Jumaat, 29 September 2017

The destiny of the ‘seeds’ entrapped within each one of us...



The prophecy about the ‘seeds’ within a man



“26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” 27 So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” 29 God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day." (Genesis 1: 26 – 31) [a]

Be Holy

"Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” 17 Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. 18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.  20 He was chosen before the Creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.  21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God. 22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth, so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.  23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring the Word of God. 24 For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25but the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you. " (1 Peter 1: 13-25). [b]



What is the spiritual meaning of  the words "...Father who judges each person’s work ..."?

    What is the phrasal meaning of "...each person's work”?  There are two distinguishable interpretations concerning the word "deed" or "work”: the earthly deeds and spiritual deeds. Earthly intellectual deeds are not necessarily for our survival per se, but God said “...the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth.”  St. Peter’s words "each person's work," therefore, referring to the born-again believers' responses unto their Creator's "Deep calls deep”: faith (Hebrew 11: 1). The word "work' in verse 17 is referring to our spiritual works based upon the imperishable Seed (the Word of God) which demands faith. God's design for man was originally a spiritual man; a man who lived by faith.  Adam's centre of consciousness was dominantly on his spirit, before he was "wounded" by his transgression against the Source of life.

    Therefore, the phrase "a man's works" in St. Peter's Epistle in 1 Peter 1: 17 refers to the divine-ordained 'spiritual' duties.  Of course, the 'perishable being' (flesh) is weak and constantly marring the 'gist en' [it consists in, it lies in] [c] of the 'imperishable being' within; the weakened predisposition of the mortal being is always soiling the 'wounded' spiritual being of every man.  The subtle and intricate relationships between the flesh, the soul and the spirit are constantly soiling even the born again spirits. We are not only inheriting the ‘weakened seeds’ of 'flesh,' but also partaking the fate of darkened-spirits (cut off from the Source of light). The 'fall of man' explains why our consciousness is gravitated towards the intellectual capacities and nervous activities, though our spirits are obviously capable of occult practices... Nevertheless, the flesh-centred awareness of a man appeals dominantly to our five senses. Therefore, we are easily enslaved into fulfilling the desires of the 'flesh,' which also means ceaseless ‘wounding.’

    As we keep on wounding ourselves every day, the ‘wounds’ have kept on ‘cutting off’  the sensitivity of our ‘wicks of our spirits from 'entering' into the 'presence of the Imperishable Seed' (the Light  of God). The phrase "...each person's work" simply refers to the messages of the prophetic prayer in "Our Father" taught by Yeshua unto all believers. Praying 'Our Father' is the trait or lifestyle for every doer of The Word of God. The redeemed children of God were prophesied to call upon God as their eternal Holy Father. Every line in that prophetic prayer reveals the very core of daily 'worship' among the born-again believers, as if it becomes their 'lifestyles.' It points to the 'spiritual works' of a spiritual man as the citizen of the Kingdom: the citizens are the doers of the Word of God.

     The prophetic meanings of the unfolding of the words of God in that prayer reveal the very 'seeds' which would germinate into the 'imperishable' being of each believer.  The unfolding of the words in every line of the prayer of "Our Father" points to the main principles of spiritual life, so that they may grow as the fruitful citizens of the Kingdom of God. Every born again child sees that Heaven is God's 'seat' of His Sovereignty, heaven is likened to be the Father's headquarters in fulfilling his revealed wills: the Word of God or Christ. When the 'Seed' comes down on earth, then we shall see the fulfilment of the words of God: "...Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." If only we have that 'seed' in doing every work of God even "as small as a mustard seed," then our spiritual works shall be completed.

    The earth was predestined to be the place for the 'spiritual' man, and God commanded them "to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it." Such divine command remained the same though the first man, formerly a spiritual man, had chosen to be independent from God's will. Since then, those who do not embrace the "seeds," as revealed in the prophetic prayer of Our Father, would unknowingly trying to subdue the earth by harnessing the lesser precepts based on the corruptible 'seeds': intellectual capacities and nervous activities." 'Be fruitful' refers to Divine will for every spiritual man. It does not to be literally interpreted as "productive procreation."[1] Procreation is merely related to the perishable seeds. God is rather concerned about "spiritual fruitfulness."[2] Prophet Isaiah revealed the Word of God: "the fruit of righteousness is peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever." (Isaiah 32: 17).

    God’s will for every spiritual man is to multiply, if he chooses to be fruitful. When ones are fruitful, then there would be many 'seeds.' We need more seeds when we want great multiplications. Continuous multiplication is easy when it is fruitful. The Kingdom of God is likened to be the work of the yeast in rice-wine-making. Each bacteria of the yeast is producing the same product: alcohol.  Eventually they would succeed in subduing the whole lump of carbohydrates. They follow the "principles" of "to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it."[3] Our spiritual works must embrace those principles: fruitful, multiply, fill and subdue. Failure to be fruitful will cause less 'seeds,' and less seeds means slower rate of multiplying, and unproductive process in filling 'a space.' Therefore, 'unfruitfulness' is causing the unproductive process of subduing the earth. To be fruitful, we must have a complete trust in the Sower or the Giver of seeds: Christ. Witness of Christ is essentially the Spirit of prophecy, and without such, multiplication would merely fill a believer with intellectual digest. Outwardly, we may claim that we have subdued the earth, but unless we have learned to the secret of the Kingdom, then we would end up as the ones whom the Judge says... "...I will come like a thief. You will not know at what time I will come to you"... (Rev. 3: 3): we need the genuine 'Seed,' in order to 'wake up' the dying inside, otherwise the Judge says "your spiritual duties becomes an incomplete work." 

    All Spiritual works are based on all the Word of God either the written words of God or the spoken word of God. St. Peter wrote in 1 Peter 1: 15: But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” "...in all you do" refers to all Word of God. We are not demanded by God to be holy in doing the things what belonged to 'Caesars'. However, we might occasionally be entrapped and tempted to sin against Him, while we seek to fulfil our duties which belong to Caesar or our employers. Nevertheless, all sins are forgivable, thus we learn to see the goodness of God's blessing. The divine exhortation "Be holy, because I am holy” is rather practical when it is seen concerning the business of prayer, in which we are demanded to put on "the holy tunic" endowed by the Altar (the 'Way').  Thus, sinner is unable to call upon the Most Holy God, unless he is given the "Way" in covering oneself with the garment of righteousness!

    Life without "the Word of God" would incline us into lower-self life-goals as revealed by the prophetic phrases: "eating and drinking; 'brick-making'; building a city; building a tower; marriage and giving in marriage; seeking a 'name' for ourselves, and also the end-times' enslaving "buying or selling." All the above phrases are the daily chores of the 'wounded' man who seeks after the 'corruptible treasures.' When adjudged in front of the Almighty Judge, those 'works' would be as 'grain-less-sheaves or tares' which would be readily consumed by a breath upon his nostrils (Judge). Everyone who calls upon the Lord would be adjudged whether ones' works are perfect or incomplete. Those whose works found to be incomplete in the sight of God would be exhorted to obey and repent. Obeying means 'total' confidence in the things of what we are hoping for in the names of God: faith. Those 'Sardis-like-believers' are exhorted to repent because of their "incomplete works." Their goals are based on corruptible 'seeds'. We understand right from the beginning that the 'wounded' man tries to justify himself in the sight of God, just as what had been done by Adam: "sewing the fig-leaves" as covering. Doing the will of God as revealed in the prayer, Our Father, "thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," must be preceded by correct 'understanding' concerning 'basic' spiritual 'covering' in prayer. To be the doer of the Word of God, means knowing how to put on a 'perfect' (holy) 'covering' according to the Word of God.  Unless we have learned 'complete trust's in the Way, our covering would merely reverberate what Adam and Eve had done after their 'fall.'  Such "sewn-fig-leaves" covering was driven by the corruptible precepts within the unrefined believers.

