I felt the following portion of a writing by Oche Landop was so very descriptive of the difference in those who DO KNOW or understand about Oneness or being part of the Source but may only USE IT or desire to manipulate IT for the satisfactions of the natural or sensual realm and then those who have been awakened to the Christ Presence by an open experience with the Holy Spirit where they know Him as Father and walk in fellowship with Him and as Him in the here and now.
I have included the link at the end of this that will take you to the full writing by this brother.
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AWAKING IN SPIRIT
“Wake up, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and
the Christ shall shine upon thee.”
1
O AWAKE in Spirit is to become aware of one’s
Spirit-essence, and of the Father.
There are two levels of awaking in Spirit. One is
what may be called moonlight awaking, and the other
sunlight awaking.
Moonlight Awaking
At the level of moonlight awaking a man is aware of
Spirit and of Spirit-operations in him, but he is not yet
alive to the Father’s destiny for humans, that is, he will
not have “seen” Christ. To many at this level of awaking
Spirit is a power, a depersonalised Intelligence, an
impersonal force, albeit the Boundless Ultimate LifeForce, “BULF”. Such people endeavour to connect to or
touch Spirit, to “feel after Him and find Him”,
2 not as
the Father, but as tapping energy from a Limitless
Source for their various uses. For, not having had a vision
of the Father’s plan for man, they have with the mind of
their flesh3 worked out an aim in life for themselves.
They endeavour to “be in touch with the Ultimate LifeForce”, but this is to enable their achievement of their
aim. They touch what they do not worship, or fellowship
with as a child adores and fellowships with his father or
mother. The Father does not of course draw away from
the groping hands of such “Spirit feelers”: He lets them
touch Him and get what they seek. For “he who seeks
finds”
and He is even the One causing them—as
indeed He does everyone—to feel after Him and find
Him. Such people have moved out of utter darkness, yes,
the darkness of those who believe they are all flesh and
no more; but they have only got into heatless moonlight.
And as in moonlight one does not clearly distinguish
colours and is certainly not warmed, they cannot
distinguish the colours of life nor be “heated” or “filled
to all the fullness of God”
5
as in Christ “all the Fullness
dwells bodily.”
6
Sunlight Awaking
Sunlight awaking is a being “born anew ... of the Spirit”,
7
not merely being aware of Spirit or tapping energy from
Spirit. As Christ arises in us
8
and we are drawn into, or
whelmed in, or “baptised in the Holy Spirit”
9
“we cry,
‘Abba, Father!’ [as] the Spirit Himself bears witness with
our spirit, that we are children of God ... and joint-heirs
with Christ.”
10 Then I can boldly say, as Christ says, “I
am in the Father and the Father in me”
11
and “I and the
Father are one.”
12 For now I see that His relationship to
me of Father and son is not a legal fiction, as between a
man and an adopted boy, but a relationship of
connection in substance, as between the sun and one of
its rays, or between a vine and one of its branches, or
between my right hand and one of its fingers. And I
realise that I am not merely flesh, that my essence is
Spirit, the Being of the Father, and that all my life
problems arise from my not being aware of this reality
and so taking myself to be no more than my body.
This sunlight awaking is also called in Scripture “the
washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy
Spirit.”
13 For the fall of a man is his getting out of the
water of the Holy Spirit and on to the dry land of going
by his body. Salvation is getting back into the water of
the Holy Spirit. No one without being renewed or
reborn in Spirit can go fully by Spirit as is necessary for
one’s metamorphosis. Unless a man is born anew of
Spirit, he cannot walk in the Narrow Way of Spirit by
which he may put on incorruptibility.
Sunlight awaking is coming out of the veil of one’s
flesh14
and to have seen Christ. This awaking brings a man
to see the connection between him and Christ: that
Christ is the reflection of the perfect him, the Butterfly
of Glory that he is to metamorphose into.
Jesus Christ is the mirror of reality giving two images
at the same time, one of the Father, and the other of
man. He is the radiance of the Father.
15 He “contains”
and presents the Being of the Father, in the fullest
measure possible for the creature called man. “For in
Him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily.”
6
“I
and the Father are one,” He says.
12
“He who has seen
me has seen the Father.... I am in the Father and the
Father in me...”
16
Also, Jesus is the reflection of man in perfection. “As
He is so are we in this world.”
