MORNING STAR (2)

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2)            None is appropriately the Bright and Morning Star save Jesus Christ; the prophetic Emmanuel Incarnation of Scriptural afflatus. Revelation 2:28 “And I will give him the morning star.” When Jesus makes this kind of declaration, He is speaking as the Christ who is the Second Member of the Godhead. Is Jesus not the Morning Star? If He should promise to give you morning star, then, what Jesus Christ is promising is His very divine self! And that gives Him the divine right of being ‘God above all’. Remember Romans 8:17, which reads, “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.” To be God’s heir is to receive God Almighty Himself as your inheritance. Ponderous, this is. And it is exactly what the Lord Jesus is affirming in Revelation 2:28. I do not know whether any right thinking Godly person would like to be a recipient of a fallen star of Lucifer. Those who would contend for the evil spirit of Lucifer, the Devil himself, must inevitably be the baptized members of the arcane society of Satanism. The Devil cannot, in any conceivable way, be of the divinity known of the Morning Star. 

                Those who believe that Lucifer is the Morning Star do miss a crucial point. He, the Devil, is described as the ‘son of the morning’. His sonship makes him an object of creationism, ergo, he cannot be the True Light or Morning Star. There are no beings that stand in equality with the Creator. Only the Members of the Godhead stand in equality. When objects of creation tend to bear certain cognominal semblance with the Creator it is only a depiction of the affinity of Divine sufferance. Amen! The term ‘son’ found in Isaiah 14:12 is ben (bane) ‘(used widely) a son (as a builder of the family name)’. Unfortunately, Lucifer would rather stage the first coup in God’s celestial home – which tends to vitiate the rule in the empyreal home of the Trinity. So, who is this ‘son of the morning’? He broke himself satanically away from the Creator. The Scripture reveals him for the first time in Genesis 3:15 “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.” This, theologically, is the proto-evangelium (first evangelism), foretelling the eventual emergence of the Antichrist – who will be empowered by Lucifer, his evil father – and inevitably be destroyed by Jesus Christ. Lucifer only served as the Light bearer; the veridical essentiality, bearing the eternality of illumination is the Lord Jesus Christ.

All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me

                In the Book of Luke 4:5-7, “And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6) And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 7) If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.” These verses prove that Lucifer is the god of this world. 2Corinthians 4:4 “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” Two people are seen in this verse: the god of this world, Satan the Devil and Christ, the Word of God and also the Second Member of the Godhead. There, therefore, is an eternal difference between the ‘son of the Morning’ – Lucifer – and the ‘Bright and Morning Star’ – the Lord Jesus.

                Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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MORNING STAR (1)

1)            Just like other subjects of scriptural didacticism, a tactful tread in the maze of systematic theology is what one needs for the navigational treatment on the topic: “Morning Star.” The first time of its appearance in the Bible is when the LORD God challenged the dumbfounded Job to cognizance contest in Job 38:7, “When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” How could Job know the time when the ‘morning stars’ of the empyrean order sang in praises to the Most High, especially, when it was very clear that the angelic historicity was an event dated millennia before Adamic creation? The thing is, whether it is Morning star or Daystar it means the same.

The morning star depicts the splendour of its Creator

                Now, what we have in the above Scripture is in the plural. The title ‘sons of God’ is grammatically explicatory of ‘morning stars’ and we understand that the scriptural descriptive term for an angel is ‘son of God’. Accreditation of Divine Paternity to angelic sonship does not whip up the mentality of biological progeniture. They are called sons of God because they were created directly, one after another, by God; and Lucifer, no doubt, was the first angel of creationism. The word ‘morning’ is the Hebrew bôqer (bo’-ker) [From bâqar (baw-kar) (generally) break forth]; properly, it means: ‘dawn (as the break of day).’ The next word ‘star’ is kôkâb (ko-kawb’): ‘(in the sense of blazing); a star (as round or as shining); figuratively a prince:’ so, the name ‘morning star’ speaks of illumination, which is a metaphor for knowledge. I believe that should inform one of the reason why it was apropos that the first introductory Entity of creationism should be the Light.

