The Calling out of the Mystical Body of Christ

The following is a short study on the mystical Body of Christ; this study requires an understanding of the Genesis study on what was lost. No one can understand the Bible except they be born again into the regeneration of that which was lost. Jesus came to bring all mankind to this ancient path way which He called a narrow way because it requires the death of the flesh or a death of the spirit of the world that holds man a prisoner in sin contained in his flesh. That is why Elohim came as Jesus or Immanuel the incarnate one in the flesh of sinful man; He did what no ordinary man could do for himself.

To grab hold of the mystery we must of necessity know what was lost in the beginning and the state of man prior to the fall and what happened at the time of the fall. Genesis chapter one verses 26-27 and chapter two verse 7 reveals that man was created in the image and likeness of God that God breathed into man the breath of lives. Upon our first looking at this we may over look just what is being said because of our fallen nature we tend not to hear what is said. So upon a closer look we see that man was created in the image of his creator what does that mean? An image of something is like looking in a mirror, what is reflected back is the image, so in the image is a representative figure of a thing. Webster says “a reproduction of the form of something, so man looks like God. The next word used is likeness of his creator, again what does than mean? A likeness is a resemblance to a thing, Webster says a copy. From this we can see that man has the three natures of the creator, what do I mean? The word given for God in Genesis is translated to the Hebrew word Elohim which simply means triune or three parts in one, they are El or Yeh or Father and is fire, El, El-Shaddai, Elohim, God the Son, Yeshua, Immanuel or Christ an is light and the Holy Spirit that is Spirit. Now the primary character in the God Head talking is Elohim [and is intorduced to Moses by the Hebrew name EHYEH asher EHYEH, I am to be revealed (Exodus 3:14), Yeh, I am who is to be more and more revealed and Jehoshua redeemer, and savior (Numbers 13:16; savior through water Exodus 2:10).] So from this we can see that man was first a divine being, immortal, spirit, and formed of the dust of the ground fashioned like his Father with elements of all three in him which are fire, light, and spirit. Now what are the compounds of the dust? First we have to look at the verse just prior to are subject verses for in it we see that all animal life was spoken into being from the dust of the ground. From this we can see that man has the ability to have the same nature as the animals that were created, he is created a spiritual being above the creatures. Now again what are the elements of earth, they are dust, fire, water, and wind or air. From this all appears fine but we are still missing some information and that is not seen until chapter three verse one.

Before we get there we come to a verse that reveals the garden located east of Eden into which God places man to be the care taker of it. We find two kinds of trees there one of which man is not to eat because when it is eaten of it changes man from an angelic being to a bestial being by giving him the knowledge of both good and evil. Now here is a new word and it is evil what is that? Here’s where a knowledge (not intellectualism, ie. memorized scriptures) of our Bible is necessary because later on in the prophets we find Satan talked about and the war that took place in eternity past. Seems that Satan rebelled against God when pride was found in him and he was cast out of heaven alone with his legion of angels and they hit the glasses sea forming a waste land or the earth. When this happened it caused a lot of dust to be tossed into the atmosphere that settles back down and covers the waste land forming the earth. The fallen angels or spirits are locked in the depths of the earth frozen if you will in rock or flint. This dust is contaminated by the fallen angles and Satan; it contains elements of their nature which are darkness, thickness, wrath, fire, sickness and death. So now we have more of the information required for our learning. From this we can say with some degree of certainty that man also has these elements in him because they are a part of the dust from which he and the creatures, all living things are made.

