Sunday, November 30, 2014
Crowned With Glory and Honor
What do you think a man would do if he saw his
true face? I know you have seen a small child or a pet afraid of his own shadow
when he sees it for the first time! Men can handle looking at the clay mask
they see in their bathroom mirror. But that is the clay costume designed for
the earthly role. Grown men and women would run around shrieking and crying in
fear, if God showed them their own GLORIOUS FACE! I kid you not!!
Hebrews 2:6 But one in a certain place
testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of
man, that thou visitest him? 7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels;
thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of
thy hands:
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the
light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have
this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of
God, and not of us.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the children of
light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
When God planned His family, He devised a
TWO-STEP PLAN for testing and perfecting them. He PLANNED to have the children
interact with demonic “tools” in their prison chamber in STEP-ONE. This is so
that devils can provide a NEGATIVE “experience” as contrast to the POSITIVE
treatment to come in the 2nd –STEP. Devils are afraid of God’s glory and seek
to hide themselves from the very image of His face. They would also be too
afraid to approach us in our GLORY!
Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth,
and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty
men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in
the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us,
and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath
of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able
to stand?
Isaiah 2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee
in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. 11 The
lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed
down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 12 For the day of the
LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every
one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low: 21 To go into the clefts of
the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for
the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. 22 Cease
ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted
of?
Devils have previous experience with facing a
BRIGHT and angry God. They are extremely intimidated because the first time it
happened, they fell through the floor of heaven and found themselves tumbling
in the bottomless pit prison on the outside of Heaven.
Isaiah 30:8 Now go, write it before them in a
table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and
ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will
not hear the law of the LORD: 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy
deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy
One of Israel to cease from before us.
Secrets of Enoch 22:1 On the tenth Heaven,
Aravoth, I saw the appearance of the Lord's face, like iron made to glow in
fire, and brought out, emitting sparks, and it burns. Thus I saw the Lord's
face, but the Lord's face is ineffable, marvellous and very awful, and very,
very terrible. 2 And who am I to tell of the Lord's unspeakable being, and of
his very wonderful face? and I cannot tell the quantity of his many
instructions, and various voices, the Lord's throne very great and not made
with hands, nor the quantity of those standing round him, troops of cherubim
and 3 seraphim, nor their incessant singing, nor his immutable beauty, and who
shall tell of the ineffable greatness of his glory? 4 And I fell prone and
bowed down to the Lord, 5 and the Lord with his lips said to me: 'Have courage,
Enoch, do not fear, arise and stand before my face into eternity.'
God had to modify the appearance of His
children so that devils would not be afraid to approach them and give them the
NEGATIVE “exercise” PLANNED for them. As you know the children are created in
Father’s likeness. That means He tamped down our real glory and suppressed it
in a clay encasement called the human body. Thus we do not frighten ourselves
upon seeing our true glory. Because we actually look like God, He showed us
that men would be very intimidated at seeing it.
Secrets of Enoch 22:8 And the Lord said to
Michael: 'Go and take Enoch from out his earthly garments, and anoint him with
my sweet ointment, and put him into the garments of My glory.' 9 And Michael
did thus, as the Lord told him. He anointed me, and dressed me, and the
appearance of that ointment is more than the great light, and his ointment is
like sweet dew, and its 10 smell mild, shining like the sun's ray, and I looked
at myself, and was like one of his glorious ones.
That is our TRUE GLORY! It does not appear to
men because of the clay garment called the human body. The clay suit is
actually a veil of flesh and blood. Devils are not frightened by men wearing
clay suits! They can approach men wearing these garments and attack and enslave
them. God planned examples to show us why he PLANNED a clay body into which He
placed Adam’s spirit, rather than to show us in our true GLORY first. Remember
that devils first approached Adam while possessing a snake’s body. It took
transgression to make Adam’s body accessible to demons.
Enoch 106 1 And after some days my son
Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became 2 pregnant by him and
bore a son. And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose,
and the hair of his head and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes
beautiful And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the
sun, and the whole house 3 was very bright. And thereupon he arose in the hands
of the midwife, opened his mouth, and conversed with the Lord of righteousness.
