"So, everything at the quantum level is bursts of light, bundled consciousness in the form of light units called quanta. And, when we get into those levels, truly reality for us changes. Our world is so rapid that the eyes, through the brain do not discern individual bursts but instead the pulses are averaged together into what appears as a continuous event. Quantum physics is the study of minute unities of radiating waves, non-physical force whose movement creates our physical world. You and I live in such an advanced time that even this information is not up to date. Everything is moving so fast, that now they have found a more subtle world than the quantum, called biophotons. Which are invisible impulses silently orchestrating us at the molecular level." quote by David Hulse
We have read how the scientific principle of wave and particle reality and how light exists as a wave while unobserved and as a particle while being observed. This gives rise to the truth that what we focus on or observe is our consciousness in motion. It is our energy or spirit setting an intention. And the purer the intent, from deep within the heart, the more precise its manifestation.
"Calling those things that are not" (are not yet in manifestaion, does not mean that they do not exist as elements of potentiality). Okay again, "Calling those things that are not as though they were" (because they are there waiting for us to call them forth from their graves, (the realm of the unseen).
Let me quote the whole verse and its setting: Rom. 4:17
"(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God."
We, too, are called to be a "father of many nations" as creators. I am not talking about nations of people, in this case, but nations as in the building codes of life and life more abuntantly that Jesus said was our inheritance. - How we as creators together in the grace of life will do the greater works. We are challenged to connect with our inherant creator codes that were ours before the foundations of this world, so that together we might rewrite this earth's script from one of death and hell to life and heaven wherein dwelleth righteousness.
W/holistic Creators
Deep calleth unto your deep
Let me take you to the places
That your heart
So longingly seeks.
Deeper than you have ever gone
Into places that you thought
Were, most likely, to your memory
Long gone.
Whole reality-scapes to know
In this sea of my vast consciousness
Quietly await your focused intention
To bring them up from the deep for full manifestation.
Impulses of truth
To be holographically imprinted
Giving rise to streams of reality
That language would only bind and limit.
Bundles of truth, love and wisdom
W/holistically transmitted
Will enlarge the border of your reality
To embrace whole systems of new energy.
No more line upon on line
Just bits and pieces of truth
Now you realize you are connected energetically
To all of this vast Truth.
Whatever you choose to observe
In this vast field of reality
Will rise up and meet you
In equal materiality.
So feel free to play and create
With Love as your medium
Paint with your heart new worlds
For yourself and creation to live in.
Co-creators with Me
You've been destined to be
Heaven-born creatures, sent to this earth
As Saviors to be
Much love,
Karen
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Science and Spirit
| I've shared the following article because, when I hear some of these things that science is finding out, it is things we know and are now doing by the spirit but most likely have not not seen or heard described in these terms. I don't recall where or how I accessed this material....I just don't recall.... I'll attempt to interject a few thoughts.. I just lift information like this into the realm that we are walking in and it becomes a blessing to me. ************** Spiritual Science: DNA is influneced by words and frequencies
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God's Kingdom of Dust - Part 1 by Dora Van Assen
by Dora Van Assen
While we were living in the Mojave Desert of Arizona as missionaries to the American Indians I really came to the point where I hated dust. It could be so hot, 121 degrees in the shade. To make it even worse a dust storm would arrive, blowing the fine dust of the sand dunes through every crack and crevice of the old wood-framed house in which we lived. Under every window sill and door, through the screened porch, sweeping into every room. Then an electricial storm would pass thru the sky bringing just enough rain to turn the dust into mud.
What a mess to clean up! And yet I loved our ministry among the Indians. As we grew to know them, we learned to love and respect them for their courage and ability to survive in such a desolate place. They taught us so many things we could not have learned any other way. One has to live with them in order to know them - beautiful saints of God. They learned to survive in a hot and barren land, and in surviving to love it, and I must say, looking back to that time in my life, I learned to love it too. Love grown through sacrifice.
To me in all my travels around the world, when the desert was in bloom, which I had the privilege to see, was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen in my life. It lasted only about a week but during this short period of time, thousands of people came to see it. Driving hundreds of miles to this hot, barren land knowing these flowers bloom only when it rains at the right season. A miracle! For miles the desert was turned into a carpet of many-colored flowers, so beautiful and delicate, some only about one half inch high covering the fine desert sand dunes.
What amazed us so much - these tiny seeds lay dormant in the hot dry dust for years, waiting for the the rain in the right season. We lived there seven years before it happened, and we never saw it again during the nineteen years we were among the Indians. I thank God for allowing us to see it!
It taught me that the incorruptible seed of the Christ can lay dormant in our earth dust-form for thousands of years and still spring up and bloom as a rose.
DUST IS BEAUTIFUL
About two years ago I read an article in the Reader's Digest called: "The Kingdom of Dust". In this article I began to see the important place dust has in our daily life. It made me see that even though we are clothed in dust, we are beautiful to God who sees us in our true colors. God sees all creation in Christ, or under the blood as we used to say it - meaning Christ died for all and He now lives in all and all live in Him.
Without the fine dust floating in the air we would not be able to see a sunbeam. A sunbeam is formed by the sunlight shining through a window pane on the fine dust floating in the room. What a delight it was as a child to run my fingers in this light causing a stream of dust to flow from each finger.
Dust was not problem to me then. The unending chore of dusting and even scrubbing the dirt out of the cracks soon caused me to forget the joy of playing in the mud as a child.
In God's plan, dust plays an important role in the natural realm. It brings a lot of beauty for us to see in the world around us. Without dust we would not see the many shades of green grass and foilage, or multi-colored flowers. There would be no blue skies with fleecy white clouds. No haze over the mountains and valleys, making different shadows; and no breath-taking sunrise or sunset, which we so enjoyed in the hot Arizona desert.
This article made me cry! I could hardly beliveve what I was reading. The beauty so graciously given to us through dust so fine, it is invisible to the natural eye. Just think, God made us out of this "highest dust". Prov. 8:26. How wonderful to know that our dust bodies radiate the beauty of God's divine thoughts. "We are fearfully and wonderfully made and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth." Psa. 139:13-16
Dust also gives us many practical things. One of them is rain. To form clouds, rising vapor needs the dust suspended in the air around which it collects to form clouds full of rain; like a pearl is formed around a grain of sand in the oyster. Without the fine dust being moved by the air currents, the million tons of pollen would not be carried all over the US, pollenating the flowers and trees.
An average 43 tons of dust falls on us each year. Where does it all come from? We make tons of it ourselves. In our factories, in our daily work on the job and at home. Minute flakes are rubbed off this paper as I write. We gather about forty pounds a year in our home. Some dust is so fine it goes through the vacum cleaner bag into the motor causing friction and we get that hot smell. Another place it comes from is the ocean. More salt is blown inland from the sea than the total mined by men - 300 million tons per year. All this carried by the wind.
Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth!" Each one of us scattered like salt to be the preserving power in the place where we are called! God knows the time and the boundaries of our habitation on the earth and the purpose we are to fulfull in His great plan of redemption of all men. Act. 17:26
DUST SEEMS TO BE ALIVE
Millions of dust mites so small that at least twelve could sit on the head of a pin, live in our beds and rugs. They consume the millions of invisible skin particles we shed from our bodies each day of our lives. Their waste creates the strongest allergies that plague humanity. Yet we need them for the yeast produced by these tiny spores; mites are the chemists of this Kingdom of Dust. Too much bacteria in our bodies is harmful, yet we need the right amount to keep this natural body alive. So dust mites actually keep the balance in nature. And man formed in dust has been given the dominion to keep this balance in God's Kingdom of Dust.
Another amazing thing about dust is its ability to travel all over the world. From the highest realms that telescopes have probed, scientists have seen dust floating in the air throughout space. The surface of the earth has been moved around from the beginning of time. The finest dust grains are airborn for centuries, the wind blowing it from place to place. As you are wiping the dust on your living room furniture, you may be picking up some dust from the moon! Or the ordinary dust in your back yard may have some specks from Halley's Comet that just passed through our hemisphere recently. Even Adam's dust is still here somewhere, nothing is annihilated!
What I am trying to convey is that all the dust from the beginning of time is still on this planet or universe somewhere. It is either in the ground or floating in the atmosphere. All the dust bodies of our ancestors from Adam to our day are still here in specks of dust somewhere. They may be mixed in the dust of our own living bodies right now. As one generation of natural man passes away, another one arises to take its place. Ecc. 1:4
"DUST THOU ART AND TO DUST SHALT THOU RETURN"
Just reading this statement as it stands alone, it seems a very hard sentence for such a small act of disobedience. It seems to make God hard and cruel. In my meditation on this text, and the context surrounding this verse, I began to see that this sentence of death was really for Adam's good! It gave him hope for a better life. God never cursed Adam! - only the ground from which his body was formed. Read Gen. 3:17. "Cursed is the ground for thy sake!" Adam himself was never destroyed. The Lord breathed into his nostrils or his earthen body formed out of dust, the Breath of Life. This vital principle of Life is the Spirit of God and can never die or be annihilated. It lives and moves in all creation, sustaining and controlling all things. The breath of God is the Spirit of God in all men - the candle of the lord, making up his Inner Man, the treasure hidden in an earthen vessel. The vessel will be swallowed up by The Treasure, metamorphosed into a glorious form of life.
