The Spirit, the sealing

“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Heb. 9:14).

God tempts no one. But He will test everyone, especially those who profess Him. He tests them by leaving them like He left His own Son in Gethsemane, and lets their sealing keep them from falling. Thus the 144,000 will be without fault before the throne of God.

“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.” (Eph. 1:13).

Through the “Spirit of promise” (Eph. 1:13), the “eternal Spirit” (Heb. 9:14), we can be kept from falling to temptation. We get the victory through entering into the eternal Spirit of the Father and Son’s infinite, inseparable, indissoluble, indivisible bond. That Spirit that seals eternally is the permanent seal from God. The permanent seal of an infinite bond, and the eternal Spirit, are synonymous.

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me hath everlasting life.” (John 6:47).

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” (John 5:24).

“Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” (1Jn. 3:15).

The above verses tell us that eternal life starts the moment we trust in Jesus. And Ephesians 1:13 says that we are sealed with the Spirit because we trust in Jesus. Then, when we read John 3:16, shouldn’t we have in mind that same concept of the Son’s holy Spirit sealed in us—His life and His righteousness, His rest, and holiness and peace—unending, unquenchable, solid, impregnable, permanent, abundant, ongoing?

“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:14-16).

There is also the eternal hell misconception.

“Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:” (Matt. 25:41).

“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” (Mark 9:48).

“Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” (Jude 7).

The eternal fire upon Sodom is not still burning. The vale of Siddim isn’t still going up in smoke. “And he [Abraham] looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.” (Gen. 19:28). The cities burned until there was nothing left to burn. Their fire was unquenchable—“eternal”, “everlasting” (Jude 6). The only thing left of the plain was burning salt under the burning sun.

We can redefine the concept of eternal when “unending” doesn’t fit the context, such as with Sodom and Gomorrah, and with an eternally burning hell. So why can’t we do that for other biblical concepts, such as “the eternal Spirit”? And why is it so difficult to see that the Spirit is the union, the bond, the Father and Son’s presence and the glory that comes with Their presence (see John 17:5; 14:23), the reconciliation between the poured out, satisfied soul of our heavenly Parents and the poured out, contrite, converted soul of Their earthly children?

Those paradigms from the Dark Ages, that of a third person of the Godhead, which still cling to Reformation doctrine, need to be recanted, up-rooted and renounced, eternally.

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“For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.” (1Cor. 8:5,6).

The Trinity formula itemizes the Godhead as such: God, the Father; God, the Son; and God, the Holy Spirit. It goes further to boil Them down to three Gods who, in the distant past, came together and voted on who would play the part of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Any in-depth study of the Trinity will tell you this. But then the study will say that They aren’t really three Gods because that would be Tri-theism, which would mean polytheism. Instead, the study will say, They are one God in three persons.

But that isn’t at all the picture we get from 1 Corinthians 8:6. In 1 Corinthians 8:6 there is only one God, and He isn’t a trinity. He is a singular person—the Father. The sentence says that the “one God” who we have is “the Father”—“of whom (‘whom’ being a singular relative pronoun denoted by its singular pronoun ‘Him’) are all things, and we in Him.” Put together, both parts of Paul’s phraseology communicates a single person with a two-fold position by His relation to all creation, “God”, and by His relation to His family in heaven and earth, “the Father”.

“Every manifestation of creative power is an expression of infinite love. The sovereignty of God involves fullness of blessing to all created beings.…

     The Sovereign of the universe was not alone in His work of beneficence. He had an associate--a co-worker who could appreciate His purposes, and could share His joy in giving happiness to created beings. ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.’ John 1:1, 2. Christ, the Word, the only begotten of God, was one with the eternal Father--one in nature, in character, in purpose--the only being that could enter into all the counsels and purposes of God. ‘His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.’ Isaiah 9:6. His ‘goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.’ Micah 5:2. And the Son of God declares concerning Himself: ‘The Lord possessed Me in the beginning of His way, before His works of old. I was set up from everlasting. . . . When He appointed the foundations of the earth: then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him: and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him.’ Proverbs 8:22-30.” Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 33,34.

 

Isn’t the Son divine? Yes! But He is not God, because, according to the opening text, there is “but one God”, who is “the Father”, and who Jesus prayed to as “the only true God” (John 17:3). Other than the Father there is only One other Being on the throne, “Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him” (1Cor. 8:6).

Why is the Son divine if He can’t hold the title of God?

He is divine because He is begotten of God. The Son is divine by virtue of His being literally born of God.

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14).

The Son’s position is to exemplify to creation perfect submission to the Father.

“For He [God] hath put all things under His [Son’s] feet. But when He [God] saith all things are put under Him [His Son], it is manifest that He [God] is excepted, which did put all things under Him [His Son]. And when all things shall be subdued unto Him [His Son], then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.” (1Cor. 15:27,28).

“Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the Book it is written of Me,

I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy Law is within My heart.” (Ps. 40:7,8).

“Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God.” (Heb. 10:7).

