The Life That Was, The Life That Is, And The
Life That Is To Come
Part Two
The Life That Was
By Bob Torango
THE LIFE THAT WAS, THE LIFE
THAT IS
AND THE LIFE TO COME (Part
2)
The Life That Was
Deep within every man there is a secret sanctum where dwells the mysterious
essence of his being. This inmost reality is that part of a man which
separates him from every other living creature and makes him uniquely
mankind. This deep hidden power is what it is of itself independent of
any other part of the man’s complex nature. It is the man’s “I Am,” a gift
from the I AM who created him. The deep-in human entity of which we speak
is called in the scriptures
the
spirit of man. “For what man knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of
man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
Spirit of God” (I Cor. 2:11). As God’s self-knowledge lies in the eternal
Spirit, so man’s self-knowledge is by his own spirit, and his knowledge of
God is by the direct union of the Spirit of God with the spirit of man. I
cannot overstress the importance of this in our forward walk into our
destiny as sons of God! This truth denies that man is an earthly, physical
being having a spirit and declares, rather, that he is a spirit having a
physical body. That which makes a man a human being is not his body but his
spirit, in which the image of God originally lay.
Most people on earth have forgotten their beginning. But the scripture is
clear. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…and
the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. So God created
man in his own image, in the image of God created He him” (Gen. 1:26; 2:7;
1:28). What God actually did was that He imaged Himself in man. God imaged
Himself in man by forming Himself in a man of earth. Thus man was created
as a visible expression of the invisible God. Now that hasn’t changed!
What has changed is our perception of ourselves because of the fall. But
before we discuss that, let us see just how it was that God imaged Himself
in man, and how it is that man is a spiritual being having an earthly
experience, instead of a physical being having a spiritual experience.
Quote by J Preston Eby from his book, “The Seed In Every Man”
Every one of us had our beginnings in our Heavenly Father. We
came from His eternal spirit and were created out from that Spirit as
spirit. First and foremost, we are spirit. Anything else we may be in our
present composition came about by the design of God’s plan for us, but our
foundational plank and essence is spirit. As God is a spirit, so are we a
spirit. If you are to know God, you must know Him by spirit and if you are
to know me, you must know me by spirit. Otherwise, you are only knowing me
by those parts that have been added to me, my body, my natural mind, my
emotions and my personality. I am spirit. I am human. I am a new creature. I
am being changed into something unique and original. What I am and what I am
becoming is different than anything that has ever been before! I am a
compound man, spirit, soul and body. I am NOT an angel, I am NOT a cherubim
or any other heavenly creature. I am uniquely human, which is why God loves
me so. I am bringing my humanity into God’s divinity and will know Him in
complete union and oneness. This is my journey.
Have you ever gone to one of the internet sites that give you
directions to a location you want to travel to? If so, you will know that
the first bit of information they want you to supply is your starting point.
Then, they will want you to supply the destination of your trip. Without the
starting point and the ending point, it is impossible to obtain an accurate
account of your journey. It is the same with our spiritual journey in God.
It is vital for us to know where our journey starts and where it ends. The
Good News for us is that the scriptures clearly define these two points! Our
starting point was in the Father and our ending point is in the Father.
Col
1:16-20
16 For by him were all
things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or
powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all
things, and by him all things consist .
18 And he is the head of
the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead;
that in all things he might have the preeminence.
19 For it pleased the
Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
20 And, having made peace
through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself;
by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. KJV
The
Message Version states:
Col
1:16-23
16 For everything,
absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after
rank after rank of angels — everything got started in him and finds its
purpose in him. 17 He was there before any of it came into existence and
holds it all together right up to this moment. 18 And when it comes to the
church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.
He was supreme in the
beginning and — leading the resurrection parade — he is supreme in the end.
From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone.
19 So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper
place in him without crowding. 20 Not only that, but all the broken and
dislocated pieces of the universe — people and things, animals and atoms —
get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his
death, his blood that poured down from the Cross.
21 You yourselves are a
case study of what he does. At one time you all had your backs turned to
God, thinking rebellious thoughts of him, giving him trouble every chance
you got. 22 But now, by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually
dying for you, Christ brought you over to God's side and put your lives
together, whole and holy in his presence. 23 You don't walk away from a gift
like that! You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly
tuned in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. There is
no other Message — just this one. Every creature under heaven gets this same
Message. I, Paul, am a messenger of this Message.
