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Mode -1

Core Will of God has several modes by which the pre-eminence of the Word is presented. 'The Word was God' places the Scripture based on the Law. This Law may be expressed on stone tables and on fleshy tables of the heart. Thus the logos aspect of the Son permeates the kingdom of God. How the Holy Ghost the third office in Trinity has chosen to present the Lord God is from the Father Son relationship. So Jesus Christ as the Apostle of God says, "And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven."(Matt.23:9-ESV) the Spirit places the position of Jesus Christ as 'the Son over his own house' as self-evident. "That in all things he might have the pre-eminence./ For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell."(Col.1:18-19). This fullness covers names of places, persons and events within direct frame of reference to Jesus Christ. St Paul refers to it, "All things were created by him, and for him:/And he is before all things, and by him all things consist."(Col.1:16-17). This being the cases all other laws are pendent on the Law. Moses as a servant gave the Law to Israel which we know was a mode.

Time

Time

Time is a sign. It is in this sense we have the Spirit tells specifically of its purpose under the heaven. "And a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die (Ec.3:1-6)". God's covenant with Noah is similarly pendent on the decree that He made with his Son, and it has to do with the day (Ps.2:7). (See entry under D-Day)

Time is of no consequence to eternal God. So we have time reconstituted to apply the role of the Son of man as the Word made flesh. St Peter provides us a clue to it in 2 Pe.3:8.

"I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.( John 9:4)." His call 'follow me' applies to the day in which the Preacher sets out a whole range of work any man who would follow the way the Son may do.

"Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him (Ps.2:12)."

Noah walked with God and he did according to the instruction. So how long he took to build the ark is left out by the Spirit for a reason. The Spirit instruct us to abide in God a Spirit so our volume carries our earthly circumstance, time subsumed into the will of God. When you received the Son,, you are part of the body of Christ as the ark of Noah and the man symbolically became one.

Covenant of heaven with the earth has thus a time marked by the Spirit where number has specific significance in the same manner a bow in heaven would signify.

Jericho

Place of fragrance, a fenced city in the midst of a vast grove of palm trees, in the plain of Jordan, over against the place where that river was crossed by the Israelites opposite of Jericho. (Josh.3:16) Cities of the plains ('kikkar') have same characteristic and it is to which Prophet Isaiah refers,- and the question concerns God's judgment on godless nations. The cities of the plains form a circle as in this verse: "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where," (Ge.13:10) These are Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim and Zoar. Apart from the significance of five (See under N-numbers command /Jubilee) this circle is enclosed as Jericho was a fenced city. Joshua and his men circling the city seven times signifies God's judgment as fell on Sodom and Gomorrah would fall on her.

So Isaiah asks, "Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?/It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:/That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.." (Is.40:21-23). (See entry below: Jerusalem)

"In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun." (1 Ki.16:34)

Altar

When God commanded Moses He specified, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.(Ex.20:25)". The stone referred to 'the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands '(Dan.2:45)'referred to Jesus Christ, 'the only begotten Son.' In Ezekiel's vision the altar of the temple also supplies the same idea.

"The altar hearth is twelve cubits long, twelve wide, square at its four corners (Ez.43:16-NKJV)" The Spirit establishes it in commemoration of the slain Lamb from the foundation of the world. Command numbers 12; and Four signifies Jesus Christ as 'the Saviour of the world'. For the same reason before making the tabernacle in the wilderness God commands Moses, "And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof:(Ex.27:2a)."

Genealogy of Adam (2 of 2)

From the context 'And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him(4:15b) it is more making Cain as the one 'most likely to succeed',- and in this sense he fits with the shrewd servant in the Parable of Jesus. "For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. / I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.( Luke 16:8-9-NIV)."

The Spirit disposes of Cain and takes up a new narrative in vv.25-26. This leads us to the generations of Adam proper. This alternative Genealogy carries all who would press into the nation built entirely out of the people of light. Thus the entire narrative from the separation of light from darkness (Ge.1:4) is about two nations of light and of wrath.

The genealogy in ch.5 has this peculiar construction.

For example vv.3-4

"And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:/

And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

In his own likeness prefaces Seth who is a double for the Son; he is called to be the heir of inheritance among children in light. The rest are consigned after the likeness of man.

