Today,
reply is on the character and properties among sheep that promote
their use by divinity to provide atonement for sin, to further
communication and covenant relationship for created beings and
living creatures on the earth, and to fulfill revelation to mankind.
Sheep often are used to depict and represent an ideal pastoral
condition within the church of Jesus Christ. As creatures that stay
together in small family groups, yet also are communal for their
survival, sheep may be gathered in large groups without conflict,
competition, defying authority, rebellion, and violence against one
another. Christ who is head of the church is also the lamb of GOD
who takes away the sin of the world. Mankind has existence and life
within both the Creation and the Creator. The kinship of mankind to
divinity first appears and is manifest through divine content, sacred
law, mystery, prophecy, spirit process, and other sacred elements
that can reside within human consciousness and self-will. Those who
become born again are to exist on the earth displaying the image of
GOD, and demonstrating divine guidance, sacred
knowledge, resurrection life,
and their own fresh endowment of inseparable spirit imparted from the
makeup of GOD. Included are balance, commitment, faith, holiness,
lovingkindness, oneness without sameness, personhood, righteousness,
wisdom, and wrath against sin. The sacrifice provided by divinity on
behalf of mankind includes sacred blood and substance for atonement,
propitiation, and reconciliation. It is written: Psalms 100: 3,
King James Version (KJV): 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. The fighter who uses the ID “Alex” (Level
3 with 1,120 points) in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on
Religion & Spirituality posted the following:
Why
are "most" religious people such sheep? And if Jesus talks
about peace why do these hypocrites feel the need to bash other
people?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we
ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or
stone, graven by art and man’s
device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now
commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed
a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that
man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance
unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. (Acts
17: 29-31, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: A Habitation of Spirit (04/05/2020); TWO Kinds of
People? (02/21/2020); Do Animals Have “Souls”? (01/19/2020);
Fully Communicating Human Potential? (09/30/2019); Divine Spirit
Within Animals? (09/05/2019); To Be Jesus’
Sheep (06/10/2019); My Sheep Hear My Voice (11/16/2016)
“Alex”,
the ones you call “sheep” exist as those who are in personal
relationship with the Creator through obedience, reverence, and
trust. The sheep patiently and quietly respond to such elements as
authority, grace, sacred law, divine prerogative, eternal purpose,
and the sovereign will of GOD. Because divinity is immortal,
incorruptible, and invisible, the process and substance of GOD first
were made known to mankind using finite figures and operations that
have meaning and value at the level of human consciousness and
self-will. Where there has been spiritual growth and maturity,
divine fullness (i.e., divinity; the Godhead; the Father, the Son,
the Holy Spirit) may be discerned through fresh endowments of the
life essence imparted at Creation to mankind from the makeup
of GOD and that are now available through the ministries of Jesus
Christ. Inseparable aspects of what/who we know as GOD are being
bestowed on mankind that include balance, faith, holiness,
longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without sameness, personhood,
wisdom, and wrath against sin. Such divine operations must appear as
atonement, edification, judgment, prophecy, redemption, revelation,
salvation, and unselfish service. The transgression of sacred law
committed by the first pair (i.e., the fall of Adam) disrupted divine
order and continuing existence on multiple levels throughout the
universe. In the same way sleep (death) was used to preserve the
male when his rib was removed to create the female, divinity has been
using the death, the blood of Jesus Christ, and his resurrection from
the dead to further fashion the character, nature and quality of
mankind. Consider again the following that uses language from the
Bible and a selection from the music ministry of Steve Amerson:
(1.)
Ezekiel 34: 11-17, King James Version (KJV): 11 For thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both
search my sheep, and seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeketh out his
flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are
scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of
all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them
upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited
places of the country. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and
upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall
they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed
upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will
cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD. 16 I
will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven
away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will
strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the
strong; I will feed them with judgment. 17 And as for you, O
my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I
judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
(2.)
Ezekiel 34: 30-31, KJV: 30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD
their God am with them, and that they, even the
house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord GOD.
31 And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and
I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
(3.)
John 10: 7-17, KJV: 7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All that ever
came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear
them. 9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be
saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 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. 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his
life for the sheep. 12 But he that is an hireling, and not the
shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and
leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and
scattereth the sheep. 13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an
hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd,
and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15 As the Father
knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for
the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold:
them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall
be one fold, and one shepherd. 17 Therefore doth my Father
love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMd4o8HoH10&list=FLD-fEmPQDdXFIv9qj8rBJVA&index=12&t=0s.)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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