Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Arnion 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 Arnion for ever and ever. Rev 5:12,13ARNION {ar-nee'-on}
outline of Biblical Usage
1) a little lamb, a lambkin
One of the most awesome and beautiful visions I have of Christ is of Him breathing His pure breath into Adam. The first act of spiritual life in man was a "sacrificial act", as Christ knew, that with the impartation of His Hagios Pneuma/Holy Spirit He would ever suffer the soul of man. Christ would serve the soul as the "Arnion (little lambkin) slain from the foundation" and this was the primordial event. I am sure should you take a moment and picture this in your mind, you might almost hear the holy hush that enveloped all of heaven and all of earth as the last Adam breathed His own life into the first. This is the beginning of Christ, Our Father's great gift of love, come to this world to die in the form of a suffering servant. Christ Jesus through His Spirit would suffer the futility and vanity of of this first man and all men there after. Christ, as the spotless Arnion descended from the eternal throne would die and be buried like a seed in the flesh of every man until the appointed time when this Holy Thing would arise, carrying the whole of man both individually and corporately into the Glorious Kingdom of Heaven and the very Throne of God. Oh my heart does stand often in tears of awe as I contemplate our precious Christ taking the form of the extreme diminutive as "the Little Lambkin" to raise all of creation into the infinite and immeasurable grandeur of the Godhead as the All in All.
O our precious Arnion, Who has suffered us from the very beginning. How incredibly blessed we are to know such a Saviour, such a Priest and such a Lord. He has born all our infirmities from the first to the last without exception. God's spotless lamb has carried the dark blot of every sin ever dreamed of. Surely, this is the horrific burden that the bleeding Jesus knelt under, while in the Gethsemane garden during His loneliest night. Let us be undone as we contemplate the magnitude of the cost this dear Jesus has paid. And then let out hearts rise in glorious endearing rapture as we realize this Suffering Servant King who gave His life for you and me when we were yet adversaries, knows and loves each of us in the most intimate of terms. More than a husband knows and loves a wife ....... more than a mother understands and loves a child ...... Jesus knows and loves us in such a deep and unfathomable fashion that another word must be used to describe it ......... "AGAPE"
Surely "AGAPE" and "JESUS" are the same. I shall ever believe so!
The most mind bending and heart touching view of Christ pictured in the mystical book of Revelation is not Christ the Lion, nor Christ the Ram, nor the Ox or even Christ the Man but instead Christ sitting upon the throne, high and lifted up, is seen as the Arnion, the little lambkin slaughtered. This is the beautiful illustration of the deepest nature of Christ. This is Our Servant King, and as We view Him, it should bring us down to our knees in realization that suffering our fellow man and dieing to self in service, is the way to the throne ..... twas for Jesus ..... twill be for us.
There is a place where one learns to be still in God and deep from His Kingdom within, the great mysteries in Christ are glimpsed. This author, Dora Van Assen, concludes in her writing shared below, that there is but "One Son" and I can only concur. Yes, there was, is and will be, but "One Son." The first Adam through Christ's shared death and resurrection is become the last Adam. From God's perspective it is a done deal but experientialy we are walking it out, as "now we see not yet all things put under Him. But we see Jesus." (Heb 2:8,9)
But, praise be to God, "WE SEE JESUS!"
How I love that simple beautiful term that encompasses and accomplishes so much. "WE SEE JESUS!"
As we see Jesus, we see the Omega Man who is also the Alpha Man and all in between. Jesus suffered and succored "all men" that He might gather "all men" unto and into Himself and present "all of mankind sinless and perfect" before the Father. Oh, the wonder of this God-man Jesus! Truly only One Man is worthy, and His name is Jesus! I see this Jesus today and praise God, I am seeing Him more clearly with every succeeding day, until it be in a twinkling of eye I shall finally see Him as He really is. With that I shall be fashioned as He. My prayer and driving purpose for all that visit here at SONSHINE is only, that we "SEE JESUS!"
I pray the following message blesses you. It is a deep word shared by one of those hidden sons that served her fellow man in the Spirit of the Arnion. I don't agree perfectly with all that is written below but I can say this dear saint of God had a real handle on the mystery we know as Christ.
