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Luke 1:16-17, "16And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. 17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
Who is the "Lord their God" in verse 16? The answer is given in verse 17, "And he shall go before him". "Him" who? The Lord the God. It is the person who is going to come after John. Jesus Christ, Lord the God.
Malachi 3:1, "Behold, I(God) will send my messenger(John the Baptist), and he shall prepare the way before me(God): and the Lord, whom ye seek(God), shall suddenly come to his temple(His, meaning it still talks about God), even the messenger of the covenant(Jesus), whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts".
God is invisible and no one has seen Him. Is Jesus cleansing the temple we have the Spirit expressing it to the Psalm quote. What does it signify?
A: Soon after the miracle at Cana we have him demonstrating that he was the Word become flesh. "And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up." ( John 2:17). He did no sin because he let the Word has its final say over his actions. Some wanted to make him a king, for instance. He avoided them because it was the glory with which Satan bought fallen man.
But the essential lesson the Spirit teaches us is not in the action but in his saying. "It says Follow me. I am the Way." He is the sign. It is what connects us to him. We are signs and wonders in his Asociation and not apart."Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said."
Why does the passages mentioned that Jesus was the firstborn of all creation? But we know God has no beginning.
Col 1:15 "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:"
Rev 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;"
Q: "In what sense one should approach the Bible,- for knowledge or for understanding?"
A: Neither. Wisdom according to the world does it for self. Improve what without a standard is a wild goose chase. Wisdom from heaven sets the standard: Be ye holy for I am holy. Knowledge of the holy is understanding. As such skills that God a Spirit calls for is different.
The Bible is God breathed and its purpose is in instruction in righteousness. (2 Ti.3:16-17). So the Spirit has pressed human hands to shape the literal text in a manner it can be used at different levels. The Spirit is the author so doctrinally it cannot be bettered. God is perfect so his word is perfect "for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." In short furnishing a man perfect unto all good works is what insisted upon. If truth be told and obeyed what heresy can rear its head? The devil is in details by which scholarship of carnal minds have let these loose. These are the tares sown by the enemy while a child of God nodded.
The text is like the shirt front with seven buttons with accompanying eyes so the button has to go into the right button hole. The Spirit has set the buttons and also holes which when correctly placed it is called, wisdom from heaven. "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God./ Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual." (1 Co.2:12-13) Without setting the everlasting covenant stated in the first chapter of Genesis and Ch.2:1-3 as set by Law of the Spirit, no one can be called to blessed in his Son. He has his volume in which all the blessings of seven days are equally distributed. No nation no man is exempt from the covenant. He has to be taught by the Spirit. Remember if one button is misplaced it affects the entire.
Jesus said I am the way, the truth, the life,
Jesus said I am the bread of life.
Jesus said I am the living water.
Jesus said I am the door of eternity of life.
Jesus said I AM the Son of God. Whosoever calls on Me shall have eternal life. That is a promise from our Lord and Savior.
Jesus said by Faith through Grace through the Righteousness Blood of Jesus Christ.
Neither is there any other name under Heaven whereby you can be saved. God's only begotten Son is the only way to get SAVE!
No church, no baptism, no work, no pay, no Religion, no Denomination, no goodness, no helping thy neighbor, no Preacher,
no Evangelist, no TV preacher/evangelist, no miracle worker on TV, Etc. Etc. Etc.
Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God can save you through His Righteous Blood can Save a lost Soul. NO OTHER WAY.
The clock of life is clicking off fast, Today, is the time to get saved, right now, before it is to late. After death, TO LATE!!!!
COME LORD JESUS
Q:"In view of the fulness of God being in Jesus Christ what does right hand signify? "
A: We shall first look at it in terms of Jesus Christ as the visible image of the invisible God. " For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell." And out of this we received grace for grace, as John's Gospel instructs us. This is set in an everlasting covenant and the Parable of the Nations tells us how we should approach the right hand. The nations designated under the sheep are grouped on his right hand. "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."(Matt.25:34) This blessing is what we have received in his Son. " Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."(v.40). What we have done in his name is counted as done on his behalf. For the righteous it is life eternal.(v.46)
Secondly we shall look at the position of the Son"when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high." This brings naturally those who are blessed. So the throne of God and of the Lamb establishes the position of Zion and New Jerusalem in eternity. Ps.110:1 elaborates on the wrath of the Lamb is His own displeasure."Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure."(Ps.2:5) These are the heathen the left-behind church and the mingled people of the Jews and the Gentiles. "The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath."(110:5) The Father Son relationship, 'the Lord at thy right hand' a moot point. "I and my Father are one."