17 Looking on Him, I am
looking on my perfect self. “He who has seen me has
seen his true self,” we may suppose Him to say. “He
who sees me sees his fullness, as a boy looking on his
father sees the stature he will grow to, or as a caterpillar
looking on the butterfly sees its mature form.”
In Jesus the true man is exhibited. He, who is Spirit
and “was in the beginning with God” and “was God”,
18
becomes flesh19
in this world—puts on a body that “in
all things”
20
is like the body of any human, one which at
first is not a spiritual body but corruptible and capable of
dying. Then He steadily walks in Spirit till His body is
metamorphosed into an incorruptible spiritual body, that
is, till He is “filled to all the fullness of God”
5
and is
perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect.
“As He is so are we in this world.”
17 As far as the
human condition in this world goes, as Christ is so are
we—though He is Lord and we are made through
Him.
22 Every human is Spirit who becomes flesh in this
world as Christ became flesh. And as He “grew and
waxed strong in spirit”
23
till He was filled to all the
fullness of the Father, every person is to grow and wax
strong in spirit and “be filled to all the fullness of God”
5
that the Father may say of him, “This is my beloved son,
in whom I delight.”
24
How the Father works “the supply of the Spirit of
Jesus Christ”
25
in someone to awake him is of course
beyond fathoming. But anyone reading this now is
certainly being stirred to his Spirit-essence. Probably the
voice or the stirrings of the Spirit in him in the past that
he ignored or did not recognise as such are being
brought to his awareness now. Maybe in the course of
reading this he has exclaimed, “So that was the Spirit!
And I didn’t know it.” Seeing then that the Father is
really in him, he can begin to surrender to Him this
moment. He can tell the Father: “Father, I see that You
are in me. Awake me in You. Let Christ arise in me....”
As he asks from his heart, or desires it persistently, he
will receive; and as Christ arises in him, he will know.
Whom will have addressed almost as unknown and far
away—unknown to his mind—he will feel and find.
26
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1. Eph 5:14 (YLT). 2. Acts 17:27. 3. Col 2:18; Rom 8:6, 7.
4. Mt7:8. 5. Eph 3:19. 6. Col 1:19; 2:9. 7. 12. Jn 3:3-5.
8. Jn 17:17-21; Gal 1:15-16. 9. Acts 1:5, 8. 10. Rom 8:15-17.
11. Jn 14:10-11, 20. 12. Jn 10:30. 13. Tit 3:5. 14. Heb 10:20.
15. Heb 1:3. 16. Jn 14:9-11. 17. 1 Jn 4:17. 18. Jn 1:1-2.
19. Jn 1:14; Heb 2:14. 20. 46. Heb 2:17. 21. Mt 5:48.
22. Jn 1:3. 23. Lk 2:40. 24. Mt 3:17. 25. Phil 1:19.
26. Acts 17:23, 27.METAMORPHOSIS TO GLORY 41
http://sigler.org/kingdom/Metamorphosis%20to%20Glory.pdf
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The Longitude and the Latitude of the New Creation Man
The cross represented the creative coordinates, the longitude and the latitude of the New Creation Man. Jesus hung at the juxiposition of where the vertical and the horizontal, heaven and earth, the eternal and the temporal crossed or intersected.
His arms were outstretched in the horizontal to embrace all that transpires in our experience with time and matter and his heart was where X marked the spot.....where these two realms collide or merge. God in Man, Man in God = a GodMan.....this is the New Creation Man to me, the inauguration of the new species in this earth that will make it a new heaven.
The God Man to me is neither just spirit or just flesh, but "splesh", as some have coined it.
That's why we need vessels or wineskins as the Bible calls them that are equal unto the new vibrations that our spirits are being caught up into in order to "hold" this vibrational presence here in this earth......it is a vibration or frequency that eventually all hearts will be entrained with for Love never fails.
His arms were outstretched in the horizontal to embrace all that transpires in our experience with time and matter and his heart was where X marked the spot.....where these two realms collide or merge. God in Man, Man in God = a GodMan.....this is the New Creation Man to me, the inauguration of the new species in this earth that will make it a new heaven.
The God Man to me is neither just spirit or just flesh, but "splesh", as some have coined it.
That's why we need vessels or wineskins as the Bible calls them that are equal unto the new vibrations that our spirits are being caught up into in order to "hold" this vibrational presence here in this earth......it is a vibration or frequency that eventually all hearts will be entrained with for Love never fails.
