In the Beginning, Yahweh God (Elohim) (ALEPHא TAV ת) created the heaven and the earth.
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The Sword of the Spirit |
The
Two Edged Sword of the Spirit
See now that: I even I AM He.
There is no God beside Me.
I kill and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal;
Neither is there any that can deliver out of My Hand.
Armed with the Sword of Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH, we categorically declare that the Almighty Yahweh God's Covenant WORD of TRUTH, is sealed within the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, and is not a symbolic idiom. Those who think otherwise are lifeless in their inert symbolism that breeds all manner of unbelief in the Living Word of Yahweh God. Even an inert form of faith, can leave a person mired in the corruption of sin within their mind of flesh for this form of faith runs hand in hand with its companion of treasonous unbelief.
To know wisdom and instruction: To perceive the words of understanding, and receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity that gives subtlety to the simple, and to the young man knowledge and discretion. A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: But fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1 verse 2 thru 7.)
The Infinite, Holy, Holy Holy Lord Yahweh God Almighty just exists within His Eternity of Infinite eons. From Eternity, the Eternal brought forth His beginning creation of time woven within the space fabric of the heavens that came to be in existence from the Spirit of His Infinite WORD of Power.
In the Beginning --- Yahweh God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1 verse 1.)
Our eyes behold this beginning statement of TRUTH, scripted in black on white Bible pages, while the Glory and Power of Yahweh God Almighty, is written in the grandeur of the heavens and in the earth for all of Yahweh God's intelligent creation to consider.
For us there is but one Yahweh God, the Father, by Whom are all things, and we in Him; and One Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are all things, and we by Him. (1st Corinthians 8 verse 6.)
In Infinite Yahweh God's days of creating life on earth, Man/Adam was formed during the sixth day within Yahweh God's creation of time, All things were created for Yahweh God's good pleasure and with that purpose, Yahweh God set His Heart upon Adam, whom He created in His own image and likeness of Spirit, for the Almighty desired to give to Adam, and his offspring according to the goodness of Infinity's Own Heart.
Unfortunately, Adam through the lust and imaginations of his own mind, would freely choose the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, rather than choosing the eternal goodness that would come from the Heart of Yahweh God. Yahweh God is the Creator of the Living and His choice provisions are for LIFE as they were established in Yahweh's Tree of LIFE.
Satan sowed sin in the heart of Adam which gave birth to death to the soul of Adam. Adam heard from God, his Maker, of the consequences of death for Adam's wrong choice, but in not believing God, Adam freely chose the poisonous fruit of rebellion against his Maker. The flowering of the seed of this forbidden fruit brought forth Satan's own free thought confusion over good and evil.
Adam's choice of insurrection leading to death, forced his own separation from the Heart of Holy Yahweh God, and then Yahweh God's Likeness of His Holy Spirit of LIFE departed from the Man. In choosing the forbidden morsel, Adam sold himself into the bondages of the spirit of evil. That corrupt seed of rebellion was sown into the core of Adam's soul, and changed the whole of his natural being, bringing death to himself, and ultimately would bring death to all of his offspring. As a result of Adam's rebellion against Yahweh God, death was set in motion with the whole earth being infected with sin's sinister darkness with that darkness being controlled by sin's author, Satan. Now, humanity is left with their own individualistic discovery and self determination, which breeds all manner of selfish lust, desires and concupiscence within the heart of each individual little man god. It should be self evident, that every person born of flesh, is left to judge the good and evil as they see fit, and do what is right within their own eyes.
However, the Eternal Yahweh God is the Holy God of the living, and not the god of the dead. Yahweh God's Heart, from before the beginning of His creation, intended to give Life, and to give it abundantly to His creation of Adam, Man. We know that after the treasonous rebellion of the first Man/Adam, Yahweh God in His mercy and love, sent His Eternal Living WORD into this World of sin, as the incarnate Son of Man and Lamb of God, to save human kind from sin's violence and corruption into death. The Lord Jesus Christ came in the flesh of Man/Adam, to sow the seed of Yahweh God's Word of Salvation hope into the minds and souls of human kind that were lost and without hope in their sin's corruption into death. But now, Yahweh God's Seed of Salvation brings forth, by Faith in Yahweh God, a new birth of LIFE to the believing of man kind. Now the new born soul is to be conformed into the likeness of the Son of Yahweh God, and has a new living hope in which they are to live in Yahweh God's Way, Yahweh God's TRUTH and Yahweh God's LIFE that is unequivocally centered within the Spirit of Father Yahweh God's Son of Salvation, Jesus Christ. No one comes to the Father except by Me, Says the LORD Jesus, and the Holy Word of Yahweh God Almighty.