 The Son’s position is also to perfectly reveal the will of His Father to Their family in heaven and earth. Only the only-Begotten knows how to express the will of His Father perfectly because He has ever been the Beloved of God. In all the high commands of God there is love. And all His commands are enablings, via the love intertwined in His overwhelmingly strong messages, a love that the Son must make apparent by His voice of obvious, reassuring comfort. Without that intercession by Christ God’s creatures would be destroyed by His over-powering Law. Thus they can love the Father with all their heart and will, and not feel intimidated by the Law-giver, or to speak with Him through “the Spirit of His Son” (Gal. 4:6) who sanctifies and empowers their prayer. “And He [God] that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” (Rom. 8:27)

“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).

“At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in Thy sight.

All things are delivered unto Me of My Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and He to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him.” (Matt. 11:25-27).

“He that cometh from above is above all: He that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: He that cometh from heaven is above all.

And what He hath seen and heard, that He testifieth; and no man receiveth His testimony.

He that hath received His testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.

The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand.

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:31-36).

The Son has “divine power” to give “us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises” (2Pet. 1:3,4).

So that we might take part in His “divine nature” (2Pet. 1:4), “who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.” (Rom. 9:5).

“In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:4). While, “if there had been a Law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the Law.” (Gal. 3:21). “But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.” (Gal. 3:22). The Son is our only help to hear God and to heed His commands.

The Son is the only begotten, the Prōtotokos.

“And again, when He bringeth in the Firstbegotten into the world, He saith, And let all the angels of God worship Him.” (Heb. 1:6), “whom Thou hast sent” (John 17:3). He was already the firstbegotten before He was incarnated, for all things were made by Him, and for Him.

“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. 1:16).

Then, what about God the Holy Spirit?

Neither is that in the Bible anywhere. In the word of God there is no “God, the Son”, and “God, the Holy Spirit”. These titles are completely man-made, and cannot be used to prove anything the Godhead. When talking about the Bible, I can understand taking the liberty of paraphrasing quotations from the scriptures. But paraphrasing quotations should never be done when proving biblical truth.

Ellen White was all the time quoting phrases from the Bible without quotation marks. And sometimes she paraphrased. But she also used quoted verses with their quotation marks much of the time.

And she always used “only begotten Son” instead of “God the Son”.

The trouble comes when we use paraphrased verses or paraphrased biblical phrases so often that they become tradition—that is, unbiblical ideas that are accepted as biblical. This is exactly how human tradition supplants divine truth. This is how Satan has always been able to alter doctrine to vindicate and exalt himself. That happened again in the post-apostolic church. They allowed a tidal wave of pagan philosophy and occult practices into the church and into its doctrines.

The Egyptian trinity was made up of their chiefest gods, Osiris, Isis, and Horus, or Osiris, Isis, and Set. Set was Osiris’ elder brother who usurped the mythical throne, and who Osiris killed. Set was not only an equal to Osiris, but superior. This Set was Satan who said,

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.” (Isa. 14:12-15).

Who was “Horus”? He was the son of Osiris and Isis. And Isis, as queen of heaven, holds the same title as Mary and the Holy Spirit, as explained in the following authoritative, well-documented website:

https://mikeblume.com/pagantr.htm.

“At first the Mysteries only had Adad as the "One God" (Macrobii Saturnalia lib. I. cap. 23. p. 73).  Adad, being triune, allowed three different forms of divinity when the Babylonian Mystery of Iniquity formed further.  The Babylonians used an equilateral triangle to display this concept, just as Trinitarians do today!! (Layard, Babylon and Ninevah, p.605).  The Egyptians did the same (Maurice, Indian Antiquities, vol. iv. p. 445. London, 1794).  These forms became the Father, Mother and Son.  Apuleius tells us that when he was initiated, the goddess Isis revealed herself to him as:

"The first of the celestials, and the uniform manifestation of the gods and goddesses...  WHOSE ONE SOLE DIVINITY the whole orb of the earth venerated, and under a manifold form, with different rites, and under a variety of appellations;"

And going over many of these appellations, she declares herself at one instance as "Pessinuntica, the mother of the gods (i.e.  Cybele), and Paphian Venus."

Originally the Mysteries set out with the doctrine of the Unity of the godhead.  Wilkinson writes:

"I have stated that Amun-re and other gods took the form of different deities, which, though it appears at first sight to represent some difficulty, may readily be accounted for when we consider that each one of those figures or emblems that were adopted, was only an emanation, or deified attribute of the Same Great Being to whom they ascribe various characters, according to the several offices he was supposed to perform."

Based on the question of the identification of Cybele and Astarte we see the following.  Fundamentally there was only one goddess - the Holy Spirit, represented as female, when the distinction of sex was wickedly assigned to the godhead.  This happened through a perversion of the Scriptural idea that all children of God were begotten by the Father, and born of the Spirit in a husband and wife scenario.

