(07/01/2019) The Interface With Christ

Today, reply is using the frameworks of time and space to apprehend Jesus Christ, who ministered on earth as flesh, and continues to minster from heaven through Spirit. Since ancient times, divinity has shown themselves to be knowable to created beings and living creatures. The things that were important yesterday are also important today because they were provided as eternal, spirit in their focus and substance, timeless, and always endured with power to manifest meaning and value. As truth, the promises and prophecy from GOD do not change or fade; however, among created being and living creatures, acceptance, agreement, and understanding of these things will change because of discovery, aging, the continuance of revelation with the occurrence of additional sacred events, gradual growth, and our becoming emotionally, psychologically and spiritually mature. It is written: 1^st Corinthians 13: 9-12, King James Version (KJV): 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. A fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID “jane” (Level 1 with 1 point, a member since May 15, 2019) posted the following:

What the bible mean Jesus Christ yesturday to day and forever meaninf of Hebrews 3:8?

Update: What the bible mean Jesus Christ yesturday to day and forever meaning of Hebrews 3:8?

THE GOLDEN ARROW: God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (Numbers 23: 19, King James Version, KJV)

THE DOUBLE DAGGER: The Character of GOD (06/27/2019); Spiritual Confusion About Heaven (05/31/2019); Committed To Unchanging Promise (04/09/2019); By Reading The Bible? (11/18/2018); The Origin And Source (04/26/2018); Time and Chance Happen... (02/27/2018); Recognizing True Christian Prophets (02/26/2018); Time and Sacred Events? (03/30/2017); When GOD Controls? (04/22/2013); The Divine Use of a Human Life? (04/23/2013)

“jane”, the point of contact between GOD and mankind is always to be I AM; here and now are superfluous. Many mature Christian believers read the verse you have shared (Hebrews 13: 8, King James Version (KJV): 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.) as a description of Jesus Christ that acknowledges natural, mechanical and physical features for divinity embodied in human flesh, and that uses the measurable frameworks of time and space, rather than focuses on the Savior’s immeasurable sacred content, process, and presence. Without divine order that includes sacred law, precepts, principles, standards and values, there can be no time or space. Sin that opposes the continued existence of divine law, the Lawgiver, and the platforms of Creation (heaven and earth) promotes its own destruction, and fosters a return to the conditions in place before the universe was established (we say, preexistence marked by chaos, confusion, flux, and uninterrupted motion without direction).

Mankind is to communicate, exist, exchange and interact with immortal, incorruptible divinity as a life companion. The living must undergo permanent changes and a transformation of life essence (we say, breath; spirit; word) through operations of the Holy Spirit that are divinely managed and structured. Thus, in water baptism, the inborn spirit dies, is buried, and is resurrected from the dead (so to speak). The repenting sinner is “born again” having seed from GOD (divine DNA); must “grow up again” while living on the earth; and must become mature/ripe/stable for harvest by Christ at his appearing.

Developing believers will display inseparable, unchanging aspects of divine fullness such as balance, faith, gratitude, holiness, joy, longsuffering, lovingkindness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin. The fresh endowment of these elements permit the believer to interface and be merged with Christ having oneness without sameness. The active presence and immutable truth who becomes visible through Jesus Christ is discerned without time and space through the devices of divine prerogative (we say, grace), divine law, eternal purpose, unselfish service, suffering, and the sovereign will of GOD. Consider again the following that uses language from the Bible:

1. Malachi 3: 5-7, King James Version (KJV): 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. 6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

2. 2^nd Corinthians 5: 16-21, KJV: 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

There is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually apprehended. (For example, 3. 1^st Corinthians 15: 50-54, KJV: 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.

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THE BLACK PHOENIX

Washington, DC

(07/06/2016) Divine Inheritance and Resurrection?

