Yeshua Prophecy: Angel

The Revelation of God's will for man - Part 3

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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">All true prophecy is from God for His glory and the sake of the "elect". Yet, in our day it is common, even among people of faith, to pay little or no regard to any prophecy and to consider one who does pay attention, a conspiracy theorist.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">A third of the Holy Bible is devoted to basic education revealing to man the necessary <b><i>foundational knowledge</i></b> otherwise undiscoverable and unknowable: knowledge of what man is, why he is, where his destiny may lead, how to reach it and live happily along the way.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Another approximate third of that Book is devoted to <i><b>history</b></i>. A history dominated by what is written in the first five Books of your Bible, that most people have been taught not to read and to shun and denigrate, by scientists; religions; their peers and others.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">About a third of the Holy Bible is devoted to <i><b>Prophecy</b></i>—One finds the Hand of Almighty God always present, surely guiding His people towards their destiny, according to His Will, through all the errors made by these rebellious people out of own choice. The Book has real knowledge of the true values as opposed to the false. A spiritual ripening process, that are appropriately compared to the harvest or the process of food production throughout the 4 seasons.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">As the author of this page I do not proclaim to possess the gift of prophecy, nor will I profess certainty for my own interpretations or the views of other regarding these prophecies and their correlations. I furnish these texts to the reader and reminds all that where we cannot understand we may draw our conclusions provided we do this with caution, and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The prophetic texts recorded are of certain divine origin and only in the instances where they form parts of Sacred Scripture or Specific traditions, should we accept them as a message from God. The interpretations of these are matters of faith and as our Messiah reminded us, not everything will be fully understood until the day we are exalted and only then will we have complete understanding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">What follows here is a number of prophecies that by comparative studies, bears striking resemblances and although not all in equal detail, gives us an outline of their respective messages from different points of view. Many can only be confirmed once they actually occur, yet we are given a small window of time to be aware and recognise them before or mostly, while, they occur. Thus a prophecy may be in process of fulfilment before one's eyes and he may not be aware of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The purpose of this site is to document various prophecies and determine the respective similarities in their messages.</span><br />
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Because <a href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/i-will-fight-by-pastor-steven.html">spiritual warfare</a> is just that  –spiritual–  it must be understood with a spiritual mind. In our natural, sinful state, we can not understand spiritual things:<br />
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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. (I Corinthians 2:14)</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">This knowledge of the way to inner peace, happiness, abundant well being can only be understood through the study of scripture in its full context and with the guidance and interpretation of the Supernatural Holy Spirit. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">It is known, that some items, which at their face value and in their context seem of little importance, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">contains something of intrinsic value to the "spiritually aware". There are hidden depths which </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">superficial reading will not reveal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "constantia" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">As Paul preached to Rome, He had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet: Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.” Acts 28:26<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "constantia" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">Jesus Himself also explained “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside, everything is expressed in parables, so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’” Mark 4:12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Interpretations that does not depend upon the Holy Spirit for revelation is nothing but man’s opinion. The Word of God was given to men by God to write it down in “books”. That is called “inspiration.” Notice that it came from God to man, not from man to man. This is always the order of interpretation. Peter said the Word of God is not the private interpretation of man, meaning that the Word of God did not originate from man no matter how great an intellect he may be (II Peter 1:20-21).