    Our spiritual work must be based on the 'incorruptible seed i.e.  the Word of God: Christ. Those who strive to please God by merely covering themselves with the "sewn fig-leaves," like what had Adam and Eve did in Eden, would definitely end up walking in 'darkness', so that they may learn to see the essence of priority in the Kingdom of God. Through divine mercy, they may see what is "precious" in their lives or else they may become 'the falling unripened fig tree fruits,' when the skies proclaim his handiwork ('name').  "But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you." (Rev. 3: 3). God reveals that those who have complete works (perfect) are those who have not soiled their garment. They are "dressed in white." Those who had learned how to dress in white would be promised that their names not to be blotted out from the book of life. And their names would be acknowledged before Our Father and his angels. (Rev. 3: 5-6).

    Only those who have been taught by the Seven-fold-Spirit in putting on the "white garment" could withstand the present of the consuming fire of the Lord. Every Prophet had learned this lesson i.e. walking in 'darkness.' For those who are walking in darkness prior to that Day of the Lord, know therefore, that darkness is not your enemy, but like sons of Korah's expression in Psalm 88:  let them say "...the darkness is my closest friends." In God's perfect knowledge and wisdom, 'darkness' is the very place to discern God's finger that once touched Jacob's peniel and transformed him to be a man who knew the meaning of 'complete trust in God.  Prophet Isaiah prophesied "Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. (Isaiah 50: 10). Trusting in the 'name' of the Lord could be discerned as "trusting completely in the Word of God." Divine "name' means divine handiwork i.e. the Word of God (Seven-fold Spirit). Thus, "complete works" must begin with "complete trust" in the handiworks of the Seven-fold Spirit. Unless our faith is refined, our trust would linger within mental level: Without faith, God is not pleased.

    Complete trust is pleasing in the sight of the Lord. You are not accepted based on our mental precepts.  God's power could only flow into us when we have learned the basic lesson of complete trust to the 'incorruptible Seed.' Yeshua is the 'incorruptible Seed: the Seven-fold Spirit or the Word of God. All believers must be the branches to the Seven-fold Spirit in order to be able to flow into the spirit of prayer: Our Father. When unfolded by God, the prayer--Our Father would be seen as the spiritual precepts in becoming the doers of the Word of God. A complete trusting in the Work of God would lead us as the "overcomers:" complete works. Without 'complete trust,' in that Seed, we couldn't overcome the world. The 'world' or 'earth' means: "eating and drinking; 'brick-making'; building a city; building a tower; marriage and giving in marriage; seeking a 'name' for ourselves, and also the end-times' enslaving "buying or selling."  Those prophetic phrases are the things men on earth do every day. They are diverting our 'priority' as the citizens of the greater Kingdom of the King of Kings and Lord of lords. Without 'complete trust' or 'genuine faith' (even as small as mustard seed), we are unable to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.  We cannot subdue the prophetic phrases "eating and drinking; 'brick-making'; building a city; building a tower; marriage and giving in marriage; seeking a 'name' for ourselves, and also the end-times' enslaving "buying or selling," unless we have learned "complete trust" in the incorruptible "Seed."

    Yeshua counsels, comforts and edifies us with these words: "These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” (John 16: 33).  We cannot escape ourselves from 'receiving' the "mark on the forehead and the mark on the right hand" or the 'name' of the beast. That 'mark' is the prophesied end-times' mammon in 'brick-making' (ancient prophetic words in Genesis 11)  or "buying or selling." The 'name' or 'the handiwork' ('name') of all governments on earth is the greatest force on earth that steals away the 'priority' of every citizen of the Kingdom. That 'name' is the very core or 'the brick' for the activities of "buying or selling" on earth. Modern transaction of "buying or selling" is birthed out from modern'Mammonism.' The post-World-War II 'monetary' or the 'name' of every beast in every nation is enslaving the inhabitants of the earth. And even the "free-men" (born again followers of the 'Way') are subjected to that "receiving" of "the mark." We cannot freed ourselves from that subtle false source of life, except we have learned the basic principle of the Word of God i.e. "to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it." This is the spiritual principle to be embraced by every citizen in the Kingdom of God.   Modern mam-monism steals away the followers' priority Matthew 6: 33.

    Modern Mammonism ('monetary') itself in the eyes of secular view is the basic medium for "buying or selling" on earth. It is the pulsating heartbeat for 'nation-building' of all governments on earth just as the prophetic words of 'brick-making' which was the basis of 'city-building' in ancient Babel in Genesis 11. God's names are the eternal Sources of life on earth because He is the Creator and owner of this Creation. Modern monetary is the human 'handiwork' on earth: it is the 'name' of man.  Lamb of God, for example, was the 'name' or 'mission' ('handiwork') of Divine Spirit on earth. Divine handiwork is the Word of God. We are spirit creatures clothed with the flesh. In the age of the Prince of Peace, it seemed that we need both the divine 'names' and also the 'names' made by man on earth. Nonetheless, Yeshua revealed that we cannot serve two masters.

    Yeshua's exhortation in Matthew 6: 33 suggests which one we serve, but we are somehow serving and seeking both of them. The worship is somehow like a tug of war for every believer. Only the incorruptible Seed that has the ability to empower us in subduing the 'mark' from enchanting our spirits.  The words of the ancient people at the tower of Babel kept on enchanting human race on earth.  “...come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name." And those words remind us of what the Lord had revealed unto us through Prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 46: 10: " [He is] declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done." That ancient prophetic-phrases "let us make for ourselves a name" reverberates into this present times, and the "name" we made on earth is "monetary." The leaders of the "name" are the ruler of every nation on earth. The leading ruler of the modern covenant of monetary on earth was the United States of America, and she has not yet ceased to be the money-hegemony on earth. The prophetic phrases in Genesis 11 "...let us make for ourselves a name..." prophesied to be the adversary of divine "names" on earth. Modern-'monetary', in truth, is the 'name' or 'handiwork' made by the inhabitants of the earth in the last hours; Monetary as the basis of 'nation-building' still fulfils the principle of fruitfulness of this mortal-life that glorifies "the tree of knowledge," and yet it denies the true application of fruitfulness of righteousness since monetary was birthed out in sins. It deprives us the true practice of "the true branches of the True Vine." Since our consciousness is centred on the flesh, monetary naturally becomes the 'brick' for us in every transaction of "buying or selling" in our life. It subtly devalues the divine gift of eternal life ('fullness of life'). It steals away the significance of "seeking first the kingdom of God" from every heart of the citizen of the Kingdom.

     Modern 'mammonism' diverts our spiritual "seeking" for the 'names of God:" it opposes the divine design for every spiritual man which is redeemed by the 'Seed,' so that those whom he called to in the book of life would be dependent upon the true Source of Life: the Word of God. The divine names are the Sources of life, but eventually all people on earth would be subtly enslaved with another object of "seeking:” We seek mammon every day, as if it is the source of life! God's Spirit, the Father of all spirits, teaches us that His "names" are the eternal Sources of life. He told us that His Sevenfold-spirit is the true treasure for every 'spiritual man’ whose names written in the book of life (Isaiah 33: 6). However, the words which keep on reverberating from ancient times "...let us make for ourselves a name...” have become the enchanting consciousness which subtly contends against the revealed Divine 'names.'   


