Matthew Ch 26 v53
Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?
But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?
Jesus is not speaking in an illustration here, in that his statement is clearly a demonstration of his knowledge of his Father. And as we know that Jesus is truth, we know that when he refers, as he does here, to a possible course of action, that it is in fact a revealing of truth.
he will at once send me more than twelve legions of Angels!
Not with a delay of a week or a day or even an hour – but at once.
What a closeness Jesus has with his Father.
Jesus knew that if he appealed to his Father, he would have done this.
This has a dimension of mystery, in that during his prayer time in Gethsemane, he had surrendered his will unto his Fathers.
Mystery in that still he could have made this appeal and his Father would have answered it – immediately.
This makes us consider the uniqueness of the relationship between the Father and the Son and the process together in which they chose/willed together to redeem mankind.
The Son had yielded as a man to his Fathers will, and yet had he willed his Father to send angelic help in that moment it would have been done.
Jesus maintained autonomy to make such a request, else he would not have made this statement. This reveals the depths of spirituality, getting right down deep to the core principles.
Autonomy may not be the correct word to use, but on these areas we are at the limits of my vocabulary and understanding.
This reveals the depths of spirituality, getting right down deep to the core principles. Jesus lived in such harmony with his Father, that despite having autonomy as the Son he perpetually and seamlessly lived to glorify his Father.
Love has to be the essence of the Godhead. Unity is not truly possibly without love.
Jesus loves his Father and the Father loves his Son. Love gives freedom of choice, and as Jesus had never broken any law of his own being, his autonomy of choice had no guilt, no debt at work within him. This gets down to the root of why the laws of God cannot justify or redeem in and of themselves sinful man, as the nature of man being fallen is not motivated by love to keep the law, unless it is mixed with faith.
Now faith is, faith is the substance of things hoped for. Hebrews Ch 11 all of it.
Now faith is belief in the integrity and nature of God and it is therefore a bridge into the redemption of mankind through the Word of God: Jesus.
Now faith, faith is a now word, faith is an at once word, and the writer to the Hebrews uses his wisdom and understanding to start his reference to mankind with an example of obedience by a Son to his Fathers and Mothers instructions.
This example is Abel, who offered a lamb as a sacrifice, following the pattern by which the Lord God had clothed them both with again.
Abel believed that this pattern demonstrated Gods love unto a fallen creation.
Faith is the assurance of being clothed again by God, Revelation Ch 19 v8 & Ch 22 v14
By faith the people of old received their commendation.
Living to please God, to glorify God is the purpose God the Father purposed in the creation and specifically ‘In’ relation to his image and being an image of God, it is therefore a substance of things hoped for, as God himself alone can bridge that divide.
This is the created order, In the beginning God created.
This is the sanity and structure for individuals, family and society: In God we trust.
Gods spoken word must not return void it is the light of eternal truth.
It is the life of Jesus Christ, this is the inheritance of the assurance of faith, it is the clothing by which we are to put on.
Abel died, yet due to faith, he speaks still. Abel pleased God. Abels life offering pleased God. Abel obtained through faith the same testimony that the Father heralded when his Son was baptised in the river Jordan.
Enoch did not see death, but through faith he had the same testimony that he pleased God. Enoch’s life offering pleased God.
Noah through faith saved his whole household, and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. Noah was warned of events as yet unseen. This third example is prophetic of the days in which Jesus Christ will return to this earth.
Faith necessitates belief that God will fulfill his Word of promise & that is why Jesus being a scholar of the Word of God, apt at twelve years old to ask questions and give answers that they could not see, but he being the Passover lamb, understood that it was not the law of God that parted the Red Sea, but it was the obedience of faith that believed the promises of God are Yeah & Amen.
Mary & Joseph his earthly parents accused him of sin! Akin to the high priest and the scribes and elders. They accused him of not having honored them, but when it concerns the temple, when it concerns the Worship of God, of his Father, he is the Word made flesh, he is the visible assurance of faith, hope and love.