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(note: I have inserted a few of my comments [in red]
and also highlights within this message below)
by Dora Van Assen
While we were living in the Mojave Desert of Arizona as missionaries to the American Indians I really came to the point where I hated dust. It could be so hot, 121 degrees in the shade. To make it even worse a dust storm would arrive, blowing the fine dust of the sand dunes through every crack and crevice of the old wood-framed house in which we lived. Under every window sill and door, through the screened porch, sweeping into every room. Then an electrical storm would pass through the sky bringing just enough rain to turn the dust into mud.
What a mess to clean up! And yet I loved our ministry among the Indians. As we grew to know them, we learned to love and respect them for their courage and ability to survive in such a desolate place. They taught us so many things we could not have learned any other way. One has to live with them in order to know them - beautiful saints of God. They learned to survive in a hot and barren land, and in surviving to love it, and I must say, looking back to that time in my life, I learned to love it too. Love grown through sacrifice.
To me in all my travels around the world, when the desert was in bloom, which I had the privilege to see, was the most beautiful sight I had ever seen in my life. It lasted only about a week but during this short period of time, thousands of people came to see it. Driving hundreds of miles to this hot, barren land knowing these flowers bloom only when it rains at the right season. A miracle! For miles the desert was turned into a carpet of many-colored flowers, so beautiful and delicate, some only about one half inch high covering the fine desert sand dunes.
What amazed us so much - these tiny seeds lay dormant in the hot dry dust for years, waiting for the the rain in the right season. We lived there seven years before it happened, and we never saw it again during the nineteen years we were among the Indians. I thank God for allowing us to see it!
It taught me that the incorruptible seed of the Christ can lay dormant in our earth dust-form for thousands of years and still spring up and bloom as a rose.
DUST IS BEAUTIFUL
About two years ago I read an article in the Reader's Digest called: "The Kingdom of Dust". In this article I began to see the important place dust has in our daily life. It made me see that even though we are clothed in dust, we are beautiful to God who sees us in our true colors. God sees all creation in Christ, or under the Blood as we say - meaning Christ died for all and He now lives in all and all live in Him.
Without the fine dust floating in the air we would not be able to see a sunbeam. A sunbeam is formed by the sunlight shining through a window pane on the fine dust floating in the room. What a delight it was as a child to run my fingers in this light causing a stream of dust to flow from each finger. Dust was not problem to me then. The unending chore of dusting and even scrubbing the dirt out of the cracks soon caused me to forget the joy of playing in the mud as a child.
In God's plan, dust plays an important role in the natural realm. It brings a lot of beauty for us to see in the world around us. Without dust we would not see the many shades of green grass and foliage, or multi-colored flowers. There would be no blue skies with fleecy white clouds. No haze over the mountains and valleys, making different shadows; and no breath-taking sunrise or sunset, which we so enjoyed in the hot Arizona desert.
This article made me cry! I could hardly believe what I was reading. The beauty so graciously given to us through dust so fine, it is invisible to the natural eye. Just think, God made us out of this "highest dust". Prov. 8:26. How wonderful to know that our dust bodies radiate the beauty of God's divine thoughts. "We are fearfully and wonderfully made and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth." Psa. 139:13-16
Dust also gives us many practical things. One of them is rain. To form clouds, rising vapor needs the dust suspended in the air around which it collects to form clouds full of rain; like a pearl is formed around a grain of sand in the oyster. Without the fine dust being moved by the air currents, the million tons of pollen would not be carried all over the US, pollinating the flowers and trees.
An average 43 tons of dust falls on us each year. Where does it all come from? We make tons of it ourselves. In our factories, in our daily work on the job and at home. Minute flakes are rubbed off this paper as I write. We gather about forty pounds a year in our home. Some dust is so fine it goes through the vacuum cleaner bag into the motor causing friction and we get that hot smell. Another place it comes from is the ocean. More salt is blown inland from the sea than the total mined by men - 300 million tons per year. All this carried by the wind.
Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth!" Each one of us scattered like salt to be the preserving power in the place where we are called! God knows the time and the boundaries of our habitation on the earth and the purpose we are to fulfill in His great plan of redemption of all men. Act. 17:26
DUST SEEMS TO BE ALIVE
Millions of dust mites so small that at least twelve could sit on the head of a pin, live in our beds and rugs. They consume the millions of invisible skin particles we shed from our bodies each day of our lives. Their waste creates the strongest allergies that plague humanity. Yet we need them for the yeast produced by these tiny spores; mites are the chemists of this Kingdom of Dust. Too much bacteria in our bodies is harmful, yet we need the right amount to keep this natural body alive. So dust mites actually keep the balance in nature. And man formed in dust has been given the dominion to keep this balance in God's Kingdom of Dust.
