To persue a particular line of study about God is very exciting and can be revealing. To key in on God is often best done if you spear your thoughts into the word like a weapon targeting the kill. In this your mind becomes the instrument of what could be a penertrating truth. God is a Specialist. He often devotes himself to one subject or one thing or one persuit. Although God can also be multiple in his attention, diverse in his doings,just imagine what he can be like when his focus is only on one thing. That breeds awesome implications.
Man is Gods Masterpeice and God Specializes in humanity. He has made humanity an organism and designed us to adapt to special and specific habitats of environment. To adapt to certain conditions that render certain reactions, which really is creating a special characther within humanity which he Specializes in the modification of. And because of his ability, and the events in Genesis creative period, how God created the earth in stages, I believe he is doing that with humanity even now.
I had once thought that when God created something, that was it, it was finished. Kind of like " Instant fulfillment", everything needed was place there while he was creating it. Well God has done that with certain specific things, but not everything, so this can be confusing. Man is a three part being, having a mind, a body and a human Spirit, or a soul. Only one part of those three was complettely developed, or complettely created from its onset, the body of man. The human mind and spirit is an ongoing creation. God is actually still creating the person while they are yet alive! A fascinating thing to consider, but its also why every human must live first, and live for a while, because God is still actively creating them. The longer someone lives, I think that means God has invested much more in them than we know, because of the time he has invested in their life. Conversely, the shorter one lives, the investment from God is different, showing he prefers somethingelse, which cannot be explained on this side of life.
When God Spawned humanity he gave birth to us in great numbers, this also reveals a great plan, the sheer numerics involved. Humans may outnumber Angels in the end, I don't know, but I wouldnot be surprised if we do. The investment God has made in humanity, is unlike his investment in any other life form, which I'll go into later.
God wanted humans to be Specifically like him, which is a deep and out of sight thing to consider. God wanted us to belong to his Characther, be Specific to him, pertaining to him, belong to him, bearing his image. I think Gods investment in humanity is far deeper than suspected, and his creation of us much more percise than we know. I think his creation of humanity is actually on-going, active even now. Human history is just the Special effects of Gods Specialization. God has clearly distinquished and limited humanity, he has itemized plans, created his materials, detailed his dimensions, established his requirements, all of which are a bill of particulars that are invested in creating a specific characther within man. Each specific man and woman, AND teenager AND child. And I want to go into how God Specializes. Peace.
Abraham noticed something that he dared to interceed with God on in Genesis 18:23;" Will you sweep away the wicked with the righteous?" In vs. 25 he literally asked him will he treat the righteous and wicked alike? From the onset of human consciousness, humanity was destined to know good and evil. In Gen. 3:22 God actually said that was " Becomming Like Him." In all the considerations of what this means, what good means, what evil means and why, really at its core, its a Specialization of God. No matter how this is examined or understood, its a specific Specialization of Gods focus on something. Continual focus, because it has always been with humanity.
Job said in 42:2 that no purpose of God can be thwarted, or prevented. In 38:36, God speaks that he can put wisdom in the innermost being of a human or give understanding to the mind. So each time God does this tinkering of the innermost being, that is part of an active creative ongoing process. A special process, because even the human itself is not always aware of whats going on in their innermost being. This process could be focused on the humans belief. Acts 8:37;" If you believe " With All of your Heart." God can actually install, manipulate and stimulate the human heart to believe or disbelieve. Either one is then an active stimulization, an active ongoing work.
God said an interesting thing to Cain in Gen. 4:7;" If you do well, willnot your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must Master it." And I want to touch on this most interesting statement from God. Peace.
Sin Crouching at your door, an eire statement from God. Sin close to your home and lying in wait, close to the ground like an animal ready to attack. Its desire is for you. Weird analogy, as if sin has a life of its own, and now, like some kind of preditor, some kind of monster, its bending as if to hide itself and change its stance so it can catch you off guard and prounce on you with an aittitude. Sin is crouching, which means its manipulating itself in order to make contact with you.
You ever watch a film of a Lioness prepareing to make the kill? Watch what she does with her body. She gets low to the ground. Shes Crouching. Shes trying to conform with the environment around her, become one with it, so that she cannot be seen. She moves, and does not move, she creeps when she moves, hides and inches forward toward her kill. As she moves forward, she is excited and her desire to kill is enticed. So enticed is her desire, she is now totally focused and her crouch is now powered for a full frontal outright attack. She will now shift from crouching and bending into the environment, to an all out run and leap at her prey.