Genealogy of Adam (1 of 2)

One interesting feature of this genealogy is that Cain is conspicuous by absence of his name. It is as striking as absence of Aaron from the list of heroes of faith in ch.11 of the Book to Hebrews. The Holy Spirit left his name out for a definite reason. Cain was not in the likeness of the Son while Seth was.

The emphasis is built up by the term 'likeness.' Of Adam the Spirit introduces the generations of Adam with this statement, "In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him' He goes on to elaborate and evidently it is of the holy family, 'Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created'. Here from the construction of words we can understand what the Spirit is driving at,- Adam as the head is qualified by phrase 'called their name Adam' for the simple reason that Eve is included in him,-and it establishes her as symbol for the body of Christ. In the likeness of God points Adam in relation to Jesus Christ as the Son.

This justifies the last line in the Lucan genealogy, 'Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God(3:38). In short the Spirit was right in presenting Adam as a forerunner of Jesus, which St Paul takes in the ch.5 of his epistle to the Romans.

What about Cain? His genealogy is given separately in the previous chapter. "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden(4:16).Of his descendant Lamech boasts thus: 'If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold(v.24)." Unlike the obedience we find in God the Son, what Cain has given Lamech is altogether different trait. Natural it would be to equate the mark of Cain antithetical to the name of the Father in the foreheads of the first fruits unto God (Re.14:1)

Abraham and Isaac (2 of 2)

It signifies that they were separate from everyday reality. Peter at Joppa would go 'up upon the housetop' (Ac.10: 9) and 'the upper room' where Dorcas lay before Peter would raise the dead carries the same significance. (Ac.9: 36-43; 1 Ki.17:17-24). The Spirit isolates them in order to give us its spiritual underpinning. In setting this Spirit wants us to get into the spirit of heavenly things that run parallel to our workaday world. God made Abraham the Father of many nations. Isaac is the heir of promise. What is their relationship? He is the seed of Abram after the manner of flesh. In raising him to the father of many nations, the heir also has to rise correspondingly is it not? The Spirit presents Abraham as a substitutionary symbol; -in which Isaac 'thine only son' serves the model for the Son.

God tempted Abraham in the sense he had to become the Father of many nations, which is based on faith so he proved his DNA was same as that of God a Spirit. For this reason he was not to lead his son to anywhere but "And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. /And they came to the place which God had told him of;"(v.9b)

The Spirit builds up Isaac in small steps, -"And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son" references to the wooden cross Jesus would carry to Calvary. Next we have this phrase, "And they went both of them together,"(Ge.22: 8-9) In the silence we may recall the words of Isaiah, "yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter."(Is.53: 7)

What is Mount Moriah? Here the Spirit is referring to Zion that God has founded with which the creation account began. This is the centre of the divine Will and it is to this that their faith had to rise. In short faith sets Abraham and his son as one. Isaac signified the Son the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world.

Abraham and Isaac (1 of 2)

"And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham"(Ge.22:1)

Does God tempt man? Certainly not! The word of God is clear about it. ("For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:"-Jas.1:13). In order to understand the story of Abraham and Isaac as intended by God, we can only understand its full significance from the manner the Holy Spirit has organized the Fellowship of God with Man.

The Man is Jesus Christ where both his deity and his humanity bears upon everyman who is brought into the fellowship. He is called to be saint . It is thus we find in the epistles of St Paul, "To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints" and yet another, "Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints " (Ro.1:7; 1 Co.1:2)

The Spirit is not referring to human nature as we in our workaday world tend to view temptation. An open door may tempt a saint for instance is precisely with regards to his human circumstances. Whereas a saint's world is set in an altogether different context. He is set in context of the world of the Spirit according to his own pleasure and not because he merited it. God does not tempt anymore than he has to remember as we read in this verse, "And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark." Temptation is letting Abraham know where his priorities lay and God desired that " I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."(Ge.17:1)

As commanded of God Abraham took his only son along. "And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you." (22:5) Help provided by the young man hitherto covered only muscle power, which in the world of the flesh does count. But the intent of the Spirit is something else. So he purposely sets them higher than others who had accompanied them.

