Today,
reply is on mankind choosing places to be closer to GOD; oneness
without sameness; sanctification; and the locations where
divinity appeared as present that were marked through memorials and
worship. Most of the places named throughout the holy writings are
recorded as sites where sacred events occurred, and are not just
geographical references. For example, Babel—later
called Babylon that appears as a place of captivity and restriction
for the people of GOD—is notable
as a place where all mankind were smitten by GOD (without using
widespread death), and the living were made to be culturally diverse.
Following the flood of Noah, all his offspring eventually converged
on that location to build a tower that might save them from the next
flood event. Despite the promise of GOD that there he would not send
another flood, the survivors from Noah demonstrated total agreement,
cooperation, and peace on the earth by building a tower that would
reach to heaven. In so doing, they dismissed their proper focus and
work commanded by GOD: Multiply, be fruitful, and overspread
(replenish) the earth. Therefore, their languages were confused, not
to punish their sin and wrongdoing so much as to ensure that the
earth be populated. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers”
public forum on Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous”
(no profile information shared) posted the following:
If
God is everywhere, why does going to the top of a mountain make you
any closer to God, as in Moses' case?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: And the whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And
they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for
morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And
the LORD came down to see the city and the tower,
which the children of men builded. And the LORD
said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one
language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us
go down, and there confound their language, that they may not
understand one another’s speech.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence
upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD
did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence
did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of
all the earth. (Genesis 11: 1-9, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Judgment Against The Canaanites (08/01/2018); Heaven
Temporal, GOD Eternal (12/12/2017); Where Will Believers Go?
(10/26/2016); Diversity and Divine
Purpose (08/28/2016); The Bridge To Heaven (01/27/2016);
Belief In Another World?
(02/17/2016); Will Truth Destroy Joy? (11/10/2014); No Sorrow in
Heaven? (11/11/2014); Holy Ground (03/30/2014)
“Anonymous”,
among mature Christian believers, all of the many appearances and
manifestations of divinity (we also say, divine fullness; active
presence; the Godhead; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) are
aspects of a single revelation from the Creator to the diverse
created beings and living creatures of heaven and earth. To fully
apprehend the multiple streams of truth proclaiming that invisible,
unseen divinity exists and resides within carnal, material, natural,
and social features on the earth, sinners first must become aware and
conscious that the character, makeup, process, and substance of
divine fullness are the full array of inseparable spirit elements.
Included are balance, eternal purpose, faith, forbearance, holiness,
perfection, righteousness, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
Separation
of GOD from mankind on the earth was first understood by the idea of
physical separation of heaven from the earth. GOD was believed to
reside within a celestial realm and sphere of life located above the
sky and astronomical space. Communication, exchange and interaction
with divinity continued on a daily basis through divine visitation,
and by GOD appearing regularly within a space familiar and known (the
Garden of Eden). However, more than a measurable distance between
heaven and the earth, it is the endowment of the living with
consciousness and self-will that separate the living from the
Creator. There are frameworks for expression by the living that
include appetite (e.g., hunger, thirst, sexual cravings), sensation
(hearing, seeing, tasting, touching) and emotion/mind (anger, dreams,
fear, imagination). While GOD has not put forth sin and wickedness,
the operations of sin may determine choice and decision-making within
the living. Sin opposes the continued existence of sacred law, the
Lawgiver, and divine order throughout the universe.
Reducing
the sense of separation between mankind and his maker requires
visible elements that have meaning and value from GOD, and that are
not simply from the errors, fantasies, fears, and superstitions of
men. The meeting place GOD chose from all the many locations on the
earth was in the land of Canaan (many say, the land promised to
Abram), and in a specific area whose name changes within the holy
writings over the course of thousands of years (e.g., Mount Moriah
later Mount Zion). Among Abraham and his descendants who all endured
a form of nomadic life (e.g., the exodus, the captivity, the
persecution that scattered the early church), embodying covenant and
imparted spirit became pronounced. Simple objects and structures
were created to serve as identifiers and memorials acknowledging
divine appearances, the locations where divinity has been
encountered, and the places where divinity acknowledged and received
offerings, praise and worship. Included have been altars,
circumcision, mounds, pillars, shrines, tabernacles, and temples.
Even so, redemption and salvation for mankind has required an
appearance of divinity on the earth using flesh and bone as Jesus
Christ (we say, the Incarnation). Consider the following that uses
language from the Bible:
1.
Genesis 22: 1-4, King James Version (KJV): 1 And it came to pass
after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him,
Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2 And he
said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for
a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and
took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the
wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of
which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up
his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
2.
Genesis 22: 9-14, KJV: 9 And they came to the place which God had
told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in
order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the
wood. 10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to
slay his son. 11 And the angel of the LORD
called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he
said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the
lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou
fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son
from me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold
behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt
offering in the stead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of
that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the
mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
3.
Exodus 3: 1-5, KJV: 1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his
father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the
backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even
to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared
unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he
looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was
not consumed. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this
great sight, why the bush is not burnt. 4 And when the LORD
saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst
of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy
feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 4. Romans 8: 3-9, KJV: 3 For what the
law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending
his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned
sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be
fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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. 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.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be
useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
Washington,
DC
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