Archive for July, 2011

Kingdoms of Man: Part Twenty (Majesty)

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

I am about to immerse some of you in a cruel mind game. Imagine that the earth and the current world on the earth are both here to stay. Imagine that it is our responsibility to whip the kingdom of man into shape, by purifying the kingdoms of man. Well, unfortunately for many minds (mine included), it is not just a cruel mind game; it is reality. Let us follow a path of Scripture that will get us all to a point of acceptance. First, consider these words of the apostle Paul.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. (Hebrews 1:1-4) Also, consider these words of the disciple John. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. (1 John 2:18-19) Finally, for now; consider these words of God’s angel, Jesus Christ, delivered unto his servant John….

– Explore the Kingdoms of Man: Part Twenty –

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Let Us Make Man: Part Six (Out of the Void)

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

In order to take control of an army, one needs to establish marching orders. The gathering of people into the collection that forms the church of Christ is no different from an army; in fact, they are referred to as being in an army: this is not a new concept for a New Age. This is the same concept that the LORD taught us in the birth of the nation of Israel. Israel was not born to proselytize the world; Israel was born to teach us how to properly fight the spiritual war that the world forces us to enter and wage.

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

  Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls; From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

(Numbers 1:1-3)

To stress the point that Israel was to be ready to promote the way of the Spirit, by the exercise of physical force; the LORD placed them in an environment that gave them no choice but to do so.

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

  And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

(Judges 3:1-4)

The nation of Israel is an excellent example, and image, of the necessity for full commitment of our total life to the LORD; however, the election of the congregation of Israel as a peculiar treasure of the LORD was only the first step in commitment. Beyond the gathering of Treasure, the instillation of the law of Moses was the next step in the Making of Man into the spiritual powerhouse that we need to be. By this Law of God, the LORD presented the need to start fighting spiritual battles, as being both precedent, and superlative, to physical ones. The stakes are very high in this endeavor.

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– Moving Toward Understanding Us: Part Six –

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Kingdoms of Man: Part Nineteen (Transference)

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

NOTE

: The following is laden with broad portions

of direct Bible references,

in a

light kind of way.

The end of the world of the ascendancy of the nation of Israel was accomplished as Moses said that it would be.

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.    I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.     I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this. For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. ..(Deuteronomy 32:15-28) Specifically, the end of that world was accomplished as the LORD inspired the Levites to declare to the congregation of Israel. This declaration, too, was delivered to the congregation of Israel, even before the congregation became a fixed nation, in the culture of that day….

– Explore the Kingdoms of Man: Part Nineteen –

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