Khamis, 1 Oktober 2015

The seemingly unceasing "day and night"...




The Spirit of Judgment

The Spirit of Yahweh was the Sovereign Divine King who executed Judgments on earth throughout the Old Covenant days; the Holy Spirit adjudged the inhabitants of the earth, under the ‘handiwork’ of YHVH. Whereas the Holy Spirit becomes the Spirit of Judgment throughout the Church's age as under the ‘name’ Prince of Peace or lyrically known as "day and night will never cease." 

As long as "the Sun is not darkened, and the Moon does not cease giving off her light, and the stars are harmoniously shining above in heavens," then the Holy Spirit would continue to be the Spirit of Judgment on earth. The sinning believers would be softly touched by the rod and staff of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8: 28-29), and yet the Spirit pronounces daily judgment upon those who reject the Word. David revealed through his song in Psalm 76: 8 that "from heaven You pronounced Judgment..." It means that the pronouncement of Judgment is from the heart of the Father for God Himself is the Judge (Psalm 50:6).

Knowing the secret of the pronouncement of Judgment means knowing the Heart of the Father. In truth, God displays His wrath every day on Earth. However, His wrath during the mediator-ship of the Lamb of God would be executed by the Holy Spirit: the Sevenfold fire of Judgment.  Christ mediatory role in heaven as according to the Order of Melchizedec is somehow restraining the "consuming holiness of God" from consuming "the thistles and briers" on earth. The main difference between divine Judgment during Church's age, and the post Second Coming Judgment of Christ period is that Divine Judgment during Church age is executed by the Holy Spirit on earth, whereas Judgment during post second coming of Christ is executed by the returned Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the angels as reapers; and the 'elect' would join the company.

The purposes of Judgment

The purposes of Divine Judgment are part of the Divine agenda for the ‘wounded’ men on earth. It would be his primordial divine nature because He is the Source of all life, and the power of life is holy. Any 'wounded’ man who lives on this earth would be subjected to that Holy Power of Life. Neither God has intention in wiping out nor consuming the sinning men on earth. He has no intention in choreographing the sufferings of mankind on earth whom he had created according to His image. He is the ultimate Holy Source of life. He is not the author of death because He is the Creator of Life, and yet he holds the key of death and the keys of the kingdom of death.

This Creation is sustained by His Holy Power, and therefore men need the Way, the Door and the Key granted by His unfailing love, so that they would be able to understand the key of eternity in His Holy Creation. And yet, men reject the fullness of life in the Spirit. Wounded men are inclined to the consciousness of the flesh. Unless we are granted with gift of the Spirit "the fear of the Lord," then we could be staggering in the mediocre zone of Christianity: "to be offended by the Lord" is one of the paintings of spiritual mediocrity. Wrong precepts could lead us into ungratefulness. Wrong precepts could cause us to abandon the journey of our faith. Or at best, we could be merely conforming the religion without joy in the Spirit. Divine Judgment dispenses Justice for all believers who have been ruled by the kingdoms of the ‘beasts,’ and granting them the ‘saving justice;’ He is the God of Justice, and all righteous men would receive justice from Him."

Moses acquainted us with the attributes of YHVH as in Exodus 34: 6-7, which says "the Lord, the Lord, the Compassionate, and Gracious God , slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousand, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet He does not leave the guilty unpunished;" All punishments descend down from His Holiness because sins are enemies against the Holiness of God.

Sins are enemies of the Consuming Fire of the Divine, and thus all sinners and sinning believers are actually opposing the the Holy source of Life. And yet, we crucified the Spirit, and we choose the flesh. Without 'the Way' who faithfully endows us "the garment of righteousness” (“pure in heart") then everybody would be consumed by that Consuming fire of God. Through the blessing of the Cross of Christ, He endows us the Way, the Door and the Key to be reconciled to His Holy Source of Life. Unbelief means we become the enemies of the Holy Source of Life on earth which means we choose separation from the Giver of Life.

God would only pronounce his judgment when evil things are in full measure on earth as in the Deluge. The ‘ripeness’ of sins on earth would mean invoking the wrath of the Consuming Holy Fire. The Source of all Life who destroys life itself such as in the Deluge presents the enigma in understanding His divine attributes. Both Judgment and unfailing love become the stupefying polarity of God especially for those immature Christians. King David who joyfully sang "His unfailing love" was surely knew the key in unlocking the seemingly contradicting attributes of the Divine. Inability to see the mystery of Creation would deprive us the ascending praises in our hearts; unresolved understanding concerning Judgment and Unfailing love of God would hinder the fullness of our faith.

The Scriptural presentation of God as the Creator of the Universe is not acceptable according to the secular paradigms. Such belief does not make any sense for those who are not called by the Father through Christ. Judgment and unfailing love of God could be easily understood when we believe in the Divine power who sustains life in this Universe.  Seeing the ‘holiness’ of the Source of Life, and the underlying power which constantly sustains this Universe would resolve that confusion. Due to that Holy Source of Life, then it would be normal for the Creator in exhorting mankind to "be holy for I am Holy" since His holiness is the consuming fire!

Knowing the underlying Spiritual Secret of the Universe i.e. the ‘holy’ Divine Power means we are endowed with the wisdom of knowing Christ's Word "apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15: 5). God says in Isaiah 45: 12 "It is I who made the earth, and created mankind upon it." He is not exerting His rights upon men, but it means we are living in His Creation sustained by the Holy power of God, and therefore we know that "apart from Christ, we are indeed nothing."