  1.     No governments on earth has ever acknowledged the 'names' of God, as the Sources of life.  All peoples on earth are saying the same words from the ancient Babel: "...let us make for ourselves a name..." They are now saying the same words through the United Nations.  We are seeing the 'appearances' of the 'signs of times.' Since 1945 CE, we have seen two horns simultaneously that "came out from the earth." The first horn was the power to achieve "Peace and Security" on earth, and the second horn was the authority to establish 'practical medium' for business transactions in "buying or selling" i.e. the covenanted "modern-monetary."  The leading ruler is undeniably the United States of America. The establishment of the United Nations after WW 2 was fulfilling the prophetic words "like a lamb" in Revelation 13 because she says "Peace and Security:" the five-veto-power nations became the cabal leaders of that world governance.  That world governance does not intend to embrace the Word of God as the true source of "peace." Every spiritual man sees that the establishment of the modern mammon is likened to that ancient 'brick-making' for erecting "a tower that reached to the sky." Modern Mammonism is the basis of 'nation-building.' It is likened to 'brick-making' activities that became the basis business in erecting a tower, and building a city in East Shinar: they enslaved themselves in building "...the tower that reaches to the sky."  Thus, we are on the brink of hearing Divine pronouncement "Come, let us go down ..." We are in the last hour of modern Mammon's enslavement. Modern-Mammonism is the basis for the prophetic phrase in Revelation 13, "buying or selling." You cannot personally 'subdue' mammon in our lives, unless we have learned the basic to be the true branches of the true Vine i.e. "complete trust" in the greatest Seed (the incorruptible Seed: the Word of God). Only then, we could say that we may understand the spoken message of Yeshua in John 16: 33:  "These things I have spoken to you, so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world."


The greatest ‘seed’

20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed (the incorruptible ‘Seed ’~the 'Seven-fold Spirit'), you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17: 20)


    That Seed is the Word of God. The Word of God is covenanted by the divine 'handiwork' ('name') either in the Old Covenant or in the New Covenant. All God's Word are "spirit and life." A genuine 'Seed,' though as small as mustard seed, is able to move a mountain of 'unbelief.' Faith that moves mountain cannot be learned overnight.  It is refined through 'personal' wilderness or darkness. Neither can it be learned through secular education nor through formal Biblical-study.

The 'mysterious' promise

    51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

The Creation of Man and Woman

"1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.5 Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.8 The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. 9Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.10 Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.11 The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.12 The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. 16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed." [d]

The Manna from Heaven: the Sevenfold Spirit (the Word of God)

4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God’” (Matthew 4: 4, NASB).

     In the beginning, as He hath seen it from the end of it as well, God created man from two types of ‘essence’: the perishable body which sprang forth from the earth, and also from the imperishable being (spirit) which was breathed into by the nostril of God. Those two types of body were carrying the 'seeds' subtly woven in every cell of his body, and it explained why man was ‘a spirit-creature,’ and yet he was also clothed with the earthen corruptible vessel. The imperishable being clothed with the corruptible being (flesh). This truth also explains why Yeshua said: ‘Man shall not live on bread (corruptible) alone, but on every word (incorruptible) that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4: 4).  A man has two beings in ‘one’ i.e. the perishable body and the imperishable body. It is certainly subjected to the ‘darkening’ (without the Source of Light).  The literal bread represents the sustenance for the corruptible being, and the Word of God is the sustenance for the incorruptible being i.e. inter-weaved or trapped within this earthen vessel! It also explains the reason why every believer should be praying for the providence of either the corruptible food or the incorruptible food. Therefore, our existence on earth needs two types of sustenance: the food for the flesh and the food for the spirit.

    7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground (corruptible being), and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (incorruptible being); and man became a living being (Genesis 2: 7). Originally, He designed and created man as ‘a spiritual-man.’ A spiritual man means a man whose consciousness is dominant and dependent on the tree of Life (incorruptible sustenance). So, a spiritual man means a person who is dependent on the incorruptible divine sustenance: the Word of God. We could rephrase that prophecy in verse 7: God formed man from perishable being (dust), and he breathed imperishable being into the perishable being. Then, later on man began to ‘eat’ the perishable sustenance in Eden (the forbidden fruits from the tree of knowledge), and God had to ‘cut off’ the accessibility of Adam to that incorruptible sustenance,’ fruits of the tree of Life. Thus, God created man and woman to live by ‘faith’ in Eden i.e. total dependent upon the Word of God (the incorruptible seed)! All word of God are divine Law. God’s design for Adam and Eve was total dependency upon the Word of God (the Sevenfold Spirit): “to live by faith.”

    The absolute spiritual divine Law in Eden is “to live by faith.” Eating the forbidden fruits from the Tree of Knowledge means failure 'to live by faith.' And, this resulted the prophetic word ‘death’ dominated the whole being of man. Unless God endowed the ‘Way’ unto the transgressor, he remained to be subjected to that power of death (sins). Later on earth, the descendants of Adam continued to seek many schemes in order to sustain the corruptible and incorruptible being within him.  Adam's naivety, by ignoring divine laws which forbade him from eating the forbidden fruits, had activated the corruptions of both 'essence' within him:  the perishable and the imperishable. The chain-effects of that disobedience (unbelief) re-predestined the seeds within Adam to spring forth the descendants whom God saw as sinners: After the deluge, He (God the Creator) said: “...the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth.”

    The account of Eden in the book of Genesis did not tell us about the dawn of mankind in literal sense.  All divine words in Genesis spoken through Prophet Moshe prophesied the 'ends' and the 'beginnings' of Creation and mankind. They reveal unto us the destinies of the ‘seeds’ entrapped within each one of us. And man had chosen to live by sight since Adam's days because “6 ...the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.” It rather prophesied their predisposing choice in glorifying the perishable being within them. Eating the forbidden fruits of the tree of knowledge meant they glorified the perishable being within them. They transgressed and defied divine holy instructions i.e. the incorruptible Manna.

   They began to live by the corruptible side of man: the senses of the earthen vessel. They defied the divine ultimate design that was to live by faith in Eden. The laws of Eden says that if they ever wanted to stay in Eden, then “they must live by faith:” the tree of Life. A single act of failure in obeying the laws of faith caused them to be ‘cut off’ from the providence (Manna) of the Tree of Life. The rebellious man cannot partake what is incorruptible in the Kingdom of God.  It is against the Laws of Sustenance in Eden. God had to ‘cut off’ Adam from partaking the holy sustenance or the incorruptible fruits of the tree of Life. They must be holy if they ever wanted to be forever as the partakers of the ‘incorruptible food’ (the fruits of the tree of Life).

    The prerequisite in partaking the incorruptible Manna in Eden is ‘holiness.’ The consequence of defying or rebelling against the rule of holiness was to be driven out of Eden. The phrase “to be driven out of Eden" is better understood as the revelation of the truth concerning the spiritual laws of holy Manna of Eden. To be the partaker of the fruits of Tree of Life, then one must be holy. Thus, the prerequisite to be fruitful also means to be the partaker of the imperishable seed of Eden. Sinner is forbidden to take part of the fruits of the tree  of Life. 

    Therefore, a sinner means an unfruitful man in the sight of God. Sinners not only defile this earth with blood-shedding, but also frequently intend to destroy this earth, and yet God had predestined their destiny: " 18 and the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” (Revelation 11: 18).  In the end, the destiny for those unfruitful men would be meted out in Judgment. Unless we are given the divine ‘way,’ then sinners have no access to partake the 'Manna' of the Kingdom of God. The mythical ‘expulsion’ of Adam from Eden is, in truth, rather spiritually discerned as prophetic revelation! So, the whole book of Genesis is prophetic revelations. The messages in the holy book of Genesis are given unto us according to 'the Spirit of Prophecy.' It reveals that man was created from two types of essence, and they were carrying within them those two types of seeds: the corruptible seeds (flesh) and the incorruptible seeds (spirit)!

    The flesh was corrupted while the spirit was darkened due to the power of 'sins.' Everything is in small things (seeds), and small things (seeds) are in everything. God began the intangible and tangible realities with ‘seeds.’ God created the incorruptible ‘seeds’ from His Word (Seven-fold Spirit). And He also created the corruptible body from the ‘earth.’ Genesis 1: 26 says: Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness (Incorruptible 'seed ‘~spirit); and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” Man was predestined to enjoy freedom with his freewill, and to be the ruler on earth. The power of Sins entered into human’s seeds, and man began to be enslaved in sins (the power of death), and they began to wage wars against each another, seeking to dominate each another, and even endeavouring to enslave each another. Christ came to liberate us from the 'root' of the power of death, thus, that man may live again as a spiritual man. When the 'imperishable being' within a man was darkened or 'cut off' from its original Source of Light, it needs the prophesied 'Seed' to resurrect the 'cut off'  spirit. Thus, he came (to us), as the Lux Lucet in tenebris!