I am the Alpha and Omega; which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty

                This Light is not a created Being; this is the One John calls the True Light. This Light is the One to whom the accreditation of the fullness of Godhead bodily dwells; of who also is the eternal repository of all the treasures of the knowledge and wisdom of God. Without Him was not anything made that was an entity of creationism. There must be the divine presence of the Light before anything could come into existence. This Light created the angelic beings of celestial abode of the Majesty, no wonder it is said in Scripture, “And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him” (Hebrews 1:6). Who is worshipped, if not the Creator? Morning stars, being many, are the works of the creative hands of God, hence, sons of God. Like their Maker, they exude light to prove the handiwork of who brought them to physical actuality.

O Lucifer, son of the morning!

                Isaiah 14:12 quotes, “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!” The name ‘Lucifer’ is from hêylêl (hay-lale’) (in the sense of brightness) the morning star.’ Being an individual person, Lucifer, though a fallen angel, the fact of being an object of the creative hands of the Creator, his sonship cannot be rendered a falsity. Lucifer is just another angel, he is obviously the first among the myriad of the angelic stars of God’s heaven.

                What is the definition of Lucifer? It is of Latin etymology which comes from lūx (“light”) and ferō (“bear, carry”). By his angelic designation, he was the one who had the responsibility of bearing light, heralding the coming of the Christ. Light bearer is what Lucifer means, and what he was, before he fell, losing his holy estate. The Devil is never the true light, he merely carried it. A mere carrier of an object does not, in any way, make the holder of it the owner. As the bearer of the light, this illumination does not belong to him, and that makes Lucifer a servant. The True Light is the One of the next Scripture.

“I am the light of the world” [John 8:1I].

                The Book of Revelation 22:16 says “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.” No other person laid Scriptural claim to being the “Bright and Morning Star”. Everything from this Scripture asseverates the Divinity of Johannine Messianism. Only God truly owns the angelic beings, pastors, prophets and evangelists, all of whom work for the Kingdom of God. Jesus could never have said He had sent what pertains to divine operative, to witness His instructions to the Church. “I am” is the Greek, egō (eg-o’) eime (I-mee’), which is exactly the same as the Hebraic I AM THAT I AM, the covenant name of Jehovah God. The sperm of David did not beget Jesus Christ; neither did the semen of Joseph – the husband of Mary – father the Lord Jesus. The term ‘Root’ or ‘Branch’ of Davidic majesty is a Hebraic understanding of the Messiah. Messiah means (the expected) Saviour, which happens to be solely of God’s métier.

                Lucifer only served as the Light bearer; the veridical essentiality, bearing the eternality of illumination is the Lord Jesus Christ.

                Get born again. Say this sinner’s prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!” 

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ADAMIC ELEVATION [9]

“Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab…” (2Samuel 24:4)

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9)            Dâvid or Dâvı̂yd (daw-veed’) is the Hebrew for ‘David’ meaning: ‘beloved or loving’. Divine rapprochement with David makes Adam an object of His dear love. When your heart directs enamouredness towards an individual, you most definitely want to engage the object of your affection affectionately by making gregarious contacts of verbalism with your object of agapē – Greek word for ‘unconditional love’. A brilliant, beautiful and most apropos definition of agapē by one man of God, is: ‘A love called out of the heart of the lover, on account of the value the lover has placed upon the object of his love’. This is what God did to engender the effusion of the microcosm of the entire Scripture: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). The propitiatory use of the two animals in lieu of the death sentence hanging on sin-soaked Adam the male and the female testifies of the agapē about to be lavished on the elevation of Adamic restoration. Even when David sinned against Jehovah by numbering Israel, David asked for forgiveness; and the love that God had sworn to pamper David with, made Jehovah to forgive His beloved Adamic creature.

The fall of Adam was not the end of Adamic glory.

                The Adamic pristine couple was not robed in the animal skins just for the thrill and fun of Christmas clothing purchased for the children. It was a grand connectivity with the soteriology. It was purely sacrificial. The Bible does not disclose how many lambs, goats or rams were slaughtered. But it is quite clear that it was for the Eden couple. The number two, being the Scriptural numerology for witness and of testimony, they stood in prognostication of the True Lamb of God – Adam being of His image. As far as God was concerned, salvation had come to mankind, even in his sinfulness. It is on account of this facticity that one Pauline couch reads, “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). And because it is solely the choice of Divinity, one should understand why it also says, “Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:9).

                One very good reason that called for the Adamic elevation was the need for God to give Himself the legality to put Lucifer away for good. When you read something like God ‘being needy’ for whatever it is, it is never in the sense of Divine bankruptcy or shortcoming. Jehovah has all He needs or wants from eternality of the past to the futuristic periods of eternity. In all aspects, God wields absolute perfection. Sitting under Scriptural exegetical didacticism of God’s need for anything simply points to the facticity that pictures the humble stance of Divinity, assuming the status of cognitive operational reality known of Adamic level.