God actually blessed Adam by giving him work to do as he developed from glory to glory. Work seems a curse to us, but just try to do absolutely nothing for a while. It will drive you crazy. God gives us this beautiful body with the ability to use our minds to create useful things, and delightful things, to see and smell and hear and taste and feel. He gave us a body to bring into manifestation the thoughts and ideas of our mind for all to see and enjoy. And what joy our children brings us. Who really cares about the pain and work they bring with them!! What delight we have seeing them grow - how proud we are of them. Don't you think God enjoys His children? I know He does. Acts 17:28, Rev. 4:11. God is happy in His creation of man in every stage of their development as they progress into His exact image. God sees Himself in man. "God manifested in flesh" 1 tim. 3:16
While we were living in the Mojave Desert of Arizona as missionaries to the American Indians I really came to the point where I hated dust. It could be so hot, 121 degrees in the shade. To make it even worse a dust storm would arrive, blowing the fine dust of the sand dunes through every crack and crevice of the old wood-framed house in which we lived. Under every window sill and door, through the screened porch, sweeping into every room. Then an electricial storm would pass thru the sky bringing just enough rain to turn the dust into mud.
What a mess to clean up! And yet I loved our ministry among the Indians. As we grew to know them, we learned to love and respect them for their courage and ability to survive in such a desolate place. They taught us so many things we could not have learned any other way. One has to live with them in order to know them - beautiful saints of God. They learned to survive in a hot and barren land, and in surviving to love it, and I must say, looking back to that time in my life, I learned to love it too. Love grown through sacrifice.
To me in all my travels around the world, when the desert was in bloom, which I had the privilege to see, was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen in my life. It lasted only about a week but during this short period of time, thousands of people came to see it. Driving hundreds of miles to this hot, barren land knowing these flowers bloom only when it rains at the right season. A miracle! For miles the desert was turned into a carpet of many-colored flowers, so beautiful and delicate, some only about one half inch high covering the fine desert sand dunes.
What amazed us so much - these tiny seeds lay dormant in the hot dry dust for years, waiting for the the rain in the right season. We lived there seven years before it happened, and we never saw it again during the nineteen years we were among the Indians. I thank God for allowing us to see it!
It taught me that the incorruptible seed of the Christ can lay dormant in our earth dust-form for thousands of years and still spring up and bloom as a rose.
DUST IS BEAUTIFUL
About two years ago I read an article in the Reader's Digest called: "The Kingdom of Dust". In this article I began to see the important place dust has in our daily life. It made me see that even though we are clothed in dust, we are beautiful to God who sees us in our true colors. God sees all creation in Christ, or under the blood as we used to say it - meaning Christ died for all and He now lives in all and all live in Him.
Without the fine dust floating in the air we would not be able to see a sunbeam. A sunbeam is formed by the sunlight shining through a window pane on the fine dust floating in the room. What a delight it was as a child to run my fingers in this light causing a stream of dust to flow from each finger.
Dust was not problem to me then. The unending chore of dusting and even scrubbing the dirt out of the cracks soon caused me to forget the joy of playing in the mud as a child.
In God's plan, dust plays an important role in the natural realm. It brings a lot of beauty for us to see in the world around us. Without dust we would not see the many shades of green grass and foilage, or multi-colored flowers. There would be no blue skies with fleecy white clouds. No haze over the mountains and valleys, making different shadows; and no breath-taking sunrise or sunset, which we so enjoyed in the hot Arizona desert.
This article made me cry! I could hardly beliveve what I was reading. The beauty so graciously given to us through dust so fine, it is invisible to the natural eye. Just think, God made us out of this "highest dust". Prov. 8:26. How wonderful to know that our dust bodies radiate the beauty of God's divine thoughts. "We are fearfully and wonderfully made and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth." Psa. 139:13-16
Dust also gives us many practical things. One of them is rain. To form clouds, rising vapor needs the dust suspended in the air around which it collects to form clouds full of rain; like a pearl is formed around a grain of sand in the oyster. Without the fine dust being moved by the air currents, the million tons of pollen would not be carried all over the US, pollenating the flowers and trees.
An average 43 tons of dust falls on us each year. Where does it all come from? We make tons of it ourselves. In our factories, in our daily work on the job and at home. Minute flakes are rubbed off this paper as I write. We gather about forty pounds a year in our home. Some dust is so fine it goes through the vacum cleaner bag into the motor causing friction and we get that hot smell. Another place it comes from is the ocean. More salt is blown inland from the sea than the total mined by men - 300 million tons per year. All this carried by the wind.
Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth!" Each one of us scattered like salt to be the preserving power in the place where we are called! God knows the time and the boundaries of our habitation on the earth and the purpose we are to fulfull in His great plan of redemption of all men. Act. 17:26
DUST SEEMS TO BE ALIVE
Millions of dust mites so small that at least twelve could sit on the head of a pin, live in our beds and rugs. They consume the millions of invisible skin particles we shed from our bodies each day of our lives. Their waste creates the strongest allergies that plague humanity. Yet we need them for the yeast produced by these tiny spores; mites are the chemists of this Kingdom of Dust. Too much bacteria in our bodies is harmful, yet we need the right amount to keep this natural body alive. So dust mites actually keep the balance in nature. And man formed in dust has been given the dominion to keep this balance in God's Kingdom of Dust.
Another amazing thing about dust is its ability to travel all over the world. From the highest realms that telescopes have probed, scientists have seen dust floating in the air throughout space. The surface of the earth has been moved around from the beginning of time. The finest dust grains are airborn for centuries, the wind blowing it from place to place. As you are wiping the dust on your living room furniture, you may be picking up some dust from the moon! Or the ordinary dust in your back yard may have some specks from Halley's Comet that just passed through our hemisphere recently. Even Adam's dust is still here somewhere, nothing is annihilated!
What I am trying to convey is that all the dust from the beginning of time is still on this planet or universe somewhere. It is either in the ground or floating in the atmosphere. All the dust bodies of our ancestors from Adam to our day are still here in specks of dust somewhere. They may be mixed in the dust of our own living bodies right now. As one generation of natural man passes away, another one arises to take its place. Ecc. 1:4
"DUST THOU ART AND TO DUST SHALT THOU RETURN"
Just reading this statement as it stands alone, it seems a very hard sentence for such a small act of disobedience. It seems to make God hard and cruel. In my meditation on this text, and the context surrounding this verse, I began to see that this sentence of death was really for Adam's good! It gave him hope for a better life. God never cursed Adam! - only the ground from which his body was formed. Read Gen. 3:17. "Cursed is the ground for thy sake!" Adam himself was never destroyed. The Lord breathed into his nostrils or his earthen body formed out of dust, the Breath of Life. This vital principle of Life is the Spirit of God and can never die or be annihilated. It lives and moves in all creation, sustaining and controlling all things. The breath of God is the Spirit of God in all men - the candle of the lord, making up his Inner Man, the treasure hidden in an earthen vessel. The vessel will be swallowed up by The Treasure, metamorphosed into a glorious form of life.
God actually blessed Adam by giving him work to do as he developed from glory to glory. Work seems a curse to us, but just try to do absolutely nothing for a while. It will drive you crazy. God gives us this beautiful body with the ability to use our minds to create useful things, and delightful things, to see and smell and hear and taste and feel. He gave us a body to bring into manifestation the thoughts and ideas of our mind for all to see and enjoy. And what joy our children brings us. Who really cares about the pain and work they bring with them!! What delight we have seeing them grow - how proud we are of them. Don't you think God enjoys His children? I know He does. Acts 17:28, Rev. 4:11. God is happy in His creation of man in every stage of their development as they progress into His exact image. God sees Himself in man. "God manifested in flesh" 1 tim. 3:16
The Kingdom of Dust - Part 2
FRAGMENTATION OF "SPIRIT THOUGHTS" INTO DUST
Eph. 1:1-4
We were chosen in Christ before the foundation (casting down or disruption) of the world. This took place between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. "In the beginnings God created the heaven and the earth". From the Ferrar Fenton translation. There is more than one beginning. The heavens were created first. This is the invisible spiritual realm - the ruling realm. There is a natural realm and there is also a spiritual realm, implying we cannot have one without the other. 1 Cor. 15:44 and Heb. 11:3.
The spiritual realm rules over the natural realm. But the natural realm is manifested or seen first. This is seen in the birth of a baby, it is seen first. But there would be no baby without the inner-spirit body. We need both to manifest life. 1 Cor. 15:46. Life is invisible. It existed long before it was made visible to the human eye. When God created the first heaven and earth, He simply spoke a Word, and it was done, complete and whole. Psa. 33:6-9. The Word is Christ, Anointed Spirit which is God. Christ is the Image and Form of God, yet invisible to human eyes. Col. 1:15 and Phil. 2:5. He is also the Angel of God's presence. Ex. 32:34. This is Christ in angelic form in order to be made visible to Moses - this was not Jesus! Jesus' body had not been formed in the womb of Mary yet. This Word-Christ was made flesh and dwelt among us. God manifested in flesh, AND FLESH IS DUST!
Thus we find there was a race of angelic (celestial) men long before our present heaven and Earth was created which lived between Gen. 1:1 and Gen. 1:2. "In the beginnings God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit moved upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters. And God said: Let there be light, and there was light."
I cannot conceive or imagine God speaking to inanimate things like land and water. I believe "face" of the "deep" and "face" of the "waters" speaks of the conscious or sub-conscious minds of intelligent beings able to hear and obey the Word of God. The Bible is allegorical, like the parables of Jesus, and cannot be taken only literally. We can only compare spiritual things with spiritual. 1 Cor. 2:13-14, Gal. 4:24.