The Spirit of God was represented as the Mother in the form of a dove.  This was supposedly based upon the reference to the Spirit that "fluttered" at the creation.  This is the exact meaning of the term in Gen.  1:2.  "The Spirit fluttered on the face of the waters".  Therefore this goddess was called Ops, "the Flutterer", or Juno, "The Dove", or Kubele, "The Binder with Cords".  This last title had a reference to the "bands of love, the cords of man", referred to in Hosea 11:4 as "Khubeli Adam".  God supposedly draws man unto himself with such cords, and also bound Adam to God through the Spirit’s indwelling while the covenant of Eden was unbroken.”

This explains why, of late, Seventh-day Adventist churches are starting to pray to “God the Holy Spirit”. We are being inched closer and closer to the spiritualized Sunday churches and the Vatican’s program of Ecumenism.

The truth of the Holy Spirit is that it is really God’s Spirit, the Spirit of Him who is “Holy, Holy, Holy” (Rev. 4:8). The Father alone is “Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.” (Rev. 4:8). It’s the Father who was depicted by “Him [singular pronoun] that sat on the throne, and ...Him [singular pronoun] that liveth for ever and ever” (Rev. 4:10).

The Father alone has lived forever and ever. The Father alone is the Potentate, the “Sovereign of the universe,” as Ellen White penned His title in Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 33.

He alone has ever been, long before His blessed only Begotten came forth from His bosom.

“Until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: which in His times He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.” (1Tim. 6:14-16).

Jesus will show this when He is finished putting all enemies down and then subjecting Himself to His Father who is “all in all” (1Cor. 15:28).

The Spirit is the indissoluble union between the Father and the only Begotten Son, that we, Their family in heaven and earth, have the great privilege to share in when we are reconciled with Them in new birth.

“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the Law,

To redeem them that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” (Gal. 4:4-6).

“Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5).

Without measure the Father’s Spirit dwells in His Son, our Intercessor, and He dispenses it to His children.

“For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.” (John 3:34).

“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.” (Rev. 5:6).

“And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” (John 20:22).

“And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” (Acts 2:2-4).

The Spirit that we know of is Jesus. It is His presence, His voice. The Spirit is His Spirit; it is verily Jesus Himself as much as my voice is me. Without seeing our acquaintances we recognize their voice as them. Without being next to our loved ones we recognize their distant presence as them. Why then is it difficult to accept Jesus' presence as Him? Why must His presence be another person? Why must His voice to our soul come from a third person? Everything in the word of God is about Jesus, and from Jesus. Through Jesus, and Him alone, we know the Father; and through Jesus and Him alone, we come to the Father. Any other source of life is a liar, a usurper of Christ, a thief, and a murderer.

“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me. And ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life.” (John 5:39,40).

“And it 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, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was cast down.” (Dan. 8:10,11).

God exalted Jesus and then sent Him to bless the world

God exalted Jesus and sent Him to bless the world

The non-Trinitarian declares, “To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.” (1Cor. 8:6).

“But”, you ask him, “where is the Holy Spirit (the third Person of the Trinity)?”

His reply, “The Spirit is the counsel of peace between Them both. The Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ is Their union. No one knows the Father but the Son; and no one knows the Son but the Father.”

After the Son defeated sin and Satan at the cross, the Father raised up His Son by His own Spirit. Then, when He caused His Son to ascend back into glory. Following His return there, His Father highly exalted Him and gave Him a name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus the powers under the earth must bow. And having exalted His Son, the Father sent Him to bless the disturbed Jews by turning them away from their iniquities.

Listed below are all the e-Sword translations of Acts 3:26. This verse has a most interesting chronology to it. Most of the versions say: 1) God raise up His Son; 2) God sent His Son to bless the Jewish people who saw the lame man healed; 3) God used His Son’s healing power to turn them all away from their sins. They say that God brought His Son to His heavenly home, exalted Him before all heaven, and then sent Him to bless the Jews first, as He also sent Him to bless Saul of Tarsus.

Acts 3:26

(ASV)  Unto you first God, having raised up His Servant, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

(BBE)  To you, first, God sent His Servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.

(CEV)  God sent His chosen Son to you first, because God wanted to bless you and make each one of you turn away from your sins.

(DRB)  To you first, God, raising up His Son, hath sent Him to bless you: that every one may convert himself from his wickedness.

(ERV)  God has sent His special Servant Jesus. He sent Him to you first. He sent Him to bless you by causing each of you to turn away from your evil ways.”

(ESV)  God, having raised up His Servant, sent Him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

(GNB)  And so God chose His Servant and sent Him to you first, to bless you by making every one of you turn away from your wicked ways.”

(GW)  God has brought His Servant back to life and has sent Him to you first. God did this to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways.”

(ISV)  When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways.”

(KJV)  Unto you first God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

(KJV+)  Unto you^G5213 first^G4412 God,^G2316 having raised up^G450 His^g848 Son^G3816 Jesus,^G2424 sent^G649 Him^g846 to bless^G2127 you,^G5209 in turning away^G654 every one^G1538 of you from^G575 his^G5216 iniquities.^G4189

(LEB)  God, after He had raised up His Servant, sent Him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you back from your wickedness!”