The Holy Spirit: seated in the holy of holies

                One ministering colleague of mine once said that some Christians believe that among the Trinity, the Holy Spirit is the humblest, in that He is so humble that He does so many good things but does not even reveal Himself. But that allusion does not hold scriptural water at all. My exasperation is, “The Holy Spirit, the humblest?” There is no such superlative comparativeness among the Members of the Godhead. The thought of it alone is tantamount to theological incongruity, alien to the protocolary stance of Scripture. The Three Members are eternally equal in essence. God, therefore, exhibits humility as He does things like this to enable the rational man to understand divine affability.

                The LORD God is God of legality. For the legal terms to be met He must bring Lucifer to the Divine court of justice and the facts of satanic culpability. God would not allow Lucifer to have a fourth chance: four, which is creation in Scriptural numerology, will give him a divine status – which he possesses not – Lucifer can only be made to have three opportunities. In heaven, he had an opportunity to spread the goodness of the Creator. He did not; he filled the angelic reasoning with calumnious putsch against the rainbow administration of celestial Majesty. Kicked out of heaven, there were beings on earth before the eventual creation of Adamic intelligent beings. The subtlety of Satanism and the attendant tergiversation swayed the sympathy of the beings of that age, giving their spiritual support in the ominous acceptance of Luciferian rule. The earth was brought under water as an annihilating punishment.

                For billions of years, no doubt, the chaotic scene of the earth remained until the re-creationism of Genesis 1:2. The Hebrew word, tôhû (to’-hoo) meaning: ‘formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness; to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), that is, desert; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain;’ is the proof of the cataclysmic catastrophe that marked the situation in which God said, “Let there be light.” The ‘Light’ was actually Himself. Christ had to create Adam as the headship of the earth, and in the likeness and image of Himself, so that satanic incursion and the attendant destructive attempt of God’s Eden viceroy was another putsch against God’s anointed. This third time evil perpetration makes Lucifer an incorrigibly perfect manifestation of God’s enemy.

His death was to elevate the fallen Adam

                Why did Jesus decide to die the cross of Calvary? His death was to elevate the fallen Adam, and never to undo the fall of the angelic participation of the empyreal coup d’état, whose confinement still remain in Tartarus. The Golgotha crucifixion was a grand design to web Lucifer. How do I know that he fell for it? 1Corinthians 2:7-8 “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.” Paul went on in the next verse to show for who He had died. “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” (1Corinthians 2:9). What marks a Christian out is his love and service to the cause of Jesus Christ. John 14:15 “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” Then inJohn 14:21, “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” The race of Adam that Satan thought he had successfully brought into sin and waiting to be thrown into annihilation has been graciously glorified. What a God of mercy He is! What a God of mercy Jehovah is! He forgives iniquity, forgives transgressions; preserves mercy for thousands. By this new and living way the elevation of Adam is perfected. Amen!

                Spiritual acquittal and discharge takes place only when one is born again. To be born again, say, with all your heart, this simple prayer:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”      

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ADAMIC ELEVATION [8]

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“…when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees…” (1Chronicles 14:15).

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8)            1Chronicles 14:13-17 “And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley. 14) Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.15) And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines. 16) David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer. 17) And the fame of David went

out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.” In the two accounts of David’s warfare engagement they report the same incident. My younger brother, Pastor Olumuyiwa Ojewale, will always say, “David’s attitude to God was such that even if he needed to cough, David would ask, ‘God should I wúkó (cough – in Yoruba)?’”

                David would ask, “Should I go up?” and to find out whether God is interested in his desire or not he will come up with the next question bordering on his success, “Wilt thou deliver them into my hands,” because it is just not a matter of going out to do something; whatever does not translate into a successful end is a useless venture. To each Davidic probing discourse God did give a definite answer to David’s audibility. At another time, God, the tactical Man of war, told David how the war would be won. Two things are learnt here, God did speak into the hearing faculty of an Adamic creature; number two, it proved that God was the true winner of that war; and is still the winning influence in all Adamic ventures.

“And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me” (1Samuel 3:6).

