Genesis 1: In the Beginning....

[orbiter]

Peace to those who may read.

Genesis 1:1-8 KJV
(1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

In the beginning, the invisible God created the visible heaven and the earth to manifest His invisible attributes to mankind who is without excuse. His eternal power and divine nature are on display before our very eyes. There is indeed a God as we see His invisible attributes manifested in the visible universe and all that is within it.

Romans 1: KJV
(19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
(20) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

But man ….His creation…did not glorify God but instead BECAME vain in his imaginations and his foolish heart was darkened.

(21) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
(22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

In Genesis 1:2, the earth BECAME (not “was”) without form …that is without His righteousness….and void of understanding as men became vain in his imaginations. Darkness was upon the face of the deep….that is, man’s foolish heart was darkened.

But God is merciful and regenerates man by sending men of God to speak His words…His knowledge…as they are moved by the Spirit. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters….as men of God speak as they are moved by the Spirit.

Genesis 1:
(1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
(2) And the earth was (BECAME) without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

He sends men of God to speak what they hear the Spirit saying…and we are to be found of Him in well doing….to be ready do every good work rather than speaking evil of those who come in His name.

Titus 3:1-7 KJV
(1) Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
(2) To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

The earth became without form (without righteousness) and void of understanding….and we were once participants of these things in our ignorance as we lived in malice, envy, and hatred of one another.

(3) For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But AFTER THAT (the earth becoming without form and void), the kindness and love of God our Savior appears toward man. According to His mercy does He save us by the washing of REGENERATION (the parable of Genesis 1 concerns the regeneration of mankind) and renewing of the Holy Spirit.

Genesis 1 is a parable of the REGENERATION of man whose foolish heart caused the earth to become without form (without righteousness) and void of the knowledge of God. Our so-called church “works of righteousness” do not save us as there is none that does righteousness, no, not one as all have BECOME unprofitable. NONE have understanding.

(4) But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
(5) Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
(6) Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
(7) That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

The earth BECAME without form and void as there is none that does good (without form….without righteousness) and there is none that understands.

Psalms 53:2-3 KJV
(2) God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
(3) Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

But God sends men to speak His knowledge to mankind in the Spirit through Jesus Christ our Savior who reconciles us back to the Father through His one-time sacrifice for our sins.

We may receive the testimony of men of God as they speak as they are moved by the Spirit (the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters) but the witness of God within our very own hearts (the light that arises in our darkened hearts) is greater. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters (people, languages) but the Light is commanded to shine out of the darkness of our very own hearts within.

2 Peter 1:18-21 KJV
(18) And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

The “day star” is the morning star of Jesus arising in our very own hearts when we hear His voice as men speak as they are moved by the Spirit. We are to hear His voice as He opens up the Scriptures to our minds. The private interpretation of the Scriptures by the fleshly minds of men does not produce this effect within our very own hearts.

This is the sign of the Son of man who is in Heaven speaking to our ears as His morning star arises in our very own hearts confirming this is indeed the Son of God whom we are to hear. We are to take heed on how we hear so that more knowledge shall be given to us.

(19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
(20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

Holy men of God speak as they are moved by the Holy Spirit but the witness of God (the Light within our hearts) is greater and we are to take heed unto that and pay attention to what said by those men of God.

(21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Men of God do not preach themselves. Those who preach themselves come in their own authority and handle the Word of God deceptively in order to get paid so that they may get their earthly necessities met. They do not serve our Lord Jesus but are serving their own belly which blinds their minds to the understanding of the Scriptures.

2 Corinthians 4:
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

Men of God speak as they are moved by the Spirit of God….the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. But within our very own hearts, God commands the Light (Let there be Light) to shine out of darkness and that shining is in within our once darkened hearts.

(6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

That Light is not of the men who speak as they are moved by the Spirit but of the excellency of the power of God within us who witnesses that this is indeed the Son of God speaking to our hearing ears. It is of God and not of men.

(7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

We are to hear and lose our lives to save them. We are to count all of our church denominations’ teachings and commandments of men as a “loss” in order to win Christ. The excellency of the KNOWLEDGE of Christ Jesus whom we hear speaking to us as He opens up our minds to the understanding of the Scriptures is way greater than the private interpretations that we have been hearing from the speaking of carnally-thinking men who have no knowledge (as the earth is void of understanding).

Philippians 3:1-11 KJV
(1) Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
(2) Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
(3) For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
(4) Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
(5) Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
(6) Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
(7) But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(8) Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

Paul was not found of Him trying to defend his own righteousness….and neither should we be found of Him trying to defend our own church denominations’ teachings and commandments of men at the hearing of the excellent knowledge of our Lord who is come to give us an understanding.

It is not our own “works of righteousness” that saves us but it is the mercy of God who sends the Son of God to give us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. We show that we KNOW HIM by DOING HIS COMMANDMENTS. We are to be found IN HIM…IN Christ…as we DO what He commanded of us: to have love for one another. We are to love those who are sent of Him in His name to speak His words in the Spirit of Truth to our ears and not be found defending our own “righteousness” in our wrath towards what we hear.

(9) And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

We must hear and believe (have FAITH) which is the righteousness of God so that we may KNOW HIM. We must die to sin at the hearing of His voice who opens up the Scriptures to our hearing ears and minds. We must not be found of Him speaking out in our wrath and envy and strife towards what we hear trying to defend our own righteousness. We must be found letting brotherly love continue (as commanded of Him) towards those brothers who are sent to speak what they hear the Spirit of Truth saying. We must die to sin...die to evil speaking...being made conformable to His death.

(10) That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
(11) If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

The Light was commanded to shine out of the darkness of our very own hearts (let there be light)….and we are to respond to that Light with the deeds of light (…and there was light).

Genesis 1:
(3) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

We are to respond to the Light with light (and there was light). We are to believe in the Light so that we may be children of light.

John 12:
(35) Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

The Light goes away (Jesus departed and did hide Himself from them as they did not believe on Him) if we do not believe as the darkness comes upon the unbelievers.

(36) While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
(37) But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:

God "saw the light"....as we are to make manifest light by walking in the light as children of the light towards His shining Light within our very own hearts. Good works toward the hearing of His voice is evidence of our faith...and completes our faith.

God divided the light from the darkness. We must also not be unequally yoked together with the unbelievers who will hear His voice and not believe. What does light have in communion with darkness? We must come out from among the churches of the unbelievers and be SEPARATE as God divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:
(4) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

We must be children of the light…children of the Day and not of those of the “night” who become “drunk” on the wine of wrath and speak out against what they hear the Spirit saying. Those of the “night” sleep….as they have fallen asleep to always letting brotherly love continue. They will not be found of Him behaving as they know they should be.

They will be found not watching…not awake…to His righteousness in the Day that He comes to speak His knowledge to their ears. Those of the “night” will seek to defend their own works of righteousness…their church denominations’ teachings and commandments of men. They will speak roughly and be forgetful to have brotherly love towards those who come in His name….in His authority.

(5) And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

The “evening and morning” speaks of the Light that arises as the “morning star” in the darkness of our heart. The path of the righteous shines as the dawning light that shines brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.

The sign of the Son of man who is in heaven speaking to us is unmistakable as the “bright and morning star” arises in our once darkened hearts.

The coming (presence) of the Son of man is as the “lightning” that comes out of the “east” (a rising of light within the heart) and shines even unto the west (the sun gone down). The Light arises in our once darkened hearts and shines brighter and brighter just as the sun comes up in the very early morning until it shines brightly in the noon daytime and everything is visible. There is no denying (to the believer) that this is the Son of God whom we are to hear.

Matthew 24:23-27 KJV
(23) Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

Not so with false Christs and false prophets. They do not affect our hearts in this way as all they have are outward signs to show before our eyes and then proclaim to us that “behold, He is in the secret chambers”.

Their outward signs that they perform in their churches are done to deceive us and then they proclaim He is within us because of them. Their outward signs are supposedly visible signs of inner realities but they are not.

(24) For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
(25) Behold, I have told you before.
(26) Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
(27) For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Those who “bewitch” us are those in the churches of carnally-thinking men who are graphically portraying before our literal eyes (outward signs) Jesus Christ being crucified among us.

Their outward “signs” of Jesus being crucified before our eyes do not give us the Spirit within nor are they true signs of His presence. They are a false anointing....a false Christ. Their outward signs are being done to deceive us and lead us away from obeying the Truth.

Galatians 3:1-6 KJV
(1) O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Do we receive the Spirit (an “inner” reality) by the outward works of the Law (that they have wrested out of the Scriptures with their puffed up, fleshly minds) or by the hearing of faith?

(2) This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
(3) Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
(4) Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
(5) He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
(6) Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

To be continued…

 

[Randy777]

Peace to those who may read.

Genesis 1:1-8 KJV
(1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

In the beginning, the invisible God created the visible heaven and the earth to manifest His invisible attributes to mankind who is without excuse. His eternal power and divine nature are on display before our very eyes. There is indeed a God as we see His invisible attributes manifested in the visible universe and all that is within it.