(LITV)  Having raised up His child Jesus, God sent Him first to you, blessing you in turning away each one from your iniquities.

(MKJV)  Having raised up His son Jesus, God sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you away from his iniquities.

(RV)  Unto you first God, having raised up His Servant, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

(YLT)  to you first, God, having raised up His Child Jesus, did send Him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.’

We normally think the other way around, that God sent His Son for a 3 ½ year ministry to bless the Jews by turning them from their sins, and then the Father raised Him up.

But that isn’t what Acts 3:26 is saying. The verse is saying that God raised up His Son by exalting Him in heaven, and then sent Him that day to heal the lame man, turning the hearts of the people back to their Father in heaven and away from their sins.

The statement that this one was amplifying was verses 19-21. “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.” (Acts 3:19-21).

As Jesus was present for the lame man’s healing, He would wanted to blot out all the people’s sins so that His presence could be with them. And with His presence would come refreshing, His rest.

“Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it…. For we which have believed do enter into rest…. For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.” (Heb. 4:1,3,10).

Rest and peace come with His presence because life and joy come with His presence.

“They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength.” (Isa. 40:31).

“Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt Thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in Thy Presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” (Ps. 16:9-11).

But how can His presence be had here on this sin-filled, corrupted outpost of a planet? Must we go to heaven for it? Or does He come here? And how?

“Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?… Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.” (Jer. 23:23,24).

“Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy Presence?” (Ps. 139:7).

Before His incarnation Christ, the Word of wisdom, had been all Spirit. He filled heaven and earth, and was made to shine by His Father’s transfiguring presence.

“And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” (John 17:5).

“Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.” (Ps. 45:7).

“Out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” (Rev. 4:5).

Spirit and presence and glory go together, thus Christ was transfigured by His Father’s presence and Spirit. “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness”, that “hath shined in our hearts”, and that gives us “the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2Cor. 4:6), was “the eternal Spirit” through which Christ “offered Himself without spot to God” (Heb. 9:14). And after His incarnation His glory still could not be contained. Even while He walked among men in corrupted flesh, His divinity flashed forth many times and daily healed the sick and lame. But following His resurrection His glorified body readily and continually shed forth the omnipotence and omniscience of His Spirit. He again filled all heaven and earth.

“He…hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars.” (Rev. 3:1).

“His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength” (Rev. 1:16), “and His eyes were as a flame of fire.” (Rev. 1:14).

“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.” (Rev. 5:6).

Let us receive of the bread of His presence. Let us make face time with Him, “whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things.” (Acts 3:21).

“Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He [the Father] shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He [Christ] must reign, till He [the Father] hath put all enemies under His [Christ’s] feet.… And when all things shall be subdued unto Him [Christ], then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.” (1 Cor. 15:24, 25, 28).

“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, saying, We give Thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because Thou hast taken to Thee Thy great power, and hast reigned.” (Rev. 11:15-17).

“And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped Him that liveth for ever and ever.” (Rev. 5:11-14).

But, until that day the Lamb makes Himself known to us today by His ever-presence, His eternal Spirit. Somehow heaven arcs with Earth, and God “raise[s] us up together, and [makes] us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Eph. 2:6).

“And Jesus [says to us], Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with Me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43). In His presence is fullness of joy and at His right hand are pleasures for evermore.

The eternal Spirit

“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Heb. 9:14).

“The eternal Spirit”. Is this eternal Spirit the third person of a trinity God? Is this Spirit the only person in the Trinity God who is eternal, “the eternal Spirit”? Does the scripture really say that? Not at all. Scripture says that the Father is the eternal Spirit. “God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship (Him) in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24).

The scriptures also say that He is eternal.

“And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped Him that liveth for ever and ever.” (Rev. 5:11-14).

“I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;

That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Which in His times [our Lord Jesus Christ] shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.” (1Tim. 6:13-16).

God the Father was, is, and always will be that Eternal Spirit. “To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” (2Cor. 5:19).

“And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” (Matt. 27:46).

Even though the Lamb of God felt forsaken, His Father hadn’t forsaken Him. His Father was in Him, as the Spirit. “He had by Himself purged our sins” (Heb. 1:3), but, evidently, as a Spirit, God can choose to enter or leave our soul, as it suits His purposes, for He “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Eph. 1:11). “He be not far from every one of us” (Acts 17:27), but that doesn’t mean He is in every one of us. On the contrary, most people to whom He is near have a giant chasm in their hearts, with much chastisement of…peace” (Isa. 53:5), because He is not in them as the “holy Spirit” (Eph. 1:13). That is what we see with King Hezekiah. “Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that He might know all that was in his heart.” (2Chron. 32:31).