Another amazing thing about dust is its ability to travel all over the world. From the highest realms that telescopes have probed, scientists have seen dust floating in the air throughout space. The surface of the earth has been moved around from the beginning of time. The finest dust grains are airborne for centuries, the wind blowing it from place to place. As you are wiping the dust on your living room furniture, you may be picking up some dust from the moon! Or the ordinary dust in your back yard may have some specks from Halley's Comet that just passed through our hemisphere recently. Even Adam's dust is still here somewhere, nothing is annihilated!
What I am trying to convey is that all the dust from the beginning of time is still on this planet or universe somewhere. It is either in the ground or floating in the atmosphere. All the dust bodies of our ancestors from Adam to our day are still here in specks of dust somewhere. They may be mixed in the dust of our own living bodies right now. As one generation of natural man passes away, another one arises to take its place. Ecc. 1:4
"DUST THOU ART AND TO DUST SHALT THOU RETURN"
Just reading this statement as it stands alone, it seems a very hard sentence for such a small act of disobedience. It seems to make God hard and cruel. In my meditation on this text, and the context surrounding this verse, I began to see that this sentence of death was really for Adam's good! It gave him hope for a better life. God never cursed Adam! - only the ground from which his body was formed. Read Gen. 3:17. "Cursed is the ground for thy sake!" Adam himself was never destroyed. The Lord breathed into his nostrils or his earthen body formed out of dust, the Breath of Life. This vital principle of Life is the Spirit of God and can never die or be annihilated. It lives and moves in all creation, sustaining and controlling all things. The breath of God is the Spirit of God in all men - the candle of the lord, making up his Inner Man, the treasure hidden in an earthen vessel. That vessel will be swallowed up by The Treasure, metamorphosed into a glorious form of life.
God actually blessed Adam by giving him work to do as he developed from glory to glory. Work seems a curse to us, but just try to do absolutely nothing for a while. It will drive you crazy. God gives us this beautiful body with the ability to use our minds to create useful things, and delightful things, to see and smell and hear and taste and feel. He gave us a body to bring into manifestation the thoughts and ideas of our mind for all to see and enjoy. And what joy our children brings us. Who really cares about the pain and work they bring with them!! What delight we have seeing them grow - how proud we are of them. Don't you think God enjoys His children? I know He does. Acts 17:28, Rev. 4:11. God is happy in His creation of man in every stage of their development as they progress into His exact image. God sees Himself in man. "God manifested in flesh" 1 Tim. 3:16
FRAGMENTATION OF "SPIRIT THOUGHTS" INTO DUST
Eph. 1:1-4
We were chosen in Christ before the foundation (casting down or disruption) of the world. This took place between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. "In the beginnings God created the heaven and the earth". From the Ferrar Fenton translation. There is more than one beginning. The heavens were created first. This is the invisible spiritual realm - the ruling realm. There is a natural realm and there is also a spiritual realm, implying we cannot have one without the other. 1 Cor. 15:44 and Heb. 11:3.
The spiritual realm rules over the natural realm. But the natural realm is manifested or seen first. This is seen in the birth of a baby, it is seen first. But there would be no baby without the inner-spirit body. We need both to manifest life. 1 Cor. 15:46. Life is invisible. It existed long before it was made visible to the human eye. When God created the first heaven and earth, He simply spoke a Word, and it was done, complete and whole. Psa. 33:6-9. The Word is Christ, Anointed Spirit which is God. Christ is the Image and Form of God, yet invisible to human eyes. Col. 1:15 and Phil. 2:5. He is also the Angel of God's presence. Ex. 32:34. This is Christ in angelic form in order to be made visible to Moses. This Word-Christ was made flesh and dwelt among us. God manifested in flesh, AND FLESH IS DUST!
Thus we find there was a race of angelic (celestial) men long before our present heaven and Earth was created which lived between Gen. 1:1 and Gen. 1:2. "In the beginnings God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit moved upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit moved upon the face of the waters. And God said: Let there be light, and there was light."