As there is a beginning to all things within Yahweh God’s creation of sowing and reaping, so there can be a new beginning of true faith, wisdom and understanding, within the searching human heart and spirit of the one, who hears and then follows after Yahweh God's call. The Eternal Yahweh God has set the foundational Rock of TRUTH IN Christ Jesus, and now the possible beginnings of new Life, flows out of the human heart's reverential fear of the Creator Yahweh God, and the desire to know Him. If all things begin with our Creator Yahweh God, then even a reverential fear is initiated by our Gracious Lord to bring forth a soul's trusting faith in Him and the TRUTH of His Eternal WORD. Those of us having received Yahweh God's Gift of Living Faith, know that Jesus Christ is Yahweh God's Personal WORD of the Promised WAY of the TRUTH and the LIFE of men, for all those who receive and follow His WAY and TRUTH into Eternity.
As for myself, I am very fortunate that I have found the fear of the Lord to be very good, and have seen that the nourishing riches of His WORD enhances, and yet far surpasses my finite understanding of the HOLY ONE. So then, it is with Yahweh God's beginning Seed of His WORD that has brought forth a now flourishing faith within a new spiritual mind that is further augmented by the unseen resources of the LIFE of Christ Jesus. And now this mind of refurbishing will magnify the TRUTH of the WORD of GOD, as we ascribe infinite glory and majesty to His Name of Salvation. Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah/Christ of Yahweh God, is the ROCK Foundaton whereby unbelieving humanity must be saved from their iniquity.
In the Beginning, Yahweh God (Elohim)
(ALEPHא
TAV
ת)
created the
heaven and the earth.
The Almighty Yahweh God put His Personal Mark of TRUTH in the written Hebrew Torah, for the emblematic Mark is the Living Source of the very beginning of Yahweh God's creation of time and space, and in the fabric of time the WORD of Yahweh God brought forth the creation of the substance of the heaven and the earth. The Hebrew language reads from right to left and in the above Hebrew language, we can find in the opening passage in the book of Genesis, the Aleph אand the Tav ת, for they are set as beginning and ending time markers in the midst of the first known declaration of creation. In the English transliteration of the 15th century, the Personal Marker of Yahweh Elohim is missing. To get our semantics right in the first and the last place, the Aleph, is the first letter in the Hebrew alphabet, and biblically is equivalent to the first letter Alpha, in the Greek alphabet: The last letter in the Hebrew alphabet is the Tav, and is transliterated to the last letter in the Greek alphabet, Omega. And the two became ONE, for the Lord's Christ, Who is the Aleph-Tav, the Word of Yahweh God from the beginning to the end of time; thus it correspondingly says in Revelation:
I AM Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last, Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty. For thus says the LORD the King of Israel, and His Redeemer the LORD of Hosts; I AM the First, and I AM the Last; and beside [apart from] Me there is no God. (See Revelation 1 verse 8 thru 11, and Isaiah 44 verse 6 thru 8.)
Through the revelation of Yahweh God's Spirit of TRUTH, the clarity of Scripture became even clearer to the minds of the apostles Paul and Peter, for they write that Yahweh God's perfect Lamb was slain even before the creation of the world. (See 1st Peter 1 verse18 thru 20 and 1st Corinthians 2 verse 6 thru 10.)
Note: The following video documentary was
first viewed by the writer on June 22, 2015 and was posted on this web page on that date.