To make a lone story short man eats of this fruit because he desires to have the knowledge of the animals and plant life which he has given names to. When man eats this fruit he dies spiritually, he can no longer see the divine heaven around him, he also dies to his creator or puts his creators nature in him to death and he becomes earthy meaning that his eyes are now open to the bestial nature that he has now been changed into, flesh and blood, and corruption that brings death. The created things of nature and Satan’s wrath, darkness, thickness, sickness, fire and death are now at work in his flesh. Because it contains the elements of the fallen angels so now he has darkness, thickness, wrath, sickness and death as a part of him; he is no longer has the divine nature. Such is the condition of man at his best. This is only the long and the short of what is revealed here in Genesis chapters one through three, we have not covered everything here. Just enough to learn that man is in need a redeemer to bring him back from his fallen state to a spiritual state from which he can receive redemption leading to salvation from the wrath to come upon earth that will cleans it, but not completely remove it until the final Judgment. And now for the revealing of the mystery the taking out of the mystical Body of Christ for those who have been redeemed by walking through the free will path which is our choice and the adhering to the sufferings of Christ and the regeneration of our spiritual condition back to its first place before the fall.

1Corinthians 15:12-26
Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised: and if Christ has not been raised, then is our preaching vain, your faith also is vain. Yes, we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that He raised up Christ: whom He raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised: and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; we are yet in your sins. Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
Now has Christ been raised from the dead, the first fruits of them that are asleep. For since by
man came death,( This is spiritual separation from God, mans natural state.) by a man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive (That is spiritually awake again.). Each in his own order: Christ the first fruits; then they that are Christ's, (The trigger for the tribulation or the day of the Lord, the main harvest of the wheat, with the gleans yet to come, during and after the tribulation.) at His coming. (His second advent, the setting up of His one thousand year reign is yet to come.) Then comes the end when He shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power. (The battle that lasts only a short time with the Devil being thrown into the lake of fire along with all unbelievers of this Gospel.) For He must reign, until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be abolished is death.

1 Corinthians 15:50-58
I tell you this, flesh and blood (mans bestial nature) cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable (natural man in corruption) inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. This perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory." “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord*, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Revelation 14:4 These are they who were not defiled with women: for they are virgins. These follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were purchased from among men, the firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. (Matthew 25:1; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:25-27 Undefiled virgins are those who have willing chosen the path way to redemption and have worked out their own salvation with fear and trembling in the spirit as regenerated from death into life while here on the earth. They did not succumb to the temptations of the spiritual harlot the defiled woman that leads so many “Christians” astray.)

1Thessalonians 4:14-17 [2 Th 2:1-4]; 18
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord He will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

2Thessalonians 2:1-4, 18
Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the departure comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
Therefore encourage one another with these words.

*Work here is the preparing of one’s self through the studying of the word, and prayer to be ready to move out when He calls or tells you to and not before. For this work requires one to be spiritually awake (alive) as stated else were (1 Cor. 2:14-15, 6:17, 15:44-49; Rom. 6:6-14, 5:17-21). The thing missed by Israel and the main line churches or denominations which run parallel with Israel in blindness. (2 Corinthians 4:1-18)

Revelation 10:5-8
The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay, but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets. Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, "Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land."

Matthew 24:4-8 Jesus answered them, "See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.

1Corinthians 6:9-10 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

1Timothy 4:1-3 But the Spirit said expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

2Timothy 3:1-7 Know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away. For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2Timothy 4:3-5 For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside unto fables. Be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

2Thessalonians 2:8-10 Then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to naught by the manifestation of his coming; he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Daniel 7:25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

2Thessalonians 2:11-12 For this cause God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

1John 2:18-23 It is the last hour: and as you heard that antichrist comes, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us. You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all the things.
I have not written to you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he that denies the Father and the Son. Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that confesses the Son has the Father also.

1Thessalonians 1:9-10 For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

1Thessalonians 5:9-11 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

To be fit for this mystical Body of Christ one must follow the Lord in the path of His chosen way to eternal life which was hid from all until Christ’s revealing it to Paul. This path is revealed in the following question and its answer. Those who desire and will to will to take this path and renounce the hidden things of sins power or hold on to them, are the ones that will become a member of the mystical Body of Christ for they will have been placed back into the first state of creation.
See our study on the Redemption that goes with what we have below and Genesis the Untold Story.

