. Our soulish mind is a grave of old memories, filled with old habits and traditions; useless regrets, imaginary and unforgiven offences, hurts and slights, that bring nothing but self inflicted misery. These are all "dead man's bones." Praise God! The "Bottomless Pit" in us is being opened and our false evil thoughts stored in the Computer of our minds is being reprogrammed by The Christ of of and light and truth. The Inner Man re-newed day by day. The law of Christ; the law of love: the law of faith written in our hearts and mind. Thank God for this judgement unto life!
THE SEA MEANS THE RESTLESS MIND
"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it." Rev. 20:13
The Sea is a symbol of humanity, running to and fro, always seeking for something better outside of himself. Never finding the peace and safety of Christ in himself. Double-minded and unstable in all his ways. Only when he is awakened to his true self, even the Christ within, will he come into the rest of God. Only when the sea (the carnal mind, which is death) gives up trying to live for Jesus, and lets the mind of Christ already in him live His life through him will he come into true balance and peace. Paul said, "For me to be living is Christ, and to be dying is gain. Phil. 1:21 LCNT
DEATH AND HELL DEFINED
" And death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them." Rev. 20:13
In the margin of my bible, HELL is rendered Hades or grave. In the LCNT (Concordant Literal translation) we read the UNSEEN. Actually HELL is not only unseen but imperceptible. We do not understand it in our natural mind. It must be revealed to us in the spirit. This is the work of Christ of the Holy Spirit in us. He will guide us into all truths not error! We can trust Him! The truth is written within our own heart and mind. Its been covered over by the rubbish of men's beliefs and doctrines. It is time for the SEALS to be removed and the truth declared to a groaning creation lying in the fear of the unknown. One thing is sure, God is a God of love and mercy. He will never torment His own creation, which is an extension of His SPIRIT-SELF in flesh. His offspring, meaning race or all mankind. He would be torturing or annihilating part of His own body. Too long our loving Father has been characterized as a cruel unforgiving monster by Christianity. This has been done in ignorance, due to mistranslations of the original scriptures and the imagination of our own mind. This is seen in the drawings and carvings of so-called famous artists and sculptors during the dark ages. Even in this very day, imaginary false ideas of God are preached over T.V. and over pulpits, in such a way that they form the wrong conception in the minds of those who listen to such ignorance. People's minds are still being held in bondage by the clever maneuverings of the clergy. Be thankful for the day of enlightenment. We can know God for ourself. God's Spirit is moving anew in the hearts and minds of His creation. Man is coming to a new realization of God living IN HIMSELF. Christ in YOU the hope of Glory!
LAKE OF FIRE, IS THE SECOND DEATH
Not only does death and hell give up the dead in it, but DEATH AND HELL are cast into the lake of fire. This the Second Death. We have already found out that the Second Death is not our enemy. Instead it is really our Friendly Foe. It is God's Purifying Fire. Burning up our dross, changing it into PURE GOLD, which represents His Divine Nature. God is Consuming Fire. Consuming all that is unlike God; only God is left!
WHAT IS DEATH?
Jesus said, "Lazarus sleepeth." When the disciples said "If he sleeps he shall do well". Jesus realized they did not understand Him, so He said plainly, "Lazarus is dead." John 11:4-13.
In this discussion, I am realizing that Jesus had a different understanding of death than that of His disciples. He said, "I must go and awaken Lazarus out of sleep". And all He said to him was "Lazarus come forth." The SPIRIT had never left. Where could it go? It is everywhere at the same time. There is no time or space or death in Spirit, and we are Spiritual Beings. In Spirit all is already finished perfectly. Heb. 4:3. Jesus said, "Follow Me, let the dead bury their dead." Matt. 8:22. To Jesus death was a lack of understanding of who He really was and a lack of understanding of what it was to be His disciple. A disciple of Jesus is one who has "Come out from among the dead." Matt. 8: 19-21.
There is no turning back. It's impossible! You are being born of an INCORRUPTABLE SEED. This Seed cannot die. 1 Pet. 1:23. It is the Seed of Christ and we are IN that Seed. The outside shell may be perishing, but THE I AM that I AM inside has no end! The life I am living in the flesh has no end, for I am living by THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST. His FAITH shall not fail, for He loves me and gives Himself to me. Gal. 2:20. A gracious gift of life, unspeakable and full of glory.
THE GREAT WHITE THRONE - A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
Now let us examine the scriptures stating that "Death and hell are cast into the lake of fire. This is the Second Death." Rev. 20:14
To arrive at the true understanding of this verse, we must first find the setting around this scripture or the context. It is between Revelation 20:11 to Revelation 20: 15. Here we find that the earth and heaven are fled away from the face of Him sitting on a Great White Throne, "and there was no place for them." If this is literal, where did they go? This a spiritual awakening, coming into a new consciousness. The old has passed away never to return. DUST returns to dust. But we see all things new. Rev. 21:1, 4-5. SPIRITUALIZED - MATERIALIZED MAN! "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God." If this is a literal resurrection of all the dead small and great, who will care for the babies, premature and aborted? And how will it be done without a heaven and earth on which to stand?
This is a Spiritual awaakening in our spirit-soul-mind realm. This is not some future event called: the Judgemnet Day. This is Christ Jesus awakening His Body to a new consciousness in God. We are THE BOOKS opened up and examined now - living epistles seen and read of all men. The Seals are being removed from our subconscious mind. We are beginning to remember our Father, how we were always His delight; there has never been a separation. Prov. 8:30. "and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." Rev. 20:12
THE JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST - Rom. 14:10
This judgement is taking place now in our daily lives. Christ Jesus is cleansing His Temple by the Holy Ghost and fire separationg the wheat from the chaff. The chaff is our humanity or fleshly desire. This fire will not be quenched till the outer worldly life is completely dissolved into the Inner Man. Matt. 3:11-12. The Judgement Seat of Christ is a footstool judgement. It was once held out in the open street where the common people could gather and settle their differences. Now it is called: The People's Court on T.V. It is a judgement concerning our daily walk among our fellowman. Read 1 Corinthians 3:11-15. "If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: But he himself shall be saved: yet so as by FIRE.
Christ is seated within us judging our talk and walk, not to condemn but to bring us into life and truth and victory over the "death and hell" within our own carnal minds. Our soulish mind is a grave of old memories, filled with old habits and traditions; useless regrets, imaginary and unforgiven offences, hurts and slights, that bring nothing but self inflicted misery. These are all "dead man's bones." Praise God! The "Bottomless Pit" in us is being opened and our false evil thoughts stored in the Computer of our minds is being reprogrammed by The Christ of of and light and truth. The Inner Man re-newed day by day. The law of Christ; the law of love: the law of faith written in our hearts and mind. Thank God for this judgement unto life!
THE SEA MEANS THE RESTLESS MIND
"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it." Rev. 20:13
The Sea is a symbol of humanity, running to and fro, always seeking for something better outside of himself. Never finding the peace and safety of Christ in himself. Double-minded and unstable in all his ways. Only when he is awakened to his true self, even the Christ within, will he come into the rest of God. Only when the sea (the carnal mind, which is death) gives up trying to live for Jesus, and lets the mind of Christ already in him live His life through him will he come into true balance and peace. Paul said, "For me to be living is Christ, and to be dying is gain. Phil. 1:21 LCNT
DEATH AND HELL DEFINED
" And death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them." Rev. 20:13
In the margin of my bible, HELL is rendered Hades or grave. In the LCNT (Concordant Literal translation) we read the UNSEEN. Actually HELL is not only unseen but imperceptible. We do not understand it in our natural mind. It must be revealed to us in the spirit. This is the work of Christ of the Holy Spirit in us. He will guide us into all truths not error! We can trust Him! The truth is written within our own heart and mind. Its been covered over by the rubbish of men's beliefs and doctrines. It is time for the SEALS to be removed and the truth declared to a groaning creation lying in the fear of the unknown. One thing is sure, God is a God of love and mercy. He will never torment His own creation, which is an extension of His SPIRIT-SELF in flesh. His offspring, meaning race or all mankind. He would be torturing or annihilating part of His own body. Too long our loving Father has been characterized as a cruel unforgiving monster by Christianity. This has been done in ignorance, due to mistranslations of the original scriptures and the imagination of our own mind. This is seen in the drawings and carvings of so-called famous artists and sculptors during the dark ages. Even in this very day, imaginary false ideas of God are preached over T.V. and over pulpits, in such a way that they form the wrong conception in the minds of those who listen to such ignorance. People's minds are still being held in bondage by the clever maneuverings of the clergy. Be thankful for the day of enlightenment. We can know God for ourself. God's Spirit is moving anew in the hearts and minds of His creation. Man is coming to a new realization of God living IN HIMSELF. Christ in YOU the hope of Glory!
LAKE OF FIRE, IS THE SECOND DEATH
Not only does death and hell give up the dead in it, but DEATH AND HELL are cast into the lake of fire. This the Second Death. We have already found out that the Second Death is not our enemy. Instead it is really our Friendly Foe. It is God's Purifying Fire. Burning up our dross, changing it into PURE GOLD, which represents His Divine Nature. God is Consuming Fire. Consuming all that is unlike God; only God is left!
The Friendly Foe or The Second Death - Part 3
by Dora Van Assen
GOD THE GREAT TRANSFORMER - Mal. 3:1-3 & Heb. 12:29
Let me give an illustration: Even natural fire consumes or changes everything. Whatever we put in the fire, like paper, wood or coal, turns into flames of fire, even iron changes into steel by fire. And, yes, when steel is held in the fire long enough, it begins to flame red hot. All these things become fire, then they chnage, returning back into their original elements, especially kerosene, gasoline and oil, etc. Praise God, He is The Great Consumer, metamorphosing all unto Himself. Nothing is lost or wasted. Rom. 11:36.
He makes His ministers flames of fire. God's word spoken in and through them are flames of fire, penetrating into the hardest heart and darkened mind. He is opening the subconscious causing man to remember his true identity. Who he is and was and always shall be. The work of the Holy Spirit bringing all to our remembrance. Another meaning of mind is grave or place of remembrance. Too long we have kept our departed loved ones in a grave in the dust. Tjis is an illusion. They are not there, beloved! They fell asleep IN CHIRST, and Christ is not a literal grave, unless you do not know Him in an intimate union of love, pressed together in one (mind, soul, spirit) engulfed IN AND AS one spiritualized form, called the Inner Man, and that you are holding Him in a prison within your own self. Listen, He is knowing inside of you to let Him out. Let Him manifest Himself in and through you. Too long we have not discerned The Lord's Body. That is why we are weak, sickly, dying, because we have not recognized that we are the Lord's Body.
I thank you Father for my Friendly Foe (The Second Death) which is making me conscious of your inward dealing and workings within my Inner Man. A daily renewing as my outer man (flesh body) is burned up, becoming ashes. This is taking place right now in my daily dying and renewing; an ongoing process. The seen OUTER MAN being swallowed up by the Unseen INNER MAN. The mortal functions decreasing while the invisible IMMORTAL SPIRITUAL INNER MAN increases. SPIRIT becomes MATERIALIZED-SPIRIT and material becomes SPIRITUALIZED-MATERIAL. God used both the Outer and the Inner Man. Death is destroying death - The carnal mind which IS death. We are being "delivered from the bondage of the fear of death!" Fear hath torment. Hebrews 2:15, compare with 1 John 4:18.