I cannot conceive or imagine God speaking to inanimate things like land and water. I believe "face" of the "deep" and "face" of the "waters" speaks of the conscious or sub-conscious minds of intelligent beings able to hear and obey the Word of God. The Bible is allegorical, like the parables of Jesus, and cannot be taken only literally. We can only compare spiritual things with spiritual. 1 Cor. 2:13-14, Gal. 4:24.
THREE HEAVENS AND EARTH
2 Peter 3:5-7 and 13
In these verses, Peter speaks of three heavens and earth. "That by the word of God the heavens were of old".... the world that then was overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth that are now, by the same word are kept in store.....nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for a new heaven and earth. 2 Pet. 5:13
Peter is not referring to the flood, but to the chaos between the first two verses in Genesis. He tells us the first heavens and earth perished. Comparing this with Jeremiah 4:23-25, who also is speaking of this disaster, claims in verse 25, "I beheld, and Lo, there was no man." In Noah's flood there were eight souls saved in the ark. All had not perished. See Isa. 24:1. The world we have today is actually the second heavens and earth. But we are looking for New Heavens and Earth in which dwelleth righteousness - the Third Heaven and Earth.
Now going back to Genesis 1:2, God did not leave this heaven and earth in this chaotic condition. We read that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the deep. "Face" speaks of intelligence and "deep" speaks of the unconscious realm. God is speaking to beings able to respond. In Revelation "water" speaks of a multitude. God is always the first "Mover" in the restoration of His creation. "And God said, Let there be light - and there was light." Spirit speaking to spirit and Christ speaking to Christ.
I see this is an allegory describing our own awakening. Christ within is the first mover. He moves upon our unconscious mind, awakening our memory to who we once were in God. Christ awakens our inherent or pre-birth wisdom, lying dormant within us. Causing us to "come to ourself", as the prodigal son "came to himself". For he said, "I will arise and go to my Father." So we remember our Father. "By faith are ye saved, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." freely given to all men. This takes us back to the very beginning, before there was any thing - No-Thing - just the Spirit-thought or God's Idea.
Before time began we were just a thought in the mind of God. We were chosen in Christ or before the foundation (disruption or casting down-Gk) of the world. Eph. 1:4; when Christ was foreordained to be the Lamb of God, (1 Pet. 1:20). BEFORE TIME BEGAN, in the mind of God, Christ was chosen, though He was SLAIN FROM THE DISRUPTION. Rev. 13:8 I see a difference between the word, BEFORE AND FROM . He was chosen BEFORE the disruption when time began, and he was slain FROM the disruption or when TIME BEGAN, long before the literal cross on Golgotha's hill and our names were written in the book of life long before we knelt at a mourners bench. Rev. 17:8
[transcriber's comment: when spirit manifested into form, the slaying began....death began.....this is when the Word became flesh...this is when the Word became Dust.....and remains as the desert of dust until watered by the spirit to bloom and blossom. Remember how Genesis chapter one tells how "dry" land appeared and then in chapter two, man is formed from this dry land. This 'dry land' condition was the lowering of man. In the OT the spirit or the water came 'upon' man to empower him but in the NT the spirit or water comes up from the deep or from within returning us to the original order and making us a well watered land.]
(Jack's comment: I believe the comment above is right on and one to contemplate. Oh precious Arnion, who has suffered man from the very beginning.)
FATHER AND SON or THE LAMB COMPANY
Rev. 3:14
"These things saith the Amen, the faithful witness, the beginning of the creation of God." KJV
"The Prime Source of all God's creation." NEB
"The Primeval Source of God's creation." TLB
"GOD'S CREATIVE ORIGINAL." LCNT
These four translations are all speaking of the Word-Christ, the Anointing, spoken out of God as the first creative act. The Word-Christ or The True and Faithful Witness, is the beginning of the creation of God. Not only is the Word-Christ, the beginning of all things created, but He is also The Vital Primeval Life Source and Force through which all things were created and sustained. The Word-Christ is the original creative power God used to speak forth His own SON out of His bosom, conceived in thought, and now expressed and manifested in Image and Form. "Christ the image of the invisible God." Col. 1:15 "Who being in the form of God." Phil. 2:5, John 1:18.
