What you have written here reminds me of: Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Based upon what you have written, I was wondering how you view the scriptures in 1 Corinthians 15:33-49.
1 Cor 15:42-44 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory:it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Many people look at these scriptures and assume this change takes place at the physical return of the Lord. I do not necessary see it that way. I believe that we are simultaneously sown in corruption (our flesh) and is raised in incorruption (our spirit). We live constantly struggling between theses two states until we submit to the faith that comes from Christ. Only then can we perceive the spirit.
What are your thoughts?
ezrider,
Your message is feeding me life from within. Thank you so much for sharing. The topic you mention is one that is very sincere to my heart being a very scientific person in my eternal man. I also believe that "God is one" as the bible tells us and he is truly revealing how that can be in these last days. The Lord is so kind to answer all the questions I have asked of him so far. However, the answers are
very big and thus scary (at first) to my natural (outer) mind or "man"'. I love how God and man meet. This is the very mystery called "Christ" that Paul talks so much about and how "in him he made the two into ONE new man". See Ephesians 2:14-16 or the whole chapter of Ephesians 2. It is so amazing to see the end plan of God for the world.
However, for now, the first thing that comes to mind is that God has TWO of everything in the Word. Ever notice that? Ever ponder why?
I believe Paul tells us in 1 Cor. 15:46. Ponder that verse a bit. First comes the natural and is "sown". How is the natural "sown"? Look at the words of Jesus and see what he is saying.
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit John 12:24
So, a "grain of wheat" must be "planted into the Earth" and die. Then, once it dies in the Earth, it bears much fruit. Now, look at the words of Paul again in 1 Cor 15 and put them together. Do you see the plan that God has for all mankind?
Is it possible that God's (hidden) plan is "backwards" from what man thinks? Could "death" come first and then "life"? The ways of God are NOT the ways of man. What if God's plan is that we must "die" first with the Lord Jesus and then we live and bear HIS (spiritual) fruit? What if the 'natural" that comes first is really what is "death" and once "death dies" then comes the spiritual or the TRUE life? I know that is deep, but the Lord will reveal the truth to us if we allow him to. then, we will be fed amazing LIFE from within.
I have much more I could say and share, but I have said enough I am sure. I believe the bible reveals that natural life is really "death" or man as a "seed" being "sown" in the Earth to be reborn at all 3 levels (Spirit, soul and body) according to God's divine plan in Jesus Christ. This happens in the "hidden" or spiritual inner man first and then works outward to the body.
These are my own conclusions based on hundreds of hours of quiet scripture research and mediation while journaling what I hear from within about the scriptures I feel "led" to. Please see what he says to you on this in a quiet place. Personally, he seems to have have withdrawn me from the world nearly completely: I have no tv, radio or other distractions (except my family and paying bills) for the past 2.5 years. It is only myself, my NASB Bible and the Lord. My inner man tells me the time is very near for him to "reappear". Could he be "reappearing" already from within us? God bless and may you hear from the Lord inside.