For those of you that love mini-books, not small posts.....:wave:
Since Yeshua said that He only spoke what He heard His Father speak, let's reflect on this a moment.
If you, for instance, only spoke what YOU heard your Father speak, would that not of a surety denote that you are not your father, nor your father, YOU?
Of course it does. So we are back to the Shema...
Deut. 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Even though Israel didn't understand it that way, in spite of the fact He had just joined Himself to them as a man and his wife are one, and as the head and the body are one. We are told THIS is the mystery between Him and the church. He spelled it out for the gentiles; the Jews missed it the first time.
The Father, was IN THE SEED. He is the LIFE of that Seed, and that Seed cannot be anything other than what He is, or He would be breaking His own laws.
Lev 19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come upon thee.
Ezr 9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
HaShem our Father was IN the Seed, reconciling all men unto Himself. Christ is the SPIRITUAL seed that COVERS the Father, and it is THIS uncovering of the true spiritual sons of God of the Father, that all of creation is waiting for, according to Romans 8. This is why it says that unless a grain (seed) of wheat fall to the ground and die, it abideth alone, ie. without the fullness of the Father, too, in full manifestation.
Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature (G2937 creation) waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Now look at what the word manifestation there means: revelation (12x), be revealed (2x), to lighten (with G1519) (1x), manifestation (1x), coming (1x), appearing (1x).
If something needs to be uncovered or revealed, what is it? I just told you. HaShem was IN CHRIST THE SEED, reconciling all men unto Himself.
Now look at the ONE PLACE that the meaning of TO LIGHTEN is used. Anywhere in either texts something is only used one time, it is a red flag to pay attention, btw.
Luk 2:25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon (H8085; name means hearing with acceptance = to hear AND obey, faith WITH works); and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
Luk 2:26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Luk 2:27 And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law,
Luk 2:28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
Luk 2:29 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
Luk 2:30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Luk 2:31 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
Luk 2:32 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Note that the SPIRIT took Simeon there, that he was full of the Holy Ghost, and he saw THE LORD'S CHRIST. The Spirit reveals Him, not the flesh, not the carnal minds of men.
Let's continue with Romans 8 and see why creation is waiting for the manifestation now that we know WHAT AND WHO it is....
Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Your religion has cheated you of your true hope, you don't know what you're even waiting for, or WHO; you think it's (what? to fly away with Him, or?) when He appears, but that's not what our hope is. THIS is what our hope is....
Col 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Now you take all of this together, and you see why, what we sow, we reap. This is why if we sow the fleshly things (in our natural flesh) we only reap corruption, but if we sow the things of the Spirit (Christ seed, His "flesh"), we reap incorruption of the Father, the everlasting life! Christ comes into us as a babe, but He grows to maturity and full stature only with our cooperation.
Gal 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Now please notice that the same GREEK word translated manifestation, is translated REVELATION, in guess what book? You got it.....and how does that book begin that John received, which everyone loves to take ONLY literally?
Rev 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him,
Now there are those of you who might think, why does any of this matter? Simple. If you don't know what the firstfruits offering IS, you can't bring it, and faith without works is dead. And before anyone hits the "law" alarm, tithes were instituted by HaShem before the Torah was even given. That's how Adam's sons knew to make sacrifices.
Mal 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