He Became Us
Hebrews 7:26
For such an high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.
The Divine stated his intent in the beginning, "Let us make Man", and since he works all things after the counsel of his will, he has been steadily bringing his intent and counsel to fruition.
"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and the latter rain.
Be ye patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." James 5
I don't believe that we are becoming God or Spirit....that was already our first estate in the celestials.
I believe that God is becoming Man....not generic man with a little "m", but the New Creation Man, which is the the combination of heaven and earth.
Just like water is the third result of the combining of the two gases (spirits) of hydrogen and oxygen.....something brand new emerges from this union.
It has been said, that the Greeks believed that earth was a springboard to heaven.
But
The Hebrews believed that heaven was a springboard to earth.
"I John saw the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God as a bride adorned for her husband;
Then I heard a mighty voice from the throne..See!
The abode of God is with men, and He will live (encamp) among them and they shall be his people and God shall personally be their God." Rev. 21
Love and blessings,
Karen
For such an high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.
The Divine stated his intent in the beginning, "Let us make Man", and since he works all things after the counsel of his will, he has been steadily bringing his intent and counsel to fruition.
"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and the latter rain.
Be ye patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." James 5
I don't believe that we are becoming God or Spirit....that was already our first estate in the celestials.
I believe that God is becoming Man....not generic man with a little "m", but the New Creation Man, which is the the combination of heaven and earth.
Just like water is the third result of the combining of the two gases (spirits) of hydrogen and oxygen.....something brand new emerges from this union.
It has been said, that the Greeks believed that earth was a springboard to heaven.
But
The Hebrews believed that heaven was a springboard to earth.
"I John saw the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God as a bride adorned for her husband;
Then I heard a mighty voice from the throne..See!
The abode of God is with men, and He will live (encamp) among them and they shall be his people and God shall personally be their God." Rev. 21
Love and blessings,
Karen
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The High Spin of Spirit
God is the outside and the inside of everything that exists. He is the center and circumference of all things. A "thing" is spirit slowed down to take on visibility. Jesus was called that "Holy Thing" when formed in the womb of Mary. The Word slowed down to be made flesh.
All things are spirit (Energy) vibrations which spin or are held in different frequencies to take on visibility.
Your body is the densest and slowest, that is why it must put on immortality to function in the higher callings of God....it cannot hold or maintain the higher spin of the Life frequency. And because it spins at a slower or lower frequency it is buffeted by the frictions it encounters in this realm of gravity (grave -death realm) and succumbs in time to a slower and slower spin which results in decay and death. But even in this, nothing is lost, for energy cannot be lost - it merely changes form.
The soul is more fluid (less dense) -consciousness is a higher spin. Thoughts can come and go in any direction and be anywhere they choose to be, unlike the body. They are not even bound by time, as they can travel into the past, project themselves into the future or can choose to be aware of the present. But they only manifest Life when they are being lead by the spirit or when their intent is set by the highest purpose of the spirit man.
Our Spirit is unlimited and unbound, the highest frequency - Omnipresent, and yet presents ItSelf as The Presence or Breath of God within us. It is this Higher Frequency that is being brought to bear upon or reconciling the slower denser spins of energy of our soul and body which will reveal or manifest a body like unto His glorious resurrection body when they are brought up to match the High Spin of our Spirit.
Just offering a paragraph or two out of my book of life.
Love, Karen
All things are spirit (Energy) vibrations which spin or are held in different frequencies to take on visibility.
Your body is the densest and slowest, that is why it must put on immortality to function in the higher callings of God....it cannot hold or maintain the higher spin of the Life frequency. And because it spins at a slower or lower frequency it is buffeted by the frictions it encounters in this realm of gravity (grave -death realm) and succumbs in time to a slower and slower spin which results in decay and death. But even in this, nothing is lost, for energy cannot be lost - it merely changes form.
The soul is more fluid (less dense) -consciousness is a higher spin. Thoughts can come and go in any direction and be anywhere they choose to be, unlike the body. They are not even bound by time, as they can travel into the past, project themselves into the future or can choose to be aware of the present. But they only manifest Life when they are being lead by the spirit or when their intent is set by the highest purpose of the spirit man.
Our Spirit is unlimited and unbound, the highest frequency - Omnipresent, and yet presents ItSelf as The Presence or Breath of God within us. It is this Higher Frequency that is being brought to bear upon or reconciling the slower denser spins of energy of our soul and body which will reveal or manifest a body like unto His glorious resurrection body when they are brought up to match the High Spin of our Spirit.