"In a beginning was the Word, and Word was WITH God, and a God was the Word. This was in a beginning WITH the God. All through IT was done, and without IT was done not even one, that has been done." John 1:1-3 This is the word by word translation out of the Greek, Diaglott.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was TOWARD God; and the God was the word. This was in the beginning toward God. All came into being through IT, and apart from It not even one thing came into being which has come into being. In IT was life, and the life was the light of men." Literal Concordant New Testament.
"Before anything else existed, there was Christ with God. He has always been alive and is Himself God. He created everthing there is - nothing exists that He did not make. Eternal life is in Him, and this life gives light to all men." John 1:1-3 TLB
There is an explanation in the Living Bible concering Christ: "The Word, meaning Christ, is the wisdom and power of God and the first cause of all things; God's personal expression of Himself to men." This is in harmony with the translation given of Rev. 3: 14, Christ is the primeval Source or Power through with God created all things.
COLOSSIANS 1:15-20 - paraphrased
The spoken Word-Christ is the exact image and likeness of God. He existed before anything was created as he is the FIRSTBORN of every creature, and is also the FIRSTBORN of the dead, therefore He is the Head of both the Old and the New Creation. He is the original creative power through which God created all things; all authorities, rulers and kingdoms, visible and invisible. All came into existence through the Spoken Word-Christ, all was created in Him and through and for Him, and He is holding all things together. He is the Head or First Representative One of His people, called The Body of Christ. He has first place or preeminence in all things. All the fulness of God dwells in Him. ("God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself" 2 Cor. 5:20) "Making peace through the blood of His cross, in Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, in Him, I say, whether things in earth or in heaven." Col. 1:20)
This is a tremendous foundational scripture. All things natural and spiritual are created in and through and for Christ. This includes the dust out of which all things are made or formed. It is His invisible power and life force in all things which is holding all things together, in Himself. He is the center and circumference of all things. There is NO-thing outside of Christ. He is the first original representative man made visible through DUST. God's original creative or Firstborn of every creature, or living thing - giving life to all things. Christ is first in all things. A "thing" is spirit made visible through dust. Even His visible body is called "That Holy Thing" when formed in the womb of Mary.
The First Adam is called, "The Son of God." Matt. 1 and Luke 3:38. In Rev. 1:8 we read, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the almighty." Again we read, "I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star." Rev. 22:16
Meditating on these scriptures I began to hear a word in my spirit, that the First and Last Adam are One. God only has One Son - the Son of His Love, the Christ/Word/Seed spoken out of His own bosom. The First and Last Son of a family have the same parents, or come from the same seed. These questions arose in my heart, how can anyone be the last of something without being part of the first? The first and the last piece of cake must come from the same cake - not two different cakes. How can anyone be the end of something without also having a part in the beginning of it. One piece of string has both a beginning and end. First and last speak of a series of things in the same category. Like a series of apple trees or a series of human beings.
The questions continued. How could Jesus the Christ be our example without being in the fall of Adam? Or how could Adam be a figure of the One who was to come? Rom. 8:14...unless they were of the same seed? And how could He be tempted in all points as we are without belonging to Adam's race?
Praise God! He is the Son of Man! He called Himself the Son of Man over and over again, identifying Himself with the fallen Adamic race, not only as The Word-Christ made flesh in the body of Jesus, but reaching back to Eden when he was formed from the dust of the earth to become The Head of the old creation, "the firstborn of every creature". Col 1:15
To be our example, or representative man, Christ Jesus who is the The Last Adam, had to also be the First Adam. He actually needed to feel the pain and sorrow of humanity, living in a lowered, dying dust body returning to dust, seeing His own children born of His seed dying before His eyes. He needed to experience the frustration of being lowered into vanity (uselessness and futility) and realizing that during His 930 years He had produced nothing but death. Death was in His seed. Rom 8:20
Thank God! We read that God lowered all creation into death, in HOPE! God gave every man a hope or an expectation. When I was pregnant I did not hope to have a baby! I expected a baby! A seed had been planted within me! So I began to prepart myself for its arrival. Like a pregnant woman, the whole creation is waiting in EXPECTATION to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. They are waiting in expectation for the unveiling of the sons of God. Rom 8:19-23
Yes! We also who have the firsfruit of the Spirit as an earnest or guarantee our downpayment are groaning together with creation. God Himself is groaning, in groanings that cannot be uttered. The Spirit of intercession groaning in and through us! Rom. 8:26
GOD HIMSELF HAS A HOPE! An expectation in His creation - to be magnified in all the earth, "For to expectation were we saved". Rom. 8:24 God has faith in His Creation!! Creation is an extension of Himself. Jesus call Himself the "Finger" of God! He never pointed to Himself, but always enlarged and magnified His Father. So also creation is a manifestation of God's love and mercy; His wisdom and power in all the earth.