THREE HEAVENS AND EARTH
2 Peter 3:5-7 and 13
In these verses, Peter speaks of three heavens and earth. "That by the word of God the heavens were of old"....the world that then was overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth that are now, by the same word are kept in store.....nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for a new heaven and earth. 2 Pet. 5:13
Peter is not referring to the flood, but to the chaos between the first two verses in Genesis. He tells us the first heavens and earth perished. Comparing this with Jeremiah 4:23-25, who also is speaking of this disaster, claims in verse 25, "I beheld, and Lo, there was no man. In Noah's flood there were eight souls saved in the ark. All had not perished. See Isa. 24:1. The world we have today is actually the second heavens and earth. But we are looking for New Heavens and Earth in which dwelleth righteousness - the Third Heaven and Earth.
Now going back to Genesis 1:2, God did not leave this heaven and earth in this chaotic condition. We read that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the deep. "Face" speaks of intelligence and "deep" speaks of the unconscious realm. God is speaking to beings able to respond. In Revelation "water" speaks of a multitude. God is always the first "Mover" in the restoration of His creation. "And God said, Let there be light - and there was light." Spirit speaking to spirit and Christ speaking to Christ.
I see this is an allegory describing our own awakening. Christ within is the first mover. He moves upon our unconscious mind, awakening our memory to who we once were in God. Christ awakens our inherent or pre-birth wisdom, lying dormant within us. Causing us to "come to ourself", as the prodigal son "came to himself". For he said, "I will arise and go to my Father." So we remember our Father. "By faith are ye saved, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." freely given to all men. This takes us back to the very beginning, before there was any thing - No-Thing - just the Spirit-thought or God's Idea.
Before time began we were just a thought in the mind of God. We were chosen in Christ or before the foundation (disruption or casting down-Gk) of the world. Eph. 1:4; when Christ was forordained to be the Lamb of God, (1 Pet. 1:20). BEFORE TIME BEGAN, in the mind of God, Christ was chosen, though He was SLAIN FROM THE DISRUPTION. Rev. 13:8 I see a difference between the word, BEFORE ANDFROM . He was chosen BEFORE the disruption when time began, and he was slain FROM the disruption or when TIME BEGAN, long before the literal cross on Golgotha's hill and our names were written in the book of life long before we knelt at a mourners bench. Rev. 17:8
[my comment: when spirit manifested into form, the slaying began....death began.....this is when the Word became flesh...this is when the Word became Dust.....and remains as the desert of dust until watered by the spirit to bloom and blossom. Remember how Genesis chapter one tells how "dry" land appeared and then in chapter two, man is formed from this dry land. This 'dry land' condition was the lowering of man. In the OT the spirit or the water came 'upon' man to empower him but in the NT the spirit or water comes up from the deep or from within returning us to the original order and making us a well watered land.]
FATHER AND SON or THE LAMB COMPANY
Rev. 3:14
"These things saith the Amen, the faithful witness, the beginning of the creation of God." KJV
"The Prime Source of all God's creation." NEB
"The Primeval Source of God's creation." TLB
"GOD'S CREATIVE ORGINAL." LCNT
These four translations are all speaking of the Word-Christ, the Anointing, spoken out of God as the first creative act. The Word-Christ or The True and Faithful Witness, is the beginning of the creation of God. Not only is the Word-Christ, the beginning of all things created, but He is also The Vital Primeval Life Source and Force through which all things were created and sustained. The Word-Christ is the original creative power God used to speak forth His own SON out of His bosom, conceived in thought, and now expressed and manifested in Image and Form. "Christ the image of the invisible God." Col. 1:15 "Who being in the form of God." Phil. 2:5, John 1:18.
"In a beginning was the Word, and Word was WITH God, and a God was the Word. This was in a beginning WITH the God. All through IT was done, and without IT was done not even one, that has been done." John 1:1-3 This is the word by word translation out of the Greek, Diaglott.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was TOWARD God; and the God was the word. This was in the beginning toward God. All came into being through IT, and apart from It not even one thing came into being which has come into being. In IT was life, and the life was the light of men." Literal Concordant New Testament.
"Before anything else existed, there was Christ with God. He has always been alive and is Himself God. He created everthing there is - nothing exists that He did not make. Eternal life is in Him, and this life gives light to all men." John 1:1-3 TLB
There is an explanation in the Living Bible concering Christ: "The Word, meaning Christ, is the wisdom and power of God and the first cause of all things; God's personal expression of Himself to men." This is in harmony with the translation given of Rev. 3: 14, Christ is the primeval Source or Power through with God created all things.
Eph. 1:1-4
We were chosen in Christ before the foundation (casting down or disruption) of the world. This took place between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. "In the beginnings God created the heaven and the earth". From the Ferrar Fenton translation. There is more than one beginning. The heavens were created first. This is the invisible spiritual realm - the ruling realm. There is a natural realm and there is also a spiritual realm, implying we cannot have one without the other. 1 Cor. 15:44 and Heb. 11:3.
The spiritual realm rules over the natural realm. But the natural realm is manifested or seen first. This is seen in the birth of a baby, it is seen first. But there would be no baby without the inner-spirit body. We need both to manifest life. 1 Cor. 15:46. Life is invisible. It existed long before it was made visible to the human eye. When God created the first heaven and earth, He simply spoke a Word, and it was done, complete and whole. Psa. 33:6-9. The Word is Christ, Anointed Spirit which is God. Christ is the Image and Form of God, yet invisible to human eyes. Col. 1:15 and Phil. 2:5. He is also the Angel of God's presence. Ex. 32:34. This is Christ in angelic form in order to be made visible to Moses - this was not Jesus! Jesus' body had not been formed in the womb of Mary yet. This Word-Christ was made flesh and dwelt among us. God manifested in flesh, AND FLESH IS DUST!
Thus we find there was a race of angelic (celestial) men long before our present heaven and Earth was created which lived between Gen. 1:1 and Gen. 1:2. "In the beginnings God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit moved upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters. And God said: Let there be light, and there was light."
I cannot conceive or imagine God speaking to inanimate things like land and water. I believe "face" of the "deep" and "face" of the "waters" speaks of the conscious or sub-conscious minds of intelligent beings able to hear and obey the Word of God. The Bible is allegorical, like the parables of Jesus, and cannot be taken only literally. We can only compare spiritual things with spiritual. 1 Cor. 2:13-14, Gal. 4:24.
THREE HEAVENS AND EARTH
2 Peter 3:5-7 and 13
In these verses, Peter speaks of three heavens and earth. "That by the word of God the heavens were of old"....the world that then was overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth that are now, by the same word are kept in store.....nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for a new heaven and earth. 2 Pet. 5:13
Peter is not referring to the flood, but to the chaos between the first two verses in Genesis. He tells us the first heavens and earth perished. Comparing this with Jeremiah 4:23-25, who also is speaking of this disaster, claims in verse 25, "I beheld, and Lo, there was no man. In Noah's flood there were eight souls saved in the ark. All had not perished. See Isa. 24:1. The world we have today is actually the second heavens and earth. But we are looking for New Heavens and Earth in which dwelleth righteousness - the Third Heaven and Earth.
Now going back to Genesis 1:2, God did not leave this heaven and earth in this chaotic condition. We read that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the deep. "Face" speaks of intelligence and "deep" speaks of the unconscious realm. God is speaking to beings able to respond. In Revelation "water" speaks of a multitude. God is always the first "Mover" in the restoration of His creation. "And God said, Let there be light - and there was light." Spirit speaking to spirit and Christ speaking to Christ.
I see this is an allegory describing our own awakening. Christ within is the first mover. He moves upon our unconscious mind, awakening our memory to who we once were in God. Christ awakens our inherent or pre-birth wisdom, lying dormant within us. Causing us to "come to ourself", as the prodigal son "came to himself". For he said, "I will arise and go to my Father." So we remember our Father. "By faith are ye saved, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." freely given to all men. This takes us back to the very beginning, before there was any thing - No-Thing - just the Spirit-thought or God's Idea.
Before time began we were just a thought in the mind of God. We were chosen in Christ or before the foundation (disruption or casting down-Gk) of the world. Eph. 1:4; when Christ was forordained to be the Lamb of God, (1 Pet. 1:20). BEFORE TIME BEGAN, in the mind of God, Christ was chosen, though He was SLAIN FROM THE DISRUPTION. Rev. 13:8 I see a difference between the word, BEFORE ANDFROM . He was chosen BEFORE the disruption when time began, and he was slain FROM the disruption or when TIME BEGAN, long before the literal cross on Golgotha's hill and our names were written in the book of life long before we knelt at a mourners bench. Rev. 17:8
[my comment: when spirit manifested into form, the slaying began....death began.....this is when the Word became flesh...this is when the Word became Dust.....and remains as the desert of dust until watered by the spirit to bloom and blossom. Remember how Genesis chapter one tells how "dry" land appeared and then in chapter two, man is formed from this dry land. This 'dry land' condition was the lowering of man. In the OT the spirit or the water came 'upon' man to empower him but in the NT the spirit or water comes up from the deep or from within returning us to the original order and making us a well watered land.]