(from
THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H.
Peterson. All rights reserved.)
I Corinthians 15 tells us
the END of it all.
The
Amplified Version states:
1 Cor 15:20-28
But the fact is that
Christ (the Messiah) has been raised from the dead, and He became the
firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep [in death].
21 For since [it was]
through a man that death [came into the world, it is] also through a Man
that the resurrection of the dead [has come].
22 For just as [because of
their union of nature] in Adam all people die, so also [by virtue of their
union of nature] shall all in Christ be made alive.
23 But each in his own
rank and turn: Christ (the Messiah) [is] the firstfruits, then those who are
Christ's [own will be resurrected] at His coming.
24 After that comes
the end (the completion),
when He delivers over the kingdom to God the Father after rendering
inoperative and abolishing every [other] rule and every authority and power.
25 For [Christ] must be
King and reign until He has put all [His] enemies under His feet. [Ps
110:1.]
26 The last enemy to be
subdued and abolished is death.
27 For He [the Father] has
put all things in subjection under His [Christ's] feet. But when it says,
All things are put in subjection [under Him], it is evident that He
[Himself] is excepted Who does the subjecting of all things to Him. [Ps
8:6.]
28 However, when
everything is subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also subject
Himself to [the Father] Who put all things under Him, so that God may be all
in all [be everything to everyone, supreme, the indwelling and controlling
factor of life].
Now this is truly Good News, dear one! Our journey is mapped out
by reason of these two certain points of our existence, beginning in the
Father and arriving in the Father. He is our destination, the end of our
travels that began so many long ages ago. There is quite a controversy in
our circles of Kingdom Truth that involves our past beginnings, which I
would like to address at this time. For many decades there has been
conflicting beliefs of our pre-existence or the lack of our pre-existence.
By this, we mean our existence before coming to this present state of
humanity, with a physical body. It is true, that some have wantonly and
mistakenly presented our existence prior to this life as an existence that
was much like this present world, claiming that they “counseled” with God
about the plan of the ages and some have even taken it to the point that
they had to forgive God for sending them to this forsaken place of
corruptible life, or He would not have been able to set this all in motion.
Of course, I think this to be an extreme view and urge us not to view our
pre-existence in the Father as some kind of alternative existence with the
present world, living in towns and having children and a spouse. The world
that we came from is not to be compared with our earthly life. However, I do
believe that I existed in Him, before I was brought into this life. Now,
what form I was in and what kind of life I had at that time, I cannot say. I
like what Don Wilkins wrote recently, “Some folks tell me I was there in the
beginning, singing with the stars of heaven before time began, but I cannot
say for sure, because it is too far back for me to remember.” A grand answer
for such a mysterious concept! I cannot say I wasn’t there, in the Elohim,
as a part of the “let us make man” as recorded in Genesis, but neither can I
prove I was there. I am not so sure that my knowing the details of my
existence in the Father before this life would do me any good in the here
and now of my journey, but I do know I was with Him and had a place in Him
that I am being re-membered back unto by reason of this life’s journey. In
truth, we cannot be in the process of being re-stored, re-newed,
re-generated, re-vived, re-membered, re-conciled without having an original
state and condition that we are being re-instated into. What I was in Him, I
cannot expound upon with detailed information, but I can point to Him as my
point of origin and as my point of destination.
I find in this journey that we are traveling on that there is a
tendency to try to get to our final destination quicker than the road is
taking us. So many folks leave the path that the Father has laid before us
by reason of their urgency to find a quicker and easier way to the journeys
end. When I am traveling in my car to a certain place, I usually try to
spend as little time on the road getting to that place as humanly possible.
