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My Next Prayer: Teach Me Ever More Fully the Meaning of Each Word in the Scriptures!
Posted by: PowerOfChoice | Thu, Jul 12, 2007 7:34 pm | Tag(s): Prayer Requests | Permalink |
Praise the Lord for answer to prayer! Plans and decisions have been made for continuing this web site and to make a continuance on Operation Global Rain. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Lord of Hosts!
My next prayer is that I, and all of us, should continue to grow into an ever fuller understanding and realization of the many blessings in store for each and all of His Sons and Daughters within each and every word in the Holy Scriptures.
I believe God is wishing to use each and everyone of us as a tool towards this purpose.
God is the Creator of a multi-dimensional universe. I have no doubt but that most of us have realized new and additional lessons of light from time to time in one and the same text passage or even in one and the same word. Sharing these experiences with one another through witnessing certainly multiplies these blessings, do they not?
Here are a few of the most striking realizations the Lord has been opening my eyes to over the years:
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The cross:
Something or someone that stands straight up for the God of Truth.
[ In Hebrew - cf. Strong’s Dictionary - the last letter of the alphabet, tav, is also a word meaning ’sign’ or ‘cross.’ In Greek the first letter in the word Christ ‘χ‘ looks like a cross, or don’t you agree? But, more importantly, the root meaning of the Greek word translated ‘cross’ is ‘to stand straight up.’ ]
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Abel:
The meaning of the Hebrew name Abel is ‘worthlessness’ or ‘vanity.’ This realization was a great surprise for me! But it taught me a lot of things.
One of the differences between the sacrifices of Cain and Abel was that one was an apparent act of worship following the exterior format of God’s word while sadly missing the point of the inherent lesson. The consequence naturally being that of also losing the intended blessing. Thus in effect Cain’s sacrifice, in my mind, may be best characterized as an empty ritual. That is, doing something that is just a wee bit off from the original instructions such that the correct strings of my mind is not set in motion and I fail to get the gist of that still small voice.
Abel sacrificed and burned that which to me symbolizes empty, skewed, and meaningless acts of worship. That is, Abel burned up - got rid of - that which is worthless and vain in thought, word and action. - And was blessed by so doing!
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Sin:
To miss the point.
[ The Greek word translated ’sin’ is given by Strong’s as ‘to miss the mark.’ ]
Notice the close connection between the focal point of this word, sin, and the lesson I learned from the name ‘Abel’ above!
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Ceremonial:
An empty ritual. A word or act never ordained by God.
What is forever to be nailed to the cross? What is forever to be burned into nothingness by the ever cleansing fire of the God of truth and understanding - of the God that Is and of that which is what it is?
What ceremonial laws are forever to be nailed to the cross? The ordinances designed by God to be forever a true tuning fork teaching and tuning us towards the music, harmonies, and frequencies of the Creator? Or all such thoughts, words, and acts of habit and tradition as have little more value than did the ritual sacrifice of Cain?
How does this apply to the words of God spoken in Leviticus 23? Does any eternal word, spoken by God and expressly stated to remain “forever,” ever burn until it is no more? Or is it our missed points, our misunderstandings, that are to burn until they exist no more?
What is the point of being oriented to God’s own time? Does music, harmony, and the beauty of nature have anything to do with time? Do you know of anyone being disoriented to time? Does it make a difference?
Do we have anything to lose by timing our get togethers, our ‘holy convocations,’ in accord with the instructions in Leviticus 23? If we do, is that the same as suggesting that we should also introduce the same or similar meaningless rituals as has through time, ever since Cain and Abel, only led to meaningless bloodshed and loss of true and real value, and so many of the countless blessings forever intended to each and every one of us by our Maker?
This quarter’s Sabbath School Quarterly is entitled: “For Better of for Worse.” The Feast of Tabernacles to the Hebrew mind has everything to do with the Wedding ceremony between God the Father and His Bride, that is God the Father becoming one with His People, His Church. Individually we are created for being the Sons and Daughters of God, but all of us taken together constitutes something more, a creature of somewhat different nature, our Mother Church. And the One and only Head of that Household is God the Father, is He not? Each of us are to be tuned in accord with the will of the Father. How else can our Mother ever even hope to be in harmony and peace while in a happy and joyful marriage with our Father? How else can our Mother and our Father ever even hope to both be at the same time at the same place while dating together?
Does recognizing the true biblical timing for the Day of Trumpets, the Day of At-One-Meant, the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Eighth Day have any value? Will we ever know the difference if we never give it a try? What blessings may we be missing out on if we keep on believing that some of God’s eternal ordinances and teaching tools have been “nailed to the cross?”
Could we be in danger of killing Able, our beloved brother? Could it be that Able represents the true Sons and Daughters of God who “stands straight and upright” for the truths of their convictions while step by little step following the Light as given them as they are each little by little and day by day being anointed by the oil of the Holy Scriptures?
What will happen to the American People - “Am-erica-n” may be derived from words meaning “People of Kings” - if they, we, fail to recognize the difference between our Father in Heaven and her that is created to stand “beside” Him, being one with Him, but not before Him? In this context, could it be that I am perceiving a little bit clearer the meaning of the words:
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me?“
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