Ge.1:14-19 (3 of 3)

Fourth Day

The number Four refers to the gospel of God. The same we know as the Gospel of Christ since he made manifest it in his person. His death and resurrection endorse the number Four as a command number. It has a bearing on anyone who would be admitted into the Fellowship. The Synoptic Gospels testify that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the World whether north, south, east or west is considered. ("And, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."-Matt.28:20) This stars refer to the righteous." And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever."(Dan.12:3). The symbolism of the stars we come across in the Book of the Revelation. (Re.1;Re.12)

Ge.1:14-19 Fourth Day (2 of 3)

The Father Son relationship is tagged by greater and lesser light. There comes a day Jesus Christ shall judge the wicked. The lesser light to rule the night refers to it .

"And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,/And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good."

"He made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,"

God made the greater light and the lesser light to rule over the day and over the night. Having divided light from darkness the two great lights are established in direct frame of reference to the earth. Sovereignty of the Lord God and the Law shall judge over the day and the night. Having set all things in heaven and under it subject to his Son, it pleased the Father "that in him should all fulness dwell;/ And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven."(Col.1:19-20) Here we have the mystery of His will which we have to assume given his Omnipotence, Omnipresence and Omniscience as perfect wanting no correction whatsoever,

The slain Lamb before the worlds began is an emblem. In the inaugural vision of St John we are shown Jesus Christ giving his testimony: " I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore," He also gives the mystery of seven stars which are in his right hand. (Re.1:18-20. This owe to the account of the Spirit who adds, "He made the stars also". Thus the greater light the lesser light and the stars are to be spiritually understood. Everlasting covenant between God and the Son is sanctified by the Word or the Law. And all these have one thing in common:

Ge.1:14-19

Fourth Day (1 of 3)

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

The Spirit is now giving us the creation of two lights which are qualified as great and it is set to rule the day and night. This coming after God had separated light from darkness gives us the role celestial objects play to which the Spirit adds details so the Will of the Father is set off against quality of the Son. These lights are to rule the day and the night respectively.

God commanded Let there be light. It is the Law or the constitution of the kingdom of God. "For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven."(Ps.119:89) When the Son says, "I have come to do thy will" we are given a relationship between God the Father and the Son who accepts the body prepared for him as a sacrifice. "It pleased the Father to bruise him (Is.53:10) and what the Son achieved thereby "For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified,"(He.10:14) are two expressions of God whose name is holy. So the will and the obedience of the Son who became the 'Word become flesh' are to be treated as one-which constitute the Law and it is what rules both day and night.

When God framed worlds by his word we are given the relationship of these two worlds, which are the World of the Spirit and of the visible world of the body. Faith in short is the DNA of the kingdom of Good.(He.11:3)

God is the Father of lights and he does not judge anyone. "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son."( John 5:22) The day stands for the children of light and the night represent the children of wrath who does not come to light because their works are evil. ( John 3:16-20). "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved." What is behind culture wars? Devil who sins from the beginning and he knows the value of ethnicity color etc.,

Ge.1:9-13

Third Day (3 of 3)

Sometimes, patterns are also known as a sequence. (As a result of supernovae, heavier elements are expelled helter-skelter, breakdown of which are however in sequence. It is this we need look at seven days each shall create its own sequence but has a bearing on the Son.

Having said this we shall consider this passage. "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so./ And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good./ And the evening and the morning were the third day."(Ge.1:11-13)

Here we have the divine Will and the Son caused it to happen. The Spirit sets the quality of tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself. "Whose seed is in itself" is about the seed, the word of God. In a manner of speaking, God commands. "Be ye holy for I am holy" and a holy family takes form generations after generations, which is a sequence. When Jesus faults the Jews in his time, "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?"(Matt.7:16) In his prayer Jesus intercedes for his disciples, "Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth"( John 17:17)

The Spirit tags it with the number Three which refers to the Son as Seven is the number associated with the divine Will and completeness. Here we see the tag 'day' is used for several contexts and it shall always be in direct frame of reference to the Son.

Ge.1:9-13

Third Day (2 of 3)

As a mode of narrating the Salvation Plan of God we have the eternal word of God served as a pattern as God showed Moses in the wilderness. In v.2 the Spirit informs us that the earth was without form, and void. Its key however is to be spiritually discerned. It is thus the Spirit has associated the passage already cited in Ps.139:15-16. The Spirit consistently follows a pattern where the body of the earth is set on the standard of the Son to which several passages owe affinity. So when Jesus says, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. "( John 2:19) there exists an inner logic that cannot be denied. This key is freely given by the Father of lights with whom there is no variableness ."And by him all things consist. This wisdom from heaven is Person specific. (1 Co.1:30)

In Mathematics, a pattern is a repeated arrangement of numbers, shapes, colours and so on. This pattern can be related to any type of event like throw of a dice or object but for which Game theory and Chaos theory would not exist. If the set of numbers are related to each other in a specific rule, then the rule or manner is called a pattern. It is thus the deity of Jesus has been worked into the narrative so nation of Israel and of the Gentiles do not exist but in the Son.Sometimes, patterns are also known as a sequence. (As a result of supernovae, heavier elements are expelled helter-skelter, breakdown of which are however in sequence. It is this we need look at seven days each shall create its own sequence but has a bearing on the Son.