"And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me." This arm by the same token is dervied from this unity. (Is. 63:5) "Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm."
Q:The vision of Daniel sets the Law of the Spirit as the Ancient of days. "Judgement was set" in v.10 validates "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son."What is the significance?"
A: Firstly the fulness of Jesus Christ as stated in the Gospel is doctrinally correct. Jesus Christ shall judge on the basis of the Law. The phrase one "like the Son of man" refers to him. This explains the Law of Gradation which carry appropriate tags. In.v10 we have two sets of numbers. "And ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him." Against this number we have in the vision of St John"two hundred thousand thousand" the latter is retained to torment those who have sinned again 'heaven and thee'.(Re.9:16)
One example we have from the life of David. He is set as the man after the heart of God, after the likeness of his Son. "TheLordsaid unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool."(Ps.110:1) The Law is spoken. But what did David do? "And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel." (" and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it"-1 Chr.21:1-2) and we read,"And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel."(21:7) So theLordsent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men." (v.14) 70x1000 explains David sinned against the Law of the Spirit. Multiples of seven. Similarly 144,000 explains the firstfruits and the Gospels sets them follow the Lamb and the are preserved according too his purpose (Re.14:1). All the martyrs in Matt.23:35 and in Re.15:2 are the 144,000 who have got victory over the beast. They were sealed in Re.ch.7.From David's example are we not created after 'our image and after our likeness?" Do we break the everlasting covenant by interpreting the word of God as we will to our convenience?
Q: Isnt the ecumenical movement in our times a call for the unity of the Spirit?
A: Here we have the mystery of the iniquity itself? Agabus prophesied the testimony of Christ and that spirit was warning for St Paul himself to know what he stood for when he would be bound by the Jews to be delivered unto the Gentiles. "both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem./Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."(Ac.21:12-13). Christ has shown us the way and also given us the wherewithal from his fulness. So what does it mean "For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." (Re.19:10. How can anyone worship God in spirit and truth if he has made his belly his god and glory of this world his 'fulness'? In this age of wannabes the prosperity and nationalism driving churches to make slain in the spirit a circus, what spirit is driving the churches. They are like the 'seven sons of one Sceva' and the unclean spirit gave them same knowledge as the churches promoting ethnic division in our times do."Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?" (Ac.19:14-16). In the early church such spirit has been working,- and venerable St Jerome himself had to overcome his passion for classicism in order to bring all unto subjection of the excellence of the knowledge of Christ. The insidious effect of the church of Rome building up their doctrine from pagan culture can be seen in the reinvention of the Ark of Noah as a symbol of unification of the Roman church with the Orthodox church under Pope Boniface VIII. The devil has never stopped since the manner the fulness of Christ has been hijacked by Constantine for his own personal ends.
Q: The Agabus episode in Ac.21:11 shows that the gifts of the Spirit vary for believers to profit withal. Agabus used the girdle of St Paul to prove the point. Am I correct?
A: Yes. A girdle does not serve the same purpose in our own times in the west as in the the east where the dust and heat on a traveller could be enervating. It is as personal as soul of man but also an outward symbol of man's social standing. The Spirit uses the girdle to prove the purpose of the indwelling Spirit and "he Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come," Spirit of prophesy is the testimony of Jesus Christ." So the glory of the Father in his Son is the intent."He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you."( John 16:13-14). It is thus our volume is determined and "And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace."( John 1:16)
The blessings in his Son bring heaven and earth under a single standard as the golden girdle of Christ. Agabus, coming down from Judaea, " Agabus./ And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles." 'Thus saith the Holy Spirit' stresses on the unity of the Spirit and instead what have we? Is it not heresies that have ruled the roost? "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way."(2 The.2:7)
or For Eternity...
