Tag: Time
Are We Ready To shakak ‘ad?
Are we ready to inhabit eternity?
And to be in His presence Who in
Isaiah 57:15 is called
“The One who inhabits eternity.”
Shochen Ad.
שֹׁכֵ֥ן עַד֙
sheen/shin- kaph/kaf – nun – ayin – dalet
15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
The other Hebrew words are:
shakak ‘ad
The letters (recall no letters for vowels, a,e,i,o,u)
just consonants that make up the words are:
shin – kaf – kaf – ayin – dalet
Inhabit eternity
שׁככ עד
The Hebrew letters of the alef bet our Alphabet:
Another Hebrew word for eternity is:
olam עוֹלָם
INHABIT ETERNITY שׁככ עד
(reading from right to left)
Another Hebrew word for inhabit.
verb לָגוּר. live, dwell, reside, sojourn, lodge.
So what do these words mean
and where is eternity?
In the Hebrew mind it is simply:
what is at or beyond the horizon, a very distant time.
A common phrase in the Hebrew is:
l’olam va’ed
and is usually translated as:
forever and ever,
Another interpretation of the phrase
inhabiteth eternity is
abides forever.
שכן can be translated:
to reside,
which implies: a stationary condition.
This could also be said of Ecclesiates 3:11
that eternity is in our hearts.
A place where it,
eternity,
stays continually.
In Hebrew the words used for
space are also used for time.
The Hebrew word qedem means east
but is also the same word for the past.
Gives us a little more insight into the scripture:
as far as the east is from the west so far are our transgressions removed from us… to the east = they are in the past! gone!
The Hebrew word
olam
literally means:
beyond the horizon.
olam: long duration, antiquity, futurity
Original Word: עוֹלָם
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: olam
Phonetic Spelling: o-lawm’
When we look off into the distance it is very hard to make out any details and obviously what is beyond any horizon is impossible to see.
In Hebrew thought, this concept is the olam;
because the word olam is also used for time.
It is used for:
the distant past
or the distant future
with the understanding that:
this is a time that is difficult to either perceive or know.
Eternity is the most common translation of this word and has the meaning of:
an ongoing span of time that never ends.
Again, in the Hebrew mind/way of thinking, it is
that which is at or beyond the horizon,
a very distant time.
In Hebrew forever and ever,
is usually translated from the words
l’olam va’ed
is a common phrase but in the Hebrew it means:
to the distant horizon and again,
meaning: a very distant time and even further beyond that.
The one Hebrew word for
eternity – עד –
spelled in Hebrew with the letters
ayin and dalet
or
AD
we often see these 2 letters after the numbers of a date.
They mean Anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) and are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The term Anno Domini is Medieval Latin and means ‘in the year of the Lord’, but is often presented using “our Lord” instead of “the Lord”, taken from the full original phrase “Anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi”, which translates to ‘in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ’.
עד ayin dalet
is a Hebrew word with the same letters
ad meaning eternity
however, in the scripture verse in Isaiah 57:15
it’s not the usual word used.
For thus saith the High and lofty one that inhabited eternity ….
The word usually used is OLAM
(we looked at it in a previous post Olam hazeh olam haba.)
https://www.minimannamoments.com/olam-hazeh-and-olam-haba/
Eternity means forever.
AD comes from the word
ADAH which means: to advance, past by or come.
It means: past time, present time and future time.
This no doubt reminds the reader of
yesterday, today and forever…
He is forever the same – He is ADAH!
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 13:8
Hebrew scholars teach that it is related to the word
HADAH
which means to
STRETCH or MANIPULATE.
So we could understand from this that:
our Heavenly Father, Creator of His universes is
stretching or manipulating time.
It also reminds us of a day being as a 1000 years
and a 1000 years as a day….
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
Meaning our time is not the same as His time and it cannot be calculated in the same manner.
Malachi 3:6. For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
Isaiah 44:6
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.
2 Peter 3:9 and He is not slack concerning His promise, waiting for the precious fruit of the earth. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.
Revelation 1:8
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Is He stretching time for more souls to be saved as His children pray and ask for extended grace and mercy; or is it for His children TIME to get their lives right before He returns?
He is after all omni present, omniscient and omnipotent, everywhere all at once. Time does not affect Him for He lives/exists outside of what we experience as time.
This verse in Is 57:15 is actually telling us that He exists in the past, present and future simultaneously, which confirms the above descriptions of Him and His Word.
Human scientists are always trying to prove what believers already know to be true that…
God inhabits the past, present and future.
They try to go back in time and to go forward also; and try to prove that it is possible for something to exist in the past, present and future at the same moment. Their experiments are only supporting reality, not discovering or proving it! God’s Word has already told us.
He is ‘ADAH: to advance, past by or come.
We need to understand that existing outside of time as we know it, this is how He is able to spend every moment with each of us and can move through time to always be with every one of His children! Our concepts are so limited … This is why men ought always to pray…
Luke 18:1-8. And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint/lose heart
why?
Because it’s a sign of spiritual life.
Just as the physical body needs oxygen, the spiritual life begins with prayer. Because He wills it and it is a statement of His eternal wisdom and truth. It is the command of absolute righteousness and justice, showing us the direction of His infinite goodness and love. It is impossible for us to fulfill His will, or employ the abilities and gifts He has imparted to us, unless we pray, communicating with Him.
Prayer is as timeless as the concept of eternity itself because the throne of prayer is always accessible,
Hebrews 4:16
and the Hearer of prayer is always willing; and because the power and privilege of prayer has a direct connection with the whole sphere of our daily life, and the whole circle of our daily needs.
As our petitions and intercession ascend before His Throne/presence they are reaching into His dimension and the realms of existence where God oversees everything and He and His angels/messengers, can move in and out of time to assist in the fulfillment of His will.
It is described as
the throne of Grace
Our Heavenly Fathers’ pictograph letters for this word, CHEN/channah, paint a picture of pitching a tent with Him, God/Adonai. Just like He pitched a tent/the Mishkan Tabernacle in the wilderness with His children of Israel. More at link below:
https://www.minimannamoments.com/ancient-pictographic-hebrew-language/
This is also where the Blood of our Messiah has been applied
His Blood cries Mercy
and Mercy and Grace flow continually as His Blood speaks…
and He intercedes for us.