The kings of Judah were representatives of the Son of God, and of His regenerated Christian children. And all scripture testifies of Him. It was for the sake of us, His present day representatives upon whom the ends of the world are come” (1Cor. 10:11), that the Father shut off the flow of His Spirit to His Son’s soul so that His presence there was not noticeable to His Son. The unreserved opening in Christ’s spirit, which was bestowed upon Him at conception, which He was born with, and which He consciously kept open throughout His life, was left unaccessed by His everlasting Father and empty of His Spirit. That was for our sakes, when we feel surrounded by temptation and trials, and this world of sin and unbelief, when we unconsciously or willfully have absorbed the poisonous “course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Eph. 2:2). Christ was separated for our sinfulness during the times when God would be feel so far away that it would seem impossible to be reconciled back with Him. Yet, in those times He is surrounding us like He did His Son in His pitch black. “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.” (Matt. 27:45).

For our sakes, He is keeping us in the dark and using a spiritual abstinence from this world’s stimulating sensory placebos, strengthening patient endurance in us, and cooperating with us to strain every faculty to be restored to His eternal Spirit. He will hone our yearning to remain with His presence and approval, and He will lead us into a purer standing before Him by revealing more sin, deeper sin, to be repented of and forsaken.

Our prayers will be:

“Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against Him, until He plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: He will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold His righteousness.” (Mic. 7:8,9).

“Thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for Thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly.” (Neh. 9:33).

“We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Thy precepts and from Thy judgments…. And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought Thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.” (Dan. 9:5,15).

“We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.” (Ps. 106:6).

“Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Behold, Thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice.” (Ps. 51:5-8).

“Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy holy Spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation; and uphold me with Thy free Spirit.” (Ps. 51:9-12).

Jesus was sinless. He had no iniquities or transgressions to repent of. But, His Father loaded him down with all the abhorrence that He had toward a race of sinners, ten billion fold. The fear of the guilt and shame and eternal loss from His precious Father was suffocating, debilitating, depressing. Christ’s sense of unworthiness overcame Him, despite all of His effort to reclaim His Father’s blessed presence, the Spirit without measure upon Him “who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.” (Rom. 9:5).

“For God had given “not the Spirit by measure unto Him.” (John 3:34).

All the infinite blessedness that Jesus carried with Him from His Father’s blessed presence was completely and utterly rescinded. It was like a trillion Hg vacuum sucking out life from His soft heart and sensitive soul. His spirit felt all the justice that all of our race, wicked and righteous, will feel the day Jesus leaves His post as Mediator between God and man, in order to come to Earth and deliver His righteous children from the claws of the wicked and the vindictive dragon. Only because He never ceased to have it back could it be said, “through the eternal Spirit” He was acceptable to His Father. only because He had spent His whole life pressing toward the high prize of His Father’s calling could His Father of spirits be satisfied with His 1000% consecration. By His knowledge of sin and separation from God could He justify many. By His faithfulness could He be made our High Priest forever. He has been faithfully providing us with conviction of sin for the forgiveness of sin. And with that forgiveness He has been dispensing the seven Spirits of His eternal Father to be witness to our spirit that we are the children of God indeed.

But, the day is coming when He will step out from between God and man in order to come and save them from their wretched world of sin and the power of sin. “And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from His power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.” (Rev. 15:8).

“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,… we shall be changed.” (1Cor. 15:52).

“At the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible…. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.” (1Cor. 15:52,53).

“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” (Phil. 3:20,21).

It is true that Hebrews also says that the Son has lived forever, and not the Father only. This may sound like the trinity God is true, that Father and Son are equal in age and power.

“Unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of Thy kingdom.” (Heb. 1:8).

But, Hebrews also says that the Son has a higher authority than Himself—His God.

“Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.” (Heb. 1:9).

“My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” (Matt. 27:46).

“And He said unto him, Why callest thou Me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.” (Matt. 19:17).

This doesn’t diminish anything of the Son’s. But it does duly exalt the Father above all.

“So careful was the great Healer to direct attention from Himself to the Source of His power, that the wondering multitude, ‘when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see,’ did not glorify Him, but ‘glorified the God of Israel.’ Matthew 15:31. In the wonderful prayer that Christ offered just before His crucifixion, He declared, ‘I have glorified Thee on the earth.’ ‘Glorify Thy Son,’ He pleaded, ‘that Thy Son also may glorify Thee.’ ‘O righteous Father, the world hath not known Thee: but I have known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast sent Me. And I have declared unto them Thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them.’ John 17:4, 1, 25, 26.” Prophets and Kings, p. 69.

  

The Son’s carefulness to revere His beloved Father was due to His Father’s eternal existence before His, from whom He received His anointing and creative power before He laid the foundation of the Earth, and formed our world.

“And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Thine hands.” (Heb. 1:10).

“Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.” (Ps. 90:2).

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth.” (John 5:19,20).

“And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to Him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

The four and twenty elders fall down before Him that sat on the throne, and worship Him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.” (Rev. 4:8-11).

The Son said, “My Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28).