References

[a] “Genesis 1: 26 – 31.”  BibleGateway. The Creation of Man and woman. The Lockman Foundation. 7 September 2016. <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1&version=NASB>

[b] “1 Peter 1: 13-25.” BibleGateway. The Creation of Man and woman. The Lockman Foundation. 7 September 2016. <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Peter+2&version=NASB>

[c]   Harper, Douglas. Word Origin and History for gist Expand.  Online Etymology Dictionary © 2010. 06 September 2016. <http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gist?s=t#>

[d]  “Genesis 2.” BibleGateway. The Creation of Man and woman. The Lockman Foundation. 7 September 2016. <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2&version=NASB>

[1] Munroe, Myles. your destiny is chosen by God, but its fulfillment is decided by you.  05 September 2016. <https://www.Facebook.com.youtube.com/watch?v=0w_a_...>
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.


Jumaat, 8 September 2017

Knowing 'the Day' or 'hour' of the Second Coming of the Judge


29 “Immediately after the distress of those days


30 “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. 31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.34 Truly I tell you, this 'generation' ...

(Notes: The words 'this generation' refer to those who embraced the Old Testament's religion which was once centred on the Tabernacle worship in Jerusalem)

...will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away ( Matthew 24: 27-35, NIV)

The Day or Hour is known by the Father

36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;

(Notes:  The ''day" and the "hour" are simply referring to the unique day of the Lord which was called "without daytime, without nighttime" and also "when evening comes" respectively in Zechariah 14: 5-7. )

    When we see the phrases "eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage" in verse 38 of the above passage through intellectual interpretation, then they may not elucidate any significant meaning at all. Those 'phrases' seem very plain and they reveal less information concerning the Second Coming of Christ. In fact, we might even say that there is nothing wrong or sinful about those phrases because those daily chores of life are normal for us as human beings! What is wrong with 'eating' after all? So, does with marriage? But, when we 'see' those phrases through the 'eyes' of the Spirit of Prophecy, then those phrases would reveal deeper truth about the priorities and goals of the end time inhabitants of the earth. Yeshua had once said: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God..." In truth, end-times peoples on Earth seek the opposite things (agendas): yes, we seek to glorify 'the tree of knowledge' ! 

     The phrases "eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, and buying or selling" are, in truth, prophetic phrases identifying the priorities of 'deeds' among the inhabitants of the earth. It means that the peoples on earth do not need the 'name' of God! They are not interested in the things of God! They are engrossed in "let us make a 'name' for ourselves." They do not need to believe in the handiworks ('names') of the Creator, the Father of all spirits.  Even those professed followers of Christ do not embrace the prophesied prayer "Our Father" as their 'deeds' or the way of life. "Our Father" was given unto believers as the spiritual way of life. The way of life of the ancient Israelites who lived in the Holy Land in those Old Covenant days was according to the Torah (Laws), while the way of life of all born again Christians in the New Testament's era is according to the spiritual messages of the prayer taught by Yeshua Christ: "Our Father." 'The Helper' exhorts all believers to be sober, less they end up like the Sardis believers. The unfinished 'deeds' are actually referring to our practice and wisdom concerning the contents of the prayer: Our Father. St. John wrote the exhortation: 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your 'deeds' unfinished in the sight of my God. 3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. 4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. 5 The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life, but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. 6 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches (Revelation 3: 3-6, NIV).

         'Waking up' is the gift of the Seven fold gifts of the Spirit, nonetheless, it must be requested from the Father in Christ's name! We may experience that our sins are somehow like what King David had experienced. They (sins) might be flowing like a river, it is non-stop, and therefore, it is very difficult to set such spiritual goal like "to be dressed in white.' We could end up worn out as we strive to be "dressed in white." The 'flesh' would opine that such spiritual goal is impractical. How come a man with impure spirit be "dressed in white" ? Yeshua's words answered our question: "...apart from Me, you can do nothing." 'Purity' of one's spirit is, in truth, the gift of God! It is listed as one of the beatitudes in the book of Matthew Chapter 5. "Purity" does not come from human striving. It is given by the working power of the 'divine resources" through the flow of the Sevenfold Spirit. It is not of human origin. Human beings are resourceless in the business of purifying ones spirits! It is the gift from the goodness of God. The spirit of man is cleansed by the Word, then if he enters into the presence of the Spirit of God, his spirit would be anointed or his 'wick' will be aflamed by the sacred fire of the Holy Spirit. Christ said "Blessed are the pure in 'heart' (spirit), for they will see God" (Matthew 5: 8). 

    The word "Blessed" means the 'gift' from Heaven: the flows of the gifts from the Seven fold Spirit of God. Mankind has no resources to be imbued with such 'Blessedness'. 'Blessedness' can only be received by the wounded offspring through the operations of the Seven-fold Spirit: the Word of God. Yeshua's prayer in John 17 clearly manifesting his divinity. He said,"Sanctify them in the truth; your Word is truth" (John 17: 17). The words written in the Holy Bible remain to be the 'printed words,' unless the Seven-fold Spirit comes in unfolding the spiritual meanings. "The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple" (Psalm 119: 130). The "unfolding of God's Word" could be better understood as seen in the adventurous movies where the explorer/anthropologist was previously unable to see a wider visible view inside a dark cave, but later the explorer discovered a main mirror below the vertical opening of the cave, and then the entering sun rays through that opening could be further harnessed through angular adjustment of that main mirror, so that the extra network of several other mirrors were able to light up a greater visible parts inside of that dark cave. Our intellectual understanding about the "inked Word" on the papers of the Holy Bible would turn into a 'deeper' spiritual understanding, when the Seven-fold Spirit 'lights up' the wick of our spirits; 'lighted up' is possible through "Deep calls deep" or through dream dreams, visions, and Voice. His presence imparts deeper understanding when our former spiritual precepts be lighted up by what we see and hear in the Spirit's realms. "It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life" (John 6: 63).

    To be 'in the presence of the Holy Spirit' or "seeing His face" would endow anointing power upon the recipients, and the Light will illuminate the whole body of the human spirit as long as one's spirit remains in His presence. The purifying power of the Word would only come when the Seven-fold Spirit touches the wicks of our spirits. "Sanctify them in the truth; your Word is truth" (John 17: 17). "It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life" (John 6: 63).  When the Sevenfold Spirit ceases in endowing His presence, the 'true branches' would return into ordinary human spirits. Therefore, the believers are only considered 'holy' when the Sanctifying Spirit ('the Word') descends on the 'wicks' of their spirits.

    Divine attributes are both true in all of his Covenanted names and his divine Immutable names. In the Personae of Yeshua and YHVH, we might receive the blessings from the flows of divine attributes guaranteed by the Covenanted names of God. Covenanted names of God are responsible in fulfilling the prophetic phrases "seedtime and harvest" in Genesis 8: 22. God made covenants between God's names and his chosen people, so that the prophetic phrases "seedtime and harvest" in  Genesis 8: 22 could be fulfilled! Yeshua, the Son of Man, established the New Covenant, so that Christ as the Sower would then empower the Churches to be the harvesters! Even then, the 'name' Judge would be still involved in 'sowing,' but he (the Judge) is not sowing the Word for Peace Covenant; he (Judge) is sowing the Word for Judgment/wraths and the reapers are his innumerable mighty angels. In Exodus 34: 6, the spirit of understanding teaches us about the Immutable names of God! Those 'names' flow from the divine Immutable attributes. The 'gates' of those Immutable names of God are always flowing unto those whose names were written in the book of Life. Those immutable names could be the blessings unto any recipient of the gift, "the fear of the Lord," either the recipient is inside a covenant or outside a covenant as according to divine predestination. The Prayer (Our Father) cannot be fulfilled through carnal precepts or ordinary intellectual strength. That prayer could only be fulfilled through the operations of the gifts of the Spirit as prophesied by Yeshua in Matthew 5 called the "Beatitudes."  While "to be dressed in white" seems to be an impossible spiritual dream as according to our human comprehension, but "dressed in white" as observed through the gift of Wisdom and through the gift of Understanding is up to be practical. Our God is not a monstrous Divine who demands something from the weak 'wounded'  men, without giving heavenly resources unto them, so that they might be able to fulfill His Word.