Hebrews 12:13 says the blood of Jesus speaks better things than that of Abel. The blood of Abel cries for vengeance, the blood of Jesus cries for mercy.
So Are We Ready To Inhabit Eternity?
this means an Eternal Life …so what is that?
This is eternal life…
John 17:1-5
verse 3… To KNOW God..
to know Him the one true God and Him whom you sent Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah.
Eternal life is not merely survival after death of these physical bodies …it is having intimate knowledge of the Father and His Son; His Spirit of Holiness is His agent by which this is achieved.
Relationship is accomplished and developed by
spending time with Him,
allowing His presence
to cover us and infuse us
with all that He is..
then we are changed from glory to glory.
If we do not know Him and Him Who was sent Jesus/Yeshua,
how can we be ready for eternal life…
The Hebrew word for
knowledge is DA’AT
using the letters dalet and tav.
The dalet is a picture of a door and the
tav is a picture of the cross…
more at
https://www.minimannamoments.com/ancient-pictographic-hebrew-language/
Jesus/Yeshua said I am the door/dalet (4th letter) and His sacrifice on the cross/tav (last letter), opened the WAY back to our Heavenly Father. This is the WAY to KNOW/gain knowledge of Him. Jesus/Yeshua said …I am the WAY!
It tells us that it is not only gaining understanding and comprehending the acts and circumstances of the world that is important, but also, we are to gain the most intimate experience of the author and creator of all knowledge. In James He tells us to ask for wisdom which is:
the ability to apply the knowledge we gain.
James 1:5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
If we pray the will or heart of our Heavenly Father
then it is important that we have to first KNOW what that is;
and then it follows that we will be
praying concerning and in harmony with,
a heart that exists/lives/abides in the past, present and future.
Science has proven that it is indeed possible for something to exist in the past, present and future all at the same time.
Not that we needed proof!
There was an article published by Vanderbilt University about the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland; which is the world’s largest facility to smash atoms. This article said that it could be the first machine capable of causing matter to travel backwards in time. This collider has succeeded in producing the Higgs bosom and some scientists predicted that it would create a second particle at the same time, called the Higgs singlet. (the god particle).
The Higgs boson is the fundamental force-carrying particle of the Higgs field, a field that gives mass to other fundamental particles such as electrons and quarks.
The Higgs boson is a wave in that field. Its discovery confirms the existence of the Higgs field.
How do particles get mass?
Particles get their mass by interacting with the Higgs field.
According to these scientists these singlets have the ability to jump into an extra, fifth dimension where they can move either forward or backward in time and reappear in the future or past. In other words these particles can travel back in time to appear before the collisions that produced them.
It sounds completely crazy and yet our Heavenly Father does even more than this!
Here the word KNOW is used exactly as it is in Jeremiah 31:33 the passage promising Israel a new /renewed covenant.
This of course was fulfilled with Messiah Yeshua/Jesus coming in the flesh.
The apostles explained, He is the image of God in 2 Corinthians 4:4, He is the image of the invisible God, the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature. Also Colossians 1:15; Hebrews 1:3.
His physical appearance was and is not so important. Yeshua/Jesus revealed our Heavenly Father’s character and truth. As the sent one of the Father, Jesus/Yeshua perfectly represented the Father.
He has gone to prepare a place for us…in eternity and is often quoted but many times misunderstood Bible verse. Jesus/Yeshua said that He would go to prepare a mansion for those who believe in Him. Many believe that these mansions are literal buildings in heaven where they will dwell.
John 14:2 KJV “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.” In the NASB it says, “In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you.”
In the Vulgate, the Bible translation into Latin, they used the word mansiones in that verse, and the King James Version followed by using mansions.
The word for “mansion” is μονή, monay.
It means a dwelling, an abode.
In my Father’s house οικος (oikia) are many mansions μονη (mone): if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. – John 14:2 (KJV)
The noun οικια (oikia), meaning house.
The verb μενω (meno)’s only pure derivation is the noun μονη (mone), which describes a
“place of remaining”, a home
We have a “place of remaining“
being prepared for us by the
Messiah Jesus Christ/Yeshua haMashiach
This place of remaining
is into/to the oikia – house of the Father.
Messiah is not telling us that heaven has compartments, or that we will have little places in which to live. He was likening it to their understanding in ancient culture, where a father’s house was where the extended family lived. Rooms were often added on as the family grew through birth and marriage. What He was doing was using the present-day illustration of a loving, tight, family community.
We are not to be so earthly and materially minded to interpret the scripture to our own liking and benefit, thinking people get promised mansions and riches. Why? because the values of the seen world are different from the unseen world, where God is, and they can distract us from the reality of His Kingdom in eternity..
So, Messiah is saying that in Hebrew/Aramaic,
a Beit-Av which literally means house of a father,
and using the term,
My Father’s house is an idiom for my family.
He is preparing a place for us …
Prepare in Hebrew is – KUN – כון – Kap Vav Nun
Prepare can be understood in the life of Ezra
Ezra 7:10: “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.”
Ezra devoted himself to the Word of God. Jewish tradition teaches that his knowledge of the Torah was equal to that of Moses. Not only was he determined to make sure he himself obeyed every letter of the law but he was zealous to make sure others followed the directions for life in the Torah teaching/law as well. Ezra was responsible for restoring the Jewish identity which had been lost during the captivity when Hebrew men married non-Hebrew women and it was Ezra who helped initiate one of the greatest revivals in their history. Specifically what made him so notable is written in chapter 7:10, he prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and teach it.
He prepared his heart to seek the word of God. Ezra was very motivated to prepare his heart. The word in Hebrew for
prepare is kun.
Spelled with the letters
Kap, Vav and Nun.