FATHER AND SON or THE LAMB COMPANY
Rev. 3:14
"These things saith the Amen, the faithful witness, the beginning of the creation of God." KJV
"The Prime Source of all God's creation." NEB
"The Primeval Source of God's creation." TLB
"GOD'S CREATIVE ORGINAL." LCNT
These four translations are all speaking of the Word-Christ, the Anointing, spoken out of God as the first creative act. The Word-Christ or The True and Faithful Witness, is the beginning of the creation of God. Not only is the Word-Christ, the beginning of all things created, but He is also The Vital Primeval Life Source and Force through which all things were created and sustained. The Word-Christ is the original creative power God used to speak forth His own SON out of His bosom, conceived in thought, and now expressed and manifested in Image and Form. "Christ the image of the invisible God." Col. 1:15 "Who being in the form of God." Phil. 2:5, John 1:18.
"In a beginning was the Word, and Word was WITH God, and a God was the Word. This was in a beginning WITH the God. All through IT was done, and without IT was done not even one, that has been done." John 1:1-3 This is the word by word translation out of the Greek, Diaglott.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was TOWARD God; and the God was the word. This was in the beginning toward God. All came into being through IT, and apart from It not even one thing came into being which has come into being. In IT was life, and the life was the light of men." Literal Concordant New Testament.
"Before anything else existed, there was Christ with God. He has always been alive and is Himself God. He created everthing there is - nothing exists that He did not make. Eternal life is in Him, and this life gives light to all men." John 1:1-3 TLB
There is an explanation in the Living Bible concering Christ: "The Word, meaning Christ, is the wisdom and power of God and the first cause of all things; God's personal expression of Himself to men." This is in harmony with the translation given of Rev. 3: 14, Christ is the primeval Source or Power through with God created all things.
The Kingdom of Dust - Part 3
by Dora Van Assen
COLOSSIANS 1:15-20 - paraphrased
The spoken Word-Christ is the exact image and likeness of God. He existed before anything was created as he is the FIRSTBORN of every creature, and is also the FIRSTBORN of the dead, therefore He is the Head of both the Old and the New Creation. He is the original creative power through which God created all things; all authorities, rulers and kingdoms, visible and invisible. All came into existence through the Spoken Word-Christ, all was created in Him and through and for Him, and He is holding all things together. He is the Head or First Representative One of His people, called The Body of Christ. He has first place or preeminence in all things. All the fulness of God dwells in Him. ("God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself" 2 Cor. 5:20) "Making peace through the blood of His cross, in Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, in Him, I say, whether things in earth or in heaven."Col. 1:20)
This is a tremendous foundational scripture. All things natural and spiritual are created in and through and for Christ. This includes the dust out of which all things are made or formed. It is His invisible power and life force in all things which is holding all things together, in Himself. He is the center and circumference of all things. There is NO-thing outside of Christ. He is the first original representative man made visible through DUST. God's original creative or Firstborn of every creature, or living thing - giving life to all things. Christ is first in all things. A "thing" is spirit made visible through dust. Even His visible body is called "That Holy Thing" when formed in the womb of Mary.
The First Adam is called, "The Son of God." Matt. 1 and Luke both recond his genealogy. Luke 3:38. In Rev. 1:8 we read, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the almighty." Again we read, "I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star." Rev. 22:16
Meditating on these scriptures I began to hear a word in my spirit, that the First and Last Adam are One. God only has One Son - the Son of His Love, the Christ/Word/Seed spoken out of His own bosom. The First and Last Son of a family have the same parents, or come from the same seed. These questions arose in my heart, how can anyone be the last of something without being part of the first? The first and the last piece of cake must come from the same cake - not two different cakes. How can anyone be the end of something without also having a part in the beginning of it. One piece of string has both a beginning and end. First and last speak of a series of things in the same category. Like a series of apple trees or a series of human beings.
The questions continued. How could Jesus the Christ be our example without being in the fall of Adam? Or how could Adam be a figure of the One who was to come? Rom. 8:14...unless they were of the same seed? And how could He be tempted in all points as we are without belonging to Adam's race?
Praise God! He is the Son of Man! He called Himself the Son of Man over and over again, identifying Himself with the fallen Adamic race, not only as The Word-Christ made flesh in the body of Jesus, but reaching back to Eden when he was formed from the dust of the earth to become The Head of the old creation, "the firstborn of every creature". Col 1:15
To be our example, or representative man, Christ Jesus who is the The Last Adam, had to also be the First Adam. He actually needed to feel the pain and sorrow of humanity, living in a lowered, dying dust body returning to dust, seeing His own children born of His seed dying before His eyes. He needed to experience the frustration of being lowered into vanity (uselessness and futility) and realizing that during His 930 years He had produced nothing but death. Death was in His seed. Rom 8:20
Thank God! We read that God lowered all creation into death, in HOPE! God gave every man a hope or an expectation. When I was pregnant I did not hope to have a baby! I expected a baby! A seed had been planted within me! So I began to prepart myself for its arrival. Like a pregnant woman, the whole creation is waiting in EXPECTATION to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. They are waiting in expectation for the unveiling of the sons of God. Rom 8:19-23
Yes! We also who have the firsfruit of the Spirit as an earnest or guarantee our downpayment are groaning together with creation. God Himself is groaning, in groanings that cannot be uttered. The Spirit of intercession groaning in and through us! Rom. 8:26
GOD HIMSELF HAS A HOPE! An expectation in His creation - to be magnified in all the earth, "For to expectation were we saved". Rom. 8:24 God has faith in His Creation!! Creation is an extension of Himself. Jesus call Himself the "Finger" of God! He never pointed to Himself, but always enlarged and magnified His Father. So also creation is a manifestation of God's love and mercy; His wisdom and power in all the earth.
GOD IS "WORD" CREATION
When creation was yet an idea in the mind of God, it was spoken forth as The Word/Christ/Seed, deep in the Inner parts of Man before he was conceived in his mother's womb. This is the true light that awakens man to what is already written in his cells. Every man is awakened in his own order. Like a seed it will spring up from within. No matter how darkened his mind may be or how ignorant to the things of God, all men still have a sense or premonition of what he once was in God. "With the scent of Water (Spirit) it will sprout and grow again like a tree in the desert." Job 14
THE SUMMARY
In closing let us summarize a few thoughts.
1. In the beginnings God created the heavens and the earths...denoting more than one beginning.
2. Both the heaven and the earth were created by The Spoken Christ/Word/Seed. "He spoke and it was done; He commanded and it stood fast." Psa. 33:6,9
3. This was a dust creation - created in Christ Jesus. Even the invisible heavens contains fine dust. Col. 1:16-17, Prov. 8:26 which we cannot see with natural eyes.
4. This includes God's creaton of man in Gen. 1:27. "In the image of God created He him; male and female created he them." This first man was not really in the full image of God for Adam was only a "figure of He who was to come". The First spoken Christ/Word/Seed is the the one who in the image of God. Col. 1:15, 2 Cor. 4:4
5. The True and Faithful Witness or the Spoken/Christ/Word is the begining of the creation of God. Rev. 3:14, God's Orginal Creative Word. Rev. 3:4
6. God said: "Let there be light and there was light." Gen. 1:3 compare John 1:1-4 and 1 John 1:1-3. All things were made by the Spoken/Christ/Word/Seed. Without IT was not anything made that was made; is made, or will be made! In IT is life and that life is the light of men (undertanding). This is the true "light" that awakens every man who comes into the world to his true identity in God.
7. God was in Christ, the anointing in the Word/Jesus when He died on the cross. In this way God Himself became our sin, and we became His righteousness. God made The Man Jesus the Christ, to be sin for us that we should be made Jesus the Christ who is the righteousness of God. Rom. 1:16-17, 2 Cor 5:21.
8. In his resurrection Jesus was made Lord and Christ. Acts 2:36. When he arose, we arose with Him back into the Spiritual Glory of the Father; which we had before the world was. Eph. 1:4, John 17:45.
9. WE are made One in the Name and Nature of God ( I Am that I Am) God in Man. God is The Word clothed in flesh - "dust-form" - to manifest God or Emanuel - God with and in Man. He has only One Son!
10. We have the mind of Christ Jesus. Phil 2:5. "Let" means we already have it. Only we need to "let" it operate. God gave Christ to be head of all things to the church which is his body. Eph. 1:23 CHRIST is the creative Word for our Spirit Mind realm typified by our Head. The mind rules the body. But LORD is the creative Word for the body. He is Lord of the body. We are weak and sick and dying because we do not discern the Lord's Body, which is our body. We manifest Christ Jesus our Lord and glorify Him in our Body. 1 Cor. 6:20.
11. The Christ/Word is Spirit, the vital life principle in all created things - animate or inanimate. It is the electrical energy (power) in all things created; even the highest or finest dust floating in the highest heavens; holding all things together. The hardest stone is solidified matter. When placed under terrific pressure solid matter turns into light. Christ is Light! "The entrance of His Word giveth Light". We are formed out of this living Light substance of Spirit-Dust. The aura around our bodies already radiates the presence of God's spirit within us. It can never be destroyed or annihilated. Our body can only be changed from glory to glory into His very same image by the LORD, the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3:18. It shall be fashioned like unto His glorious body. Phil. 3:21.
