Wake-Up & Tie-Up

Christ Himself on His Throne can be
found worthy to know who has their
name written in the Book of Life and
who does not.

Yet even greater still, we read in verse
5 of the 3rd Chapter of Revelation, it
was recorded:

"... and I will not erase his name from
the book of life ...." [NASB]

The believers who were not found walking
worthily of His Name became at risk of
having their names erased from the Book
of Life. Few people at Sardis walked
worthily by not soiling their garments.

What made their garments soiled? A clue
was made when we read in verse 2:

"I have not found your deeds completed
in the sight of My God."

Sort of depressing how a believer lost
it all because deeds were not completed.
I'd not want to get an incomplete grade
from Jesus. It would certainly not end
well.

Jesus Christ completed His deeds of saving
humanity by His death on the Cross without
ever committing any sin against His Heavenly
Father.

He said, 'It Is Finished' and then gave His
last breath as the Son of Man in the Land
of the Living. This is the standard by which
all followers shall evaluate their progress;
lay down their life, pick up their cross
and follow Him.

The issue for Christ focused on His
declaration: "... but you are dead; wake
up and strengthen what remains ...."
(verse 1 & 2)

How can believers be dead and somehow
suddenly decide to wake up? I believe it
has to center on the choices of each one
to wrap their Sinful Flesh's Band around
their inner 'strong-man' so as to tie-up
and thereby overcome their own fleshly
members within themselves.

Mark 3:27    NIV
"In fact, no one can enter a
strong man's house and carry
off his possessions unless he
first ties up the strong man.
Then he can rob his house."

The word, can, refers to Strong's
G1410 - dynamai = to be able to do something
by virtue of one's own ability and resources
or by circumstances, permsission; capable

Our strongest abilities, our most competitive
capabilities, and even our inner strengths all
must be forced to surrender to the Lordship of
Christ Jesus. We must overcome our own house.

Matthew 25:15    NASB
"To one he gave five talents,
to another, two, and to another,
one, each according to his own
ability; and he went on his
journey."

The phrase, 'to his own ability' are two
Greek words:

(1) Strong's G2398 - idios = pertaining to
one's self, one's own, belonging to one's
own private self

(2) Strong's G1411 - dynamis = strength,
ability, inherent power residing, influence
arising from excellence of soul; a thing
by virtue of its nature, puts forth own
power

I believe the gift of salvation is the
door to freedom. However, it requires
each of us to put the deeds of our
fleshly members to death by wrapping
the Band around our own strengths and
capabilities in order to become free
from the things that so easily entangles
and binds us to our internal tug of war.

In this manner we work out our salvation
with fear and trembling even hating our
garments of soiled or sinful flesh.

ps: can't you see the sense of humor by
the LORD using the word G2398 i.e., idios
as pertaining to our own private inward self;
ironically funny.

I'm Keeping Watch (12-20-2011)

When Will He Return?
It'll Be His Second Coming!
It'll Be Rapture When He Races Back!

1 Thes 5:2  KJV
"For yourselves know perfectly that the
day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in
the night."

He may appear at any of the four divisions
of the night, in Roman reckoning with four
watch periods. These watches consisted
of three hours each.

First Watch commenced at
6:00pm until 9:00pm called Evening.
(1) The Evening Watch - Mark 14:17

Second Watch from 9:00pm to Midnight.
(2), Midnight Watch - (implied) Mark 14:32-65

Third Watch from Midnight to 3:00 am called Cock-Crowing.
(3), Cockcrow - Mark 14:72

Fourth Watch from 3am to 6am called Morning.
(4) Morning Watch - Mark 15:1

Rev 16:15   KJV
"Behold, I come as a thief.
Blessed [is] he that watcheth
and keepeth his garments,
lest he walk naked, and they
see his shame."

Faint not & don't abandon your faith;
He's Coming Back For Us Who Believe!

Keeping The Watch

I have implemented for many years the practice
of praying before I go asleep. My prayers include
the request that I would keep watch in the spirit
even when I was sleeping.

Mark 13:37    NKJV
"And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!"

I have been blessed with decades of spiritual
battles while asleep. I often awake with the
exact attack strategies used during the night.

Luke 12:37    NKJV
"Blessed [are] those servants whom
the master, when he comes, will find
watching. Assuredly, I say to you that
he will gird himself and have them
sit down [to eat], and will come and
serve them."

Will Find = Strong's G2147 - heurisko - was
found, to meet with, find a thing sought,
hit upon; to find by inquiry or thought or
examination or scrutiny or observation or
practice or experience; to get or come to
know, discover, to acquire, get obtain,
procure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic

Watching = Strong's G1127 - gregoreo - to
watch, give strict attention to, be cautious,
to take heed, active[ly] engaged, vigiliant

The warfare we battle during the Night is
different than what goes on during the Day.
In silence we watch, view and partake in His
Divine Nature as we abide in Him during the
Night. From His Throne we can hear Him speak
forth His commands. There is no darkness that
is able to avoid Him. Nothing is hid from His
sight.

I fail apart daily, but He strengthens me
and holds me together from morning to night.
His silver cord keeps me whole and able to
function, to fulfill and delight in His Holy
Name.

Underworld (vs) Kingdom of God in His Light

The show, Mutant Planet, aired "Brazil's Cerrado"
documentary on the Sci-Channel. I totally reject
their time-line (millions of years ago). I was
facinated by the nocturnal termites in the Peruvian
habitat.

I listened how the termites eat dead vegetation
and are important, crucial links in recycling the
dry grasslands and forest landscapes. The termite
mounds are vital to the overall ecology.