As a result, I rarely take in the sights of my travels, of which, if I had
taken the time to capture those sights on discs, it would have made up a
beautiful portfolio of some of the most majestic and unique scenes the
Creator made for mankind to enjoy. Instead, my mind was totally on the
destination and not on the journey to get there. In this spiritual journey
of ours, I see that same attitude amongst many dear folks and it is
regrettable that we carry over into our spiritual journey the same
break-neck pace that I so regret in my natural travels. We have come quite a
distance from where we began at, friends, and it is noteworthy for us to
take in the sights of this journey into the vastness of God. I have some
vivid memories of the past orders I have been a part of in my growing up
years in the Lord. I do remember with great fondness the old, tear stained
altar that I knelt at in my birthing place in Michigan, a tiny little
building with a hand full of saints, where I first surrendered my life to
Jesus Christ, my Lord. There were many tears I shed on that wooden altar,
scarred and worn, upon which I poured out my heart to my new found Love and
told Him of my innermost thoughts and desires. It was on that altar where I
laid my mother’s soul before the Lord, praying for Him to reveal Himself to
her atheistic mind and to let her know of His undying love for her. It was
there, at the age of 15, that I committed my life to His service, never
dreaming of what He had planned for me in the years down the road of life,
but only knowing that He deserved my utmost for Him. It was there, on that
altar, where I was immersed into His spirit, gushing out from the innermost
parts of my being in a river of life and anointing. It was also on that
altar where I came to the realization that I could not stay in that safe
haven, but I had a destiny to fulfill and a path to travel upon, so I left
that old familiar altar and carried it in my heart ever since. I still kneel
at that altar of sacrifice and supplication, but now it is within me and
with me wherever my journey takes me and it is still my restful haven, my
port in the time of stormy troubles.
The point is, even though it is in my past, I find that I can
still refer to this simple time as a reference to where I have come, a place
that gives my journey a perspective and a bearing in my life in case I find
myself wandering off the path. We need these bearings in our life, these
wonderful events and times in our past that we can refer to when we need
guidance, and even though we are no longer attending to those events, they
are still landmarks for us as we live our NOW life. Again, this is the
continuity that we must have in our journey, so we do not mistakenly think
that it doesn’t matter what we do NOW, or that NOW does not have any
consequence in that time which follows after or any relationship to the time
that is in the past. Because I am sure that I came from God, I am confident
that I am on a mission that originated in Him and if He is the author of
that mission, then I can totally rely on Him to be the finisher of that
mission. I know Him to be my Alpha and my Omega, the First and the Last, as
this gives me the continuity of faith to see this journey through to that
end. I am not just an insignificant blip on the screen of organic life on
this planet earth, but I have been SENT to this earth to bring glory to my
Father. Truly, it is my knowing of being SENT by Him, rather than me just
showing up mysteriously like some unplanned occasion, that gives me an
assurance that the life that now is has come about by reason of a former
life that was birthed in God before time began. This is why I do not
discount a pre-existence in God, as I see it as a mandate that we WERE
before we became what we are. What I Am now, is what I was in Him in the
beginning, spirit. Furthermore, what I Am now is not only spirit, but I am
also a kind of man, which I was not in the beginning. I am a hu-man, created
in the image and likeness of my Father, formed from the dust of the earth by
the hands of my Father and breathed into by the breath of God, having the
same spiritual makeup as my Heavenly Father and the same chemical makeup in
my earthly house as the earth from which it came. My physical DNA is of the
same biological structure as other living things, including plants, animals
and micro-organisms. However, I am more than just a physical being made up
of genetic materials, but I also bear the genetic attributes of God Himself.
Just as
I cannot deny my dusty heritage, it is impossible for me to deny my
spiritual heritage. As much as I can readily admit to acting and behaving
like my earthly image bearer, Adam, even so I can readily witness to the
fact that I am acting and behaving out of another, original image bearer,
Jesus Christ. He is my elder brother, my genetic kinsman, and He also
partook of my earthly heritage in the days of His flesh. He overcame the
limitations of our kind of man and became the First Fruit of a New kind of
Man, a God-man, which is the union of that which WAS with that which IS, a
new kind of creature in Christ that is eternally set in God. One thing I
would like to make absolutely sure for us is the fact that whatever I was in
God before the worlds were made, I will never be that again! I cannot just
return back to what I was in Him before the disruption of the ages and end
up with the same form and entity that was lowered out from Him. I have been
forever changed by partaking of my earthly heritage and have left my former
estate behind me, never to be seen again in that form and likeness. I am a
NEW THING in God, a NEW CREATURE in Christ, in a likeness and image that is
unique and original. As Brother Eby states above, God has IMAGED Himself in
us and that embossment of His glorious nature and essence is at the root of
our being. However, we are now on a journey to become something beyond that
original design, by reason of our having been lowered into this earthly
existence, of which we are even now swallowing and assimilating all of our
earthly experiences into the life of Christ and being changed and
transformed by those experiences. Again, I wish to express to you the
importance of this earthly experience and to show you how vital these
experiences are for us in our progressive transformation into the totality
of the New Man. Every test and trial of this life is meant to reveal in us a
greater LIFE, as that greater LIFE responds to each experience we go
through. The greater LIFE within us only reveals itself when it is presented
a need in our life that it can respond to, which causes it to increase and
expand its borders and to actually grow in glory and fruitfulness.
