The Condescension of God Pt.3
I THESSALONIANS 4:15-18
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. (There will be many alive at the time if the coming of the Lord, but not so many that have remained faithful to the word – the challenge is to be a part of those who remain faithful to the message of their day - that was in every age)
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout (This is showing us what His great coming would look like in this day – there will be a loud voice of a shout that will sound out a message, and we have seen this prophecy become history in our day), with the voice of the archangel (This next stage is the revelation of the message in a people that causes them to be resurrected out of denominations – The revelation of the message of the shout is now in the hearts of a people called the bride of Christ, and now she becomes the final voice to the final age), and with the trump of God (That is the gathering of the sleeping and the living saints together, and the changing of our bodies into glorified bodies like how Abraham and Sarah were turned back young again): and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (So we are looking for the resurrection of the sleeping saints any day now - this event is to take place first before our bodies are changed)
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air (We will have bodies that will be able to make that trip into that realm because we will all be in glorified bodies. Your human body couldn’t take the pressure of that translation - it would be like an astronaut trying to do a spacewalk without a space suit): and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
The Condescension of God Pt.3
REVELATION 10:1-3
1 ¶ And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud (Notice how there was a condescension of the LORD in this day): and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
2 And he had in his hand a little book open (That is the opening of the word in this day, and it’s a little book because it’s such a humble thing in the eyes of man – it is so little that the religious world has missed seeing it completely. Why was it “little Bethlehem”? Why does God choose little things while the world is trying to see God in the big things – this is how God hides Himself): and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
3 And cried with a loud voice (This loud voice is the same event of the shout that we read about in 1st Thessalonians 4:16), as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
We know that the seven thunder voices are the revelations contained in the seven seals, and we have heard those seven seals sound out with a loud voice in this day, so we have already seen this portion of scripture fulfilled.
LUKE 19:5-6 (Picking up from last Sunday)
5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him (Most people think that they have to look up to see God, but here we see that God is having to look up to see man, and man is having to look down to see God, and that is why so many people fail to see the Lord when he tries to reveal himself to them, they are looking up instead of down, they don’t realise that God is revealed in the humility of the things and the circumstances that accompany your everyday life), and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.
6 And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
We see the pattern of how God revealed Himself to Zacchaeus also applies to us.
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**We have been speaking of the marriage of the Lamb that is taking place in this hour between the heavenly bridegroom and his earthly bride.
**So when we are looking for the marriage of the Lamb of what that looks like in this hour - if we are looking for some great public event, then we know for sure that we are looking in the wrong direction, but this great event of the marriage of the Lamb in this day is happening in such a humble way in your everyday life that even you yourself can so easily miss seeing it taking place.
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E-22 … and He said, "I will meet you in there."...
So then I said, "I don't understand why in there."
E-23 He said, "Watch." And this woman when she come out of there on the ambulance stretcher, she was pushing the stretcher out the other side.
And she said... The lady asked her with the--the... Said, "What--what happened?"
She said, "I don't know. It just happened." She said, "I've been in this stretcher." Said, "I've been down in bed for years." And here come the man out packing his crutches. And they asked him what, said he didn't know. And he was coming to the platform to testify.
And I said, "I don't understand that in there."
The “in there” he told is the third pull which is the opening of the word. And so this third pull stage of the ministry of the prophet that we are under in this day (of the understanding of the word being opened to us) has been having an effect on our lives in such a humble way that we don’t even realise what has really been going on in our lives, but it has been the marriage of the lamb taking place, and it has been preparing us for great translation faith for the body change, because when we finally come out of this little room of the revelation of the hour, our bodies will be changed, and so this little room experience has been going on in our lives for many years.
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6-3 …I seen that Light leave me, and go to that building, and go in that building; and a Voice said to me, "I'll meet you in there; that'll be the third pull."
The third pull of the revealing of the word to the heart of the believer would not be a public show.
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18-6 …the Angel's voice, He said, "I'll meet you in there, and this is the third pull, but nobody will know nothing about it."
And I said, "Well, I don't understand why in there. Why there?"
He said, "It will not be a public show this time."
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262 …And, remember, the Third Pull was the opening of them Seven Seals, to reveal the hidden Truth that's been sealed in the Word. Do you see it?
***So for years we have been under the ministry of the third pull of the message of the hour, and yet we don’t really know what is happening to us because it has been such a great secret that has been going on behind closed doors. ***And the secret is that God has been writing the mystery of the entire bible into your own personal life just like He did with the characters of the bible.
***Over the years God has been written the story of Ruth into your life, He has written the story of Rebekah by the well at evening time into your life. He has written the story of Sarah with her back to the tent door into the story of your life. But He has done it in such a way that you don’t even know how it happened. But when you come out of this little room, your body will be changed from mortal to immortal, and you will hardly know how it all happened.
