kingdom of man (Life as a Gift – Focused)

August 21st, 2014

Why bring us out of the void? Why bother with us, at all? God has His Heaven, and the beings there are superior to us. I make that statement as by the strength of this message that is of the LORD.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

(Psalm 8:3-9)

But, wait; I see an interesting word: honour. This feels like it has a link to the realm of God, as being available to the kingdom of man. It seems that, God had a portion of His Heaven that overflowed. I wonder if there are any other things that are overflowing. Actually, I am sure that, there are other things that overflow. A certain conversation of one of us seems to indicate that; Heavenly overflow happens. It occurs as is reported, here.

 

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Collateral Damage and the Heart of God (Power Transplanted)

August 11th, 2014

The potential to send out branches from a rod has been identified. We need to have more clarity about the identity of a very special Branch. This is the Branch that was ordained, by God, to grow and branch out further; so as, to fill the earth with the glory of the presence of God, with us. To get us to that point, my mind has been called to this Scripture.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

(John 15:1-7)Please know that; that Scripture is full of stress, and a goodly measure of turmoil. The prophet Isaiah prophesied about that dynamic.

 

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Election to Serve – Delicately (Overview)

July 31st, 2014

Women have a special place in service industries–such as, restaurant service–because their souls were crafted to provide nutrition. When we say, provide nutrition, we are not speaking of obtaining food; for, that is the place that the LORD designated for the man.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. (Genesis 3:19)In large measure, the woman’s designated place is this: to take the sustenance that is brought to them, and to prepare it as a consumable, life enhancing addition to the kingdom of man. Please note that, the words, in large measure, allow for inclusion of certain men; such as, among the master chefs and military cooks, for instance. Yes, for the woman, this goes far beyond food stuffs. For the woman, she also spread her skills to this, the most publicly recognized place of service of the woman . . . which Adam declared, as follows, as he announced Eve . . .

 

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Collateral Damage and the Heart of God (Growing Branches)

July 21st, 2014

By the use of the buds of prophecy, the LORD was moving the world closer to perfection, in God. This was being done in the LORD’S spoiling of the competing principles of the world. The method that was in operation was, and still is, as is declared here.

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

(1 Corinthians 1:18-21)

On the other side of that disruption of mankind is this: the beneficence of the LORD. This beneficence is such that; in the battle to transform the world, many of our principles that compete with it will become collateral damage. Many of the impacts from the LORD will be unpleasant. To lessen the unpleasantness, we need to be ever mindful of the agency that is in the transformation. This is that agency.

 

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kingdom of man (Out of the Void – Extended)

July 10th, 2014

Back in time, when we started our adventure in extension from the void, we had to produce certain examples for the coming population of mankind. These examples could be either destructive or constructive. Fortunately for us, the destructive example was not given an enduring span; because, the LORD has no ordinance for repetitively destroying his Creation.

The LORD does have ordinances for repetitively–some may say, cyclically–constructing the layers of the kingdom of man. And, it seems just perfect that; the LORD uses human examples, to accomplish the construction, and, too, to remove us from the need of concentration only on ours. To pull us from that void, God set this human, Noah, as an ever enduring example in the history of the kingdom of man.

In Noah, as by the LORD, the kingdom of man was introduced to certain beneficial attributes of the constructive example type of entity. These attributes are the kind that we can emulate. One of those attributes is seen in the following Scripture.

And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

(Genesis 6:7-10)

Also–as encased in a marvelous mix of, integrity, and, emphasis on world consideration–the LORD gave Noah a family mind. This is not the same as, biological capability to produce sons; which, we saw, above. The family mind is superlative to biological capability; as, it is the means of preservation of the biology of the family. In Noah, we see that in action, here.

 

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Collateral Damage and the Heart of God (Restoring Growth)

June 30th, 2014

To begin the restoration of the reassignment of the prophetic weight of responsibility (as was in the bud of Israel into the world) would require the apportionment of a measure of collateral damage. There was a cancer in the world, which had to be removed by the LORD. The identification for the cancer is described in the following Scripture, along with the therapy that was prescribed to combat it.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

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(Ephesians 6:11-16 . . .)The constituent cells of the cancer were–each one–a human being. The more obviously malignant core cells are of this sort.

 

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kingdom of man (Out of the Void – Focused)

June 19th, 2014

Generally, we think about life as being a progression of events. Unfortunately, this places us in a two-dimensional, limited mindset. You need to add a third dimension to your pattern of thinking. To help you do that, we will walk through a three-dimensional exploration of the kingdom of man. The three dimensions that I want you to consider are these: span, duration, and persistence. Span is like unto a true line–the kind that has no actual depth to it. For instance, a line is seen in a phrase such as this . . .

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

(Genesis 1:3)

The words of the phrase, kingdom of man, form a line of reasoning–more needs to be added to it, before it will have an ascertainable shape as for the mind of man. The duration of the kingdom of man adds the depth of progression; as, in its events. Please hold these thoughts, for later. We need to return to the easier, more compact, visualization that is in light.

 

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Collateral Damage and the Heart of God (Severed Buds)

June 9th, 2014

The prophets seemed to be much like, buds as from the vine of service to the LORD God. These buds were under constant attack, as collateral damage of the willfulness of Israel, by name, and, mankind, in general. Much of the time, this was a result that came in the form of, what we refer to as; mob rule. A notable incident of that sort is the following affront, which was in response to the prophecy of Micaiah. The king of Israel started the confrontation.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?

And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner. Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him.And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?

And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.

Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.

(2 Chronicles 18:17-22)It might seem to be normal that, the prophets of reference, the ones with the accusation of having a lying spirit would be offended. However, it does not seem reasonable that they would use anything other than prophetic pronouncements as the way to refute the accusation. Then, the king could have compared the claims of authorization. But, these prophets were a mob, and, therefore, they moved in the mob mentality. So, this is what happened.

 

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Crashing with Adam (Smooth Sailing)

May 29th, 2014

As we move toward a summation of our crash with Adam, we cannot help but to be impressed by the presence of cooperation that God put in the world. Even as early as the time of the interaction with the serpent, cooperation was involved in our encounter with other beings. For instance; think about how this meeting would have gone in the modern day.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

(Genesis 3:1-5)

In the modern day, we would have anticipated the type of environment that was established later; in which, there was no possibility of cooperation . . .

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Collateral Damage and the Heart of God (Worldly Entanglement)

May 19th, 2014

The prophets seemed to be much like, buds as from the vine of service to the LORD God. These buds were under constant attack, as collateral damage of the willfulness of Israel, by name, and, mankind, in general. Much of the time, this was a result that came in the form of, what we refer to as; mob rule. A notable incident of that sort is the following affront, which was in response to the prophecy of Micaiah. The king of Israel started the confrontation.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?

And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner. Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him.And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith?

And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.

Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee.

 

(2 Chronicles 18:17-22)

It might seem to be normal that, the prophets of reference, the ones with the accusation of having a lying spirit would be offended. However, it does not seem reasonable that they would use anything other than prophetic pronouncements as the way to refute the accusation. Then, the king could have compared the claims of authorization. But, these prophets were a mob, and, therefore, they moved in the mob mentality. So, this is what happened.

 

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