Just offering a paragraph or two out of my book of life.
Love, Karen
Testimony of Hannah Whitall Smith
Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith (February 7, 1832 – May 1, 1911) was a lay speaker and author in the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life movement in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She was also active in the Women’s suffrage movement and the Temperance movement.
Testimony of Hannah Whitall Smith
This testimony is the partial text of chapter 22 of her book, The Unselfishness of God in the original publication. It was edited out of later editions when published by Littlebrook Publishing, Inc. in Princeton , N. J., because they did not agree with her discovery that, in the end, God had made provision to save all mankind.
One day I was riding on a tram-car along Market Street, Philadelphia, when I saw two men come in and seat themselves opposite to me. I saw them dimly through my veil, but congratulated myself that it was only dimly, as I was thus spared the wave of anguish that had so often swept over me at the full sight of a strange face.
One day I was riding on a tram-car along Market Street, Philadelphia, when I saw two men come in and seat themselves opposite to me. I saw them dimly through my veil, but congratulated myself that it was only dimly, as I was thus spared the wave of anguish that had so often swept over me at the full sight of a strange face.
The conductor came for his fare, and I was obliged to raise my veil in order to count it out. As I raised it, I got a sight of the faces of those two men, and with an overwhelming flood of anguish, I seemed to catch a fresh and clearer revelation of the misery that had been caused to human beings by sin. It was more than I could bear. I clenched my hands and cried out in my soul, "Oh God! How canst Thou bear it? Thou mightest have prevented it, but Thou didst not. Thou mightest even now change it, but Thou dost not. I do not see how Thou canst go on living and endure it." I upbraided God. And I felt justified in doing so.Then suddenly God seemed to answer me. An inward voice said, in tones of infinite love and tenderness, "He shall see the travail of His soul and be satisfied." "Satisfied!" I cried in my heart. "Christ is to be satisfied! He will be able to look at the world's misery and then at the travail through which He has passed because of it, and will be satisfied with the result! If I were Christ, nothing could satisfy me but that every human being should in the end be saved, and therefore I am sure that nothing less will satisfy Him!"With this, a veil seemed to be withdrawn from before the plans of the universe, and I saw that it was true, as the Bible says, that "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ should all be made alive." As was the first, even so was the second. The "all" in one case could not in fairness mean less than the "all" in the other. I saw therefore that the remedy must necessarily be equal to the disease, the salvation must be as universal as the fall.I saw all this that day on the tram-car on Market Street, Philadelphia--not only thought it, or hoped it, or even believed it, butknew it! It was a Divine fact. And from that moment I have never had one questing thought as to the final destiny of the human race. God is the Creator of every human being; therefore He is the Father of each one and they are all His children; and Christ died for every one, and is declared to the "the propitiation not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world" (1 John 2:2). However great the ignorance, therefore, or however grievous the sin, the promise of salvation is positive and without limitations."It is true that "by the offense of one, judgment came upon all men unto condemnation," it is equally true that, "by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life." To limit the last "all men" is also to limit the first. The salvation is absolutely equal to the fall. There is to be a final "Restitution of all things, when, at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father." Every knee, every tongue--words could not be more all-embracing.The how and the when I could not see; but the one essential fact was all I needed--somewhere, and somehow God was going to make everything right for all the creatures He had created. My heart was at rest about it forever.I hurried home to get hold of my Bible to see if the magnificent fact I had discovered could possibly have been all this time in the Bible and I had not seen it, and the moment I entered the house, I did not wait to take off my bonnet, but rushed at once to the table where I always kept my Bible and Concordance ready for use, and began my search.Immediately the whole Book seemed to be illuminated. On every page the truth concerning the "times of restitution of all things," of which the Apostle Peter says "God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began," shone forth and no room was left for questioning. I turned greedily from page to page of my Bible, fairly laughing aloud for joy at the blaze of light that illuminated it all. It became a new Book. Another skin seemed to have been peeled off every text, and my Bible fairly shone with new meaning. I do not say with a different meaning, for in no sense did the new meaning contradict the old, but a deeper meaning, the true meaning hidden behind the outward form of words. The words did not need to be changed; they only needed to be understood; and now at last I began to understand them.
Have We Touched a Dead Body?
The church under Moses failed to establish the kingdom of God in the earth for they only had realized a Passover anointing.