REVELATION 19:7
7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
*So we want to be able to see that what has been written here in symbol form in the book of Revelation is being lived out and is being interpreted in the events of our personal lives – then we can be sure of who we really are in this hour.
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But what about the true seed? It will happen just as we have said. The people of God are being made ready by the Word of Truth from the messenger to this age.
**The marriage of the Lamb is able to take place at this time because of the word of truth that has been opened to us under the third pull stage of the massage of the hour.
REVELATION 10:8-11
8 ¶ And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
9 And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
11 And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
His wife is making herself ready in this age by an invisible union by receiving the revealed word of the end time message. This is the marriage of the Lamb – this is oneness again between God and man. This is the secret coming of the Lord in this age to be united with his earthly bride by the revealing of His word of God unveiling himself before us – this is what the opening of the seven seals was all about, to unveil Christ through the revealing of His word.
*That was the secret of the entire bible that was sealed up but has been unsealed in this day – and this is what it looks like in your life.
So if you are looking in your life to try to see great and mighty things of what we humans call great, then we will never see God at His work because the great things that are taking place every day are happening in such a humble way that you often question it in your own life because it looks so humble.
Remember that the seventh seal is the mystery of His coming.
***The book of Ruth reveals the coming of Christ in the form of Boaz coming to Ruth, and so that was the mystery of the seventh seal being lived out in Boaz and Ruth – but to them it didn’t seem like anything all that great, it was just their ordinary life of ups and downs of tragedies and highs and lows of the events of their lives, yet it was the seventh seal being written into their lives in mystery form.
*So then if we can see that the seventh seal was being lived out in Ruth’s life in mystery form without her even knowing it. So must the seventh seal of the coming of the Lord be interpreted in your life also in the seemingly common events of your life, not just in your mind, but also in the very events of your life.
**It is because of how God deals with us in the way of His condescending and humility that we struggle to see the seventh seal being lived out in our own lives, yet the fact is that the pattern of all these stories in the bible is clearly being lived out in the lives of the believers of this message at this harvest time age.
***And so when we realise this, then we can actually begin to see the same events of the coming of Christ to you in this age being lived out in your own personal life story, because you have also been introduced to the Lord of the harvest like Ruth, and you have also seen God come down in human flesh and reveal the secrets of the heart like he did with Abraham and Sarah just before Sodom was destroyed, and so that same seventh sealed mystery events that lived themselves out itself in the stories of Rebekah and Ruth and Abraham and Sarah and in many of the other bible characters’ lives (unconsciously to them) is also living itself out in the story of your life in this day, and so that is what the marriage of the Lamb looks like in this day for you personally - it is the revealing of the word of this hour to you personally.
*So we can see how that God had to condescend to you personally in this age so that he could win you to himself in order for you to become a part of His bride for this hour.
***He had to came down into the lowest age that there has ever been, and then he finds the smallest type of people he could find, and then he condescends to them in such a humble way so that in order for them to see him, they have to look down to see him because of how humble He has made himself to them.
***There is a love that is generated out of this display of the character of God that is design to win the human heart for eternity.
*When God said that we are to love him with all of our heart and mind and strength, you can’t do that by just being told to do that, so God knows that he has to make a way for you to be able to do that from your heart, so the way he does that is to let you see something of his great character.
*Mostly we can’t experience the love of God in our lives like we should because we are so limited in our revelation of Him – but the more we see Him and understand His great character of love and condescension, the more we’ll be able to love Him more from our hearts – it is a love affair that will evolve throughout eternity.
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87 Then as we see Him, and we will not be as we are now. We'll--we'll know how to love Him more. We'll not stand back with a little fear; because we'll be like Him. Well, He will be more of a relative to us than He is now. We'll understand Him better, because, we're so far away in the mortal bodies; then we'll have a body like His glorious body. We'll know how to worship Him. And when we see what the Presence of His Being has done to us, changed us, the old back young, all the deformed straightened out, oh, we'll understand then why His power healed us.
The questions that's been in our mind, "How can He do it? What would this?" somehow, mysteriously, they'll all fade away. The knots that's been tied in the back of our minds, "Will it be this? How could it be?" somehow, or another, majestic fingers will just untangle, unravel those knots, and it'll all fade into the one big crown of love.
**So we are speaking of a love that is far greater than a human love that is conditional base on our performance – we are speaking of the unconditional love of God.
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36 …Your education is fine, but the Word of God is Life. "My Word is Life," and to know It is Life. And He, He said, "Know Him." He is the Word. So you can only know Him by the Word, for He is the Word. And that's the only way you'll know Him, is by His Word.
