Friday, May 25, 2018

(05/25/2018) Natural Law, Enmity, Sin



Today, reply is on divine judgment, why there are many false accusers, and the Scripture tools for understanding the end times.  The revelation of GOD to created beings and living creatures has been provided through patterns of events that display divine personhood and sacred process, and that make divinity visible as active presence.  The use of false accusers to glorify GOD pertains to a form of judgment (testing; trial) different from that of tribunal for condemnation and punishment.  When challenged in the same way as was Jesus himself, otherwise hidden, Christ-like character and spirit makeup will be exposed.  One of the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” Religion and Spirituality forum who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile data shared) posted the following:


Why are there so many disrespectful false accusers in these last days?

I'm excited to go home with my Father


THE GOLDEN ARROW:  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.  If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you:  on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.  But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.  Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:  and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.  (1st Peter 4:  12-19, King James Version, KJV)


THE DOUBLE DAGGER:  Neither “All-knowing” Nor “Omniscient” (11/07/2017); The Peace to Endure? (03/28/2017); A Child Is Born (12/28/2016); How Is Flesh Evil? (10/28/2016); Why Is Lust Condemned? (07/20/2016); Hardness of Heart? (11/24/2013); Prayer on Behalf of Others? (11/25/2013); Teachings on Judgment (06/06/2013); Those Who Never Heard? (06/07/2013)


“Anonymous”, there is an ongoing process of GOD.  The holy writings do not allow mature Christian believers to completely and correctly explain all the eternal purposes of divinity, the imperatives generated by multiple streams of divine truth, or “why” GOD may have used specific events and methods to express the divine heart, prerogative, and sovereign will.  Much of the ungodly behavior that is manifest in the public arena, today, appears in response to such influences as ignorance; mechanical and natural laws; the operations of sin that dominate awareness and self-will in the living; and secular knowledge that empowers covetousness, exaggerated pride, selfishness, and presumption against divinity.  Rather than declarations of “why” from the divine fullness, there are many Scripture tools from GOD to comfort, prepare, and steady the church of Jesus Christ.  Included are admonitions, descriptions of conditions, doctrines, instructions, parables, prophecies, signs, and warnings.  Consider again the following that uses language from the Bible:

(1.)  Genesis 3:  14-16, King James Version (KJV):  14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:  15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.  16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

(2.)  Acts 2:  17-21, KJV:  17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh:  and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:  18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:  19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:  20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord come:  21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

(3.)  Romans 8:  5-9, 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.  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.

(4.)  2nd Timothy 3:  1-5, KJV:  1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,  4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;  5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

There is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually apprehended.  (For example, (5.)  1st Corinthians 15:  22-28, KJV:  22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.  23 But every man in his own order:  Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.  24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.  25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.  26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.  27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.  28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.)  Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful.  Be it unto you according to your faith.


THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC

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