Since its posting, there was some change in context. Any depictions that
presents the Word of Yahweh God in favorable Light, can cause controversy and so it was
with this film, for Google took it off
of UTube. However some time in 2020 it was restored to UTube. There is a
point toward the end of the documentary that breaks with the original flow of thought, but
on the whole it is
a good 1 hour film. The documentary should be viewed, for in
its educational value, the viewer will begin to understand
the great Salvation we have in the New Covenant WORD of Yahweh God, even as
Yahweh God
set the Mark of His WORD in the beginning first sentence of Genesis. The
early Hebrew pictographs reveal Yahweh God's Covenant in the Aleph
Tav
. Unfortunately, after building up a
good foundation of the
TRUTH of the Well Spring and the
Covenant Power
of the WORD of Yahweh God that is Christ, the authors at the time mark of
40:15, refer in their own unbelief that the Communion Blood of Christ is symbolic,
both in their word and the Communion depiction.
They fail in their finite understanding that Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH is One with
Yahweh God's WORD made the
Flesh of the Son of Adam, and would be One Essence with the Water
and Blood that flowed from the pierced body of Yahweh God's Holy One. The WORD of
the Creator of the Universe is exactly What He Says It IS. The word
“is”, in Greek is “esti”: Third
Person, singular. The English definition means: Present; “to be”: and has a root in
“eimi”:
First Person, singular, present: meaning, “to exist”; “is present”.
The "I
AM" in the Gospel of John, references the deity of Jesus
Christ, as EGO EIMI, and in the Greek language, having a meaning of I Will Be.
Without the Eternal TRUTH of the Word of Yahweh God, then unbelief makes faith void
of the TRUTH.
Also the documentary time of 45:44 there is another error that is lacking in perfect understanding of the Power of the WORD of Yahweh God: For the English designation of the Son of Man is of Eternal necessity. Christ is the very last genetic Son of Adam, and Yashua haMachiah (the Messiah) is the Perfect Son of Yahweh God, born of the pure genetic flesh of Adam. The Son of Man or Son of Adam is not a mere title that Christ Jesus proclaims, but is a genetic fact of Yahweh God's perfection, for Jesus is born of the Seed of Woman and is the very last genetic Adam. The very name of Adam in English means Man: Therefore Jesus is declaring that He is the Son of Adam or the Son of Man. For Yahweh God declares: I will make a (mortal) man (enowsh) more precious than fine gold; even a Man (Adam) than the golden wedge of Ophir. (See Isaiah 13 verse 11 thru 13.) Notice the above green links that provide the distinctions in the Hebrew for the word man. Likewise, the original name of Adam's wife is Ishshah and means Woman. Yahweh God's TRUTH stands for ever: However human kind (enowsh), within his own confusion, stubbles over what the TRUTH of Yahweh God and establishes what he considers to be his truth. Yeshua (Jesus) declares He is the TRUTH and ONE with His Father Yahweh God. Yahweh God is One; Father, Spirit WORD and is Eternally Constant, and no person or entities can tear the TRUTH asunder. After viewing the documentary, then perhaps the whole of this treaties on Holy Communion, accompanied with Yahweh God's Spirit of TRUTH that is ONE with the WORD of Jesus Christ, will begin to resonate as TRUTH in the spirit of the reader's mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgqUvWZ0DE8
Now then, my natural mind is not a remarkable mind, but nevertheless adequate, and remains changeable and creative in thought, and by the Grace of Yahweh God, this mind is supple enough for the substance of Faith IN Yahweh God and His Messiah/Christ. So then, it is with Yahweh God's given Grace through Yahweh's Holy Spirit of TRUTH, and with my heart's best understanding, that we come to a necessary beginning of the inspiration within the spirit of the mind, which was birthed in Godly Faith.
No man has seen Yahweh God at any time; the Only Begotten Son, Who is in the Bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. (John 1 verse 18.) (Luke 6 verse 45.)
With this root Scripture from Luke's Gospel in mind, we postulate that at some period in Yahweh God's Eternity, through the internal thoughts of His Infinite Majesty and Power, the substance of all things was birthed or conceived in the Bosom and Spirit of the invisible Yahweh God Almighty. From the invisible dynamic substance and abundance of Yahweh God's Heart of Love, His Mouth spoke, and His Logos Seed, Jesus Christ, in union with His Father's Infinite Spirit, created, within His creation of time and space, the Heavens and all the dynamics of the stars, the earth and other heavenly bodies. Everything that exists, the known and the unknown are because of the invisible substance of the thoughts of the only Eternal Yahweh Lord God Almighty, and that substance is expressed through His Son and Absolute WORD, Jesus Christ. All substances (or things) consist of Him, (the Logos or Word) and are held in the Power of His Dominion over all things in His created universe. All matter and or energy dynamically consist of the Substance of the Almighty's WORD, and as such, all physical matter, antimatter, or even postulated unseen dark matter and dark energy, is imprinted with the Infinite Power of Yahweh God's WORD and Spirit of TRUTH, and remains in absolute subjection to the Spirit of His WORD.