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(Jack comment: some years ago I had this same revelation. I only weakly uttered the thought of the Two Adam's being One to a couple people because I couldn't articulate my revelation inteligibly. It was still being formed.
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How often I have seen many a wonderful and respected teacher jump through a multitude of hoops to explain Jesus' conception. Some even saying Mary was but a surrogate and Jesus shared none of her DNA nor blood. This is to get around the "sin is in the flesh" issue. How often also in the midst of "sovereignty discussions" have I heard one ask, "if God is sovereign who is responsible for our acts of sin?" This of course gets back to God creating and utilizing evil; one of the toughest of all concepts for many to accept. All I can say is that God is God and perfect in all His ways. We are not, as we still soulishly dwell in our sinful flesh and are oft overcome by such. Only Jesus ever lived a sinless life and this, because He was obedient to the Spirit in all things ......... this is the same Spirit that suffered the soul of man from time beginning. Jesus suffered also his own soul and overcame it thus He is a worthy Priest. He suffered just as we do accept He suffered sinless.
"And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 1Tim 2:14" (allegorically "the woman" speaks to the "soul" here. This is a good verse to contemplate in light of that which we have been sharing)
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This which is shared here must be prayed about before one can see or embrace it. And if one doesn't see it by the Spirit it should be laid down for another time. If it be truth it will arise again to be tested. Lord knows, we have seen how the New Ager's and New Tollerance peeps have soulishly and pridefully run with this, to their own detriment and undoing. They have lowered Jesus where as I have demonstrated how deep was Christ's sufferings. Jesus is greater in this view bacause we see His scrifice of Himself from the foundation. His Spirit has suffered the soul from the begining. This is why the soul must die to itself and be resurrected in union with the Spirit.
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Only as we rest in the Spirit of Chrsit Jesus do find freedom from sin in both thought and deed. And only as we focus our heart's eye upon the beauty of Jesus, the perfect expresion of our Holy God, can we find rest for our souls. We see Jesus! Our hearts cry should be that we see Him more clearly with each day. For, only as "we see Jesus" are we changed from glory to glory. How great is His love toward us to ever suffer our souls and the souls of all men. And because Jesus suffers the souls of men we must also thus the scripture:
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 2Cor 5:16
We know the "seed of Christ is in every man" thus we look beyond the souls and flesh of our neighbors. Mix that with an understanding of God's sovereignty and we can even love our enemies knowing God works all in our lives for good.
Eby has a wonderful writing on the "Seed of Christ in Every Man" and it is an incredible and important writing if one cares to understand more fully the workings of the "spirit and soul" in man. We have the link to this writing listed in our blog sidebar. Here it is also:
http://www.kingdombiblestudies.org/seed.htm
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GOD IS "WORD" CREATION
When creation was yet an idea in the mind of God, it was spoken forth as The Word/Christ/Seed, deep in the Inner parts of Man before he was conceived in his mother's womb. This is the true light that awakens man to what is already written in his cells. Every man is awakened in his own order. Like a seed it will spring up from within. No matter how darkened his mind may be or how ignorant to the things of God, all men still have a sense or premonition of what he once was in God. "With the scent of Water (Spirit) it will sprout and grow again like a tree in the desert." Job 14
THE SUMMARY
In closing let us summarize a few thoughts.
1. In the beginnings God created the heavens and the earths...denoting more than one beginning.
2. Both the heaven and the earth were created by The Spoken Christ/Word/Seed. "He spoke and it was done; He commanded and it stood fast." Psa. 33:6,9
3. This was a dust creation - created in Christ Jesus. Even the invisible heavens contains fine dust. Col. 1:16-17, Prov. 8:26 which we cannot see with natural eyes.