Romans 1: KJV
(19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
(20) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

But man ….His creation…did not glorify God but instead BECAME vain in his imaginations and his foolish heart was darkened.

(21) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
(22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

In Genesis 1:2, the earth BECAME (not “was”) without form …that is without His righteousness….and void of understanding as men became vain in his imaginations. Darkness was upon the face of the deep….that is, man’s foolish heart was darkened.

But God is merciful and regenerates man by sending men of God to speak His words…His knowledge…as they are moved by the Spirit. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters….as men of God speak as they are moved by the Spirit.

Genesis 1:
(1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
(2) And the earth was (BECAME) without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

He sends men of God to speak what they hear the Spirit saying…and we are to be found of Him in well doing….to be ready do every good work rather than speaking evil of those who come in His name.

Titus 3:1-7 KJV
(1) Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
(2) To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

The earth became without form (without righteousness) and void of understanding….and we were once participants of these things in our ignorance as we lived in malice, envy, and hatred of one another.

(3) For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But AFTER THAT (the earth becoming without form and void), the kindness and love of God our Savior appears toward man. According to His mercy does He save us by the washing of REGENERATION (the parable of Genesis 1 concerns the regeneration of mankind) and renewing of the Holy Spirit.

Genesis 1 is a parable of the REGENERATION of man whose foolish heart caused the earth to become without form (without righteousness) and void of the knowledge of God. Our so-called church “works of righteousness” do not save us as there is none that does righteousness, no, not one as all have BECOME unprofitable. NONE have understanding.

(4) But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
(5) Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
(6) Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
(7) That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

The earth BECAME without form and void as there is none that does good (without form….without righteousness) and there is none that understands.

Psalms 53:2-3 KJV
(2) God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
(3) Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

But God sends men to speak His knowledge to mankind in the Spirit through Jesus Christ our Savior who reconciles us back to the Father through His one-time sacrifice for our sins.

We may receive the testimony of men of God as they speak as they are moved by the Spirit (the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters) but the witness of God within our very own hearts (the light that arises in our darkened hearts) is greater. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters (people, languages) but the Light is commanded to shine out of the darkness of our very own hearts within.

2 Peter 1:18-21 KJV
(18) And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

The “day star” is the morning star of Jesus arising in our very own hearts when we hear His voice as men speak as they are moved by the Spirit. We are to hear His voice as He opens up the Scriptures to our minds. The private interpretation of the Scriptures by the fleshly minds of men does not produce this effect within our very own hearts.

This is the sign of the Son of man who is in Heaven speaking to our ears as His morning star arises in our very own hearts confirming this is indeed the Son of God whom we are to hear. We are to take heed on how we hear so that more knowledge shall be given to us.

(19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
(20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

Holy men of God speak as they are moved by the Holy Spirit but the witness of God (the Light within our hearts) is greater and we are to take heed unto that and pay attention to what said by those men of God.

(21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Men of God do not preach themselves. Those who preach themselves come in their own authority and handle the Word of God deceptively in order to get paid so that they may get their earthly necessities met. They do not serve our Lord Jesus but are serving their own belly which blinds their minds to the understanding of the Scriptures.

2 Corinthians 4:
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

Men of God speak as they are moved by the Spirit of God….the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. But within our very own hearts, God commands the Light (Let there be Light) to shine out of darkness and that shining is in within our once darkened hearts.

(6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

That Light is not of the men who speak as they are moved by the Spirit but of the excellency of the power of God within us who witnesses that this is indeed the Son of God speaking to our hearing ears. It is of God and not of men.

(7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

We are to hear and lose our lives to save them. We are to count all of our church denominations’ teachings and commandments of men as a “loss” in order to win Christ. The excellency of the KNOWLEDGE of Christ Jesus whom we hear speaking to us as He opens up our minds to the understanding of the Scriptures is way greater than the private interpretations that we have been hearing from the speaking of carnally-thinking men who have no knowledge (as the earth is void of understanding).

Philippians 3:1-11 KJV
(1) Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
(2) Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
(3) For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
(4) Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
(5) Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
(6) Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
(7) But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(8) Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

Paul was not found of Him trying to defend his own righteousness….and neither should we be found of Him trying to defend our own church denominations’ teachings and commandments of men at the hearing of the excellent knowledge of our Lord who is come to give us an understanding.

It is not our own “works of righteousness” that saves us but it is the mercy of God who sends the Son of God to give us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. We show that we KNOW HIM by DOING HIS COMMANDMENTS. We are to be found IN HIM…IN Christ…as we DO what He commanded of us: to have love for one another. We are to love those who are sent of Him in His name to speak His words in the Spirit of Truth to our ears and not be found defending our own “righteousness” in our wrath towards what we hear.

(9) And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

We must hear and believe (have FAITH) which is the righteousness of God so that we may KNOW HIM. We must die to sin at the hearing of His voice who opens up the Scriptures to our hearing ears and minds. We must not be found of Him speaking out in our wrath and envy and strife towards what we hear trying to defend our own righteousness. We must be found letting brotherly love continue (as commanded of Him) towards those brothers who are sent to speak what they hear the Spirit of Truth saying. We must die to sin...die to evil speaking...being made conformable to His death.

(10) That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
(11) If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

The Light was commanded to shine out of the darkness of our very own hearts (let there be light)….and we are to respond to that Light with the deeds of light (…and there was light).

Genesis 1:
(3) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

We are to respond to the Light with light (and there was light). We are to believe in the Light so that we may be children of light.

John 12:
(35) Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

The Light goes away (Jesus departed and did hide Himself from them as they did not believe on Him) if we do not believe as the darkness comes upon the unbelievers.

(36) While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
(37) But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:

God "saw the light"....as we are to make manifest light by walking in the light as children of the light towards His shining Light within our very own hearts. Good works toward the hearing of His voice is evidence of our faith...and completes our faith.

God divided the light from the darkness. We must also not be unequally yoked together with the unbelievers who will hear His voice and not believe. What does light have in communion with darkness? We must come out from among the churches of the unbelievers and be SEPARATE as God divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:
(4) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

We must be children of the light…children of the Day and not of those of the “night” who become “drunk” on the wine of wrath and speak out against what they hear the Spirit saying. Those of the “night” sleep….as they have fallen asleep to always letting brotherly love continue. They will not be found of Him behaving as they know they should be.

They will be found not watching…not awake…to His righteousness in the Day that He comes to speak His knowledge to their ears. Those of the “night” will seek to defend their own works of righteousness…their church denominations’ teachings and commandments of men. They will speak roughly and be forgetful to have brotherly love towards those who come in His name….in His authority.

(5) And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

The “evening and morning” speaks of the Light that arises as the “morning star” in the darkness of our heart. The path of the righteous shines as the dawning light that shines brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.

The sign of the Son of man who is in heaven speaking to us is unmistakable as the “bright and morning star” arises in our once darkened hearts.

The coming (presence) of the Son of man is as the “lightning” that comes out of the “east” (a rising of light within the heart) and shines even unto the west (the sun gone down). The Light arises in our once darkened hearts and shines brighter and brighter just as the sun comes up in the very early morning until it shines brightly in the noon daytime and everything is visible. There is no denying (to the believer) that this is the Son of God whom we are to hear.

Matthew 24:23-27 KJV
(23) Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

Not so with false Christs and false prophets. They do not affect our hearts in this way as all they have are outward signs to show before our eyes and then proclaim to us that “behold, He is in the secret chambers”.

Their outward signs that they perform in their churches are done to deceive us and then they proclaim He is within us because of them. Their outward signs are supposedly visible signs of inner realities but they are not.

(24) For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
(25) Behold, I have told you before.
(26) Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
(27) For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Those who “bewitch” us are those in the churches of carnally-thinking men who are graphically portraying before our literal eyes (outward signs) Jesus Christ being crucified among us.

Their outward “signs” of Jesus being crucified before our eyes do not give us the Spirit within nor are they true signs of His presence. They are a false anointing....a false Christ. Their outward signs are being done to deceive us and lead us away from obeying the Truth.

Galatians 3:1-6 KJV
(1) O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Do we receive the Spirit (an “inner” reality) by the outward works of the Law (that they have wrested out of the Scriptures with their puffed up, fleshly minds) or by the hearing of faith?

(2) This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
(3) Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
(4) Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
(5) He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
(6) Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

To be continued…

I think Genesis takes pain to state that Gods hand was in every aspect of creation. And thats were the importance is. God created. While I do think life on earth in young and created by God I shy away from endless timeline arguments

 

[mark kennedy]

God created life, that appears to be the message of Genesis 1. God created the universe, life in general and man in particular.

 

[orbiter]

Peace.

Thank you brothers for reading….and considering the subject matter being presented: that Genesis chapter 1 is possibly a parable of the regeneration of man whose heart has become darkened.

Indeed, Genesis 1 shows us that God is the source of all life and all of the things in the universe.

Mankind can know His invisible attributes just by looking at the visible heavens and earth. The grand scale and age of the universe (for me) itself shows us His eternal (ever during) power. The heavens (visible and invisible) declare the glory of God. (Psalms 9:1).