There are very many meanings for the word kun = prepared, ready, steadfast, firm, fixed, fashioned, establish, secure are just a few. Ezra prepared to seek the Word of God, by being steadfast in his goal and firmly fixed in his desire to KNOW God’s heart through the study of His Word. Jesus/Yeshua has gone to prepare, fix, fashion, establish, order, secure a place for us…
He is preparing a place for us in heaven/eternity
where we will dwell with our Heavenly Father
in close communion with Him – a place of remaining –
and there is room in eternity/heaven
for ALL whom He calls to salvation.
Further to this we are reminded that Jesus/Yeshua spoke in the Old Galilean dialect of Aramaic. The Aramaic Bible, Peshitta, uses the word bt which we render as beyt/beit house,
however, like the Hebrew, the letters b and t
could also be used to express the idea of
the place of the heart,
which is identical to the Hebrew word bayith /house, which is the word used in Psalms 127.*
House – Place of the Heart – BAYITH – בית – Beth Yod Taw
When Jesus/Yeshua said:
In my Father’s heart/house are many rooms.
We must remember that only He can build that
place in His heart for us.
If we try to build that place with all our ministries and monuments to ourselves, our labors are all wasted.
Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain that build it.*
The Apostle Paul tells us …
Do you not know that your body is the temple/sanctuary of The Spirit of Holiness who dwells within you, whom you have received from God, and you are not your own? 1 Cor. 6:19.
The heart of God is meant to reside in us and to abide – make His home in us.
Isaiah 57:15 contains an interesting phrase that is used nowhere else in the Bible. Here, our Heavenly Father is referred to as
One who inhabiteth eternity.
looking at the sentence construction and the context of the verse, Isaiah’s description reflects symbols in which the Israelites found deeper meaning, that of:
the tabernacle and temple/sanctuary of God.
The entire verse says:
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones (KJV).
The phrase in Hebrew is עד שכן.
The first word, שכן means: to reside or inhabit.
This verb is in what is called the active participle form, which in the KJV was translated as: inhabiteth,
it indicates the action is ongoing,
both now and continuing in the future
or in modern English,
inhabiting.
The second word, עד, can mean either:
perpetual continuation; enduring future,
or time without end.
In the KJV the word in this verse was translated as: eternity.
Interestingly, this is the only time the word eternity appears in this translation of the Bible. The uniqueness of this combination of words allows for many different translations and interpretations.
One way of interpreting this verse is from the context of
a kingship, so some read the phrase
the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity
instead, as..
in the height as Holy One I sit enthroned,
or who sits enthroned forever.
This imagery is seen in Isaiah:
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up …Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory…Mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Isa. 6:1, 3, 5.
God’s kingship be seen as a royal representation for the great sovereign who from the exalted throne room extends the royal presence and the royal concern to His subjects.
Another interpretation of the phrase
inhabiteth eternity
is
abides forever.
שכן can be translated to reside,
which implies a stationary condition.
The following word, עד was cited before as:
implying perpetual continuation.
This second word could be seen as describing and adding to the first verb; then the whole phrase shows the eternal and unchanging nature of God.
This principle is repeated in the scriptures:
in Psalms, the author wrote,
even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Ps. 90:2
and
thou [God] art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Ps. 102:27.
and
For I am the LORD, I change not. Mal. 3:6.
Because our Heavenly Father is an eternal Being, He is not subject to mortality, to death or any other type of change.
This interpretation changes the meaning of the verse and instead of the image of a royal setting, it now focuses on God’s unchangeable nature. A king can be seen in relation to his subjects, but how can a supreme and unchangeable being possibly relate to those who are always changing?
Isaiah helps us answer this when he wrote this in chapter 55:8-9:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
The high and holy place where our Heavenly Father’s residence is located is mentioned in Isaiah 57:15, as not being anywhere on earth, but in heaven/shamayim.
We know that our Father has supernatural and eternal characteristics, and the words used in this verse do not necessarily describe one who is totally unreachable.
The verb שכן can mean to dwell and this word does not necessarily infer one that never moves at all, it can also mean: a move into a temporary place, in an as yet unspecified condition.
It can also be translated as: to rest; which implies some sort of transition/move/change. The word used for the Israelite tabernacle was משכן/mishkan, which is made using the same root letters as שכן/dwell. The tabernacle was a temporary structure that was moved many times during the Israelites journey in the wilderness. When they were finally settled in the promised land, they built a permanent place for their God: the temple/sanctuary.
The temple was not referred to as a משכן, mishkan
but as a הכל, a בית, or a מקדש. Temple/House.
The visible difference between the letters the Hebrew words used to describe the moveable tabernacle and the stationary temple, helps to further show the inferences of the word dwell – שכן.
An interesting parallel is found in the New Testament where the Greek word σκηνη means tabernacle. John states: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” John 1:1, 14. The word translated as dwelt is εσκηνωσεν which literally means to tent or tabernacle.
Another connection can be made with the words Isaiah used because some scholars suggest that the translators may have favored this specific Greek word for tabernacle because in the spelling of the word, the consonants σ-κ-ν equal the Hebrew consonants for the word Shekinah – ש-כ-נ, which is God’s presence/Glory.
In this scripture, a divine and eternal being is seen as transitioning/moving from an eternal realm into a temporal realm!
The words used in these verses seems to refer to Israelites Egyptian exodus. God was not stationary during their time in the wilderness; He was seen as a powerful being/God who regularly made contact with them.
He temporarily left His heavenly dwelling place, to abide/be with the Israelites by means of the tabernacle.
Exodus 29:45-46
I will dwell [w-shakahn’ti] among the sons of Israel and will be their God. They shall know that I am YHWH their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell [l-shak’ni] among them; I am YHWH their God.
For us a dwelling is where we put down roots, where we intend to stay/abide; but how do you meet or speak with God when He is in the shape of a cloud by day and fire by night? The children of Israel needed a physical place to connect with Him, so the tabernacle/mishkan was built, providing that place for God’s shekinah/presence to be dwelling with them.
Connected with the word dwelling, is the concept of purpose.
If you dwell somewhere, you have a purpose to be there!