‘Do you not know, that I must be in harmony and union with my heavenly Fathers love’, and that being twelve it is my baptism into the autonomy of my life as the Son who has come to answer my Fathers heart cry: A spotless and pure lamb to clothe mankind again – the legions of Angels proclaimed that this indeed was the sign, a babe wrapped in levitical swaddling clothes to keep the lambs perfect for the sin offering.
The Fathers heart cry! Reciprocal tariffs! Well thank God we can set are minds on heavenly things…when Jesus cried ‘Lazarus come forth’ he knew his Father was going to answer his prayer, his prayer that they would see the victory in his sacrifice of love.
Jesus’s prayer was answered and he knew it was an answer to his prayer unto his Father, but his prayer to his Father was the same cry within the heart of his Father.
The resurrection, is the Fathers cry for all the sons and daughters of men. Not eternal damnation. Love, has no desire that souls go into the eternal abyss, but love does not shy away from the truth of the autonomy of choice for fallen men and women! Where do you choose to spend eternity, your faith in the nature of God and your response to faith will determine that.
The resurrection of Lazarus concerned the spiritual principle of love and the autonomy of love within the obedience of faith. It was not by change that a household that had welcomed Jesus and his love into their home, to be a sweet harmonious assurance that Gods Word shall be fulfilled, that this man was raised to new life from the dead. Paul states that people who do not love Jesus, should be accursed! Strong words, but it is stated in correct context and in the context that those outside the ark, where all consumed by the flood that had come to cleanse the earth of violence and hatred.
Love always wins! Love will not coexist with darkness and evil throughout eternity.
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son.
He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead.
Abraham obeyed the speaking voice of God and took his Son as an offering to the very place God instructed, and their upon that mountain, upon that alter, Abraham was shown the outworking of fearing God – akin to Noah and the thief on the Cross.
Fearing God is the knowledge that God is willing to forgive sins, Fearing God is believing that this life on earth is temporal but eternity lasts forever. Fearing God, is the honest confession of the fall and its deep truth that only Gods love can bring mankind back into harmony with the purpose for which man was made: To glorify and please God.
Being clothed again, is faith in the finished work of God. Being clothed again is a believers standing IN Christ and his righteousness alone.
Liberty and freedom can only come through Jesus Christ, as he alone is the balance not of right or left but the uncorrupted heavenly man who stooped down into this accursed world of sin and fear!!!
Love conquers fear, as love always wins: Today you will be with me in paradise, what a contrast to Satan, who will not direct men and women to the bleeding sacrifice for their sins.
Abel still speaks despite having died.
Enoch did not see death
Noah saved his whole household from death.
And Abraham received his son as from the dead.
After Genesis Ch 22, Abraham understood that Gods Word would become flesh and would not return void. He understood that the unseen would become visible and that God would raise his own beloved Son promised from before the foundations of the World from among the dead. Preaching is the speaking that raises the dead.
And that is why the bride follows that mountain. And that is why Isaac was able to invoke by faith future blessings on his children. This is the well deeper than Jacobs, as worship of the Father cannot be by deception but necessitates truth, 5 husbands and the one now with is not your husband. The friend of the bridegroom testifies that the Father gives the Spirit to the Son without measure – a river that goes beyond shoulder deep, a bottomless ocean. Living water, that bears fruit in every month of the year. She desired to be loved and not to have the wrath of God abiding on her, and so she was liberated and set free into autonomous spontaneity, leaving her water pot and sharing Gods love with others.
Matthew Ch 26 v54 & 56 the fulfillment of scripture – the freewill offering of the beloved Son.
More than twelve legions of angels.
Joshua Ch 4 v5 ‘Pass on before the ark of the Lord God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel’.
A memorial forever.
That you may fear the Lord your God forever.
The generation that had not passed through the Red Sea. And then the next generation is circumcised.
The Church, the bride, are to be this new generation – redeemed by faith in his testimony – who pleased God at all times, at 12 years old at 30 years old and when he was offered at 33 years old.
The waters where stopped at Adam. Jesus Christ is a new generation, the autonomy of love can become the harmony of are obedience to him.