Question: Why and how did our Holy Jesus become our great redeemer?
Because, and only because, as a son of fallen man the second Adam, Jesus came into this temporal nature as the federal head and foundation to lead the whole human race through the process of redemption back into the eternal nature to be seated at the right hand of God in Christ. This process is a requirement for everyone. To be a true disciple and true Christian one must follow Jesus through the proper gates and door to inherit His conquering nature and eternal life. One must strongly desire this life and be willing to pass through these gates which are:
· Incarnation (the piercing or splitting of the seed in the soul)
· passion (the agony of separation from the spirit of the world)
· death (to the spirit of the world and its lusts)
· resurrection (the victorious new birth of Christ in you, your hope of glory)
· ascension into heaven (being taken out as a member of the mystical Body of Christ, to meet Him in the air to forever be with Him)

This meeting Him in the air is “The Day of the Lord” a trigger for the tribulation and revealing of lawlessness.
Until one knows and understands just what it was that Adam lost in the fall, one can never really know true redemption and salvation that for now remains open to us. This is not a "one time shot" of speaking some prayer, believing that Jesus died and rose again. But rather, is a daily walk from glory to glory and the true carrying of your cross daily and the putting to death those passions and lusts of the world and their deadly system of deception. Continually staying on this narrow path that Jesus said, "Many there are that are called, but few are chosen." This meaning it's our choosing to be a doer of the word and not a hearer only. It's our choice to choose this eternal life or eternal death, it’s our choice to walk and work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, this is not a works as in some sort of working as one may do for a living. It is however the putting to death each day such things as lusts, pride, envy, boasting, malice, being stiff-necked and other natural, and carnal naturer’s evils. He made the way for us to follow Him. He told His disciples that they which follow Him through the regeneration, when He sits in the throne of His glory, they would also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. This was strictly for Israel; however, we all have to walk through this process of regeneration for our redemption to reach our hoped for destination our salvation, to ever be with the Lord. There is NO other way!!

Now for the meaning of some commonly used and miss understood words.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 “there come”
Thayer's Definition:
1) to come
1a) of persons
1a1) to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving
1a2) to appear, make one’s appearance, come before the public
2) metaphorically
2a) to come into being, arise, come forth, show itself, find place or influence
2b) be established, become known, to come (fall) into or unto
3) to go, to follow one
Part of Speech: verb

2 Thessalonians 2:2 “the day of Christ”
Thayer's Definition:
1) the day, used of the natural day, or the interval between sunrise and sunset, as distinguished from and contrasted with the night
1a) in the daytime
1b) metaphorically, “the day” is regarded as the time for abstaining from indulgence, vice, crime, because acts of the sort are perpetrated at night and in darkness
2) of the civil day, or the space of twenty four hours (thus including the night)
2a) Eastern usage of this term differs from our western usage. Any part of a day is counted as a whole day, hence the expression “three days and three nights” does not mean literally three whole days, but at least one whole day plus part of two other days.
3) of the last day of this present age, the day Christ will return from heaven, raise the dead, hold the final judgment, and perfect his kingdom
4) used of time in general, i.e. the days of his life.
Part of Speech: noun feminine

From Webster's 1812 Dictionary
Redeem:
1. To purchase back; to ransom; to liberate or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying an equivalent; as, to redeem prisoners or captured goods; to redeem a pledge.
2. To repurchase what has been sold; to regain possession of a thing alienated, by repaying the value of it to the possessor.
3. To rescue; to recover; to deliver from. (The mass of earth is not yet redeemed from chaos.)
4. To compensate; to make amends for.
5. To free by making atonement.
6. To pay the penalty of.
7. To save.
8. To perform what has been promised; to make good by performance. He has redeemed his pledge or promise.
9. In law, to recall an estate, or to obtain the right to re-enter upon a mortgaged estate by paying to the mortgagee his principal, interest, and expenses or costs.
10. In theology, to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law, by obedience and suffering in the place of the sinner, or by doing and suffering that which is accepted in lieu of the sinner's obedience. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. Gal 3. Titus 2.
(This is in the spiritual sense, the work of Christ in redeeming man from all iniquity [lawlessness, the bondage of self-will which rejects the Will of God.])
11. In commerce, to purchase or pay the value in specie, of any promissory note, bill or other evidence of debt, given by the state, by a company or corporation, or by an individual. The credit of a state, a banking company or individuals, is good when they can redeem all their stock, notes or bills, at par.