It is
this abounding increase of the new life within us that will act as a
catalyst for our continuing change into that design that God imaged within
Himself in the beginning. The scriptures state that as sin increases, so
grace increases, in an exponential response to the amount of sin that is
present. As the physical law of this world dictates, “for every action,
there is an equal and opposite reaction”, then for every action of sin and
death, God would be expected to provide an equal and opposite reaction to
disannul that adamic phenomena. Ah, but here is the wonder and glory of God,
in that instead of just providing an EQUAL and opposite reaction to sin, He
goes above and beyond that original action of Adam and ABOUNDS in grace and
love, overwhelming the action of sin and death with a deluge of life and
glory in a proficiency that is the mark of the Supreme Being.
Rom 5:10-21
10 For if while we were
enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much
more [certain], now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved (daily
delivered from sin's dominion) through His [resurrection] life.
11 Not only so, but we
also rejoice and exultingly glory in God [in His love and perfection]
through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received and enjoy
[our] reconciliation. [Jer 9:24.]
12 Therefore, as sin came
into the world through one man, and death as the result of sin, so death
spread to all men, [no one being able to stop it or to escape its power]
because all men sinned.
13[To be sure] sin was in
the world before ever the Law was given, but sin is not charged to men's
account where there is no law [to transgress].
14 Yet death held sway
from Adam to Moses [the Lawgiver], even over those who did not themselves
transgress [a positive command] as Adam did. Adam was a type (prefigure) of
the One Who was to come [in reverse, the former destructive, the Latter
saving]. [Gen 5:5; 7:22; Deut 34:5.]
15 But God's free gift is
not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all
proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man's falling
away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God's grace and the
free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus
Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many.
16 Nor is the free gift at
all to be compared to the effect of that one [man's] sin. For the sentence
[following the trespass] of one [man] brought condemnation, whereas the free
gift [following] many transgressions brings justification ( an act of
righteousness).
17 For if because of one
man's trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more
surely will those who receive [God's] overflowing grace (unmerited favor)
and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with
Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the
Messiah, the Anointed One).
18 Well then, as one man's
trespass [one man's false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all
men, so one Man's act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right
standing with God and life for all men.
19 For just as by one
man's disobedience (failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness) the
many were constituted sinners, so by one Man's obedience the many will be
constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing
with Him).
20 But then Law came in,
[only] to expand and increase the trespass [making it more apparent and
exciting opposition]. But where sin increased and abounded,
grace (God's unmerited favor) has surpassed
it and increased the more and superabounded,
21 So that, [just] as sin
has reigned in death, [so] grace (His unearned and undeserved favor) might
reign also through righteousness (right standing with God) which issues in
eternal life through Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) our Lord.
AMPLIFIED VERSION
Oh my! It makes my heart to rejoice and my feet to dance when I
contemplate such a provision for our participation in this earthly
experience. No matter how dark the day seems to be, regardless of how much
emptiness fills our hearts at times of despair, in spite of the anguish of
our afflicted bodies and minds, God has provided a response to it all, from
deep within our being, and this response will not only restore our original
joy and peace in God, it will surpass that original measure and heap upon us
such a load of God’s infinite character and nature that those long days,
months or years of suffering will seem like a moment of light testing. Don’t
think you won’t have these kind of times, dear saint of God, and don’t
condemn yourself when you find your faith weak and you don’t know which way
is up. Stand STILL!! Hold your peace!! It is impossible for God not to have
a response to this condition of yours. This reaction of Life and Restoration
is much like a well known reaction in the natural world. The name for it is
OSMOSIS and it is an action that MOVES toward a need. Osmosis is the
chemical action that seeks to balance and equalize a chemical state that
exists. A friend of mine has worked for many years in the irrigation field
and was manufacturing and selling a rubber, porous hose that was buried in
the soil to provide a sub-soil irrigation. What was unique about this type
of irrigation, is that the amount of water that came through the porous
material of the hose was dictated by how dry the soil was on the outside of
the hose. The drier the soil, the more water that was drawn through the
pores of the hose, until the soil reached a saturated state and then the
water was no longer drawn through the pores of the hose, providing a
constant supply and stoppage of water to the soil. This is how osmosis works
and this is how the spirit of life in us operates. If there is no need,
there is no response, if there is a little amount of need, there is a
sufficient amount of supply, but if there is a great need, the response of
the life of Christ in the heart of the believer is able to pour out upon us
a super-abundant supply of His substance. We are a needy people, dear ones,
but our God is more than able to provide a supply of healing, restoration,
reconciliation, renewal, and much more to meet our need.