The law and the prophets are higher up than Adam – higher up than before he failed under temptation – they are the nature of God – interwoven, inseparable from his character. But the law and Gods fulfillment of it must be channeled only through the beloved Son, as He is the invisible image of God made manifest. Are bodies are not yet redeemed and so we groan for the adoption with the creation for the fullness of time.
Rahab is saved through faith. Rahab and akin to Noah, all her household were saved.
Rahab was obedient to the covenant promises of God, she was not disobedient when faith came knocking on her door! No rather she welcomed them in. And she became a part of the direct lineage of Jesus Christ, a great great grandmother of King David.
She became a part of the bride. She was clothed again. Not with Babylonian garments, but by the covering of the lamb -the passover lamb, the staff of the good shepherd that had parted the Red Sea.
She was circumcised by faith, as she believed the nature of God. Rahab had heard the laws of God written on two tablets of stone, and she understood that 5 and a casual one did not amount to a deep well her heart and soul longed to drink from.
She did not perish with those who were disobedient!!! Disobedient to what might we ask? To the fulfillment of Gods Word, which are the Holy Scriptures. Seeing Houthi’s killed gives me no pleasure, and the cry for them is the light and love of the gospel. But the spirit they have embraced is anti Christ, it is deception that man can stop God fulfilling his promises in the scripture. Yes disobedience impaired the conquest of the entire land promised, but in prophecy their is a millennium kingdom still to come and also great sorrow for the people of the book.
Disobedient to what? They opposed Gods Word, they opposed the ark of God! They opposed the angelic host and the commander of its Host – Which is Jesus, more then twelve legions he would have been sent.
The answer for the Middle East, is simple if the truth be told, love the Jews. Why should the Jews not be loved, why should they not be in the land that is clearly their ancestral land, and why should they not have a nation to call their own when they have been persecuted in other nations, and forced out and banned from other Middle East countries.
Rahab was obedient as she also feared God, she knew that this was the living God, who could order heaven and earth, and who didn’t need stones to cast at idols to walk around, but rather his Spirit brings liberty and not oppression behind a veil.
1 Corinthians Ch 15 The Resurrection of Christ.
Verse three, the gospel in a nutshell: For I delivered to you of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
The he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
What should be noted here is that Paul and the early Church’s fellowshipped on the centrality of this truth and they loved his appearing. The early Church did not get tired of fellowshipping on the central truth of all their gospel liberty. Raised to live in hope and purity again, raised to love the Houthi’s and the Japanese and Eskimos. And has not the gospel gone into all those people groups – the language of love is the truth told concerning Jesus’s death and resurrection. Did not Thomas takes its truth through Persia and into India – I doubt it not: The bride of Christ is from ever nation and people who obey the word of faith: For God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Repetition: Scripture is fulfilled in Jesus. The blessings to Father Abraham by faith.
Repetition – Paul does not mention the Marys who where first to meet his. Paul knew very well their testimony, Paul sought out immediately to drink living water from those who also loved his appearing.
Paul does not mention them for reasons beyond my current understanding. But we see Repetition here, we see divine order that all scripture is inspired.
Cephas, the Aramaic name for Peter, the revelation the deep deep blessings of the Father opening his eyes to fellowship with his Son. Jesus fellowshipped with Peter in that Q&A as Peter answered the main and central reason he had come. Not who do the crowd say that I am, or the mediaties (media) but who do you say that I am: You are the bridgroom, you are not the friend of one to come, but your love is the attraction that we desire to have harmony/unity with. You are the love from God that we need to stop the blame game from Adam – only an encounter with you can we know a higher stream. Their is a higher stream than the World Wide Web, and it cry’s Holy, Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty – who was and is and is to come.
Peter was then immediately afterwards rebuked for attempting to cajole Jesus out of going to the Cross, and this lack of respect and understanding of the way of faith that pleased God, lead to Peter being shifted as wheat, but thank God Jesus had named him Cephas, as the place God had lead his great, great, great and perhaps about 41 greats too was a rock, a rock upon which Gods Will provided the perfect spotless sacrifice from within his own Godhead: His only begotten Son.