                Samuel was only a small boy when the LORD GOD made him a channel to vaticinate the intent of His Divinity. 1Samuel 3:3-18 “And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; 4) That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. 6) And the LORD called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again. 7) Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him. 8) And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child. 9) Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, LORD; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

God speaking to young Samuel

                10) And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth. 11) And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. 15) And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision. 16) Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I. 17) And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee. 18) And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.” In one of our lessons in the Children’s Church of The Household of God Church, my local assembly, we taught them that God can use even children to get His divine will done, when the Bible story focuses on the young Samuel.

“And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him.” (1Samuel 3:18)

                Indeed, God is not a respecter of persons; meaning that God does not allow the physiognomical fame of your person before deciding to use or reject you. All you need is to be ready for Him, and you are counted as God’s ministerial tool of immense value. The jejunity of Samuel is so evident in the way he ran to Eli, saying, “Here am I; for thou didst call me,” three whole times! Verse ten is so dramatic. It records: the LORD came. He did not only come; He stood. He did something in order to bring His physical appearance to attention: God made contact with the aurality of Samuel. He called as at other times, “Samuel, Samuel” being the name of His object of communication. For God to resume communication with mankind is a proof of having settled the wahala (Yoruba word for ‘trouble, problem or upheaval) He had with man’s fall into sinfulness.

                Spiritual acquittal and discharge takes place only when one is born again. To be born again, say, with all your heart, this simple prayer:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”      

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ADAMIC ELEVATION [7]

Rebekah: “Two nations are in thy womb” (Genesis 25:23).

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7)            Of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac, who was barren for twenty years and for whom her husband prayed to God, and she conceived it is written, “And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD. 23) And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger” (Genesis 25:22-23). Needing answers to her unusual predicament, Rebekah had no choice but ‘to resort to, seek with care, require – by following after the LORD – and by implication, in worship’: for these are the definitions of the Hebrew dârash (daw-rash’) for ‘enquire’. At the appointed time of delivery it reads in Genesis 25:24 “And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb” serving as the veridicality of the ‘two nations’ vaticination. God did truly speak to Adamic elevation.

Young David anointed to be the next king of Israel.

                Elevation of the fallen progenies of Adam leads to the re-establishment of divine rapport. David heard unequivocally from the Divinity. 1Samuel 23:9-12 “And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod. 10) Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake. 11) Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down. 12) Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver thee up.”

“…wilt thou deliver them into mine hand” (2 Samuel 5:19)?

                Twice David enquired of the Lord and twice the good LORD answered him, having elevated Adam to the gregarious status with the Divinity. 2Samuel 2:1 “And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.” The only reason for David to make verbal connectivity with the LORD God is because he knew how that the God of Israel had spoken to His firstborn at Mount Sinai. He had seen how Jehovah had communed with Israel through Samuel, the High Priest, Prophet and Judge of the people of God. David believed in this God, Who had taken care of him in every way. God knows those whose hearts are with Him; and to them He had always been graciously available, to show forth the praises of Him Who has called us out of the darkness of Luciferian Satanism. David’s enquiries were always direct. God never tried to beat about the bush as if He had no knowledge of the desire of the petitioner; God had always been specifically forthright in His conversational rapport. A rapprochement is the resultant effect when God elevated Adam.

“…going in the tops of the mulberry trees”

                2Samuel 5:17-25 “But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold. 18) The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. 19) And David enquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand. 20) And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim. 21) And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them. 22) And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. 23) And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees. 24) And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines. 25) And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.”

                Spiritual acquittal and discharge takes place only when one is born again. To be born again, say, with all your heart, this simple prayer:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”      

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ADAMIC ELEVATION [6]

“And the LORD said unto Moses…” (Genesis 19:9).

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6)            Exodus 19:9-12 “And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. 10) And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, 11) And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. 12) And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:” did not take place in a dream. This was an actual event.

                Exodus 20:1-19 “And God spake all these words, saying, 2) I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6) And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 7) Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 8) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.” God spoke the first four of the Ten Commandments to the aural attention of all the children of Israel who stood around the Sinai Mountain. 

“I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt…” (Exodus 20:2)

                9) Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10) But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11) For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12) Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 13) Thou shalt not kill. 14) Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15) Thou shalt not steal. 16) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. 18) And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19) And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.”

                The first four Commandments taught them how to relate to the LORD, their God. The next six taught them how to live among their human selves. They heard the voice of the LORD God clearly as one human speaks to another.