His Father’ glory was greater than His because the Father of all was greatest of all, “all in all”. “For He [God the Father] hath put all things under His [Christ’s] feet. But when He [the Father] saith all things are put under Him [Christ’s], it is manifest that He [God the Father] is excepted, which did put all things under Him [Christ]. And when all things shall be subdued unto Him [the Son], then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him [God the Father] that put all things under Him [Christ], that God may be all in all.” (1Cor. 15:27,28). The Son’s glory came from His Father’s own self. “And now, O Father, glorify Thou Me with Thine own Self with the glory which I had with Thee before the world was.” (John 17:5). Everything about the only begotten Son was dependent upon His Father who is incomprehensibly infinite to us, “THE UNKNOWN GOD”.

“A throne was set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.

And He that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald….

And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” (Rev. 4:2,3,5).

The thunders came from the great Father. “Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I HAVE BOTH GLORIFIED IT, AND WILL GLORIFY IT AGAIN. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered….” (John 12:27-29).

“And I saw another mighty Angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon His head, and His face was as it were the sun, and His feet as pillars of fire:…  And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when He had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.” (Rev. 10:1,3).

I have capitalized “Angel” because the mighty Angel that roared is the glorified Jesus, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. “His face was as it were the sun, and His feet as pillars of fire.”

“And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire;

And His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters.

And He had in His right hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.” (Rev. 1:13-16).

Jesus, perfect obedience in angelic form, and the joy of the universe, was the representative of His seven Spirits and of the kingdom of Their children. He represented the seven Spirits of God, He had the seven Spirits of God (see Revelation 5:6), and He was the seven Spirits of God; just as He lived by every word of God, He taught the word of God, and was the Word of God. “For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell.” (Col. 1:19). The greater Almighty Father who speaks like thunder, in comparison to His mighty Son’s roar, is the one who put all the fullness of the Godhead in His Heir because His Son pleased Him so perfectly.

From eternal ages the Almighty said, “THIS IS MY BELOVED SON, IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.” (Matt. 17:5). The Son is in His Father’s divine, spiritual image and in our human, fleshly image. While the Father is incomprehensible to us, the Son can be comprehended, and is very personable.

“In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.… For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” (Col. 2:3,9).

“Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of every creature:

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:

And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.

And He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence.

For 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. 1:15-20).

“To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.” (1Cor. 8:6).

“In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” (Col. 1:14). “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.” (Col. 1:13).

“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Eph. 2:5,6). Today.

“Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” (2Cor. 6:2).

“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” (Rev. 2:7).

 “Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with Me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43). Today we may have the eternal life with which God anointed Him, His eternal Father’s eternal Spirit.

A YouTube testifier explaining what the Spirit did and examining Its work in her

I truly appreciate this testimony because the person who experienced it, Chelsea, had been trying to find truth and peace for 20 years, starting in her formative years of life. She involved herself in every kind of drug and witchcraft to look deeper into the realm of the invisible principles of life. So, she honed her skills for investigation. And when Jesus finally could get an opening, He entered with power to change her heart and mind, giving her new eyesight. And she had a heyday with all the new spiritual knowledge that He was able to download into her intellect through her spirit.

But, she has learned of God and His Spirit from her Trinitarian pastor. And thus, I believe, she holds on to the falsehood of a third person of the Godhead. Nevertheless, she does her best to be careful and accurate in her theological treatment of the Spirit. She loves the way that Romans called the Spirit, “It” because she connects the impersonal Spirit “It” with what she called an “objective voice”. I’m thrilled that her focus is on Jesus, and not another intercessor. So, the following is the last part of her testimony. The whole testimony is found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHJgYimhR8g&t=5s

So, on to Chelsea:

And yeah, I wasn’t sure what was going on. I knew Jesus was the truth. I didn’t really know about the Holy Spirit, though. And so this objective voice that was inside me, this prompting, this new dimension to my spirit that I had never felt before was telling me that Jesus was real. It was glorifying Jesus. And it also was making me want to read the Bible. I had new desires all of the sudden. Completely new desires. Everything just changed. And I was really made anew in that moment when He revealed His truth to me.

And so I went and read the Bible, and it was just absolutely, it still is absolutely such a blessing to know Jesus personally as your own Saviour, and have a relationship with Him, not a religious, traditional, man-based religion. It’s not about that. And so I was prompted then to…it was really difficult for me to relate to people I once related to because I just wanted to tell everyone about Jesus, and I was with Muslims that thought He was only a prophet. So it was really difficult to find common ground. And I was so passionate. So I spent a lot of time on my own and I was prompted to read scripture.

And I remember I sat in a café. And I had gone back to the beach where my original Bible was that my momma had given me when I was travelling. I went back to it and I opened the pages. I was just prompted to go and chill on my own, get the Bible, and just open the pages.

And something that really stood out to me was this passage in John 14:6, where it says: “Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by Me.” And that’s such an important passage because it was through Jesus that I found God, that I had this experience where everything changed inside my spirit. And I still wasn’t sure what was going on, you know, because I hadn’t really read the Bible much before. I didn’t know really about the Holy Spirit. I kind of thought that was a separate thing.