The law and prophecy only live again in Jesus. And so we know the Jesus will return to the mount of Olives & we know that they shall look upon him whom they pierced.
12 – this 12 is the apostles – despite the text not saying it.
Then 500. In some manner I view this has associated with the five wounds received at calvary. The Number of grace by a factor of 100 – the age of Abraham when Isaac was born. The fulfillment of the promise to Abraham, that from himself he would have a Son – the invisible image of God was being manifested to this man who was obedient to Gods speaking.
Then he appeared to James – the half brother of Jesus, who in the gospels had doubted that he was the bridegroom – that he was the Messiah and the fulfillment of all scripture. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.
Two major failures in the way of faith. Two men blind to the ways of Gods Spirit as opposed to the slashing sword and brute force of good willed flesh and blood to be loyal to the cause. Be it unto me according to thy Word had birthed redemption into a well deeper than Jacob could reach.
Then all the 12 apostles again – dear Mathias I’m sure due to the inspiration of scripture none will say in the age to come to question his inclusion. Can you imagine being with the 500 and Cephas who understood that scripture must be fulfilled, and asking Matthias why are you one of the foundation stones of the new!
The Jordan – passing through the Jordan – acknowledging like Peter that I am a sinful man, hearing the voice of the friend of the bridegroom and following the lamb, and being able to testify to all that he taught and did, and that he died and rose again – the scriptures had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David.
Is not the Jordan a memorial to the way of faith, is it not reality that we are indeed sinners in need of saving by grace. Is not confession of sins and repentance and faith towards the living God is this not the truth to be told to every nation and family of the earth, publicans, prostitutes and corrupt public servants included too.
And Paul correctly, knowing his Spiritual life was birthed out of the love from his fellow Jew whoes faith pleased God, whose obedient proclamation told the truth and still speaks: Forgive them.
Paul understood that he was only an extension of that which God was at work doing – Paul who had been blind to John Ch 3 v16 had opposed its truth from spreading outwards. Paul knew that it was all the finished work of the Word made flesh, it had become living to him through Stephens cry – a sharp edge that pricked his conscious – I do not believe he witnessed the Cross of Jesus.
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared to me.
Untimely born, does that have an element in it of not having seen Jesus in the flesh before his death.
James followed on from Peter in Jerusalem. But the mystery of the revelation revealed to Paul, was the two becoming one, of Christ in you the hope of glory, a spotless and perfect advocate before the God of Covenant appearing on are behalf.
Peter, then the half brother of the Lord and then lastly Paul.
12-7-12
More than twelve legions of Angels!
Paul was certainly more than all the other apostles due to the grace of God that had opened his eyes to the nature of God that cry’s out on the Cross: Let not my suffering be in vain – Today harden not your hearts, but enter into harmony with the Father through the sacrifice of his Son. It is Finished the liberty that sets the chains from Adam free from captivity.
John Ch 3 v16.
6 appearings.
3 personal. 3 corporate.
– NB. Every aware that this post comes from others sanctification and commission, and the wonders that can follow through obedience to the way of Gods Spirit.
At are morning missionary prayer meeting today, the senior elder prayed for a situation external to are Church that needed Gods unity and he prayed and quoted from Johns gospel Ch 17 and Jesus’s prayer for oneness for his people.
After he prayed my thoughts went to Joseph and how he was 17 years old when he first appears on the pages of scripture as an adult. And how around this time a coat, a garment of physical matter, was placed on him.
And how that he was reconciled to his Father for 17 years. Gods Alpha & Omega over the Father & Sons love.
Now I know that Chapters are not under divine inspiration, but I have been blessed with a lateral mind, and so Ch 17 of Johns gospel was the hinge of this for me.
All color requires light.
And the garment Joseph had been given by his fathers love was one of physical matter, the seen & tangible.
Unity John Ch17: The Word made flesh, reconciling fallen men and women to the Father. One in and through the Son.