    The prayer, "Our Father" is given not to be merely recited, but to be embraced, as if 'the inhaling and the exhaling' of one's spiritual breath; it must be fulfilled encompassing all the prophesied contents of the prayer "Our Father" until they become, as if as our daily spiritual 'deeds' on Earth. While our daily activities of life are mortal (such as the phrase 'eating and drinking'), but the way of life based on "Our Father" is up to eternal deeds. So, everytime we forgive someone who does wrongdoings against us, then we are, in truth, doing something which is 'eternal deed' in the sight of the Father. Fulfilling the Word of God is the 'eternal deed' of any born again believer. "Our Father" should not be recited, as if it was 'a magic spell,' but must become the way of life of every believer. The divine magic of that prayer would only be manifested either in our tangible plane of existence or even in those spiritual realities, as we truly embrace "Our Father" as the way of life.)

39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. 42 “Therefore 'keep watch'

(Notes: The phrase 'keep watch' means to be continuously in  the Spirit of Prayer'); only through 'watchfulness' that we may receive Dream dreams, Visions and Voice concerning the Word of God and also the secret about the day of the Lord.  The day of the Lord is only known by 'the true branches of the True Vine'; those who are the true recipients of the Sevenfold gifts of Spirit [Isaiah. 11]).

43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44 So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. (Matthew 24: 27-44).

1 Thessalonians 5
New International Version (NIV)

The Day of the Lord

5 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people (Notes: 'people' refers to the inhabitants of the earth) are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.

(Notes: St.Paul says that the day of the Lord will not surprise the children of Light and therefore, the coming Judge will not become like a thief in  the night).

5 You are all children of the light and children of the day 

(Notes: the children of light were endowed with the Sevenfold gifts of the Spirit. Originally, all languages were created by the angels at the ancient tower of Babel. Eventually, they evolved into modern and modified languages as it is todays. However, all of them still use the main existing alphabets. Though the Word of God is Spirit, it is spiritually understood that divine language does have the spiritual alphabets: the heavens and Earth with all the 'elements' in heavens and Earth. In Genesis Chapter 1: 1, it was prophesied that in the beginning the Word created the divine alphabets: "heavens and earths." "Then, the earth is empty..." It was 'empty' though in the preceding sentence it says "...God created the heavens and earth." Why it was empty even after God had already created "heavens and earth." ? The literal earth was still empty and dark because the preceding prophecy tells us that God had had only created the alphabets of the Word of God (Wisdom)! The spiritual visions or even dream dreams could only be understood after we have mastered the alphabets of the Divine Spirit! The divine alphabets are represented by the luminaries phenomenon in heavens and also by the other natural phenomenons in the heavens/skies. The creation of "heaven and Earth" in Genesis 1:1 was referring to the Creation of the divine alphabets. The phrase "Heaven and Earth" as in that verse is referring to what we see in the Spirit of Prophecy.

 Later, we would see through the writings of the Prophets that all revealed Covenanted divine names would have no contradictions in their messages because they are sharing the exact divine alphabets according to the Order of Melchizedec.  Thus, those whom God endowed with the gift of the fear of the Lord would surely be taught by the God's Spirit in knowing the divine alphabets --"heavens and Earth." (See Psalm 50: 4-6; Psalm 19: 1-2). Knowing the Holy One is knowing the flows of the Spirit (the Word of God); knowing the proclamations of the 'skies'; knowing the proclamations of the earth; knowing the signs of times; and thus knowing dream dreams, visions, and Voice. Knowing all Immutable names of God and the Covenanted names of God are the working power of the Spirit of Understanding. Knowing God is, therefore, the gift of eternal life.


    For the testimony of Christ is the Spirit of Prophecy. In truth, the words 'heaven' and 'earth' are flowing from the 'Word' as the main alphabets of God's  language (the Word of God). No wonder why Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1 began with the flow of Prophecy which expressed:  "... in the beginning God (the Word of God with many 'names') created 'heaven' and 'earth,' and yet the latter part of verse 1 said "...the earth is empty and dark." Those who read the Scripture with their intellectual capacities may not be interested in knowing the flows of the Spirit of God; or else they could easily overlook that strange-hidden mysteries, and therefore they may miss the deeper truth of Genesis 1: 1 "Heavens and earth" are consistently flowing in the Spirit realms as the proclaimers of the 'names' of  God as seen in Zechariah 14: 5-7; Matt. 24:29; Rev. 6: 12-14 and etc..etc. Therefore, the divine alphabets were the concealed mystery which explains why the earth (the 'literal physical earth') was still "...empty and dark...," even though in the preceding prophecy in verse one it had been mentioned that "heaven and Earth" were already created. When we rephrase Genesis 1: 1 with the knowledge of alphabets then it would sound: "... In the beginning, the Word (God with many 'names') created the alphabets, " heaven and earth," then the earth (the literal earth) was still empty and dark...'


 Every God's name ('handiwork') is always proclaimed by the divine main alphabets: "heaven and earth." It was seen between God and Abraham; Yahweh and Moses and the prophets and also in the birth of Christ and on the day The Judge descends on earth! "The sun is darkened, the moon does not shine and the stars are falling down" in Matthew 24: 29, for example, are  the details of the 'alphabets the luminaries of Heaven) from the Divine spirit' which proclaim divine "name." The 'heaven and earth' proclaim the coming "name" of the Lord Christ: "the Judge." Once we used to 'reading' those details of the 'divine alphabets,' then it would be easier for us to understand the prophecies of the Prophets in the Holy Bible. Our understanding about divine 'alphabets' would deepen our understanding about the ways of God, and it would  also refine our personal interpretations. The Spirit of God does not   flow without those  alphabets: "heavens 'and earth." The alphabets of "heaven and earth" are the divine language of all revealed divine 'names.' Such consistency is the nature of the Divine Spirit fulfilling the  Order of Melchizedek.) So, the Word of God (Seven-fold Spirit) would flow into the main alphabets: heaven and Earth. It normally flows into that order especially when God begins a new 'name'.'


We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. (1Thess. 5: 5-11, NIV).
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22 “As long as the earth endures,
seed-time and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night will never cease.” (see the link)

                           (Genesis 8: 20-22, NIV). 


(Notes : The knowledge of spiritual divine alphabets in verse 22, Genesis 8 unfolds God's mysterious handiworks. The first line of that 5-lines-stanza poem is specifically (divine alphabets) revealing divine attribute: the Creator's enduring patience.  The lyrics "seedtime and harvest, and 'day and night will never cease" are spiritually subjected to the earth's endurance. Briefly, the lyrics "as long as the earth endures" represents God's enduring patience! When the earth would no longer conceal the bloodsheds on earth as presaged in Isaiah 26: 20-21, it was prognosticating that 'God's Covenant of peace would be ceasing in continuing the opened-'gate' of the Lamb of God. Seedtime and harvest would no longer endowing  power unto the Church.  The reapers (the angels) would replace the Churches' role as harvesters of souls.  All Divine wills originated from the immutable Father's name. 