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Therefore, it is not enough to believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures apart from Holy Spirit revelation. Unless the Holy Spirit imparts the revelation or understanding, it is nothing but a literary book. This is the meaning of Paul’s comments in I Corinthians 2:10-16.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "constantia" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">…” And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">and in Corinthians 14:36, Paul sarcastically asked the Corinthians if the Word of God originated from them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "constantia" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">…” Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths” 2 Timothy 4:3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Holy Spirit revelation is a lost learning in the body of Christ today and is largely replaced by intellectual education. Men on a lower level of understanding, when brought into contact with phenomena of a higher order, instead of making efforts to understand them, raise themselves up to the point of view from which they must look at the subject, judge it from their limited understanding (mostly limited scientific “knowledge”), and apparently, the less they understand what they are talking about, the more confidently and unhesitatingly they pass judgment on it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Instead of judging human experiences by the Word of God, this false idea suggests that we judge the Word of God by human experiences.  We attempt to prove God by our understanding of science while Science is merely what we know or some of it, about God. Yes, this is the opposite of the psychological base of humanistic teaching, but God's Word has always stood opposite the ideas of flesh and human rationale. When we base interpretation of truth on our experiences we totally lose the basis of truth.  Man is taught throughout Scripture to never trust himself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The majority of academics then, use a very crooked ruler in the form of incomplete, scientific assumptions (which changes daily). Bacon, who is often called the Father of Science, said the same thing and applied it to the influence of a knowledge of science upon the conception of God :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">" A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." One hundred years later we find the greatest human intellect, possibly, Sir Isaac Newton devoutly unfolding the secrets of Daniel's mysterious prophecies and visions with a simple childlike faith that has never been excelled. And even most professing “Christians” refuse utterly to do that. No wonder they can’t understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "constantia" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The fear of the Eternal is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments” (Ps. 111:10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Yet in modern times, both Agnostics and Christians are mostly looking at the living, moral teaching of Christ from the lower standpoint of our own conception of life, this doctrine appears as nothing but a very indefinite and vague combination of self-denial, easy-going philosophy, and of shortsighted visions, which have no serious significance for our times. Its whole meaning is concentrated, in its religious manifestations in the conflict with the historical powers of Catholicism, Protestantism or in other dogmas. In a similar fashion, Heads of government are utterly unaware of the true significance of the very world-shaking events which they are actively participating in. The media reports, without any insight into the real meaning of the world news they report on every day and even our religious leaders fail to bring this into context with their teachings. We popularize the Gospel by being politically correct and style the Faith in a less disruptive way, an all-inclusive acceptance of various doctrines. Just because its soo much more convenient for everybody to explain scientifically. Similarly, "emotional" preaching and teaching (Making me feel good motivational teaching) wrongs revelation and many believers follow these highly paid speakers to find this Inner peace which we so desperately need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">A good example is that of the Council of Laodicea who was a regional synod of approximately thirty clerics from Asia Minor that assembled about 363–364 AD. Their 59th canon forbade the readings in church of uncanonical books. They determined that the New Testament will contain 26 books, omitting the Book of Revelation, and the Old Testament including the 22 books of the Hebrew Bible plus the Book of Baruch and the Epistle of Jeremy. It is also believed that they may have demonized "The Book of Enoch", which led to its degeneration. This counsel also decreed the following “Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be cursed from Christ.