By the WORD of the LORD (Yahweh) were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the Breath of His Mouth. The counsel of the LORD (Yahweh) stands for ever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations. (Psalm 33 verse 6 and verse 11.)
All of creation, whether it is seen or unseen, is impregnated or shall we say indelibly imprinted with the genesis WORD of the Creator Yahweh God, for all of the substance of creation came forth, from the abundant riches within the only Infinite Lord Yahweh God Almighty. (See Jesus and the Aleph-Bet.) The Signature of that abundance is exhibited in the heavens and the earth, and demonstrates the dynamic Power of His Eternal WORD of creation.
This presentation concept of Yahweh God's Signature imprinted on all of His creation, is not difficult to understand. A master painter or a writer or engineer or inventor, will inevitably sign their names to their respective work. In all cases, the works are owned by the originator, and in many instances a copy right is secured to protect the artisan's efforts to secure monetary gain. The works belong to the creator of the works, unless they are sold, or the rights to the creation, are licensed to another for their own use. So then like wise, Yahweh God's signature, the imprint of His Heart, is on the whole of His creation, beginning with the unknowable expanse of the cosmos, to the smallest and unseen subatomic details that makes up the substance of His collective universal design. Yahweh God's creative WORD and and only Begotten Son, also sets the mark of His supernatural signature of authority and design within the beginnings of His creation of life, even as it is represented in the elemental DNA signature of plant and animal species, all of which through Yahweh God's creative Genius, are carried on in the seed of its genetic offspring. Yahweh God is Infinite Light, and that Eternal Person of Light has an infinite capacity within Him Self, to create beyond the understanding of the natural human.
Perhaps we need to remember that the Creator of the universe, had never purposed in His Heart to give or sell any portion of His creation to any being or entity that was outside of His Will. The problem has existed from the Garden to the present time, where mankind has sold itself into the bondage and violence of sin and death, and now the blood from the violence of mankind is in the dust of the earth, and obscures Yahweh God's Signature of Eternal Ownership. The Holy Yahweh God of the universe, remains Constant in His love for mankind, and desires to redeem or purchase back that which was lost to Him by way of the subtlety of Satan's sowing his controlling nature of independent sin within the free thinking soul and spirit of man. The nature and signature of sin is D. E. A. T. H., derived from mankind's self indulgence, as little gods, leads to continued disobedience and violence against the only Lord Yahweh God of the living. So then the blood guiltiness of all of mankind was signed in the dust of the earth, even as it was sown within the souls of earthly mankind. If a person breaks even one commandments given by Yahweh God, then he or she is guilty of all of Yahweh God's commandments, and have made themselves no less than an accomplice to all the bloody violence of sin in the earth.
But now, the Sacrificial LIFE Blood of the Incarnate Jesus/Yeshua, born the Son of Adam is sown in the earth, and is the redemptive price that covers the full cost of sin's demands of death upon earthly mankind. Holy Yahweh God's Supreme Signature is in the Holy Blood of Jesus the Christ, and that Covenant LIFE giving Blood of the risen Christ Jesus, supersedes the signature of death that spiritual sin has ascribed to all people of the earth. The pardon for sin, is signed in the precious New Covenant Blood, of Yahweh God's perfect Lamb of Sacrificial Love that is in Yahweh's own beloved Son. (See God's Amnesty Program.) In Hebrew, the Lord of Yahweh God's Salvation is known as Yeshua haMashiach: In the English vernacular, the Lord is called Jesus the Christ. It remains for all those who have accepted Yahweh God's amnesty for past sins, to faithfully follow His Eternal WORD IN His WAY and IN His TRUTH and IN His Blood that gives Eternal LIFE. There is a dire need to consider hard Peter's warning when he writes of forgetful us; and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins! (See 2nd Peter 1 verse 4 thru 10.) Peter's written warning agrees with Paul's writings in Romans. (See Romans 3 verse 25.) When viewing the Scriptures, compare Paul's Words "remission of sins that are past" in conjunction with Peter's "has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins".