The quicker we let go and accept the processing of God, dying to all these outer natural things; even to our own visible body which is temporal, the quicker our own pain and suffering will cease by the discovery ofour real life within. Joy unspeakable and full of glory! "And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Blessed are the dead which die IN THE LORD from henceforth." Rev. 14:13 This only takes place when Christ Jesus is Lord of my life; in full control of both Inner and Outer Man, preserving Spirit, Soul and Body. 1Thess. 5:23. "Unto the coming (entering in and arising) of the Lord." "Arise, shine: for thy light IS come, and the glory of the Lord IS risen upon thee. Isa. 60:1. Like an artesian well springing up, overflowing you.
THE OPENING OF THE BOOKS
Now let us consider Revelation 15:14, where we read: "And whosoever was not found written in The Bood of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire."
We see in verse 12, "the Books were opened: and another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life." There is a distinction made between The Books and The Book of Life. God has given Christ to be the HEAD over all things to the church, which IS HIS BODY. Eph. 1:23. So we see Christ as our Head, as we are the Body of Christ. Christ, The Head - The Book of Life, did not need to be opened. he was oopened and JUDGED before all creation; heaven, earth, and under the earth. All His natural ministry was an open book, nothing hid, nothing of self. He always pointed towards His Father and directed the attention of all people towards His Father, not unto Himself. "Of myself I can do nothing. I can only do what I see my Father do, and say what I hear my Father say. These works are not my works, they are the works of my Father." He lived a life of self denial. He died daily, tasting death for every man.
He died completely to Himself in the Garden as He prayed, "Father let this cup (lot) pass from me, nevertheless not my will but thine be done! He was not praying for God to lighten the burden of the whole world resting on Him or to keep Himself from going to the cross. He said, "For this cause came I unto the world." He cried out, "NEVER-THE-LESS." No matter what I have to go through, please don't give me anything less because I am human. "I want your will to be done!, even if I die here. GOD heard His cry! An angel appeared unto Him to help Him!! He was under such pressure, He became sore amazed and to be very heavy. He said unto His disciples, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death." Mark 14:34-35. He began to pray in such agony that His sweat became drops of blood. Luke 22:43-44.
There is a record of two soldiersin World War 2 who were under fire so long that their hearts broke due to the fatigue and pressure. When they were found, they were sweating blood. They both died of a ruptured hearat. Jesus swear blood when His heart broke with the load of sorrow for all men. He did not die! An angel appeared to strengthen Him. Christ, The Lamb of God, was ordained before time began to be the Saviour of the World. He was destined to die on a tree to redeem us from the Curse of the law. "Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree." God's will was done!
Jesus did not take "the less" to save Himself from pain and sorrow. He attained unto the "greater" to become the FIRST-FRUITS of The New Creation Man. CHRIST, Head of the Body of Christ. CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD: manifested in and through all creation.
WHOSOEVER OR WHATSOEVER
Now back again to Revelations 20:15. Let us consider the word, 'whosoever'. In searching for the true meaning of this scripture, I found that the words 'whosoever' and 'whatsoever' aare used interchangeably. They both are used for the words, WHO, WHICH, WHAT, THAT, ONE, MASCULINE, FEMININE, NEUTER and IT. The subject in the sentence clarifies it. The subject in Revelations 20:15 is speaking of DEATH and HELL - not the people in it. For death and hell gave up the "dead" that were in it. THEY ARE THE GREAT AND SMALL STANDING BEFORE THE WHITE THRONE. THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN JUDGED. Only the things that caused "Death and Hell" are left to be cast into the lake of fire. Such things as disease, germs, bacteria, worms and whatsoever destroys the body. Also all negative thougths, such as fears, regrets, remorse, (the worm that dieth not) and whatsoever other things that casue pain and sorrow. These are the things that cause pain and sorrow. These are the things cast into the lake of fire, which is God's consuming process; purifying and changing all back into Himself through Christ. Rom. 11:36, Eph. 1:10, Col. 2:8, 11, 15. Jesus put off - STRIPPED HIMSELF, or SHOOK THE CORRUPTIBLE DUST OFF His body when He AROSE FROM THE GRAVE.
Now we are coming to our last reference on the purpose of The Second Death. Rev. 21:7-8. "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be my son. But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers, and sorcerers and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. This is the Second Death."
These scriptures must be taken together. They are connected with the conjunction - BUT. It is written to the same company of people. Those who overcome and those who do not overcome. The overcomer shall be a SON, who inherits all things. The non-overcomer will continue to have judement or correction until he also overcomes: that is, he is delivered by the purifying fire of Christ. The Holy Spirit of God, DWELLING WITHIN, from all inward lying sorceries that worketh abominations before God. These all stem forth from fear and UNBELIEF. "As a man thinks in his heart so is he." Oh, we cry out, "No! that's not me! I would never do such horrible things! This is speaking of unbelievers and ungodly men who know not God!" That is right! We are ungodly unbelievers until we come to ourself, like the ProdigaL Son in the pig pen of his own carnal mind. When he came to himself, immediately he RECOGNIZED his Father, who He was, and his own relationship to Him as His Son. Immediately all fear and doubt was taken away; DISAPPEARED as darkness before the NOON DAY SUN. He knew there was no separation. He was his Father's Son all the time he was living it up in his mistaken identity. When we know God, then our ungodliness turns into GODLINESS.
This is a White Throne Judgement dealing with our inner thought and motives, not our outward appearances or expressions. This White Throne speaks of purity of SPIRIT IN mind, soul, and body.
We are so lacking in love and trust, we have little confidence in God or in our neighbor, we lock everthing up around us. We live in prison houses of our own making, afraid to come out into the sunlight of His loving faithfulness, afraid to enter into that secret room hidden deep in our heart that nobody knows but God. So we won't let anyone in - not even Christ. Praise God! Christ is already in us, opening that locked door, awakening our consciousness so we may be aware of these ungodly thoughts so that they can come to the Light to be judged unto Life and Righteousness - IN HIM. "He will not crush a bruised reed or quench smoking flax until He has brought judgement into truth." Matt. 12:20, Isa. 42:3-4. He won't stop or leave until, we stand righteous in Him before God.
This Second Death judgement is laying the ax to the root of the tree. The root is not only hidden, but is the very seed and substance of The Tree of Good and Evil. This double minded state where we cannot come to any decision due to lack of confidence in ourself, brings worry and anxiety. It causes sleepless nights, tossing to and fro - no rest for mind or body. No matter where we go we cannot hide from ourself. Our own heart is the greatest deceiver. All lying is sorcery, stubborness is I-dolatry. These lying vanities and false pretenses we put on before the public in reality only reveal our inner nakedness before God.. Try as we will, we cannot hide our shame until we allow Christ to open up our inner being showing us our true self. So every imagination of our heart must be exposed to HIS LIGHT, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against God, and bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ. Allow Christ to do this! Cooperate by accepting His chastisement. "When we judge ourselves we shall not be judged." 1 Cor. 11:31. But if we do not judge ourselves, then He will judge us. This is taking our "Part" in the lake of fire, which is the Second Death, a death TO our SELF-LIFE. Christ is in my heart and in your heart right now, sitting as a refiner and PURIFIER of silver and gold. He will not be satisfied until He sees His own face reflected in our face. Only then can we offer a sacrifice of praise unto our Lord. Mal. 31-3, Heb. 13:15.
Now I want to turn your attention to the phrase: "and all liars shall have "THEIR PART" in the lake which burneth with fire and brinmstone." BRIMSTONE IS SULPHUR - USED AS A PURIFIER AND PRESERVING AGENT. In Strong's Exhaustive Concordance #3313, I found this word, "part" defined in Greek as: To get a section or allotment; division, share. Literally, it can mean coast, course, piece, portion, some sort or who what sort. Bro. William Branham, in his book The Seven Church Ages, translated this word; "Time". All liars shall have their TIME in the Lake - not forever. Surely the word, 'part' or 'portion' also suggest this to our understanding. It's only a piece - not the whole pie!
When we are judged according to our works, we will all need different kinds of correction - some will have many stripes and some will only have a few stripes. It is in accordance to how long it takes for us to let go our own will, coming willingly into harmony with the will of God. We ourself decide to lay down our soul-life. If we try to keep our soul we will lose it. If we lose our soul we will find it in Him.
"He who is fond of his soul is destroying it, and he who is hating his soul in this world, shall be guarding it for life eonian. John 12:25 LCNT
I am learning, the quicker I settle down, resolving in my own mind to accept any adjustment or align my will to His perfect will, all the hurt is gone. Hurt changed to gladness, sorrow into joy, loss into gain, death into life. My own resistance caused all the pain and turmoil in my heart. The instant I let go, I am free.
GOD THE GREAT TRANSFORMER - Mal. 3:1-3 & Heb. 12:29
Let me give an illustration: Even natural fire consumes or changes everything. Whatever we put in the fire, like paper, wood or coal, turns into flames of fire, even iron changes into steel by fire. And, yes, when steel is held in the fire long enough, it begins to flame red hot. All these things become fire, then they chnage, returning back into their original elements, especially kerosene, gasoline and oil, etc. Praise God, He is The Great Consumer, metamorphosing all unto Himself. Nothing is lost or wasted. Rom. 11:36.
He makes His ministers flames of fire. God's word spoken in and through them are flames of fire, penetrating into the hardest heart and darkened mind. He is opening the subconscious causing man to remember his true identity. Who he is and was and always shall be. The work of the Holy Spirit bringing all to our remembrance. Another meaning of mind is grave or place of remembrance. Too long we have kept our departed loved ones in a grave in the dust. Tjis is an illusion. They are not there, beloved! They fell asleep IN CHIRST, and Christ is not a literal grave, unless you do not know Him in an intimate union of love, pressed together in one (mind, soul, spirit) engulfed IN AND AS one spiritualized form, called the Inner Man, and that you are holding Him in a prison within your own self. Listen, He is knowing inside of you to let Him out. Let Him manifest Himself in and through you. Too long we have not discerned The Lord's Body. That is why we are weak, sickly, dying, because we have not recognized that we are the Lord's Body.
I thank you Father for my Friendly Foe (The Second Death) which is making me conscious of your inward dealing and workings within my Inner Man. A daily renewing as my outer man (flesh body) is burned up, becoming ashes. This is taking place right now in my daily dying and renewing; an ongoing process. The seen OUTER MAN being swallowed up by the Unseen INNER MAN. The mortal functions decreasing while the invisible IMMORTAL SPIRITUAL INNER MAN increases. SPIRIT becomes MATERIALIZED-SPIRIT and material becomes SPIRITUALIZED-MATERIAL. God used both the Outer and the Inner Man. Death is destroying death - The carnal mind which IS death. We are being "delivered from the bondage of the fear of death!" Fear hath torment. Hebrews 2:15, compare with 1 John 4:18.
The quicker we let go and accept the processing of God, dying to all these outer natural things; even to our own visible body which is temporal, the quicker our own pain and suffering will cease by the discovery ofour real life within. Joy unspeakable and full of glory! "And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Blessed are the dead which die IN THE LORD from henceforth." Rev. 14:13 This only takes place when Christ Jesus is Lord of my life; in full control of both Inner and Outer Man, preserving Spirit, Soul and Body. 1Thess. 5:23. "Unto the coming (entering in and arising) of the Lord." "Arise, shine: for thy light IS come, and the glory of the Lord IS risen upon thee. Isa. 60:1. Like an artesian well springing up, overflowing you.