But the deep things of God are revealed to us by His Spirit.

All visible things show forth His eternal power and “Godhead”…that is, His divine nature (God never changes).

Romans 1:20 KJV
(20) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all. There is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. God does not change...the divine nature.

James 1:17 KJV
(17) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

God is light and we walk with Him in the light when we have love for one another.

1 John 1:5 KJV
(5) This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Yet, mankind had become without righteousness and without knowledge of God. His foolish heart was darkened. There is no one righteous, no, not one. All have turned from the Way of righteousness. All have become unprofitable. All have no knowledge of God.

We see that the earth became without form and void in Genesis 1:2.

The Hebrew word for “was” has the meaning of “become” also and it should have been used in Genesis 1:2 as “become”.

There is no darkness in God…..but mankind became without form (without righteousness) and void of understanding as his foolish heart was darkened. God is light in whom is no darkness….but mankind became darkened in his imaginations and his foolish heart was darkened. NO MAN knows the things of God…except by His Spirit that teaches us the deep things of God.

The parable starts here…of the regeneration of man….the reconciling of man back to God. This is no science book but a book about the repairing of the relationship of God with mankind….His creation…whose foolish heart was darkened. As we know, God keeps things hidden until the proper time when they are revealed by His Spirit for us to understand and be reconciled to our Creator.

Genesis 1:
(2) And the earth was (BECAME) without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Nothing (the deep things of God) enters into the heart of man (whose foolish heart was darkened) not unless the Spirit of God reveals His things to our hearts. NO MAN knows the deep things of God. Yet, God reveals His things to those who love Him (and doing His commandments shows that we love Him). Those things are revealed to us by His Spirit (as the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters). The knowledge of God is revealed to us within our hearts.

1 Corinthians 2:9-13 KJV
(9) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
(10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
(11) For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
(12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

We speak that which the Holy Spirit teaches and not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches who only sees things through his natural understanding.

(13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

In Genesis 1, all things were created….including man.

Genesis 1:1 KJV
(1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 2 shows us this....the generation of the heavens and the earth when they were created (in Genesis 1:1). Again, these things are not literal but a parable written in natural language designed for Him to conceal His deep things from man until the proper time when His Spirit shows us the meaning of these deep things.

Genesis 2:4-8 KJV
(4) These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

The first man, Adam, was the first man to KNOW GOD his Creator and not THE first man because God formed Adam of the “dust of the ground” (the Adamah)….among the common men (the Adamah) that existed at that time .

The “Adamah” (the “ground”) is the common man who only minds earthly things (what to eat, what to drink, what to wear). These are the things that the “Adamah” goes after only and has no understanding of God. The nations of the world only mind earthly things and go after them. Their minds are in a “fog”. The natural mind asks things like “what is the meaning of life?”

We know that the meaning of life is to KNOW God…to fear God and keep His commandments…and we have fellowship with Him in this earth when we do these things.

The “first man” (Adam) to know God was first of the earthly men first because he was taken from the common man of the time (the Adamah) whose minds were in a “fog”…the mist.

The natural mind of men (the Adamah) minds the things of the earth only. A “mist” (fog) ascended from the earth when all that he knows is earthly things. The natural man does not know the deep things of God as all that he can think about are pursuing after the earthly necessities. His mind is in a “fog”.

“Every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew” speaks of God’s righteousness that would spring up from the earth among men.

God’s righteousness had not be known yet because the LORD God had not caused it to “rain” upon the earth. That “rain” is the doctrine of Christ that comes from heaven and “rains” upon our hearts. There was not a man to “till the ground”…that is, to work the Adamah…the naturally-minded men of the time. There was not a preacher of God yet. There was not a man of God yet.

Adam was first part of the natural men of the time but was taken out of them and given the Spirit of God (the breath of life) in order to be a preacher to the “Adamah”…the rest of the world. The great commission was given to Adam. He was the first man sent to “till the ground”…to preach to the common man the deep things of God.

(5) And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
(6) But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

We show we know God when we keep His commandments. He gives us the will to DO His commandments by His Spirit. We know the deep things of God by His Spirit that He gives us….that He breathes into us….and can be a preacher to others with that Spirit (the breath of life is actually plural here in Genesis 2:7….the breath of lives).

(7) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The LORD God planted a garden eastward in “Eden”…which means “delight, pleasure”. The man delights in God by keeping His commandments which he finds as delightful to keep.

(8) And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

By keeping His commandments (finding them a delight …Eden), we are in a place that we know God….having fellowship with Him in the “garden”.

Psalms 1:1-3 KJV
(1) Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
(2) But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
(3) And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

The carnal mind (the Adamah)is not subject to the Law of God (the garden of Eden) nor can it be (without His Spirit).

Romans 8:6-9 KJV
(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.


We all know what happened to Adam and Eve afterwards.

The first man, Adam, was of the earth….as he was taken among the earthly men (the Adamah) who were only minding earthly things….and was made a living soul but then failed in that mission to preach to the entire world about the things of God.

The “second man” is the Lord Jesus from heaven. He came from heaven first and then was made flesh and blood as earthly men. He was not taken from the earthly-minded men first as Adam but was sent from Heaven itself and partook with us in flesh and blood (the Adamah).

1 Corinthians 15:47-49 KJV
(47) The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
(48) As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we must also bear the image of the heavenly man Christ Jesus. We must put Him on…NOW.

(49) And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

The heavenly man….Jesus…was not first taken from the earthly men like Adam was...but was sent into this world so that this world might be saved.

Hebrews 2:13-15 KJV
(13) And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
(14) Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
(15) And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

 

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Again, the LORD God formed “man”….that is in Hebrew: “ADAM”….out of the dust of the “ground” ….in Hebrew “ground” is ADAMAH.

The “adamah” (meaning “red ground” or red clay) signifies “flesh and blood” man who is only controlled by his fleshly (carnal) mind and reacts to his own fleshly desires….envy, strife, wrath, etc…and is only earthly things. Those of the flesh cannot please God and are not subject to the law of God and does not delight in keeping His commandments. Only by His Spirit that He gives us can we want to do and do His commandments...which is where we love and know God.

“Adam” means “red” ONLY (no “ground”) and signifies “blood”. Adam was washed from/out of the adamah…the red ground…just as the “blood” of Jesus washes from the works of the flesh (the ground).

Adam was the first man to know God as God breathed the Spirit into him.

Genesis 2:7-8 KJV
(7) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

God took him out of the adamah….the general population of men controlled by the carnal mind….and made him a living soul. God breathed into his “nostrils”….signifying the wrath of man…the breath of lives (plural). God breathed His Spirit into him and the man found true peace.

The “mist” ascended from the earth and watered the face of the earth as men walked in the “fog” of their minds…in the vanity of their minds. But God breathed His Spirit into the man.

Ephesians 4:17-18 KJV
(17) This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
(18) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Adam, the Son of God, was to be a preacher to the rest of the world….to “till the ground” of mankind…about God. He was to preach to the world so that the entire world should know God. He had the “great commission”.

The first Adam was taken from among the earthy men while the last Adam, Jesus Christ, was sent from Heaven to this earth and is Lord over all things in Heaven and earth. Jesus was sent into this world (from Heaven) so that this world is saved.

Genesis 2:7-8 KJV
(7) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The garden of Eden (meaning “delight, pleasure”) speaks of the commandments of God that we are to take pleasure in keeping. This is the “place” where we know God…while the rest of humanity (the “adamah”) does not. We can only do those things that please Him with the Spirit that dwells in us.

(8) And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

God put the man whom He had formed into the garden of Eden to “dress and to keep it”….that is, to WORK and keep it. We are to work and keep His commandments (the garden of Eden) always and we can only do so via His Spirit within us. This is the “place” where we know God…having fellowship with Him. We dwell in Him and He dwells in us.

Genesis 2:15 KJV
(15) And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

“Eden” means “delight, pleasure”. We keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing (Eden) in His sight. We delight (Eden) in working His commandments only because of the Spirit which He has given us. The man in the beginning was breathed the Spirit into him and was placed into the garden of Eden to work and keep it….signifying the working and keeping of God’s commandments.

1 John 3:21-24 KJV
(21) Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
(22) And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
(23) And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

The garden of Eden is the place where we know Him because we work and keep His commandments. We dwell in Him and He in us.

(24) And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

God gives us His Spirit which works in us to both to want to do and to do His good pleasure (Eden). The carnal mind of the world does not want to do His good pleasure neither can it.

Philippians 2:13 KJV
(13) For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

This is the love of God…that we keep His commandments. This is the place that we know Him...in the "garden of Eden".

1 John 5:2-5 KJV
(2) By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
(3) For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
(4) For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
(5) Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

The “adamah” is of the carnal mind and is not subject to the law of God (in the garden of Eden) neither can it be. They are "outside" of it. Those who are in the flesh (the adamah) cannot please (Eden) God. Those who are in the flesh (the adamah) do mind the things of the flesh.

