Our next topic of interest is found in the simple word used for it, "Presumption" is the this word. Like so many used throughout the scriptures it is also over looked as it is a common word of usage. Just like the simple phrase of "in My name" is also over looked. But have we realized that it is now first introduced in scripture, in three repetitive fashions in our subject text. This is a key to understanding the secrets of the Bible hidden so often in plan view. Just like the first covenant broken is also hidden in plan sight for the world to see in Genesis 1 and 2, the foundation of the world took place herein, And broken in Genesis 3. What is the name of this covenant and its impact on all of humanity? It is also hidden within it but the results of its being broken are not easily seen. As is speaks of the seed of man carried through woman this seed being deposited in every person under the sun from then on and the sons (and daughters) of man do not appear until chapter 4. This seed is not realized to bring about a reverse until the promise of a New Covenant is brought about through the death in physical form by a special selected agent or host of man. Who carries this name within Him as the seed, after His baptism with the Spirit of the GOD-Head is given to Him. That fulfills all that is righteous in the scriptures of promise of the Law and the Prophets. Because it was man who had broken the first covenant of life in the flesh of man. This phrase is introduced by the prophet Jeremiah in Jeremiah 31:31 and spoken of again in the Epistle of Hebrews, the little book of covenants being explained.
As has become my habit I will use the ESV translation and should the LORD opening the passages up as He did the opening information I will add it. The day of the LORD or the day of Pentecost brought about the promised transition of GOD's becoming One in receptive, prepared man, again as in Genesis 2, being the host of God like the Man Jesus was. More simply put God became part of Man again, as Adam was...that is to say being in His Name, the name of the LORD, "Christ." Jesus was the Man, the name used to carry as an agent or vehicle for the restoration of all things hidden, "in Christ." We must and I repeat must seek to stay in the forth dimension of the spirit.
The Warning:
Deuteronomy 18:15-22 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, 'Let me (us) not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.' And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put My words in His mouth, and He will speak to them all that I command Him. And whoever will not listen to My words that He will speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.' And if you say in your heart, 'How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?'— when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him."
Presumption, with its warning:
Numbers 15:27-31 "Also if one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven. You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them. But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles (blasphemes) the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken His commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him."
Deuteronomy 6:16-19 with 18:20 "You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah. You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies and His statutes, which He has commanded you. And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised."
Isaiah 45:9-10 "Woe to him who strives with Him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'? Woe to him who says to a father, 'What are you begetting?' or to a woman, 'With what are you in labor?'"
1Corinthians 10:6-13 "Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play (Exodus 32:4, 19)." We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. (Numbers 25:1f, 9) We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents (Numbers 21:5f), nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. (Numbers 16:49, 17:5, 10; 16:49; Exodus 12:23, 2Samuel 24:16, 1Chroicles 21:15) Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it."
James 4:13-17 "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the LORD wills, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."
2Peter 2:4-16 "For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment (Jude 6 and Revelation 20:1f); if He did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness (Ezekiel 26:20; Genesis 6:8), with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes He condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly (Genesis 19:24; Jude 7); and if He rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, He was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); (Genesis 19:16, 24, 29) then the LORD knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones, whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the LORD. But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you. They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing, but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness."
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