    The Father's grandeur plan for the 'wounded' mankind was clearly prophesied in Genesis 8: 22. His plan was "sowing and reaping" the soul of men on earth. The lyrics "seedtime and harvest" disclosed the handiwork of Divine salvation for mankind. When the Immutable name of the Father flowed unto the recipients of His name, then a covenant would be established. Thus, the Covenanted Divine name would be revealed.  Both Yahweh and Yeshua Christ are the Covenanted name of God. Both were originated from the Immutable name of God. The proclamation of Divine name in Exodus 34: 5-7 was the Immutable name of God. When the Israelite broke the Covenanted, the covenanted name which was once written on the Tabernacle was taken back by the Immutable name of God. Those prophets who were in exiles were able to 'see His face' because they were given Divine favour and therefore, they were given the gift "the fear of the Lord is Wisdom." Then, later the new name was revealed and proclaimed which meant the new establishment of Covenant. 


     The Immutable name of God remains ''callable" by those who were given by the gift "the fear of the Lord." The name Holy Spirit represents the anointing power given unto those whose names written in the book of Life. So, there are Immutable name of God and also the Covenanted names of God. "Seed-time and harvest" are fulfilled by the Covenanted names of God. The covenanted names of God originated from the Immutable name of God. The Prince of Peace was the Covenanted name of God throughout the Peace age or the Church's age. When the Judge came, then the Covenanted name, Prince of Peace, would cease to endow 'peace' among the nations. Every believer needs to know the Immutable name of God, if ones desire to "enter one's deeper room": the Spirit of prayer. Knowing the two ''Order' of Divine names would enable a believer to see the deeper meanings of every covenant made between Good and his peoples on earth! All the Covenanted name we're disclosed to His chosen as according to Order of Melchizedec. It means the Covenanted name of God teaches the 'secret' of Altar on earth. The altar reveals Divine "name."


    The spiritual alphabets, 'skies,' would proclaim the descending 'name' of God: the Judge who judges in equity. See Psalm 19: 1-2. Thus, we know that the Covenant of Peace would soon cease  in greeting us in peace, "peace be with you." The phrases "day and night will never cease" point to "the Unique day of the Lord" in Zechariah 14: 6-7. The messages (prophecies) of Genesis 8: 22e would end up in  Zechariah 15: 6-7  as seen through our spiritual knowledge in Isaiah 46: 10.  Its 'ending' is preceded by the proclamation of  His 'name' by the alphabets: "heavens/skies" [ see Psalm 19: 1-2]. Zechariah 15: 6-7 revealed the terminus of God's enduring patience as prophesied in the lyrics of Genesis 8: 22).
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5 ...Then the Lord my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.
6 On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness. 7 It will be a unique day—a day known only to the Lord— with no distinction between day and night. When evening comes, there will be light.
8 On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.
9 The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name. (Zechariah 14: 5-9)
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12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place (Revelation 6: 12-14, NIV)

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6 Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
7 He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” (Acts 1: 6-11, NIV).
   
(Notes : The prophetic phrases ". ..in the same way you have seen him go into heaven" explicitly tell us the 'visions' of His Coming.  The given 'vision' of Christ's Second Coming would be seen in the same 'way' he was taken up into heaven." Those who may see 'visions' and 'dream dreams' about the descending-Second-Coming of the Judge (Christ) would understand the meaning of Revelation 6: 14 which says: "The heavens receded like a scroll being rolled up..."  )

Isnin, 4 September 2017

"Aku datang segera. Peganglah apa yang ada padamu, supaya tidak seorang pun mengambil mahkotamu."(Wahyu 3:11).



"He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the ‘fear of the Lord’ is the KEY to this treasure." Isaiah 33:6 (NIV) 

"Karena siapa yang mempunyai akan diberi, sehingga ia berkelimpahan; tetapi siapa yang tidak mempunyai, apapun juga yang ada padanya akan diambil daripadanya." (Matius 13: 12).



    "Dan tuliskanlah kepada malaikat jemaat di Filadelfia: Inilah firman dari Yang Kudus, Yang Benar, yang memegang kunci Daud; apabila Ia membuka, tidak ada yang dapat menutup; apabila Ia menutup, tidak ada yang dapat membuka" (Wahyu 3: 7). Pengikut Kristus yang percaya kepada anugerah Sevenfold Spirit of God seperti yang dinubuatkan oleh nabi Yesaya dalam kitab Yesaya 11 adalah orang-orang percaya yang mungkin tergolong sebagai orang Kristian 'seperti' jemaat di Filadelfia. Mereka adalah penerima-penerima berkat Si Pemegang kunci raja Daud.

     Hidup di dunia pada masa-masa yang aman dan zaman Perjanjian Damai memungkinkan peluang yang banyak untuk kita dapat memegang atau "memiliki" apa saja menurut kemampuan intelek seseorang, ataupun menurut kemahiran yang ada pada seseorang. Kita boleh pegang geran tanah, jadi pemegang saham, malah boleh juga memegang janji setia kepada isteri, dan bermacam-macam lagi yang kita boleh usahakan untuk dimiliki atau 'dipegang.' Siapa yang pandai 'memegang' banyak kepandaian, maka dialah yang mungkin berpotensi untuk hidup maju di dunia ini! Kita mencari sesuatu yang boleh kita 'pegang' atau miliki, supaya kita mempunyai makna untuk hidup berjuang di bumi ini. Orang yang tidak mempunyai sesuatupun untuk dipegang atau dimiliki akan menderita hidup, malah ada yang bunuh diri kerana tiada lagi yang harus dipegang untuk menjadikan hidup berdaging ini bermakna.

   Harga diri berkait rapat dengan apa yang kita 'pegang' di bumi, sama-ada ia segulung ijazah ataupun sesuatu yang berharga kepadamu, maka kau akan bersandar kepada apa yang kau pegang. Jika, dunia menghina mengenai apa yang kita pegang, boleh jadi kita akan murung, marah, kecewa, irihati atau berkecil hati. Maka, berlumba-lumbalah 'manusia luka' untuk memegang "sesuatu" yang boleh mereka banggakan, dan menyebutnya sebagai sesuatu yang bermakna atau kita sebut sebagai harta-harta dalam kehidupan (treasures). Orang percaya memegang dua jenis harta untuk membolehkan mereka mempunyai harga diri; Harta kekayaan dunia dan harta kekayaan Sion. Sungguh malanglah sekiranya dalam kehidupan ini, kita tidak memegang kedua-dua sekali harta tersebut! Kita memegang sesuatu yang kita yakini "berharga" di bumi, dan dengan usaha otak dan tenaga fizikal badan, samada menurut undang-undang ataupun melanggar undang-undang, samada dengan jujur atau dusta, melalui peperangan atau perjanjian perdamaian, kita akan pegang apa yang kita perjuangkan.   Itulah harta sementara di bumi. Kita perjuangankan apa yang berharga itu dengan apa cara sekalipun termasuklah mempertaruhkan nyawa kita sendiri!  Namun, di mana hartamu berada, di situ juga hatimu berada. 

Apakah yang dimaksudkan dengan frasa nubuat: "Peganglah apa yang ada padamu..." ?

   Harta kekayaan yang kekal abadi bagi pengikut Kristus adalah Harta Sion: ia adalah Tujuh-Lapis Roh Tuhan! Tuhan Yahweh ketika memberikan janji pembaharuan kepada umatNya, bani Ibrani yang tidak setia memegang Perjanjian, menyingkapkan rahasia harta masa depan Sion (Gereja) melalui mulutNya, Nabi Yesaya seperti mesej yang tertulis dalam kitab Yesaya 33: 6.