Romans 8:5-11 KJV
(5) For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

But God breathes the breath of life into men. If the Spirit of God dwells in us, we take delight in working and keeping His commandments....the garden of Eden.

(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

And living always according to His Spirit shall give us the eternal life of Christ in this earth. Our mortal bodies shall be made alive by His Spirit that dwells in us.

(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

If we continue to sow after the flesh (even after receiving His Spirit), we shall reap decay and die but if we always sow according to the Spirit, we shall reap life everlasting in this earth…in this mortal body. We shall not die but live here and inherit the earth as promised.

Galatians 6:7-10 KJV
(7) Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
(8) For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
(9) And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
(10) As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

 

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How did the earth become without form (that is, without righteousness) and void…..void of the knowledge of God? We are supposed to be light to this world but if His people are in darkness then the world is in total darkness….not understanding anything.

Romans 1:20-25 KJV
(20) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
(21) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

First…by professing themselves to be wise. In doing so, they BECAME fools. The earth BECAME without form and void.

(22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
(23) And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
(24) Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

They change the truth of God into THE lie (not "a" lie but "THE" lie)….the same lie from the very beginning….and worship and serve the “creature” (the ordinance) more than the Creator.

(25) Who changed the truth of God into a (THE) lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

They teach for doctrines the commandments of men and they lay aside the commandment of God (to have love for one another) in order to keep the “tradition” (transmission) of men….and then use it to judge others just as the Pharisees and scribes did to the disciples of Jesus.

Mark 7:5-9 KJV
(5) Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
(6) He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
(7) Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
(8) For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

They completely reject the commandment of God in order to keep their church teachings and commandments of men that were added. They exchange the truth of God for the lie and worship and serve the handwriting of church ordinances (that the church scribes engraved for us to keep) more than God.

(9) And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

The woman in the garden did that very thing as she ADDED her own carnal commandment (neither shall you touch it) to God’s and embraced the lie.

Genesis 3:1-6 KJV
(1) Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
(2) And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

She added to the commandment of God (a carnal commandment: “neither shall you touch it”) of which God did not command and then proceeded to say that God had said it.

(3) But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

The lie: “you shall not surely die” should be translated “dying, you shall not die”…or rather, by “killing, you shall not die”. Here is the “peace and safety” message preached by those who are minding earthly things…serving for his belly (the serpent crawls upon his belly).

We “kill” another when we speak evil of others (judging others) who do not follow our particular church denomination’s teachings or carnal commandments of men. We act as judge, jury and executioner of others who do not worship on certain days, etc. But we do not have peace to do such things because we die for doing so….yet, it is prevalent throughout all churches and all are perishing with their using of their doctrines and commandments of men as they judge others with them.

(4) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

The lie: “for God does know….” Many who “kill” another with their tongues (evil speaking) think that they are doing God “service” for such things. (John 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service). They are thinking that they do these things (their “wonderful works”) and yet they do not DO His will and deceive their own hearts.

The lie: “then your eyes shall be opened”…that is, you shall be seen as “wise”. Wanting to be seen as “wise” is seeking our own vain glory. Professing themselves as “wise”, they became fools and they exchanged the truth of God for THE lie. Many are desirous of their own vain glory as they judge others using their church doctrines and commandments as a basis for doing so.

The lie: “you shall be as gods”….that is, you shall be as JUDGES (Elohim also means “judges”). Those who judge others using their carnal commandments of men see themselves as judges for God. A judge knows who or what is “good and evil”. They use their own teachings and carnal commandments to condemn others labeling them “evil doers”. They think that they are doing Him “service” but really are seeking their own vain glory and are exchanging the Truth of God for the lie. We cannot be “judge, jury and executioner” of others using our carnal commandment as a basis for doing so. There is only ONE Lawgiver. There is only ONE Judge. Who are we to judge another?

(5) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

The woman in the garden saw that the tree was good for food. There is money to be made for this situation and it puts food on the table (the earthly things) of those who preach such things for money’s sake. Professing themselves as “wise”….a tree to be desired to make one wise, they took of the fruit and are eating.

(6) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Death and life are in the power (hand) of the tongue and those who love it shall eat the fruit thereof. We must not use our tongues to speak evil of others….judging others. We must not continue to eat of a judgmental tongue for it results in death.

Proverbs 18:20-22 KJV
(20) A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
(21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
(22) Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

He that speaks evil of his brother…judges his brother and is not a DOER of the law of Christ who gave us a the holy commandment to have love for one another. We are not as "gods"...judges for God in doing so. Only those who DO His will are truly serving God.

James 4:10-12 KJV
(10) Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
(11) Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

There is only ONE Lawgiver who is able to save and destroy. Who are we to judge another using our added carnal commandments of men? We label others as “evil doers” who do not observe certain days or who do not get water baptized or do not observe our church rituals, etc, etc, etc This is not doing the law of Christ who COMMANDED us to have love for one another as He loved us and gave Himself for us. We set aside His commandment (rejecting it) by doing so. The serpent wants us to do so....thereby worshipping the dragon. The handwriting of church ordinances is being used as a proxy for worshipping the dragon.

(12) There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

We must not be eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We must not use our tongues to bless God and then curse others. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing AND cursing of others. This ought not be so. We are not blessing God when we speak evil of others.

James 3:8-12 KJV
(8) But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
(9) Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
(10) Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
(11) Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

A fig tree does not bear olive berries….not can a fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

(12) Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

Those who use their tongues to speak evil of others who do not keep their particular carnal commandments of men are NOT DOING the commandment of Christ who told us to have love for one another. Either make the tree good and his fruit good or make the tree bad and his fruit bad. We are not serving God by speaking evil of others and are eating from the wrong tree.

Matthew 12:33-37 KJV
(33) Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
(34) O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
(35) A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
(36) But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
(37) For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Let not man beguile you of your reward….the eternal life of Jesus in this earth….by his preaching of carnal commandments that his vainly, puffed up fleshly mind imagined that he saw in the Scriptures. They wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction when they take carnal commandments out of it proclaiming that God commanded us to keep them as they add to His commandment to have love for one another. They intrude into those things in the Scriptures that they truly have not understood. Their additions nullify the keeping of the Holy Commandment.

Colossians 2:18-23 KJV
(18) Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

These men do not hold the Head. They have no knowledge and want us to be willingly subject to their church ordinances. This is the situation that is profitable for them.

(19) And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
(20) Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

The woman in the garden added her own carnal commandment (“touch not”) to God’s commandment and then proclaimed it as though God commanded it. All PERISH with the using of the commandments and doctrines of men as they use them to judge others…speaking evil of them as “evil doers”.

(21) (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
(22) Which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men?

Wanting to be seen as “wise”, MANY do these things in a show of wisdom in will worship. Wanting to be seen as wise, they willingly subject themselves to church ordinances dreamed up by those who have no knowledge of God and in the keeping of them does nothing to save our mortal flesh. We PERISH from this earth with the using of them...and all the while we think that we have peace and safety to judge others who do not keep them.

(23) Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

 

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Again, the “firmament” which means “expanse” is our hearing that is opened. Let those who have ears to hear, let him hear….expand the hearing. We are to take heed on how we hear so that more knowledge will be given. In our hearing ears, the knowledge sent from Heaven shall be expanded.

Hearing comes from the Word of God (“And God said….”). Faith comes from hearing….and those who will hear and believe shall be divided from those who will not believe in what they hear the Spirit saying. The “waters” are people, languages.

Genesis 1:6-8 KJV
(6) And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Those who will not hear and believe are from below….but those who are born from above shall hear and show their faith as they will praise God above and be thankful to Him for all things.

Those from below will not praise God in Heaven above but instead will be found behaving badly towards the hearing of the Spirit. They will instead listen to the world….their church teachings and commandments of men and seek to defend them at the hearing of the Word of Truth. The hearing of the Word of Truth will divide the unbelievers from the believers.

(7) And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

What we hear in our hearing ears is from Heaven as God called the expansion “Heaven”. The Spirit that we hear is sent from Heaven and we are to hear what the Spirit is saying.

(8) And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Jumping to the 4th day (the reign...the government of God in our lives):

Let there be lights in the firmament (expansion) of the Heaven….our expanded hearing of the things of Heaven as spoken by the Spirit.

Genesis 1:14-19 KJV
(14) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
(15) And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

The “two great lights” are the 2 greatest commandments that are set in our hearing. We are to DO these and live....they are for "days and years"....eternal life.

(16) And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
(17) And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

The lights are set in the expansion (hearing) of the Heaven….that is, they are set in our HEARING: Hear, O Israel.

We are to hear and keep the commandments.

The greater light to rule the Day (we are children of the Day) is for us to love the Lord OUR God with all of our heart and all of our soul and with all of our mind and with all of our strength.

Mark 12:29-31 KJV
(29) And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
(30) And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

The lesser light is also set in our hearing for us to do.

(31) And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

They are for "days and years".....for length of days and long life....

Proverbs 3:1-2 KJV
(1) My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
(2) For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.