THE OPENING OF THE BOOKS
Now let us consider Revelation 15:14, where we read: "And whosoever was not found written in The Bood of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire."
We see in verse 12, "the Books were opened: and another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life." There is a distinction made between The Books and The Book of Life. God has given Christ to be the HEAD over all things to the church, which IS HIS BODY. Eph. 1:23. So we see Christ as our Head, as we are the Body of Christ. Christ, The Head - The Book of Life, did not need to be opened. he was oopened and JUDGED before all creation; heaven, earth, and under the earth. All His natural ministry was an open book, nothing hid, nothing of self. He always pointed towards His Father and directed the attention of all people towards His Father, not unto Himself. "Of myself I can do nothing. I can only do what I see my Father do, and say what I hear my Father say. These works are not my works, they are the works of my Father." He lived a life of self denial. He died daily, tasting death for every man.
He died completely to Himself in the Garden as He prayed, "Father let this cup (lot) pass from me, nevertheless not my will but thine be done! He was not praying for God to lighten the burden of the whole world resting on Him or to keep Himself from going to the cross. He said, "For this cause came I unto the world." He cried out, "NEVER-THE-LESS." No matter what I have to go through, please don't give me anything less because I am human. "I want your will to be done!, even if I die here. GOD heard His cry! An angel appeared unto Him to help Him!! He was under such pressure, He became sore amazed and to be very heavy. He said unto His disciples, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death." Mark 14:34-35. He began to pray in such agony that His sweat became drops of blood. Luke 22:43-44.
There is a record of two soldiersin World War 2 who were under fire so long that their hearts broke due to the fatigue and pressure. When they were found, they were sweating blood. They both died of a ruptured hearat. Jesus swear blood when His heart broke with the load of sorrow for all men. He did not die! An angel appeared to strengthen Him. Christ, The Lamb of God, was ordained before time began to be the Saviour of the World. He was destined to die on a tree to redeem us from the Curse of the law. "Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree." God's will was done!
Jesus did not take "the less" to save Himself from pain and sorrow. He attained unto the "greater" to become the FIRST-FRUITS of The New Creation Man. CHRIST, Head of the Body of Christ. CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD: manifested in and through all creation.
WHOSOEVER OR WHATSOEVER
Now back again to Revelations 20:15. Let us consider the word, 'whosoever'. In searching for the true meaning of this scripture, I found that the words 'whosoever' and 'whatsoever' aare used interchangeably. They both are used for the words, WHO, WHICH, WHAT, THAT, ONE, MASCULINE, FEMININE, NEUTER and IT. The subject in the sentence clarifies it. The subject in Revelations 20:15 is speaking of DEATH and HELL - not the people in it. For death and hell gave up the "dead" that were in it. THEY ARE THE GREAT AND SMALL STANDING BEFORE THE WHITE THRONE. THEY HAVE ALREADY BEEN JUDGED. Only the things that caused "Death and Hell" are left to be cast into the lake of fire. Such things as disease, germs, bacteria, worms and whatsoever destroys the body. Also all negative thougths, such as fears, regrets, remorse, (the worm that dieth not) and whatsoever other things that casue pain and sorrow. These are the things that cause pain and sorrow. These are the things cast into the lake of fire, which is God's consuming process; purifying and changing all back into Himself through Christ. Rom. 11:36, Eph. 1:10, Col. 2:8, 11, 15. Jesus put off - STRIPPED HIMSELF, or SHOOK THE CORRUPTIBLE DUST OFF His body when He AROSE FROM THE GRAVE.
Now we are coming to our last reference on the purpose of The Second Death. Rev. 21:7-8. "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God and he shall be my son. But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers, and sorcerers and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. This is the Second Death."
These scriptures must be taken together. They are connected with the conjunction - BUT. It is written to the same company of people. Those who overcome and those who do not overcome. The overcomer shall be a SON, who inherits all things. The non-overcomer will continue to have judement or correction until he also overcomes: that is, he is delivered by the purifying fire of Christ. The Holy Spirit of God, DWELLING WITHIN, from all inward lying sorceries that worketh abominations before God. These all stem forth from fear and UNBELIEF. "As a man thinks in his heart so is he." Oh, we cry out, "No! that's not me! I would never do such horrible things! This is speaking of unbelievers and ungodly men who know not God!" That is right! We are ungodly unbelievers until we come to ourself, like the ProdigaL Son in the pig pen of his own carnal mind. When he came to himself, immediately he RECOGNIZED his Father, who He was, and his own relationship to Him as His Son. Immediately all fear and doubt was taken away; DISAPPEARED as darkness before the NOON DAY SUN. He knew there was no separation. He was his Father's Son all the time he was living it up in his mistaken identity. When we know God, then our ungodliness turns into GODLINESS.
This is a White Throne Judgement dealing with our inner thought and motives, not our outward appearances or expressions. This White Throne speaks of purity of SPIRIT IN mind, soul, and body.
We are so lacking in love and trust, we have little confidence in God or in our neighbor, we lock everthing up around us. We live in prison houses of our own making, afraid to come out into the sunlight of His loving faithfulness, afraid to enter into that secret room hidden deep in our heart that nobody knows but God. So we won't let anyone in - not even Christ. Praise God! Christ is already in us, opening that locked door, awakening our consciousness so we may be aware of these ungodly thoughts so that they can come to the Light to be judged unto Life and Righteousness - IN HIM. "He will not crush a bruised reed or quench smoking flax until He has brought judgement into truth." Matt. 12:20, Isa. 42:3-4. He won't stop or leave until, we stand righteous in Him before God.
This Second Death judgement is laying the ax to the root of the tree. The root is not only hidden, but is the very seed and substance of The Tree of Good and Evil. This double minded state where we cannot come to any decision due to lack of confidence in ourself, brings worry and anxiety. It causes sleepless nights, tossing to and fro - no rest for mind or body. No matter where we go we cannot hide from ourself. Our own heart is the greatest deceiver. All lying is sorcery, stubborness is I-dolatry. These lying vanities and false pretenses we put on before the public in reality only reveal our inner nakedness before God.. Try as we will, we cannot hide our shame until we allow Christ to open up our inner being showing us our true self. So every imagination of our heart must be exposed to HIS LIGHT, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against God, and bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ. Allow Christ to do this! Cooperate by accepting His chastisement. "When we judge ourselves we shall not be judged." 1 Cor. 11:31. But if we do not judge ourselves, then He will judge us. This is taking our "Part" in the lake of fire, which is the Second Death, a death TO our SELF-LIFE. Christ is in my heart and in your heart right now, sitting as a refiner and PURIFIER of silver and gold. He will not be satisfied until He sees His own face reflected in our face. Only then can we offer a sacrifice of praise unto our Lord. Mal. 31-3, Heb. 13:15.
Now I want to turn your attention to the phrase: "and all liars shall have "THEIR PART" in the lake which burneth with fire and brinmstone." BRIMSTONE IS SULPHUR - USED AS A PURIFIER AND PRESERVING AGENT. In Strong's Exhaustive Concordance #3313, I found this word, "part" defined in Greek as: To get a section or allotment; division, share. Literally, it can mean coast, course, piece, portion, some sort or who what sort. Bro. William Branham, in his book The Seven Church Ages, translated this word; "Time". All liars shall have their TIME in the Lake - not forever. Surely the word, 'part' or 'portion' also suggest this to our understanding. It's only a piece - not the whole pie!
When we are judged according to our works, we will all need different kinds of correction - some will have many stripes and some will only have a few stripes. It is in accordance to how long it takes for us to let go our own will, coming willingly into harmony with the will of God. We ourself decide to lay down our soul-life. If we try to keep our soul we will lose it. If we lose our soul we will find it in Him.
"He who is fond of his soul is destroying it, and he who is hating his soul in this world, shall be guarding it for life eonian. John 12:25 LCNT
I am learning, the quicker I settle down, resolving in my own mind to accept any adjustment or align my will to His perfect will, all the hurt is gone. Hurt changed to gladness, sorrow into joy, loss into gain, death into life. My own resistance caused all the pain and turmoil in my heart. The instant I let go, I am free.
The Friendly Foe or The Second Death - Part 4
by Dora Van Assen
"BLESSED AND HOLY IS HE THAT HATH "PART" IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION"
Rev. 20:6
As the body of Christ we are experiencing our PART in the Resurrection now, this very day. Every time we are quickened- made alive, in the life of Christ within we are being raised in Him. God gave Christ to be the Head of the Body to live His life in and through us. Eph. 1:23. As our Head, He is in our mind, leading and directing our thoughts and words, spoken in His Faith through our lips of clay. "What saith it?" We do not need to bring Christ down out of heaven, neither do we dig Him up out of hell; but the word (annointed Christ), is nigh thee even in thy mouth, the Word of Faith that you speak. Rom. 10:6-8. We are His visible expression in the earth.
IN partaking of His Resurrection, we are also partaking of the Second Death, at the same time-simultaneously: dying and rising daily. Life swallows up death. Mortal puts on immortal. This is done from within - not from without. Jesus brought life and immortality to Light iin our understanding. 2 Tim. 1:10.
God is giving me a new understanding of immortality. Mortal means the VISIBLE dying body. Immortal means the Invisible, Un-dying Body. This is the invisible, incorruptible Seed of Christ by which we are BEING BORN AGAIN, by the Word of God. 1 Pet. 1:22-23. Incorruptible is the same word as immortality in the Greek language. See Strong's Exhaustive Concordance #861 and #110.
Jesus Christ already has immortality. In fact, "He is the only one who has immortality, dwelling in a LIGHT that no one has seen nor can see." 1 Tim. 6:16. He is invisible to the human eye. "He is the King Eternal, Invisible, Immortal, the only wise God;" (1 Tim. 1:17) in that He is both fully God and fully man. The Head of the New Creation Man. Jesus is the first finished man. He was received up into Glory, made both Lord and Christ. Now He is planting His incorruptible Seed of Life in every man. "the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world," by His resurrected Life. The power of His Resurrection will continue to work in humanity until all shall know Him from the least to the greatest. They shall not say: "Know the Lord!", for all shall KNOW HIM and to know HIM IS LIFE ETERNAL.
OUR HOUSE IN OUR HEAVENS ( Spiritual Mind)
his Seed now impregnated in us "IS OUR HOUSE, ETERNAL IN THE HEAVENS" -Spirit-Mind Realm. 2 Cor. 5:1 and 2 Cor. 4:7. This Seed is the mind of Christ. "Christ in you our hope of glory." This Christ-Mind in our SPIRIT-SOUL-MIND is being continually clothed anew as we are changed from glory to glory into His very same image. 2 Cor. 3:18. "BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND." Rom. 12:2. "BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND." ePH. 4:22. "LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU WHICH WAS ALSO IN CHRIST JESUS." Phil. 2:5.