There for them, and now for us, our Heavenly Fathers’ purpose is our refuge and security, echoed in both in Ps.91. and in the letters of the Hebrew word for GRACE.
Deuteronomy 33:27-28
The eternal God IS a dwelling place [refuge: m’ohnah], and underneath are the everlasting arms; and He drove out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’ So Israel dwells [wa-yish’kohn] in security, the fountain of Jacob secluded, in a land of grain and new wine; His heavens also drop down dew.
John likened this image to Messiah, Who transitioned from heaven to earth, just as the God of the Israelites had done in the wilderness.
When the different translations are viewed in connection with the temple, it reveals a harmonious picture of our Heavenly Father, Who is an eternal King, whose rule over His people is with faithfulness, fairness and justice.
Even though He is superior and divine, He could be approached by His people in the Temple/His Holy palace. The temple was a place where sacred space meets sacred time. The verb שכן, as mentioned earlier, refers to dwelling in a certain place. The place where God dwells is considered sacred, referred to in Genesis 26:24-25, 28:12-18, 35:1; that, at the places where God appeared, altars and memorials were set up.
Connected to the concept of holy/sacred space,
is the element of
time
understood and contained in the word:
עד – ad – eternity
Our Heavenly Father sets apart
sacred time,
as shown in the Ten Commandments:
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy … wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Ex. 20:8-11.
The Holy of Holies brought together both the elements of sacred space and sacred time. It was the most Holy Place within the tabernacle and the temple Ex. 26:34, and was to be entered only once a year on the Holiest day, known as the Day of Atonement. Ex. 30:10.
It was in this Holy of Holies that the
God of Eternity would appear on
His throne/the temporary dwelling place of His presence/shekinah/glory
above the mercy seat/kapporet/atonement
to speak with His children.
There I will meet with you; and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, I will speak to you about all that I will give you in commandment for the sons of Israel.
Ex. 25:22
Let them construct a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell [w-shakahn’ti] among them. According to all that I am going to show you, as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture, just so you shall construct it…
Exodus 25:8-9
And so God’s presence hovered/fluttered above the mercy seat/kapporet of the Ark of the Covenant, which rested in the Tabernacle. It was the specific location for God to dwell among the people as they traveled through the desert. Recalling the first dwellers, (the cherubim guarding the Tree of Life), the mercy seat would include the representation of two cherubim facing each other with wings outstretched. From that location, the Life force of God/shekinah, would dwell and meet with the High Priest: this Jesus/Yeshua fulfilled and now we can dwell in His presence and He can dwell with/in us.
The children of Israel were without doubt changed by the miracles surrounding their release from Egyptian bondage and the evidence of their God among His people. It is evident that through the symbolism of the tabernacle, its presence and influence became integral in their lives and language.
Isaiah used words in Hebrew that reflected his understanding of a supernatural deity as his description of our Heavenly Father is as One who inhabiteth eternity,
The words used by Isaiah describe God in terms of the tabernacle and show that even though He was the Supernatural, Divine King of His people the Israelites, whose rule was consistent. He was not unreachable mystical and totally superior but made the connection to dwell/tabernacle with them. After their journey through the wilderness, He continued to visit them in the temple specifically built for Him. Both the tabernacle/mishkan and the temple/sanctuary became the symbol for the place where the King of Heaven and all eternity manifested Himself as the God of Israel.
Jesus/Yeshua was the tabernacle/mishkan of God among us, bringing salvation and conquering death. Salvation, to the Israelites, wasn’t just personal redemption, it was returning the glory of God to the land of Israel. Jesus/Yeshua bought and brought personal redemption so that all prophetic scripture was fulfilled. The Fathers’ Spirit of Holiness/Ruach HaKodesh now abides/dwells with the believer and would be IN the believer.
Jesus/Yeshua dwelt with the Father, and His disciples would dwell in Him and He in them. The Father and Jesus/Yeshua will make Their ABODE within each and every disciple who loves Him. In essence eternity dwells within us!
It is worth repeating because, before He left He made this promise to His disciples/talmidim; and if we are one it is true for each of us:
John 14:1-3
Do NOT let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places;
if it were not so, I would have told you; for
I go to prepare a place for you – (a place of remaining
where we will
inhabit eternity – shakak ‘ad.)
If I go and prepare a place
(a place of remaining)
for you,
(where we will
inhabit eternity – shakak ‘ad)
I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. (forever in that place of remaining).
We are a dwelling place for Our Heavenly Fathers’ Spirit of Holiness until that day when we are called home to
the dwelling place/the place of remaining
prepared for us by the very One who abides/lives within us.
Are we ready to inhabit eternity?… and are we truly ready for eternity to dwell within us? Eternal life starts now for today is the day of salvation!
Shalom shalom mishpachah/family
and cheverim/friends!
You are loved and appreciated and prayed for daily.
… and…
it’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are precious in His sight.
NOT SURE?
YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.
A MIRACLE in TIME
IT ALL BEGAN
with
A MIRACLE IN TIME and WINE.
Here are some extremely interesting aspects of a well known incident in John 2:6.
Some we may not have fully understood or appreciated.It is without doubt a fact that God’s ways are not our ways, or His thoughts ours. So it would follow that His actions may also hold mysteries that we do not see clearly at first glance.
For a description of the levels of revealing in His Word click link
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What was Jesus really trying to show us and tell us at the wedding at Cana? Cana today. Surely it was not the freedom to drink alcohol to a point of intoxication and giving His consent and agreement for drunken behavior.
Those who live in the modern western world do not catch the full significance of Jesus’ promise. This is due to the fact that in His promise Jesus was drawing an analogy from Jewish marriage customs in biblical times and those marriage customs help us to grasp the full significance of the promise.
Payment of the purchase price. –
Set apart (sanctified)
Bridegroom departs to Father’s House. –
Prepares room addition. –
Bride prepares for imminent return.
They were companions of the bridegroom, who went with him to bring the bride from her home to his home.
Marriage feasts lasted 7 days, but the woman was considered a bride for 30 days.
