Today,
reply is on apprehending divinity who is spirit in character and
substance. The finite tools used by created beings and living
creatures that shape their awareness include appetite, sensation,
emotion, and mind. Divine tools are to be employed that include awe
(correct acknowledgment of the awesomeness of GOD), discernment,
discovery, duty, fellowship, gratitude, meekness, obedience,
unselfish service, and suffering. The fighter in the Religion and
Spirituality public forum at “Yahoo Answers” who uses the ID
“Steven” (Level 1 with 143 points, a member since July 10, 2018)
posted the following:
Have
the four seraphim ever seen the LORD God Almighty?
Isaiah
6 1-4
1
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted,
seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2
Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they
covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two
they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:
“Holy,
holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
the
whole earth is full of his glory.”
4
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and
the temple was filled with smoke.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal
life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good
profession before many witnesses. I give thee charge in the sight of
God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who
before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;That thou keep this
commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our
Lord Jesus Christ: Which in his times he shall shew, who is
the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can
approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be
honour and power everlasting. Amen. (1st Timothy 6:
12-16, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Opposing The Divine Will (03/30/2018); The Meaning of
“Faith” (03/28/2018); What Is A Spirit? (03/06/2018); On Really
Seeing Angels (10/09/2016); About Lucifer in Scripture (02/18/2016);
Holiness (07/01/2015); Getting It Right About Angels (05/10/2015);
The God Concept? (02/13/2015)
“Steven”,
what I have received as a Christian believer is that the holy angels
know divinity by faith, not by sight. When the angelic host
assembles before the throne of GOD (we also say, the judgment seat;
the Mercy Seat) as depicted by the two cherubim atop the Ark of the
Covenant, the view of divine effulgence is blocked, and made to
appear as though “through a glass darkly.” Many on the earth
mistakenly believe that the holy angels exist as all-knowing,
immortal, independent beings who continually gaze upon the beauty of
GOD night and day. Yet, all created beings and living creatures are
to apprehend the divine fullness (we say, the GODhead) not on the
basis of his image, rather, on the basis of the nature, propensities,
properties, and eternal purposes of GOD. Our own existence having
life affirms the existence of our Creator; and we are correct to
ascribe authority, awe, dominion, glory, honor, lovingkindness,
majesty, righteousness, and wisdom to GOD. More than seeing with the
eye, the living must rely on such elements as the active presence of
breath and spirit that they have received from the makeup of the
Creator; obedience to divine law; sacrifice and unselfish service to
GOD; the operations of faith; sacred revelation; and sovereign
decree. The immortal, incorruptible, unchanging personhood of GOD
must be realized as continuing to be invisible and without material
form, even though the Father continues to be embodied as the Son of
GOD in Jesus Christ. Consider again how the following speaks to the
same process of GOD appearing within both heaven and earth:
(1.)
Deuteronomy 29: 29, King James Version (KJV): 29 The secret things
belong unto the LORD our God: but those
things which are revealed belong unto us and to our
children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
(2.)
1st Corinthians 2: 7-14, KJV: 7 But we speak the wisdom
of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God
ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the
princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would
not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written, Eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of
man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what
man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in
him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given
to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which
man’s wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned.
(3.)
1st Kings 6: 26-28, KJV: 26 The height of the one
cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub. 27
And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched
forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched
the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the
other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the
house. 28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.) Hebrews 8: 1-6, KJV: 1 Now of the
things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an
high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens; 2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the
true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 3 For every
high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it
is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. 4 For
if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are
priests that offer gifts according to the law: 5 Who serve unto the
example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God
when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that
thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the
mount. 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how
much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was
established upon better promises.) 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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