Today,
reply is on authenticity for experiences of divine visitation. One
of the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion
and Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile is
shown) posted the following:
What
would you say if I told you that Jesus is sitting right here next to
me?
I
would guess that even Christians would call me a troll and a liar, to
which I say-
Wait
a minute- I thought you said that Jesus was coming back! How do you
know He wouldn't pick a random person to help Him get started?
There's a lot of logistics to consider here-
such
as easing into it via radio, tv and/or social media announcements,
avoiding mass panic, coordinating traffic, etc.
So,
what do you say now?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the
kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of
God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here!
or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. And he
said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to
see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after
them, nor follow them. For as the lightning, that
lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the
other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
(Luke 17: 20-24, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Prophecy Over Personal Testimony? (06/29/2017); Proof
That GOD Exists? (10/16/2016); On Really Seeing Angels (10/09/2016);
The Testimony From Jesus (08/05/2016); Knowing GOD For Yourself
(07/13/2016); Seeing Jesus While Alive? (02/05/2016); What To Say To
A Friend? (03/29/2015); A Visit from an Angel? (10/20/2013); The Head
Not The Tail? (12/21/2013)
“Anonymous”,
“child, please!” Nothing is impossible with GOD, however,
claiming experiences of encounters with divinity is no laughing
matter. Sacred knowledge rather than secular knowledge
is always a gift that should be received with joy, yet, with gravity,
meekness, respect and sobriety. Within the church established by
Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit, occurrences and reports of
encounters with divinity must be respected as intended to edify and
build spirit value. Every member is to receive inseparable spirit
matter from the makeup of GOD that includes faith, holiness,
longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without sameness,
personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin. Until shown to lack
authenticity, a report is to be accounted as testimony within the
process of ongoing divine judgment (i.e., a statement under oath
bearing penalties for perjury, and therefore, “the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth”). For sinners who become “born
again,” the sacred process is one of multiple changes, discovery,
gradual growth, learning, and study. Ones integrity and
justification as a believer comes by being anchored in the testimony
of Jesus, the Spirit of prophecy.
Many
within the body argue that no one is to see the resurrected Jesus in
a one-on-one experience of prayer, or of private revelation (as did
the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus). Paul wrote: (1st
Corinthians 15: 3-8, King James Version (KJV): 3 For I delivered
unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ
died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was
buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the
scriptures: 5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 6
After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of
whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen
asleep. 7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the
apostles. 8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born
out of due time. Also, the promises recorded as the revelation given
to Jesus to share with his church state that “every eye will see
him” at his appearing (we also say, Advent; the harvest; the
Rapture; the Second Coming).
Developing
and mature Christian believers are encouraged to “try the spirits”
(i.e., examine the character, makeup, origin, divine process, sacred
purpose, and divine substance) within events, oneself, other persons,
prophecy, holy writings, etc. Believers are to focus on the claims
and reports that come from divinity, avoiding material that displays
only self-promotion, sensationalism, and vainglory. There should be
accord and agreement with the things already proclaimed, promised,
and recorded for the body of Christ as well as those things that are
in their ongoing fulfillment. Consider again the following that uses
language from the Bible:
1.
2nd Peter 1: 2-4, King James Version (KJV): 2 Grace and
peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of
Jesus our Lord, 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us
all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4 Whereby
are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust.
2.
1st Corinthians 12: 3-13, KJV: 3 Wherefore I give you
to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth
Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the
Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 4 Now there are diversities of gifts,
but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of administrations,
but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it
is the same God which worketh all in all. 7 But the manifestation of
the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is
given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit;
to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another
the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning
of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the
interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh that one and the
selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12 For
as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of
that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we
be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have
been all made to drink into one Spirit.
3.
1st John 4: 1-3, KJV: 1 Beloved, believe not every
spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many
false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the
Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not
that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is
that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it
should come; and even now already is it in the world.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 4. Revelation 19: 9-10, KJV: 9 And he
saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto
the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the
true sayings of God. 10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And
he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow-servant,
and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God:
for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.) Even so, I
trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your
faith.
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