Peace in Christ.
Blessed (happy) are those who will HEAR His voice and believe. Take heed on how we hear His voice. We, His people, are expected to hear and believe without seeing.
The “seeing” part is reserved for the people of the outside world who will then see His light shining through us (through the believers of His voice.) We hear and believe and manifest His life (light) and they (the people of the outside world) will then SEE that light…His light…in us.
We manifest the Son of man to them through our mortal flesh. We who believe will receive the promise of His presence so that they may SEE and believe. We HEAR and believe and they will SEE and believe.
Joh 20:28-29
(28) And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
(29) Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
We...His people...hear and believe in the Word of Truth and will manifest the Son of man to the people of the outside world through our mortal bodies.
We... who hear and believe... in the Word of Truth are Christ the first fruits....and they (the people of the outside world) will be Christ's at His "coming"...that is, His PRESENCE that we will manifest to them. They will then SEE Him through us. They will see His light shining through us and will believe.
1Co 15:23-24
(23) But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming (PRESENCE).
(24) Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
The people of the outside world will receive Jesus FROM our "sight"...from those who will manifest the Son of man to their eyes as they will SEE Him through us.
They will be the "cloud" of eye witnesses of His light...His glory...that will shine through us now in this world. A "great multitude" of the people of the outside world will SEE Him shining through us and will then believe.
Act 1:8-11
(8) But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
(9) And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out (FROM) of their sight.
the 2 men that stood by them = Moses and Elijah. We are to HEAR Him who will interpret Moses and the prophets to us. We are to hear and believe.
(10) And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
You men of GALILEE....the circle of the nations...the people of the outside world. We are then to shine His light to the people of the outside world...to "Galilee."
(11) Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Behold....LO SEE...He comes with clouds (a great multitude of the people of the outside world who will SEE Him and believe.) Every EYE SHALL SEE HIM...even the unbelievers. We manifest His light...His life...to them. They...a great multitude...a cloud... will SEE His light shining through us and will then believe.
Rev 1:7 KJV
(7) Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
But first, we...His people...are to HEAR and believe when we hear His voice as He interprets the Scriptures to our hearing ears.
If any man has ears to hear, let him hear. Hear and NOT SPEAK…being quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
Mar 4:23-25 KJV
(23) If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
(24) And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
(25) For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
Today, if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts as they did in the “provocation”….which carries the sense of provoking a strong, hostile, or rebellious reaction, often against a person or against God.
In other words, speaking CONTENTIOUS words in UNBELIEF against what they…His people…. will hear Him (in the Spirit of Truth) saying to their ears.
Heb 3:14-19 KJV
(14) For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
(15) While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
(16) For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
(17) But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Unbelief is the major problem with His people who will hear His voice and react in their unbelief: wrath, contentions, etc.
(18) And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
(19) So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
He will render to every person according to what their deeds will be towards the hearing of His voice.
Rom 2:5-10 KJV
(5) But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
(6) Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
(7) To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
Unto them that are CONTENTIOUS and do not obey ….that is, to NOT BELIEVE (Greek: apeitheō - to not believe)…the Truth (when they will hear it), but obey unrighteousness…doing evil: tribulation and anguish upon every soul. This tribulation and anguish is the suffering of the “second death.”
(8) But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
(9) Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
(10) But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
His people should receive the Word of God (as spoken in the Spirit of Truth) in belief when they will HEAR it.
This is in contrast to the “word of men” (their private interpretations of the Scriptures) that we currently hear being preached in every gathering that is being deceived by them and led down the broad way to the destruction of our mortal bodies.
1Th 2:11-13 KJV
(11) As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,
(12) That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
(13) For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
We are to HEAR the Word of Truth…the good news of our salvation….and BELIEVE and are to be sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise.
We are to receive the promise of an age-lasting life in our mortal bodies. We are to receive the promise of His presence in our mortal bodies so that we may shine His light to the people of the outside world.
Eph 1:12-14 KJV
(12) That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
(13) In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
With that Spirit, when then can shine His light to the people of the outside world….His purchased possession…who will then praise God when they see His glory appear over us who believe. "My Lord and my God." They will see and praise Him...like Thomas who did not believe until he SAW Him with his own eyes.
(14) Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
The apostles both SAW and HEARD and reported these things to us so that we might believe.: "that which we have SEEN and HEARD" they declare unto us...
1Jn 1:2-4 KJV
(2) (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us)
(3) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
(4) And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.
The unbelievers back in the day both saw and heard him……and yet did not believe. It will not be any different today. We hear and believe on Him….
Joh 12:44-48 KJV
(44) Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
…AND he that SEES Him sees Him that sent Him. Jesus told Phillip that he that sees Him, sees the Father. It will be no different for us today who will hear and believe and then will manifest Him to the people of the outside world who are sitting in deep darkness (who have not previously seen His light shine to them,)
(45) And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me.
When we manifest His light to the world, those that are His will then SEE Him (through us as we manifest the Son of man to them in our mortal flesh) and will believe on Him should not abide in darkness. They…who will SEE and believe…will be saved.
(46) I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
Even though the people of the outside world have heard His words before preached to them (and did not believe ), they will be saved if they will SEE Him and believe.
(47) And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
But he that rejects Him (after SEEING Him through us) and does not receive His words (after HEARING them) has one that will judge him.
(48) He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Today, it will be no different.
His people will hear the Scripture of Truth (hearing Moses and the prophets being interpreted by Him) and will see those people who will manifest His life in their mortal flesh….rising from the dead…and still will not be persuaded.
They will both HEAR and SEE and still will not believe. If they do not HEAR Moses and the prophets (as interpreted by Christ,) neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. They will not be persuaded even if they will see one who will rise from the dead now in this life.
Luk 16:29-31 KJV
(29) Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
(30) And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
(31) And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
They...the unbelievers in the man-based churches... will continue on...church business as usual...during the coming time when the Son of man is being revealed to the people of the outside world.
Luk 17:26-30 KJV
(26) And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
(27) They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
(28) Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
(29) But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
(30) Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