     Nabi Yesaya menyampaikan mesej nubuatan, "masa keamanan akan tiba bagimu, kekayaan yang menyelamatkan ialah hikmat dan pengetahuan; takut akan Tuhan, itulah harta benda Sion (Yesaya 33:6). Banyaklah di antara kita yang berpendapat bahawa ilmu-ilmu untuk memegang harta benda Sion hanyalah layak di ulas oleh ahli-ahli teologia, paderi, dan juga golongan religius.  Namun, Yesus berfirman dengan jelas sekali;"...kepada kamu diberikan karunia untuk mengetahui rahasia tujuh-lapis Roh Tuhan..." Harta Sion iaitu Roh Kudus, dikaruniakan kepada setiap imamat rajani.  Maka roh hikmat itu datang daripada operasi tujuh-lapis Karunia-karunia secara peribadi, walaupun pada pandangan agamawi kita telah di upacarakan dalam sakramen yang satu. Operasi Roh Kudus haruslah di seru setiap kali berdoa, sebagaimana kita menyeru "nama-nama Tuhan." Di sepanjang zaman Perdamaian, Jalan, Pintu, dan Kunci ialah Kristus. Operasi karunia-karunia Roh Tujuh Lapis datang kerana doa. Harta Sion itu ada pada setiap peribadi 'nama-nama' Tuhan! Roh Pengertian menyatakan bahawa 'nama-nama' Tuhan seringkasnya dijelaskan dalam Kitab Keluaran 34: 6.

     Dalam perjalanan iman, setiap pengikut Kristus dapat 'bertumbuh rohani' kerana roh orang percaya yang senantiasa 'makan' Manna Sorgawi. "Makan" kerana didorong oleh operasi Karunia "roh takut akan Tuhan" yang menyebabkan "lapar." Jika tiada makan, maka tiadalah pertumbuhan rohani. Membaca Firman tanpa berdoa adalah pengertian tahap mental. Tetapi, 'berdoa dan membaca' Firman adalah tahap rohani; inilah yang dimaksudkan makan. Berdoa memungkinkan Firman yang tersingkap terjadi; "Bila tersingkap, firman-firman-Mu memberi terang (Roh), memberi (roh) pengertian kepada orang-orang bodoh" (Mazmur 119: 130). Tuhan tidak akan turun dengan menganugerahkan operasi roh hikmat dan roh pengertian, jikalau tidak ada kesetiaan "makan" yang senantiasa berkesinambungan. Raja Daud menyingkapkan kunci bergaul karib dengan Roh Tuhan seperti lirik lagunya dalam Mazmur 25: 14; "Tuhan bergaul karib dengan orang yang takut akan Tuhan dan memberitahukan rahsia-rahsia Perjanjian kepada mereka." (Mazmur 25: 14). Menjadi ranting sebenar kepada Pokok anggur yang Benar adalah anugerah Tuhan kepada mereka yang tertulis namanya di dalam buku Kehidupan.
                           
Operasi Karunia "takut akan Tuhan:" Harta Sion (Yes.33:6).

   Mereka yang karib dengan Tuhan adalah mereka yang dianugerahkan operasi karunia "roh takut akan Tuhan;" karunia itu senantiasa melekat pada Roh Kudus. Justeru itu,  ia datang dan pergi, maka ia harus di seru siang dan malam supaya kita dianugerahkan hadiratNya. Ia beroperasi dalam 'roh doa.'

     Yesus berfirman bahawa apabila roh penghiburan (Roh Kudus) itu datang; "jikalau Penghibur yang akan Kuutus dari Bapa datang, yaitu Roh Kebenaran yang keluar dari Bapa, Ia akan bersaksi tentang Aku."(Yoh. 15:26).  Operasi karunia "roh pengertian" ada pada Roh Kudus, maka "roh pengertian" inilah yang akan memberikan pengenalan akan yang Mahakudus. Semakin kerap ia turun, maka semakin cepatlah kita mengenali yang Mahakudus.

      Kebijaksanaan Raja Sulaiman jelas sekali memberikan kesaksian bahawa Roh hikmat dan roh pengertian adalah didahului oleh operasi "roh takut akan Tuhan." Walaupun tujuh-lapis karunia itu ada pada Roh Kudus iaitu melekat bersama-sama serentak, namun operasinya jelas disingkapkan oleh firman Tuhan. Karunia "roh takut akan Tuhan" inilah yang "switching on"  roh si penerima anugerah Tuhan, supaya rohnya mula menanggapi realiti Roh Tuhan, ataupun ia disebut sebagai "permulaan hikmat." 

     Roh Hikmat ialah realiti Kristus kerana di dalam Kristuslah terpendam segala hikmat. Jika engkau mula mendengar suaraNya, mula melihat penglihatan-penglihatan, dan mula bermimpi realiti Roh Tuhan, maka itulah yang dimaksudkan "permulaan Hikmat." Dan, inilah juga yang di namakan permulaan "relationship with Christ."  Dari titik ini, pengikut-pengikut Kristus memulakan perjalanan iman sebagai manusia rohani yang dewasa. Mereka yang disebut 'ranting sebenar kepada Pokok anggur yang sebenar' adalah mereka yang "prophesying, seeing visions, dan dreaming dreams." (Yoel 2: 28).

       Raja Sulaiman yang ternyata lebih dahulu mengenali operasi karya Roh Tuhan-tujuh lapis karunia, berbanding dengan kita, iaitu semasa pemerintahannya antara tahun 1017 BC hingga 978 BC dahulukala. Kesaksiannya membahagikan pengertian kepada kita bahawa "Permulaan hikmat adalah takut akan Tuhan (Roh), dan mengenal Yang Mahakudus adalah pengertian (Roh)"(Amsal 9:10).

      Maka, dalam menelusuri perjalanan iman, setiap orang percaya haruslah memegang apa yang diberikan kepadanya iaitu tujuh-lapis Roh Kudus. Tuhan itu Maha-adil kerana kekuatan iman adalah hadirat tujuh-lapis Roh Kudus, dan juga hadirat malaikat-malaikat yang diutus oleh Bapa, dan bukannya terletak pada kemampuan intelek manusia.  Tanpa urapan atau hadirat Roh Kudus, maka tiadalah kekuatan untuk meneruskan perjalanan iman, dan jika demikian "rumput hijaupun menjadi layu;" orang dewasapun terhuyung-hayang berjalan.  

     Tanpa kekuatan roh untuk melakukan kehendak-kehendak Tuhan, maka kita akan hanya dapat berpaut pada kekuatan kapasiti intelek. Dan 'kapasiti intelek' itu adalah pusat kehidupan daging. Kehendak-kehendak Roh Tuhan (Firman ) hanya dapat dilaksanakan dengan sumber kekuatan daripada 'tujuh Karunia-karunia Roh,' iaitu urapan hadirat Roh Kudus. Dengan kekuatan yang dianugerahkan oleh Roh Kudus, maka barulah ada kemenangan dalam perjalanan rohani. Tiada kemenangan rohani bagi mereka yang melakukan kehendak 'Firman Allah' dengan kekuatan kapasiti intelek.

   Setiap orang percaya yang mengerti kehendak Tuhan akan melakukan kehendakNya dengan pengakuan bahawa, tanpa Kristus, maka adalah mustahil sekali untuk diperkenankan oleh Roh Allah Bapa. "1 Akulah pokok anggur yang benar dan Bapa-Kulah pengusahanya. Akulah pokok anggur dan kamulah ranting-rantingnya. 5 Barangsiapa tinggal di dalam Aku dan Aku di dalam dia, ia berbuah banyak, sebab di luar Aku kamu tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa.(Yohanes 15: 1, 5).  Di luar 'Jalan, Pintu dan Kunci,' maka kita tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa dalam urusan doa Bapa Kami. Roh Kristus berbicara "Aku datang segera. Peganglah apa yang ada padamu, supaya tidak seorang pun mengambil mahkotamu."(Wahyu 3:11). 