If not, This could be the last opportunity you will ever have!! Hell
There is somebody; somewhere in this world whose life is about to enter eternity... Like the [thief] on the cross beside the Everlasting life. [JESUS] in a FEW SHORT SECONDS DEATH THEN IN HELL FOR ALL eternity.
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Q:The golden girdle of Jesus Christ and of the angel with the vial cannot be set at random in view of the allegory of linen girdle. What is the significance?
A: You refer to Jeremiah 13:1-2. Firstly we will note the difference. Jeremiah has to act out the allegory and it was intended for Israel. "For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear"(Je.13:11)
In the revelation of Jesus Christ the girdle is one single unbroken hoop around his bosom as the high priest of our profession. The seven candlesticks signify the church his body. In his right hand the seven stars bring in the Law of the Spirit and it is his forever aspect of priesthood.(Ps.110:4). The seven angels with the girdle in Ch.15:6, ""clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles" reveal the righteousness of cleaving unto the Saviour Lord.(Re.19:8)
This unity of the Spirit, where heaven and earth are as one golden reed. This is what explains the metrics mentioned in Re.21:16-17. "And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal./And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel."
The golden reed indicates faith, the pure speech of the saints redeemed from the earth.
Tomorrow may be too late
Life is just like a vapor here now, gone in the blink of an eye,
Our you saved? NOW IS THE TIME FOR SALVATION?
COME LORD JESUS
By faith through grace.
confess you are lost and you HAVE sinned.
Ask the Lord JESUS TO SAVE YOUR SOUL.
He saved you through Jesus His righteousness blood of our Lord Jesus Christ ....
COME LORD JESUS
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Q: The golden girdle associated with Christ in the inaugural vision of John apparently connects with the seven angels in Ch.15:6. What does it signify?
A: Firstly the sovereignty of the Word or the Law. When God swore by an oath "and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek." this forever aspect is signified by the girdle,- a golden circle unbroken, unlike the breast plate (and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod")
of the high priest.(Ps.110:4; Ex.29:5). The Law is established 'forever' in the heavens.(Ps.119:89) The seven angels in Re.15:6 are given vials by the four beasts, curiously enough, and they are memorial serving as the creation manifestation of the Law over the stewardship. They are avenging angels each vial is laden with plagues. The vials signify the oil of gladness with which the Son is anointed,"Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre./Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." (Ps.45:6-7). His throne is forever. "(Jesus Christ) And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father;"The seven in number refers to the Law of the Spirit. The angels as with seven days encompass the forever aspect of the covenant. "After our image" every believer in his Son is a king. Similarly 'After our likeness" every believer is a priest anointed with the oil of gladness over 'thy fellows'.
The Lamb is found worthy to open the book bound with seven seals, reveals the divine will of His Father which is followed with seven trumpets. "the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." The iconography of trumpets and vials in the revelation of Jesus Christ is intended as the wrath of the Lamb.
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein. ( Luke 18:17, KJV)
One day, I walked into the living room and saw my granddaughter sitting at a child's table, pretending she was a teacher. As I walked by her, I picked up the D volume of the Britannica Junior Encyclopedia she had on her table/desk and sat on the couch. As I thumbed through its pages, I heard her getting onto one of her imaginary students when the heading DEAM caught my eye, and I started to read. One paragraph really stood out that read: "There are two kinds of daydreams which children have but adults do not: the daydream of the imaginary playmate, and the daydream of the adopted child. A child, if he has few friends to play with, may daydream that he has a playmate. Such a child may find his imaginary friend so interesting that he spends long hours in this daydream play. Another child likes to imagine that he is "special"--that he is really a prince or princess and that his parents are king and queen. Such a child then daydreams that he has been adopted, and that his real parents are royalty."
Paul said, "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." ( Romans 8:15, KJV) The daydream of the adopted child?
Jesus said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. ( John 14:15, KJV) The daydream of the imaginary playmate?
Q: "The Fulness of God is in the Man component but formatted as a testimony of Jesus Christ. What does does it intend to achieve by giving differing POV?"
