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Peace in Christ.

Darkness covers the earth….thick spiritual darkness is upon the people of the outside world.

We are to shine upon them His glory light….but we must first “arise” from the dead man-based churches and depart from them and be completely separate from them.

Isa 60:1-2 KJV
(1) Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

(2) For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

The earth has become without form…without the form of Christ…and void….void of the knowledge of the glory of God as His people (the “heavens”) are without His light to shine to them. His people are foolish…they have no understanding….and so the people of the outside earth do not see His light…only thick darkness.

Jer 4:22-23
(22) For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

(23) I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was (became) without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

The earth became without form and void. The people of the outside world cannot see His form through us nor His glory light while we are attending the man-based churches where they are keeping and serving their handwritings….their images.

Thick darkness covers the people of this world because we…His people…have no glory light of God to show to them. We have no understanding. Yet, the Spirit of God moves upon the FACES (plural) of the waters...people. With our open face, we shall shine His light to the people of this earth who are sitting in great spiritual darkness.

Gen 1:2-3 KJV
(2) And the earth was (BECAME) without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face (FACES) of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face (FACES) of the waters.

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

Depart….depart. This is why we must depart from the man-based churches in order to show the people of this world the form of Christ and shine the glory light of God to them. We are to “arise and shine.”

Isa 52:11-15 KJV
(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.

The LORD will go “before you”….literally, He will “walk in the faces of you.”

His glory shall be seen by them in our faces….just as Moses face did shine. Moses was not aware that his face was shining….but it did have an effect upon the people who did see his face. Exodus 34:30 .

(12) For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go (walk) before (FACES) you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

We shall go only upwards in this world.

(13) Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

While we attended the man-based churches, the people of the outside world did not see the form of Christ in us. His visage…His view …His form…was so marred more than any man. There also was no knowledge of the glory of God.

(14) As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

But now when we depart from the man-based churches, the people of the outside world shall SEE and consider in their hearts when they look at us as His form...His express image... and His glory light will shine unto them. They shall see His form…His visage...the express image of the Son…in us. Let there be light.

(15) So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

The Spirit of God moved upon the FACES of the waters.

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

The Lord is that Spirit. We, with our open face to this world, are to be changed/transformed into the same image of Christ from glory to glory by God’s Spirit. Our faces shall shine with His light to them. Let there be light…and there was light. God is light.

2Co 3:17-18 KJV
(17) Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

(18) But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

We are to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the FACE of Jesus Christ who is the express image of Him. This knowledge first shines within our hearts....but then it shines outwardly towards those who are sitting in deep darkness.

2Co 4:6-7 KJV
(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.

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

I will behold His face as we shall “awake” with His likeness….the express image of the Son who is the express image of God.

Psa 17:15 KJV
(15) As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

For the Son is the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person.

We are to partake of His divine nature now in this world. We, also, are to be transformed to the same image of His glory in this world so that we may shine to the people of the outside world who will then be attracted to His light.

Heb 1:2-3 KJV
(2) Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

(3) Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

But our sins have hid His FACES (plural) from us. We do not reflect His glory in our faces to the outside world who are now sitting in deep spiritual darkness because His people are foolish and do not know Him.

Isa 59:2
(2) But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face (faces) from you, that he will not hear.

We wait for His light…for brightness….but there is none…but instead walk in darkness.

Isa 59:9-10 KJV
(9) Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

(10) We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

But we are to "arise" from the man-based churches and depart so that we may "shine". In Christ, with His shining glory face (faces….plural), we shall subdue nations.

Isa 45:1-7
(1) Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before (to FACES of you) him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before (to FACES of you) him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

He will go “before”…to FACES of you…and make the crooked places straight. The Spirit of God moves in our open-to-the-world faces.

(2) I will go before (to faces of you) thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
(3) And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
(4) For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
(5) I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
(6) That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

(7) I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
 

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Consider giving away ALL you stuff. Never having to work for or comply to others in order to maintain or add to or even keep your 'stuff'. Somebody always wants what is yours. Imagine the freedom. This is what God asks of us. To give up following the rules we make for ourselves that oppress rather than free. Servitude to God and others instead of to ourselves is freedom as we no longer play the games we created to fit in with this world we have made in our own image.
 
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