Out of the need of fallen man, God responded with the only
response that could meet such a need, the life of His only begotten Son. In
so doing, He made peace with man through the cross and set in motion a plan
of redemption and restoration that will bring all mankind back into union
with their Father-Creator. As you know, the world is full of darkness and
corruption. Man is in a constant state of self-destruction and his life is
in constant turmoil. The true reason for the condition of mankind in our
present time is that man is searching for his true self, having no
recollection of his beginnings or why he even exists, man becomes more and
more frustrated and cynical in regards to his earthly experience. When we
left our former estate in God and were born of flesh and blood, we died to
our spiritual reality in our Father and we became children of the earth,
crawling through life like the caterpillar does in his worm form. We became
totally identified with our earthly experience, shallow and disillusioned we
lived an earth bound existence that removed us from our glorious true self,
a spiritual man, full of light and glory. Our spirit became our “inner man”,
buried deep within us, yet still there and still aware of our condition but
unable to respond to that condition until a time appointed. Even after Jesus
came to earth and finished His course of redemptive sacrifice and
restorative resurrection, the world still was dark and dead to the ways of
God. In fact, the so-called “church” became a mutation of religion, having
the appearance of holiness, but only in a soulish and shadowy sense,
remaining corrupted by the greed and lust of their adamic lineage. But, the
seed had been implanted in the earth of mankind and it was only a matter of
time before that seed began to work its way to the surface and to present
itself to a generation that had been held back into God until a time of His
destiny. This is that generation! Now, the germination of this incorruptible
seed is taking place and out of the innermost sanctum of men’s hearts there
is rising a New Man, fully aware of His true self and fully schooled in the
proper placement of his sonship in the Father. Now, that which was once “the
inner man” is being commissioned to become the “outer man”, as a great
inversion of our state and condition takes place. That which once kept us
imprisoned in a mind-set of fallen man is now giving way to the mind-set of
the risen man and we are beginning to recognize ourselves again, as we are
in the face and countenance of Jesus Christ, our elder Brother and our Lord
and Master. Once again, we are visiting the throne room of our former
habitation in the Father, holiness and righteousness are our natural state
and we once again are gaining the command of the MIND that was in Jesus and
now is returning to us.
As the mists of our earthly mind give way to the clarity of the
Mind of Christ, we are beginning to see what is really important in the
scope of God’s plan and what is not important. The distractions of the world
around us no longer hold our attention. We are gaining our single eye of
purpose and vision. All of our parts are starting to communicate with one
another, the lesser giving way to the greater in our being, not grudgingly,
but thankfully and gladly, knowing that this is the Way and this will bring
the Life. Even as the nerves of the human body can be damaged and then start
to reconnect again with one another, we are starting to be joined with our
many parts, becoming a WHOLE MAN, wholly alive and well. We are starting to
sense the immensity of that which has resided in the depths of our being and
the mountains of our earthly life are looking like ant hills in comparison.
We are losing our fear of the unknown and we are becoming bold in stepping
out into the water of our spiritual awakening. Beyond our ankles, beyond our
hips, beyond our shoulders, swimming now and becoming one with the spirit.
Our vision is becoming telescopic as we survey the land around us and we see
past, present and future all at the same time. We no longer EXIST in time,
but time is something we pass through. This is our awakening and we know we
have been destined for such a time as this. We are pregnant with purpose and
groan to deliver that which is within us and deliver it into the age we have
been called to. We now know that we hold a New Covenant within the genetic
writings upon our being. We realize we are the Ark of God, the true figure
of which the physical Ark represented so many millenniums ago and we are
called to hand deliver this Covenant to the lost children of God, soothing
their raging hearts and calling them by their spirit names in the Voice that
each one knows in the hidden volume of their book. Each human creature has a
spirit name that is written in the Book of Life and that Book is written
upon the genetic tables of the heart of the Melchizedek Priesthood. Because
every man and woman was originally a spirit and joined to the Eternal Spirit
of our Father, when their original name (nature, personality, essence) is
called, their inner man will immediately cry out, Abba Father! There will be
no need for kingdom seminars to introduce them to this new identity, as each
one will KNOW the spirit and voice of their Lord.