A: Jesus as the Son of man testified, "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true." ( John 5:31) But as the Word that was with God he could assert, "Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself,yetmy record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go." ( John 8:14). The core value for this Revelation is the Fellowship of God with Man because of which as the v.1 states,"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, " and the angel serves as a witness. Moreover in signifying it through his angel unto his servant John, "Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ" (1:1-2) the law validates it as the truth.
In arranging this last book we can pinpoint the Law , the Son "after our image" and John "after our likeness" supplying their own POV so both heaven and the earth are equally pressed into service. Without setting the everlasting covenant as the rest frame the unseen world of the Father subsuming the world made to appear the testimony shall be severely damaged. Much of the visual motifs, vocabulary of day, night, seed ("the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself," separation of light, gathering of seas are derived from the covenant. Not to mention the significance of numbers the seven days pertain to the Law of the Spirit. God is a Spirit, the Son after "our image" serves as the inner man where the soul is the quickening aspect in the makeup of man. "The heart of the wicked is little worth.(Pr.10:20)
Q:"How does the time relates to the season for which the lives of the four beasts were prolonged?
A: In Daniel's vision the four beasts coming up diverse from one another owe to "the four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth,". They are as much under the command as the four angels "which are bound in the great river Euphrates./And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men."(Re.9:14-15;7:1; Dan.7:2,12)
The Law sets judgment and the books were opened' so there is only "now" that any man in his Son could be ensured from harm according to the everlasting covenant. "Now is the day of salvation established the day decreed for him guarantees their safety. "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." The word of God has therefore how the two worlds framed by the word of God shall be completely reconciled. In these there is no place for disbelief since faith' the pure speech is the DNA of the family of God. For this reason Jesus would tell those who would seize him, "When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness."( Luke 22:53). Similarly time is associated with the Son and when he was in Nazareth he read from the day's portion of reading, he fulfilled the word concerning him,"To preach the acceptable year of the Lord".( Luke 4:16-19)
Knowledge of the holy is understanding which is written in every man. So inability to know the times is a proof that there is no place for the word of God in a disbeliever. "Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD."(Je.8:7). "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time," (Ep.5:15-17
Q: "In vv.14-15 what does the duration "for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year," signify?"
A: Key to the times is in the purpose for which the four angels were bound to the 'great' river Euphrates. "And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared."(Re.16:12)
First we shall look at manner nations moved after the great flood (Ge.11:2). Relating to the end times the migration turns contrary. The river from Eden moved to wards east and after the fall of man without exception it has been 'Eastward ho' because the grace of God flows from the throne of grace. This contrary movement is how the Spirit informs us that age of grace was closed. In this context we can understand St Paul's warning," For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way./ And then shall that Wicked be revealed."(2 Th.2:7-8) The beast who resisted God's grace is marked 666 since he refused the blessings in his Son. So all the havoc meted out to the earth is the Son related," "The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up."(Re.8:7)
Coming back to the river Euphrates it is set in terms of the waters."The same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."(Ge.7:11) God has his way in the deep as well."Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known."(Ps.77:19)
Seven plagues on Egypt leading up to the firstborn is a dry run for the seven angels with trumpets and vials. The man who refused the Son is marked out for the wrath which is revealed from heaven. The day of wrath is spread over the day God has decreed for his Son.(Ps.2:7). It could be years, months days or an hour.
Q Obviously the command " Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates,"does not relate to the river Euphrates.What are the four angels mentioned in v.14?
A: It is to be spiritually understood as relating to the throne of God. "The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever." The Law presented the Spirit of God moving upon the face of the waters, so the depths shall recognise the sovereignty of the Law of the Spirit. "So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him." The depths is synonymous with hell that followed the rider on the pale horse.
God gives the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ relates to the heart, a spiritual space. similarly caul and kidneys relates to the appetites of man who is earthy, for which reason God commanded under the Law of Moses to to burnt.(Le.9:10).Man who is chosen to be holy and without blame are to place themselves under the Law. (Ps.50:5) God makes angels spirits so the river is also associated with them.