Let the Christ-Mind work in and through you. Let Him think His thoughts through your thoughts; becoming One Thought, spoken through your lips - The Word of Life, not death. The power of death is in the tongue. Therefore align your mind with the mind of God. When we realize we are pregnant in the natural realm, we immediately accept it and begin to work in harmony with it; even so when we awake to the Christ-Mind, impregnated within OUR MIND as an incorruptible Seed. We must accept it, yield our mind to His Mind. Our will and emotions are in our mind. We surrender them to His working in us. This INNER surrendering completely unto Him is harder than all the outward works we ever did for Jesus. It means dying to the old selfish-mind and putting on our Self-less mind of Christ. "Not I but Christ!" These are the good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Compare Gal. 2:20 with Eph. 2:10.
WE ARE BEING TRANSFORMED DAILY
Our Inner Man is continually changing clothes so "we shall not be found naked." If our earthly house, covering our Inner Tabernace, is dissolved, we still have a building of God, a house eternal in the heavens. 2 Cor. 5:1. This house is the Incorruptible Seed of Christ - it cannot be dissolved or go back to dust. THE EARTHEN VESSEL that contains the TREASURE always remains. "It is the excellency of the power of God." 2 Cor. 4:6,7. "All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in the "Christ"-mind." Col 2:3.
Like the young boy, Samuel, we ned a new inner coat each year to cover our developing and awakening Christ-mind or consciousness. His mother made him a new couat as he grew in wisdom and stature. Stature does not mean only bodily height, but it also means a quality or status gaianed by growth, development or achievement. As his mother saw only his gowth in height, Eli, the High Priest, saw his spiritual gowth in wisdom and stature, accepting The Word of God coming out of his mouth.
Our Mother, The Comforter, is knitting us a new garment to cover and fit our ever increasing and changing Inner Man, in (spirit-soul-mind realm) as our outer man is also changing and decreasing in appearance, shrinking in size - becoming more feeble in mind and body. The natural man in all his achievement and worldy gain sooon fades away in the annals of time, and his place "under the sun" is remembered no more. But the GARMENT covering the Spiritual man is RE-newed daily, till it springs up like an artesian well, over-flowing and covering the outer man completely. Integrating and absorbing each other, forming One New Man. The New Creation Man - The Very Image of God, a corporate expression of God's love reaching out to all creation. This corporate expresion of God, are the Sons of God's love. They love not only the church, Head and Body, but they love all creation with the pure love of God. Only when we truly love ourself can we truly love all men as God does. All creation is crying out for this true love. Heaven and Earth and under the Earth is waiting for the manifestation of the Sons of God.
THE MAN-I-FESTATION OR UNVEILING
Romans 8:19-23
In this scripture we read that the whole creation is waiting in EXPECTATION for the Manifestation of the Sons of God. The Literal Concordant Translation renders this word, 'expectation' as PREMONITION: which means an anticipation of an event without conscious reason. It's like a woman who begins to clean her house and prepare an extra large dinner, she does not really know why, until unexpected company arrives just at dinner time! All creation has this "sense" in the depth of his being. He may not know why, but all men have a hope or expectation for something better to happen. This is a God-given urge to improve himself and his surroundings. Only he is looking in the wrong place. He cannot be satisfied with outward things. Only God, already in us can fill that need.
"BLESSED AND HOLY IS HE THAT HATH "PART" IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION"
Rev. 20:6
As the body of Christ we are experiencing our PART in the Resurrection now, this very day. Every time we are quickened- made alive, in the life of Christ within we are being raised in Him. God gave Christ to be the Head of the Body to live His life in and through us. Eph. 1:23. As our Head, He is in our mind, leading and directing our thoughts and words, spoken in His Faith through our lips of clay. "What saith it?" We do not need to bring Christ down out of heaven, neither do we dig Him up out of hell; but the word (annointed Christ), is nigh thee even in thy mouth, the Word of Faith that you speak. Rom. 10:6-8. We are His visible expression in the earth.
IN partaking of His Resurrection, we are also partaking of the Second Death, at the same time-simultaneously: dying and rising daily. Life swallows up death. Mortal puts on immortal. This is done from within - not from without. Jesus brought life and immortality to Light iin our understanding. 2 Tim. 1:10.
God is giving me a new understanding of immortality. Mortal means the VISIBLE dying body. Immortal means the Invisible, Un-dying Body. This is the invisible, incorruptible Seed of Christ by which we are BEING BORN AGAIN, by the Word of God. 1 Pet. 1:22-23. Incorruptible is the same word as immortality in the Greek language. See Strong's Exhaustive Concordance #861 and #110.
Jesus Christ already has immortality. In fact, "He is the only one who has immortality, dwelling in a LIGHT that no one has seen nor can see." 1 Tim. 6:16. He is invisible to the human eye. "He is the King Eternal, Invisible, Immortal, the only wise God;" (1 Tim. 1:17) in that He is both fully God and fully man. The Head of the New Creation Man. Jesus is the first finished man. He was received up into Glory, made both Lord and Christ. Now He is planting His incorruptible Seed of Life in every man. "the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world," by His resurrected Life. The power of His Resurrection will continue to work in humanity until all shall know Him from the least to the greatest. They shall not say: "Know the Lord!", for all shall KNOW HIM and to know HIM IS LIFE ETERNAL.
OUR HOUSE IN OUR HEAVENS ( Spiritual Mind)
his Seed now impregnated in us "IS OUR HOUSE, ETERNAL IN THE HEAVENS" -Spirit-Mind Realm. 2 Cor. 5:1 and 2 Cor. 4:7. This Seed is the mind of Christ. "Christ in you our hope of glory." This Christ-Mind in our SPIRIT-SOUL-MIND is being continually clothed anew as we are changed from glory to glory into His very same image. 2 Cor. 3:18. "BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND." Rom. 12:2. "BE RENEWED IN THE SPIRIT OF YOUR MIND." ePH. 4:22. "LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU WHICH WAS ALSO IN CHRIST JESUS." Phil. 2:5.
Let the Christ-Mind work in and through you. Let Him think His thoughts through your thoughts; becoming One Thought, spoken through your lips - The Word of Life, not death. The power of death is in the tongue. Therefore align your mind with the mind of God. When we realize we are pregnant in the natural realm, we immediately accept it and begin to work in harmony with it; even so when we awake to the Christ-Mind, impregnated within OUR MIND as an incorruptible Seed. We must accept it, yield our mind to His Mind. Our will and emotions are in our mind. We surrender them to His working in us. This INNER surrendering completely unto Him is harder than all the outward works we ever did for Jesus. It means dying to the old selfish-mind and putting on our Self-less mind of Christ. "Not I but Christ!" These are the good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Compare Gal. 2:20 with Eph. 2:10.
WE ARE BEING TRANSFORMED DAILY
Our Inner Man is continually changing clothes so "we shall not be found naked." If our earthly house, covering our Inner Tabernace, is dissolved, we still have a building of God, a house eternal in the heavens. 2 Cor. 5:1. This house is the Incorruptible Seed of Christ - it cannot be dissolved or go back to dust. THE EARTHEN VESSEL that contains the TREASURE always remains. "It is the excellency of the power of God." 2 Cor. 4:6,7. "All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in the "Christ"-mind." Col 2:3.
Like the young boy, Samuel, we ned a new inner coat each year to cover our developing and awakening Christ-mind or consciousness. His mother made him a new couat as he grew in wisdom and stature. Stature does not mean only bodily height, but it also means a quality or status gaianed by growth, development or achievement. As his mother saw only his gowth in height, Eli, the High Priest, saw his spiritual gowth in wisdom and stature, accepting The Word of God coming out of his mouth.
Our Mother, The Comforter, is knitting us a new garment to cover and fit our ever increasing and changing Inner Man, in (spirit-soul-mind realm) as our outer man is also changing and decreasing in appearance, shrinking in size - becoming more feeble in mind and body. The natural man in all his achievement and worldy gain sooon fades away in the annals of time, and his place "under the sun" is remembered no more. But the GARMENT covering the Spiritual man is RE-newed daily, till it springs up like an artesian well, over-flowing and covering the outer man completely. Integrating and absorbing each other, forming One New Man. The New Creation Man - The Very Image of God, a corporate expression of God's love reaching out to all creation. This corporate expresion of God, are the Sons of God's love. They love not only the church, Head and Body, but they love all creation with the pure love of God. Only when we truly love ourself can we truly love all men as God does. All creation is crying out for this true love. Heaven and Earth and under the Earth is waiting for the manifestation of the Sons of God.
THE MAN-I-FESTATION OR UNVEILING
Romans 8:19-23
In this scripture we read that the whole creation is waiting in EXPECTATION for the Manifestation of the Sons of God. The Literal Concordant Translation renders this word, 'expectation' as PREMONITION: which means an anticipation of an event without conscious reason. It's like a woman who begins to clean her house and prepare an extra large dinner, she does not really know why, until unexpected company arrives just at dinner time! All creation has this "sense" in the depth of his being. He may not know why, but all men have a hope or expectation for something better to happen. This is a God-given urge to improve himself and his surroundings. Only he is looking in the wrong place. He cannot be satisfied with outward things. Only God, already in us can fill that need.
The Friendly Foe or The Second Death - Part 5
by Dora Van Assen
THE TRAVAILING CREATION
When God lowered creation into vanity (uselessness), He did it in hope. He gave man a hope. Without hope we would go crazy- even God! God has a hope or expectation for creation. It is His plan to bring creation through this subjecting experience until all is pure even as He is pure. All is of God, all is going through God's filter; like coffee in a Mr. Coffe maker, until nothing is left but God! God has faith in His own creation.!!
It is this hope that is causing all creation to travail together in birth pangs for deliverance. "For we are aware that the entire creation is groaning and travailing together until now." Rom. 8:22 LCNT. It is now that we are realizing that all creation is one unit, so closely knit and entertwined it cannot be divided. We are all part of each other - The Great Body of God, "all live and move and have their being in God." Acts 17:28
Dear Ones, "We ourselves who have the first fruits of the Spirit, are groaning in ourselves, awaiting our SONSHIP, the deliverance of our body." Rom. 8:23 LCNT The King James Version uses the word "adoption", which means in the Greek, the placing of a Son in a place of authority in the household and the business of his father. He was always a son but now he becomes a manifestation his his father in the community. He represents his father as a grown-up person. We are "groaning inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies (from sensuality and the grave), which will reveal our adoption (our manifestation as God's sons)" Rom. 8:23 AMP This is what all creation is waiting for, that they too may be delivered. "For to expectation were we saved." Rom. 8:24 LCNT "For in (this) hope were we saved. Rom 8: 24 AMP
In this scripture, in its true translation, Christ is awakening in my heart and mind that God Himself placed this EXPECTATION and desire in me to be a SON, MANIFESTED to all creation. That He is groaning in and through me, and we are all groaning together. "I do not know what I should pray for as I ought, but the SPIRIT itself maketh intercession for me in groaning that cannot be uttered. Rom. 8:26-27. It is becoming a burning desire not only to save myself, but to save all who hear and SEE ME. To see Him is to be like Him. When others hear and see Christ in me, they too will desire Him. This is not my words or my work, it is the work of Christ in me. "Look well to youself (to your own personality) and to your teaching: presevere in these things - hold to them. for by so dong you will save yourself and those who hear you. 1 Tim. 4:16 We are called to be saviors!
My life is hid with Christ in God, and when Christ, who is my true life appears, I shall appear with Him in glory; One New Man, having all His power and attributes, radiating out to all humanity. This is taking place now. It's written: We are groaning for its release.