To be continued…

 

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God made 2 great lights (the 2 great commandments for us to keep) and He made the stars also…

Genesis 1:16-18 KJV
(16) And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
(17) And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
(18) And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

We are the “stars” that are to shine in this dark world when we do His commandments. God reigns over us as we keep His commandments.

We shine as lights (the “stars”) in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation as we hold forth the Word of Life for others to see. We give light in this dark world when we do His will. The message: God is light and there is no darkness in Him at all.

Philippians 2:14-16 KJV
(14) Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
(15) That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
(16) Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

In the regeneration of mankind, those who will turn many to His righteousness shall shine as the stars….

Daniel 12:2-3 KJV
(2) And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
(3) And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Those who say they have fellowship with God must walk in the light as He is in the light. We are His children….children of light….children of the Day as we walk with God in the light.

ALL in this dark world shall know that we are His disciples (learners) if we have love for one another.

John 13:34-35 KJV
(34) A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
(35) By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

What shall we do to inherit eternal life?

Luke 10:25-29 KJV
(25) And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
(26) He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

Keep His commandments. The two great “lights” are for days and years…..eternal life.

(27) And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

DO His commandments and we shall live in this earth with His eternal life.

(28) And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
(29) But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

Let us hear what the Spirit is saying as men of God are moved to speak what they hear the Spirit saying and be found of Him doing His commandments at the hearing of His voice.

This is eternal life: to know God and His Son whom He has sent to give us an understanding as He comes to speak to us….opening up our minds to the Scriptures. We show we know God by being found of Him DOING His commandments….especially at the hearing of His voice from Heaven.

1 John 5:18-21 KJV
(18) We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
(19) And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
(20) And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
(21) Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

The lights in the expanse of the heaven (the commandments set in our hearing of His voice from Heaven) are for signs and for seasons and for days and years (eternal life).

If we love God, then we obey His voice…..and He is our life and the length of our days:

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 KJV
(19) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
(20) That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

They are for seasons...fruitful seasons….if we keep His commandments… as the earth shall yield her increase:

Leviticus 26:3-5 KJV
(3) If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
(4) Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
(5) And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

 

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Genesis 1:14 KJV
(14) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

The lights (His commandments) are set in the “firmament” (expanse) of the Heaven….our diligent hearing of what we hear the Spirit sent from Heaven is saying. Those who DO them are of the Day (children of the Day) and those who fall asleep to doing them (being forgetful) are of the Night.

If we hear diligently unto His commandments to love the LORD our God and to serve Him with all of our hearts and all of our souls….

Deuteronomy 11:13-21 KJV
(13) And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

….then He will give fruitful seasons unto us. They…the lights in the firmament of the Heaven…are for “seasons”…fruitful seasons if we hear and do His commandments.

(14) That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
(15) And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
(16) Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
(17) And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

They are for “signs”. We are to remember to always do them and teach them to our children and speak of them.

(18) Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
(19) And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
(20) And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

They are for “days and years”….as our days shall be multiplied in this earth (having eternal life in this earth). Our days shall be as the DAYS OF HEAVEN UPON THE EARTH if we HEAR and remember to always DO His commandments.

(21) That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

His will is always done in Heaven and we are to live according to the reign of Heaven on this earth….and live the heavenly life in this earth….as the DAYS OF HEAVEN UPON THE EARTH.

Matthew 6:9-13 KJV
(9) After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
(10) Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
(11) Give us this day our daily bread.
(12) And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
(13) And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

The eternal life that is manifested (shines) in us….in our MORTAL FLESH… is the life of Jesus who has given His life for the life of this world.

2 Corinthians 4:10-11 KJV
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

The heavenly life of Jesus who is alive now and is incorruptible and undefiled and does not fade away is reserved in Heaven for us today….and His heavenly life is to be manifested in our mortal flesh which gives us His eternal life in this earth (without first “dying and going to heaven” as universally preached by those who have no understanding of the good news that is for the here-and-now). It is a LIVING HOPE.....for this earth...and not a "dying" one as preached by those who say we have to "die and go to heaven". We are begotten again with a living hope as Jesus WAS dead and IS RISEN...IS ALIVE NOW and forevermore so that we might have His resurrected life now.

1 Peter 1:3-5 KJV
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
(4) To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
(5) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

If we hear what the Spirit is saying (the expanse of our hearing of the knowledge sent from Heaven), we are to be of a meek heart and not be found raging with wrath as the “seas” of those who will not believe.

The “dry” land is the good heart who HEARS and brings forth righteousness towards what they hear the Spirit saying. The “dry” land…the good heart…will have had the waters of envy and strife abated from it.

The “dry” land….the good heart…. is called “Earth”…for the meek shall inherit the Earth.

Genesis 1:9-10 KJV
(9) And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
(10) And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

The earth drinks in the rain (the teaching of the Son through the Spirit sent from Heaven) and brings forth herbs ….righteousness.

Hebrews 6:7-12 KJV
(7) For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
(8) But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
(9) But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
(10) For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
(11) And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
(12) That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

To be continued…

 

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Happy (blessed) are they that hear the Word of God and keep it.

Luke 11:28 KJV
(28) But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

The Lord comes to open up the Scriptures to our minds. When the Lord opens His mouth and teaches us in the Spirit of Truth, we are to be found of Him being “poor in spirit”…that is, poor in breath….poor in words towards what we hear rather than being full of wrath and being contentious. The “waters” of strife must abate from off our hearts…and mouths.

Matthew 5:1-6 KJV
(1) And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
(2) And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
(3) Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
(4) Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Blessed (happy) are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. The “dry” land (which is called “Earth”) shall appear as the waters of strife shall abate from off the hearts of those who are meek towards the hearing of His teaching.

(5) Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
(6) Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Of His own will does He beget us with the Word of Truth …

James 1:18-22 KJV
(18) Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

…..and we are to be found of Him being swift to hear, slow to speak and slow to wrath.

(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.

(20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

We are to be found hearing and laying apart all filthiness and the “superfluity” of badness. The “waters” …the superfluity…must abate and the “dry”, good heart must appear at the hearing of His voice. We must receive with MEEKNESS the engrafted Word . The dry land is the meekness of the heart that the waters of strife have abated away from.

(21) Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
(22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

The superfluous waters of evil speaking must abate….the laying aside all malice, guile, hypocrisies, envying, and all evil speaking and desire the sincere milk of the Word….

1 Peter 2:1-3 KJV
(1) Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
(2) As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
(3) If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

The “waters” of wrathful men (who are UNDER THE HEAVEN) are gathered together in one place….as the hypocrites are gathered together against Christ . They are “seas” of men who waver towards the sincere Word of God that they hear (the Word of God… “And God said”) and speak evil of it.

He that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. Those who will behave like such will have their portion with the others (the hypocrites say that they know God but deny Him with their evil speaking) who will love to do evil at the hearing of His voice.

Genesis 1:
(9) And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so

God has made Heaven and earth and the “sea” and all that is in them.

Acts 4:23-29 KJV
(23) And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
(24) And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

The “Heaven” in this verse is the Lord speaking in David through the Holy Spirit…..why do the nations rage and the people imagine vain things?

(25) Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

The “sea” are those people gathered together and speak their threatenings against the Lord and against His annointed. The Word of God spoken in the Spirit creates the “seas” of men who are against what they hear the Spirit saying….and they will be gathered together in their singular purpose: to contend in evil speaking against what they hear the Spirit saying. They will not have peace but instead will gnash their teeth in rage as the raging sea churns out its foam.

(26) The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
(27) For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
(28) For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
(29) And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

But those who are of a good heart will appear….as they receive in meekness the implanted Word. The “waters” of strife, envy, wrath ….the “superfluity” of badness…will have been put away from those who are of the “dry land”…of a meek heart. The meek shall inherit the Earth as God called the “dry land” Earth.

Genesis 1:
(10) And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
(11) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

Those who are of a good heart shall hear the Word and keep it and bring forth righteousness.

The “grass” is PEACE. Blessed are the peacemakers. The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace (James 3:18). They are the peacemakers at the hearing of His voice and they will have peace within their hearts.

(12) And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

The good “ground”…or the good earth (God saw that it was good)….is a good heart that hears the Word (the seed) and KEEPS it (the seed was in itself) and brings forth fruit (the tree yielding fruit of the Spirit).

Luke 8:15-16 KJV
(15) But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
(16) No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

The seed was in itself….as His seed remains in those who are born of God and will not speak evil (commit sin).

1 John 3:9-11 KJV
(9) Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

The dry land appears….the children of God are made manifest…because the waters of evil speaking are absent (they cannot sin against what they hear the Spirit sent from Heaven speaking to their ears and hearts).

The “seas” of wrathful men do not the righteousness of God as they will behave in their wrath and speak all kinds of evil against what they hear and against their brothers who are sent to speak it. The wrath of man does not the righteousness that is of God. If a man seems to be religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, then his religion is empty.

(10) In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
(11) For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

A good and honest heart hears the Word (the seed) and KEEPS it (the seed is within itself) in the heart where it will produce and brings forth the fruits of righteousness.

Luke 8:11 KJV
(11) Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

The tree is known by its fruit as a good man will bring forth good things out of the good treasure (the Word of God) of the heart.

