That is where the angelic contact exists between the Creator and man that is created in His image. They try to use God like a vending machine. This lets me know, that Paul considered a good understanding of the Godhead, and the wisdom to use it properly, to be the focal point; around which the whole gospel of Jesus Christ revolves. Somewhere back in the prehistoric world, (The time that your great scholars of today, know so little about) God had already created angelic beings and related them to an animal kingdom. Spiritual appetites in the world at large, are just like our natural appetite; we do not all like the same things. God, by His Spirit, will change this inner creature. Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. It sure will be. When you look at the structure of the whole thing, it is nothing but a mass of confusion. It is not necessarily in the language used; that we find truth; it is in the types and shadows that were set forth by the one that designed it all. Spirit beings, move spiritual forces. Heb. I have no desire just to be disagreeable; unless I feel that there is a need to disagree; and I certainly feel the need for it, concerning this controversy over the Godhead. He is Father, because He created something with life. 1:17) “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,” (Or of Himself) Naturally we all know Paul was not speaking of two persons, when he used the terminology, “The God of our Lord Jesus Christ;” but a trinity minded person will see two persons in that verse every time. Isn’t it a beautiful picture, that one lone Son of God would literally function between God and man as prophet, priest and king? As I said earlier, We are living in a day when revealed truth is not popular; because the greater percentage of what is called Christianity is sold out to the traditions of their fathers. That is when many of those angels sinned against God; and were cast down from their previous estate, some to be known as demons doing Satan’s work, while others of them did things so awful, God chained them up in darkness where they remain even unto this day. In the three and half years, He fulfilled exactly; in that power realm, those things that were applicable, leading up to the cross; but once He hung on the cross, that phase was past. You will not find the man called Paul writing contradictory statements in His letters. In Matthew 1:16, it gives the genealogy of Joseph; showing that from the human standpoint He is in the genealogy of king David. Therefore Christ was the literal fulfillment of what that was in type. The Creator was not standing up there with some chemicals, stirring up a substance, and beginning to take out little measurements saying, This will be So and So; and this will be So and So. Without Him, everything would go into oblivion. That of course, would be the writers of the New Testament, Paul being one of them. He is now the Melchizedek that was typed in Genesis 14:18; and brothers and sisters, we are looking for Him to come again, to receive us unto Himself; and to take us to a feast that we have never seen anything to compare it to. About THE ’84 GREAT CONTROVERSY - Part 2 The "Spirit of Prophecy Series" are the most important contribution that Ellen G. White ever made to the Religious World. That is when every devil out of hell will finally receive God’s final judgment; to determine their degree and place of destruction. I tell you saints, it pays to follow the Lord; and not try to calculate exactly, when He is going to do what the Bible says no man knows. As that first man and woman were brought into existence by a divine act of God: when He has said, “Let us made man in our image,” those angels that were assisting Him in all that He does, were set in charge of the genetic laws; to watch over how they are fulfilled in this earth. When you try to talk to them they will say something like, There has never been a better Christian on earth than my Grandmother; so what was good enough for her, is good enough for me. The anointing of God rested upon them for that purpose. (17:6) I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. 25:22, this is what God said to him concerning it. He wants our inner man to yield to Him, and to follow him, from glory to glory, and from revelation to revelation. I am not the judge, as to who will be there, and who will not; the word of God is what judges every soul. I will not go into that at this time; we have dealt with the prehistoric creation, and God’s judgment upon it, in other messages; giving the necessary scriptures to establish the reality of it. Then when the Father did incarnate Him, He only spoke what the Father had Him speak. 