The phrase "slow to anger" means His endurance in bearing our burden or iniquities day and night. His endurance also expressed as "as long as the earth endures" or "day and night will never cease." The ripeness of sins on earth and the bloodshed upon the earth would lead His endurance to ‘anger,’ and thus ‘day and night’ would turn into "without daytime or nighttime" as in Zechariah 14: 6-7; Matthew 24: 29 and Revelation 6: 12-15.

So, the Deluge was not meant to display His divine rights, but it truly means that every sin committed on earth is against the Most Holy Source of all Life: Holy Power of God. Spiritually, there is no place for every sinning man on earth because the owner of this earth is God, and he is the One that endowing the Source of Life for every living thing on earth. We temporarily survive in the flesh due to His divine patience, or Moses wrote it ‘slow to anger.’ The ripeness of sins on earth invoked His divine wraths as in the days of Deluge. God spared Noah and his family in order to repopulate the earth, and, so that through the chosen lineage, someday "at an appointed time," He could then deliver the ‘Word’ became ‘Flesh’: the awaited Messiah.

In the Deluge, God saved mankind flesh together with the chosen species of the animal kingdom by embarking the ‘Ark.’ When YHVH closed the door of the Ark, every living creature outside the ark was literally wiped out except the fishes. So, the ‘Ark’ of Noah was meant to save the human ‘flesh’ out of Divine Wrath. But, the ‘Spiritual Ark’(the Church) of the New Covenant is meant to bring forth reconciliation for our spirits when it was born again by the Sevenfold Spirit, and that same Sevenfold Spirit would continously operating on those spirits of whose names written in the Book of life.

Therefore, Divine exhortation "Go, my people enter your own chamber" means to be the core message of the ‘two silver trumpets’ who calls every follower of the Way to embark the ‘Reconciliation’ by faithfully putting the ‘righteous garment;’ the garment that was cleansed seven times by the blood of the Lamb. The heart is the garment of the spirit. And we are unable to cleanse that garment, unless by believing the power of Christ Blood that cleanses our hearts seven times. Apart from the Cross, we are "not approved to enter His Presence" via our human-precepts-coverings. “Apart from Christ we can do nothing" concerning the business of holiness. Apart from the God's-made-garments for Adam and Eve, then their invented ‘sewn fig-leaves’ weren't approved to be the covering in entering His Most Holy Presence.  We must accept His cleansing power for our ‘arks’ (hearts) i.e. Lamb's Blood that purifies seven times which was foreshadowed by the ‘seven times sprinkling ritual’ on the day of atonement (see Leviticus 16). To accept means believing it 100 % and to believe it means continually confessing it.

Judgment is pronounced in the Court of Heaven.

David likened the pronouncement of Judgment, as if it is in the Court of Heaven because he used to prosiding the royal court of Israel. Divine Judgment is in the Father's Heart. The heavenly Court was in His heart. And we could hear His resonating ‘lyrics’ in His heart proclaiming His handiwork: Judgment. Those Lyrics are ‘Sun turned to darkness,’ "Moon does not gives its light," and "the stars are falling down," (Matthew 24: 29. Or "no heat, no cold or no frost." "without daytime and without nighttime." Those ‘skies’ or heavenly depictions in His ‘Lyrics’ proclaim His Judgment.

The pronouncement of ‘desert’ or the rhymed phrases "a time, times and half a time" means the beginning of the skies' proclamation of Divine Judgment mission "sun turned to darkness, moon does not gives its lights and the stars above are falling down." After that pronouncement, the Mediator, the Lamb of God, would leave his mediatory seat on the right hand of the Father, and he would descend on earth delegated with new mission as the Lion of Judah who has "seven eyes, seven horns and seven spirits." Seven eyes means divine perfection as the Judge who judges in equity. Seven horns means His perfect power in executing Judgment. And seven spirits means seven fold divine woes as in seven Seals, seven Trumpets and seven bowls executed as to fulfill the ‘fire’ that comes out from the ‘mouths’ of God. That Sevenfold spirit of Judgment also would carry out the "a time, times and half a time" into completion. It is translated " 7 years, 49 years and 3.5 years" according to the inspired interpretation seen through the lenses of the Spirit of the Laws and as according to the spiritual Hebraic lunar calendar.

Prophet Daniel wrote “some of the wise (believers) will stumble, so that they may be refined, purified and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will come at the appointed time." Some of the be believers as they are ushered into " a time, times and half a time" would be 'adjudged’ or given ‘saving justice.’ They are purified seven times by the descended Word: the Sevenfold Spirits. The messages of the seven angels of the seven churches in Asia minor would be resonating throughout the church's age, and they continue to resonate even during the rhymed "a time, times, half a time" or ‘ desert.’ The Judge during the judgment period would be no longer subjected to the Peace Covenant, but His Heart remains immutable.

His unfailing love would be remaining the same in His heart. There in the ‘desert,’ every professing follower of the Way would be tested as if "standing on the Holy Ground" either consumed by the Consuming Presence of God or "aflame and yet not consumed." Those who triumph over those ‘trials’ would emerge as purified seven times by the seven spirits of Christ. Those who become ‘elect’ are warring against the beasts on earth, but the 'minor' believers would be protected by the harvesters (angels). However, they are unable to join the spiritual armies of Christ. The tongues of the 'elect' would be ‘fire,’ and the ‘tares’ would become the wood of it. Since ‘sin’ is ‘fuel’ that catches Fire from the holy harvesters, thus we would see blood, fire, and billowing of smoke on earth throughout the appointed time "a time, times, and half time" or simply called a ‘desert.’