Ge.1: 9-13

The Third Day (1 of 3)

Our approach to the word of God has only single basis for which spiritual understanding is what is required. So wisdom from above gives us a template in which God a Spirit is given a visible form, that of the Son,' Who is the image of the invisible God."

So.v1 tells that God created the heaven and the earth. It is what St Paul refers,"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him."(Col.1:15-16)

The Spirit gives us seven days in which all these are included but how these endure till the fulness of times do not concern us. But Jesus Christ is the key. "that in all things he might have the preeminence./9 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell." The intent of the Spirit is to instruct us in righteousness so any man may find his place in the Fellowship of God with Man.

The creation account in seven days casts only single shadow that is in the person and the deity of Jesus Christ. The Spirit is not interested in giving us any dissertation on the ethnography of man, history of nations flora and fauna such like. Cultivating this image of the Son God has set truth in his inward parts. (2 Co.3:18). If the Son of man in his human likeness could do it, so can anyone so there is no excuse.

Ge.1:5-8 (2 of 2)

Second Day

And God called the firmament, the heaven significance of which is in the face, The waters above interacts with waters which is below. Similarly we have the Spirit working over the face of the waters."And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Both have different emphasis. Waters above heaven and below refers to the Father of Mercies and body of his Son so the earth abides forever.(Ec.1:4) To illustrate this we have the river that branches into four heads in Ge.2:10. God has blessed man in his Son. This can be broadly called Seas. The command number Four distinguishes it from this body of water to indicate God is no respecter of persons and Holiness of God ('The Father is perfect') "And sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matt.5:45-48)

Genesis 1:6-8 (1 of 2)

The Second Day

Each day is with regards to the day, that is appointed for the Son and it shall have its own sequence continual progression of events till the fulness of times. This is also tagged as a pillar of the house that Wisdom built. (Pr.9:1)

God separated Day from Night, which marks the Day especial and apart from other days mentioned in the creation account. Jesus remarked on this day in these words, "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day."( John 9:14) In another passage we know it includes both Father and Son. I and my Father are one. As for the works, he was specific, My Father works hitherto, and I work." ( John 5:17)

God named or called the light Day.(v.5) Here the Spirit is giving us the hint with regards to names. God decreed a day, -'Thou art my Son' (Ps.2:7) and with it his name is superior to every name in heaven or under it. He has given him "a name, which is above every name.' It brings in turn the significance of the expression, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. So we have to conclude that death of his Son was well established under an everlasting covenant and it has to do with the Fellowship of God with Man. Holiness of God requires the divine Will is holy, meaning it requires no correction or afterthought to settle for a Plan B. It is what we read in the following passage. ."(Ph.2:8-11)

The quote from the Gospel of John refers to a night and from the context it is clear that it is about his impending death on the cross. "the night cometh, when no man can work."(John9:4).

And God called the firmament, the heaven significance of which is in the face, The waters above interacts with waters which is below.

Genesis 1:5

the first day

"And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day" (v.5)

God called the light and not the day as we know the term. Its meaning and significance derives from the light, which is true, in whom is the fulness. This day is decreed for the Son. (Ps.2:7) This separation of day from night is about those who would be guided by Spirit obedience or by spirit of disobedience. The Gospel of John makes it clear. Light signifies the life of man who would abide in the Son. "In him was life; and the life was the light of men./ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." (John1:4-5) and "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil./ For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved./ But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."( John 3:19-21)

Study of Genesis (1 of 3)

"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." (He.11:3)

There are only two worlds, which have a bearing on the creation account in this passage "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters./ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."Ge.1:2-3

Jesus Christ as the visible image of God, a Spirit has a body. The Spirit establishes it as the body because of which it abides forever.(Ec.1:4)

The earth was without form refers to the advent of the Son. In the fullness of time God sent His only begotten Son.