屌�^�1�p�;Eh�9*�q�M��:�G*iQ�I*OXW�ĺ�3T���P���k`�. Presenter. How many understand that? Mary’s reply was, How can this be, seeing I know not a man? This picture was portrayed in the Old Testament, under the Law period, by two different prophets; Isaiah and Ezekiel. Prior to this he served for twenty years in the healthcare industry in middle and senior management. The Father had to incarnate Him; before anyone had any right to attribute deity to Him. (8) And the suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. He fills all things, being omnipresent; which is something a person cannot do. Because God never was born. Check through the Bible; and see if you can find any place where God ever anointed anyone to speak anything contrary to truth He had already spoken. Heaven will roll back like the curtain on a stage. It just gives us a chance to count our blessings; when everything does come around in proper balance. I do not care what kind of doctor of divinity wants to challenge this; if he hears my voice, or reads my words: he must bring me scripture to prove otherwise. Therefore, when we catch the thought Paul is portraying, then we can better follow his thought through each epistle. stream Brothers and sisters, after I met that little man, and began to see the truth, it gave me something to talk about. If you are a true child of His, He will keep you out of hell; but He is not obligated to keep you from getting into a bad automobile accident; and ending up looking like you have been through a sausage grinder. Because God took of Himself; and made man. He is already judged to death; because of sin. When they were sent to me, I realized as I read them, that this fellow is well educated; as far as that kind of education goes. He is a being; but not a person. Therefore as they became increased in number, instead of enlarging their scope and moving on out to new territory, they all wanted to huddle together in one place. The Father is not a person. When the time came, for that promise to Abraham to be fulfilled, God sent an angel to Mary, to tell her she was going to conceive in her womb, and bring forth a son, and that she should call his name Jesus. I take a little magazine called The Discovery. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. If the devil were permitted to mess up things in space, like he does here on earth, this planet would have a lot of rough things to go through, above and beyond what the Bible speaks of it going through, when God’s judgement hits it. It is because they are willing to believe truth; without running it through a test tube. God's workmen were slain, but His work went steadily forward. Gideon’s army reveals that; if we did not see it anywhere else. He addressed only one of them as “MY LORD.” To me, that proves he did not see a trinity. Through the mouth of Jeremiah, these words were spoken to the children of Israel; (Jer. The Great Controversy between Christ and Satan Chapter 26. I will say this, If that Ephesian Church were sitting here with us today, you believe me, they would have no problem with the terminology he used. 7:14) which says, “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” That same verse quoted in Matt. He is the very source of life, and the source of all intelligence. That means there are angels today that are not free to come out and tempt mankind. That is just about what you hear today. And fewer still know why the … (Gen. 11:1, 2, 4) “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. He was perfect from birth, without sin. Read how Paul describes it in Hebrews. We are a spirit being, but that spirit being that we are, came from God. (Col. 1:15) “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.” (Heb. When God says something, He never makes a mistake; but when men say things, especially things they have no scriptural authority to say, oh what a blunder they sometimes make. What Ezekiel saw was four living creatures, each having four wings; which he referred to as giving the appearance as a wheel in a wheel, when they went forth. That man would die, as the sacrifice that was represented here, did. There are however, those angels like Lucifer and others; that are free to go about tempting, testing, and tearing up, making mortal men act like devils. Well when they approached Jesus, He gave them a strange answer saying, (John 9:39) “For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. Furthermore if angels were in the Old Testament, even before the Law period, when we come down to the consummation of what all the shadows and types were pointing to, then I believe we can safely say, Angels have an even greater ministry in the New Testament period, the period of time which must bring to fulfillment, all that was typed back there. There are many ways you can get yourself into trouble in this life; when you fail to give God first place in your life. Some people try to find a contradiction between verses like that; but always keep in mind, The same apostle (Paul) who wrote Hebrews, also wrote the epistle to the Ephesians. Only the high priest could go in there; and that was only once each year. The Millennium will not yet be the perfect age. Because that sovereign Spirit which is God, spoke that little cell of life into Mary; without her having to have a sexual relationship with a mortal man. Notice what they said, in John 8:13, “The Pharisees therefore said unto Him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.” Brothers and sisters, let me remind you of the fact that Jesus, at this time in His life, was well into the three and a half years He ministered on earth; and those scribes and Pharisees had tried every way possible, to trap Him somehow, that they might lawfully get Him out of the way. Israel has been living under the Law; and remember, the Shekinah glory was nowhere around. Today the great controversy raging