This is the essence of what the spirit is working in the hearts
of the First Fruit company of messengers of Christ’s victory, which is not a
signs and wonders ministry, but a ministry of SOUND, a trumpet blowing
throughout the heavens and the earth, coming forth with a CERTAIN SOUND,
whose pitch and frequency will be tuned to the inner ear of creation, deep
crying to deep, spirit crying to spirit. Have you heard it, dear one? That
certain sound that causes the heart to pound and the body to vibrate,
raising the hairs of the nape of the neck, causing the skin to prickle and
tingle? Can anyone that has heard such a sound deny it’s power to
communicate to our being that we are being addressed by a realm beyond our
natural environment, a sound that speaks of angel’s in our midst, a cloudy
glory, heavy with the presence of the unseen host that abide in and around
us? Then, surely, we can understand how such a certain sound and presence
will present itself to each and every creature and bring instant recognition
of an ancient KNOWING of such a place long, long ago. Creation has not
responded to the voice that is resonating out of the religious systems of
the Babylonian Church, because it is not the sound of the true spirit of
their Father. His sheep will not follow another voice, even though it comes
from a source that is dressed up in a camouflage of Shepherd’s clothing. The
ones that do follow such an imitation of The Voice are only following it
because of ulterior motives, escaping hell fire damnation, social graces,
sickness of mind and heart. But, when The Voice is heard, the heart will
leap in all men, everywhere, regardless of their present religious
affiliations or non-religious affiliations. Whether they be Muslims,
Buddhists, Atheists, Christians, Satanists, etc., none of this will prevent
the spirit of man from hearing the original Voice of his genetic Father. The
church buildings will not be bulging with fearful souls trying to figure out
where this Voice came from, the religious leaders will not be inundated with
inquiries with whether this strange phenomena is a sign of the end of the
world, for each heart will re-member from whence this Voice first came in
their beginnings. It will be much like the recovery of the amnesiac that has
not been able to remember their past, with a burst of light and glory the
Mind from which all mankind sprung forth will take creation over and there
will be an instant recognition and reinstatement into that ancient memory,
like lightning flashing from the east to the west.
This is all resident in every man, right now. It has not made
itself known because it has not heard the sound to which it can respond. It
will not respond to any other sound made in earth or heaven, but the sound
of the Voice of the Son of God. We were born in the midst of that Voice in
God. We were raised in the midst of the presence of an Eternal
Creator-Father and we breathed Him into ourselves like we breathe in the
oxygen of this natural world. We weren’t just in the midst of Him, we
embodied Him, we were in Him and He was in us, in total oneness of spirit.
Now, we have been placed by Him into a divided existence, caught in the
middle between a world of spiritual elements and a world of natural
elements, in order to bring a new world into existence for Christ to be King
over. Make no mistake about it, we are the catalysts of an elemental
upheaval of such magnitude that the world as we now know it will not exist.
Nothing will be destroyed, only rearranged into a divine composition, which
will form a world that is elementally unique and original. In the Beginning,
God had a plan. This plan entailed a lowering of elements out from Himself
into a lesser environment, both natural elements such as wind, fire and
earth and also spiritual elements, such as spirit, soul and body. As a
result of this lowering, those elements are joined together into a sort of
odd-couple relationship, opposites that attract and bonded together into a
death and life struggle. Out of this results a degeneration of vitality, not
only in man, but in all created things, the whole universe is bound to an
eonian winding down of it’s sustenance. If nothing were to happen to change
the present elemental degeneration of our world, the sun will eventually
burn out, the planet will die and all biological life on earth will be
extinct. But, all is well. God has a plan for us and all things created! The
wonder of it all is that the Answer to this inter-planetary doomsday
scenario lies in the heart of lowly and frail Man. Yes, that Man, the one
that can’t balance his check book or reconcile his bank account. That’s
right, that one right there, the one that is trying to make up his mind
whether to get the triple decker Baconator hamburger in the Biggie Size or
whether to go for the Humongous Size. Yep, you can sleep well tonight,
because this Man is ready, willing and able, just as soon as he wheezes his
way through a brisk walk with the dog and cuts his lawn and watches Monday
Night Football, he’ll get the job done. Right. But, all is not lost! We must
remember that this Man is only an earthly representation of all that he is
about. He came from another world, he just doesn’t remember it yet. But,
when he does, watch out!