4 And his father Lamech was afraid of him and 5 fled, and came to his father
Methuselah. And he said unto him: 'I have begotten a strange son, diverse from
and unlike man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven; and his nature is
different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and
his countenance 6 is glorious. And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me
but from the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be 7 wrought on
the earth. And now, my father, I am here to petition thee and implore thee that
thou mayst go to Enoch, our father, and learn from him the truth, for his
dwelling-place is 8 amongst the angels.' 'And he answered and said: 'Because of
a great cause of anxiety have I come to thee, and because of a disturbing
vision 10 have I approached. And now, my father, hear me: unto Lamech my son
there hath been born a son, the like of whom there is none, and his nature is
not like man's nature, and the colour of his body is whiter than snow and
redder than the bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white
wool, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun, and he opened his eyes and 11
thereupon lighted up the whole house. And he arose in the hands of the midwife,
and opened 12 his mouth and blessed the Lord of heaven. And his father Lamech
became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that he was sprung from him,
but that he was in the likeness of the angels of heaven;
In the rest of the story, Methuselah calms him
down and assured him that Noah is truly his offspring. As you might surmise
from this, your "Father has a sense of humor" and those above had a
good laugh out of this incident.
In a second incident to show us that men have
our true glory turned off, while abiding in clay bodies, Moses’ face was TURNED
ON when he came down from Mount Sinai after
conversing with God.
Exodus 34:29 And it came to pass, when Moses
came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand,
when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face
shone while he talked with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel Israel
Finally, we have the incident of Father
“transfiguring” Jesus and exposing him in glorious-form before the disciples.
This was a full body view, not just the face.
Matthew 17:1 And after six days Jesus taketh
Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain
apart, 2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun,
and his raiment was white as the light. 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them
Moses and Elias talking with him. 4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus,
Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three
tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. 5 While he yet
spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the
cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye
him.
The rest of mankind do not believe that WE ARE
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD because they cannot see past the clay
encasement-bodies. All men see is flesh and blood. They assume "that"
is all we are, because when men die and bodies rot only bones remain. Also
doctors do not see bright light in men when they do surgery! Nevertheless your
Creator-Father is a Living Spirit, and we are “His image and likeness”! To
receive us into STEP-TWO, we must be “circumcised” (die) to free the
spirit-child to fly away as a REDEEMED SPIRIT and to STAND BEFORE FATHER at the
THRONE.
John 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe
me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem
Isaiah 66:18 For I know their works and their
thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they
shall come, and see my glory. 21 And I will also take of them for priests and
for Levites, saith the LORD. 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which
I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and
your name remain. 23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to
another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship
before me, saith the LORD.
Psalms 65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto
thee shall all flesh come. 3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our
transgressions, thou shalt purge them away. 4 Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts:
we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
Psalm 90:10 The days of our years are
threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,
yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly
away.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return
to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Luke 20:36 Neither can they die any more: for
they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children
of the resurrection. 37 Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the
bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob. 38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for
all live unto him.
Matthew 13:43 Then shall the righteous shine
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him
hear.
So men are circumcised (REAPED) out of this
bottomless-pit environment, and their true glory appears as REDEEMED SPIRITS.
Father is "seeking us" in this TRUE GLORY and form to participate in
the great Family Reunion Bash!
II Esdras 2:38 realms. Rise, stand up, and see
the whole company of those who bear the 39 Lord's mark and sit at his table. They
have moved out of the shadow of this 40 world and have received shining robes
from the Lord. Receive, O Zion your full number, and close the roll of those
arrayed in white who have 41 faithfully kept the law of the Lord. The number of
your sons whom you so long desired is now complete. Pray that the Lord's
kingdom may come, so that your people, whom he summoned when the world began,
may be set apart as his own.' 42 I, Ezra, saw on Mount Zion
Secrets of Enoch 65: 6 When all creation
visible and invisible, as the Lord created it, shall end, then every man goes 7
to the great judgement, and then all time shall perish, and the years, and
thence forward there will be neither months nor days nor hours, they will be
stuck together and will not be counted. 8 There will be one aeon, and all the
righteous who shall escape the Lord's great judgement, shall be collected in
the great aeon, for the righteous the great aeon will begin, and they will 9
live eternally, and then too there will be amongst them neither labour, nor
sickness, nor humiliation, nor anxiety, nor need, nor violence, nor night, nor
darkness, but great light. 10 And they shall have a great indestructible wall,
and a paradise bright and incorruptible, for all corruptible things shall pass
away, and there will be eternal life.
Now you understand WHY men have our true glory
turned off. We would not understand and would run away from our own face if we saw
it in glorious form. Devils would be afraid to approach us because they are
frightened by its light. Then we would not receive the NEGATIVE “exercise” God
wants for a contrasting experience. Let us give Scientist-God credit for
designing a testing process that both men and devils cannot fathom. The only
reason we know this today is this is the END OF TIME when He is revealing all
things.
Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine
as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as
the stars for ever and ever. 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal
the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge
shall be increased.
Revelation 10:7 But in the days of the voice
of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should
be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