Matthew 12:33-37 KJV
(33) Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
(34) O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
(35) A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
(36) But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
(37) For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Those men who will seek to “kill” the messenger of the Word of Truth have NO PLACE in their hearts for the Word….

John 8:36-59 KJV
(36) If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
(37) I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
(38) I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
(39) They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
(40) But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

The children of the devil will show themselves as they will speak evil against those sent by Him to speak His Word to their ears.

(41) Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
(42) Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

They will not understand as they will not be a DOER of the Word… “hearing” His Word. We must not be hearers only but doers which is true, active hearing.

(43) Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

The children of the devil will manifest themselves as they will speak evil and hate the brothers sent out by Him to speak His words.

(44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
(45) And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
(46) Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

Those who will not hear are not of God.

(47) He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
(48) Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
(49) Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
(50) And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
(51) Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
(52) Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
(53) Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
(54) Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
(55) Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

 

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Again, the “evening and the morning” speaks of the condition of our hearts (the darkness within…the evening) when we hear His voice as He opens up the Scriptures to our understanding (the Light starts to dawn…arising in our hearts ever brighter and brighter).

Genesis 1:
(13) And the evening and the morning were the third day.

We are take heed on how we hear so that more knowledge is given to us. His knowledge shall become clearer and clearer as the light continues to brighten within our darkened hearts. The Light shines brighter and brighter while the darkness passes away from our hearts until the “perfect Day”…the 7th day where there is no “evening”.

The darkness within us is PASSING AWAY (not “past” but is passing away) as the true light shines brighter and brighter until the brightness of 7 days where there is no more “evening”. The Days accumulate (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc) brighter and brighter while the “evening” passes away until there is none within us.

1 John 2:
(8) Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past (PASSING AWAY), and the true light now shineth.
(9) He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

NOW is the high time to “awake out of sleep” by putting away the works of darkness (the envy, the strife) especially at the hearing of His voice.

Romans 13:10-14 KJV
(10) Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
(11) And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

The “night” is almost over while the Day is at hand. The darkness passes away while the Light of the Day approaches fully.

(12) The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Let us not be found of Him “drunk” on the wine of wrath at the hearing of His voice but rather putting Him on and not fulfilling the lusts of the flesh (the envying and the strife) that we once behaved in our ignorance of the Scripture of Truth as we fought among ourselves about the private interpretations of men.

(13) Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
(14) But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

The path of the righteous is as the light of the morning that brightens more and more until the FULL DAY (the 7th day) is established.

Proverbs 4:18-27 KJV
(18) But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

The wicked shall hear His voice and yet their way is as darkness. They will abide in the darkness as they will not have love for another who comes to speak His words of life and spirit to their ears. They will “stumble” at what they hear and behave badly.

(19) The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

We must be found of Him hearing His words and inclining our ear (expand) unto His sayings…His testimony.

(20) My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
(21) Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
(22) For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
(23) Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

We must be found of Him not speaking evil with our mouth.

(24) Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
(25) Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
(26) Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
(27) Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

As the Lord opens up our minds to the Scriptures, the light shines brighter and brighter in the darkness (the evening) of our hearts. The Son of God comes to give us an understanding through men sent by Him to speak what they hear the Spirit saying…speaking His words of life and spirit…and we are to be found by Him producing the fruits of His righteousness.

We must take heed on how we hear and be found of Him letting brotherly love continue and being not forgetful to entertain strangers and their words.

2 Peter 1:19-21 KJV
(19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
(20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
(21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Those who will hear His voice and stand in their belief of what they hear shall REJOICE within their hearts just John says here in John 3:29.

John 3:29-36 KJV
(29) He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.

“He must increase, but I must decrease”. When we hear His voice, we are to take heed on how we hear the testimony that He gives. The Son comes so that we may have an understanding as He opens up the Scriptures to our hearing ears and those who believe on Him shall have everlasting life.

(30) He must increase, but I must decrease.

Let God be true and every man a liar. This is how we should approach the hearing of His voice from Heaven by assuming that every man before was false in his preaching of the word of men...the corruptible seed.

The evidence of Him speaking (the light shining within our very own hearts) shows us that this is the Son of God whom we are to hear.

The things we hear of Him is true while everything we have heard from the preaching of earthly-minded men (the word of men) is false. He must increase and we must decrease…not leaning on man’s private interpretations of the Scriptures that he wrests to his own destruction. We must get rid of what man has preached in order to receive the excellency of the knowledge of our Lord. The word of men is earthly while the Word of God spoken in the testimony of Jesus in the Spirit is from Heaven above.

(31) He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
(32) And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.

He that receives the Son’s testimony has set to his seal that God is true.

(33) He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.

He whom God has sent (the Son) speaks the words of God while earthly-minded men preach in their earthly understanding which is false. He must increase while we must decrease. Let God become true, and every man false, according as it has been written, 'That you may be declared righteous in your words, and may overcome in your being judged.'

(34) For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
(35) The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
(36) He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

How we respond to His voice (the words that we use) is how we are judged when the Son comes to open up the Scriptures to our hearing ears.

We are to hear His testimony and not be found speaking evil towards what we hear.

Matthew 12:33-37 KJV
(33) Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
(34) O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
(35) A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

Every idle word that men speak shall be accounted for in the Day of Judgment….when He comes to testify to our hearing ears the Scripture of Truth. How we respond to the hearing of His testimony shall correspond to how we are judged.

By OUR WORDS shall we be justified and by OUR WORDS shall we be condemned. A man will reveal the secrets within his heart as he will speak at the hearing of His voice….either good or bad.

(36) But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
(37) For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

All that are in the “graves” shall hear His voice. The “graves” are not literal. We shall hear His voice and some will come forth and respond with good towards the hearing of His voice unto the resurrection of life while others will come forth and speak the evil that was hidden within their hearts.

John 5:28-30 KJV
(28) Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
(29) And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

As He hears our words (responses), He judges and His judgment is just.

(30) I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

There will be no more “evening” within our hearts when the Lord binds up the breach and heals the stroke of our wound. The Light shall shine as the light of seven days. The darkness will have passed away completely.

Isaiah 30:26 KJV
(26) Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

We shall no longer be living in the denominations of men where there is envying and strife and hatred of one another all brought on by the arguing over the handwriting of their respective church teachings and commandments of men. Those who rule over us in the churches of men do these things for money’s sake….and the outside world blasphemes His holy Name because of it.

Isaiah 52:5-12 KJV
(5) Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

The Lord speaks to us….

(6) Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

….as He sends those men who are moved by the Holy Spirit to speak His words of life and spirit to our hearing ears.

(7) How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

We shall see “eye to eye” as the things of the Scriptures shall be understood…and we will not fight over these things any more for His knowledge shall settle all disagreements.

(8) Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.

We shall REJOICE within our hearts.

(9) Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
(10) The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

We must DEPART…DEPART…from the churches of men who are “dead” in their trespasses and sins. We must come out from among them and be separate for NO FLESH is being saved within them as their “rulers” preach the doctrines and commandments of men for money’s sake.

(11) Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
(12) For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

The living waters….the Holy Spirit that we hear…shall bring forth abundantly the moving creature (JOY within our living souls) that has life and the fowl that may fly above the earth…as we praise Him above with our words (the “fowl”) in the open firmament of Heaven…..that is, in the EXPANDED hearing of the Spirit sent from Heaven. We hear His voice from Heaven and rejoice and praise Him with our words.

We hear the Spirit (the living waters) which brings forth abundant JOY in our hearts…in our souls… and causes us to praise Him who is in Heaven with our words (the “fowl” that fly above the earth) when we hear His words in our opened ears (in the opened firmament of Heaven).

Genesis 1:20 KJV
(20) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

The God of hope fills us with all JOY and peace in believing so that we may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit (the LIVING WATERS of the Spirit brings forth all JOY and peace and abounding hope). Our living souls rejoice in the opened hearing of the things from Heaven spoken in the living waters of the Spirit.

Romans 15:13 KJV
(13) Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

 

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Genesis 1:1-8 KJV
(1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth

In the beginning, the invisible God created the visible heaven and the earth to manifest His invisible attributes to mankind who is without excuse. His eternal power and divine nature are on display before our very eyes. There is indeed a God as we see His invisible attributes manifested in the visible universe and all that is within it.

Romans 1: KJV
(19) Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
(20) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
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This is as far as I go on this exposition. You've done a good job with Genesis 1:1-2, but drifted off-track after that. I recommend a book by Christian Theologian Dr. Michael Heiser titled The Unseen Realm to fill in what's going on between Genesis 1:1 and 1:3. God bless you in your work.

 

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Thanks for visiting (and considering the subject matter) brother!

Come back any time. God bless you!

 

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Again, the “fowl” are words (think of how a bird represents Twitter).

These words are words of praise as they “fly above the earth” in our joy of what we hear the Spirit saying (the living waters). We praise God as His name is above all.

Genesis 1:20 KJV
(20) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

The words fly above the earth as His glory is above the earth….and heaven. We praise the name of the LORD…His name and glory is above all things.

