Where do people go wrong? I have commented before that the Old Testament is the “Last Will and Testament” of the Father God:
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God’s Will has never changed. Jesus came to fulfill the Law,
and He validated that the Law is the conditions of His Will. Ultimately, the
Law has always been the same. The Ten Words (Commandments or Tenets) of God are
the metrics of the Law. Implied in those metrics are two basic tenets:
Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all
the law and the prophets. (Mat 22:37-40)
Like any “Will,” God has His contingencies. That is to do things the way the Grantor would want. He so loves the world, [i]
and His expectation of His heirs is that they shalt love Him as Lord of their all
— heart, soul, and mind. Added to that is with all our strength.[ii]
That is humanly impossible without God’s assistance. Therefore, you must be
born again! [iii]
God changes the reborn person and makes him or her “whole,” to wit: “as many as he touched were made perfectly whole” (Mat 14:36).
If the reader recalls, Adam was created whole. [iv]
It is translated “very good” but that is not so! The Hebrew word, towb, means
excellent, good, kind, upright, prosperous, and happy among other things. In the
New Testament, “joyful” would summarize that “goodness.” “Very” is not even in
there in the Hebrew. Since only God is “Good” [v]
and Jesus is God, then “Good” is in the image of God.
Jesus came to do the Will of His Father: “I seek not mine own will, but
the Will of the Father which hath sent me.” (John 5:30). And the
expectation for any to enter Heaven is, “He that doeth the will of my Father
which is in heaven” (Mat 7:21), “For whosoever shall do the will of my Father
which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother” (Mat
12:50).
God’s Will was drawn up as the Abrahamic Covenant; and it is an
everlasting Covenant between God and Abraham’s kind. It is the same
Covenant as with Noah, to wit: “I will establish my covenant between me and
thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant,
to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.” (Gen 17:7). The word “kind”
is important. The Adamic, or Edenic Covenant, was for Adam’s kind — his seed or
those with the DNA of God in them.
When the Adamic Covenant’s conditions were abridged by Adam, then time would provide a new covenanter in Noah.
The Adamic Covenant was made because Adam was meant to be joyful, but rather than joy, he was lustful after
pleasure. God kept Adam safe with the
skin of a lamb to preserve the memory of him as “excellent” until another excellent
one was generated. Noah was par excellent for in time “Noah found
grace!” (Gen 6:8). Adam was given grace, but Noah found grace.
Grace has been lost between Adam and Noah because of sin. God intended for Noah
to find grace because He called to Noah! [vi]
Why did God call Noah? Because he hated sin and sought a Way
out! The bow, although invisible to others, was seen by Noah. It was the prize
ahead, and the reward was a new life. Noah saw God in both the light before the
flood and the dark clouds of the flood. God led the Way to the Tree of Life,
and the cherubim that guarded the Way to the Tree of Life [vii]
would have their flames put out! Noah would find the Way to the Tree of Life,
and it was when He found grace.
Hidden in the Ten Words of Jesus (yes, Jesus) are ten ways to hate: (1) having other gods in God’s Face, (2) making images of God, or creating God with human hands, (3) taking lightly the sacrifice that God would make for Moses’s kind, (4) hating God’s rest, (5) disrespecting parents, (6) murdering God’s creatures — playing God with the souls of others, (7) preferring pleasures of the flesh rather than the Spirit of God, (8) stealing what others have worked so hard for, (9) lying to anyone, and (10) desiring to have what others have. Those remain to this day the “conditions” of God’s Will — to neither hate God nor others.
What is so hard to do for most are the opposing conditions:
To love God and others by not doing those things! Why should the brothers and
sisters of Jesus remain in the Will of their Father when, unlike Jesus, they
cannot do the Father’s Will for them?
The Ten Words of Jesus are His Word! [viii]
He came to fulfill His Words by living them out, to wit: “Till heaven and earth
pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled” (Mat 5:18). In other words, the Ten Commandments are eternal and everlasting
just as the Noahic and Abrahamic Covenants. Why were those conditions written
on stone? For perpetuity just like the rainbow in the sky. In Paradise, the Promise
will be fulfilled and the heirs of God will receive their share of the inheritance.
With the sun then gone, there will no longer be a bow in the sky except for the
Glory of Jesus!
Now what has that to do with the Noahic Covenant? Read on:
This is the token (the bow in the sky) of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations… the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh… (the bow) that I may remember the everlasting covenant. (Gen 9:12,15,16)
It is for perpetuity. It is not written on stone like the Ten Words of Jesus, but it is written in the sky! The rainbow is God’s “signature” so to speak. It is the same “Glory” emanating from the second “Ark” — the Ark of the Covenant. What Covenant? The Mosaic Covenant. That would be the Law to keep God’s children safe from the Wicked One.