"And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads."(Ge.2:10,14) The river under four heads is similar to four angels " I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth,"(Re.7:1). God's blessings follow according to the word of God.
Q:St John quotes in Ch.9 another number which he heard and what does 200 thousand thousand signify?
A:The seven seals that the Lamb broke sequentially in Ch.6 spoken the wrath of the Lamb revealed from heaven, " against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness."(Ro.1:18) The fourth horsemen was invested with power,"And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."(6:8) The command number Four signified Christ the word become flesh. He is the Son who in trinity serves as the soul. In trespass against his soul, "and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed."(Nu.5:7). It is in the sense the prodigal son confessed his sin." Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,"( Luke 15:18) 20x10x1000x1000.
The breaking open seven seals is condemnation meted out to the disbelieving. Death into the world because of sin and Hell followed. This is what the fifth angel sounds. (9:1). Locust let loose are intended to torment those who do not have 'the seal of God in their foreheads.' These locusts are given "power, as the scorpions of the earth have power." Similarly when the sixth angel sounds " and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,"(Re.9:13) 144,000 belonged to the group redeemed from the furnace,"and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God."(Re.15:2)
Q:In the visions of Daniel and St John the wind plays a significant role. Can you elaborate on this?
A: We can only draw inferences from what the Spirit has indicated and these must serve for our instruction in righteousness. Within these parameters let us walk through the Scripture. The nature of wind as Jesus explains it, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth." But God a Spirit"who walketh upon the wings of the wind," is in control. The Law of the Spirit must take over how the wind operates. Thou hearest the sound thereof' refers to the manner the Law directs the word of God. It sends as a cloven tongue so it gives all who were gathered in one place, as promised by the risen Christ. "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting." So the men were under the will of God. "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."(Ac.2:1-4) As with cloven tongues of fire the Law gives a body in accordance with the word. It was thus John the Baptist recognized that Jesus was the Lamb of God.( John 1:33) In short the Law of the Spirit chooses the body in accordance with the will of God. So walking upon the wings of the wind explains the word that is sent forth from God.(Is.55:11). The sign is set by the Word and validated by the Law. So Jesus presents the church as sins and wonders. (Is.8:18;He.2:13)
In the vision of Ezekiel, who is a sign and also designated as the son of man we have this,"Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live."(Ez.37:9). The Law is life ("by his Spirit that dwelleth in you."-Ro.8:11)
Q:"And that which is born of the Spirit is spirit."When one receives Jesus Christ one is placing himself under the Law of the Spirit so to speak. Is it not?
A:Yes. Predestination otherwise has no value. In spiritual terms law of sin operating over the sinful flesh is dead and as new creation you were as John in his Gospel says," No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." ( John 1:18). You were in the divine Will since you received the word as the truth.Without hitching your wagon to the Word which was made flesh you cannot be conformed in the image of his Son. Predestination is set on the basis of the Law of the Spirit that is what St Paul refers to the Father as "who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ."Consider the blessing of the glorious body the Father had provided,"A body hast thou me prepared'' glory of which is from God. In the Vision of Dry Bones we are told how God fleshes us out according to his purpose."Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:/And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord."(Ez.37:5-6) It is our faith that makes it possible."but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live./ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."(Ro.8:13-14)
Another blessing is being taught of the Lord how to conduct ourselves in this wicked world and among untoward generation. In 2 Sa,5 23-25 God helped David win a victory over th philistines and all he had to wait for His signal. It is thus we are helped from above. We are alive to be led by by the Spirit but dead to the ways of the world.
Q: "Both breath of God and the Spirit of Christ go into the making of a man So soul explains him "after our image" but what precisely makes him predestinated?
A: Let us take each according to the word given in the scripture. God formed man of the dust of the ground," and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." In terms of after our image the Son is the soul of God a Spirit. The body of man is from the earth, the world made to appear. The earth abides forever since the day is decreed for the Son. This brings the Law of the Spirit into it. The Law is life that explains the Father Son relationship. "but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." This is life the context in which the covenant was drawn up between the two. So what determines 'in the beginning' ? The Law which is God. The Word was with God and 'in the beginning' establishes the Logos aspect of Jesus Christ. "I and my Father are one" ( John 10:30;He.13:8) is established by the Law. By the same token in the fulness of time underpins the Law of the Spirit.
