GODISNOWHERE

 

GODISNOWHERE

 Read that one more time? How do you understand that series of letters?

One thing so hard to understand is the omnipresence of God; unlike Satan who is limited to one place at a time (Job 1:6-7), God is everywhere, He is “Existence,” thus His title; not that God is in the trees, the earth, nor in evil people but that His Spirit is everywhere available.

In Hinduism, there are in a similar manner to Christianity, three main gods and Vishnu is the “immanence” — the divine presence. As such, considering all the tenets of Hinduism; it seems to be a corruption of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; which it seems most pagan religions may be. Their main tenet is that there are three “gods;” Vishnu, Shiva, and Devi and the three together are the invisible reality. Again, you can see the corruption of the Holy Trinity. However, their God is invisible in all three forms.

On the other hand, the Christian God has three forms each with a different substance. God is Mind, Body, and Spirit. Only the Body of Christ is physical substance, so His Mind and Spirit is ever present. Prayer is having close contact with Jesus as His Mind and Spirit are nearby. Jesus is right here! He is not three gods but three substances of one God. His throne in heaven is not far away but just the other side of the “door,” or literally the portal to another realm (Luke 13:25; Rev 3:20).

You cannot see the portal to heaven, heaven is not a great distance away, but right there wherever you may be. In other words, Jesus is right outside your door wherever you are and hence prayer is the near the portal to your reward that can only be entered by death; “For me to live is Christ; and to die is gain,” as Paul said it (Phil 1:21).

So, the idea of “doors” in scripture is the entryway to another realm that is called, “heaven.” Jesus said how to pray but He also indicated where to pray: 

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. (Mat 6:6)

 There, by that “door,” is God Himself — Jesus on His throne in Paradise in heaven, not that Jesus sits by His right side, but is exalted as God (Acts 2:33).

The “door” in verse six above is that portal between here and there; “the door of the kingdom of heaven denotes the conditions which must be complied with in order to be received into the kingdom of God” (Strong 1890).

Prayer is that invisible portal and prayer brings the prayerful closer to the entrance and to God in all His three images. That door, or portal, makes God’s omnipresence more rational. It’s not that God is everywhere, but in every place is a portal, implying that there are multitudes of portals, each close to God, and the portal is as near as a closet (Greek; tameion) — an inner chamber (ibid).

Think now of the Holy of Holies. The throne of God was on the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark traveled everywhere that the Israelites went, and God was always present. God was present because the people transported God everywhere they went. He was their “Essential Being” — the True “Immanence,” not the Hindu one who is everywhere and in everything!

With that said, God is wherever Christians go. They must go the Way of Jesus, so God is wherever the bodily shape of the Holy Ghost exists (Luke 3:23).

Christians have the Holy Ghost as a “Comforter” (John 14:6). Christians are “filled” with the Holy Ghost of Jesus, but do not consider that as some amount like water. In the Greek, it is “tameion” (furnished; ibid).

Adam and Eve were both furnished with coats of skins (Gen 3:21) to protect them from the fiery darts of the wicked ones (Ephes 6:16). Those coats were their “Comforter” and were the material substance symbolic of the Holy Ghost. God furnished them with His Spirit, so that He was there in Spirit at all times and the task was preserving them from spiritual death after He made them safe.

Just like the Mercy Seat, God was with Adam and Eve wherever they went. The Garment of Adam was God’s Mercy Garment and it fit Eve as well because she too was an “Adam.”

The Holy Ghost that was furnished to Christians on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2), are our “Coats of Skin” that makes God near us. We are not gods and God is not in us, but with us all the time, so long as we wear the “Comforter” that He provides.

For instance, “Noah found grace” (Gen 6:8). The Book of Jasher says that grace was the Garment of Adam that he found. After he was made safe, Noah felt comfortable. He removed the Garment of God and Ham stole it, according to Jasher (the “Book of the Righteous”). No longer was Noah safe nor humble because he became the husbandman in God’s place (Gen 9:20).

Christians are not Hindus; God is not in us but always near to Christians. The Father furnished His Holy Spirit for that purpose. The Holy Spirit is the “Whole Armor of God” that Christians wear, not that the Spirit of God is apparel, but that God is always with us in Word (Ephes 6:17).

That is my feeble attempt to explain God’s omnipresence and why He hears our prayers. As such, Christians are as near to God as the Word in scripture. The portal, or door, is always available so long as we do not blaspheme the Holy Ghost (Mark 3:29). So, God is not everywhere but everywhere there is a Christian.