THIS IS THE ORDER (1Cor. 15:20-24)
1. "Christ the First Fruits" - The Head
2. Then "those who are Christ's at His coming" not from heaven above, but from within; awakening our mind to His presence, making us One New Mind - The Mind of Christ- in every living stone making up HIS BODY. Head and Body complete, One Corporate Man ready to be manifest to creation.
3. "Then Cometh the End." Not the end of the world, but the End of the Harvest, which is the result of the Seed of Christ planted in the heart of every man. The First Fruit is not the whole harvest. They are the Seed that appears (ripen first) as a sign that all the rest of the harvest will be ripened and reaped, each in their own order and time.
Christ, the first fruit, and those who are Christ's at His coming, are one body, The Head and Body of Christ. They are manifested together as one complete body. No body is complete without a head, and no head is complete in itself. It needs a body. Even so Christ is completed in His Body of Christ in the earth or visible realm. Though Jesus was made both Lord and Christ, He needs a body to reveal Himself. We cannot see Him for He is : "the King Eternal, invisible, immortal, the only wise God." 1Tim. 1:17. "Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; who no man hath seen nor can see." 1 Tim. 6:16. Jesus, THE MAN, is invisible - though He is immortal, He is waiting for His body to be completed. "When He appears we also appear with Him, and are glorified together with Him. Col 3:4. "If we are children, then we are heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with Him, (die to self -The Second Death) that we may be also glorified together. The suffering is not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us." Rom. 8:17-18.
This is why Jesus is still waiting on us. "Whom the heavens must receive (retain -hold in same place) until the times of restoration of all things." Acts 3:21. First the head and body of Christ are restored together as one whole man, then all creation is released and restored in and through the Manifestation of The Sons of God ministry. They stand in Christ stead, unveiled as Christ, before all creation, saying unto all, "Come and drink of the water of life freely!" "BE YE RECONCILED TO GOD!" This will bring to pass the saying: "O Death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? The whole creation delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God." Rom. 8:21, 1 Cor. 15:55. The Grand Plan of God's Redemption fulfilled in all the Universe.
But you ask, "When do we reign with Christ a thousand years?" We are reigning with Him now in this age of flesh. The King is in His Kingdom within us. The Body of Christ is The Kingdom of God in the earth - "the treasure hid in a field (world); and the leaven hid in three measures of meal, till the whole lump is leavened." The lump is the universe; heaven, earth and under the earth. Matt. 13:33, 44-45. "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and His Christ, and He shall reign for the ages of the ages. Rev. 11:15. We do not know how long this period will be, but it will end. "For He must reign till all enemies are put under His feet. The feet of His Body (till denotes ending or ceasing). "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." [there is only one way to destroy death - that is by making all alive!] There is only one way to destroy darkness, by turning on the light! The work of Christ in and through His Body - The Manifested Sons, will go on until the whole universe has the Light and Life of Christ. 1 Cor. 15:24-28.
So we do not destroy the Kingdoms of this world, but we save them. We woo creation as a Bridegroom woos his Bride. These Kingdoms become or (are converted) and become a very part of Himself. As The Bride of Christ, they also enter The Kingdom of The Son of His Love.
THE TRAVAILING CREATION
When God lowered creation into vanity (uselessness), He did it in hope. He gave man a hope. Without hope we would go crazy- even God! God has a hope or expectation for creation. It is His plan to bring creation through this subjecting experience until all is pure even as He is pure. All is of God, all is going through God's filter; like coffee in a Mr. Coffe maker, until nothing is left but God! God has faith in His own creation.!!
It is this hope that is causing all creation to travail together in birth pangs for deliverance. "For we are aware that the entire creation is groaning and travailing together until now." Rom. 8:22 LCNT. It is now that we are realizing that all creation is one unit, so closely knit and entertwined it cannot be divided. We are all part of each other - The Great Body of God, "all live and move and have their being in God." Acts 17:28
Dear Ones, "We ourselves who have the first fruits of the Spirit, are groaning in ourselves, awaiting our SONSHIP, the deliverance of our body." Rom. 8:23 LCNT The King James Version uses the word "adoption", which means in the Greek, the placing of a Son in a place of authority in the household and the business of his father. He was always a son but now he becomes a manifestation his his father in the community. He represents his father as a grown-up person. We are "groaning inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies (from sensuality and the grave), which will reveal our adoption (our manifestation as God's sons)" Rom. 8:23 AMP This is what all creation is waiting for, that they too may be delivered. "For to expectation were we saved." Rom. 8:24 LCNT "For in (this) hope were we saved. Rom 8: 24 AMP
In this scripture, in its true translation, Christ is awakening in my heart and mind that God Himself placed this EXPECTATION and desire in me to be a SON, MANIFESTED to all creation. That He is groaning in and through me, and we are all groaning together. "I do not know what I should pray for as I ought, but the SPIRIT itself maketh intercession for me in groaning that cannot be uttered. Rom. 8:26-27. It is becoming a burning desire not only to save myself, but to save all who hear and SEE ME. To see Him is to be like Him. When others hear and see Christ in me, they too will desire Him. This is not my words or my work, it is the work of Christ in me. "Look well to youself (to your own personality) and to your teaching: presevere in these things - hold to them. for by so dong you will save yourself and those who hear you. 1 Tim. 4:16 We are called to be saviors!
My life is hid with Christ in God, and when Christ, who is my true life appears, I shall appear with Him in glory; One New Man, having all His power and attributes, radiating out to all humanity. This is taking place now. It's written: We are groaning for its release.
THIS IS THE ORDER (1Cor. 15:20-24)
1. "Christ the First Fruits" - The Head
2. Then "those who are Christ's at His coming" not from heaven above, but from within; awakening our mind to His presence, making us One New Mind - The Mind of Christ- in every living stone making up HIS BODY. Head and Body complete, One Corporate Man ready to be manifest to creation.
3. "Then Cometh the End." Not the end of the world, but the End of the Harvest, which is the result of the Seed of Christ planted in the heart of every man. The First Fruit is not the whole harvest. They are the Seed that appears (ripen first) as a sign that all the rest of the harvest will be ripened and reaped, each in their own order and time.
Christ, the first fruit, and those who are Christ's at His coming, are one body, The Head and Body of Christ. They are manifested together as one complete body. No body is complete without a head, and no head is complete in itself. It needs a body. Even so Christ is completed in His Body of Christ in the earth or visible realm. Though Jesus was made both Lord and Christ, He needs a body to reveal Himself. We cannot see Him for He is : "the King Eternal, invisible, immortal, the only wise God." 1Tim. 1:17. "Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; who no man hath seen nor can see." 1 Tim. 6:16. Jesus, THE MAN, is invisible - though He is immortal, He is waiting for His body to be completed. "When He appears we also appear with Him, and are glorified together with Him. Col 3:4. "If we are children, then we are heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with Him, (die to self -The Second Death) that we may be also glorified together. The suffering is not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us." Rom. 8:17-18.
This is why Jesus is still waiting on us. "Whom the heavens must receive (retain -hold in same place) until the times of restoration of all things." Acts 3:21. First the head and body of Christ are restored together as one whole man, then all creation is released and restored in and through the Manifestation of The Sons of God ministry. They stand in Christ stead, unveiled as Christ, before all creation, saying unto all, "Come and drink of the water of life freely!" "BE YE RECONCILED TO GOD!" This will bring to pass the saying: "O Death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? The whole creation delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God." Rom. 8:21, 1 Cor. 15:55. The Grand Plan of God's Redemption fulfilled in all the Universe.
But you ask, "When do we reign with Christ a thousand years?" We are reigning with Him now in this age of flesh. The King is in His Kingdom within us. The Body of Christ is The Kingdom of God in the earth - "the treasure hid in a field (world); and the leaven hid in three measures of meal, till the whole lump is leavened." The lump is the universe; heaven, earth and under the earth. Matt. 13:33, 44-45. "The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and His Christ, and He shall reign for the ages of the ages. Rev. 11:15. We do not know how long this period will be, but it will end. "For He must reign till all enemies are put under His feet. The feet of His Body (till denotes ending or ceasing). "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." [there is only one way to destroy death - that is by making all alive!] There is only one way to destroy darkness, by turning on the light! The work of Christ in and through His Body - The Manifested Sons, will go on until the whole universe has the Light and Life of Christ. 1 Cor. 15:24-28.
So we do not destroy the Kingdoms of this world, but we save them. We woo creation as a Bridegroom woos his Bride. These Kingdoms become or (are converted) and become a very part of Himself. As The Bride of Christ, they also enter The Kingdom of The Son of His Love.
The Friendly Foe or The Second Death - Part 6
by Dora Van Assen
IN ADAM ALL ARE DYING
Oh, but you say, "I believe all this but I am dying!" Yes, we are all dying in The First Adam, but in Christ, The Last Adam, all are being made alive (vivified) never to die again. The ALL that are dying in The First Adam is the same ALL being made alive in Christ. There is no other all. ALL is ALL, an equation - ALL EQUALS ALL. 1 Cor. 15:22.
It is ordained of God that all die in the First Adam - whether AWAKE OR ASLEEP. "Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleeep, (be put to repose), but we shall all be changed!....and the dead shall be raised INCORRUPTIBLE and we shall be changed." 1 Cor. 15:51-52. Changed means to be made different, into another form or realm. The awake and sleeping both are changed. "Now we all with uncovered face, mirroring THE LORD'S GLORY, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit." 1 Cor. 3:18. This work is being done as we steadily behold the face of the Lord, as our own face. This is seeing, FACE TO FACE.
"Our conversation (conduct-behavior) is in heaven (our spiritual-mental realm) from whence we also look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change (transfigure) our vile (humilated) body," or (CONFORM it to the body of HIS GLORY) Phil.3:20-21 KJV & LCNT. Conform means to correspond in form and character, this coming of Christ, awakening our minds, is changing our character; which is changing our behavior, and will also change our body - bringing it into conformity with His Glorious Body. This old house will dissolve into the very structure of the New House. It is ordained of God that the Old must be swallowed up BY THE NEW into the Life of God. "Now He that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also has given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 2 Cor. 5:4-5. We have the First Fruit of the Spirit as an earnest (down payment or guarantee) of God's promise that His Word, The Living Incorruptible, deathless SEED of Christ, in us cannot fail. It will swallow up death and change us into His Immortal Life. He only has immortality, therefore He only can give it to us; and in fact, He has already given us the EARNEST OF THE SPIRIT as a free gift. If this can die - part of God can die. This is impossible. Therefore our inheritance as co-heirs in Christ is sure. Rom. 8:17. "Christ in you our hope of Glory!"
"According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or death. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Phil 1:20-21. I believe Paul came into a perfect stata of full surrender unto the will and purpose of God. He came into a rest and quietness in the center of his own being. This is the prayer of silence. Whatever happens is O.K. He wrote to Tiimothy, his son in the Gospel, "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge shall give to me at THAT DAY; and not for me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing. 2 Tim 4:17. The appearing of Christ in His saints is in a certain period of time, ehich Paul calls, 'THAT DAY'. Paul expected to be there, sharing in the glory of this long awaited event; together, even with those who were remaining in their natureal visible body. They would all, visible and invisible, meet together in the Spirit of The Lord, and be changed together in the Spirit of The Lord, and be changed together. 1 Cor. 15:51-52, 1 Thess. 4:9-11. Paul expected Christ to appear in him, that is in his body; and that he would receive a crown of rightiousness togethr with all others of all ages who love His appearing.