Devices provided to permit mortals on the earth to have uninterrupted existence in covenant with immortal divinity are in view, today.  Therefore, covenant relationships, the kinsman redeemer, hope, inheritance, levirate marriage, promise, revelation, resurrection, and sacred law all are topics.  The fulfillment of divine promise is not a matter of chance, or a mere completion of mechanical cycles and sequences of natural events that appear in the earth.  Divine intent and eternal purpose are carried out and deliberately performed by the full GODhead that displays divine consciousness, person, and will.  Included are the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the Son of the Highest.  The use of death to block and break off sin, with resurrection to restore the dead in judgment maintains and further enables such original divine purposes in Creation as the intent that existence, life and purity should be eternal, nonstop, perpetual, without decay or defilement, and uninterrupted.  The fighter at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “abdul” (Level 1 with 61 points, a member since May 12, 2015) posted the following:


What do these mean?

Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him, Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother. There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children. And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died. Last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife. And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
(Luke 20:27-36)


THE GOLDEN ARROW:  For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,  Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.  And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.  For men verily swear by the greater:  and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.  Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:  That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:  Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;  Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.  (Hebrews 6:  13-20, King James Version, KJV)


THE DOUBLE DAGGER:  The Purpose of Resurrection (07/015/2016); An Eternal Inheritance? (06/26/2016); The Cross and The Pharisees? (04/21/2016); Heirs of The Cross? (04/01/2016); Sadducees and The Cross? (03/13/2016); Incest? (10/29/2015); The Bible and Genealogy (09/10/2013); Why GOD Does Not Tell All (09/11/2013)


“abdul”, for those having sacred knowledge through regular study of the holy writings, and those who share fellowship and sacred practice (we say, sacraments) as mature Christian believers, the passage of Scripture you are considering is intended to correct recurring errors about the character, nature and substance of GOD.  The following points should be carefully examined:

1.  The devices of family, inheritance and covenant relationship are used by the Creator to continue close association, communication, and interaction with mankind despite the interruptions that repeatedly occur through decease, mortality, and sin.  Divinity does not define or use “family” in the same way carnal, material, and social beings do.  Thus, the earth was to be populated using a single son of GOD, Adam, and his offspring.  The issues and problems we now know regarding incest and marriage did not exist.

2.  The Creator has made divinity knowable and known using spokespersons and divine utterance (we say, prophets, messengers, the word) that includes proclamation, promise, and prophecy.  The platforms of heaven and earth have been separated, and made to be stable apart from a former condition of chaos, flux, and being without form.  As the origin of all sacred law, divine order, and stability for the universe, the Creator has revealed himself to be immortal,  immutable and unchanging.  Covenants to recover intimacy with mankind rely upon diversity and meeting specific divinely set conditions in place of accident, chance, change, or randomness.

3.  The covenants to establish Israel included their transformation from a collection of tribes into a sovereign state among the nations upon the earth.  As the lawful owner of the earth realm, the Creator dispossessed the seven tribes that lived in the Promised Land as partners in an original covenant, that did not address the offspring and promise to Abraham.  The allotments and distribution of the land provided by GOD were to be permanent.  As such, the economy of the state would be ensured to prosper through inheritance.  Conflict and wars to settle property disputes would be avoided:  even where a man would die childless, a provision was made that allowed his brother (i.e., kinsman redeemer, or nearest of kin) to impregnate his spouse, and rear a child “to carry on his name.”

There is far more that could be said, must be carefully examined, and spiritually understood.  (For example, 4.  The appearance of GOD in human experience continues to be discerned and realized through operations of unseen things that include awareness, being, life essence (we say, breath, spirit, word), and person.  Mankind is to be acknowledged as a product of imparting spirit content from the makeup of the Creator into a material form fashioned by GOD.  Judgment, rebirth through baptism, and resurrection for the dead are provided as devices to accomplish eternal purposes that include permanently eliminating death and sin.  Through the Holy Spirit (also called, the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Prophecy, the Spirit of Truth), followers of Jesus Christ are to exist as a new creation, and vessels filled with inseparable aspects from the makeup of GOD such as faith, holiness, joy, longsuffering, meekness, wisdom and wrath against sin.)  Even so, I am sure this fragment will be useful.  Be it unto you according to your faith.

THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC

(12/24/2015) Divine Discipline?

Discipline among believers, covenant law, and divine order within the early church are topics, today.  Guided by prophecy and the imparted Spirit, believers were to maintain a lifestyle with strict order that would distinguish the early church as a “peculiar people.”  Consider the following from the Bible, and the points shared below:  Titus 2:  11-14, King James Version (KJV):  11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,  12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;  13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;  14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.  Also, Ephesians 4:  11-15, KJV:  11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:  13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:  14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;  15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:  One of the fighters at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Anonymous” (the required profile information is not shared) posted the following:


Did Corinthian Christians care about the effect of disfellowshipping on this former member?

1 corinthians 5:11-13 and 2 corinthians 2:5-8


THE GOLDEN ARROW:  If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour:  for we are members one of another.  Be ye angry, and sin not:  let not the sun go down upon your wrath:  Neither give place to the devil.  Let him that stole steal no more:  but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.  (Ephesians 4:  21-32, KJV)


THE DOUBLE DAGGER:  Punishment To Show Love? (11/29/2015); Rebuked, And Not Baptized? (10/22/2015); We Judge Each Other? (10/04/2015); Old Testament Laws Today? (08/06/2015); Why Punish Innocence? (05/22/2015); Divine Love Seen As Hate? (01/29/2015); Beyond Punishment (03/21/2014); A Guarantee of Heaven? (03/22/2014) 


“Anonymous”, the primary concerns and duties for the early church centered upon enduring persecution, continuing the revelation of Jesus Christ, spreading the Gospel, and displaying rebirth, resurrection and new life.  Believers were challenged to operate with balance and circumspection despite danger, diversity, excitement, and zeal.  While not pursuing all the ceremonies and rituals of earlier covenants, the church would not eliminate sacred law, and—like the law and tradition—the church was to expose and rebuke sin; resolve conflict; continue community.  Keep in mind, the early church as a standing organization developed from a loose affiliation among those who repeatedly came out to see Jesus in the crowds that began to follow him.  Included were churchmen, curiosity seekers, skeptics, those who came for healing, and those looking to secure political advantage and favor within the new kingdom they expected to appear.  While feeding and healing the thousands that assembled has been acknowledged as sacred events, the Savior’s first and greatest miracle on those occasions is often overlooked:  Christ always began by requiring “divine order” through the same Holy Spirit that established the firmament of heaven and earth.  The covenant (law) of Moses would be modified and become a new testament through the blood of Jesus Christ, yet, the original commandments that were to  establish and uphold a divine nation would not be altered or suspended.  Following the sacred events of Pentecost, early believers would develop procedures to maintain order, propriety and stability.  The apostles would authenticate and witness to sacred manifestations (the gifts of the Spirit) by preaching, and through the laying on of hands.  There would be new roles and the division of labor (apostles, bishops, deacons, evangelist); regular routines for gathering; rules for continuing communication, exchange and interaction as well as liturgy for worship.  The ministry to those in error included correction, forbearance, forgiveness, “godly sorrow,” guidance, and punishment.  Consider again the following points that should be familiar from the holy writings:

(1.)  1st Corinthians 14:  29-33, King James Version (KJV):  29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.  30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.  31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.  32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.  33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

(2.)  1st Corinthians 14:  40, KJV:  40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

(3.)  Acts 21:  24-26, KJV:  24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads:  and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.  25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.  26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them.

There are many other verses that should be carefully considered, correctly understood, and made a part of ones spiritual arsenal.  (For example, (4.)  Matthew 18:  15-17, KJV:  15 Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone:  if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.  16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.  17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church:  but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.)  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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