12. The Man Christ Jesus is not left out of the Godhead, "I Am that I Am." When Stephen was being stoned for his witness before the council, we hear him say: "Behold, I see the heaven open, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God." He called upon God, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, and kneeling down he creid with a loud voice, "Lord lay not this sin to their charge." Acts 7:55-60
Jesus died and rose again as Lord and Christ to live in you and me. In this way making sure that we become the beneficiaries of His Will and Testament. In other word, He became the executioner of His own will or the New Covenant. Heb. 9:16-17. Hear Paul: " The life I now live in the flesh (this dust body) I live by the faith of the Son of God who gave Himself (for and to) me." Gal. 2: 20
CLOUDS OF DUST
"The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet." Nahum 1:3
We are the clouds of dust caught up in Christ Jesus; prepared and ready to rain upon the dust creation of God, so fulfilling God's promise to Abraham. God promised Abraham that he would have a seed numberless as the stars in heaven, (which are are made of dust) and more than the sand on the seashore, even as vast as the dust of the earth, inumerable.
"Of His own will begat He us with The Word of Truth, that we should be a Special Kind of Firstfruit ofHimself Creatures." James 1:18 from the Diaglott.
Our dusty "feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace", to be declared to all men. This the the message of total reconciliation of all creation back into the knowledge of God's unfailing love for all men everywhere. God is already conciliated unto mankind in His Son, Christ Jesus our Lord. And now God is pleading through us to the world, "Be ye conciliated to God!" 2 Cor. 5:20 This will bring Re-conciliation for it takes both sides to become friends to be re-conciled.
Praise God! We have a special calling of God to declare His gospel of peace, that is to awaken mankind to what God had already done for them, but lying dormant in their own heart or subconscious mind. That His covenant of peace and love is already written in their mind and heart. Ro. 2:14-16
God has never forsaken any man. It was Adam that hid from God out of fear, giving him a false image of God's true character of love, making Adam his own worst enemy. Our own carnal mind is an enemy of God. We all need to be awakened that we are now the Sons of God, growing into maturity, standing as His Ambassadors with the Word of Life and Truth unto all who have an ear to hear what God is saying today.
In His ministry Jesus said that He was the Finger of God. Luke 11:20. "If I by the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the Kingdom of God is come upon you." Jesus likened the finger of God unto the power of the Kingdom or the Spoken Word. Again He demonstrated this authority when the scibes and lawyers of His day challenged Him with the woman taken in the act of adultery saying that she should be stoned according to their law.
Without saying a word, Jesus stooped and with His finger wrote in the sand. When these men read what He had written, they were condemned in their own heart. Silently they left, one by one, leaving the woman standing there alone. Jesus asked her, "Where are thy accusers?" and she answers, "There are none!" and Jesus said, "Go and sin no more!" He delivered her by these very words of correction spoken in love! Jesus was giving these men (and also us today) a visible sign that He was the very One who had written God's Law on two tablets of stone. Ex. 31:18 These tablets represented the stony heart of the natural man. Yet in Eze. 11:9 and 36:26 we read that God would give us a new heart and a new spirit within us taking away the stony heart out our fleshy mind and give us a heart of flesh. This was done in His death and resurrection, when He was made Us and We were made Him! 2 Cor. 5:21
The law of God was written on stone by the disposition of angels. Acts. 7:53. Christ Jesus is the Angel of God's Covenant. Mal. 3:1 Disposition means: arrange, institute, ordain, order, give, appoint orinstrumentality.
Christ/Word/Spirit is the mind and soul of God. Strong #1299 I now realize that The New Covenant is written on our heart and mind by Christ Jesus our Lord who is the Savior of the Body. Chirst Jesus the Living Spoken Word is the Finger of God manifested in flesh, the Kingdom of God manifested in the earth today, manifested through these fleshly bodies of DUST.
"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts known and read of all men."
"For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ minsitered by us written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart."
The lives we touch in the spirit are the visible proof of our ministry, won for Christ through the living spoken Word out of our own mouth. We are a "Word" creation manifested in dust. Our relationship and fellowship is through the spoken Word out of our mouth today. In this way we visibly glorify God and each other, through these dust bodies. Let us thank God for the skin covering our Inner Spiritual Man, as we grow and mature into responsibility. Through experience we are learning how to glorify God in these dust bodies! 1 Cor. 6:20
I am finding out that anything God created or will create is beautiful!
AWAKE AND SING YE THAT DWELL IN THE DUST; THE DEW IS AS THE DEW UPON THE HERBS. Isa. 19:26
Yet a little while and I will shake all nations - the heavens and the earth, oceans and dry land. The desire of all nations shall come unto thee. I will fill thee with my glory! Thou are my Temple, the place where I dwell. Thy spendor far exceeds the glory of the former, which faded away, but thou remaineth unto all ages! Haggai 2:6-9
Peace I leave with thee!
In His Great Love for All,
Dora Van Assen
COLOSSIANS 1:15-20 - paraphrased
The spoken Word-Christ is the exact image and likeness of God. He existed before anything was created as he is the FIRSTBORN of every creature, and is also the FIRSTBORN of the dead, therefore He is the Head of both the Old and the New Creation. He is the original creative power through which God created all things; all authorities, rulers and kingdoms, visible and invisible. All came into existence through the Spoken Word-Christ, all was created in Him and through and for Him, and He is holding all things together. He is the Head or First Representative One of His people, called The Body of Christ. He has first place or preeminence in all things. All the fulness of God dwells in Him. ("God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself" 2 Cor. 5:20) "Making peace through the blood of His cross, in Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, in Him, I say, whether things in earth or in heaven."Col. 1:20)
This is a tremendous foundational scripture. All things natural and spiritual are created in and through and for Christ. This includes the dust out of which all things are made or formed. It is His invisible power and life force in all things which is holding all things together, in Himself. He is the center and circumference of all things. There is NO-thing outside of Christ. He is the first original representative man made visible through DUST. God's original creative or Firstborn of every creature, or living thing - giving life to all things. Christ is first in all things. A "thing" is spirit made visible through dust. Even His visible body is called "That Holy Thing" when formed in the womb of Mary.
The First Adam is called, "The Son of God." Matt. 1 and Luke both recond his genealogy. Luke 3:38. In Rev. 1:8 we read, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the almighty." Again we read, "I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star." Rev. 22:16
Meditating on these scriptures I began to hear a word in my spirit, that the First and Last Adam are One. God only has One Son - the Son of His Love, the Christ/Word/Seed spoken out of His own bosom. The First and Last Son of a family have the same parents, or come from the same seed. These questions arose in my heart, how can anyone be the last of something without being part of the first? The first and the last piece of cake must come from the same cake - not two different cakes. How can anyone be the end of something without also having a part in the beginning of it. One piece of string has both a beginning and end. First and last speak of a series of things in the same category. Like a series of apple trees or a series of human beings.
The questions continued. How could Jesus the Christ be our example without being in the fall of Adam? Or how could Adam be a figure of the One who was to come? Rom. 8:14...unless they were of the same seed? And how could He be tempted in all points as we are without belonging to Adam's race?
Praise God! He is the Son of Man! He called Himself the Son of Man over and over again, identifying Himself with the fallen Adamic race, not only as The Word-Christ made flesh in the body of Jesus, but reaching back to Eden when he was formed from the dust of the earth to become The Head of the old creation, "the firstborn of every creature". Col 1:15
To be our example, or representative man, Christ Jesus who is the The Last Adam, had to also be the First Adam. He actually needed to feel the pain and sorrow of humanity, living in a lowered, dying dust body returning to dust, seeing His own children born of His seed dying before His eyes. He needed to experience the frustration of being lowered into vanity (uselessness and futility) and realizing that during His 930 years He had produced nothing but death. Death was in His seed. Rom 8:20
Thank God! We read that God lowered all creation into death, in HOPE! God gave every man a hope or an expectation. When I was pregnant I did not hope to have a baby! I expected a baby! A seed had been planted within me! So I began to prepart myself for its arrival. Like a pregnant woman, the whole creation is waiting in EXPECTATION to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. They are waiting in expectation for the unveiling of the sons of God. Rom 8:19-23
Yes! We also who have the firsfruit of the Spirit as an earnest or guarantee our downpayment are groaning together with creation. God Himself is groaning, in groanings that cannot be uttered. The Spirit of intercession groaning in and through us! Rom. 8:26
GOD HIMSELF HAS A HOPE! An expectation in His creation - to be magnified in all the earth, "For to expectation were we saved". Rom. 8:24 God has faith in His Creation!! Creation is an extension of Himself. Jesus call Himself the "Finger" of God! He never pointed to Himself, but always enlarged and magnified His Father. So also creation is a manifestation of God's love and mercy; His wisdom and power in all the earth.
GOD IS "WORD" CREATION
When creation was yet an idea in the mind of God, it was spoken forth as The Word/Christ/Seed, deep in the Inner parts of Man before he was conceived in his mother's womb. This is the true light that awakens man to what is already written in his cells. Every man is awakened in his own order. Like a seed it will spring up from within. No matter how darkened his mind may be or how ignorant to the things of God, all men still have a sense or premonition of what he once was in God. "With the scent of Water (Spirit) it will sprout and grow again like a tree in the desert." Job 14
THE SUMMARY
In closing let us summarize a few thoughts.
1. In the beginnings God created the heavens and the earths...denoting more than one beginning.
2. Both the heaven and the earth were created by The Spoken Christ/Word/Seed. "He spoke and it was done; He commanded and it stood fast." Psa. 33:6,9
3. This was a dust creation - created in Christ Jesus. Even the invisible heavens contains fine dust. Col. 1:16-17, Prov. 8:26 which we cannot see with natural eyes.