Paul did not expect to lose out in any way by falling asleep in Christ. As it was written in his script, and laid out in his course. He ran a good race and finished his course. What more can anyone do? Praise God! No one can add one step to his life journey in this earthen body. Luke 12:25. A cubit is a measure - the length of a forearm from shoulder to tip of the fingers, about 21 inches. Who wants to be 21 inches taller? This is speaking of our life span here on earth in the flesh.
For anyone IN CHRIST, the passing of this outer body is not the loss of their life. Hear the words of Jesus, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who is believing in Me, even if he should be dying, shall be living! And everyone who is living and believing in Me, should by no means be dying for the EON. This is, he shall be raised and be alive here on earth, in a REDEEMED VISIBLE BODY to reign with Jesus Christ in His Kingdom, for the eon! Compare John 11:25-26 with Luke 20:34-38. In Luke, Jesus calls "for the eon," that world or that age. Those who attain unto "that world" are called, the Sons of the Resurrection. Even though Lazarus was raised from the dead, Jesus knew he would die again. But He promised Martha that they would be raised in 'THAT DAY' of His appearing. 2 Tim. 1:12-14, 4:8. Jesus asked, "Do you believe this? I do! I expect to be in that appearing with all the saints in the Body of Christ. I know I have passed from death into the Life of Christ, regardless of what happens to this physical body. Christ is my Life. Christ lives in me - we are One! Christ has his being and nature IN ME, AND I IN HIM. His Life is ever on going, ever becoming. He is the Ever Becoming One - THE I AM.
Christ has given us His Life, He is now giving us His Life, and will continue to give us His life, whether in or out of the body. Christ overcame death while the body of The Man Jesus was lying in the tomb. Christ preached to the SPIRITS of those who died in the flood in the days of Noah. 1 Pet. 3:18-20. He opened the prison house of death. He took away the key. Hear His own words of victory: "I AM HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD: AND BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOR EVERMORE, AMEN: AND HAVE THE KEYS OF HELL AND OF DEATH." Rev. 1:18
FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONSTRAINETH US, BECAUSE WE THUS JUDGE THAT IF ONE DIED FOR ALL, THEN WERE ALL DEAD; AND THAT HE DIED FOR ALL, THAT THEY WHICH LIVE SHOULD NOT HENCEFORTH LIVE UNTO THEMSELVES, BUT UNTO HIM WHICH DIED FOR THEM AND ROSE AGAIN.
A wonderful truth is revealed in this scripture. That when that one man died, He died for all - not only all mankind, but for all creation. All Visible and Invisible Things. When He died, then all these things were also dead. But Praise God, when He arose all creation also arose with and in Him! Now we who are awakened or enlightened to this truth are no longer to live unto ourself, but unto Him who died and rose again in our behalf. He did this for our sake so He could give His Life not only for us, but TO US and IN US. There is no more death. Death has been destroyed by giving all life, whether they know it or not. 'FOR ALL LIVE UNTO HIM'. Luke 20:38. We may even deny Him, but He cannot deny HIMSELF. He came to bring life and that more abundantly.
COMFORT YOURSELF IN THIS TRUTH
"TAKE NOTICE! I tell you a mystery (a secret truth, an event decreed by the hidden purpose or counsel of God). We shall not all fall asleep (in death), but we shall all be changed (transformed).
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the (sound of the) last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead (in Christ) will be raised iimperishable (free and immune form decay), and we shall be changed (transformed).
For this perishable (part of us) must put on the imperishable (nature), and this mortal (part of us, this nature that is capable of dying) must put on immortality (freedom from death)
And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the scripute that says, death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished forever) in and unto victory."
O Death, where is your victory? O Death, Where is you sting?
Now sin is the sting of death, and sin exercised its power (upon the soul) through (the abuse of ) of the Law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory (making us conquerors) through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethern, be firm (steadfast), immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord (always being superior, excelling, doing more than enough in the service of the Lord), knowing and being continually aware that your labor in the Lord is not futile (it is never wasted or to no purpose)."
1 Cor. 15:51-58 Amplified
May God Bless You With Love,
Dora Van Assen
IN ADAM ALL ARE DYING
Oh, but you say, "I believe all this but I am dying!" Yes, we are all dying in The First Adam, but in Christ, The Last Adam, all are being made alive (vivified) never to die again. The ALL that are dying in The First Adam is the same ALL being made alive in Christ. There is no other all. ALL is ALL, an equation - ALL EQUALS ALL. 1 Cor. 15:22.
It is ordained of God that all die in the First Adam - whether AWAKE OR ASLEEP. "Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleeep, (be put to repose), but we shall all be changed!....and the dead shall be raised INCORRUPTIBLE and we shall be changed." 1 Cor. 15:51-52. Changed means to be made different, into another form or realm. The awake and sleeping both are changed. "Now we all with uncovered face, mirroring THE LORD'S GLORY, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit." 1 Cor. 3:18. This work is being done as we steadily behold the face of the Lord, as our own face. This is seeing, FACE TO FACE.
"Our conversation (conduct-behavior) is in heaven (our spiritual-mental realm) from whence we also look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change (transfigure) our vile (humilated) body," or (CONFORM it to the body of HIS GLORY) Phil.3:20-21 KJV & LCNT. Conform means to correspond in form and character, this coming of Christ, awakening our minds, is changing our character; which is changing our behavior, and will also change our body - bringing it into conformity with His Glorious Body. This old house will dissolve into the very structure of the New House. It is ordained of God that the Old must be swallowed up BY THE NEW into the Life of God. "Now He that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also has given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 2 Cor. 5:4-5. We have the First Fruit of the Spirit as an earnest (down payment or guarantee) of God's promise that His Word, The Living Incorruptible, deathless SEED of Christ, in us cannot fail. It will swallow up death and change us into His Immortal Life. He only has immortality, therefore He only can give it to us; and in fact, He has already given us the EARNEST OF THE SPIRIT as a free gift. If this can die - part of God can die. This is impossible. Therefore our inheritance as co-heirs in Christ is sure. Rom. 8:17. "Christ in you our hope of Glory!"
"According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether it be by life or death. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Phil 1:20-21. I believe Paul came into a perfect stata of full surrender unto the will and purpose of God. He came into a rest and quietness in the center of his own being. This is the prayer of silence. Whatever happens is O.K. He wrote to Tiimothy, his son in the Gospel, "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith, henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge shall give to me at THAT DAY; and not for me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing. 2 Tim 4:17. The appearing of Christ in His saints is in a certain period of time, ehich Paul calls, 'THAT DAY'. Paul expected to be there, sharing in the glory of this long awaited event; together, even with those who were remaining in their natureal visible body. They would all, visible and invisible, meet together in the Spirit of The Lord, and be changed together in the Spirit of The Lord, and be changed together. 1 Cor. 15:51-52, 1 Thess. 4:9-11. Paul expected Christ to appear in him, that is in his body; and that he would receive a crown of rightiousness togethr with all others of all ages who love His appearing.
Paul did not expect to lose out in any way by falling asleep in Christ. As it was written in his script, and laid out in his course. He ran a good race and finished his course. What more can anyone do? Praise God! No one can add one step to his life journey in this earthen body. Luke 12:25. A cubit is a measure - the length of a forearm from shoulder to tip of the fingers, about 21 inches. Who wants to be 21 inches taller? This is speaking of our life span here on earth in the flesh.
For anyone IN CHRIST, the passing of this outer body is not the loss of their life. Hear the words of Jesus, "I am the Resurrection and the Life. He who is believing in Me, even if he should be dying, shall be living! And everyone who is living and believing in Me, should by no means be dying for the EON. This is, he shall be raised and be alive here on earth, in a REDEEMED VISIBLE BODY to reign with Jesus Christ in His Kingdom, for the eon! Compare John 11:25-26 with Luke 20:34-38. In Luke, Jesus calls "for the eon," that world or that age. Those who attain unto "that world" are called, the Sons of the Resurrection. Even though Lazarus was raised from the dead, Jesus knew he would die again. But He promised Martha that they would be raised in 'THAT DAY' of His appearing. 2 Tim. 1:12-14, 4:8. Jesus asked, "Do you believe this? I do! I expect to be in that appearing with all the saints in the Body of Christ. I know I have passed from death into the Life of Christ, regardless of what happens to this physical body. Christ is my Life. Christ lives in me - we are One! Christ has his being and nature IN ME, AND I IN HIM. His Life is ever on going, ever becoming. He is the Ever Becoming One - THE I AM.
Christ has given us His Life, He is now giving us His Life, and will continue to give us His life, whether in or out of the body. Christ overcame death while the body of The Man Jesus was lying in the tomb. Christ preached to the SPIRITS of those who died in the flood in the days of Noah. 1 Pet. 3:18-20. He opened the prison house of death. He took away the key. Hear His own words of victory: "I AM HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD: AND BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOR EVERMORE, AMEN: AND HAVE THE KEYS OF HELL AND OF DEATH." Rev. 1:18
FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST CONSTRAINETH US, BECAUSE WE THUS JUDGE THAT IF ONE DIED FOR ALL, THEN WERE ALL DEAD; AND THAT HE DIED FOR ALL, THAT THEY WHICH LIVE SHOULD NOT HENCEFORTH LIVE UNTO THEMSELVES, BUT UNTO HIM WHICH DIED FOR THEM AND ROSE AGAIN.
A wonderful truth is revealed in this scripture. That when that one man died, He died for all - not only all mankind, but for all creation. All Visible and Invisible Things. When He died, then all these things were also dead. But Praise God, when He arose all creation also arose with and in Him! Now we who are awakened or enlightened to this truth are no longer to live unto ourself, but unto Him who died and rose again in our behalf. He did this for our sake so He could give His Life not only for us, but TO US and IN US. There is no more death. Death has been destroyed by giving all life, whether they know it or not. 'FOR ALL LIVE UNTO HIM'. Luke 20:38. We may even deny Him, but He cannot deny HIMSELF. He came to bring life and that more abundantly.
COMFORT YOURSELF IN THIS TRUTH
"TAKE NOTICE! I tell you a mystery (a secret truth, an event decreed by the hidden purpose or counsel of God). We shall not all fall asleep (in death), but we shall all be changed (transformed).
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the (sound of the) last trumpet call. For a trumpet will sound, and the dead (in Christ) will be raised iimperishable (free and immune form decay), and we shall be changed (transformed).
For this perishable (part of us) must put on the imperishable (nature), and this mortal (part of us, this nature that is capable of dying) must put on immortality (freedom from death)
And when this perishable puts on the imperishable and this that was capable of dying puts on freedom from death, then shall be fulfilled the scripute that says, death is swallowed up (utterly vanquished forever) in and unto victory."
O Death, where is your victory? O Death, Where is you sting?
Now sin is the sting of death, and sin exercised its power (upon the soul) through (the abuse of ) of the Law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory (making us conquerors) through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethern, be firm (steadfast), immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord (always being superior, excelling, doing more than enough in the service of the Lord), knowing and being continually aware that your labor in the Lord is not futile (it is never wasted or to no purpose)."