"And void" refers to the church, as the body of Christ, the fullness of which refers to the mind of God. "For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell." So creating of a body of evidence is a matter of faith. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."(He.11:1). God commanded Moses to build the tabernacle in the wilderness according to the pattern he had in mind. " And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them./According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it."(Ex.25:7-8)

"I and My Father are one." Let us consider the speaker. Jesus Christ was the image of the invisible God. When he came to the earth his human likeness spelled out what a believer is expected to show in order to be admitted into the fellowship of God and Man. Faith is what he looked for which Jesus showed it as doable. He obeyed his Father setting us an example.

Perilous Times (2of 2)

St Paul had in his days come across such believers who were lovers of themselves that the doctrine of Christ was as any other doctrine and they put themselves as judges. Then there were Judaizers the false brethren 'who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus' (Gal.2:4). While writing to Timothy, he warns of the perilous times, of believers. Then as now. The Christians are urged 'to abound in every good work' and we have activism instead. Whose is stoking the controversies?

"That they might bring us into bondage," is the work of Satan. The devil sins from the beginning and Jesus Christ was manifested to destroy his works. ( 1 John 3:8) We shall take a quick look at the mischief he has wrought ,-and the controversy of state and religion did not arise in our time but was the outcome of war in heaven. "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon" (Re.12:7) In the vision of Daniel we read of it, "And it (he goat) waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them./ Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host."(Dan.8:11-12). In the the same chapter we are given to understand the events telescope into the end times, "Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision." (8:17)

It is of the little horn we are interested in and where does his authority come from? We shall note that he did not win by the might of his own. It was given to him as in the case of the beast." And the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority(Re.13:2,11) So Daniel supplies us one trait of the little horn and he emerges into the history of nations "but not by his own power." He needs anti-Christ, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. This is what we ought to take heed? 'Another gospel' has Jesus talk but his concord is with Belial.

Perilous Times (1 of 2)

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come" ( 2 Ti.3:1-5)

In a consumer society there are only two groups, who are suppliers and who are consumers. From whence came this opioid crisis? Lovers of their own selves require much more than basic needs. The word of God says "And be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."(He.13:5) When use of recreational drugs one may graphically set increase of use which always go up and when it take hold of man we also see a curve downward in terms of the consumption of his own basic needs. He is obviously no longer in control of his management. Such is a perilous time for him and it affects him as the consumer as well as his own family.

God instructs us to be content with such things as you have.' He also promised your welfare both life and godliness. Excess has never remained static without disrupting something else. God commanded Adam not to eat the fruit of a tree he could well do without. Satan managed to take hold of his will without his knowing through Eve who was deceived. "She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat."(Ge.3:6). When man has neglected the truth in his own inward parts what use is the knowledge of good and evil? The perilous time is when Satan has found a supplier and you have no chance of changing the system he has devised as long as you have let the truth by the wayside.

"For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,/Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,/Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God." We are looking at the same ways of the world, the Vanity Fair and Satan is the barker shooing the simpleminded to their peril.

"Mysteries" (2 of 2)

Matt.13:9-11

How shall the world ever come to senses when " For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God."(1 Co.1:18). Wisdom learned after the traditions of men was foolishness to St Paul. It is thus we need make a distinction of wisdom in its its true sense.

The problem with heresies is that carnal wisdom dictates the word of God. "For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light."(Ps.36:9). Instead of seeing through the light of the Savior a man however otherwise well accomplished when he lets his wisdom take over the conclusion shall be outright false. If the scholarship of St Paul did not deter him from knowing Christ one need ask why few are chosen though the call went out before the worlds began.(Is.55:11) "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." ( John 7:17) Anyone may do the will of God but many cannot bring themselves to to receive like a child. "Many are called but few are chosen."

Mysteries

Matt.13:9-11 (1 of 2)

"Who hath ears to hear, let him hear./ And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?/ He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given."

At the end of the Parable of the Sower Jesus uses the expression 'Who has ears' we are already familiar with. The Spirit uses it after each message to the seven churches, for example after his message to the church of Ephesus he says, "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;". The same formula seven times repeated which ought to tell us that not all have the same level of understanding. The seven names are interchangeable and many are called but few are chosen and it tells the raison d'etre for the mysteries of God. God is a Spirit sent the word before the worlds began and the key to understand it is so simple that even a child could do it. Faith is the key.