Water & light Gen Ch 1v3
THE WORD OF GOD NOT RETURNING VOID – NEEDED WATER REPENTANCE
The goodness of God leads men to repentance.
JESUS is the light that went into water baptism – that is the Covenant keeping God fulfilling all the laws righteousness on are behalf – Baptised into the penalty of sin, death on are behalf – Behold, Behold the Lamb (The mantle, the clothing of Fathers best robe of righteousness).
So…all colour in material word requires light, But the unseen is made visible in Baptism!
When the Word made flesh the light of the world was baptized in water.
Hebrews Ch 11
Water is a liquid not a solid and I am linking it with the unseen.
And so we see the unseen when Jesus is baptized – The covenant promises of God to be seen, require water and light. Repentance and then a new life.
So light in the material world, Jacob placing a physical solid garment of many colors on his beloved Son Joseph.
But the tears of Joseph, the water, brought the repentance and then reconciliation between brethren and the family. And confession of their sin/sins.
The tears brought the revelation of the covenant keeping almighty Great I Am – to the whole family – who had foretold those days to Josephs great grandfather.
Jesus wept tears in the garden of Gethsemane, John Ch 17
Hebrews Ch 11 v1-3
The truth be told – The confession of the fall is a knowledge out of reach to no man. Time itself ascribes to the universal truth that touched the heart of empire.
Confession of sin brings the revelation of the Covenant keeping truth of ALMIGHTY GOD: Son of David have Mercy on me – light brings sight. He is the light of life.
Confession of sin brings the revealtion of God the Father: Every good thing comes down from the father of lights.
Confession of sin brings the revealtion of God – By it the men of Old gained approval: After being baptized, Jesus came up ‘immediately’ from the water; and behold the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on him. And behold a voice out of the heavens said, ‘This is My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased’ –
Old and new treasure. This is the bank of the scribe of far more worth than Gold reserves. Noah elderly his whole family into an ark – The old world in type saved through his faith. Moses a new born baby placed into a ark of bulrushes. And in between a man and a women past child bearing age, given a new birth by the covenant promises of God.
– How will the scriptures be fulfilled, if the lamb is not slain, who offered himself freely before the foundations and visible tangible creation.
To me it was a clear moving of Gods Spirit in my thoughts, inspired by are senior elders prayer. So I asked at the near closing to share the reflections as it also had a point, that the oneness Jesus prayed for, necessitates repentance and confession of sin.
Well as it was a missionary prayer meeting he thought it best to stay on prayer.
It had a little of a cork effect, until I remembered that this is according to divine repetition and the Word of prophesy Sept 2012, and this made me laugh and smile releasing the cork of Gods liberty.
Yesterday was a very blessed day in the many small details.
A lady in Church shared about Lazarus and his old smelly garments being left behind. She said do we have ears to hear this, that God has put are sins and mess behind us, and that we have new garments.
After Church a chap across the street was chatting to me, as he was following up on having told me his Father had died recently. Well, he had bought three new suits with some life insurance policy inherited from his Father, and had taken a few days of work, as his dad had always wanted him to treat himself with it. Plus his dad wore pin stripped suits and so he was also honoring his memory in that respect. It synced with me concerning what God has done for us through the resurrection: For this my son was dead and is alive again – John Ch 3 v16.
Then I got into a chat with another neighbor I’d never met before and got to telling him about my Mums visit to North Korea and how God answered prayer in that her group did not have to go bow to the statue of a man. And then onto Berlin and the Pergamun museum and King Nebuchadnezzar and the three Hebrew children thrown into the fire.
While walking home through the park, I saw an older man who I knew as a brother in the Lord, and he had been to a Church that morning the Word being on Ezekiel Ch 38 and can these dry bones live? When we parted he stated that he was surprised that I recognized him given time that had passed, but he has a light within that shows on his face, he has encountered the Christ and so I told him that especially as he is getting on a wee bit that the answer to Ezekiel Ch 38 is an affirmative Yes. Well seconds after continuing my walk home the song started from the City of my formative years.
eternalrays 