Psalms 148:13 KJV
(13) Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.

How excellent is His name in all of the earth. His name is above all. His glory is above the heavens.

Psalms 8:1-2 KJV
(1) To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
(2) Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

“Let fowl multiply in the earth”….that is, all nations are to praise Him. The words of praise not only come from His people but will also come from ALL nations as well. We have the "great commission" to speak the good news of His kingdom to the world so that they praise His Name alone in all of the earth.

Psalms 117:1-2 KJV
(1) O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
(2) For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD

“Fill the waters in the seas”….the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD just as the waters cover the sea. All nations shall glorify God above the earth. We are to be fruitful with His Word in this earth and multiply those who glorify God.

Habakkuk 2:14 KJV
(14) For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Let all nations praise His Holy NAME....let fowl (words of praise) multiply in the earth.

Genesis 1:21-22 KJV
(21) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
(22) And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

Rejoice you nations (gentiles) with His people...let words of praise multiply in the earth from all people.

Romans 15:9-13 KJV
(9) And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
(10) And again he saith, Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with his people.
(11) And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.
(12) And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
(13) Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.


To be continued…

 

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Let the nations be glad and sing (birds sing) for JOY. Let ALL people praise Him. Let the fowl multiply on the earth = all nations, all people are to praise God.

Psalms 67:1-7 KJV
(1) To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song. God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.
(2) That thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving health among all nations.
(3) Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
(4) O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
(5) Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

In Day 6, the earth brings yields her increase as all people of the world shall hear and fear God.

(6) Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
(7) God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Make a joyful noise unto God all you lands. Sing forth the honor of His name. Make His praise glorious.

Psalms 66:1-4 KJV
(1) To the chief Musician, A Song or Psalm. Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
(2) Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.
(3) Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.

ALL of the earth shall worship Him and shall SING unto Him. Let “fowl” (singing His praise) multiply in the earth. They shall sing to His name.

(4) All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.

Again, the “waters” are the living waters of the Holy Spirit that we hear (in the face of the expansion of our hearing of Heaven) and gives us life and abounding joy and causes us to express that overflowing, abundant joy of the heart with words of praise….singing the praises of God whose Name is above all of the things of the earth . The “fowl”…the words of praise…fly above the earth.

Genesis 1:20 KJV
(20) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

The same living waters are written about in Ezekiel 47.

Ezekiel 47:8-12 KJV
(8) Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

The “rivers” shall make come and make everything that lives, which “moves”….abounds in joy, alive. The great multitude of fish are people who hear the Spirit and are healed.

(9) And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

Those nations of the world are the “great sea” of which we are to be fishers of men.

(10) And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
(11) But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.

Many people shall bring forth fruits of righteousness at the hearing of the Spirit (the “rivers”) and shall glorify God with their tongues….the “leaf” for medicine.

(12) And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

Blessed (HAPPY for joy of heart) is the man that will not respond with wickedness toward what he hears the Spirit (the rivers of water) saying.

Psalms 1:1-6 KJV
(1) Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
(2) But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Happy is the man who shall be found DOING His will…delighting in His law (letting brotherly love continue). He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water….the living waters of the Spirit. He shall drink in what the Spirit is saying and will bring forth the fruit of righteousness in his season. His leaf…His tongue…shall not speak evil (to wither) and whatsoever he does shall prosper.

(3) And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
(4) The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
(5) Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
(6) For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

 

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The “river” of living water….the Spirit…gives life to those who will hear and rejoice in what they hear.

There is no “night” in the hearing of the Word of God preached sincerely in Christ.

It is pure and clear as crystal.

Those who are truly sent (apostle = sent) by Him to speak His words of eternal life and spirit do not make a gain of their listeners. There is no hidden agenda in the heart (as so many have) to deceive those that they are preaching to. There is no “night”.

They serve in the authority of God and of the Lamb. They speak His living words (the river of the water of life) in THE authority of God (as it proceeds out of the throne of God) and of the Lamb.

Revelation 22:1 KJV
(1) And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

There is no night there as those who are truly sent by Him do not come to peddle, retail (“corrupt”) the Word of God in their preaching for money’s sake.

No, instead they freely give as they have freely received and preach the Word without pay. They speak sincerely, as of God, in the sight of God in Christ…a pure “river” of water of life.

2 Corinthians 2:15-17 KJV
(15) For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
(16) To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
(17) For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

But those who claim to be sent of Him pose as “apostles” (sent) of Christ. Yet, they do not come in His Name (in His authority) but rather come in their own name preaching themselves for pay. And MANY receive those who come preaching themselves….who come in their own name…their own authority.

2 Corinthians 11:12-15 KJV
(12) But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
(13) For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
(14) And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
(15) Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

They do not preach the good news of God freely but instead come to retail the Word of God and make merchandise of those they lead astray from the Way of righteousness. We must not sit together with those who are called “brothers” but are covetous. We must not eat with them. We must come out from among them and be separate.

2 Corinthians 11:5-7 KJV
(5) For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
(6) But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
(7) Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

The thief comes not but to steal, to kill and to destroy those whom he preaches the Word of God deceitfully to. He preaches things he ought not to be (the teachings and commandments of men) for money’s sake.

Those who do such things are preventing the life of Jesus from appearing in the mortal flesh of those that they are leading astray down the broad way to the destruction of their mortal body….and all for the covetousness that is hidden in their hearts. They do not understand the good news of Christ for us in the here-and now as NO FLESH is being saved in their churches.

The covetousness in their hearts is hidden by the use of their flattering tongue as they use feigned words in order to make merchandise of those who listen to them.

John 10:10 KJV
(10) The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

The true “apostle”…the truly sent by Him in His authority…comes to speak to you without deceit, nor of uncleanness. The “river” is pure. There is “no night there” as they serve God and not themselves. they are sent forth and keep His COMMANDS.

Matthew 10:5-11 KJV
(5) These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
(6) But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
(7) And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Those who come in His authority FREELY GIVE as they have freely received.

(8) Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

“Provide neither” should have been translated as “GET NOT” gold, silver, nor brass in your belts. Those sent by Him do not come to preach for money but freely give (the Word of God) as they have freely received it in the Spirit.

(9) Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,

They do not take “two coats”….cloak to hide the covetousness. They do not take “staves”….coming as rulers. No, those who are sent by Him are SERVANTS and not rulers. The workman is worthy of his own meat…..that is, he works with his own hands to support his own earthly necessities. He is worthy of his own necessities as he works with his own hands for them so as not to be chargeable to anyone.

(10) Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
(11) And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.

The entrance of a truly-sent person into your life is not empty (in vain) as so many who come preaching themselves (coming in their own authority).

1 Thessalonians 2:1-13 KJV
(1) For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
(2) But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
(3) For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

God entrusts such people (who do not come to preach deceitfully for pay) with the good news as they do not speak to please men but God.

(4) But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.

The truly sent by Him does not use flattering words. They do not conceal covetousness with their hearts as there is none. There is no hidden agenda. Their efforts in the Word are pure of heart and the preaching of the Word of God in the Spirit….the living water…is pure.

(5) For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
(6) Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
(7) But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
(8) So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

The workman of the Word of God is worthy of his own meat…..as he labors night and day so that he is not chargeable to any person. They preach the good news of God while supporting their own earthly necessities at their own job (Paul was a tentmaker, Jesus was a “carpenter”…one who works with his own hands).

(9) For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
(10) Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
(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.

The Word of God preached by the truly-sent is not the word of men…who are preaching the Word of God deceitfully for unjust gain.

(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.

Jesus was a “carpenter”….who was given the wisdom of God. He is the wisdom of God. Mighty works are “worked by his hands”.

Mark 6:1-3 KJV
(1) And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.
(2) And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
(3) Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

If we have not been faithful in the “unrighteous mammon”, who will commit to our trust the “true riches”….the good news of God and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior.

Luke 16:10-15 KJV
(10) He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
(11) If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
(12) And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

If we are unfaithful with another’s “gold, silver or apparel”, then who will commit to our trust the true riches….the wisdom and knowledge of God.

Romans 11:33-34 KJV
(33) O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
(34) For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

As Paul showed us, we need to work with our hands to support our own necessities. He coveted after no man’s silver, or gold or apparel by doing so. He showed us “all things” in order to spiritually feed the church of God. He showed us by example to work with our own hands to support our own earthly necessities.

Acts 20:32-35 KJV
(32) And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
(33) I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

We must be with him in this and work for our own earthly necessities.

(34) Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
(35) I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

We must be with him in this….being followers together of Paul… and work with our own hands to support our own earthly necessities.

Philippians 3:17-19 KJV
(17) Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

Yet, MANY walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction (as they perish from off this earth without His knowledge)…whose God is their belly as they are only serving (preaching) in order to feed it. They are minding earthly things in their job as “preachers”. They are not walking according to the example of the apostles of Christ. They are only worried about preaching in order to get paid so that they get their earthly needs (what to eat, what to drink, what to wear).

(18) (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
(19) Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

Those who walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ do so as they walk “disorderly” and not after the transmission (the tradition) of the true apostles of Christ given to us to follow.