Looking into the Holy Scriptures in Romans 8, it seems as if the whole universe is pregnant with greater expectancy, and waiting for the Promised deliverance to take place within the course of Yahweh God's redemptive Eternal plan for mankind declared before the World was created. (See 1s 1 verse 19 thru 21,t Peter 1st Corinthians 2 verse 7 thru 10, Revelation 12 verse 10 thru 12,) Paul writes:
"For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now".
1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from Yahweh God, an Eternal House in heaven, not built by human hands.
2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling,
3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. (2nd Corinthians 5 verse 1 thru 3.)
Even though all things that exist in the universe, came forth from the unknowable dynamics of the Heart and Spirit of His Eternal Being, that in His Person, the Omnipotent Yahweh God is neither diminished in Power because of His universal creation, nor is the Power of His Living WORD to influence creation, save for one thing. The Sovereign Yahweh God of the Universe cannot create a heart perfected in true love and molded in trust within His created beings of free choosing no matter if they be Man (Adam) or angelic beings. There are no robotic children in His kingdom of the living, for even today the Spirit of Prophecy, leaves the mind of man in their subjective control of the spiritual message. (See 1st Corinthians 14 verse 31 thru 33.)
A man gazing through a powerful telescope, may be impressed or perhaps enamored with the dynamics of the unseen power of the universe. He may even reflect on the origin of its creation, that is to say its Creator, but the creative and sovereign Power of Yahweh God, does not engender a free and more perfect Love of Yahweh God. This spiritual matter of the spiritual heart to freely love Yahweh God, is not forced on Yahweh God's subject beings, in spite of Yahweh God's sovereignty, for that would be a falsehood to the Yahweh God of all TRUTH, and would be a contradiction to His over all Nature of Infinite Holiness. (See the Church Fathers on free-will.)
This we can be sure of, that the heart and soul of man was born to be loved, and to know sacrificial Love through a personal intimacy with the One, Who knows the heart best. The drawing power of the Love of Yahweh God, is from a Love that surpasses all human understanding, and is Yahweh's Holy Spirit's Call that needs to be heeded by all of fallen mankind. To know this Love of Yahweh God, then the confused and desperate heart of a person must find the will to answer Yahweh God's Call to His Grace, and then to abdicate their allegiance to their independent and self destructive ways, by surrendering their hearts into the enabling, and Loving Grace in Yahweh God's Son, Jesus Christ.
If you turn unto Me, then I will turn unto you, says the Lord of Host" (Zechariah. 1 verse 3.) Blessed is the man to whom the LORD will not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. (Psalm 32 verse 1 thru 2.)
The Grace of Yahweh God's Spirit does not destroy the will of man, but regenerates in the mind of man an accepting will that spurns death and desires to know the Love of the Lord Yahweh God of the Living.
When Yahweh God's Perfect Love is received within the grateful heart of the forgiven person that was imprisoned in sin and awaiting death, then that supreme Love from Yahweh God can change the self imprisoned heart of man, to a heart that is free to Love Yahweh God, first in all things, and secondly, to Love their fellow man, as themselves. The Eternal Yahweh God, when receiving a reciprocating Love from His free living subjects of man, then the Eternal Yahweh God, Whose Supreme Nature is to give, is supremely enriched with a Love freely given. (See Luke 15 verse 10.) For Yahweh God so Loved the world that He gave of the abundance of His Love, through His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, so that through the new birth of sinful human kind, the earth may see the evidence of Yahweh God's Love in their Love.
Of His own will begat He us with the WORD of TRUTH, that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures. (James 1 verse 18.) Jesus says, I tell you the TRUTH, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. (John 12 verse 24. NIV.)
All good gifts come from the Father of Light, beginning with faith expanding into hope, but the greatest Gift of all is the Perfect Love within Yahweh God's Son.