1 Cor. 15:51-58 Amplified
May God Bless You With Love,
Dora Van Assen
Sunday, May 15, 2011
The Angels Sing
I just found, on You-tube, a recording of a tape that I have had in my possession for a number of years.
It is supposed to be a small group of seven people practicing their music for choir. But when they played back their recording there is this magnanimous sound of the heavenly hosts singing with them on the tape.
The words to the song are:
Hallelujah! Greetings all across the land.
Everybody's singing at the Lord's command
All the saints and the angels up in glory
Wait to hear the news
Of Jesus and his children as they're coming through.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usXUFzh6YKQ&feature=related
It is supposed to be a small group of seven people practicing their music for choir. But when they played back their recording there is this magnanimous sound of the heavenly hosts singing with them on the tape.
The words to the song are:
Hallelujah! Greetings all across the land.
Everybody's singing at the Lord's command
All the saints and the angels up in glory
Wait to hear the news
Of Jesus and his children as they're coming through.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usXUFzh6YKQ&feature=related
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Eighth-Day Man by Dora Van Assen- Part 1 & 2
Please note: [while editing these writings, I got some of them out of numerical order, so please try to notice the proper order when reading]
Karen
THE EIGHT STAGES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAN (Adam) Part 1 & 2
While meditating upon the development of this eighth man in this era, the Spirit began to formulate these thoughts within my mind. We present them for your consideration.
1. ADAM IN ANGELIC FORM
We have taught that sin started in the heart of Lucifer, a beautiful fallen angel, who because of his disobedience became satan. Yet the Bible states that sin entered into the world by one man, and that man is Adam! "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin", and again we read, "In Adam all die", Romans 5:12; 1 Cor. 15:22. Sin did not enter into the world by an angel, nor even by satan, but by one man. Thus we surmise that Lucifer was Adam in a higher creation vibration of light substance, in an angelic form called, The Day Star, The Light Bringer, or The Shining One. Isa. 14:12. This took place in the original creation of the heavens and the earth. "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth." Gen. 1:1. God spoke and creation came forth in all its pristine beauty and light. Psa. 33:8-9.
Is this too incredible to believe? Is there not a resurrection of man "equal unto angels?" Luke 20:35. And is not man being set over all the works of God's hands, from which he fell? Heb. 2:7 (quoted from Psa. 8:6) The original Hebrew translates this, "For thou hast made him a little lower than the Elohim (God) and hast crowned him with glory and honour." Thus we read that Lucifer-Adam was full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, covered with glittering jewels; full of music and that he walked in Eden, the Garden of God, in the midst of the stones of fire. He was God's annointed cherub that covered, perfect in all his ways, until iniquity was found in him! Eze. 28:12
This iniquity was pride. He said, "I will be like the most High," Isa. 14:12-14. Did not Adam later in the garden fall again through this same spirit of pride? He wanted to become like God. And is not man still arrogantly (without Christ) trying to push himself into the same Godly realm? Both Isaiah and Ezekiel were given forth an adumbration against the Kings of Babylon, Tyrus and Pharoah. Adumbration means to foreshadow, overshadow, and conceal. In other words, they were speaking (by the Spirit) of something that was happening directly in their day; and also about something that was yet to take place in the future. Indirectly, they were speaking to the spirit of pride that was in them, which had orginated in the mind of Lucifer-Adam.
A lamentation is spoken against the Assyrian, likening him to a tree (trees speak of men). This tree in the Garden of Eden had exalted itself above all the other trees in the Garden. Therefore, he was driven out, and all of mankind was delivered unto death, to the "nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit (grave)." Eze. 31:1-14.
When God began to reveal THE TRIPLE FALL OF MAN, from the Spirit to the Soulish to the Carnal-Mind-Death realms, I could not harmonize it with a scripture found in 1 Cor. 15:44-46. "there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body....Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual."
It is now becoming clear that Lucifer-Adam was first natural in a high angelic form. Angels have bodies that can be both visible and invisible. Jesus was make lower than angels for the suffering of death, but he has been crowned with glory and honor far above angels. He is dwelling in the true Spirit of God, in a light no man hath seen nor can see. 1 Tim. 6:16. So first is the natural and then comes the spiritual, unto which we are now pressing, longing for our change like unto Christ. We have had to change our opinion about the heavens, since the astronauts found the moon was made of the same natural materials as the earth. The celestials are far above the terrestials, a realm where no man or angel has ever ascended - only the Lord Jesus Christ!!!
Lucifer-Adam lifted himself in pride above the Lord, therefore God said, "I will cast thee as profane out of the Mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire." Profane means contempt for the things of God, and the Mountain of God speaks of God's government. Thus we see Lucifer-Adam cast out of his high position as the Covering Cherub, bringing DISRUPTION AND CHAOS. Gen. 1:12.
We draw your attention to the words, "Covering Cherub". We do not fully understand these terms and what they signify in the Government of God, though these thoughts have come to us. The Body of Christ, which is being formed today, his great Body of Sons, is his Covering or complement "by which all in all is being completed. " Eph. 1:23, CCV (Concordant Version) He is dwelling within us even now, "CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY". This will come into reality in fullness when "He comes to be glorified in his saints." Col. 1:27; Thess. 1:10.
Praise God, one of the steps of our return back into God will be to retain this glorious position as The Covering Cherub in the Government of God! We are destined to again regaining our "Inheritance in Light". Col. 1:12, 1 Cor. 11:3.
2. ADAM IN DEGENERATED FORM
Since Lucifer-Adam was alienated from God, his mind was darkened, a veil put over his face, Eph. 2:1, Isa. 25:7-8. We read "that darkness was upon the face of the deep." Face speaks of intelligence. God would not move upon inanimate things (like water and rocks) but only upon that which could receive and understand.
Man became so degenerated in mind and deformed in body that he began to live like an animal in caves and dens. Their bones are being dug up by archeologists to this day. Death reigned before man's fall in the Garden. Throughout these long eons of time, God did not totally forsake his creation. He is the first cause and the first mover in the full restoration of man. Thus we read again, "His Spirit moved upon the face of the water," (Man's subconscious mind) "And God said let there be light, and there was light." Gen. 1:2-3. God's light began to appear in his six geological-creative-days. The earth was gradually lifted from its submerged, deformed and chaotic state. These vast periods gives plenty of time for the formation of gold and iron and jewels and "the precious things of the earth", and also the fossilizing of dinosaur bones! There is no discrepency in the Bible with true science. Thus we see God moving, even in this darkened and chaotic condition, toward his ultimate goal of full regeneration for all.
Karen
THE EIGHT STAGES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAN (Adam) Part 1 & 2
While meditating upon the development of this eighth man in this era, the Spirit began to formulate these thoughts within my mind. We present them for your consideration.
1. ADAM IN ANGELIC FORM
We have taught that sin started in the heart of Lucifer, a beautiful fallen angel, who because of his disobedience became satan. Yet the Bible states that sin entered into the world by one man, and that man is Adam! "By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin", and again we read, "In Adam all die", Romans 5:12; 1 Cor. 15:22. Sin did not enter into the world by an angel, nor even by satan, but by one man. Thus we surmise that Lucifer was Adam in a higher creation vibration of light substance, in an angelic form called, The Day Star, The Light Bringer, or The Shining One. Isa. 14:12. This took place in the original creation of the heavens and the earth. "In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth." Gen. 1:1. God spoke and creation came forth in all its pristine beauty and light. Psa. 33:8-9.
Is this too incredible to believe? Is there not a resurrection of man "equal unto angels?" Luke 20:35. And is not man being set over all the works of God's hands, from which he fell? Heb. 2:7 (quoted from Psa. 8:6) The original Hebrew translates this, "For thou hast made him a little lower than the Elohim (God) and hast crowned him with glory and honour." Thus we read that Lucifer-Adam was full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, covered with glittering jewels; full of music and that he walked in Eden, the Garden of God, in the midst of the stones of fire. He was God's annointed cherub that covered, perfect in all his ways, until iniquity was found in him! Eze. 28:12
This iniquity was pride. He said, "I will be like the most High," Isa. 14:12-14. Did not Adam later in the garden fall again through this same spirit of pride? He wanted to become like God. And is not man still arrogantly (without Christ) trying to push himself into the same Godly realm? Both Isaiah and Ezekiel were given forth an adumbration against the Kings of Babylon, Tyrus and Pharoah. Adumbration means to foreshadow, overshadow, and conceal. In other words, they were speaking (by the Spirit) of something that was happening directly in their day; and also about something that was yet to take place in the future. Indirectly, they were speaking to the spirit of pride that was in them, which had orginated in the mind of Lucifer-Adam.
A lamentation is spoken against the Assyrian, likening him to a tree (trees speak of men). This tree in the Garden of Eden had exalted itself above all the other trees in the Garden. Therefore, he was driven out, and all of mankind was delivered unto death, to the "nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit (grave)." Eze. 31:1-14.
When God began to reveal THE TRIPLE FALL OF MAN, from the Spirit to the Soulish to the Carnal-Mind-Death realms, I could not harmonize it with a scripture found in 1 Cor. 15:44-46. "there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body....Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual."
It is now becoming clear that Lucifer-Adam was first natural in a high angelic form. Angels have bodies that can be both visible and invisible. Jesus was make lower than angels for the suffering of death, but he has been crowned with glory and honor far above angels. He is dwelling in the true Spirit of God, in a light no man hath seen nor can see. 1 Tim. 6:16. So first is the natural and then comes the spiritual, unto which we are now pressing, longing for our change like unto Christ. We have had to change our opinion about the heavens, since the astronauts found the moon was made of the same natural materials as the earth. The celestials are far above the terrestials, a realm where no man or angel has ever ascended - only the Lord Jesus Christ!!!
Lucifer-Adam lifted himself in pride above the Lord, therefore God said, "I will cast thee as profane out of the Mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire." Profane means contempt for the things of God, and the Mountain of God speaks of God's government. Thus we see Lucifer-Adam cast out of his high position as the Covering Cherub, bringing DISRUPTION AND CHAOS. Gen. 1:12.
We draw your attention to the words, "Covering Cherub". We do not fully understand these terms and what they signify in the Government of God, though these thoughts have come to us. The Body of Christ, which is being formed today, his great Body of Sons, is his Covering or complement "by which all in all is being completed. " Eph. 1:23, CCV (Concordant Version) He is dwelling within us even now, "CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY". This will come into reality in fullness when "He comes to be glorified in his saints." Col. 1:27; Thess. 1:10.
Praise God, one of the steps of our return back into God will be to retain this glorious position as The Covering Cherub in the Government of God! We are destined to again regaining our "Inheritance in Light". Col. 1:12, 1 Cor. 11:3.
2. ADAM IN DEGENERATED FORM
Since Lucifer-Adam was alienated from God, his mind was darkened, a veil put over his face, Eph. 2:1, Isa. 25:7-8. We read "that darkness was upon the face of the deep." Face speaks of intelligence. God would not move upon inanimate things (like water and rocks) but only upon that which could receive and understand.