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 KJV
(6) Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

The apostles of Christ did not eat any man’s bread for nothing but rather worked with their own hands night and day so as not to be chargeable to anyone.

(7) For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
(8) Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

They …the apostles of Christ…made themselves the example for us to follow. We are to walk according to their example and work with our own hands to support our own earthly necessities.

(9) Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
(10) For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
(11) For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
(12) Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
(13) But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

If any man does not obey their word by this letter, we are to note that man and have NO COMPANY with him. We are to remember to do well in doing so and admonish him as a brother and not as an enemy.

(14) And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
(15) Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

We can NOT serve 2 masters. We cannot serve God AND mammon. We cannot preach for money’s sake as this is serving mammon only. We are only then serving for our own belly (and come in our own authority) and not the Lord Jesus Christ who sends us out to speak His words of life and spirit without the getting of money.

We must work with our own hands at our own jobs to support our own earthly necessities. The workman is worthy of his own meat as he works with his own hands to get his own meat.

Luke 16:
(13) No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Yet, the covetous preachers will always “deride” those who speak otherwise as they will seek to justify their preaching-for-pay activities before others.

(14) And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
(15) And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

We must RENOUNCE the hidden things of dishonesty….not handling the Word of God deceitfully so that no man may charge us with being dishonest. We are to commend ourselves to EVERY man’s conscience in the sight of God.

2 Corinthians 4:1-6 KJV
(1) Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
(2) But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

If the gospel is hid, it is hid to those who are “lost”…that is, PERISHING from off this earth. Their end is destruction from this earth as they preach themselves only and have no understanding of the good news. If we have been unfaithful with other’s silver or gold or apparel, then who will commit to our trust the true riches….the glorious gospel of Christ?

(3) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
(4) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
(6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

He sends His messengers to speak His words of life and spirit….for the building of the body of Christ…until we all come in the UNITY of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a complete man…..

Ephesians 4:11-16 KJV
(11) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
(12) For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
(13) Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

We shall be no more children being tossed to and fro…being carried about with EVERY WIND (the 4 winds) of doctrine preached by the sleight of men in their cunning craftiness as they lie in wait to deceive.

There is a hidden, covetous agenda in the hearts of those who retail the Word of God. They come only to steal, to kill and to destroy us as they serve for their own belly. They come to cause divisions among us and teach things that are contrary to the teaching of Christ who commanded us to have love for one another.

(14) That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
(15) But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
(16) From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

He shall sent His messengers to gather together His elect from the “four winds”….from EVERY wind of doctrine that is being preached by men who deceitfully handle the Word of God in order to get unjust gain….unrighteous mammon.

Mark 13:27 KJV
(27) And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

To be continued…

 

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The Lord sends His messenger to testify unto us of these things in the churches. The words of the Lord are life and spirit. They are the water of life that flows in what we hear the Spirit saying.

We are to hear what the Spirit is saying and not be found resisting the Spirit…..the living waters….but be found drinking in what we hear. We are to be filled with the Spirit (drinking in what we hear) and not be found “drunk” on the wine of wrath towards what we hear. The Lord is the “bright and morning star” arising in our hearts when we hear His voice.

Revelation 22:
(16) I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

There is a meeting between the person who is sent by the Lord to speak His living words and the person who hears at the "river". There is the tree of life on either side of the "river" bearing fruit in the acceptable YEAR (12 months) of His favor and we are to call upon Him (the "leaves" are for healing) while He is near.

We are to remember to let brotherly love continue and entertain a stranger and his words. We are to be found hospitable….inviting towards a “stranger”…. “come” and abide.

Whosoever thirsts is to come and take the water of life FREELY. There is no charge ever in the hearing of the Spirit. Yet, the false “apostle” (the falsely sent preachers) always charge money in their gatherings in one way or another.

(17) And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Jesus was a “stranger” in the eyes of the 2 disciples who were going towards Emmaus. But they listened to Him as He opened up the Scriptures to them. They did not argue in contention over what they heard.

Luke 24:28-35 KJV
(28) And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.

They let brotherly love continue and did entertain Him even though they perceived Him as a “stranger”. They constrained Him saying “Abide with us”. We, also, are to be inviting and say “Come”…abide.

(29) But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.

We are to let brotherly love continue…..keeping the feast….thereby, we shall know it is Him speaking to us.

(30) And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
(31) And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

He is the “bright and morning star” within our hearts when we hear His voice speaking to us. Did not our heart burn within us while He talks with us by the Way and while He opened to us the Scriptures?

(32) And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
(33) And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,

The Lord IS RISEN indeed and has appeared to “Simon” which means “HEARING”.

(34) Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
(35) And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.

“Blessed”….that is, HAPPY…is the man who will be found like a tree planted by the “rivers of water” drinking in what he hears the Spirit saying….the river of life that flows from the mouth of those who are truly sent and speak what they hear the Lord saying in the Spirit. That man who hears will let brotherly love continue and will not join along with the others who will mock and speak evil of what they hear the Spirit saying….the “rivers of water”.

Psalms 1:1-6 KJV
(1) Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
(2) But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

The happy man shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth the fruit of righteousness in his season….at the hearing of His voice. His leaf shall not wither as he will not speak evil. He will not sin against what he hears.

(3) And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the “wind”…that is, the Spirit….drives away. They will resist the Spirit and be found behaving badly in their wrath towards what they hear. they will not enter in to understand nor will they be in the congregation of the righteous at the hearing of His voice.

(4) The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
(5) Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
(6) For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Everyone that thirsts are invited to come to the “waters”. They are to take of what they hear the Spirit saying FREELY…. “without money and without price”.

Isaiah 55:1-13 KJV
(1) Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Why spend money at our churches where men preach the word of men and we are still not satisfied? Why labor there for their empty words that do not fill us with His knowledge and wisdom?

We are to HEAR DILIGENTLY unto Him and “eat” that which is good and let our soul DELIGHT itself in the “fatness” of what we hear.

(2) Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

We are to “incline our ear”…that is, to broaden or expand. Let there be an expanse…..the firmament. We are to hear what the Spirit (the rivers of life) at saying and our soul shall live....rejoice in what we hear.

(3) Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
(4) Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
(5) Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

We are to seek Him while He may be found (in the acceptable YEAR of His favor) as we hear His voice and we are to be found of Him doing His will….bringing forth the fruits of righteousness in due season. The “leaves” of the tree are for healing….that is, calling upon Him while He is near.

(6) Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

We are to lose our lives to save them. We are to forsake our own ways and thoughts for His. He will abundantly pardon.

(7) Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
(8) For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
(9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
(10) For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
(11) So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

The living waters produce JOY with peace.

(12) For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
(13) Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

We are to loosen ourselves from the church bondage of men who preach for doctrines the teachings and commandments of men. We are to hear and be found awaking from our "sleep" and putting on Christ.

Isaiah 52:1-7 KJV
(1) Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
(2) Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

We have sold ourselves to them for nothing and we shall be redeemed WITHOUT MONEY.

(3) For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

We went into their church bondage (Egypt) to “sojourn there” and the “Assyrian”…the church leader who practices and prospers (and rejoices in this situation as his earthly needs are getting met)… oppresses us without cause.

(4) For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

They rule over us in their churches where we are kept captives in the bondage of the teachings and commandments of men that do not profit us at all. The Lord’s Name is being blasphemed among the nations of the world as they see this preaching for money and making merchandise of the sheep by their preachers.

(5) Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

But the Lord in His mercy send those people to speak to the churches in the Spirit. They bring good tidings of good. Our God reigns! It is Him that speaks to our hearing ears.....BEHOLD, IT IS I.

(6) Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
(7) How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

We are to hear and not be found “unwise” but understanding what the will of the Lord is…doing it.

Ephesians 5:17-21 KJV
(17) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

We are not to be found of Him “drunk” with the wine of wrath …resisting the Spirit in wrath….but rather being filled with the Spirit….the living water that we drink in.

(18) And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

We are to hear the Spirit and REJOICE to the Lord and giving thanks to Him in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(19) Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
(20) Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
(21) Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

We are to make a joyful noise unto the LORD….serving Him with gladness. We are to come before His presence with singing.

Psalms 100:1-5 KJV
(1) A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
(2) Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
(3) Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

We are to enter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise…being thankful unto Him and bless His name.

(4) Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
(5) For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Blessed are those who will be found DOING HIS commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates (gates of praise and thanksgiving) into the city. They will enter in to understand.

Revelation 22:14-17 KJV
(14) Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

Not so for those who will be found obeying unrighteousness. They will be outside the understanding and will not enter in.

(15) For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
(16) I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
(17) And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Our God and Savior wants all men to be “saved” (HEALED) and to come unto the knowledge of the Truth…entering it through the gates of praise into the “city”.

1 Timothy 2:3-4 KJV
(3) For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
(4) Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

The leaves of the tree are for healing....as we use our tongues to call upon the name of the Lord and be "saved"...healed.

Romans 10:11-17 KJV
(11) For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
(12) For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
(13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(14) How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
(15) And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
(16) But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
(17) So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.