We have mercy on us, and mercy is available so long as we are merciful. We are the mercy seat that we carry; Jesus said, “If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me” (Mat 16:24).

What Jesus was saying that if we trust Him rather than ourselves; there He is; He as God is with us (Emanuel). Jesus is as close to us as we are to Him.

The “closet” is our walk with Him, and we do not always find Jesus in public because there the world is, but Jesus is to be found in the solace of your own prayer. Like Jesus, the prayer “closet” is where Jesus can be found right beside you. It is a place with no distractions wherever you are alone with God.

For the Chief Priest, that closet was the Holy of Holies and therein was God on the Mercy Seat. The same goes for us. The curtain of the Holy of Holies was torn when Jesus was crucified (Mark 15:38).

Now the prayer closet is wherever the Christian is, and we, not the chief priests, are of the royal priesthood who can approach God in our prayer closet.

The curtains were always carried along with the Mercy Seat because only the righteous Priest could approach God. That curtain was the “closet, “or portal to the presence of God in heaven. God was not on that Mercy Seat, but He was present, but because of His Mercy, each Israelite in each their own tabernacles were as near to God as the chief priest. Unknown to them, the Mercy of God made them royal priests just like the one that cleansed himself before entering.

Each Israelite made themselves clean for that ritual. The unclean were required to remove themselves from camp. The ones remaining were physically clean, but God was looking at their inner man. Was he clean enough to be in the presence of God?

If he was faithful enough to obey the hygiene laws, he was clean enough inside. Now, we can come to God as we are on the outside, but we must be clean on the inside.

Now consider how you pray since you understand just how near to God that you are: 

⁷ When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. ⁸ Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him. (Mat 6:7-8)

 Since God is right there, immediately on the other side of the portal to heaven, then He hears you.

Jesus is perfect; He is not hard of hearing. He hears everything, so why constantly repeat our prayer?

Multiple repetitions, as we found out in the book, Brave New World, “do not make one truth.” If we are confessing our sins, we confess them once. One confession is the truth! Repeating it in many ways does not make it more the truth.

“Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.” God need not hear or voices. It is the will, called the “heart” in scripture that the lips speak. God looks not at the words that are spoken but the human will. Is the prayer for the Will of God be done or the will of the one who prays, to wit: “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Mat 6:10). Not my will, but His Will!

In effect, praying is asking God to harmonize our wills with His Will; to remake us in His Image. We are not in symbiosis with our Creator since original sin. We ask that to come again. We ask that our will not be that of the Wicked One but to be engendered again with the Will of God in whose Image we were created glorified.

We need not scream our will to God because He knows what’s the matter before we ask. God is all-knowing (“omniscient”) as well as omnipresent because He is “Existence.”

Language is nothing but a barrier to the portal to God. He confused the language of mankind so that we can get nearer to Him without going anyplace. Nimrod thought God could be found up there, but the tower was torn down because God was right there!

Nimrod attempted to make a portal to God when no portal was needed. Abraham got grace because he knew that there was a portal to heaven wherever a man after God’s own heart would go.

Perhaps since Nimrod built a tower on the “plain” rather than on a mountain closer to the heavens as the pagans often would do, that he was building, not a tower to heaven, but an archaic “rocket” to God, not even realizing that God was already close by!

Why a rocket?

“Ur” from where Abraham was from means “fire.” Jasher says that Abraham was saved in a fiery furnace in Shinar (Ur). Was the furnace for making bricks or was it for propulsion into heaven? Did Nimrod have a vision of modern spacecraft?

Ancient objects of what appear to be rockets have been found. Certainly, alien beings did not build them and bring them from the heavens, but dark forces may have revealed the technological “stairway” to heaven that mankind would someday use to “kill” the idea of God.

God does not come and go. He is omnipresent wherever Christians go. That is because “heaven” is not in the heavens but another realm as near as you are to God.

How would Nimrod have gotten closer to God? Prayer changes things. God is just an instant away wherever a Christian goes.

Is God close to sinners?

Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. (Isa 59:2)

Again, God is not hard of hearing, but He is hard of answering meaningless prayers. Iniquity is what separates people from God. Iniquity is “depravity.” God does not answer the prayers of depraved people. We all are sinners but those who have not been born again (John 3:7) are as depraved as the Wicked One.

The prayer that God hears, is “Thy Will be done on earth as in heaven.” He hears that, because it is a request for the nature, or will, of the prayerful to be changed to be like God’s. He even knows that before it is asked because He hears the will rather than the mouth!

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