SPIRITUAL "DEEP STATE" - THE MAN OF THE HOUR

THE MAN OF THE HOUR

  The time had come! Jesus’s moment in history had arrived. He was born to die, not for his own misdeeds, but the sins of the world. That includes all mankind, the “whosoever” in John 3:16. Jesus said himself, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified” (John 12:23). “Should” in that passage seems to be one of the most mistranslated passages in the Bible. Sinners “should die;” Jesus should not but was. Jesus was destined to die. He knew that before He was ever born. As God, He planned His own death. Did Jesus cause everything to come true as prophesied to His Plan, or did He merely understand the nature of His self-emancipated creatures?

  Did Jesus agonize for mankind only before His death, or did God weep for His rebellious children all along? Imagine, if you are a parent, how a father loves his children so greatly, and the mother as well, that they tolerate their misdeeds all their lives! It does not cease at the age of maturity but continue as grown adults still behave and think immaturely. God came into the Flesh because He agonized for His lost children. Mankind are all His prodigal sons, putting the things of the world before the Father in Heaven. God came to Earth to adopt His children, at least those who want to be reinstated to the loving environment in which they had been created.

  Mankind was created in a glorious condition; they were unashamed to be in the Face of God. After sin entered them, they were ashamed. Satan has entered only two created beings: the Serpent and Judas Iscariot. He will enter one more — the Antichrist. Satan is not in anyone, but only demons who serve him. Satan is not accountable for individual sins, each person is! Everyone who desires glory must repent of infamy.

  For Christians, “to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). “Gain” is again being in the image of God — being like Jesus. Perhaps, Jesus should, indeed, be glorified. That is sitting at the right hand of God. That is where He should be, not on Earth dying for mankind. He needs to sit on the throne, not crucified on His footstool. Perhaps the footrest of the Cross was what God was thinking of all the time way back when. The Cross was His footstool but points toward His throne. When Jesus was crucified, immediately He gave up His Ghost, and the Holy Ghost of Jesus was with the thief that same day in Paradise. Is Paradise merely an instant away in an unseen realm? It seems so because Jesus moved freely between the physical world and the invisible. Jesus said:

²⁷ “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. ²⁸ Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, saying, “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.” (John 12:27-28).

  The Voice from heaven, not the place, but another realm, spoke. The Father was there all the time. It was the time… it was the very hour that all the prophets had awaited but that evil men neglected. Jesus was to suffer death in all three substances, but only the Person Jesus would die. The Voice indicated, I have glorified your Name before, and I will do so again! What was God thinking? Was Jesus glorified when He was born?

  Perhaps the transfiguration was the initial glorification. He, the Father, and the Spirit were one for a time on the mountain. Perhaps Jesus considered His death as gain because He had experienced Glory before. He showed Elias, Moses, Peter, James, and John “what He was made of.” He showed them the Three Substances of the Holy Trinity in the Person of Jesus.  Why was Jesus glorified the first time? Because God, in all Three Persons, must suffer on the Cross. We should have been, but God was because He was willing to die for mankind — the captive sons and daughters of the Devil from whom His death freed mankind if they indeed want freedom.

  Somehow Isaiah had seen God’s glory.  He was not there at the transfiguration; how could that be? Because Isaiah had bright eyes. John revealed what Isaiah saw when He said, “These things Isaiah said when he saw His Glory and spoke of Him” (John 12:41). What did Isaiah say? That God had blinded people so that they did not understand that He could and would heal them (John 12:40). The Jews were blind to God’s Glory, but Isaiah could see God on His throne and His Face was that of the Son of Man. Isaiah was not blind as the others because he was able to see through the barrier between the physical and the spiritual, and through time, just as John the Revelator could:

And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.(Rev 15:2)

  Isaiah saw Jesus Glorified. Now the time had come for glorification. To die was gain for Jesus as well. He suffered death as everyone will someday, but He looked forward to being One with God on His throne. But first the time had come to die. God had to experience death for mankind, but He had to live on afterward to provide hope.

  Jews believed in Jesus because of His miracles. Gentiles believed in Jesus because He makes sense (1 Cor 1:22). It makes sense that mankind can be regenerated after death because they were generated in the beginning merely from the twinkle in God’s eye. When God created man, it was in their image (Gen 1:21) but still in the image of God. How could that be? Because Jesus was on God’s Mind in the beginning.

  In fact, the Garden Paradise was Glory, and that is where God’s adopted children shall return. Cherubim guard the narrow path and strait gate to enter in. The Zion Gate adjacent to Mount Zion is the original gate to the City of David. Could it be to enter heavenly Zion that the entry is through that gate? Perhaps cherubim are there unseen. Or perhaps it is the Golden Gate that Jesus last entered, and is know as the Gate of Mercy, as it is believed that it is the gate that Jesus will enter through in the last days.

  Isaiah walked in the Light. He could see Jesus plainly and unblurred by the barrier of time. He saw through the sea of glass, perhaps not a floor in a physical sense, but a barrier between the seen and unseen. Jesus looked forward to the other side when He was finished with His Purpose. Jesus, in His own Way, came to drain the swamp. Evil men created the “swamp” when they sinned with impunity in the days of Noah. God allowed the waters to increase because sin was rampant. He gave them a storm to control, but only He and His eight chosen people could outlast the storm.
  When it was all over God drained the “deep swamp” and all the sins of mankind were washed away. Jesus saved the day because it is He who calms storms. God’s creatures would live in a new world, cleansed by Almighty God. The world had been regenerated and a few people with it. Only with Jesus can storms be calmed and waters drained. Now, the President is man of the hour. Only with God whose Name is Jesus can the world be saved but is it worth saving? Donald Trump is not godly, but as Obama before him, be was also chosen by God for His Purpose. The question is? Are people worth preserving? That depends on everyone. The world is only worth saving if there are enough to warrant saving.

  Some have asked me, “Are we in the last days?” That depends on people. Only God knows the time because only God knows our hearts. The time will be when there are few left worth saving. How many is that? Fifty? Ten? Eight? Five? Is that not the type of question that Abraham asked God about Sodom and Gomorrah? To save from the flood, God thought that eight made it worthwhile. For Sodom and Gomorrah, it was Lot’s family (excepting his wife who turned back). How many will be saved before the world is destroyed by fire? That is up to mankind. Jesus will save 144,000 Jews, but how many Gentiles? Just a few because the remnant will be snatched up before the fire.

  One person asked if Trump is the Antichrist. Antichrists are those against God. Trump does not fit the identity that Scripture provides. Those against God disrespect God and His creatures. That is not for anyone to judge but God Himself. However He gives clues to who is His people and who are not. The greatest clue is that Christians must profess the Name of God and that glorious Name is Jesus?

Like Noah before him, the President is “man of the hour,” but that is totally dependent on the Will of the Man of the Hour.

 (picture credit: Harry Anderson "Noah's Preaching Scorned")