And again, I opened the Bible to another page randomly. I started reading. And it was like absolutely, absolutely what I was going through. And it was like God was speaking to me there and then. The Holy Spirit was prompting me to read, and read about Itself. That’s just incredible. And so I wrote it all down in my book when I was in the café because it was just so, so, it’s such a profound thing. Because I was just a little bit like, “What is going on with me? Why am I all the sudden…”, you know. I was so thankful that I knew the truth of Jesus, and that I finally had that void filled, and I knew spiritual truth. But I was still a bit like questioning, “What was going on?” Because now I’ve got this objective voice inside prompting me. And I knew that was God. I knew it was God.

But I kept on reading the Bible, and…where is it? It’s in Romans 8:14-21. I turned to this page. And it says,

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

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.

The Spirit Itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God…” (Rom. 8:14-16).

And there was that inside spirit going, “Yes! Read on! Read on! This is what you need to know!” And it said:

“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.” (Rom. 8:17-19).

So I was feeling really down, and like, “Oh, everyone needs to know Jesus. This is an incredible gift. So I was so full of joy and happy, but also full of sorrow for…because I just didn’t know anyone could experience a relationship firsthand with God through the Holy Spirit. That that could come and dwell within you. And that you could actually have a personal relationship with God. And I finally found spiritual truth, which was Jesus. But then it made me sad because I just wanted everyone to experience this.

And then again I was reading in Romans 8:26 to 27. It says,

“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit Itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of...Spirit, because He [It] maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”

I mean that just completely clarified what I was going through. There was this objective voice all of a sudden revealing truths that I had no idea about. You know, I wasn’t with Christians. I wasn’t reading the Bible. I wasn’t learning. It was all of a sudden this knowing of spiritual truth. Just completely just, BOOM! And it was like, “What is going on?”

But then I read this [scripture passage], and it was like, “OK. That’s what going on!” This holy Spirit from the Father that is come to dwell within me, “the Spirit Itself maketh intercessions for us” “with groanings which cannot be uttered.” And that is what was going on. And also, “And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of...Spirit, because He [It] maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”

You know, the Spirit was making intercessions, it was showing me things for the will of God. And I just broke out in tears. I mean all the time because it’s just an incredible thing. And I just, yeah I just wanted to share that with people about the Holy Spirit, and about how we can have a real connection with our Father. And that’s through calling on Jesus Christ—when you accept Jesus Christ as your Messiah.

And so I was very comfortable where I was in Spain. I had loads of lovely brothers and sisters there. But, you know, none of them were speaking about Christ as being the Messiah. And it was breaking my heart. So, then I left the place where I was[, where] in my normal state would be comfortable and want to be there, you know. It was beautiful weather. Lovely place. But I was now holding onto Jesus, you know. I knew His truth, and I wanted to follow Him. So I had to leave.

And now I’m back at home. I’m living at my mother’s house. I don’t have a vehicle at the moment. I don’t have the things that I normally would require to be happy. I don’t need anything else. I spend most of my time either working or reading scripture or doing Bible study or fellowship with other Christians. And it’s just enough for me. Jesus is enough.

And when you experience this relationship with Him firsthand, it’s, that’s, that’s just, yeah, it’s just incredible. So, you know, people that think that Christianity is just a religion, and it’s just a dusty old Book, and that it’s not very spiritual…. Man, I’ve done every type of spiritual thing you can think of.  You know, I used to be involved quite a lot with all of the New Age stuff. You name it I did it. And at one point I did Iowaska [Ayahuasca] ceremonies. And did all sorts of stuff searching spiritual, spiritual food.

And it just led me further and further away from the truth. And you could see that by the fruits of what happened with me. I got really depressed from it. But now I know the truth of Jesus Christ. It’s like this dusty old Book that I thought before was not really sp…it’s the most spiritual thing ever when you accept Jesus Christ into your life because you have a relationship with the Creator firsthand. It’s not about going to church, and doing Mass and everything, all man-made, and tradition. It’s nothing like that. It’s literally talking to your Creator. And Him talking back. Him prompting you. Him showing you things. Him guiding your life.

Yeah. I mean so I just wanted to talk about that today because I thought it was pretty incredible. You know. That I was experiencing these things before I even understood what they were. And how the Holy Spirit inside me prompted me to read certain scriptures about Itself. You know. It was intercess… It was taking me somewhere to look, and clarifying what was going on, and then the spirit inside me was going, “See. Yeah. That’s me! That’s me! That’s what’s going on! That’s what’s going on!”

And it’s just like incredible, incredible to have this ever spiritual level to knowing the Creator. And that is through calling on Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour. Yeah. That’s beautiful.

So, anyway. It’s a beautiful day today. Nice and sunny in England, which is rare. And yeah, God bless to everyone! Love you so much. Bye!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHJgYimhR8g

Creation

“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.” (Deut. 6:6-9).

“And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt Thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, to me Thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.” (Gen. 15:2,3).