The Law of the Spirit is figuratively expressed as Ancient of days. Seven is the command number for Law with which the red dragon shall be judged/ The seven heads stamp him as the embodiment of the law of sin/ (Re.12:3) Ancient of days sets the judgment "And the books were opened."Dan.7:10). The book of life lists all who were chosen, "in him before the foundation of the world,."(Ep.1:4-6). Those who entered into the covenant by faith are new creation and abiding in Christ as the Lamb in Re.5:6 are shown having sen horns and seven eyes. The risen Jesus as the Son "he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost." Parallelism of the Father Son establishes that we are predestinated.
He has by death resurrection fulfilled the Law.
Q: "The breath of God made man a living soul and what does the Spirit of Christ signify for a believer?"
A: We shall consider the context first. "In the vision of John we read of the Lamb and we are examining him as existing in the divine Will. "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth."(Re.5:6) How the world unseen shall be made to appear is what we shall see as the result of breaking open the seven seals. Compare with Prophet Zachariah whose vision is further in time and the apostasy of the nation of Israel has become established. Instead of the Lamb it is a stone we are looking at." behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch./For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes." The seven horns indicate the Law of the Spirit and the seven eyes have set the entire earth under his watch.
God in making Adam is making every believer a living soul. Adam is created 'after our image" as well as "after our likeness" By the latter it is established the last Adam is after the likeness of the Word made flesh. First Adam is earthy while Jesus Christ is the Lord from heaven. Fall of the first Adam brought death upon the world,"and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." It is to which Jesus alluded in his colloquy with Nicodemus. He to be born again. He used the analogy of wind. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth."( John 3:8). In order to make the Spirit of Christ as personal faith is crucial. "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."(Ro.10:9-10). Without abiding in Christ the wind is no man's land.Ro.8:9-10
Q:How does the everlasting covenant between God and his Son become a decree for a believer?
A:God established man in terms of the Law of the Spirit by breathing into his nostrils. He became a living soul. St Paul calls it "Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart."(2 Co.3:3) Adam represented all as his sin affected by the same token all man. God established the Law of the Spirit as he set the stone in Zion (Is.28:16 to symbolize the Spirit of Christ. Zion and Jerusalem are consequently spoken with reference to the heavenly places which shall be same in the last days as was founded before the foundation of the world. "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it."(Is.2:2)
The Advent of his Son is foretold by Prophet Zechariah here, "for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch." The stone mentioned refers to him. " For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes." (Ze.3: 8-9). Joshua (the Hebrew variant name for Jesus) signifies the OldTestament of the stone tables while the Law of the Spirit has already established on Zion from which the Law was to go forth. Coming back to the Isaiah quote 'that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills.' one is as far apart as the throne is from the footstool. (Is.66:1). The hills are what the earthly Jerusalem represent. In this context when the Lamb brakes open the sixth seal we have the people cry, "And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb."(Re.6:16)
What do you think?
Q: Devil also believes that God is one and trembles. What makes the spirit of antichrist different?
A:St Paul defines the spirit of Christ which is of God. "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God."(1 Co.2:12). The spirit of the world runs under the law of sin. The devil may believe God is one but in following his own will he resists the Word. So are those who say they believe Jesus Christ came in flesh of God. But in denying the power thereof they quench the spirit that is freely given of God."And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world./Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." ( 1 John 4:3-4)
The Bible sets the fulness of God in Jesus Christ. By denying the covenant between God and his Son what do imposter churches teach? Blessings of God to Abraham as the basis renders the entire scripture out of focus. God blessed man who is created after our image and after our likeness. Ep.1:3-4. "That we may know" requires understanding which is the knowledge of the holy.
(17) One day Jesus said to his disciples, "There will always be temptations to sin, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting! 2 It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to fall into sin. 3 So watch yourselves!
"If another believer[a] sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive. 4 Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive."
5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Show us how to increase our faith."