There is no fear in love, but Perfect Love cast out fear: Because fear has torment, he that fears is not made perfect in love. We love Yahweh God, because He first Loved us. (1st John 4 verse 18 thru 19.)
Yahweh God's Gift of Faith, is given to any person who will receive it, and now the Gift belongs to that person to do with the Gift as he wills. However, an understanding person might say; "It is my Gift of Faith IN Yahweh God that sustains me".
Yes, but even so, what do we do with that Gift of Faith when Yahweh God's purposes is to bring us into His more Perfect Love? Having come from the Yahweh God of the living then that same faith is not designed to be passive, but holds the possessor of that beginning measure of faith to measured responsibilities. The Holy, Just Yahweh God of His universe, holds us accountable for what He has given to us, for it is written:
For whosoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever has not, from him shall be taken away, even that he thinks he has. (Matthew 13 verse 12.)
Biblically, the Word of Yahweh God speaks of the hypocrisy within all of us, and so then even Divine TRUTH may be muffled or silenced because of our own hypocrisy; and that hypocrisy is inextricably bound within the iniquity of self idolatry that darkens the mind of flesh. These same minds of flesh and blood, can, and will delve into matters that are beyond the scope of the mind of man to comprehend. So then we see men, with their vain philosophies and much speaking, limiting Yahweh God within their own hearts, and also influence those of gullible mankind. The faith of many is compromised by false teachers that espouse their own prideful intellectual and philosophical bias. These foolish teachers lean on the priority of their own earthly understanding, and continue to dismiss Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH and His leading in the only WAY and TRUTH that the WORD of LIFE provides for mankind.
Except you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood you have no LIFE in you. It is the Spirit that gives LIFE and your flesh does not comprehend, says the Word of the Lord of creation.
A symbolic covenant with Yahweh God does not exist, for His Eternal Covenant is in His Eternal WORD that is alive forevermore. Yahweh God is not symbolic; His Spirit is not symbolic; His WORD is not symbolic; and the Blood of Yahweh God's New Covenant is not symbolic, otherwise you are absolutely lifeless in your symbolism.
The Infinite Yahweh God of Eternal LIFE, is Yahweh Almighty God, and He is unlimited within the vastness of Himself. Man is not God, for the natural man is limited in a finite body of flesh that is sowed in death and will cease to exist in the dust of the earth. Human kind, like all breathing animals, presently exist within the finite limits of the creature within our bodies of dying flesh. However;
The secret things belong unto the Lord our Yahweh God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and our children forever. (Deuteronomy 29 verse 29.)
But, it is apparent that the mind of man, does not like not knowing of hidden mysteries, especially those of Yahweh God, and will expound upon things that fallen man has no way of knowing, nor has man a right to Yahweh God's Infinite Essence of Being. The Infinite Yahweh God will remain Infinite, and man by his earthly nature will remain a speculator, seeking to make Yahweh God into our own image, or trying to give meaning to the Infinite's Words, so as to agree with our own earthly understanding. So, even the things that were written for our understanding, are subject to the interpretation of the speculators who may be ever learning, but never seemingly coming to the knowledge of the TRUTH.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; but the LORD ponders the hearts. (Proverbs 21 verse 2.)
Witness within yourselves: It can be very difficult to change the root thinking of our minds, especially when we are indoctrinate to be in agreement with our most trusted and esteemed teachers, whether they are right or wrong within the root of their own speculating minds. If from the beginning, man 's understanding of TRUTH is wrong, then obviously that understanding, in the end, is still wrong and all who espouse the error are held to account.
For Yahweh God has concluded them all [the Jews] in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all. Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of Yahweh God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! For who has known the Mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor? (See Romans 11 verse 25 thru 34.)
So then, let's ponder a few questions that are pertinent to the heart of our thinking: If Jesus Christ, within His Person, is the Eternal WORD of Yahweh GOD, then what is your perception of scripture pertaining to the Power of the WORD of Christ; light, or darkness? Does the WORD of Yahweh God present darkness of thought, veiled in the cloudiness of our minds of unbelief, or is the WORD of Yahweh God received in the spirit of our mind and soul, as the absolute TRUTH revealed in the Light of Faith? Do we really have faith in the revealed Words of Jesus Christ, of Whom Peter declares:
You have the Words of Eternal LIFE. What do you do with these Words of Eternal LIFE that Jesus speaks to His disciples? Take, eat: This is My Body given for you. Take and drink all of you. This is My Blood of the New Covenant, shed for many for the remission of sin? (See Matthew 26 verse 26 thru 27.)