I marveled at the synergy of His Creation! I
also laughed when the narrator said the termites
were unable to travel during the day as they
would die in direct sunlight. Light is its
limiting barrier. They survived by going under
the earth's surface and built mud-mounds to expand
their territories.

It made me think of the idea of the Lord of Flies
that references the underworld ruler. The danger
of evil under the surface of people whose hearts
and minds were bound by Satan. Praise Jesus who
cast out Satan, demons and announced His work was
through the Spirit of God.

Matthew 12:22-28  KVJ
"Knowing their thoughts, He said to them,
"Every kingdom divided against itself is
laid waste, and no city or house divided
against itself will stand; and if Satan
casts out Satan, he is divided against
himself; how then will his kingdom stand?
And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul,
by whom do your sons cast them out?
Therefore they shall be your judges.
But if it is by the Spirit of God that
I cast out demons, then the Kingdom of
God has come upon you."

Praise Jesus who was moved with compassion to
deliver us from our limitations, from our dark
places and the things that bound us to corruption.

Luke 13:16 KJV
And ought not this woman, being a daughter
of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these
eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on
the sabbath day?

Praise Jesus our LORD doesn't limit Himself to
work His deliverance on certain days of the week!

Before Fall Inquiries (rev01)

... continuing previous post ~ new lines of inquiry:

4) ADAM/EVE = Encounter Event By Knowledge-Tree
4a) ADAM = tempted to sin
4b) EVE = tempted via deception
4c) ADAM/EVE = decision to stick together
4d) They Fall Away From Original State

Notice, ADAM was tempted toward something, he was drawn
to something external.

EVE was tempted via, or through, questioning-deception;
she was immersed so much closer and much more immediate
inter-active into Q&A that took advantage of her
inner desire to betterment, to provide better, to move
forward with something that was realizeable through a much
more-better inside and out. EVE embraced the full potential
of Knowing Creator-God. She was deceived to consider
owning the Knowing as a thing to possess from the tiny step
of eating the fruit. It was easy.

They together, had their own paths, and both took the
ORIGINAL CHOICE to stick together no matter what,
come hell and high-water!

If there was no awareness of the passages of Time before
the Fall, then their relationship really was a surreal, absolute
and perfect Oneness between ADAM and EVE. It must
have been so very complete and fulfilling.

With this as our backdrop, then can we begin to appreciate
the love, devotion and true gloriousness of such a perfect
relationship?

ADAM did not want to lose what God gave him, namely
His Wife. His temptation was to grasp such a personal
and blessed relationship as though it were something to be
possessed. ADAM owned EVE as a thing under his control.

Philipians 2:5-7  NASB
Have this attitude in yourselves which
was also in Christ Jesus, [v6] who,
although He existed in the form of
God, did not regard equality with
God a thing to be grasped (G725)
[v7] but emptied Himself, taking
the form of a bond-servant, and being
made in the likeness of (fallen) men.

Strong's G725 = Harpagmos - a thing
to be grasped, taken, seized, deemed
as prize/booty to be a thing retained,
held fast, possessed/owned for self.

The LORD Jesus Christ did not consider His Oneness
with His Father as something to be grasped, to be
owned for Himself. He, therefore, poured Himself
out in obedience to become the likeness of the
fallen ADAM. This is why it is said of Him, that
He poured Himself out, first in Heaven, then on
the Cross, and finally, after His resurrection into
Glory, on Pentacost, He poured out His Spirit.

What Happened To Our Original Parents?

1) ADAM/EVE = Original State: Shekinah Glory as
covering within His Presence freely communing in
His Light. No external attack of nature, physical
wants/needs or spiritual deception could harm them.

2) ADAM/EVE = Was the Shekinah Glory covering
fading from ADAM/EVE? If yes, then why?
The example is found by lookingt at Moses who
wore a veil to prevent the Israelites from seeing
the Glory fade from his face.

Exodos 34:35    NASB
"... the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses,
that the skin of Moses' face shone. So Moses would
replace the veil over his face until he went in to
speak with Him."

2 Corinthians 3:13    KJV
And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face,
that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look
to the end of that which is abolished ..."

3) ADAM/EVE = Exposure To Temptations, External
Elements & Hidden Enemy

4) ADAM/EVE = Encounter Event By Knowledge-Tree
4a) ADAM = tempted to sin
4b) EVE = tempted via deception
4c) ADAM/EVE = decision to stick together
4d) They Fall Away From Original State

5) ADAM/EVE = Original Choice: They chose to
own and direct their own lives.

If the Shekinah Glory functioned as divine protection,
then such might have been weakened to permit exposure to
external temptations. This should suggest an element of
time for sequential steps away from His Glory, or perhaps
a hidden journey of wandering to explore their Forbidden.

In this way, perhaps no degree of temptation, basic elementary
environments, interpersonal needs/wants or Enemy attack
could have reached ADAM/EVE unless their first Original
State was downgraded of their divine nature. This form of
spiritual weakness may have been created as they failed
to stedfastly cling to their Heavenly Creator.

What were they longing for? What was the attraction to
turn their gaze, their attention, their own heart-strings?

I suspect our first father/mother, ADAM/EVE, were
quietly, silently and carefully sneaking away from their
Heavenly Creator to test the limitations of their heavenly
relationship. They explored their best fit for one another
and then moved towards a deplorable place of darkness.

Perhaps they were sneaking out the bedroom window, in
the middle of the night, to seek out what was not kosher
during the Light of Day?

Like all sin, Satan, self and situational-circumstances,
it was probably a gradual spiral downward into a very dark
place of knowledge that would become a game-changer for
them. They got caught with a simple question,

"Adam. Where Are You?"
Instead of Glory covering them, it became Shame.