**You can only know Him by His Word, “To know Him is life”, that is what life is, it is to know God by the revealing of His word.
**And life is the greatest thing there is, and to know HIM is life.
And we know that knowing someone is spiritual thing. To know someone is to have knowledge of them in a way that is spiritual - to know their hearts motive and who they really are in the character of their personality – to really know someone is to know their thoughts.
**You cannot just look at someone’s picture and know the thoughts of their innermost heart, you have to commune with them over a period of time to know them by their spirit by the revealing of their words, because communion is spirit revealing itself to spirit.
JOHN 6:63
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth (The spirit of God makes the original thought of the word of God clear to your thinking – no man can untangle the knots, He is the only one who can untangles the knots in your mind in order to make his thoughts clear to you); the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
***Life is when the word of God is made clear to your thoughts by the spirit of God – when God’s thoughts and your thoughts become one and the same in agreement.
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Why all the trouble in our lives? We know that Adam didn’t come by a sex birth, and Jesus didn’t come by a sex birth, but every other human being came into the world by a sex birth.
And anybody that comes by a sex birth comes dead and in sins and trespasses with a nature that is at enmity with God. We bypassed the Word and came by the animal law of reproduction, so we came with a death sentence from the minute we were born - man is of few days and full of trouble.
**When man was first created by God, he could have talked to his Father face-to-face. He didn’t need a sacrifice. He was an offspring of God.
*Adam came from the thoughts of God, and then by the spoken word of God he came into flesh, so there was no sex birth involved.
*But a man that comes by the birth of a woman is dead from the time he comes into the world because he bypassed the word and came directly from the thought of God and into flesh from his mothers womb, and so he is born outside of the Kingdom of God, he is birthed directly into the animal realm, and so the only kingdom he knows is the animal kingdom.
*And so Adam, instead of brining his decedents into the world by the spoken word like he was, he brought his descendants into the world by sex; but Jesus (the last Adam) is not birthing His generation into existence by sex, but He is bringing them forth by the new birth of the revelation of the word for the age which is a spiritual birth of the incorruptible seed of the revelation of the word for their age, bringing them from the temporal life and back into eternal life by His condescension to them.
**Look at all the mess ups of all the births of the bible.
Tamar was in an incestuous relationship, Rahab was a harlot, Ruth was a Moabitess from an incestuous race, Bathsheba was an adulteress, and yet these four women are included in the generations of Jesus Christ. So God is showing us that the new birth bypasses all of our natural birth history and problems. He is showing us His condescended in that he can take the very lowest and bring it up to become the very highest – he can take all the wrongs in your life that came by your sex birth and make it all come out right by the new birth.
“All my confusion, He understood, all I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife, but He made something beautiful out of my life”.
*Christ’s condescended to a fallen human race that had fallen, a race that began wrong with the wrong birth and kept getting it wrong – and yet He was able to condescend to the lowest of the low, and thus revealing His true character of His greatness to us.
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182… And God is the Word. And the Word, no matter how it looks like it's going to come this other way, it'll come just exactly the way the Word said.
Regardless of how your life looks, it will come out the way that God intends for it to come out according to the promise of what he has spoken concerning those who have been walking in the light of the word of the third pull of the revelation of this hour.
264-1 SARDISEAN.CHURCH.AGE - CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.7
Yes, they had walked through the world and had not partaken of it. They had not let the world systems overcome them. When the illustrious names of that age had yielded to the blandishment of the state and chosen political mindedness rather than Spiritual mindedness and were on their way back into the world, these few stood for the Word of God, and thereby honored the Lord. Now He would honor them in return. For they shall walk with Him in white. They had identified themselves with Him on earth and now He would identify Himself with them in the New Jerusalem. And how marvelous will be that identification! It makes me rejoice and yet it makes me weep to think of His condescension, for you will note that He is not dressed in another color different from the saints, as earthly leaders would so do. No, they are like Him; He is like them. They are like Him, even as John said; for "they see Him as He is."
He is here now in the form of the unveiling of His word – “The Mighty God Unveiled before us”, “Who is THIS Melchizedek”? “There is a man here NOW who can turn on the light”, “The Invisible Union of the Bride to Christ”, “Christ IS the Mystery of God revealed in this hour”, “The Uniting Time and Sign”.
*This is the language of the message, this is marriage time language because we are living in the time when the marriage of the Lamb has come.
** The Condescension of God.
Over all these years (and without us maybe realising it), the marriage of the Lamb has been taking place amongst us, and we have been made ready and are still being made ready by the word of what God has sent through his messenger for this hour.
The Condescension of God