Before mysteries there shall be no beaten track. Straight and narrow is the path leading to it. "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:/ But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise." St Paul was learned by any standards but he chose the foolish things of the world in order to suffer with his master. "And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are."(1 Co.1:26-28). Nevertheless in the sight of God he was the learned because his ear of faith was most attuned to listen. "He wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned" and he learned by obedience in the manner Jesus in the flesh learned. "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered."(He.5:8)

Testimony of Jesus- 3

Ps.78:1-2

"Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth./I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old"

"Testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." The written word, and it is the God document that we call the Bible has only one centre of gravity which is the Word become flesh. When Jesus began his ministry how he should lay across the message, - he was the message so in a manner of speaking it was cut out for him beforehand. Isaiah foretold this. "The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned."(Is.50:4). To hear as the learned it is the wisdom that is from above and it can only help us. "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption."(1 Co.1:30) Of God he is made unto us wisdom.

The Lord knows man so when He sent his only begotten Son he also taught him what he and how he should say. Of this the Son of man himself testified. So he said, "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." ( John 7:17) Here we come across why there is so much controversy, needless and devilish in its effect, and it is not from Jesus who of God has become wisdom. And Jesus outs the problem, "If any man will do his will" he shall know whether the doctrine be of God or of man. God makes a distinction as to who is amenable to benefit from hearing the word of God. Scholarship of the proud is in their intellect. "Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off."(Ps.138:6)

Testimony of Jesus- 2 (2 of 2)

"Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot./ And Philip ran thither to him".(Ac.8:29-30) The eternal word and Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever gives us where we fit in. In the fellowship of God with Man we are associates of our Savior Lord and as angels serve one another. "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:"(1 Co.1:30) With such calling we have in Jesus Christ the perfect example. Carnal wisdom is devilish and cause controversies whereas wisdom from heaven works out peace among brethren. So if testimony of Jesus is misunderstood one need examine himself well where he is seated, among the congregation of dead where the seat of Satan is. "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:/ In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."(2 Co.4:3-4)

The Spirit moving upon the waters is the same as that prompted Philip who was his angel, to all intent and purpose. It is thus we are surrounded by the world of the Spirit. Christian life is a closed system where God is our shield and our reward."I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. "(Ge.17:1-7)

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Testimony of Jesus Christ -1 (1 of 2)

Re.1:1

"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John"

"How can I, except some man should guide me?" The question that the Ethiopian eunuch asked Philip the Evangelist is pertinent in understanding the significance of testimony of Jesus Christ, which itself is a revelation that God a Spirit and also the Word, -and in giving to Man, He made his holiness manifest, so whosoever received it was translated from his human circumstances to the world of the Spirit. Love is the bank across which man traded on the single bill of exchange, faith. As a legal tender in heaven and earth the slain Lamb before the worlds began is valid till the end of time. So when we speak of testimony of Jesus as the spirit of prophecy its validity it backed by the power and glory of God. (Re.19:10)

The angel reveals John after stating the mystery of v.10 the Word of God on a white horse fitted out to reclaim the earth usurped by Satan and his cohorts. "And I saw heaven opened,"(v.11, We read this in the inaugural vision of Ezekiel as well. "And I saw visions of God"(Ez.1:1) This heaven when opened reveals each of us is set in face to face with the world of the Spirit. In the creation account we read thus:"And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."(Ge.1:2) every drop of vapour is equally placed face to face with this reality. So when God framed the worlds by the word this testimony of God was as a matter of course part of the deal. Later when God breathed into man and made him a living soul theologically one understands what it is to have truth written in our inwards. No man may accuse God of partiality, God made it known to him.(Ro.1:20). The Ethiopian eunuch need not have worried for help was at hand to enlighten his eye of faith.

Testimony of Jesus (2 of 2)

Re.19:10

This helps us understand what St Paul writes about our calling. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:/ According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love." (Ep.1:4-5) Our heavenly places are in heaven and we are not to be lumped by the swine of Gadarene whose agenda always has only one direction, headlong into the sea. "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace;"(He.13:8). We are angels because all our well springs are in our Savior Lord. We are dead to sin but are alive to God; and are led by the Spirit given to us as an earnest.

"Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach./ For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come./ By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name./ But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased."(He.13:13-16)

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,/ Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith;"(He.12:1-2)

The Testimony of Jesus (1 of 2)

Re.19:10

"I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." (19:10)

The 'angel' addresses himself as a fellow servant and it is a clue: first we shall check what Jesus had spoken, "Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you." ( John 15:15) Jesus Christ as the Servant King knew it first hand. He is the Son, only begotten in the sense he is the Word become flesh. So there need no other citations required.

The angel is connected to Jesus Christ as much as John is. One is in flesh and blood by circumstances living out his banishment on the isle of Patmos. Yet he is free to be in heavenly places in his master. The angel is part of the cloud of witnesses which we saw in the night vision of Daniel the Seer. "One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, "(Dan.7:13). These clouds appear from time to time and it is always in association with God. "who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind." The Psalmist inspired by God places these in heavenly places. When He accords a vision to Prophet Ezekiel he sends the four living creatures from the midst of it. "And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire./ Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures." (Ez.1:1:4-5; Ps.104:3)

Re.19:9

Marriage Supper Of The Lamb (2 of 2)

The wrath of the Lamb is reserved for those who resist it." We are not of this world, as they do riding the coat tails of politicians, half the time with Jesus talk and the rest with mammon.

At the end of the Parable for the Marriage of the Kings Son (Matt.22:1-14) " For many are called, but few are chosen." They are blessed as the key verse says.

The inaugural vision in the Book of the Revelation shows the Father Son relationship, transcribed in visual terms, and Jesus Christ in the Alpha Omega aspect standing in the midst of seven candlesticks.(Re. l:12-18). Narrative mode of the Spirit is consistent in the creation account where God establishes faith as only means by which man may have fellowship with God and we are called in his Son.(Ep.1:4) No less consistent is the wrath of the Lamb which weeds out the ungodly and those who refuse abiding him in faith. Seven angels with trumpets are equally cleansing the world so the marriage supper of the Lamb is only for those who have made themselves ready.

The narrative mode of the Spirit is identical with the other two. "And the evening and the morning were'"so ran the cue card at the end of each day. The cue card " He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches" (Re.2:7) for instance, is placed at the end of each message to seven churches.

Here the only distinction is that it is not about activism or glory of the church, that is the question but do you let Jesus Christ in your heart?

"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me./ To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne./ He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."(Re.3:20-22)

Re.19:9

Marriage Supper Of The Lamb (1 of 2)

"And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God."

A day is appointed for the Son.(Ps.2:7) The Spirit accordingly gives us the creation account which is compared to the house that Wisdom built. (Pr.9:1).

God created the heaven and the earth and how is, however, revealed by the writer to the Hebrews. (He.11:3). "In the beginning' placed in the opening sentence sets the divine Will of the Father as the impulse which the Son shall sustain till the end. "(God) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;/ Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power,"(He.1:2-3) God framed the worlds by faith and we are instructed by the Spirit that it is sustained or maintained by the Son whom he has appointed heir of all things. 'In the fulness of time' God sent his only begotten Son to the world.( John 3:16) so faith determined a holy family which shall be partakers of his grace, " the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:/ Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son," (Col.1;12-16)

Having said these now let us examine Ge.1:1. God is set in terms of the Father Son relationship. Jesus declares "My Father works hitherto and I work." The Word made flesh epitomizes the ministry of Jesus Christ. In his prayer he says, "I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine." ( John 17:9) When we consider the Word sanctifies us it means that we allow Jesus Christ do his perfect work. "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world./ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."(17:16-17)

Re.5:6 (2 of 2)

"Worthy is the Lamb"

Coming back to the Lamb who stood in the midst of the throne refers to 'as it had been slain' and we have the symbolism of the Son; the Word became flesh and he is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. ( John 1:29) The seven horns refer to the power which is complete so the throne of the Lamb covers the church who made a covenant by sacrifice. (Ps.50:5)

"And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God."(4:5). Unity of the Spirit is one while the lightings and thunderings assign God the primacy of the Law. The body is represented by the four beasts and the four and twenty elders. Body Spirit Soul form the trinity. In the creation account God expresses his will, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."(Ge.1:27) Where shall we place those who refuse to do the will of God? They have despised the grace of the Son which are the seven eyes, the seven Spirits of God sent into all the earth. "But grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."( John 1:17) Wisdom has built her house so Jesus could assure, In my Father's house are many mansions, ....I go to prepare a place for you."( John 14:2)