None of us are presently manifesting who we truly are,
regardless of how some keep crowing about how they are the full
manifestation of the Eternal God. Oh really? Then how about doing something
about the price of gasoline, because it is getting way out of hand! Of
course, they can’t do anything about that problem, nor any other problem,
because it is only wishful words, fashioned out of a deluded mind of
deceptive, self-serving ego mania. While we are on this subject, let me make
it clear that we need to lose this notion that there are masters of the
mystical arts positioned throughout the world that are already in their
spirit form and are just waiting for the rest of us to join them in the
collective oneness of their I Am-ness. No one, and I mean no one, is ready
for what I have just written about. This is not some fanciful story to give
us a little soulish thrill and chill and it is not a fictional account of
some Star Trek astral-physical “beam me up Scotty” episode, but it is as
real for us as the seat of our pants. The only hope for the degeneration of
life as we now know it, is the power of an endless life, which has been
accomplished by the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Of
course, we must think outside of the parameters of this elemental world, of
course we must use a language and terminology that transcends our usual
speech pattern, but all of this is useless to us if we are not willing to
follow on to know the Lord in humility and practicality. How long will it
take for us to be able to allow the spirit to speak to our hearts from
behind the veil of our understanding without taking those precious nuggets
of truth and bring them down to a realm where we can manipulate them and use
them for our self promotion? I pray we are all ready for such a display of
maturity in spirit.
We are being faced with a great challenge from our Father today.
To become more than what we are. How do we do that? We take all of our
elements that we can say we are, spirit – soul – body, and we allow the
working of the Holy Spirit to bring all those elements into one compound of
being, a New Man, a New Thing in Christ. By using the word “new”, I mean
unique, not something being recreated out of another lump of material. Along
with all of our corruptible parts, God has incorporated incorruptible parts
into our makeup according to the design and purpose of our Father. All
creation has been subjected by Him unto the vanity of the flesh, with a
higher purpose in mind. God does not intend for His creation to be eternally
imprisoned in such a world of contradictions, but His plan is to take that
which IS, all of the parts in their individual makeup, and make something
else out of it, a new composition of man and God. Everything within our
present state and condition is necessary for us to be that New Man. What we
must know and realize is that there is a hidden design in this chaotic being
that we are, although we have only known the divided self life thus far, we
have the stuff in our house that is necessary to form a Light Being, a
heavenly Wonder that all the other elements of the heavens will marvel at.
The true strength of our design is our complexity of opposites. God did not
make us with grey parts, all of our parts are black and white, our natural
mind of data gathering, (data in, data out), is what creates the grey areas
of our condition. It is when these pure elements of death and life, light
and darkness, become mixed into one another without divine influence that we
become lost in our identity. I am human and that is a pure element of my
design. I am also spirit and that is a pure element of my design. At one
time, I was only spirit, with no human element to my being, but that changed
when I was sent to my earthly existence. Now, I am more than one pure
element, but I still bear the original IMAGE of my heavenly Father, who
imaged Himself into me. I have also borne the image of the earthly identity
giving me a duality of identity, which has caused me to create within myself
a mis-identity of my real self. Christ came into this duality 2,000 years
ago and brought union of oneness with our Father into this mistaken
condition of man that has brought spiritual enlightenment unto the world at
large, turning the world upside down with His resurrection power. However,
God’s plan is not for mankind to be an enlightened duality, but to form one,
whole New Man out of many divisive parts.
We know God is able to do this, because we are remembering from
whence we came and we know that whether in this body or out of this body, we
are spirit and we are His. If this earthly house were to be dissolved, we
know we have a resident, eternal spiritual house that we have always been.
Now, we also know we cannot remain who we have been, but now we must BECOME
that for which we have been sent to this limited, earthly dimension. The
Life that WAS, must now become the Life that IS, bringing into this
dimension a design that speaks of a New Beginning for a New Creation. In our
next chapter, we will delve into that which IS and how that which IS carries
on the lineage of abundant life from that which Was into that which IS TO
COME.
By
Robert D Torango
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