Unlike Western weddings, which are paid for by the bride’s family, in Eastern weddings, the groom was responsible for the expenses of the celebration.
In western weddings, the bridegroom comes in first, then the bride, the prominent one, enters. However in Eastern weddings it is the bridegroom who is the prominent one. We see no mention of the bride in John’s account of the wedding at Cana because the body of believers, the Ekklesia, the called out ones, also called the bride of Messiah, was not yet in the picture. In Jewish life, the wedding marked the culmination of the betrothal period. During that period, which often lasted for several months, up to one year. Again the western tradition of a 1- year engagement.
The bride never knew when the groom would come because after the marriage covenant had been established, called the ketubah (becoming betrothed, the equivalent of western engagement).
The groom would leave the home of the bride and return to his father’s house.
There he would remain separate for the whole year.
The young man goes to prepare a chador (chamber) in his father’s house, sometimes called a “chuppah” (place for the honeymoon).
Just as Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us in His Fathers House and then He will come and take His bride to Himself. (Eph. 5:22-23).
Some translations have talked about the many mansions in God’s house and our western culture has us all pictured on our own grassy hill in a Mansion. That would have been foreign to that society. The word actually just refers to a dwelling. Based on culture, if Jesus is giving us a literal picture of what eternity is like then we’re all living together in one attached house. It’s a picture of being brought into the family.
The couple was considered legally man and wife and only a divorce could terminate the betrothal. (This may shed some light on Mary and Josephs situation). They did not, however, live together or consummate the marriage during that period.
The father of the groom had to approve the prepared room and when he was satisfied then he would tell his son to go and get his bride. She had to be ready for he could come anytime even in the middle of the night and take her away to her new home. 1Thess.5:2Just as we are always to be ready for Jesus to come for us. Matthew 24:36 and only the Father knows that time.
As a result the groom’s arrival would be preceded by a shout. In the same way that the Jewish groom’s arrival was preceded by a shout and the blowing of a shofar, so Christ’s arrival to take the Church will be preceded by a shout (1 Thess. 4:16).
This shout and shofar sounding would forewarn the bride to be prepared for the coming of the groom. After the groom received his bride together with her female attendants, (parable of the 10 virgins).
The enlarged wedding party would return from the bride’s home to the groom’s father’s house. Which is the grooms hometown, (heaven).
Just as the taking of the Jewish bride was accomplished by a procession of the groom and male escorts from the groom’s father’s house to the home of the bride, so the taking of the Church will be accomplished by a procession of Christ and an angelic escort from Messiah’s Father’s house in heaven to the home of the Church (1 Thess. 4:16).
Upon arrival there the wedding party would find that the wedding guests had assembled already. In the same manner as the Jewish wedding party found wedding guests assembled in the groom’s father’s house when they arrived, so Christ and the Church will find the souls of Old Testament saints assembled in heaven when they arrive. These souls will serve as the wedding guests.On the night of the ceremony, (usually the 4th day, Yom R’vi’i, a Wednesday);
the groom and his friends would go to the bride’s house. They would then escort the bride and her attendants to the groom’s house, where the ceremony and banquet would be held.The whole celebration, which could last up to a week followed the short marriage ceremony, and then the Bride and Groom retired to the place he had prepared (Huppa/Wedding Chamber), and the friend of the groom, the best man, stood by the door. Prior to entering the chamber the bride remained veiled so that no one could see her face. Reading the Ketuba.
When the marriage had been consummated, the Groom would shout in his joy and the friend of the groom would relay the good news to the guests.This was the beginning of a week-long celebration and the first week of the couple being alone together in the bridal chamber. This is where we get the western week long honeymoon. This also sheds light on another reference in John 3:29-30.“The one who has the bride is the bridegroom: and the friend of the bridegroom is the one who stands by, then when he hears his joy he rejoices because of the voice of the bridegroom. Therefore this joy has been fulfilled in me. It is necessary for that One to increase, and for me to decrease.”The wedding ceremony takes place under the chuppah (canopy), a symbol of the home that the new couple will build together. It is open on all sides, just as Abraham and Sarah had their tent open all sides to welcome people in unconditional hospitality.
The bride traditionally gifts the groom a new prayer shawl (tallit). In some communities he wears it under the chuppah, and sometimes it is draped over both him and the bride.
Western weddings exchange vows and the couple sign the registry.
It is easy to see where many of our western traditions have their origins!
And how everything is connected.
So Yeshua and the Church will experience spiritual union after their arrival at His Father’s house in heaven, thereby consummating their relationship that had been covenanted earlier.During the seven days of the wedding festivities, which were sometimes called “the seven days of the chuppah,” the bride remained hidden in the bridal chamber. Many scholars believe that this period of seven days corresponds to the Church remaining hidden for a period of seven years after arrival at the Father’s house in heaven. While the seven year Tribulation Period is taking place on the earth, the Church will be in heaven totally hidden from the sight of those living on the earth. At the conclusion of these seven days the groom would bring his bride out of the bridal chamber, now with her veil removed, so that all could see who his bride was. So Christ will bring His ‘church’, the ecclesia, the congregation of called out ones, out of heaven in His Second Coming at the conclusion of the seven year Tribulation Period in full view of all who are alive, so that all can see who the true church is (Col. 3:4). John 2:2-3 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. 3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.The mother of Jesus was at this particular wedding. That both she and Jesus attended suggests the wedding involved relatives or friends of the family (Jesus’ brother?). That would explain why Mary seems to have been more than just a guest, but apparently had some responsibility for helping with the celebration. For example, she was aware of the situation regarding the lack of wine, and took the initiative to solve the serious problem.
A major crisis loomed at the wedding celebration when the wine ran out because the supply was insufficient for whatever reason. Such an embarrassing faux pas could have stigmatized the couple and their families for the rest of their lives for failing to meet their responsibilities. Thus Jesus’ turning the water into wine was not just a sensational miracle.All of His miracles met specific needs, such as opening blind eyes or deaf ears, delivering those oppressed by demons, feeding hungry people, or calming a storm. This miracle also met the genuine need of the family and their guests, who otherwise faced a social catastrophe. This first miracle Jehovah-Jireh – the LORD will provide. The LORD sees what we need ahead of time and has the provision ready.