4. This includes God's creaton of man in Gen. 1:27. "In the image of God created He him; male and female created he them." This first man was not really in the full image of God for Adam was only a "figure of He who was to come". The First spoken Christ/Word/Seed is the the one who is in the image of God. Col. 1:15, 2 Cor. 4:4
5. The True and Faithful Witness or the Spoken/Christ/Word is the begining of the creation of God. Rev. 3:14, God's Orginal Creative Word. Rev. 3:4
6. God said: "Let there be light and there was light." Gen. 1:3 compare John 1:1-4 and 1 John 1:1-3. All things were made by the Spoken/Christ/Word/Seed. Without IT was not anything made that was made; is made, or will be made! In IT is life and that life is the light of men (undertanding). This is the true "light" that awakens every man who comes into the world to his true identity in God.
7. God was in Christ, the anointing in the Word/Jesus when He died on the cross. In this way God Himself became our sin, and we became His righteousness. God made The Man Jesus the Christ, to be sin for us that we should be made Jesus the Christ who is the righteousness of God. Rom. 1:16-17, 2 Cor 5:21.
8. In his resurrection Jesus was made Lord and Christ. Acts 2:36. When he arose, we arose with Him back into the Spiritual Glory of the Father; which we had before the world was. Eph. 1:4, John 17:45.
9. WE are made One in the Name and Nature of God. God in Man. God is The Word clothed in flesh - "dust-form" - to manifest God or Emanuel - God with and in Man. He has only One Son!
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(Jack comment: I can only concur. Yes, there, was, is and will be, but "One Son." The first Adam through Christ's shared death and resurrection is become the last Adam. From God's perspective it is a done deal but experientialy we are walking it out, as "now we see not yet all things put under Him. But we see Jesus." (Heb 2:8,9).
But, praise be to God, "WE SEE JESUS!" )
10. We have the mind of Christ Jesus. Phil 2:5. "Let" means we already have it. Only we need to "let" it operate. God gave Christ to be head of all things to the church which is his body. Eph. 1:23 CHRIST is the creative Word for our Spirit Mind realm typified by our Head. The mind rules the body. But LORD is the creative Word for the body. He is Lord of the body. We are weak and sick and dying because we do not discern the Lord's Body, which is our body. We manifest Christ Jesus our Lord and glorify Him in our Body. 1 Cor. 6:20.
11. The Christ/Word is Spirit, the vital life principle in all created things - animate or inanimate. It is the (power) in all things created; even the highest or finest dust floating in the highest heavens; holding all things together. The hardest stone is solidified matter. When placed under terrific pressure solid matter turns into light. Christ is Light! "The entrance of His Word giveth Light". We are formed out of this living Light substance of Spirit-Dust. The aura around our bodies already radiates the presence of God's Spirit within us. It can never be destroyed or annihilated. Our body can only be changed from glory to glory into His very same image by the LORD, the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3:18. It shall be fashioned like unto His glorious body. Phil. 3:21.
12. The Man Christ Jesus is not left out of the Godhead, "I Am that I Am." When Stephen was being stoned for his witness before the council, we hear him say: "Behold, I see the heaven open, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God." He called upon God, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit, and kneeling down he creid with a loud voice, "Lord lay not this sin to their charge." Acts 7:55-60
Jesus died and rose again as Lord and Christ to live in you and me. In this way making sure that we become the beneficiaries of His Will and Testament. In other word, He became the executioner of His own will or the New Covenant. Heb. 9:16-17. Hear Paul: " The life I now live in the flesh (this dust body) I live by the faith of the Son of God who gave Himself (for and to) me." Gal. 2: 20
CLOUDS OF DUST
"The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of His feet." Nahum 1:3
We are the clouds of dust caught up in Christ Jesus; prepared and ready to rain upon the dust creation of God, so fulfilling God's promise to Abraham. God promised Abraham that he would have a seed numberless as the stars in heaven, (which are are made of dust) and more than the sand on the seashore, even as vast as the dust of the earth, inumerable.
"Of His own will begat He us with The Word of Truth, that we should be a Special Kind of Firstfruit of Himself Creatures." James 1:18 from the Diaglott.
Our dusty "feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of Peace", to be declared to all men. This the the message of total reconciliation of all creation back into the knowledge of God's unfailing love for all men everywhere. God is already conciliated unto mankind in His Son, Christ Jesus our Lord. And now God is pleading through us to the world, "Be ye conciliated to God!" 2 Cor. 5:20 This will bring Re-conciliation for it takes both sides to become friends to be re-conciled.