To redeem time, is to use more diligence in the improvement of it; to be diligent and active in duty and preparation. Eph 5.

Redemption:
1. Repurchase of captured goods or prisoners; the act of procuring the deliverance of persons or things from the possession and power of captors by the payment of an equivalent; ransom; release; as the redemption of prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.
2. Deliverance from bondage, distress, or from liability to any evil or forfeiture, either by money, labor or other means.
3. Repurchase, as of lands alienated. Lev 25. Jer 32.
4. The liberation of an estate from a mortgage; or the purchase of the right to re-enter upon it by paying the principal sum for which it was mortgaged with interest and cost; also, the right of redeeming and re-entering.
(Of the redemptive work of Christ, bring deliverance through His death, from the guilt and power of sin.)
5. Repurchase of notes, bills or other evidence of debt by paying their value in specie to their holders.
(The releasing, for [payment of] a ransom.)
6. In theology, the purchase of God's favor by the death and sufferings of Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God's violated law by the atonement of Christ.

In whom we have redemption through his blood. Eph 1. Col 1.

Salvation:
1. The act of saving; preservation from destruction, danger or great calamity.
2. Appropriately in theology, the redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him everlasting happiness. This is the great salvation. Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation. 2 Cor 7.
3. Deliverance from enemies; victory. Exo 14.
4. Remission of sins, or saving graces. Luke 19.
5. The author of man's salvation. Psa 27.
6. A term of praise or benediction. Rev 19.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 “obtaining salvation”
Thayer's Definition: salvation
1) deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation
1a) deliverance from the molestation of enemies
1b) in an ethical sense, that which concludes to the souls safety or salvation
1b1) of Messianic salvation
2) salvation as the present possession of all true Christians
3) future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God.
Part of Speech: noun feminine

Thayer's Definition: obtaining salvation
1) a preserving, a preservation
2) possession, one’s own property
3) an obtaining
Part of Speech: noun feminine

From Webster's 1812 Dictionary
Deliver:
1. To free; to release, as from restraint; to set at liberty; as, to deliver one from captivity.
2. To rescue, or save.
Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked. Psa 71:4.
3. To give, or transfer; to put into another’s hand or power; to commit; to pass from one to another.
So we say, to deliver goods to a carrier; to deliver a letter; to deliver possession of an estate.
4. To surrender; to yield; to give up; to resign; as, to deliver a fortress to an enemy. It is often followed by up; as, to deliver up the city; to deliver up stolen goods.
5. To disburden of a child.
6. To utter; to pronounce; to speak; to send forth in words; as, to deliver a sermon, an address, or an oration.
7. To exert in motion. To deliver to the wind, to cast away; to reject. To deliver over, to transfer; to give or pass from one to another; as, to deliver over goods to another.

2. To surrender or resign; to put into another’s power; to commit to the discretion of; to abandon to.
To deliver up, to give up; to surrender.

Deliverance:
1. Release from captivity, slavery, oppression, or any restraint.
He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke 4.
2. Rescue from danger or any evil.
God sent me to save your lives by a great deliverance. Gen 45:7.
3. The act of bringing forth children.
4. The act of giving or transferring from one to another.
5. The act of speaking or pronouncing; utterance. [In the three last senses, delivery is now used.]
6. Acquittal of a prisoner, by the verdict of a jury. God send you a good deliverance.

Thayer's Definition: wrath
1) anger, the natural disposition, temper, character
2) movement or agitation of the soul, impulse, desire, any violent emotion, but especially anger
3) anger, wrath, indignation
4) anger exhibited in punishment, hence used for punishment itself
4a) of punishments inflicted by magistrates
Part of Speech: noun feminine


All scripture is from the KJV, Weymouth New Testament, American Standard and English Standard Versions of the Bible and other resources found on the public domain.