Mary informed Jesus of the situation and had high expectations for Him to help. Maybe she was remembering what Gabriel had told her before she conceived.
Jesus’ reply, ‘what have I to do with thee?’ (lit., What to Me and to you?) is an idiomatic expression which asks rhetorically what the two parties in question have in common, and has the effect of distancing them. It was the Hebrew way of saying, ‘You don’t understand’.The statement, coupled with Jesus’ addressing Mary as ‘Woman’ instead of ‘Mother,’ politely but firmly informed her that what they had in common in their relationship was no longer to be what it had been while He was growing up in Nazareth. His public ministry had begun, and earthly relationships would not determine His actions.
Mary was to relate to Him no longer as her son, but as her Messiah, the Son of God, and her Savior (Matt 12:47-50; Mark 3:31- 35; Luke 11:27-28).Jesus did not say,‘No’ to her. He was telling her that what she was asking would not accomplish what she was hoping for.
Mary was asking for literal wine for the people of the marriage supper, but Jesus was talking about the wine, which was His shed blood, for the marriage of the Lamb.Jesus made it clear that He would act according to God’s timetable, decreed before the foundation of the world, not hers or any mans. (John 7:2-8). It was not the appointed time for Jesus’ full messianic glory to be revealed; yet the miracle He would perform would make His divine power unmistakable, and preview His glory to come.
The dark hour of the cross would precede the full revelation in His glorious messianic kingdom where wine, emblematic of joy and gladness, will never run out. Undeterred by the mild rebuke (Matt 15:22-28), and aware that He was not saying no to the request, Mary said to the servants, ‘Whatever He says to you, do it.’The most significant point of this miracle is TIME and any vineyard owner will tell you that for grapes to be made into wine is a process that often takes years to produce a great vintage.
There are specific stages from planting the seed to bottling.The list sounds familiar to the scriptural descriptions of disciples and the kingdom of Heaven.
Wine cannot age without TIME.
So for the wine Jesus produced at Cana to be the best that was served, how could it age in an instant?TIME maybe an important point He was trying to make, as a precursor to what He was here to accomplish; what His life was meant to show; and what He was about to do in revealing who He really was.
Wine is only wine if it’s aged, but this wine had no time in which to age. It did not have any time in which to complete the long process.
THIS WINE HAD NO PAST
it only had a future.
So in this sense it had to be given a new past. Can this be possible?
For us on earth, time moves forward, not backwards and neither does it stand still. However the Lord who created the heavens and the earth brought time into existence for the purpose of our earthly experience. And probably also as a means to keep constraints around the devil and a boundary for his cohorts; as they are now contained within Earth time and subject to its limitations.
Rev.12:12 the devil knows he has but a little time. How so, if he is an eternal spirit?
God is Spirit and exists outside of our dimensions and is not bound by the time He created. He is the same yesterday today and forever. So for Him to change a past, or remove it and replace it, is indeed possible. Every miracle of Jesus is a short circuit of a natural process. When God’s power enters the picture, it is not just simply any king; it’s the Creator of the Universe entering, the King of nature and all its processes.
Jesus transformed a non- living, inorganic compound (water) into a living, organic compound (wine) and it is a picture of His resurrection and of ours to come.
This first miracle teaches us that salvation is through the Word of God.
It is the key to understanding all miracles. Matter is pliable and subject to change within His presence. For the power of His glory has the ability to alter change and transform matter at the molecular level, of which everything is constructed. If we could really grasp this reality, seeing people get healed would be more commonplace.
He is the Lord of creation, the king of the universe and the author of Time. He is the Alef and Tav; the Alpha and Omega; the Beginning and End; the Start and the Finish.
He is YHVH, God, Adonai of TIME.We cannot change the past nor give something a past that does not have one… but He can and the water to wine was a demonstration of such a plan.
He gave the wine a past, where there was no past.
This is the promise of a future for all mankind, for the one who can give a past where there was none, can also remove a past that is no longer wanted or relevant. This is His salvation. It is not simply that everything is the same and we’re forgiven in spite of our sin but it’s as if we never sinned in the first place.The scripture promises that one day God will wipe away sin and wash away guilt.
This cannot be achieved without changing the past and without undoing what was done. However it is not simply justified, (just as if we never sinned) because in His redemptive sacrificial death the impossible becomes the possible; and the reality is the guilty become innocent.
The rejected become accepted and the scarlet sin becomes white as snow. A person’s wedding day is comparable to his or her personal Yom Kippur, on which all sins are forgiven. For the chatan, (Hebrew for groom), and kallah, (bride), on this day all their past mistakes are forgiven, as their lives merge together, becoming one….under His wings.We cannot make scarlet sins turn white. Sin is already committed and they are part of the past and the past is gone. The only way to change that sin would be to change the past in which it occurred.
This is the true miracle of salvation, He has removed all past as far as the east is from the west. If God can give a past where there was no past, if He can do that for wine in Cana, then He can certainly remove a past where there was one.
Isaiah 1:18; Luke 7:37, 47; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 John 1:8–9.
He has taken the scarlet cord of your life’s sinful past and has made it white.Your life is like the stone jar of water, now changed, transformed. We are the new wine within and cannot be contained in the old wine skins of our past lives. We need to be changed from glory to glory to become a stable container (so we don’t burst or explode). Then out of us, His power can flow forth.The old is gone, the new is come. We are new creations, the old has passed away and we are to walk in newness of life.
The Cana miracle of transformation was a most prophetic picture, indicative of what was to come for those who would believe; both in this life and in the ultimate future of eternity in His presence.
With a new incorruptible body.
This is the first miracle that Jesus performed. Moses’ first miracle was turning water into blood. Moses was a type and shadow of Yeshua. Delivering Israel out of bondage.Compared with the ministry of Moses who turned water into blood as a sign of God’s judgment (Ex.7:14–24), Jesus is a bringer of joy and celebration by the Spirit because He delivers us from the moment.