4. This includes God's creaton of man in Gen. 1:27. "In the image of God created He him; male and female created he them." This first man was not really in the full image of God for Adam was only a "figure of He who was to come". The First spoken Christ/Word/Seed is the the one who in the image of God. Col. 1:15, 2 Cor. 4:4
5. The True and Faithful Witness or the Spoken/Christ/Word is the begining of the creation of God. Rev. 3:14, God's Orginal Creative Word. Rev. 3:4
6. God said: "Let there be light and there was light." Gen. 1:3 compare John 1:1-4 and 1 John 1:1-3. All things were made by the Spoken/Christ/Word/Seed. Without IT was not anything made that was made; is made, or will be made! In IT is life and that life is the light of men (undertanding). This is the true "light" that awakens every man who comes into the world to his true identity in God.
7. God was in Christ, the anointing in the Word/Jesus when He died on the cross. In this way God Himself became our sin, and we became His righteousness. God made The Man Jesus the Christ, to be sin for us that we should be made Jesus the Christ who is the righteousness of God. Rom. 1:16-17, 2 Cor 5:21.
8. In his resurrection Jesus was made Lord and Christ. Acts 2:36. When he arose, we arose with Him back into the Spiritual Glory of the Father; which we had before the world was. Eph. 1:4, John 17:45.
9. WE are made One in the Name and Nature of God ( I Am that I Am) God in Man. God is The Word clothed in flesh - "dust-form" - to manifest God or Emanuel - God with and in Man. He has only One Son!
10. We have the mind of Christ Jesus. Phil 2:5. "Let" means we already have it. Only we need to "let" it operate. God gave Christ to be head of all things to the church which is his body. Eph. 1:23 CHRIST is the creative Word for our Spirit Mind realm typified by our Head. The mind rules the body. But LORD is the creative Word for the body. He is Lord of the body. We are weak and sick and dying because we do not discern the Lord's Body, which is our body. We manifest Christ Jesus our Lord and glorify Him in our Body. 1 Cor. 6:20.
11. The Christ/Word is Spirit, the vital life principle in all created things - animate or inanimate. It is the electrical energy (power) in all things created; even the highest or finest dust floating in the highest heavens; holding all things together. The hardest stone is solidified matter. When placed under terrific pressure solid matter turns into light. Christ is Light! "The entrance of His Word giveth Light". We are formed out of this living Light substance of Spirit-Dust. The aura around our bodies already radiates the presence of God's spirit within us. It can never be destroyed or annihilated. Our body can only be changed from glory to glory into His very same image by the LORD, the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3:18. It shall be fashioned like unto His glorious body. Phil. 3:21.
12. The Man Christ Jesus is not left out of the Godhead, "I Am that I Am." When Stephen was being stoned for his witness before the council, we hear him say: "Behold, I see the heaven open, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God." He called upon God, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, and kneeling down he creid with a loud voice, "Lord lay not this sin to their charge." Acts 7:55-60
Jesus died and rose again as Lord and Christ to live in you and me. In this way making sure that we become the beneficiaries of His Will and Testament. In other word, He became the executioner of His own will or the New Covenant. Heb. 9:16-17. Hear Paul: " The life I now live in the flesh (this dust body) I live by the faith of the Son of God who gave Himself (for and to) me." Gal. 2: 20
CLOUDS OF DUST
"The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet." Nahum 1:3
We are the clouds of dust caught up in Christ Jesus; prepared and ready to rain upon the dust creation of God, so fulfilling God's promise to Abraham. God promised Abraham that he would have a seed numberless as the stars in heaven, (which are are made of dust) and more than the sand on the seashore, even as vast as the dust of the earth, inumerable.
"Of His own will begat He us with The Word of Truth, that we should be a Special Kind of Firstfruit ofHimself Creatures." James 1:18 from the Diaglott.
Our dusty "feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace", to be declared to all men. This the the message of total reconciliation of all creation back into the knowledge of God's unfailing love for all men everywhere. God is already conciliated unto mankind in His Son, Christ Jesus our Lord. And now God is pleading through us to the world, "Be ye conciliated to God!" 2 Cor. 5:20 This will bring Re-conciliation for it takes both sides to become friends to be re-conciled.
Praise God! We have a special calling of God to declare His gospel of peace, that is to awaken mankind to what God had already done for them, but lying dormant in their own heart or subconscious mind. That His covenant of peace and love is already written in their mind and heart. Ro. 2:14-16
God has never forsaken any man. It was Adam that hid from God out of fear, giving him a false image of God's true character of love, making Adam his own worst enemy. Our own carnal mind is an enemy of God. We all need to be awakened that we are now the Sons of God, growing into maturity, standing as His Ambassadors with the Word of Life and Truth unto all who have an ear to hear what God is saying today.
In His ministry Jesus said that He was the Finger of God. Luke 11:20. "If I by the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the Kingdom of God is come upon you." Jesus likened the finger of God unto the power of the Kingdom or the Spoken Word. Again He demonstrated this authority when the scibes and lawyers of His day challenged Him with the woman taken in the act of adultery saying that she should be stoned according to their law.
Without saying a word, Jesus stooped and with His finger wrote in the sand. When these men read what He had written, they were condemned in their own heart. Silently they left, one by one, leaving the woman standing there alone. Jesus asked her, "Where are thy accusers?" and she answers, "There are none!" and Jesus said, "Go and sin no more!" He delivered her by these very words of correction spoken in love! Jesus was giving these men (and also us today) a visible sign that He was the very One who had written God's Law on two tablets of stone. Ex. 31:18 These tablets represented the stony heart of the natural man. Yet in Eze. 11:9 and 36:26 we read that God would give us a new heart and a new spirit within us taking away the stony heart out our fleshy mind and give us a heart of flesh. This was done in His death and resurrection, when He was made Us and We were made Him! 2 Cor. 5:21
The law of God was written on stone by the disposition of angels. Acts. 7:53. Christ Jesus is the Angel of God's Covenant. Mal. 3:1 Disposition means: arrange, institute, ordain, order, give, appoint orinstrumentality.
Christ/Word/Spirit is the mind and soul of God. Strong #1299 I now realize that The New Covenant is written on our heart and mind by Christ Jesus our Lord who is the Savior of the Body. Chirst Jesus the Living Spoken Word is the Finger of God manifested in flesh, the Kingdom of God manifested in the earth today, manifested through these fleshly bodies of DUST.
"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts known and read of all men."
"For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ minsitered by us written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart."
The lives we touch in the spirit are the visible proof of our ministry, won for Christ through the living spoken Word out of our own mouth. We are a "Word" creation manifested in dust. Our relationship and fellowship is through the spoken Word out of our mouth today. In this way we visibly glorify God and each other, through these dust bodies. Let us thank God for the skin covering our Inner Spiritual Man, as we grow and mature into responsibility. Through experience we are learning how to glorify God in these dust bodies! 1 Cor. 6:20
I am finding out that anything God created or will create is beautiful!
AWAKE AND SING YE THAT DWELL IN THE DUST; THE DEW IS AS THE DEW UPON THE HERBS. Isa. 19:26
Yet a little while and I will shake all nations - the heavens and the earth, oceans and dry land. The desire of all nations shall come unto thee. I will fill thee with my glory! Thou are my Temple, the place where I dwell. Thy spendor far exceeds the glory of the former, which faded away, but thou remaineth unto all ages! Haggai 2:6-9
Peace I leave with thee!
In His Great Love for All,
Dora Van Assen
Monday, February 20, 2012
Coming Out of the Closet
Jenny quoted:
Yes, Jenny, "For this reason shall a man leave Father and Mother and be joined to his wife."
The very reason that Jesus came here...he left the celestials, took on the form of mankind in the terrestials, to join himself to his wife, the soul of every man. And out this union would be born the mature Son of God bringing us into spirit, soul and body salvation.
And also just as Adam was not deceived in partaking of the forbidden fruit, but willingly partook, he patterns the love of Jesus or the Love of Spirit towards us.
"Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world".
Love journeys with us unto the end of our, many-times, mis-managed world. And when we come to the end of our world, all that is left is his world and Love's perfect union, the holy conception.
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Loved the poem, Ron!
One translation say the Holy Thing that shall be generated from you.
Talk about "coming out of the closet".
This THING is not to be a "within" in-wombed Thing forever.
Hallelujah, but to "further heaven's hopes and summon God's glory" is being born/generated.
With love,
Karen
Adam decided he'd rather be in hell with Eve than in heaven without her.
Yes, Jenny, "For this reason shall a man leave Father and Mother and be joined to his wife."
The very reason that Jesus came here...he left the celestials, took on the form of mankind in the terrestials, to join himself to his wife, the soul of every man. And out this union would be born the mature Son of God bringing us into spirit, soul and body salvation.
And also just as Adam was not deceived in partaking of the forbidden fruit, but willingly partook, he patterns the love of Jesus or the Love of Spirit towards us.
"Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world".
Love journeys with us unto the end of our, many-times, mis-managed world. And when we come to the end of our world, all that is left is his world and Love's perfect union, the holy conception.
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Loved the poem, Ron!
"to be part of the"That holy THING that will be born of thee, will be called the Son of God".
different thing...
God's shocking, unorthodox,
unheard of Thing
to further heaven's hopes
and summon God's glory."
One translation say the Holy Thing that shall be generated from you.
Talk about "coming out of the closet".
This THING is not to be a "within" in-wombed Thing forever.
Hallelujah, but to "further heaven's hopes and summon God's glory" is being born/generated.