Implied in the Ten Words (Commandments) is
that these are the ways to stay safe, or spiritually healthy, until Jesus comes
to fulfill those words. The Fifth Commandment even expressed that: “Honour thy
father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord
thy God giveth thee” (Exod 20:12).
Of course, that literally means biological parents as was demonstrated
when Noah’s children boarded the Ark with him and their mother. But also it
means any progenitors because you are of the “seed” of Noah. It means Father God
as well, especially.
The Noahic Covenant is everlasting. It is written in the sky until the sky
is no more! That will happen when everything has been fulfilled as revealed to
John the Revelator.
If all the Covenants are everlasting and for perpetuity, are they the same
Covenant or another Covenant? Was not the Adamic Covenant one of grace,
fulfilled with the promise of Jesus? [ix]
Was not the grace that Noah found the same grace that Jesus delivered? Was not
the promise to Abraham not the same grace that Noah found? Was not the Mosaic
Covenant the same grace that Jesus fulfilled?
Why would Moses’s wife call circumcision a bloody thing by calling him a “bloody
husband?” [x]
Because Moses would shed the blood of his kind. That would be for Jesus
to do much later. Even Moses misunderstood that circumcision is not of the
flesh, but of the “heart” — the human
will.
The Covenant would be for the different kinds as they evolved (sic). Adam
was the first kind. He was generated wholly and holy in the image of
God. That is with glorified flesh and spirit. Regeneration is reborn in the
manner of Adam’s kind, which is in turn God’s kind.
A new kind devolved when the Serpent entered the picture — Cain’s kind.
They are not part of the Covenant but the curse. Cain’s kind were as Beasts
because they are of the Wicked One. [xi]
Then, before the flood, when the sons of God married the daughters of men, all
but Noah became Cain’s kind when Seth’s line intermarried with demons and then fornicated
with Cain’s kind. A new kind came into being — Canaan’s kind. They remain to
this day!
When God destroyed the world, since Noah found grace, Noah’s kind would survive. Because Ham honored his father and mother, he would enter the Ark. But he was not Noah’s kind. Somehow, Satan had entered him and boarded the Ark. He had both the DNA of Noah and Satan. As such, Canaan was cursed, as the seed of Ham, but the “seed” of Shem and Japheth would survive, and God would have grace on them.
By entering the Ark, Shem and Japheth found grace as well, although Shem and
his seed misunderstood the grace they had. [xii]
The seed of Shem (Hebrews) saw only Laws on stone. They failed to see the grace
that God had given them. They failed to see that the Ten Words were not laws at
all but ten Ways to love: four Ways to love God and six ways to love others. It
turned out that the Ten Words of Jesus became to them, ten ways to enslave
mankind by the sweat of their own faces — the same curse placed on Adam. [xiii]
What did God do for them? Just as he put on Adam and Eve coats of skin, [xiv]
he put on the Hebrews His coat of Spirit — the Holy Ghost that He gave up when
he died. He did that for Shem and Japheth as well as for Cain and Canaan, but
all but the seed of Japheth rejected God’s grace. However, the Holy Host remains
for all of Adam’s kind, Noah’s kind, Canaan’s kind, Abraham’s kind, Moses’s
kind, and even those of the Wicked One, “who have overcome the Wicked One.” [xv]
It turns out that Adam’s kind is Satan’s kind. But by grace, God’s DNA remains in everyone! All they need to do is find grace. It has been there all the time, all anyone has ever needed to do is recognize grace when they see Jesus!
The seed of Japheth got it right! They found grace after they told Philip, “Sir,
we would see Jesus” (john 12:21). That is what Noah did when he found grace. Through
all that sin, Noah saw Jesus. He saw the rainbow beyond the sin, and found more
grace beyond the clouds!
Noah did not do what the evil ones did. He knew God’s Will inside and out.
He saw the Ten Words written on the sky before the Hand of God even wrote them.
He saw Mosaic Law as the Way to eternal life. He saw, rather than things
demanded of God, as ways to please God. Hidden inside all those commands is the
Way to the Tree of Life. They are not commands at all, but God’s Will for them
to do, and God desires that they are done willingly. Jesus still wants that those things be done,
because His prayer was just that (The Lord’s Prayer). They are to be willingly
done, not because there are consequences to not doing them. He still Wills that
anything written in those Words be done, not because He says so, but because
persons with a new heart desire to do those things. In other words, the conditions
come after grace is found.
Noah worked hard, but only after he found grace. Grace was given before he
did anything but after finding grace, his will was to do anything that God
asked of him. How about you? That
Covenant is still in force to this day for all of Noah’s kind!
Why did Noah find grace? He was willing to travel the Way that God would
provide. Noah built the ship, and God transported it from the world to Paradise
without moving any distance. Just where is Paradise? The other side of where
you are!
To not do His Will is inexcusable; after all these years His Will remains His Will. Those things that Christians continue to do are not His Will be done, but their own will. That is the paramount sin. It makes you as your own god.
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