Then the church received a greater anointing to help usher in the kingdom of God at Pentecost 2000 years ago, but because this anointing or feast was accompanied with leaven, this leavening spread through the body, leavening nearly the whole lump, except God had kept a remnant unto himself. This falling away caused the church under the Pentecostal anointing to fail in establishing the kingdom of God in all the earth.
There is another anointing(realization of) to arise within the corporate body of Christ that the feast of Tabernalces has to teach us, I believe, that will enable this firstfruits company of people to bring forth the kingdom of God into this earth in a way that we have never seen before to make us "the restorers of the breach, the ancient ruins that have lain waste for generations, the restorer of paths to walk in."Hallelujah!
I think that most of God's overcomer people are operating Now to the best of their ability with what knowledge and power that they intimately know. I, for one, know for sure that I can't do anything without the anointing of God arising in this temple, be it in a 30, 60, or 100 fold operation.
We as this Overcomer Corporation, all together as One Man, I believe, are to be presented unto the Lord as the following pattern I will try to share was outlined in the OT for us. Everything in the laws of the OT were prophetic descriptions, pictures of the plan of God being worked out in us individually and then corporately and ultimately in all the earth.
Dan. 7
"Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.
And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heavens shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominion shall serve and obey Him."
Now, one of these OT laws involved a cleasing ritual that was required when you touched a dead body. We need to remember that although all these pictures were drawn with a people that lived in the small land of Israel, they were adumbrations of truth(something that faintly foreshadows or prefigures a greater truth) and the greater truth was that God was using them to speak of his greater plan for the whole world.
The feast of Tabernacles was an 8 day feast...in order to fulfill the law of Ex. 22:29
You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. The first-born of your sons you shall give to Me. You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.
According to the law, anyone that touches the dead body of a person would be unclean for seven days. Humanity is unclean for seven days until they are fully awakened in God. Num. 19:11 says,
The one who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days.
God told Adam, "In the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." Man became mortal....dead men walking. All of us has touched a dead body....our own. Paul told us in Romans 8 that even if Christ lives in you, your natural body is dead because of sin and guilt,(imputed to us because of Adam) even if your spirit is alive because of the righteousness of Christ. But, hallelujah,if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in us then He will also restore to life our mortal perishable bodies. And this restoration from the grave of mortality will reveal or broadcast us as God's sons and our freedom from death will be an outward expression or sign to the rest of creation, representing the unvoiced longings that all men have in them for joy and peace and eternal Life to become a reality in their lives and ultiimately in this world. They have not known how to find this place within themselves...but just as Jesus was a pattern of freedom to us, we will serve as a pattern of freedom for them. Now, I know we are doing that now according to the level of our anointing and development in him, but there is a 100 fold dimension of this coming of the Lord within us that will enable us to fulfill this high and holy calling to the max.
This 7 days of uncleanness is true for the greater of humanity for this statement brings you to the end of the 7000 years or 7 days of man. (we have just completed 6000 years since Adam or 6 days) And also remember that Nebuchadnezzar had 7 years pass over him before his right mind was restored. He was a picture of the greater of humanity; that all would not be coming to salvation before the end of the 7 days. The age that follows this 7 is the 8th Day or eon which has been called the age of the ages or the eon of the eons. Just like there is a Holy of the Holies...it is more holy than just the Holy Place, so in this age of ages, all men will come to the realization of who they are in God, for God will be all in all...everything in everyone experientially.
But there is a firsfruits harvest of people unto God, to whom this cleansing and anointing happens earlier in order to make them kings and priests unto God in order that they might rule and reign in Love as restorers during this age that is now before us.
Will try to share a little more on this subject of touching a dead body later......I find that I really need to write to deliver my own soul, talking to myself, trying to give voice to that which stirs within me however well or poorly articulated it is. Most of us that have been in the wilderness have had to do that...encourage ourself in the Lord. King David said he encouraged himself in the Lord too.
Brighest blessings,
Karen
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I will just share these few scriptures with you from the Amplified version about body salvation. All that any of us can do is to share what is real in us, and hopefully with grace.
Phil 3:11, 20 & 21
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].
But we are citizens of the state(commonwealth, homeland) which is in heaven, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await [the coming of] the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, as Savior,
Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself.