He is the God of time by turning water into wine immediately, bypassing agricultural and fermentation processes.
Moreover, this was no ordinary wine, for as the host remarked, “You have saved the best till now” (v 10).But neither was it ordinary water.
Since its purpose was “for ceremonial washing” (v 6), the miraculous transmutation suggests the old order passing away, law metamorphosing to gospel. He is the new wine of the kingdom.The jars were for purification and He turned all 6 of them red like the blood that would purify all believers removing all our sins and sorrows foreverThe ceremony was held in a synagogue and they were there for a week.In Israel, the streets are stone,
the walls are stone, the houses are stone, In the first century even the furniture, the baths, and many cooking pots, jugs, bowls, and disheswere all made of stone. (obviously the modern drill image is for reference) Stoneware cores, cup bored plugs showing iron spinning hole saw rings lines drilled raw and unfinished. Ritual Purity First Century.
Equivalent of a large metal plastic or wooden barrels today compared to Stoneware Vessels used for Ritual-Purity in 1st-Century. This was no small container they would each hold twenty to thirty gallons,such jars would need to be about three feet tall and be cut from a single block of stone weighing at least half a ton. Quite aside from the miracle itself, the sheer quantity of new wine created is astounding—equivalent to about a 1,000 bottles! We know this because so many ancient stone vessels have been found in Israel, many of them roughly fashioned, but the best ones turned on a lathe and smoothed, polished, and decorated.
The practical reason for all this stoneware stems from the Jewish laws of ritual purity. Stone vessels could easily be cleaned with water, whereas if an earthenware pot became ritually unclean it had to be broken. Hence the high incidence of stone vessels is peculiar to ancient Israelite culture, as non-Jews normally didn’t bother with this costly and cumbersome material when ceramics were much more convenient. The Jews used stone waterpots to hold the water used for ritual purification because they believed that, unlike earthenware pots (Lev 11:33), they did not become unclean.This seemingly insignificant detail, that the water was up to the very top, shows that nothing was added to the water, and that what followed was indeed a transformation miracle.
By ordering the jars to be completely filled before He transformed the water in them into wine, Jesus also displayed His generous grace. Six signifies work and wine signifies blood. The stone waterpots represent Christ’ body. Without the shedding of blood, there is no cleansing (purifying).Exodus 17:6 “Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the Rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the Rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink…”
In The Old Testament was is Concealed, is Revealed in the New Testament !
Proverbs 25:2 “It is the Glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of Kings is to search out a matter.” He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
1st Corinthians 10:4 “And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.”Jesus the Messiah is the true Rock that the water of salvation comes from, and the Rock in Horeb merely was a shadow, casting a spiritual picture of it.
And that is why these waterpots in John chapter 2 from where wine would come, are purposely pointed out as being of stone.True purification is from Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah. Six Stone water pots signifying that it is by the work of Christ’s blood that the people will have this purification. The blood is the true wine of which Christ spoke, which was not yet ready for the Woman (the Church). It was not yet Christ’s hour to go to the cross. If the number six represents the days of creation, then Jesus’ miracle constituted a wonderful blessing of fertility on this marriage— not only on the couple but on their family for generations to come, a tribe of perhaps hundreds, thousands, even millions of people. More than a show of power, this was a blessing conferred upon a relationship—indeed upon the central relationship of all, the one that best represents the covenant between the Lord and His people. Following the ceremonial proceedings of the Huppa, is the marriage banquet, also sometimes called the wedding feast or marriage festival.This was the joyful celebration of the union of the couple with all their family and friends. For us as believers, after the Catching away,the blessed hope,
we have one very important banquet to look forward to with our Lord and King. All the called out ones, the bride of Messiah, will join the Lord at the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.The Lord will take the long awaited cup of wine and we will all share it together with Him and enjoy the heavenly festivities He has planned. Rev. 19:7-9
The mundane and the ordinary can become infused by the power and the glory of God –
if we are prepared to respond in faith to the same challenge of Mary to the servants and to
“DO WHATEVER HE TELLS YOU”.
Messiah Yeshua began His ministry on this earth at a wedding.
The wedding was the first act and as He came to marry the believers to Himself in a covenant by His own body to fulfill the marriage covenant that was first entered into by Moses and Israel at Sinai. He ratified this renewed covenant in His own blood.
He will conclude it, as far as the body of believers are concerned, with a wedding also the consummation of a covenant between the Lamb and His bride, the elkklesia.
The last chapters of John convey some of the final words of Jesus to His disciples. He is leaving them, but only for a season. He is reassuring them of His return – as a groom eagerly returns for his bride.
This first miracle was so prophetic and was indeed right on and in TIME.
We have that same reassurance. In giving a reNEWed covenant, Jesus used the most intimate language available. God loves us and is creating a place in the family for us to live forever.
Shalom!
Please don’t leave this site without knowing you are saved and assured that you belong to Him; with a deep conviction that you know where you will go, when your body can no longer sustain you in this realm.
Make certain Jesus is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.
Its all about Life and Relationship not Religion.
NOT SURE?
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen. You are now assured of heaven..rejoice and give Him glory for this is THE most important miracle.
Hubble CROSS-ing The Great Divide
Hubble Sees aCROSS The Event Horizon Into The SingularityWe’re going on a stunning journey, surveying all the wonders He has created. Thanks to the Hubble telescope, we can ‘virtually’, travel millions of light years from here, to see what a distant black hole has in common with our own DNA!
Above the structure of a black hole.
An earlier mmm post asked us if we felt small yet, and showed just how BIG our Heavenly Father is.
https://www.minimannamoments.com/dare-feel-small/
Its something that we should remind ourselves of on a regular basis; as it keeps everything in our lives in its correct perspective. Because…
whatever the problem is and how huge it seems, it will pale in comparison to what is out there in the heavens where God is.
Ps 33:13-14 The Lord looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of His habitation He looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
Our situations will not seem so insurmountable after we look at these pictures and we will realize that God is BIG enough to handle anything and that we can overcome all obstacles together.