     Apakah yang engkau pegang? Harta Sion, harta di dunia ataupun kedua-duanya sekali!  Harta dunia tidaklah dapat disangkal kepentingannya, meskipun untuk kehidupan sementara sahaja , sewaktu dibaluti daging, namun kehidupan kekal abadi menuntut kita untuk memegang "Harta Sion." Nabi Yesaya menyingkapkan bahawa "masa keamanan (zaman Raja Damai) akan tiba bagimu; kekayaan yang menyelamatkan ialah hikmat dan pengetahuan; takut akan Tuhan, itulah harta benda Sion.(Yesaya 33:6).  Bagaimana kau pegang harta itu? Kita memegangnya dengan kerendahan roh (poor in spirit), mengakui betapa roh kita tiada nafas kehidupan untuk melaksanakan ibadah roh! Kita mengakui bahawa tanpa Kristus Kita tidak dapat melakukan kehendak Tuhan, dan pengakuan ketergantungan kita itu yang tidak putus-putus adalah manifestasi sebagai ranting kepada Pokok sebenar. Yesus bersabda "di mana hartamu berada, di situ juga hatimu berada" (Matius 6:21).

     Sebagaimana ranting itu tidak berupaya untuk hidup tanpa melekat pada pokoknya, maka demikianlah "design" roh kita yang memerlukan "ketergantungan" pada ketujuh-tujuh karunia-karunia Roh Tuhan. Roh kita berasal dari benih nenek moyang yang "luka," dan kita pula, senantiasa menambahi 'luka-luka' kita sendiri; maka tiadalah henti-henti kita memerlukan Kristus. Sebagaimana daging memerlukan makanan untuk terus hidup, demikian jugalah ranting itu harus terus tergantung terpaut kepada pokok untuk hidup. Kristus berfirman "...di luar Aku, kamu tidak dapat berbuat apa-apa.(Yoh 15: 5). "...dia tertikam oleh karena pemberontakan kita, dia diremukkan oleh karena kejahatan kita; ganjaran yang mendatangkan keselamatan bagi kita ditimpakan kepadanya, dan oleh bilur-bilurnya kita menjadi sembuh."(Yesaya 53:5)

     Jika hari esok, kita masih buat "luka-luka" hidup, maka berharaplah dan bersandarlah kepada kesetiaan Kristus, dan juga bersandarkan kepada 'nama-nama' Tuhan yang disingkapkan oleh Roh Pengertian. Janganlah bersandar kepada kekuatan diri sendiri.  Kita diterima oleh Roh Allah Bapa kerana kesetiaan Kristus, biarpun kita ternyata tidak setia! Siang dan malam tak henti-hentilah kesetiaan Kristus!  Hanya Kristus sahaja yang 100% setia menggenapi dan menyempurnakan Firman Allah kerana "...namaNya ialah Firman Allah" (Wahyu 19: 13). Maka, berpautlah kepada "kesetiaan Kristus" yang memberikan kemenangan ke atas dosa-dosa; janganlah usahakan kesetiaanmu menurut kekuatan kapasiti intelek, sehingga raut wajah menjadi sangat serius sehingga hilanglah sukacita kepada kehidupan daging.  Selagi roh berbicara bahawa pergantian siang dan malam belum berhenti, maka kesetiaan Domba Tuhan tidak akan berhenti menghapuskan dosa-dosa!

     Jika roh kita selamat sampai di sorga, maka itu adalah anugerah Roh Tuhan, dan ia bukanlah hasil usaha kita. Harta Sion iaitu 'Sevenfold Spirit of Menorah' adalah karunia "takut akan Tuhan." Ia adalah Roh Kristus. Kerana kesetiaan Kristuslah, maka kita dapat mempersembahkan korban syukur selama siang dan malam itu bersilih ganti. Jika keselamatan bergantung kepada kesetiaan kita, maka sudah tentu sukarlah sekali untuk selamat dan sukarlah juga untuk mengucap syukur! Keselamatan dianugerahkan kerana kasih-setia Kristus dan juga anugerah 'nama-nama' Tuhan yang tidak berubah (Kitab Keluaran 34: 6).

    Kita selamat kerana 'Firman' tidak gagal dalam kesetiaanNya. Bukankah NamaNya adalah "Firman Allah" dan "Firman" itu "Yang Setia dan Yang Benar." (1 Yoh. 1 : 9; Wahyu 19: 13 ; Why. 19: 11). Kita dianjurkan untuk mengasihi sesama manusia kerana ia adalah perintah Kasih. Jika kita mengasihi, maka kita adalah sahabat-sahabat Yesus. "9 Seperti Bapa telah mengasihi Aku, demikianlah juga Aku telah mengasihi kamu; tinggallah di dalam kasih-Ku itu.10 Jikalau kamu menuruti perintah Ku, kamu akan tinggal di dalam kasih-Ku, seperti Aku menuruti perintah Bapa-Ku dan tinggal di dalam kasih-Nya.12 Inilah perintah-Ku, yaitu supaya kamu saling mengasihi, seperti Aku telah mengasihi kamu.14 Kamu adalah sahabat-Ku, jikalau kamu berbuat apa yang Kuperintahkan kepadamu. (Yoh.15: 9-10,12,14). Rasul Paulus bersaksi bahawa 'sebelum iman itu datang, kita (orang Ibrani) berada di bawah pengawalan hukum Taurat, dan dikurung sampai iman itu telah dinyatakan. Jadi hukum Taurat adalah penuntun bagi kita (Ibrani) sampai Kristus datang, supaya kita dibenarkan karena iman (Galatia 3: 23-24). Paulus melihat bahawa seluruh Hukum Taurat tercakup dalam satu Firman ini yaitu "kasihilah sesamamu manusia seperti dirimu sendiri" (Galatia 5:14). Bila kita gagal menurutinya (Dua Hukum Kasih), maka kita perlu percaya 100 % kepada kesetiaan Kristus, dan mengakui dosa-dosa kepada Domba Tuhan. Kesetiaan Kasih Kristus yang jelas dinyatakan oleh karyaNya yang sempurna-setia sebagai "Domba Tuhan yang menghapus dosa-dosa dunia," maka kita dapat mempersembahkan korban syukur,  selama siang dan malam tak henti-henti masih berlanjutan, sehinggalah pergantian "siang dan malam" itu akan berhenti...kelak...pada Matius 24: 29 atau Zechariah 14: 5, 6 & 7. Apabila pergantian 'siang dan malam berhenti,' maka kita masih boleh meneruskan untuk menyeru 'nama-nama' Tuhan yang Immutable (tidak berubah) sebagaimana yang diajarkan oleh Roh Pengertian dalam Kitab Keluaran 34: 6.

    Justeru itu, "...apa yang ada padamu, peganglah itu sampai Aku datang." (Why 2: 25). "Karena siapa yang mempunyai kepadanya akan diberi, tetapi siapa yang tidak mempunyai, apapun juga yang ada padanya akan diambil daripadanya" (Mat. 13: 12). Maka, jadilah "ranting sebenar" kepada Pokok anggur yang sebenar supaya kamu dapat memegang "apa yang diberikan kepadamu."! 

11 Dan Aku tidak ada lagi di dalam dunia, tetapi mereka masih ada di dalam dunia, dan Aku datang kepada-Mu. Ya Bapa yang kudus, peliharalah mereka dalam nama-Mu, yaitu nama-Mu yang telah Engkau berikan kepada-Ku, supaya mereka menjadi satu sama seperti Kita. 12 Selama Aku bersama mereka, Aku memelihara mereka dalam nama-Mu, yaitu nama-Mu yang telah Engkau berikan kepada-Ku; Aku telah menjaga mereka dan tidak ada seorangpun dari mereka yang binasa selain dari pada dia yang telah ditentukan untuk binasa, supaya genaplah yang tertulis dalam Kitab Suci (Yohanes 17: 11-12).

11 Aku datang segera. Peganglah apa yang ada padamu, supaya tidak seorangpun mengambil mahkotamu. 12 Barangsiapa menang, ia akan Kujadikan sokoguru di dalam Bait Suci Allah-Ku, dan ia tidak akan keluar lagi dari situ; dan padanya akan Kutuliskan nama Allah-Ku, nama kota Allah-Ku, yaitu Yerusalem baru, yang turun dari sorga dari Allah-Ku, dan nama-Ku yang baru (Wahyu 3: 11-12).


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