With love,
Karen
Multidimensional Beings
Barbara, I know you have the book, The Third Millennium, by Ken Carey and are probably very familiar with this quote but I really enjoyed the following portion and have posted it in the past regarding our traverse of the dimensions. I don't have anything specific about the 12 dimensions other than what is obvious with the 12 tribes, the 12 disciples, the 12 foundations of the city all being symbolic of these dimensions. I know theoretical physicists speak of the 10 dimensions of string theory http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php
and they are mind boggling enough, but of course, spirit takes it to the max and exceeds the wisdom of man.
I feel quite sure that we are even now multidimensional beings operating at many levels because we are spirit beings, but not having our present understandings fully developed to do so consciously at all times. Our physicality being a coalesence of light energy that becomes a focus point of expression in this 3rd dimensional world, but as our higher more ascended selves we expand ever outward encompassing the All. As the veil is removed, we become more consciously cocreative participators in these crimes of the God kind. :)
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"In Posthistoric times you will know each level of creative manifestation as a dimension, or octave, or your own being's unfoldment. You will experience naturally the freedom and mobility of musically directed travel up and down these octaves of manifestation.
You cannot travel into yourself without exploring the infinite reaches of eternal consciousness.
You cannot know yourself in reality without knowing God.
Each plane of manifestation is a higher octave on a single vibrational continuum. The lower octaves offer greater multiplicity and a greater diversity of creation. With the higher octaves comes reduced multiplicity and a more intensified awareness of the singularity of being. Yet this generalization applies only to the landscape of Creation, it does not apply to you. You are able to move freely where you will.
Ken Carey, The Third Millennium
and they are mind boggling enough, but of course, spirit takes it to the max and exceeds the wisdom of man.
I feel quite sure that we are even now multidimensional beings operating at many levels because we are spirit beings, but not having our present understandings fully developed to do so consciously at all times. Our physicality being a coalesence of light energy that becomes a focus point of expression in this 3rd dimensional world, but as our higher more ascended selves we expand ever outward encompassing the All. As the veil is removed, we become more consciously cocreative participators in these crimes of the God kind. :)
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"In Posthistoric times you will know each level of creative manifestation as a dimension, or octave, or your own being's unfoldment. You will experience naturally the freedom and mobility of musically directed travel up and down these octaves of manifestation.
You cannot travel into yourself without exploring the infinite reaches of eternal consciousness.
You cannot know yourself in reality without knowing God.
Each plane of manifestation is a higher octave on a single vibrational continuum. The lower octaves offer greater multiplicity and a greater diversity of creation. With the higher octaves comes reduced multiplicity and a more intensified awareness of the singularity of being. Yet this generalization applies only to the landscape of Creation, it does not apply to you. You are able to move freely where you will.
Ken Carey, The Third Millennium
What Is In Your Hand?
Moses told God "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the people out?" Moses told God that they would not listen to him or believe him, but the Lord asked him what was in his hand. "Oh, just a rod, Lord". [paraphrasing a little] God said, "Cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent [a symbol of royal and divine power that the Pharoah's wore on their crown]."
Moral of the story, offer whatever is in your hand and we will find how our little will be much when God is in it.
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.." Ec.9
Moral of the story, offer whatever is in your hand and we will find how our little will be much when God is in it.
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.." Ec.9
Energy Centers
In the book of Revelation there is a seven-sealed book of which no man was found worthy to open....I can see how that we are that seven-sealed book that 'no man' was found worthy to open....only the Lion of the tribe of Judah, one who has conquered or overcome can open the book or break its seals. But when John looked to behold this Lion who was the only one worthy, he beheld instead a lamb, as though it had been slain with seven horns and seven eyes which is the seven-fold manifestations of the Spirit of God.
The Melchizedek Priesthood is a Lion/Lamb or King/Priest ministry. They have the mouth or authority of a Lion/King, for they have overcome, but they speak from the heart of a Lamb/Priest. Because they too have been touched by the feeling of infirmities they have become compassionate priests.
Now the Eastern tradition calls these seven seals, chakras which means spinning wheels or vortices. Does that ring a bell with the passage of "wheel in the middle of a wheel", perhaps.
Our bodies are made of energy, God energy. When they are not operating at optimun spirit levels, possibly due to traumas of the past or issues of the present, the energy centers in our bodies reflect the malaise. I have a friend who is very sensitive and used by the spirit to detect in what area of the body you are still carrying unresolved issues. I have seen how the spirit will direct them to a certain area of the body that a person is having difficulty in and they have never been told anything about this person and they will shown if it is a past issue or if it is from the male of female side, or mother or father side. Now I know many will say that is not who you really are and that is true, but your body is a book of life. It records it all. It records everything in your life stream.
Now Mother Earth surely must do this as well if our individual bodies of earth do this. She has an aura just like our bodies do. Remember Peter's aura or shadow was so energized with God energy that people that came within the projection of his aura were healed.
Now perhaps the way Mother Earth cleanses her energy centers when too much negativity (wars, gangs, drugs, etc.) happens is seen in some of the great earthquakes, and volcanoes or storms.
And perhaps there are centers where earth's energy is not depleted or choked with negativity and people resonate with this when they come into the presence or aura of positive energy. At least, many say that they have experienced it to be so...the native cultures have always been sensitive to these things.
I have not personally experienced visiting or being in such places as Sedona, but I think we have all gone somewhere, a city, a home or a place that we have visited and felt something very positive and uplifting while there and then we have been places and have had very uneasy negative vibes from it.
The Melchizedek Priesthood is a Lion/Lamb or King/Priest ministry. They have the mouth or authority of a Lion/King, for they have overcome, but they speak from the heart of a Lamb/Priest. Because they too have been touched by the feeling of infirmities they have become compassionate priests.
Now the Eastern tradition calls these seven seals, chakras which means spinning wheels or vortices. Does that ring a bell with the passage of "wheel in the middle of a wheel", perhaps.
Our bodies are made of energy, God energy. When they are not operating at optimun spirit levels, possibly due to traumas of the past or issues of the present, the energy centers in our bodies reflect the malaise. I have a friend who is very sensitive and used by the spirit to detect in what area of the body you are still carrying unresolved issues. I have seen how the spirit will direct them to a certain area of the body that a person is having difficulty in and they have never been told anything about this person and they will shown if it is a past issue or if it is from the male of female side, or mother or father side. Now I know many will say that is not who you really are and that is true, but your body is a book of life. It records it all. It records everything in your life stream.
Now Mother Earth surely must do this as well if our individual bodies of earth do this. She has an aura just like our bodies do. Remember Peter's aura or shadow was so energized with God energy that people that came within the projection of his aura were healed.
Now perhaps the way Mother Earth cleanses her energy centers when too much negativity (wars, gangs, drugs, etc.) happens is seen in some of the great earthquakes, and volcanoes or storms.
And perhaps there are centers where earth's energy is not depleted or choked with negativity and people resonate with this when they come into the presence or aura of positive energy. At least, many say that they have experienced it to be so...the native cultures have always been sensitive to these things.
I have not personally experienced visiting or being in such places as Sedona, but I think we have all gone somewhere, a city, a home or a place that we have visited and felt something very positive and uplifting while there and then we have been places and have had very uneasy negative vibes from it.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Jesus Said That Two Equals One
Jesus said that 2 = 1.
The school of Christ is an ongoing education in the ways of the Spirit, for it is not the man (the spirit) that was in the transgression but the woman (soul) who was deceived. This was demonstrated to us allegorically by all the ways that Jesus ministered to women. So as our souls or woman is being transformed our "day" or consciousness becomes brighter and brighter as it arises to full noon Day where complete union with the Sun/Son Light occurs for she is now of marrying age and maturity.
That is when the mind and the spirit can produce a full-grown Manchild for they are now in a union or marriage and have ceased just dating and fooling around to be graphic. The two have become One just as in the natural when a man and woman come together and produce a child. The child is the Two (mother and father) in One.
I said all that to preference the following teaching by Jesus to demonstrate that he had no problem referring to himself and then his Father all in same breath without it indicating that he was promoting some kind of carnal separation. He used the "Me" word and he used the "And" word quite freely because it teaches us what real union means which is:
[ act of joining together: the act of joining TOGETHER people or things to form a whole]
You can't unify a singularity, but you can unify dualities through amalgamation.
The following is how he answered the Pharisees (everything in us which denies Christ) which had a real problem with his teachings: [seems that there are still a few around that have that same problem]
"Whereupon the Pharisees told Him, You are testifying on Your own behalf; Your testimony is not valid and is worthless.
Jesus answered, Even if I do testify on My own behalf, My testimony is true and valid; for I know where I came from and where I am going....
You set yourself up to judge according to the flesh- by what you see....I do not set Myself up to judge or sentence anyone.
Yet if I do judge, My judgement is true; FOR I AM NOT ALONE [in making it], but [THERE ARE TWO OF US],
I "and" the Father Who sent me.
I am one [of the Two] bearing testimony concerning Myself, and My Father Who sent Me, He also testifies about Me"
+++++++++++++++.
Jesus was God's personality and attributes manifested in a form. They were ONE IN SPIRIT but differing in manifestation. They were one in spirit but two by manifestation. One invisible, the other visible.
That is why Jesus could say that He AND His father were one.- they were One, One in spirit. It is the same way that we can say we are one - it is in spirit but not in form where our oneness lies.
The name and personality of Jesus was SO IMPORTANT that the angel instructed that his name shall be called "Jesus". His name was indicitive of his natue and reason for being here.
