What It Is like Being God
To get a picture of one moment in the life of God, we must get a better idea or description of WHO and WHAT your Father is. Get ready for the "trip" of your life.
When He introduced Himself to Moses, He said, "I AM that I AM", Exodus 3:14. And this is why Father introduced Himself in that manner. God is all Life, the Living One, and there is no life other than Himself.
Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. 41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
Isaiah 45:5 I am the LORD, and [there is] none else, [there is] no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that [there is] none beside me. I [am] the LORD, and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Secrets of Enoch 33: 3 And now, Enoch, all that I have told thee, all that thou hast understood, all that thou hast seen of heavenly things, all that thou hast seen on earth, and all that I have written in books by my great wisdom, all these things I have devised and created from the uppermost foundation to 4 the lower and to the end, and there is no counselor nor inheritor to my creations. I am self-eternal, not made with hands, and without change, My thought is my counsellor, my wisdom and my word are made, and my eyes observe all things how they stand here and tremble with terror. If I turn away my face, then all things will be destroyed. 5 And apply thy mind, Enoch, and know him who is speaking to thee, and take thou the books which thou thyself hast written. 6 And I give thee Samuil and Raguil, who led thee up, and the books, and go down to earth, and tell thy sons all that I have told thee, and all that thou hast seen, from the lower heaven up to my throne, and all the troops. 7 For I created all forces, and there is none that resisteth me or that does not subject himself to me. For all subject themselves to my monarchy, and labour for my sole rule.
Acts of John, New Testament Apocrypha by Hennecke-Schneemelcher, vol. II
99. This Cross then (is that) which has united all things by the word and which has separated off what is transitory and inferior, which has also *compacted* all things into one. But this is not that wooden Cross which you shall see when you go down from here; nor am I the (man) who is on the Cross, (I) whom now you do not see but only hear (my) voice. I was taken to be what I am not, I who am not what for many others I was; but what they will say of me is mean and unworthy of me. Since then the place of (my?) rest is neither (to be) seen nor told, much more shall I, the Lord of this (place), be neither seen nor told.
100. The multitude around the Cross that is not of one form is the inferior nature. And those whom you saw in the Cross, even if they have not (yet) one form -not every member of him who has come down has yet been gathered together. But when *human* nature is taken up, and the race that comes to me and obeys my voice, then *he who* now *hears* me shall be united *with this* (race) and shall no longer be what he now is, but (shall be) above them as I am now. For so long as you do not call yourself mine, I am not what I am; but if you hear me, you also as hearer *shall be* as I am, and I shall be what I was, when you* (are) as I am with myself; for from *me* you are what I am.(?) Therefore ignore the many and despise those who are outside the mystery; for you must know that I am wholly with the Father, and the Father with me.
Colossians 1:16 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: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Ephesians 4:6 One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all.
Act 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Romans 11:36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
Psalm 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. 13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Ode of Solomon 7: 5 He became like me, in order that I might receive Him: He was reckoned like myself in order that I might put Him on; 7 And I trembled not when I saw Him: because He was gracious to me: 8 Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him: 9 The Father of knowledge is the word of knowledge: 10 He who created wisdom is wiser than His works: 11 And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:
Psalm of Solomon 4 (3) For no man taketh spoil from a mighty man; 5 Who, then, can take aught of all that Thou hast made, except Thou Thyself givest? 6 (4) For man and his portion (lie) before Thee in the balance; He cannot add to, so as to enlarge, what has been prescribed by Thee.
Secrets of Enoch 49:2 And I swear to you, yea, yea, that there has been no man in his mother's womb, but that already before, even to each one there is a place prepared for the repose of that soul, and a measure fixed how much it is intended that a man be tried in this world. Yea, children, deceive not yourselves, for there has been previously prepared a place for every soul of man.
Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Secrets of Enoch 23: And Pravuil told me: 'All the things 4 that I have told thee, we have written. Sit and write all the souls of mankind, however many of them are born, and the places prepared for them 5 to eternity; for all souls are prepared to eternity, before the formation of the world.' And all 6 double thirty days and thirty nights, and I wrote out all things exactly, and wrote three hundred and sixty-six books.
