Okie doke. Now I unoad. lol
In my estimation, the context of the Bible is such: God has established the physical world with an Eternal Plan that He is currently and always will be fulfilling. Why? We are a demonstration of His Almighty Power to the unseen Rulers and Authorities in the Heavenly Realms. We, the creation, are on display to even these unseen Rulers and Authorities.
The Eternal Plan begins in the Garden where the actions of first "man" led to the Curse of the Lord. Specifically, the Sinful Nature, this new and added Nature to the minds and bodies of Adam and Eve were utterly devastating. Instantly, they knew of fear, shame, and guilt. What they were experiencing was more than they could bear, an added Nature that had robbed them of their former life without any sense of corruption whatsoever. They were perfectly and emotionally free.
And so we have the problem that needs to be addressed. Nothing else matters for each person. Each person must obtain the Circumcision of Christ if they are to receive Eternal Life. So, the Curse of the Lord is the problem and the Circumcision of the Siniful Nature, by our Holy Christ, is the answer.
So far, we have covered the Purpose of Christ as well as a portion of the Work of Christ . . . Spiritual Circumcision of the Heart. What is left? The Holy Effect of Christ. The Purpose of the Right Hand of Salvation, which is Christ, is to set His Elect free from the Curse, which also Enables a person to be set free from any worldly law, including the Law of Moses that might condemn. Through the Circumcision of Christ, a person will have a more refined view of how the physical world interfaces with the Spiritual World.
And so the Effect of Christ is a now changing life. Yes, what is changing is [not] the body, but the mind. We are being Transformed by the way with think. Our thinking changes. We Love in a new way. We begin to Truly think of others and their well-being. True Confidence is experienced for the first time, proven by how "you" now spend your time thinking of others instead of "self" in one way or another. We get it . . . life isn't about us.
More and more we will change, reflecting the Glory of God more and more. And why? Because New Born are given the Divine Nature, and we know that the Divine Nature isn't going to share its home (us) with the Devil. That just isn't a possibility.
What I am saying is that God allows Himself to grant His Mercy and Grace to anyone He so chooses, per the example that we find in Exodus 33:19.
That passage is a Biblically dominant passage. It leaves no room for timing, as in, the age of a person. God can grant His Grace (and the ultimate Grace comes from the Purpose and Work and Effect of Christ) to anyone, absolutely anyone He so desires. In other words, we to leave this passage alone. We should be standing at utmost attention when we read this Keystone passage.
Exodus 33:19 NKJV - "Then He said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
There is no more important message that one could possibly desire to know and speak about than these things. This is the utter Heart of the Gospel and Bible. Without the separation of the Curse from the "heart" of a "man," the Bible would fall apart. None of it would matter.
And so this is why I spend my time doing my utmost best at Truly understanding the Mysterious Plan of God, which is the Story of God, which is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That's what I care about . . . the Gospel, and not just being able to describe it (The Gospel is the Guuuud Neuuuws!" . . . but being able to explain it as it should be taught from early Genesis.
Genesis 3:22-24 NLT - "Then the LORD God said, "Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!" 23
So the LORD God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made. 24 After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life."
Jesus is that Tree of Life. And you know it in your heart that Adam and Eve wanted to eat from the Tree so that the Curse would be lifted . . . so that they would not physically die and be Spiritually dead. God expected us to realize that we would need to wait thousands of years before the general public might be administered by the Holy Spirit . . . to receive the Circumcision of Christ in abundance. Yes, like the Day of Pentecost, but this Holy Baptism began being gifted to people where ever they may have been at the time. The Lord can exempt a person from the Curse at any point in time. Incredibly, just two days ago, two well-known people of my community told me that when their alcoholic brother died, his pale face turned pink and he looked up with incredible excitement, eye's open so wide . . . and reaching with his arms . . . and then his heart stopped and he died.
I personally believe that this is when most people are actually saved. So many of us are allowed to live our lives as best as we can while under the captivity of the Devil, only to be Truly and Powerfully Indwelt by the Holy Spirit only breaths away from death. Is that not incredible?
God can grant His Grace and Mercy to anyone He so chooses. Not my Words, but His. And this is the core of the True Gospel of Jesus Christ. I deeply urge that we all come to know this story through the framework that I have offered above. But we must understand that the [entire] Bible wraps around that framework, and when a person grasps how Scripture relates to itself . . . both forward and backward . . . that's when their understanding of the Bible being Miraculous takes a massive leap.
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