To arrive at such a place in consciousness that he could confess and actually know that he and his father were one, required some growing up into that truth as well as the experience of the anointing and quickening of that in him. "the child grew and became strong in spirit, wisdom and grace" "God does not give him His spirit sparingly or by measure"
He didn't go around pretending he had no personality or was fearful of expressing any or afraid to use his name, for as he grew in grace and wisdom he knew that the Father was as much him[Jesus] as he[Jesus] was the Father.
Each individualized aspect of God provides opportunity for the invisible to be actualized and to experience Itself as us. And Christ Jesus provides for us That Way, if we we follow in it and That Truth as our minds are renewed, and That Quality of Life as we appropriate it.
Here's some more illus. of Me AND My Father.
John 17:
When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, Father...glorify and magnify your Son, so that Your Son may glorify and magnify You.
There is a Me and a You that Jesus was not afraid of speaking of.
I have glorified YOU..
now glorify ME
Now glorify ME along with YOURSELF
I have manifested YOUR name
to the people YOU have given ME
All you have given ME belongs to YOU
the words that you gave ME, I have given them
so they would know that I came forth from YOU
Most High is possessor of heaven and earth....and the divine atomic fusion of those TWO is what creates THE "ONE" NEW CREATION MAN.
The One, that was God's declared intention from the beginning when he said "Let us make Man."
That which is neither just a spirit (a heaven)
or
a just a body (earth)
but
the union of star and stone, heaven and earth which lives at the interface of both but is neither. These are they who come in and go out as the wind of spirit blows them.
Praise His Name!!
The school of Christ is an ongoing education in the ways of the Spirit, for it is not the man (the spirit) that was in the transgression but the woman (soul) who was deceived. This was demonstrated to us allegorically by all the ways that Jesus ministered to women. So as our souls or woman is being transformed our "day" or consciousness becomes brighter and brighter as it arises to full noon Day where complete union with the Sun/Son Light occurs for she is now of marrying age and maturity.
That is when the mind and the spirit can produce a full-grown Manchild for they are now in a union or marriage and have ceased just dating and fooling around to be graphic. The two have become One just as in the natural when a man and woman come together and produce a child. The child is the Two (mother and father) in One.
I said all that to preference the following teaching by Jesus to demonstrate that he had no problem referring to himself and then his Father all in same breath without it indicating that he was promoting some kind of carnal separation. He used the "Me" word and he used the "And" word quite freely because it teaches us what real union means which is:
[ act of joining together: the act of joining TOGETHER people or things to form a whole]
You can't unify a singularity, but you can unify dualities through amalgamation.
The following is how he answered the Pharisees (everything in us which denies Christ) which had a real problem with his teachings: [seems that there are still a few around that have that same problem]
"Whereupon the Pharisees told Him, You are testifying on Your own behalf; Your testimony is not valid and is worthless.
Jesus answered, Even if I do testify on My own behalf, My testimony is true and valid; for I know where I came from and where I am going....
You set yourself up to judge according to the flesh- by what you see....I do not set Myself up to judge or sentence anyone.
Yet if I do judge, My judgement is true; FOR I AM NOT ALONE [in making it], but [THERE ARE TWO OF US],
I "and" the Father Who sent me.
I am one [of the Two] bearing testimony concerning Myself, and My Father Who sent Me, He also testifies about Me"
+++++++++++++++.
Jesus was God's personality and attributes manifested in a form. They were ONE IN SPIRIT but differing in manifestation. They were one in spirit but two by manifestation. One invisible, the other visible.
That is why Jesus could say that He AND His father were one.- they were One, One in spirit. It is the same way that we can say we are one - it is in spirit but not in form where our oneness lies.
The name and personality of Jesus was SO IMPORTANT that the angel instructed that his name shall be called "Jesus". His name was indicitive of his natue and reason for being here.
To arrive at such a place in consciousness that he could confess and actually know that he and his father were one, required some growing up into that truth as well as the experience of the anointing and quickening of that in him. "the child grew and became strong in spirit, wisdom and grace" "God does not give him His spirit sparingly or by measure"
He didn't go around pretending he had no personality or was fearful of expressing any or afraid to use his name, for as he grew in grace and wisdom he knew that the Father was as much him[Jesus] as he[Jesus] was the Father.
Each individualized aspect of God provides opportunity for the invisible to be actualized and to experience Itself as us. And Christ Jesus provides for us That Way, if we we follow in it and That Truth as our minds are renewed, and That Quality of Life as we appropriate it.
Here's some more illus. of Me AND My Father.
John 17:
When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, Father...glorify and magnify your Son, so that Your Son may glorify and magnify You.
There is a Me and a You that Jesus was not afraid of speaking of.
I have glorified YOU..
now glorify ME
Now glorify ME along with YOURSELF
I have manifested YOUR name
to the people YOU have given ME
All you have given ME belongs to YOU
the words that you gave ME, I have given them
so they would know that I came forth from YOU
Most High is possessor of heaven and earth....and the divine atomic fusion of those TWO is what creates THE "ONE" NEW CREATION MAN.
The One, that was God's declared intention from the beginning when he said "Let us make Man."
That which is neither just a spirit (a heaven)
or
a just a body (earth)
but
the union of star and stone, heaven and earth which lives at the interface of both but is neither. These are they who come in and go out as the wind of spirit blows them.
Praise His Name!!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Dry Land
Genesis 1 says that God says "and let the "dry land" appear". This was the beginning of the lowering of man. This is the "evening man".
The "morning man" is our first estate as a spirit creation.
It takes an evening and morning man experience to make One Day, The Day of the Lord.
Then in Genesis 2 it says that man is made of the "dry land", the dust, the dust man. This is when man became a living soul....he lived by the impulses of his mind or ego more than the guidance of his spirit.
In the OT the Spirit or the water came "upon" man.
But
In the NT Jesus said "out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water, this spake he of the spirit, for the Holy Ghost had not yet been given."
Jesus came to open the floodgates making us a well watered garden flooding us from within with resurrection reality so we we would not be a dry unproductive land.
The "morning man" is our first estate as a spirit creation.
It takes an evening and morning man experience to make One Day, The Day of the Lord.
Then in Genesis 2 it says that man is made of the "dry land", the dust, the dust man. This is when man became a living soul....he lived by the impulses of his mind or ego more than the guidance of his spirit.
In the OT the Spirit or the water came "upon" man.
But
In the NT Jesus said "out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water, this spake he of the spirit, for the Holy Ghost had not yet been given."
Jesus came to open the floodgates making us a well watered garden flooding us from within with resurrection reality so we we would not be a dry unproductive land.
What Is Hell?
I always found M.Thomas-Benedict's near death experience description of hell to accurately sum up what hell is:
So we all know that natural darkness's only remedy is the turning on of a light. We can stand and rebuke the darkness and try to cast it out of the room, but that will not change a thing till we reach over and turn the switch on which releases electrial power to flow into the light bulb producing light.
Where did the darkness go when we turn on the light? Nowhere. Because it has no source. Light is the only thing that has a source.
Our daylight has a source, the sun. But our darkness, has no source...in other words, there is not some moon of darkness shining down darkness upon our earth during our nighttime providing a source for this darkness. Our earth has merely turned away from the sun in its daily orbit creating an absence of light.
So neither does spiritual darkness....which is a turning away from the light, either consciously or unconsciously. Now I am not saying that darkness is not a condition that doesn't need remedied...it does. "Let God arise and his enemies be scattered." The rising sun never needs to fight the darkness does it? Its mere presence does the job. Darkness finds no hiding place in the presence of the light.
"During my near-death experience I had a descent into what you might call Hell, and it was very surprising. I did not see Satan or evil. My descent into Hell was a descent into each person’s customized human misery, ignorance, and darkness of not knowing. It seemed like a miserable eternity. But each of the millions of souls around me had a little star of light always available. But no one seemed to pay attention to it. They were so consumed with their own grief, trauma and misery. But, after what seemed an eternity, I started calling out to that Light, like a child calling to a parent for help.Darkness is not really the presense of anything - it is an absense. It is an absense of light. When you are made aware of darkness it is most often accompanied by a feeling of coldness.....sorta funny because hell is always pictured as a hot place. Anywhere that the Son is not shining is a mighty cold place. But as SilentR always says, "Heaven is hotter than hell"...Hallelujah! Holy Ghost Fire!
Then the Light opened up and formed a tunnel that came right to me and insulated me from all that fear and pain, That is what Hell really is. So what we are doing is learning to hold hands, to come together. The doors of Hell are open now. We are going to link up, hold hands, and walk out of Hell together."
So we all know that natural darkness's only remedy is the turning on of a light. We can stand and rebuke the darkness and try to cast it out of the room, but that will not change a thing till we reach over and turn the switch on which releases electrial power to flow into the light bulb producing light.
Where did the darkness go when we turn on the light? Nowhere. Because it has no source. Light is the only thing that has a source.
Our daylight has a source, the sun. But our darkness, has no source...in other words, there is not some moon of darkness shining down darkness upon our earth during our nighttime providing a source for this darkness. Our earth has merely turned away from the sun in its daily orbit creating an absence of light.
So neither does spiritual darkness....which is a turning away from the light, either consciously or unconsciously. Now I am not saying that darkness is not a condition that doesn't need remedied...it does. "Let God arise and his enemies be scattered." The rising sun never needs to fight the darkness does it? Its mere presence does the job. Darkness finds no hiding place in the presence of the light.
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