Sin then is the kind of thing which conforms to the environment and blends in with the norm. Looks to stay hidden but yet is intense and desires to attack. This is the senerio that God wants Mastered. You ever wonder about that? There is a Superiority involved in our competition with sin, a Godly creative purpose that is arched toward our having a knowledge about it, an experience with it, skills developed from it, and a victory over it. These are the acts of Mastering, Achievement and again does reveal a performance level that relates to the nature of Overcomming. Something is waiting on you out there, and its mean, its deceptive, its quick and deadly, and it wants to get at you, and God wants it mastered.
Here again is another unique Specialization of God worth examining. Peace.
Sin is out there and its Crouching and Conforming , it has taken on the Shape of this world and melded into its environment. Romans 12:2;" Be not Conformed to this World." Sin has Adapted to this worlds environment, it now suits it and is the standard. It is now customary to sin, kind of like a regular thing to do. Sin has Harmonized itself with society, mixed into its direction so much it is now a matter of course. Its usual and natural, standard and agreeable, even formal and Orthodox. And that is the case in point about sin. Its Conformity is so intent in its drive for you, that it is now multiconformity.
Sin is now many sided and indiscriminate, diversified and heterogeneous. It has inserted itself into every discription of man, even the Mosaic religions of humanity. And with an incredible clockworth patience it crouches and longs to make an illustration with you. To be a part of you, to live with you and intergrate into your being. Sin wants to be your Symbiont. Interesting isn't it, God wants you to Master something that can Live in you, so that he himself can Live in you, because he also is a Symbiont.
This then is a unique Specialization of God. And I want to examine this interesting Symbiosis. Peace.
I must admit that I think God is Unique, without Like or equal, unmatched and a single of his Kind. I believe he and Christ have perfect unison, but there are intervals in Christ existance that are far different than God. Many say all the time that God is Omnipotent, and he is, but he is also Unipotent, in that he is only one of a kind. He is Special. And because he is Unique, it follows that many of his creations are unique, and one of a kind themselves. Many of Gods creations reveal things about himself.
But consider this; Everything that God has created, has never existed before. So they are unique themselves. When God creates something that he really really Loves, he mass produces it. God does not create out of " Need", because he has no needs. So by this we can know that he really Loves Angels, because he has made a lot of them. And we can know that he Loves humans, because he has made a lot of them. God has created more humans and Angels than anythingelse. Angels and Humans then are a " Specialization of God." A careful examination then of humans and Angels can key us in on some interesting things about God. Peace.
In Matt.4:11, after Jesus finished his confrontation with satan, Angels came and Ministered to him. They atttended to him. They healed any physical problems he developed from the confrontation, They served him nurishment and drink, in short words they saw to all his needs. I have heard many people describe Angels as servants of God, as if they were created for servitude, I personally don't agree with that. Listen, everything that God has created is going to serve him, thats a given. You could say that about all things that God creates, that they must serve, so why should he create so many beings, just to serve, when thats something required for everyone. Angels were not created to be like slaves or hotel servants. Serving God is a mutual common requirement for all of his creations, and it is a mutual honor to be able to do it. Heaven is not constructed like earth has been, a slave system, its a Love system.
Angels were created because God Loves them, and they serve God because they Love him. When demons were created they were not given Love, through their behavior, we can see what power minus Love will be like, destructive. Power in the hands of evil will destroy.
Angels are very Special, and I'll get back to them later and show why. I want to go a little further into God being a " Simbiont", or a being that Lives inside of a being. I have liked Star Trek for some years not, Kirk and Spock, and all the other characthers on the show, both good and evil. Have you ever noticed Spock do his " Mind Meld" on someone? His mind enters into the other persons mind and the two minds become one. That is Symbiont, when two complettely different beings experience a joining of the Minds. " Let this mind be in you that is in Christ Jesus", that is a joining of the Minds, Jesus is also a Symbiont. Symbiosis is a Specialization of God. And I want to touch on it a bit, its really quite amazeing how they do this and why. Peace.
In John 12:32, Jesus said if I be lifted up I will draw all men to me. How would he do such a thing, totally influence all of humanity? Well, he will do it through Symbiosis, he will mind meld with them all at the same time. This is an extra ordinary power, but a real power and a power God Specializes in doing. He is able to exert his will into another being. In John 10:30 Jesus said that he and his Father are One. They are Symbionts, mind melders, shareing a cohesion that unifys them in mind and Spirit. And this unusual cohesion is something we are going to be linked to. In John 17:21;" That they all may be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in you, that they may also be in us." Everyone is inside of everyone, linked, melded into symbiosis.
I recall another space series on cable that I like, I think its called deep space 9, or something like that. There is a being called Odo, its a changeling, a shape shifter. But he and his species hold the ability to all " Link together" into one common link. But they physically do it, we are destined to become members of a devine race that will forever be mind linked in an amazing Spiritual unity which we do not totally understand now.
God willnot have to force humanity to bend the knee and obey him, people will submit to God, bend the knee, because he will link with them and then they will truly know him and his thoughts. Peace.