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">Truth is not based on either an intellectual or emotional presentation of the Word of God often changed to make it more acceptable to the audience, but on God's original purpose, which is to make us more holy and righteous in our character and behavior. The “makes me feel good message” comes from pulpits and seminars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls between 1947 and 1961, has caused quite a stir in all aspects of Biblical study and investigation. These works were the collections of ‘the Essenes, a Jewish religious community flourishing during the last two centuries of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">the Second Temple era (150 BCE-70 CE). The archaeological evidence shows that they lived in Jerusalem at the time of Christ, and Bargil Pixner, who lived on Mount Zion in Dormition Abby, has shown that there was a significant Essene quarter of Jerusalem on Mount Zion. One of the principal characteristics of the Essenes was common ownership of property. New members handed over their belongings to the superiors, who collected also the wages earned by every sectary. Agriculture was the main Essene occupation. Having renounced private possessions, the members received all that they needed: food, clothes, care. There seems to be a striking resemblance to this practice and that of the Apostles described in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "constantia" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">Acts 4:32 “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Further “peculiarities” included the wearing of white garments; ritual bathing before meals which were given only to initiates, and cooked and blessed by priests; the rejection of animal sacrifice and of oaths to support their statements, and, above all, of marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">The discovery of the Dead sea Scrolls, allowed for the understanding of the original meaning of issues with which we have become almost too familiar and which with the passing of the centuries have tended to become choked with inessentials. It has led not only to a renewed preoccupation with the primitive but fully developed expression of these issues in the Scriptures, but also to a desire for knowledge and understanding of their prehistory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Theologically, the Essenes showed extreme reverence for the Law and were famous for their strictest observance of the Sabbath. Their teachings were recorded in secret books. Amongs them the books banned by the Council of Laodicea. They preferred belief in Fate to freedom of the will and, rejecting the notion of bodily resurrection, envisaged a purely spiritual afterlife. Experts in the healing of body and soul, they also excelled in prophecy. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">It</a><span class="MsoCommentReference"><a class="msocomanchor" href="file:///C:/Users/Pieter/Desktop/New%20folder/Article21_8_2016.docx#_msocom_1" id="_anchor_1" language="JavaScript" name="_msoanchor_1">[P1]</a> </span> seems the Essenes had a better knowledge of the true faith than did the Priests at the Jerusalem Temple. They had every book of the Jewish Bible, with the exception of Esther. They had several additional books as well: they had much material in the original languages of what are called apocrypha and pseudepigrapha (i.e. non-canonical anonymous writings), as well as other, unknown literary works. The word “apocrypha” is from the Greek apocrypha and means “hidden,” and is used to refer to scripture that is considered to be on the fringes of the OT and the NT. The manuscripts most likely originated in Jerusalem libraries, the contents of which were concealed in desert caves when the capital was besieged between 67 and 70 CE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Dead Sea literature have opened new avenues of exploration in the era of the life of Jesus, the rise of Christianity and the emergence of rabbinic Judaism. A key question for me has been the “sifting” of the books that were in the Essenes’ library. The fact is that we have inherited a world in which the truth has been suppressed and the people have been deceived about many matters. And no doubt, our supposed religious shepherds and teachers are involved in the whole process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;">It seems that God, for this reason, made use of prophets. As prophets were seen as the "Updates" from God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="IntenseQuoteChar"><span style="font-family: "constantia" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">“The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of disciples, That I may know how to sustain the weary one with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple. The Lord GOD has opened My ear; And I was not disobedient nor did I turn back.” Isaiah 50:5</span></span><span style="font-family: "constantia" , serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Among the discoveries at the Dead Sea was One of the most important and most unknown books of Sacred Scripture: the Book of Enoch (also called 1 Enoch). It is still largely unknown and unappreciated in the West because of the false prohibitions that have been placed on it by people who deliberately suppressed the truths that it contains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Enoch (also called Enos, Hanoch, and even Enochion by the Greeks) was the father<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">the greatest of the prophets. He was the great antediluvian prophet who lived 365<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">years, “walked with God,” and was the first biblical character translated into heaven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">without tasting death (Genesis 5: 22-24; Hebrews 11: 5-6). There is not a lot of information about Enoch in the Bible, and just about all of it is in the first part of Genesis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the follow up to this article, we will look at some insightful prophetic insight in the Essene scrolls and particular reverence will be made to the Books of Enoch.