“…the LORD…sat under an oak tree…Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress” [Judges 6:11]

                Judges 6:11-14 “And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. 12) And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. 13) And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. 14) And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?” This is another proof that God came physically down to earth, was seen by man, and had the rarest privilege to stand face to face in discussion with the Adamic race, during the dispensation of the law. It also took place in the New Testament.

Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them (Acts 13:2)

                Acts 13:2 “As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.” At this time it was in the dispensation of grace or the Church Age. Note the personal pronoun, “Me” and “I” that the Holy Spirit used in reference to Himself concerning the work of evangelism. God has personal interest in the Adamic race, especially, the regenerate humanity.

                Spiritual acquittal and discharge takes place only when one is born again. To be born again, say, with all your heart, this simple prayer:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”      

(…to be continued…)

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ADAMIC ELEVATION [5]

“God instructed Abram to leave his home with his wife, Sarai and his belongs and to go Canaan. God promised Abram and Sarai children. Abram obeyed God. A famine hit Canaan. Abram decided to go to Egypt, but was worried that the king of Egypt would want Sarai. He told Sarai to say she was his sister instead of his wife. Abram was correct. The king had Sarai brought to him and tried to pay Abram with gifts. Disease hit the kingaas palace. The king knew God had sent the illness and sent Abram away. They returned to Canaan. God again promised Abram and Sarai children. They were 85 and still childless. Sarai had Hagar, her servant, deliver a child for her. His name was Ishmael. After his birth, God changed Abramaas and Saraiaas names to Abraham and Sarah. Time passed and three strangers visited Abraham. They said Sarah would give birth to a son. Sarah began to laugh. Hearing her laugh the men said aIs anything too hard for the Lordai When Abraham was 100 years old, Sarah gave birth to a son, the child God had promised, named Isaac. Years later, the Lord told Abraham to take Isaac to a mountain and to offer him as a sacrifice to God. Abraham obeyed. As he was about to sacrifice Isaac, an angel of the Lord stopped him. God provided a ram and spared Isaac. Abrahamaas faith had passed Godaas test. Sarah died at age 127. Isaac grew up and married Rebekah.The Bible Art Library is a collection of commissioned biblical paintings. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, under a work-for-hire contract, artist Jim Padgett created illustrations for 208 Bible stories encompassing the entire Bible from Genesis through Revelation. There are over 2200 high-quality, colorful, and authentic illustrations. The illustrations are high quality, biblically and culturally accurate, supporting the reality of the stories and bringing them to life. They can be used to enhance communication of Bible stories in printed, video, digital, and/or audio forms.”

“I will certainly return unto thee” (Genesis 18:10)

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5)            Genesis 18:10-33 “And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. 13) And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old? 14) Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. 15) Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. 17) And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; 18) Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 20) And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 21) I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

                23) And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? 24) Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? 25) That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? 26) And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. 27) And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: 28) Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? (Genesis 18:23)

                29) And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake. 30) And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. 31) And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake. 32) And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake. 33) And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.”

And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre (Genesis 18:1)

                The above verses begin with, “And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day” (Genesis 18:1); and the ‘LORD’ is the Hebrew God, Jehovah – and this appearance was of none other than the Second Member of the Godhead, the Lord Jesus Christ, in His preincarnational manifestation. Verse seventeen proves His physical appearance going by the attestation of the soliloquy of the Divinity, “Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?” In their discussion Abraham said, “Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:” addressing his Adducer as JEHOVAH. What does verse 33 say? “And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.” There was an actual discourse of historicity between God and a created intelligence.

And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face

                Exodus 33:11-33 “And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle. Exodus 17) And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. 18) And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. 19) And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy. 20) And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. 21) And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: 22) And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 23) And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.” By the expression ‘face to face,’ close proximity is meant. Did Adam not see Him in the Eden Garden? So, why would His face be hidden from ocular exercise? Christ came with the full glory known only of the eternal Father and the Holy Spirit, and to behold that divine visage of eternality is to be scrutinized for absolute sinlessness and be found absolutely guiltless, not even of a smidgeon short of the glory of God. Christ had not settled the Adamic conflict with his Maker; to look at the Creator in the face – an offensive affront – is to be ready for judgment without having the covering of the righteousness of the slain Lamb of God – quite ominous.

                Spiritual acquittal and discharge takes place only when one is born again. To be born again, say, with all your heart, this simple prayer:

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”      

(…to be continued…)

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