Notice John 17:21;" That they" ALL" may be one, even as thou Father, are in me and I in you, that " They also may be in us". Do you see that, we are going to be In God and Christ! That is complette Symbiosis, we are going to be in them! Now, how is it possible for us to be in them, and they in us, and yet we all still be distinct individuals? In vs.23, again Jesus" I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected in unity." This is where perfection comes from, the Specialization of God , through Symbiosis , His perfection is then shared with us through Christ. And this is amazing, and I want to go into just how this is done. Peace.
In Acts 2:6,8;" And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because they were each one hearing them speak in their own language. How is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?" Well they were experiencing a slight example of being in symbiosis with Gods power. A unity so deep and advanced, that it went beyond human limitations, beyond human language, beyond human ability. It was a slight mind meld with God, a special event that reflects being in just a slight symbiosis and what just that would result in. Barriers are brought down, doors are opened, impossible becomes possible. And the Glory of God is revealed. Peace.
In Revelations 5:5 one of the 24 elders actually Speaks to John;" And one of the Elders said to me, stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals." Angels are not only Messengers to humanity, they are our companions who care deeply about us humans, they give us knowledge and comfort us. Thats not a slave mentality, thats a teacher companion mentality. In vs. 8;" And when he had taken the book, the 4 living creatures and the 24 Elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one a Harp and Golden Bowls full of incense, which are the Prayers of the Saints."
At these important junctures of our comming future , Angels are actively involved in our every step into the Kingdom. They are the holders of our Prayers, they are the keepers of that treasure. They know how we think and how we talk to God. They are going to be very close to us for all eternity, a whole new type of friend and companion, not some kind of pet. And I want to touch on Angels a bit. Peace.
Angels are ignigmactic beings, they are not slaves or pets of God. In Mark 8:38 Jesus called them " Holy". This means they are Consecrated to God and have Righteous authority. It also means that they have characther, they are not some kind of unthinking robots or senseless messengers. They are Saintly in their characther and awesome in their Power. God wouldnot give awesome power to a being that is stupid and had no mind. All the Angels are Holy, as God is Holy, they are that way by divine orgin. They are a Specialization of God.
God has used Angels to fight and to Guard things, Rev.12:7, 9:15 And the Angel left to guard the entrance to Eden. So Angels can become quite Aggressive when need be. They are far greater than humans in Might and Power, 2 Pet. 2:11, these beings are not mindless and passive, they know their power and understand their Holiness. They have a heavenly Society and they communicate with God and each other, and I want to go into that. Peace.
I am aware of the " Rest Theology" floating around and I wanted to say that it has absolutely nothing to do with Heaven. Heaven is not a place of rest where beings are loungeing around resting and doing nothing, and Angels are sitting and singing by the Lake. Doing nothing is one of the worst things I have experienced. After working 40 years in a row non stop, I was laid off from two Jobs during the same week. I drew unemployment. The first two months was fine, I enjoyed doing nothing, but after that the days started getting long and dragging, I began to miss working. I knew then that I just was not cut out to enjoy doing nothing. Eventually it just gets old and boring, inactivity does not suit me. I learned then that 10 years from now when I retire, I'm going to have a hard time slowing down, so I'll most likely do voulenteer work or something. And I am going to start a post on the misconceptions of those verses in Hebrews that speak of entering into Gods Rest.
Angels are very active beings, just as heaven is a very active place. Really, this is a topic unto itself, but I am just touching on it breifly. Eternity and doing nothing is a total mismatch of reality. The two cannot co-exist. Can you even imagine what it would be like to do nothing for 1 billion years? 4 months of doing nothing has driven me nuts, 1,000 of doing nothing would drive me insane. Its Just a complette waste of time to do nothing with your time. Even when I am resting, I enjoy reading or writting while I am resting, or looking at the cable. When I sleep, I sleep, and I really enjoy sleeping. I sleep from anywhere between 4 -8 hours, and take 1 hour naps from time to time, so I am not a hypercondriac. When I sleep, I do nothing but sleep, unless I dream, which we have no control over.
Do you think or believe that Spirit beings sleep? Did you know that rest and sleep are mostly human concepts? Can you imagine God taking a nap or going to sleep? If it were not for him resting from his creative work in Genesis, which I have my suspicions even about that meaning of Rest, I cannot conceive a being like God, who IS Power itself, ever, ever needing rest, so I hardly believe he rested as we rest, out of want or need. Because that would suggest that God can be drained of his energy, which I view as an opening that would bring far too many other serious implications about him into play.
You know, let me just start on that Rest Post now, because its trying to bubble out of me anyway, and I don't feel like fighting it in order to pacify the comfort of others. Peace.