Praise God! We have a special calling of God to declare His gospel of peace, that is to awaken mankind to what God had already done for them, but lying dormant in their own heart or subconscious mind. That His covenant of peace and love is already written in their mind and heart. Ro. 2:14-16
God has never forsaken any man. It was Adam that hid from God out of fear, giving him a false image of God's true character of love, making Adam his own worst enemy. Our own carnal mind is an enemy of God. We all need to be awakened that we are now the Sons of God, growing into maturity, standing as His Ambassadors with the Word of Life and Truth unto all who have an ear to hear what God is saying today.
In His ministry Jesus said that He was the Finger of God. Luke 11:20. "If I by the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the Kingdom of God is come upon you." Jesus likened the finger of God unto the power of the Kingdom or the Spoken Word. Again He demonstrated this authority when the scibes and lawyers of His day challenged Him with the woman taken in the act of adultery saying that she should be stoned according to their law.
Without saying a word, Jesus stooped and with His finger wrote in the sand. When these men read what He had written, they were condemned in their own heart. Silently they left, one by one, leaving the woman standing there alone. Jesus asked her, "Where are thy accusers?" and she answers, "There are none!" and Jesus said, "Go and sin no more!" He delivered her by these very words of correction spoken in love! Jesus was giving these men (and also us today) a visible sign that He was the very One who had written God's Law on two tablets of stone. Ex. 31:18 These tablets represented the stony heart of the natural man. Yet in Eze. 11:9 and 36:26 we read that God would give us a new heart and a new spirit within us, taking away the stony heart, and give us a heart of flesh. This was done in His death and resurrection, when He was made Us and We were made Him! 2 Cor. 5:21
The law of God was written on stone by the disposition of angels. Acts. 7:53. Christ Jesus is the Angel of God's Covenant. Mal. 3:1
Disposition means: arrange, institute, ordain, order, give, appoint or instrumentality.
Christ/Word/Spirit is the mind and soul of God. Strong #1299
I now realize that The New Covenant is written on our heart and mind by Christ Jesus our Lord who is the Savior of the Body. Chirst Jesus the Living Spoken Word is the Finger of God manifested in flesh, the Kingdom of God manifested in the earth today, manifested through these fleshly bodies of DUST.
"Ye are our epistle written in our hearts known and read of all men."
"For as much as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart." 2 Cor. 3:2,3
The lives we touch in the spirit are the visible proof of our ministry, won for Christ through the living spoken Word out of our own mouth. We are a "Word" creation manifested in dust. Our relationship and fellowship is through the spoken Word out of our mouth today. In this way we visibly glorify God and each other, through these dust bodies. Let us thank God for the skin covering our Inner Spiritual Man, as we grow and mature into responsibility. Through experience we are learning how to glorify God in these dust bodies! 1 Cor. 6:20
I am finding out that anything God created or will create is beautiful!
AWAKE AND SING YE THAT DWELL IN THE DUST; THE DEW IS AS THE DEW UPON THE HERBS. Isa. 19:26
Yet a little while and I will shake all nations - the heavens and the earth, oceans and dry land. The desire of all nations shall come unto thee. I will fill thee with my glory! Thou are my Temple, the place where I dwell. Thy spendor far exceeds the glory of the former, which faded away, but thou remaineth unto all ages! Haggai 2:6-9
Peace I leave with thee!
In His Great Love for All,
Dora Van Assen
OUT OF THEE -THROUGH THEE - AND INTO THEE
Rom. 11:36 - Job 10:11
Out of Thee Father
My spirit was thrust,
To dwell in a body
Made out of dust;
Now being re-formed
Through God's own decree,
To sit on The Throne Seat
Reserved in Heaven for me!
You clothed me in skin
And with bones fenced me in,
With sinew and flesh
I'm still being confined;
Yet, you've broken the seal
That's covering my mind,
I know I am One
In your Nature Divine!
Prepare for re-entry
Asborbed in Thy Self,
A bright shining vessel
Displaying Thy wealth;
Re-clothed in Thy Image
I ever shall be,
Radiating Thy love
Till all men are free!
Dora Van Assen
7-13-92
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