My mind is channeled upon the ever presence of God. In manifesting Himself, He has keyed my attention to the fact that He IS. Concerning the Father, "He is before all things and by Him all things consist"... Colossians 1:17. "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being... for we also are His offspring," Acts 17:28. God is teaching me the magnitude of our Oneness with Him, and the awesomeness of what He IS staggers the imagination. Magnifying the depth of Colossians 1:17, EVERY VISIBLE OBJECT INCLUDING THE GALAXIES AND THE VASTNESS OF SPACE ARE HIS SUBSTANCE. This was explained to me using the sun as an example. Rays of sunbeam extend out of and far beyond the sun. It is as if the chair I am sitting on is the very tip of one beam changed by His thought to be what it is. Thus all objects we see and feel, and the whole universe are all His substance outside of Him yet upheld by Him and are extensions of His power radiating from Him. Maybe we will never be able to totally see God as He is because of the sheer magnitude of His majesty. But He is letting me know Him and get acquainted by and through my limited ability to comprehend. From Secrets XXIV:3-5 are these Words, "Hear, Enoch, and take in these my Words, for not to my angels have I told my secret, and I have not told them their rise, nor my endless realm, nor have they understood my creating, which I tell thee today. For before all things were visible, I alone used to go about in the invisible things, like the sun from east to west, and from west to east. But even the sun has peace in itself, while I found no peace, because I was creating all things, and I conceived the idea of placing foundations, and of creating visible creations." And even though He has revealed to me more of who He is, the words of the angel to Hermas are set aglow in my mind: "First of all believe that there is One God who created and framed all things from nothing into a being. He comprehends all things and is only immense, NOT TO BE COMPREHENDED BY ANY. Who can neither be defined by any words, nor conceived by the mind," II Hermas I:1-3. You will see where I am when we add the words of God to John from Acts of John in the New Testament Apocrypha by Hennecke, section 101, "But what I am is known to me alone, and no one else. Let me have what is mine; what is yours you must see through me; but me you must see truly not that which I am, (as) I said, but that which you as (my) kinsman, are able to know ... You must I know me as, then, as the torment of the Logos, the piercing of the Logos, the blood of the Logos, the wounding of the Logos, the fastening of the Logos, the death of the Logos. God is the foundation and support of everything that He is. So to Isaiah He declared, "The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me and where is the place of my rest?" Isaiah 66:1. Going further David declared, "Thou hast beset me before and behind, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there," Psalm 139:5-8. Awed by the Omnipresence of God Solomon said, "But will God indeed dwell on earth? Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee," I Kings 8:27. Because all creation and all objects are indeed various forms of the power issuing and extending from His Person like rays from the sun, we come to
the brilliant meaning of Acts 17:28: "In Him we live, and move, and have our being". "He is before all things and by Him all things consist," Colossians 1:17. All of us are one in Him and He in us, for He is the substance of our spirit and also the consistency of what we call the (flesh) clay! He is the length and breadth, and depth and height, for He IS ALL and in us all! In manifesting Himself to me, He has shown me that portrait of Himself. "And no man knoweth the Father, save the son and He to whomsoever the son shall reveal him," Matthew 11:27. I love my Father and I do humble myself and rejoice at His awesome and glorious majesty. Who could have possibly known Him and discovered Him, since He is so big that such a description no one could think to imagine or fathom? Truly eyes have not seen, nor ears heard, nor has it entered the heart of men nor yet the devil. God is too much to comprehend or to see totally and fully. I cannot fathom the vastness of space. I wear eyeglasses now; so how can I see all of Him at once? But I do appreciate seeing that part of Him I can see even in my mind! When He said, "I said ye are Gods and all of you are children of the Most High," how many believed Him? There is no lie in Him, nor deceitful guile, nor were those words allegorical or parabolic. He divided Himself into many pieces which we call people and indeed He is us! He is as true as His Word and WE ARE GODS, (or His multi-portioned second Body). What is done to anyone is done to Him. We cannot feel or sense anything except He allows us a portion of what He feels. Can you imagine all the pain He is suffering in all those in pain at this very moment? So when we "look at whom we pierced," we must look at Him and then at ourselves. "In all our afflictions, He is afflicted," Isaiah 63:9. These things are worth pondering for the LIGHT IS SO BRIGHT that men are sometimes blinded by it!
What is God doing and what is it like being God? If you have grasped the truth in what has been presented in the above scriptures you will see that God is too BIG to see at once and He defies human imagination and description. But there is One Life and He is all that there is. He is all matter both visible and invisible. The universe and the galaxies are part of him. He is what scientists call "the BIG BANG". They have to start there to explain the creation, because they cannot bring themselves to say, "First there is God".
So what does God do every minute in His Life? He has created all the particles that give mass to matter. Electrons, protons, neutrons, mesons, radiation, dark matter, weak force, gravity, photons and light all have their properties He gave them to create and build "things" such as the stars, gasses, metals and chemistry to build land masses and compounds. These things obey laws that He gave them. Chemists, astronomers, physicists, medical science are disciplines that study and attempt to understand these parts of His work. So every second of every day, God controls these thing to insure they obey His decrees.
We have been told that the universe is expanding outward. The truth is that everything goes around in circles within Him. So to space astronomers from the human perspective it appears that the galaxies and star systems are ever expanding outward. This is why God is so big and vast that He cannot be drawn in pictures nor imagined. Every depiction men have made to represent God is pathetically wrong and not even close.
Since God is the ONLY LIVING BEING, let us skip to us and how our lives are construed. It was exceedingly boring and lonely being by Himself, so He conceived the idea of making a Family and a place for the family to reside. First He made a Wife, Wisdom, who became Mother of all the children they thought to create. Part of His PLAN to teach us and give us character involved the planet Earth, a prison chamber for all the negative entities (devils) who supply a contrast to His desired behavior modes. The PLAN calls for the children to be planted in clay soil and to experience episodes of good and evil variations assigned to each child. These "exercises" as the Spirit called them are totally at Father's discretion and management, Ecclesiastes 1:13. We are "alive" because He divided His living spirit substance into tiny "cells" called infant spirits. He plants them in the wombs of daughters on earth and gives them birth after an average of 9 months germination. When we emerge from the womb and take our first breath, He shares with each child a portion of His conscious awareness and sensory perceptions and lives His life with us! And men dumbly think later on that we are "free mortal agents". That is far from the truth. We are immortal spirit children, the PLANNED "cells" of Father's second Body. And Father dwells in us and walks in us simultaneously experiencing everything we experience. All the good and evil that has happened in human history to any man and every man is directly under the control of our Father.
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
That is why what we do or do not do to any man, we do or not do it to Him personally, because we are His Body "cells", Matthew 25:33-45. He is "US"!
Every day Father is busy planting holy seed in clay wombs on earth. At the same time He is REAPING-REDEEMING those who are scheduled to make SUN-SON RISE on that day as He calls the Family roll.. So now you have a snapshot of a moment in your Father's life. You have a better idea of who He is. He has taken a bright form to be seen and recognized as "Father" in Heaven. All those rising SUN-SONS will meet "Dad" and receive a hug and a kiss, a ring on their finger, a bright wardrobe, and new dancing shoes, Luke 15:20-24.
Now you have understanding of who God really is and why there is only One God who is all in all as well as "everything" visible and invisible!
Glorify God!
God did it!
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