furiously around Christ's authority involves not only His law, but His word—the Scriptures. Let us turn our mind back to the time when the fulfillment of all those Old Testament types began to come into view. No. Will we need binoculars, to see Jesus coming from, let us just say, ten million light years of distance? This proves that those visions of Isaiah and Ezekiel were merely prophetic previews of an event that would take place in heaven, when the consummation of all the types and shadows would be fulfilled. %��������� I do not want any of you to think there is nothing else in the Bible; there is. They want nothing to do with anything that sounds different than what Grandpa and Grandma believed. No longer will His word be written only on sheets of paper; it will be written in the heart’s of those whom He is permitted to work through. And some of the Pharisees which were with Him heard these words, and said unto Him, Are we blind also? When death occurs, the body of flesh is left without soul and spirit; and will soon decompose, if it is not preserved somehow; but the part the Creator created in His own image must wait in its place (which ever that place is) until the resurrection. That is pointing to the advent of Christ. How is this to be? When we look at what the apostle John recorded in the 4th chapter of Revelation, concerning the vision where he was taken up into heaven, and viewed that great throne scene, we cannot help but notice that there were winged creatures situated round about the throne. They are only under a preliminary judgment. When we speak of the image of something, we are usually thinking in terms of a tangible form; but when the apostle Paul spoke of Jesus being the image of the invisible God, the very word invisible, lets us know he was not speaking of the eternal God and Creator of all things, as being in a form that we could see with our natural eyes. Brothers and Sisters, do you see a spiritual truth in this little illustration? The only way anyone can; by using that two edged sword, which is the word of God. Naturally you will readily admit that man is not three persons, in his makeup; yet the world is full of people today, that are spiritually blind; when it comes to applying that terminology to the Creator in whose image we are created. And they said one to another, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Saints, you believe me, when He said, “Let us make man:” He was speaking in plural terminology because He was speaking to the angels; which also are spirit beings. He is giving the children of God something spiritual to eat, out of His word. 6:20 “Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. That is one way to look at image. When He drove them from His divine presence , (paradise) He did not call the Son to guard the way to the tree of life. After assuring them that he is praying for them, he goes ahead to tell them what he is praying for; on their behalf, (Eph. Nevertheless God engraved the stones, and gave them to Moses. You cannot help but wonder, how supposedly smart people could even think such a thing as that. This great controversy over whether God is ONE SPIRIT, or three persons, has been going on for centuries of time; and religion in general has accepted the trinity version of the Godhead. There are definitely angels that administer the laws that hold the universe together, and that keep everything in its proper relationship to everything else. All the necessary powers have been given unto Him, and all things made subject unto Him, that are related to our redemption and the perfection of the Church. I am not telling you it is just on the other side of the door; or anything like that, but it certainly is not forty million light years out in space either. Therefore we just simply want to present the truth; and give enough scripture and commentary to vindicate that it is the truth. When he said, “The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,” there was a reason for him distinguishing each object of thought in this manner. These are the guards that have been set in types. Therefore if man lost out with God, because he ate some fruit from a plant life tree, there in the Garden of Eden, he would have to be reconciled to God by eating fruit from the tree of life that was right there with it. from Covenant and Controversy PRO . “And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.” They trace it all the way from king David; whose throne Israel’s deliverer was to sit upon; but that is only clear to those who can look back through time and prophecy with spiritual eyes. It was not like that when God first created man. He was tempted by the devil; to use that supernatural power that was within Him, to satisfy the cravings of His flesh, after He was weak and hungry from fasting; but He refused to do so, knowing that was not what His anointing was for. They were supposed to replenish the earth; but man’s nature is to go contrary to what God wants. That is what the wooden box represented; but the box was not complete, until it was overlaid with beaten gold, fine gold, polished. I have read quite a few articles in recent years; tracts on baptism, the importance of the name of Jesus, and so forth. 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