Thessalonians part 16

After what has been transpiring on the world scene and listening to what many of the Muslim faith have stated, it appears to me that they like so many others caught up in the worlds religion have no knowledge of what transpired through the love sacrifice of Jesus. This we must keep in mind is GOD's Love offering to restore man to Himself. The world as a whole does not acknowledge man as being a spiritual being housed within a body of earth and it is because of this that they do not acknowledge a spiritual being. They donot hear what is so plannly stated in the scriptures because of blindness and unbelief all of which is unacceptance of man having a futher state of being. The same state that man had in Genesis 1:26-27 where man as a spirit was with GOD before GOD rested in Genesis 2:1-3. This area does not tell us how long it was that man and GOD were one in the heavens while He waited for the earth to take its form in verses 4-6. In verse 6-7 is where GOD takes of the earth and fashions a body for the spirit of man into which He breaths the soul or life on man into this lump of clay. The clay then takes on the look of reddness as blood and water flow through it. This is the meaning of 2Corinthians 4:3-4 “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, Who is the image of God, should shine in them.” It is for each of us to come to acquiring the knowledge of the LORD on our own merits but this is only done after we have heard the revelation of Christ as the written word of the sword of the spirit. This word is the written word held within a Redeemed soul who has passed from darkness into His Life and Light by faiths receptivity of Grace's giving. This is why the Bible is a radical book unlike all others be they the Torah, Quran or some other book. The particular translation does not seem to matter as long as it contains the written word that was first spoken by the breath of GOD.


Before I get into the next passage allow me to state that the Jewish day was broken up in watches which started at sunset (6PM in the evening counted as the day), this being the first watch of three hours duration. To first show it as it appears looking at Matthew 27:45-54 where it reads: “Now from the sixth hour (midnight to 3 AM) there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour (3-6 AM). And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard said, He calls for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave Him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save Him. Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; [51b] and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.”


This is where His first ascension is revealed in Matthew 27:51b, to clearly see this as His first ascension we must understand the use of this punctuation sign as used as a symbol indicating a time break (this happens in other areas of scripture as well, such as Psalm 2 verse 7 for one). The verse should be read as follows, “and the earth did quake, and the rocks were broken and graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out of the graves after His resurrection and went throughout the city and appeared to many,” this also repeated in 28:2-4 though worded somewhat differently. When Jesus ascended into Abrahms bosom which held the ancients or saints who were awaiting Him. He proclaimed the hidden gospel to them who waited for Him, He Whom they only saw as a dim light at some distance. These then He took as captivity captive and ascended with them into the holiest of all. This is spoken of in Ephesians 4:1-25, with our emphasis on 7-16 and Colossians 1:12-20, with emphasis on 18-20.