Man became so degenerated in mind and deformed in body that he began to live like an animal in caves and dens. Their bones are being dug up by archeologists to this day. Death reigned before man's fall in the Garden. Throughout these long eons of time, God did not totally forsake his creation. He is the first cause and the first mover in the full restoration of man. Thus we read again, "His Spirit moved upon the face of the water," (Man's subconscious mind) "And God said let there be light, and there was light." Gen. 1:2-3. God's light began to appear in his six geological-creative-days. The earth was gradually lifted from its submerged, deformed and chaotic state. These vast periods gives plenty of time for the formation of gold and iron and jewels and "the precious things of the earth", and also the fossilizing of dinosaur bones! There is no discrepency in the Bible with true science. Thus we see God moving, even in this darkened and chaotic condition, toward his ultimate goal of full regeneration for all.
The Eighth Day Man - Part 4
by Dora Van Assen
4. ADAM IN CARNAL-MIND FORM
"And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress and to keep it (guard it). Gen 2:8-9, 15.
From whom was Adam to guard the garden, if he was the only man living at that time? This command to guard the garden in its self shows that there must have been other human beings ignorant and dead to the knowledge of God. It explains where Cain got his wife in the land of Nod and immediately built a city. His seed was lost among these people. It also explains how a serpent-man could converse with Eve, denying and twisting the words of God. Gen. 3:1-5, 4-16.
"And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (dying thou shalt die CCV) Gen. 2:16
God gave this commandment to Adam while he was yet alone. Eve never received this commandment directly from God hiself. I'm inclined to believe that she was warned by her husband. He could have said something like this: "See that tree in the very midst of the Garden: God said we are not to eat of it lest we die, so you better not touch it!" We get this impression from the words of Eve unto the serpent. "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ye sahll not eat of it, NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT, lest ye die. Gen. 3:2-3 (Eve added to the word of God) Where could this thought have come from but from Adam. How often we have warned our children not to eat the cookies in the cookie jar, and so we said, "You are not to eat any of the cookies in that jar, SO YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH IT! This actually stirred up their desire to look into it and, of course, eat some. It seems that both Adam and Eve lived in the garden some time without noticing that particular tree until God himself drew their attention to it.
All the blame cannot be placed upon Eve for the fall of Adam. She arrived upon the scene much later than Adam. Besides, as we have pointed out, she did not receive the command directly from God himself. She received it second handed. Again we read, "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. For Adam was first formed (developed) then Eve....Notwithstanding she shall be saved in THE CHILDBEARING." 1 Tim. 2:13-15 CCV
Since Adam was not deceived; (though in the transgression, Rom 5:14), he knew what he was doing. He had his eyes open, knowing the command of God. In his pride he wanted to become like God, "knowing good and evil". Gen. 3:22. We are further told that "every man" is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed." James 1:14 Jesus said that nothing from without could defile a man, but only that which was in him could defile him. "For from within, out of the heart of man, proceed evil thoughts, etc", especially pride! "All these things come from within, and defile the man." Mark 7:18-23
"To be carnally minded is death." Rom. 8:6. In this stataement we have a clear definition of death. The naturally-minded man IS DEAD while he lives. All through the ages we have had men with great minds, conniving and conceiving all manner of evil, bringing death not only upon themselves, but upon all that follow them. The air is polluted with great swelling words, brain-washing the masses, raising up world systems of domination, enslaving the ignorant and poor. "the blind leading the blind, and both falling in the ditch (grave)." Matt. 15:14. Thank God this present evil age created by the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, shall be destroyed by the Manchild Company of mature sons, who are caught up in God and his throne. Rev. 12 and Eph. 1:2.
A better rendition of 1Timothy 2:15, harmonizing with other scriptures, reveals that Eve became "involved" in Adam's transgression, Rom. 5:14, "for in Adam all die", 1 Cor. 5:22 - not in Eve! Eve was forgiven because she confessed that she was beguiled. No woman wants to confess that she was seduced. This was very humiliating to her. We know that she was forgiven because God gave her the promise: "The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head. " Gen. 3:15. Eve became involved in Adam's fall by following him out of the garden into the realm of death. She loved (desired) her husband so much that she willingly of her own free will followed Adam out into a cold, cruel world to be his HELPER and COUNTERPART. Eve was not driven out of the garden, neither was it said that she would return to to the dust, for she was not taken out of the ground but out of Adam, who was dust in a higher and refined form, that can again make a still further change into the very image of Christ by the renewing of our mind...receiving the mind of Christ." Rom. 12:2, 1 Cor. 2:16.
God prophecied that Eve would bring forth her children in pain and sorrow, since Adam could only bring forth death. Death had entered his seed. Therefore death was in her children before they were born. This curse gave them the tendency to sin, which in its finality brings death. James 1:13-14. God also foretold that her very love for her husband (and being of a weaker stature) would give occasion to Adam to usurp over her, and rule her as his property. This is exactly what took place. Gen. 3:17. God was not laying down a rule that man had to rule over his wife, but he was foretelling Eve what would happen. How often we have seen women stick with their lazy, drunken, brutal, and unbelieving husbands, due to this misplaced love. It would be much better to separate from such an unholy condition and strive to make a decent Christian home for their children. In fact, the women then would have more time and privacy to really pray in faith and love for their salvation.
Adam understood this promise of the coming Redeemer given unto Eve. He gave her the name Eve, "because she is the mother of all living." Gen 3:26. She is the type of Mary who gave birth to Jesus, the promised Seed, thus fulfilling the covenant promise unto Abraham. "And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed." Acts 3:25. There is to be a greater fulfillment of this promised Seed; Eve also foreshadowed the Sunclothed-Sign-Woman, who brings forth the many SONS that will deliver all creation! Rev. 12 Therefore Paul gives her the promise that she would be saved in THE CHILDBEARING. 1 Tim. 2:15 CCV. (If this is speaking of natural child-birth, then poor old maids without children have no chance at all). Not only will Eve be delivered from the old Adamic nature of death in which she became involved, but she will be used to bring forth that glorious Manchild Company, that shall deliver the whole creation from the pangs of sin and death. These sons are the complement of Christ: "His Body, the completness of him who everywhere fills the universe with Himself." Eph. 1:23. CCV and Weymouth.
4. ADAM IN CARNAL-MIND FORM
"And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress and to keep it (guard it). Gen 2:8-9, 15.
From whom was Adam to guard the garden, if he was the only man living at that time? This command to guard the garden in its self shows that there must have been other human beings ignorant and dead to the knowledge of God. It explains where Cain got his wife in the land of Nod and immediately built a city. His seed was lost among these people. It also explains how a serpent-man could converse with Eve, denying and twisting the words of God. Gen. 3:1-5, 4-16.
"And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (dying thou shalt die CCV) Gen. 2:16
God gave this commandment to Adam while he was yet alone. Eve never received this commandment directly from God hiself. I'm inclined to believe that she was warned by her husband. He could have said something like this: "See that tree in the very midst of the Garden: God said we are not to eat of it lest we die, so you better not touch it!" We get this impression from the words of Eve unto the serpent. "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ye sahll not eat of it, NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT, lest ye die. Gen. 3:2-3 (Eve added to the word of God) Where could this thought have come from but from Adam. How often we have warned our children not to eat the cookies in the cookie jar, and so we said, "You are not to eat any of the cookies in that jar, SO YOU BETTER NOT TOUCH IT! This actually stirred up their desire to look into it and, of course, eat some. It seems that both Adam and Eve lived in the garden some time without noticing that particular tree until God himself drew their attention to it.
All the blame cannot be placed upon Eve for the fall of Adam. She arrived upon the scene much later than Adam. Besides, as we have pointed out, she did not receive the command directly from God himself. She received it second handed. Again we read, "And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. For Adam was first formed (developed) then Eve....Notwithstanding she shall be saved in THE CHILDBEARING." 1 Tim. 2:13-15 CCV
Since Adam was not deceived; (though in the transgression, Rom 5:14), he knew what he was doing. He had his eyes open, knowing the command of God. In his pride he wanted to become like God, "knowing good and evil". Gen. 3:22. We are further told that "every man" is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed." James 1:14 Jesus said that nothing from without could defile a man, but only that which was in him could defile him. "For from within, out of the heart of man, proceed evil thoughts, etc", especially pride! "All these things come from within, and defile the man." Mark 7:18-23
"To be carnally minded is death." Rom. 8:6. In this stataement we have a clear definition of death. The naturally-minded man IS DEAD while he lives. All through the ages we have had men with great minds, conniving and conceiving all manner of evil, bringing death not only upon themselves, but upon all that follow them. The air is polluted with great swelling words, brain-washing the masses, raising up world systems of domination, enslaving the ignorant and poor. "the blind leading the blind, and both falling in the ditch (grave)." Matt. 15:14. Thank God this present evil age created by the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, shall be destroyed by the Manchild Company of mature sons, who are caught up in God and his throne. Rev. 12 and Eph. 1:2.
A better rendition of 1Timothy 2:15, harmonizing with other scriptures, reveals that Eve became "involved" in Adam's transgression, Rom. 5:14, "for in Adam all die", 1 Cor. 5:22 - not in Eve! Eve was forgiven because she confessed that she was beguiled. No woman wants to confess that she was seduced. This was very humiliating to her. We know that she was forgiven because God gave her the promise: "The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head. " Gen. 3:15. Eve became involved in Adam's fall by following him out of the garden into the realm of death. She loved (desired) her husband so much that she willingly of her own free will followed Adam out into a cold, cruel world to be his HELPER and COUNTERPART. Eve was not driven out of the garden, neither was it said that she would return to to the dust, for she was not taken out of the ground but out of Adam, who was dust in a higher and refined form, that can again make a still further change into the very image of Christ by the renewing of our mind...receiving the mind of Christ." Rom. 12:2, 1 Cor. 2:16.
God prophecied that Eve would bring forth her children in pain and sorrow, since Adam could only bring forth death. Death had entered his seed. Therefore death was in her children before they were born. This curse gave them the tendency to sin, which in its finality brings death. James 1:13-14. God also foretold that her very love for her husband (and being of a weaker stature) would give occasion to Adam to usurp over her, and rule her as his property. This is exactly what took place. Gen. 3:17. God was not laying down a rule that man had to rule over his wife, but he was foretelling Eve what would happen. How often we have seen women stick with their lazy, drunken, brutal, and unbelieving husbands, due to this misplaced love. It would be much better to separate from such an unholy condition and strive to make a decent Christian home for their children. In fact, the women then would have more time and privacy to really pray in faith and love for their salvation.
Adam understood this promise of the coming Redeemer given unto Eve. He gave her the name Eve, "because she is the mother of all living." Gen 3:26. She is the type of Mary who gave birth to Jesus, the promised Seed, thus fulfilling the covenant promise unto Abraham. "And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed." Acts 3:25. There is to be a greater fulfillment of this promised Seed; Eve also foreshadowed the Sunclothed-Sign-Woman, who brings forth the many SONS that will deliver all creation! Rev. 12 Therefore Paul gives her the promise that she would be saved in THE CHILDBEARING. 1 Tim. 2:15 CCV. (If this is speaking of natural child-birth, then poor old maids without children have no chance at all). Not only will Eve be delivered from the old Adamic nature of death in which she became involved, but she will be used to bring forth that glorious Manchild Company, that shall deliver the whole creation from the pangs of sin and death. These sons are the complement of Christ: "His Body, the completness of him who everywhere fills the universe with Himself." Eph. 1:23. CCV and Weymouth.
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