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">It is necessary to use “spiritual discernment” to understand spiritual things. Perhaps one of the best examples of natural and spiritual discernment is recorded in II Kings chapter 6. It records the story of a natural battle in which troops of the enemy nation of Syria had surrounded a small town called Dothan where the prophet Elisha was staying. When Elisha’s servant, Gehazi, saw the great host of the enemy he became fearful. Elisha prayed that</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">God would open Gehazi’s spiritual eyes so he could see the angelic hosts surrounding and protecting them. On this occasion, God actually opened the natural eyes of Gehazi and allowed him to visibly see the superior forces of God aligned for battle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">The story of this battle at Dothan is similar to present spiritual conditions in the Church. There are some, like Elisha, who see clearly into the realm of the spirit. They know there is a conflict occurring, have identified the enemy, and recognize the greater forces of God that assure victory.</span></div>
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The revelation of God's will for man - Part 1

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contains hidden depths which superficial reading will not reveal. It is a
self-disclosure by God, giving us information we could not gain from any other
source. It begins with the book of Genesis, explaining in just a few chapters,
how humanity was <a href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/spiritually-discerned.html">something of intrinsic value to the spiritually aware</a>. <o:p></o:p><br />
brought into existence by the personal activity of the God who
created the universe. It is known that some items, which at their face value
and in their context, seem of little importance, contain within themselves
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Before the beginning there was only one consciousness, that
of God, whose nature cannot be expressed in words. Everything existed in a state of <i>inertia</i>: defined in Physics as "a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force". All things are by nature
finite, they have a beginning, a middle and an end. God is the beginning and
the end, beyond time, beyond the reach of mortals. He then took thought and brought
into being within Himself the Universal Womb of Creation. <a href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/p/everything-in-universe-is-based-on-math.html">In the beginning the creating Word had been spoken</a>. This generated
power which produced light, and this formed a substance, it’s divided into two
forms of energy through being impregnated with The Spirit of God. Substance and
spirit, each having creative powers within itself. <a href="http://physic-spirit.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/rethinking-time-space-consciousness-and.html">The universe being createdpurposefully it had to have had an objective.</a> Now the Spirit of God Moved over
the face of the Earth, but was not of the Earth. It held all things and was in all
things, but on Earth could not be apart from anything.</div>
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A command was given and this became the Law. Now
within the Universal Womb was heat, substance and life, and encompassing it was
the Word which is the Law. Henceforth, activity was controlled in harmonious
rhythm. The Law divided the materializing
chaos from God and then established the boundaries of the Eternal Spheres. Before
all had been unchanging and change is time. . </div>
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Creation does not explain itself,
under the Everlasting Law. It cannot do so, its secrets should be unraveled by the created. There
were more commands and there came about great land masses and high mountains,
wide barren places and heaving waters. Fertile greenness covered the land and
abundant life swarmed in the seas and swamps with reeds. Metals lay hidden in
the rocks and precious stones within the soil. Gold and silver were scattered
and secreted. There was metal for tools and forest of timber. There were stone
for every purpose, for now Earth throbbed with the energy of life. Everything was
prepared, everything was ready, and now Earth awaited the coming of man.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Man, was then created from dust, or earthly substance alone.
Yet, man could not know things not of Earth. Spirit alone, could not subdue him.
They were given the privilege of regular communication with Him (Genesis
2:15-17; 3:8) One man and one woman were appointed, not only as the progenitors
of our race, but also as God's stewards, His custodians and caretakers over the
creation and they would have dominion over God's complete earthly estate. He
breathed into man the breath of Eternal Life. As the sun gives light and fire
spreads heat, so does the Central Light give
forth a unseeable glow, and this our fathers called the Breath of God.