Did Jesus not say?
Unless you eat of the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood you have no LIFE in you. It is the Spirit that gives LIFE and your flesh does not comprehend.
From the Beginning, the Spirit of Yahweh God has given LIFE to the Words of the Son of Man, Whom, after Christ's crucifixion death, the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God raised up to LIFE the Son of Man in the Power of His Faith that believed in His Father's Word of TRUTH. By the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God, the Flesh and the Blood of the risen Son of Man is LIFE for the dead IN the Body of Christ, who partake IN Faith of Yahweh's Holy Provision of LIFE IN the Blood of His Son Christ Jesus.
Now again, does the value of Jesus Christ's Words at His Table, hold only inert symbolism and innocuous shadows of hyperbole to the reader, or does the WORD of Yahweh GOD, even Jesus Christ the Son of Adam, contain the real unseen substance of the Light of LIFE, as it flowed from the Mouth of the Creator of the Universe?
I AM the Vine, you are the branches: He that abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit: For without Me you can do nothing.
There can be no fruit of Yahweh's Spirit, apart from abiding in Jesus Christ. Unbelief is the stumbling block, born out of the iniquity within the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, and that Tree only produces death.
Jesus, the Living WORD of Yahweh God, and the Savior of mankind, asks all of His disciples a very pertinent question;
"Who do you say that I AM?"
This is the quintessential question that all must give an answer too. (See Romans 14 verse 10 thru 12.) Perhaps your answer today, will influence your reception or rejection of what will be presented in the spirit of this treatise on Holy Communion. The crux of this self examination begins with the beginning of John's Gospel: For
"In the beginning was the WORD (Logos), and the WORD was with Yahweh God, and the WORD was God. The same was in the beginning with (Yahweh) God. All things were made by Him (the Word), and without Him (the Word) was not anything made that was made. In Him (the Word) was LIFE, and the LIFE was the Light of men. And the Light shines in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not". (John 1 verse 1 thru 5.)
The TRUTH of Yahweh God's WORD is set in the Light of all creation, for by the Power of the WORD of TRUTH, all things exist, and will be what the TRUTH of Jesus Christ says they will be, for He is the absolute WORD of Yahweh God Almighty. The Apostle John speaks of Jesus Christ in this Way:
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in Righteousness He does judge and makes war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His Head were many crowns; and He had a Name written, that no man knew, but He Himself. And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in Blood: and His Name is called The WORD of GOD. (Revelation 19 verse 11 thru 13.)
Without the absolute TRUTH of the WORD of Yahweh God, then nothing would exist! If the Words of Jesus Christ should fail IN one jot or tittle, then the Word of TRUTH has failed, and heaven and earth along with all matter and time would cease to exist. Christ Jesus with His Father, is the Law Maker of the universe, where by all things are held together in compliance with the Spirit of Yahweh's WORD of TRUTH. When the Lord Jesus Christ sat at the table with His disciples, He instituted a New Law, where by, through the Spirit of His WORD, the essence of the matter of the unleavened bread would become for all of His followers, indeed His Body; and the essence of the wine would now become, the Spirit of His Blood of the New Covenant, poured out for the remission of the sins of all the members IN His Body.
It is the Spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing: The WORDS that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and They are LIFE. (John 6 verse 63.)
If the WORDS of Christ are Spirit and LIFE for His believers, then how do you perceive each of the called members of the Lord's Body ?
For thou shall Love, as in the Greek, Agapao the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Also, you are to Love your neighbor as thy self.
How many of us come short of this sacrificial Love of Yahweh God, and contrary wise set ourselves first, and our neighbor some where down the line?