We looked at the relative size of the universe and our solar system,the Milky Way galaxy and at our place within it.
The pictures below are to scale! and YES the big yellow one is our sun, our star. The sun is 93 million miles from earth, it takes 499 seconds, (about 8 mins) for light to reach us.
and if we think that is BIG just look at this…
and Betelgeuse is small compared to Antares and Antares is tiny compared to VV Cephei!Betelgeuse can be located in the night sky NNW of Orion’s Belt As earth turns at night a long exposure camera records the tracks of the stars in the heavens above.
WOW! HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD
God cannot be contained. He is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent, everywhere all at once. Not constrained by time or location there are no limitations for Him. He is not bound by our three-dimensional parameters or our five senses.He is pure spirit, pure life, pure light, pure love, purity itself… manifested as HOLINESS… (Kadosh in Hebrew).A Holy, perfect, infinitesimal being, comprising spirit and light, beyond our finite understanding.
In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. John 1:4
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1John1:5
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. Rev 21:23
We attempt to quantify His attributes and character and draw some conclusions from His words about Himself. Our human senses, abilities and descriptions are too incomplete and will never do Him justice. He exists outside of our known 3 dimensions of length, breadth and height, (4 if you include dimension of time and 5 if we add the dimension of the spiritual realm). Mathematicians, scientists and physicists project their ideas and question everything; theorizing that there may possibly be as many as 11 dimensional layers, realms and parallel dimensions.
Col 1 :15-17 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.From the vast universe to the feathers on this beautiful bird. Picture sent to us by M.E.
The fabric of space and time is still an unknown, (to us). However there is One who does know because He created it all. He is ‘THE‘ math genius, scientist, engineer, physicist and IT technician and everything else, all rolled into one.
We know that the closer you get to traveling at the speed of light, everything slows down. Then at the speed of light.. time literally stands still. If God IS LIGHT, then by definition, He exists at the speed of light!
God exists at the speed of light where time stands still and He calls it Eternity, we call it Heaven!
Mass or weight of any object increases exponentially the faster it moves and the scriptures declare, the exceeding and eternal weight of glory or light of His presence, His Shekinah. 2 Cor 4:17He has all the answers and one day we will too but for now, our man-made telescopes and microscopes reveal a partial view.1 Cor. 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly.
They give us a minuscule window into some of the most astonishing details that God has placed within His creation. There is nowhere beyond His reach.
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. Ps 139:8
He stretched out the heavens and named the stars
Is 42:5 Thus saith God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: Is. 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
Jer. 10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Within the known universe and also within our own bodies – heaven is within us. Maybe we can add another dimension and layer of understanding to ‘the kingdom of God being within us’??
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21 KJV
Are the building blocks of our very existence planted deep within our DNA, having its source deep in the universe that God created?
Ps 33:6-9 By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the BREATH OF HIS MOUTH. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: He layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.So then are we made of stars too? For the same God who breathed out stars at the moment of Genesis creation; also breathed into our forefathers the very same breath of His Eternal Essence.
Think of it …
We serve the God who breathed out stars when He spoke.
Stars are in His mouth. The breath of God is filled with stars and galaxies. When God breathes, He breathes out LIFE and when He breathed life into Adam, He breathed into him the stuff of stars.
Ps 139:13-14 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
This is what our physical bodies are made up of:
Eternity is surely within our hearts. Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.
He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end
He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end. AMP
We need to remember within the immense vastness of untold galaxies and the myriad of distant universes; He sees every one of us and knows our down sitting and up rising. Ps 139:2
May these facts and pictures lift our spirits fuel our faith and remind us that nothing is impossible for him. Matt 19:26Nothing is too big to overwhelm Him and nothing is too small for him to ignore and not be concerned with Ps 139:11
Every hair on our head is numbered (Luke 12:7), in the same way, every star is counted Ps 147:4.
God is BIG and each of us, the apple of His eye (Ps. 17:8) He loves us with an everlasting love.(Jer. 31:3)
Ps 33:6-9. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
We are inside the small red circle on the one arm of the spiral of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
This is only a small part of the galaxy that we see and call the milky way. close up of lower section of previous photoIf we look at the other nine planets in our solar system around our star, the Sun, this is how BIG the sun is. However to get a better understanding of the size not only of our star at the enormity of the god with love and serve, here are some other stars /suns just a few light years from here!if you look up at the night sky, here it is, a tiny dot! Zooming in with the help of Hubble…
It’s the Whirlpool GalaxyHubble sends back jaw dropping imagesas the Whirlpool Galaxy is
seen sitting perpendicular to earth 31 million light years away
Some enLIGHTening facts about the Whirlpool galaxy
As Our Heavenly Father spoke and said ‘Light Be’, ‘Yhee Or’. Light came out of the Creators mouth traveling at 186,000 miles per second.
This will make your head spin:
How far light travels in 1 year = 1 light year
and 1 light year is = to 5.88 trillion miles!
If we wanted to get to the Whirlpool galaxy we need to multiply 31 million x 5.88 trillion miles! Or travel at 186,000 miles per second for 31 million years.
The Whirlpool galaxy contains 3,000 billion stars and is one of hundreds of billions of other galaxies in the known universe!
Now for the really incredible facts!
The Whirlpool Galaxy also called Galaxy M51At its center Hubble found a black hole (four-frame comparison) Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the core of the giant spiral galaxy M51. These images, taken at different wavelengths of light, reveal complex structure and detail in the galaxy’s core, which is thought to hide a massive black hole.Hubble.org sent back THIS IMAGE of the center of the black hole in Whirlpool galaxy!
WOW! 31,000,000 light years away is the image of the agent of our salvation!
Furthermore…
WE ARE EACH PERSONALLY MARKED BY MAJESTY.
Our DNA is 6 feet long contains 3 billion parts, enough to go to moon and back.
It would take 96 years to read the description contained in the DNA of each individual. We are built from one cell and everyone is unique.
Ps 139:13-14 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
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