In the long ago, before there existed the first animate creature, either angelic or corporeal, the Father and Son were alone among the galaxies. The Father had begotten His only Son. Slowly through the eons, the Almighty with joy brought up His Prince, instructing Him in every aspect of holiness and righteousness. The Son knew the Law of His Father and feared His Father, yet He had an overwhelming desire for children. Like Abram, all He could think about was children to raise up in godliness and joy and love. But, He never would create them apart from His Father. So He voiced His burden to His beloved, holy Father.

“The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” (John 5:19).

The King said to His Son, “No, not yet. Are We prepared for the ramifications of this? The only way We can have children is if they are all brought up perfectly on the principles of righteousness and love. Not a moment can pass that they will not be reminded. Not a moment will pass that they will not practice loving kindness and, ‘peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled’ (Heb. 12:14,15). My kingdom will not have anything less! The plague of imperfection will not infect My kingdom. Never!”

The Son, as burdened and anxious as He was to surround Himself with holy, happy children, heard the power of His Father’s tone, and agreed to give Himself more development into His Father’s ever-growing sense of exacting perfection. But, children! Oh, blessed little ones, who would come from Their holy persons and be born with an attachment to Them, especially to Him, the one would personally call them into existence and life, whose face they would first see and whose voice they would first hear, and whose loving caresses they would first feel! “Happy is the man whose quiver is full of them!” He could know the joy already! So eventually, He broached the subject of creation again.

But the King said to His Son, “No, not yet. Are We prepared for the ramifications of this? The only way we can have children is if they are brought up perfectly on every principle of righteousness and love. Not a single moment must pass that they are not be reminded of what constitutes perfection. Not a moment will pass that they do not live and think holiness, whose foreheads not for a moment are not crowned with ‘lovingkindness and tender mercies.’ (Ps. 103:4). I will not have rebellion infect my kingdom. Never!”

Again, the Son was set back by the King’s almighty determination to keep His kingdom strong. Love for children is beautiful, but it can never trump the eternal existence of the universe of order and perfection. And Michael understood His Father’s bigger picture, the larger issue of the Law being more important than the individual issues of personal needs that will most assuredly arise among each children born of free choice. Each child will be in Their image, filled with imagination and plans and desires. And each individual mind and heart must be trained to keep the kingdom of utmost important, and its Law foremost in the imagination, plans, and desires. All must be imbued to the depths of their soul with the knowledge that the kingdom was prior to them, and the One who brought them forth was eternally prior to the kingdom, and prior to the Creator was the King, “the eternal, self-existent One” Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 36.2, “who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.” (1Tim. 6:16).

“For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.” (Acts 17:28). “There is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by Him.” (1Cor. 8:6).

But, all of the Father’s testing was designed to infinitely instill into His divine Son the message that He must instill into the creation under His control the same delegation of authority in a chain of command. “The head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God” (1Cor. 11:3).

At the helm of the universal government was God the King, a condition that the royal Prince accepted and loved. He was ever happy to support and agree with His almighty God and Father of all. Though put off He knew that ultimately His Father wanted the universe to be peopled. He knew His Father wanted to be surrounded with happy children, as much as He wanted it. But, He also realized that His Father was greater than He in the infinitude of big picture issues. More weighed on His Father than on Himself. Future realities were comprehended by His Father to a degree that He had not the ability to grasp.

Finally, when the Son was overcome with desire for children the Father saw the opportunity that He had always waited for. The Son’s motherly, all-controlling, earnest need for children was repeated in the life of Hannah.

“Hannah had no children.…

And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.…

Therefore she wept, and did not eat.

Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?…

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.

And she vowed a vow, and said, O LORD of hosts, if Thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life.” (1Sam. 1:2,4,5,7,8,10,11).

When the desolation of childlessness fully controlled Michael, when the King heard His Son promise to be surety for any that would ever waver from obedience, the King’s protectiveness for His kingdom was satisfied. He saw sufficient self-sacrificing love in His Son, for Him to fill the infinite vastness of space, to make His Son Creator of everything that would decorate His sanctuary—His own sanctuary by right, Their own sanctuary by love.

“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: and He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.” (Col. 1:16,17).

The Father was satisfied that love reigned supreme in His Son—love for His Father and His Law, and love for all the future children as though they had already come into existence. “Having loved His own…He loved them unto the end.” (John 13:1). Such infinite, self-sacrificing, pitying, long-suffering love in the Creator would ensure an intelligent creation obedient to the eternal Law.

Thus, the Father filled with the face of His Son’s willing, determined, perfect surrender to His will and a heart full of yearning for children, creative power from His perfect mind never before expressed rose up in the Father. His infinite love and holy union filled His Son to bursting with more than infinite wisdom, and propelling Him with the dynamic ability of His Father. So Michael, the “Mother of all living”, rejoicing in a God-sized yearning to love and with a God-sized prospect of being loved, went forth to call into existence an intelligent creation that would befit a kingdom over which the Holy God reigned.

“By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth…. For He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” (Ps. 33:6,9).