Notes of Importance: Mark 16:16. 'He that believes and is baptised shall be saved, but he that believes not shall be damned'. Water Baptism implies the death of a believer into the sinless Body of Jesus Christ, for Jesus was crucified to death for our sin, and yet Faith IN Christ's Resurrection holds to a new beginning of Life for the believer IN Christ Jesus, for they drink of His LIFE giving Blood.
But, the fact remains that we live in the unredeemed flesh of our being, leaving in us an ongoing problem of destructive sin that so easily find us out, and our weakness to its call needs to be submitted to the Lord and Keeper of our souls. (See 1st Corinthians 15 verse 49 thru 50.) In this flesh of our own self importance, we are forgetful of the absolute Holiness of our Creator, Yahweh Almighty God. But remember that you are more than a conquer IN CHRIST JESUS when you submit your willfulness to the LIFE Giving BLOOD of the Lord our Savior.
Although many think that the writings of Paul came before the writing of the Gospels, nevertheless this writer has a preference for using, what is noted as Matthew 26 verse 26 and 27 through out this manuscript as prima facie evidence for the efficacy of Holy Communion and the Lord Jesus Christ's WORD declared LIFE giving Blood of the New Covenant poured out for the remission of sin. The Apostles, Matthew and John, were two of the apostles, who were present during the Lord's Institution of His Father's New Covenant in His Son's LIFE giving Blood that Christ presented at His last Passover Supper during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The traitor, Judas Iscariot was not present during the Lord's Presentation Offering of His Body and LIFE giving Blood.
"Except you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His Blood you have no LIFE in you." (See John 6 verse 53.)
The two other synoptic Gospel accounts attributed to Luke, and Mark, speak of the Lord's WORD as thus, "This is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many." Neither of these two Gospel accounts, nor of the translated rendering of Paul's Communion account, as seen in 1st Corinthians chapter 11, solidly establishes what should be understood as the forgiveness of sin and the LIFE of God's Spirit. The Gospel of Matthew presents the apostle Matthew as a witnesses at Christ's Passover table, for the Lord said: "Take and drink all of you: This is My Blood of the New Covenant Shed for many, for the remission of sins". When the sin's of the flesh are remitted in the Blood of Yeshus, then and entrance through Christ is made for the believer into the Presence of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh God so that Yahweh's Grace is manifested.
Paul, in his account of Communion IN the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, writes that Jesus twice said of His Body and Blood: this do in remembrance of Me. (See 1st Corinthians 11 verse 24 thru 26.) This do is an instructive Word that is given to those who Love and obey through Yahweh's Gift of Faith in the cleansing Word of Yeshua/Jesus. We are to remember that in Yahweh God's New Covenant that His Lamb, Jesus Christ shed His LIFE Blood for Man and died for our sin and death, so that we would live in the abundance of the LIFE of His Spirit that is One with His Father Yahweh God.
This imperative New Covenant WORD of the Lord Jesus Christ, Speaks of His shed Blood given for the obliteration of confessed sins of the corrupted flesh of New Covenant believers IN Christ Jesus. However, Yahweh God's Gospel Word from Matthew is dismissed by so many, who claim to have the hermeneutics of scripture all in hand, but do not understand the hermeneutics of the corrupting existential sin that remains within the fleshly body of themselves. With our agreement IN the fullness of Yahweh God's New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ, then acknowledged sin will be pruned from the flesh, thereby relieving the conscience of the condemning guilt of sin. Now, the repentant member IN the Covenant Body of Christ, through Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace, is made One with the efficacious New Covenant LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ.
The English word remission is a transliteration from the Greek work aphesis, and has a meaning greater than just forgiveness or even pardon. Remission of an offense is a total release from bondage or imprisonment, letting a repentant person go free as if they had never committed crimes. In the fullness of Yahweh God's New Covenant there is no damning penalty of death for the truly repentant soul: And for that matter there is a complete obliteration of the past record of charges. Yahweh God does not want His New Covenant people IN Christ to be encumbered with the weight of sin's present condemnation, but His Good Will is that they would remain free to serve Him IN Love and to be His ambassadors of His Good and Holy Will. On this web site, much has been written and rewritten over the years, and the whole of the work needs to be read for a greater overview of Yahweh God's Gracious New Covenant IN the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ.
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Robert Glenn Pratten with my beloved wife Rose Labez Pratten