Into his sleeping body God implanted a figment of Himself, the Seed of a Soul
and within him was a spark from the Divine Source. A man “the mortal” became
man “the heir of God”. <a href="http://physic-spirit.blogspot.co.za/2016/09/rethinking-time-space-consciousness-and.html">As the Spirit filled the body of man, so did God fillHis creation. They were created with the characteristics of mind, emotions,personality, and will. They were created "in His image" (Genesis1:26-27), and were made creative, imaginative, inventive, artistic, capable ofloving and being loved and above all, able to worship. Had man not beencreated, who would have known God's wisdom and power?</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Although Adam and Eve had been created perfect, they had
also been created with the ability to choose, or reject, God's will for them. This also brought about the possibility that man, too, could choose a course of
action contrary to the perfect ways of God. When God raised man up from
among the beasts, choosing him as His heir and endowing him with an immortal
spirit, the limited understanding of man saw imperfection in that which was perfect for its purpose. </div>
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Beasts and birds became therefore “imperfect”. Yet,
they are moulded by their desires. The hawk longs to see its prey more clearly,
and in generations of longing the desire is granted. But, Laws of fate and destiny
and the law of sowing and reaping, moulds men. The first human sin alienated
our original parents from their creator. Instead of looking forward to walking
with Him in the garden, they hid themselves from Him (Genesis 3:8-10). They
could have chosen to obey God completely, but instead, being tempted by Satan,
they partook of the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3). This grievous affliction of
man was one of his great tests. Yet, the decrees of destiny, govern the destination
of a man and it cannot be averted. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The circumstances fate of man, conform to the laws of sowing and reaping. </div>
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13:48 “When the gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the
word of the Lord. Meanwhile, all <i>who had been destined to eternal life</i>,
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Choice therefore, details the route on which man travels while he is
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<a href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/p/httptherefinersfireorganswershtm.html">Romans 8:30 “And those He predestined He also called, those He called He also justified, those Hejustified He also glorified.” </a></blockquote>
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So, we find that the Earth is not for the
pleasure of man, but is a place of instruction for his Soul. It is a place of
teaching, trial and testing. The separation from God that is the result of sin
is the greatest of all problems for the human race. God had warned Adam that if
he disobeyed, "you will surely die" (Genesis 2:17). Adam did not die
immediately in a physical sense, although the process of aging and eventual
death was triggered by this event of rebellion. But Adam died spiritually
(Romans 5:12) the word "death" in the Bible actually means
"separation." Thus, when a person dies physically, there is a
separation between the physical and the non-physical aspects of his being: his
Soul and Spirit. The body is laid to rest where it will return to dust (Genesis
3:19), while the immaterial part of man goes on to wait the judgment, and the eventual
destination of heaven or hell (Luke 16:19-31). Sin, therefore, poses the
greatest of all threats to the well-being of our race. Man's fall resulted in
his spiritual death. His body was genetically damaged so that all men are
mortal because of the sin of Adam. Men cut off from the source of life have no
hope and God IS Life! All life, all forms of life, come from God. The spirit of
man was now severed from the whole and cast again into unconsciousness, and it
too shall long for reunion with the whole. The race of man alone was punished,
for the beast acted according to its nature.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mortal knowledge is circumscribed by mortal ignorance, and
mortal comprehension is circumscribed by spiritual Reality. There was a
spiritual death  separation of man's spirit from the spirit of his Creator. Divided
and set apart, though ever yearning reunion. This is what the Apostle Paul had
in mind when he declared, “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and
sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of
the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who
are disobedient.” (Ephesians 2:1-2). The fall of man was a fall from loving
contact with God into material carnality. Cut apart and since that day have
never known content. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 “<a href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/2016/08/spiritually-discerned.html">If the Good News we preach is hiddenbehind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing</a>. Satan, who is
the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They
are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. God is so great that He
cannot be defined in the speech of men. Neither can they conceive Him in their
thoughts, for He is beyond their understanding. They don’t understand the
message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. <a href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/2016/10/hosea-46-my-people-are-destroyed-for.html">Thoughthey are words of wisdom, they are useless unless accepted by men who havecontrol over themselves.</a> They have no value to men who are unable to feel
compassion for others or who close their ears to Truth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Being disconnected from the source of life (for any reason)
means an organism will begin to die, and continue to die. The eye that sees
earthly things is deceitful, but the eyes that see spiritual things is true. Matthew
13:15-16 “For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot
hear, and they have closed their eyes so their eyes cannot see, and their ears
cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and
let me heal them. But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears,
because they hear. Men begin to die as soon as they are born, their eyes that
saw Truth were closed when the spirit was separated from God and henceforth man
walked in falsity. With his eyes blinded by indulgence in vice and his spirit
corroded by corruption, his fallible senses only are left to him, and these
deceive him into believing the mortal vehicle is his total being. Affliction
and decay are now the lot of man and he has passed into a long, dark night of
ignorance. Now only by journeying the long and painful road of earthly
experience can his soul be cleansed and awakened to the realization of the
glory. Unable to perceive Truth he saw only that which deceived him, and so it
shall be until his awakening. </div>
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1 Corinthians 2:14 “The person without the Spirit
does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them
foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through
the Spirit.”</blockquote>
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But God in His love for us did not abandon us in our plight.
