THE SPIRITUAL PROCESS OF BECOMING A
CHRISTIAN
12-13-20
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archived. God is Thought.
Thought is the source of
all power; only Thought creates. Angels are the fruit of God's
Thoughts; you
are the fruit of God's Thoughts. The brightness (glory) of our
revelations (our
corrected now holy Thoughts of God) depends upon the correctness of our
doctrines,
our building blocks. Our Godly Thoughts are laid one upon
another
like the rungs (stairs) of a Jacob's ladder, ascending into the mind of
Christ.
Angels are the Thoughts of God created as Spirits. You and I each are a corrupted thought
(spirit) of God,
a criminal temporarily confined (imprisoned) in a human body. We
all
are fallen angels, but a willing few of us are being
restored,
reinstated, repaired, reconditioned back into Heaven and fellowship
with
Father God.
JUST KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL
(SIN) DOESN'T CUT IT
(Gen 3:22-24) And the LORD
God said, Behold, the man is become as one ofus [the
Trinity], to know good and evil:
and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of
life,
and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him
forth from the
garden [Heb: a garden (as fenced)] of
Eden [Heb: pleasure: delight], to till
the ground from whence he was
taken [(connoting introspections], So he drove
out {Heb:
divorced: expelled, thrust out] the man [with the female entity
inside him]; and
he placed at the east of
the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword {the Holy Spirit, manifested
as the Word of God] which turned every way, to
keep {Heb:
guard; protect, attend to: take heed (to self) J the way {Heb: the road, fig. a course of life or mode
of action] of
the tree oflife.
1.
Commentary:
Adam and Eve were then unable
to "discern" the difference between good and evil
(presented by Lucifer-Satan as he
himself was one fruit of good-evil), and they were therefore
expelled from
the Garden for the purpose of
learning to individually discern both good and evil.
2.
(Heb
5:13,14) For every one that
useth [Heb: drinks] milk
is unskilful [Gk:
inexperienced, ignorant] [i.e., untaught, unlearned] in
the word of righteousness [i.e., the Bible]: for
he is!! babe. But strong meat
belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by
reason
of use [Gk: habit, practice] have their
senses [Gk: organs of perception, fig.
judgment] exercised [Gk:
practiced, fig. trained] to
discern [Gk: to separate thoroughly J [between] both good and evil.
NOW I AM BECOME TWO BANDS (Heb:
armies)
(Gen 32:1,2)
And Jacob went on his way, and the
angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This
is God's
host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim [Heb:
double-camp].
1.
(Gen
32:10) I am not worthy of the least
of all the
mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant;
for
with my staff I passed over this
Jordan [from the Promised Land into the wilderness
(into the
world)]; and now I am
become two bands [Heb: armies].
2.
(Rev
19:14) And the armies which
were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen,
white and
clean.
SERVANTS AND FRIENDS
(John 15:15) Henceforth I call you not servants [innocent
angels, not knowing sin]; for the
servant knoweth not what [nor why] his
lord doeth: but I have called
you friends {"educated"
angels, knowing sin (the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil) and knowing why his Lord doeth]; for all things
that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you [friends].
SHEEP AND SHEPHERDS
(John 10:9) I
am the door [ of the
sheepfold, the door of heaven]: by
me if any man enter in, he shall
be saved [JJ, and shall go in and out~ and find pasture.
1. saved=
Gk: ("safe"); delivered, protected: healed, preserved, save (self),
do well, be made whole.
(Rev 3:12) Him that overcometh [JJ will I make a pillar [Gk: a post; fig. a support]
in the temple
of my God,
and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and
the name of the city of my
God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my
God: and I will write upon him my new
name {i.e., names
have power].
1.
overcometh = Gk: subdues: conquers, prevails, gets the
victory. [over who??]
THE SPIRITUAL PROCESS OF
BECOMING A SHEEP OR
A SHEPHERD
(Judg 7:
1) Then Jerubbaal [Heb: will contend with
Baal}, who is Gideon
[Heb: feller (warrior)
Ill to fell a tree: cut down] [a
clear type and shadow of Jesus Christ, the carpenter], and all the people that were
with him [the 32,000
warriors (that
came to "church'')], rose up early, and pitched [their tents} beside the well of Harod [Heb: fountain of trembling]: so that the host [army] of the [135,000] Midianites [Heb: brawling, contentious, discord, strife]
[symbolizing all unsaved men] were on the
north side of them, by the hill ofMoreh [Heb: a teaching; also
the early rain/, in
the valley.
(Judg 7:2,3)
And the LORD said unto Gideon, The [32,000] people that are with thee are too many for
me to give the
Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves [Heb: boast themselves,
glorify themselves] against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
Now therefore go to. proclaim
in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and
afraid [i.e.,
whosoever does not
believe God for the victory], let him
return [to
his home J and depart early [at day-break] from mount Gilead. [Heb: heap of testimony,
mound of stones, rocky region, mass of testimony J [symbolic of the bras en
altar of sacrifice, and the cross]. And there
returned [to
their homes} of
the people twenty and
two thousand [22,000
unbelievers]; and
there remained ten
thousand [J 0, 000 warriors who believed
God].
(Judg 7:4) And the LORD said unto
Gideon, The people [the
10,000 warriors} are yet too many; bring
them down [into the
valley J unto the [running]~ [symbol of the
Holy Spirit], and I will try {Heb: to fuse (metal),
refine: melt, purify, purge away] them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom
I say unto thee, This shall go
with thee [into the
battle], the
same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with
thee {into the
battle], the
same shall not go.
(Judg 7:5-8) So he [Gideon (Jesus Christ)} brought down the [10,000 true believing] people unto the [running} water [in the middle of the
valley}: and the
LORD said unto
Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue [Heb: the instrument of
speech} [used for discussion and proclamation], as a dog
lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself [in one group, band]; likewise every one that
boweth down upon his knees [instruments of submission, obedience,
compliance,
surrender J to drink {in another group, band]. And the number of them that
lapped, putting their hand [Heb: power] [activating
their works] to
their mouth [through
their voice, while
keeping their eyes on the enemy], were three
hundred [300] !!!!:!!= but all the rest of the
people [9,700]
bowed down
upon their knees to drink water [sucking it up into their mouth along with
worldly debris [1 J thereby silencing their
voice, and also focusing their eyes toward the water and
therefore
off the hostile Midianite army of 135,000 warriors who stood amassed,
loud and
angry across the water from them]. And the LORD
said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men {the combat warriors,
shepherds J that lapped will I save you, and deliver
the [unsaved]
Midianites into
thine hand: and let all the
other people [the support
troops, sheep} go
every man unto
his place ["unto
his tent" v8]. So
the [300] people took victuals [Heb: food] in their
hand, and their trumpets [instruments of communicating, i.e., the
Bible}: and he
sent all the rest oflsrael [the
9, 700 support troops J every man unto his tent,
and retained [Heb:
fastened upon, seized:
caught, lay hold} ["caught up" 1 Thess 4: 17: the rapture J those three hundred men [combat warriors]: and the host
of [unsaved]
Midian was
beneath him in the valley [i.e.,
the scene was set-up and ready for the return of Jesus Christ].
1.
(Mark
4:18,19) And these
are they which are
sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the ~ of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts
of other things entering in, choke [Gk: strangle completely,
lit. drown] the
word, and it
becometh unfruitful.