God bless,
Karen
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I totally agree with you(my response to someone who commented) about our on-going union of soul and spirit....but I'm still trying to share about physical immortality....probably just didn't make myself clear enough....the salvation of the body...that salvation that is demonstrated, I believe, at The Corporate birthing of the Body of Christ....or as Paul called it, the manifestation of the sons of God.
But this salvation, this eonian Life of the ages, encompasses so much more than just physical immortality....this is a salvation that brings us into a glory that I don't think that any of us have begun to know in its fullness. There was the singular coming of the Lord manifested through Jesus, and I believe that this Corporate Coming of the Lord fulfills his second appearance. We are that coming of the Lord that all the church is looking for..."Surprise, surprise", says Gomer Pyle. :)
Everything up until this birthing, I believe has been our training for the throne. In like manner, Joseph was pulled directly out of prison and placed upon the throne...who would've thunk it. We are that nation that is born in a day, too!
This is the first time I have written on some of these things, so I'm still trying to find my 'see' legs of presentation. But I will have to give credit where credit is due. Stephen Jones is gifted in bringing so many of these OT things up into the light of Christ. I have been blessed by many of his insights.
"It is certainly true that Christ came and now indwells us, for this is the mystery that Paul mentioned in Col. 1:27, “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”[my comment: this is the appropriation of God in us individually] However, this is not the whole picture, for God will also inhabit His corporate temple.[my comment:this is the firstborn corporate son, I believe] He cannot do this until every living stone has been quarried in the earth and shaped to fit in its place."
Do you recall how that all the stones of Solomon's temple were quarried off site...this has been our individual wilderness experiences that have shaped us, where the Christ was being formed in us. It says that the stones of Solomon's temple when brought together were assembled without the sound of a hammer.
1 Kings 6:7
When the house was being built, its stone was made ready at the quarry, and no hammer, ax, or tool or iron was heard in the house while it was in building."
Hallelujah! all the hammering and chiseling, and making of these perfectly fitting stones had already been done before they were brought together....they were temple-ready to fit together.
And as we have said elsewhere, at this temple's dedication, the glory so filled this temple made of many stones, that no man could stand to minister.
Ahh, but a greater temple than Solomon's is in the making and at its dedication ceremonies the glory of God will be seen radiating from a people who appear like unto the Son of God. \o/
Then the church received a greater anointing to help usher in the kingdom of God at Pentecost 2000 years ago, but because this anointing or feast was accompanied with leaven, this leavening spread through the body, leavening nearly the whole lump, except God had kept a remnant unto himself. This falling away caused the church under the Pentecostal anointing to fail in establishing the kingdom of God in all the earth.
There is another anointing(realization of) to arise within the corporate body of Christ that the feast of Tabernalces has to teach us, I believe, that will enable this firstfruits company of people to bring forth the kingdom of God into this earth in a way that we have never seen before to make us "the restorers of the breach, the ancient ruins that have lain waste for generations, the restorer of paths to walk in."Hallelujah!
I think that most of God's overcomer people are operating Now to the best of their ability with what knowledge and power that they intimately know. I, for one, know for sure that I can't do anything without the anointing of God arising in this temple, be it in a 30, 60, or 100 fold operation.
We as this Overcomer Corporation, all together as One Man, I believe, are to be presented unto the Lord as the following pattern I will try to share was outlined in the OT for us. Everything in the laws of the OT were prophetic descriptions, pictures of the plan of God being worked out in us individually and then corporately and ultimately in all the earth.
Dan. 7
"Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.
And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heavens shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominion shall serve and obey Him."
Now, one of these OT laws involved a cleasing ritual that was required when you touched a dead body. We need to remember that although all these pictures were drawn with a people that lived in the small land of Israel, they were adumbrations of truth(something that faintly foreshadows or prefigures a greater truth) and the greater truth was that God was using them to speak of his greater plan for the whole world.
The feast of Tabernacles was an 8 day feast...in order to fulfill the law of Ex. 22:29
You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. The first-born of your sons you shall give to Me. You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.
According to the law, anyone that touches the dead body of a person would be unclean for seven days. Humanity is unclean for seven days until they are fully awakened in God. Num. 19:11 says,
The one who touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean for seven days.