A god who was simply good might have declared the human experiment a failure,
and would have left us to suffer the consequences of our rebellion, or,
perhaps, would have put us out of our misery, snuffing out the planet with a
momentary explosion, to preserve the rest of His creation from possible
contamination. A god who was simply just could have easily allowed anarchists
and rebels to perish. After all it is His universe not ours.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But God is not simply good, nor simply just. Above all He is
holy, and He is a God of love. His very nature is love. (1 John 4:8). God is
the refuge of the poor and the comforter of the needy. His compassion
encompasses men when troubles weigh heavily upon them. Yet tribulation and
adversity, sorrow and suffering are not to be thought of as needless burdens
imposed upon the difficulties inseparable fi-om earthly life. They are things
of value which open the eyes to Truth, tempering the spirit, as iron is
tempered in the flame. Men were now as children and had to learn again as
children. In His love, He sought to reestablish a relationship with Adam and
Eve by seeking them out. It is easier for man's spiritual beliefs to degenerate
than to evolve. Yet even from there they may retum to be renewed, not of
themselves but through the supplications of others. When they hid from Him, the
Lord found them and offered a way back, a way of restoration. That restoration
involved wearing the skins of an animal sacrifice. </div>
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An animal sacrificed by God
Himself was the first creature to die. The death of the animal was symbolic of
the physical death they deserved to die. It demonstrated a great principle of
Scripture that "without the shedding of blood there is no remission
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The concept of a substitutionary atoning sacrifice was
introduced. Before they received this gift from God, they were in a state of
being spiritually dead, cut off from Him. But when they received it and wore
it, they were in effect confessing their sin and their inability to solve the
problem for themselves. The death of that first animal on their behalf became a
"covering" for their sin (Genesis 3:21). Fig leaves and other forms
of clothing would come to be symbols of man's self-righteousness. Sin causes
man to lose his own righteousness as the prophets tell us, "All of us have
become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy
rags." (Isaiah 64:6) This would later be the basis for the institution of
the system of animal sacrifices. Sacrifices would teach us about
"imputed righteousness" that inherent goodness of Christ with which
we are clothed when we place our faith in Him. <a href="https://yeshuaprophecy.blogspot.co.za/2016/10/yeshua.html">And the animal sacrifices point to that future final sacrifice by the Messiah</a>. </div>
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The Temptation of Adam and Eve presupposes the existence of bad spirits who were cast into hell from which they have no hope of redemption. There was the beginning and then the garden, and it was in this garden man found himself; They separated themselves, being now ashamed of their state and strangers to each other. The carnal satisfaction of lesser creatures now no longer sufficed, they had lost contact with the Source of Love. Before this he was not free to decide, being one with everything about him. As he could not disobey, good and evil could not be, they were non-existent. Yet, Evil did not begin with man but with a rebellion among the angels. The angelic rebellion damaged the created universe and its invisible angelic government. (Isaiah 14:12ff.; Ezekiel 28:12ff.) The nature of man on Earth was formed after the nature of things in Heaven, and man had all things contained as potential within himself, except divine life. But he was yet an untrained, undisciplined child, still nurtured simply upon the comforting bosom of the visible, which is earth and the material world. Yet there is the invisible within which, there is a place of Light and a place of Darkness.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>ut because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in
mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions it is
by grace you have been saved.</blockquote>
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That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:<br />
Col 1:13  Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.<br />
Col 1:19  For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:<br />
Col 1:23  If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:</blockquote>
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