NO ROOM FOR HIM IN THE INN OR ELSEWHERE

 

  Today is Christmas, not the “birthday” of the Savior, but the celebration of mass for that day. Jesus was not born in a biological way, for he was without father or mother in a natural sense. That needs some explanations: Jesus IS God. He claimed that distinction and was crucified for it, “I and my Father are one” (John 10:30). “Father,” therein is “Pater” in the Greek.  Pater, in that context would not mean biological father but “one who stands in a father’s place and looks after another in a paternal way” (Strong’s Dict.).

  God is the Pater of all things since He is the beginning, “Alpha.” So, consider Pater, not as begetter, but Creator. John explained Pater quite well; speaking of God’s Flesh, he wrote, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1).

  So, in the beginning the Word was God, but on his “birthday,” the Existence (Yahweh) manifested Himself, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14).

  So, there we have it. The “Word,” pre-incarnate Jesus, was not begotten so much as transported from another realm to this realm, and who required flesh to be one of us. Mary was the “vessel” that transported Yahweh from heaven to Earth.

  Yes, Jesus was born of the virgin, Mary (Mat 1:16) but only in a Jewish sense (gennao): “one who brings his way of life, to convert someone” (ibid).

  Therefore, Mary converted the “Angel” of God to the “Man” God, called Jesus. God did the conversion and Mary was the “vessel” (incubator) for the conversion. The “Power of the Highest” overshadowed (episkiazo) Mary to initiate the transformation (Luke 1:35). Mary was “enveloped” (ibid) in the Power, or Holy Spirit, of God.

  God was in Mary until the time was ripe for delivery. She was the cleanest vessel that He could find. Mary was not immaculately conceived, but miraculously cleansed for the journey of God, for all have sinned, including Mary.

  Now, consider God’s Plan for that from the Old Testament:

²⁰ “Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. ²¹ Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him. ²² But if you indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.” (Exod 23:20-22)

  God said to Isaiah, “behold.” He must have shown Isaiah what He is doing right then. He spoke in present tense — when He said, “I send.” Yahweh, the Pater, was speaking of then, not necessarily later.

  Yahweh was sending His Angel to keep Isaiah in the Way that He had prepared.

  God had already begun to prepare a place for His children. Much later, in apostolic times, Jesus said, “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14:2).

  God had already prepared a place specifically for Isaiah, and now he is preparing a place specifically for whosoever. Isaiah resides in his mansion, and each Christian shall have their own mansion. Most certainly, Abraham has his, and in that mansion he resides. Thus, “Abraham’s bosom” from scripture is His mansion in God’s House in the realm of heaven.

  Jesus was conveyed to the Earth for a message, as the “Angel” of God. His message, among others, is that like Isaiah, He is preparing for us our own mansions, not in Abraham’s nor Isaiah’s bosom, but our own place!

  The Angel of God would of course be His Messenger, the Word, “Jesus.” The Angel of Yahweh was already with Isaiah in Spirit and through the vessel of Mary, would be with us in bodily shape.

  The problem is that although the Angel was made the Flesh of God, most did not see Him that way: “He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him” (John 14:21).

  Jesus was crucified because few saw that Yahweh is Jesus. For them, Jesus only presumed to be Yahweh, and that would be a gross sin: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth” (Exod 20:4).

  The Jews saw only a likeness of God. They saw merely flesh that was the forbidden graven image. Jesus had made Himself as the Image of God. He was crucified because of that. As the Word, Jesus made Himself an image like us to manifest Yahweh to our kind.

  What happened in the womb of Mary? God had enveloped Mary and all the while, Mary was the “Ark” that God used in which to present His Image to the World. He may have done that once before:

¹ For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; ² To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; ³ Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. ⁴ Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. (Heb 7:1-4)

  Sacred literature implies that Melchesidec was on Noah’s Ark and was delivering the bones of Adam to what is now called, “Calvary” — the place of Adam’s cranium. Yahweh had manifested Himself long before with Abraham. He came as king of Salem (Peace), not king of Jerusalem that was ruled by the Jebusites!

  The vessel of Mary was just another “Ark” like Noah’s and the Ark of the Covenant. All three were used to transport the Angel of God from heaven to Earth. Melchisedec was the Image of Yahweh that God had “engraved” with His own Mind, and so was Jesus.

  The Angel of God came to Isaiah for an express (pun intended) purpose:

²⁵ “So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. ²⁶ No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days” (Exod 23:25-26)

  To bless and keep Isaiah, which duty was originally assigned to Adam… “to dress and keep the Garden” (abad and samar; Gen 2:15) — to serve and preserve. Adam failed at that, so Yahweh kept coming to this realm in one Image or another to take sickness away (sin) and fulfill the number of our days (eternal lives).

  So rather than see Christmastime as the birth of Jesus, for those who keep his commandments out of trust, it is God in the Person of Jesus they see! The questions are: Do you see God this day or do you just see a poor man who was unjustly crucified? Or, Do you just see a baby in the manger with no place to stay?

  I see Yahweh in the Flesh who is preparing for me a mansion in His House despite there was no room for Him in none of our houses when He came. Is there room in your place for God to reside? What am I talking about? “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” (1 Cor 6:19).

  God was here in the Flesh and there was no room for Him anywhere. Birds have their nests, but Jesus had no place even to lay His head. (Mat 8:20). Now, the Image of God is in Heaven, and His Angel remains on Earth still seeking places to reside. Is there room for God in your temple?

  Christmas is all about where Jesus will lay His head after his journey from there to here for that reason. This day, there are few that will invite Him in to stay. Sure, some invite Him in for His birthday, but what about your own rebirth day — the day that you invited Him in to stay!

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