God told Adam, "In the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." Man became mortal....dead men walking. All of us has touched a dead body....our own. Paul told us in Romans 8 that even if Christ lives in you, your natural body is dead because of sin and guilt,(imputed to us because of Adam) even if your spirit is alive because of the righteousness of Christ. But, hallelujah,if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in us then He will also restore to life our mortal perishable bodies. And this restoration from the grave of mortality will reveal or broadcast us as God's sons and our freedom from death will be an outward expression or sign to the rest of creation, representing the unvoiced longings that all men have in them for joy and peace and eternal Life to become a reality in their lives and ultiimately in this world. They have not known how to find this place within themselves...but just as Jesus was a pattern of freedom to us, we will serve as a pattern of freedom for them. Now, I know we are doing that now according to the level of our anointing and development in him, but there is a 100 fold dimension of this coming of the Lord within us that will enable us to fulfill this high and holy calling to the max.
This 7 days of uncleanness is true for the greater of humanity for this statement brings you to the end of the 7000 years or 7 days of man. (we have just completed 6000 years since Adam or 6 days) And also remember that Nebuchadnezzar had 7 years pass over him before his right mind was restored. He was a picture of the greater of humanity; that all would not be coming to salvation before the end of the 7 days. The age that follows this 7 is the 8th Day or eon which has been called the age of the ages or the eon of the eons. Just like there is a Holy of the Holies...it is more holy than just the Holy Place, so in this age of ages, all men will come to the realization of who they are in God, for God will be all in all...everything in everyone experientially.
But there is a firsfruits harvest of people unto God, to whom this cleansing and anointing happens earlier in order to make them kings and priests unto God in order that they might rule and reign in Love as restorers during this age that is now before us.
Will try to share a little more on this subject of touching a dead body later......I find that I really need to write to deliver my own soul, talking to myself, trying to give voice to that which stirs within me however well or poorly articulated it is. Most of us that have been in the wilderness have had to do that...encourage ourself in the Lord. King David said he encouraged himself in the Lord too.
Brighest blessings,
Karen
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I will just share these few scriptures with you from the Amplified version about body salvation. All that any of us can do is to share what is real in us, and hopefully with grace.
Phil 3:11, 20 & 21
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].
But we are citizens of the state(commonwealth, homeland) which is in heaven, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await [the coming of] the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, as Savior,
Who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself.
God bless,
Karen
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I totally agree with you(my response to someone who commented) about our on-going union of soul and spirit....but I'm still trying to share about physical immortality....probably just didn't make myself clear enough....the salvation of the body...that salvation that is demonstrated, I believe, at The Corporate birthing of the Body of Christ....or as Paul called it, the manifestation of the sons of God.
But this salvation, this eonian Life of the ages, encompasses so much more than just physical immortality....this is a salvation that brings us into a glory that I don't think that any of us have begun to know in its fullness. There was the singular coming of the Lord manifested through Jesus, and I believe that this Corporate Coming of the Lord fulfills his second appearance. We are that coming of the Lord that all the church is looking for..."Surprise, surprise", says Gomer Pyle. :)
Everything up until this birthing, I believe has been our training for the throne. In like manner, Joseph was pulled directly out of prison and placed upon the throne...who would've thunk it. We are that nation that is born in a day, too!
This is the first time I have written on some of these things, so I'm still trying to find my 'see' legs of presentation. But I will have to give credit where credit is due. Stephen Jones is gifted in bringing so many of these OT things up into the light of Christ. I have been blessed by many of his insights.
"It is certainly true that Christ came and now indwells us, for this is the mystery that Paul mentioned in Col. 1:27, “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”[my comment: this is the appropriation of God in us individually] However, this is not the whole picture, for God will also inhabit His corporate temple.[my comment:this is the firstborn corporate son, I believe] He cannot do this until every living stone has been quarried in the earth and shaped to fit in its place."
Do you recall how that all the stones of Solomon's temple were quarried off site...this has been our individual wilderness experiences that have shaped us, where the Christ was being formed in us. It says that the stones of Solomon's temple when brought together were assembled without the sound of a hammer.
1 Kings 6:7
When the house was being built, its stone was made ready at the quarry, and no hammer, ax, or tool or iron was heard in the house while it was in building."
Hallelujah! all the hammering and chiseling, and making of these perfectly fitting stones had already been done before they were brought together....they were temple-ready to fit together.
And as we have said elsewhere, at this temple's dedication, the glory so filled this temple made of many stones, that no man could stand to minister.
Ahh, but a greater temple than Solomon's is in the making and at its dedication ceremonies the glory of God will be seen radiating from a people who appear like unto the Son of God. \o/
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