ANGELS
TRAVERSE THE RUNGS OF OUR LADDER TO GOD
05-02-21
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THE
SETTING:
TWO
CLEARLY SUPERNATURAL THINGS: GOD AND THOUGHT
natural
= Dict:
1. of or arising from nature; in accordance
with what is found or expected in nature. 2. produced or existing in
nature;
not artificial or manufactured.
supernatural
= Dict: 1. existing or occurring outside the normal experience or
knowledge of
man; not explainable by the known forces or laws of nature; specif.,
of,
involving, or attributed to God or a god. 2. involving or attributed to
ghosts,
spirits, the occult, etc. [i.e., “the invisible God” Col 1:15]
FOR YOU
AND I, OUR INVISIBLE GOD HAS PROVIDED
AN
INVISIBLE LADDER TO HEAVEN
(Gen
28:10-13) And Jacob [Heb: heel catcher (supplanter)]
[1] went
out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a
certain place,
and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of
the stones
of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place
to
sleep. And he dreamed, and behold [Heb: see (and
understand)] a ladder [Heb: a stair case]
[2]
set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven:
and behold
[Heb: see (and understand)] the angels [3]
of
God ascending and descending on it [i.e., our prayers to
God and
messages from God]. And, behold [Heb: see (and
understand)],
the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of
Abraham
thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee
will I
give it, and to thy seed;
1.
Commentary:
“Jacob” = a deceiving trickster who, after a long wrestling bout
with an
Angel (a messenger/message from God), Jacob “prevailed”
(Hos
12:4) to open the message unto his understanding, and
became
converted into Israel (Heb: he will rule as God, prince with
God), a
type and shadow of each of us.
2.
Commentary:
stair (syn: step, tread, rung); upward
incremental steps,
i.e., doctrine upon doctrine upon doctrine, message upon message,
“here a little and there a little” Isa 28:10.
3.
angel
= Heb: to dispatch as a deputy; a messenger; specif. of God, an angel
(also a
prophet, priest or teacher): ambassador, [a] messenger.
[the
messenger is the message]
ANGEL’S
ARE GOD’S THOUGHTS,
IMPARTATIONS
OF HIS HOLY SPIRIT, COMMUNICATED AS WORDS
Commentary,
this is the personal cumulation in part of 32 years of Bible study and
over
1,600 sermons: God is Thought. Thought is the source
of all
power; only Thought creates. Originally, you and I were created
as pure
Angels (Heb: messages) metaphorically attached to the Tree of Life
(Jesus-Christ) as fruits (good to eat, take in, ingest) of God’s
Thoughts. But now,
through the perversion (distortion, falsification, twisting) of
God’s
Thoughts, we have become fouled fruit hanging on the tree of
the
knowledge of good and evil (Lucifer-Satan), i.e., the tree of God’s defiled
(lower case, i.e., without Holiness) thoughts, fallen angels
(fallen from what we once were) into the defiling earth. However, a willing
few of us (fallen angels) are eagerly but patiently looking forward,
after our
purification and cleansing, to our ultimate positional redemption, restoration
in Heaven, that process being perpetually affected through the eternally
increasing illumination (Glory) of our revelations, our corrected once
again
Holy Thoughts of God. The brightness of the escalating ever expanding
Glory of
our God Thoughts shall be radiantly manifested as brilliantly
shining
stars in Heaven, stars that are vitally dependent upon their/our
“closeness” to
Father God for their Light. That “closeness” is centered upon the
correctness
of our doctrines [1], our building blocks, our stairs,
our steps,
our Godly Thoughts laid one upon another like the rungs
(revelation upon revelation) of a Jacob’s ladder steadily ascending
into the
mind of Christ. Angels are revelations of God’s Thoughts,
impartations
of His Holy Spirit, communicated to us as Words (seed-pods actually).
God’s
thoughts-angels-messages, flow to and fro upon the rungs
(doctrines) of
our ladder to Heaven (“I am the way, the truth, and the life” John
14:6, i.e.,
the Bible: John 1:14), step-by-step, stair-by-stair, grade-by-grade;
studying
in The University of God. [2]
1.
doctrines
= Dict: 1. something taught; teachings. 2. a theory based on
carefully
worked out rinciples and taught or advocated by its adherents. [thoughts,
and
in this case… God’s Thoughts]
2.
(2 Cor
10:4,5) (For the weapons
of our warfare [Gk: military service, fig. the
apostolic career
(as one of hardship and danger)] are not carnal [Gk:
fleshly]
[i.e., natural swords, guns, bombs], but mighty
[Gk: powerful or capable] [invisible, supernatural] through
God [i.e., through God’s Holy Thoughts] to the pulling
down [Gk: demolition; fig. extinction: destruction] of
strong holds [Gk: (fortifications, through the idea
of
holding safely); castles (fig. arguments)] [cognitive
dissonance];)
Casting down imaginations [Gk: conceits] [prideful,
conceitful
thoughts] [a], and every high [Gk: (self)
elevating]
thing that exalteth itself [like yeast,
puffing-up
oneself] against [in opposition to] the
knowledge
[Gk: knowing] of God, and bringing into captivity
[Gk:
a prisoner of war] [How? Answer: by initiating and
sustaining temperance,
self-control] every thought [every fallen
angel (i.e.,
Satan’s thoughts – his minions)] to the obedience [Gk:
attentative harkening, by implic. compliance or submission: to obey]
[correction] of Christ [Gk: (the) anointed]
[Jesus Christ];
a.
Commentary:
“imaginations” = the puffing-up of oneself with “hot
air,” the
prideful act of forming and heroically starring
in
futuristic mental images (fanciful thoughts or scenarios) of what is
not
actually present.
Amen