Heading For Healing 5: Run With the Eschaton--Don’t Wait for the Age to Come, IT HAS COME!! Enjoy It
The Milta, the Manifestation of God which Jesus is, is the most wonderful thing I have ever heard of. The Milta is the deed of the Ineffable’s manifestation of Itself; i.e., the Milta is Its act of being. That includes all space and time--the height, length, width, and breadth of infinity and eternity--all existence--as a single unit. We are unavoidably within that unit, one with all its workings from one end to the other, from the Beginning in Genesis 1:1 to the Endlessness. We are going through it as It in its continuity. We are streams of Its eternal states.
I have a small collection of peculiar books which have informed my outlook: Channels of Spiritual Power by Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Jesus and the New Age of Faith by C. F. Rehnborg, The Worship of the Dead by Col. J. Garnier, God is a Verb by Rabbi David A. Cooper, Young's Literal Translation of the Bible by Robert Young (its Introduction demonstrates the Scriptures have no future tense), Story of Jesus From His Own Words by Victor Alexander, and his translations from the ancient Aramaic. I have listed these and others I especially value elsewhere in this blog. Probably premier among these is The Apostolic Preaching and Its Development by Professor C. H. Dodd. If you fancy yourself a theologian or a student of the Bible and do not have this book, well, good luck.
The book's appendix, "Eschatology and History," is what we are looking at here (this is one of those books you wind up underlining almost from beginning to end). In the appendix, Dodd draws out the fact that the Apostles preached that the eschaton, the End of the Age--the Day of the Lord, has already come in its fullness. We are not to be waiting for it; we are to be enjoying it. For in Christ we DIED. We are past that now: we are citizens of Heaven, seated in power and authority in the heavenlies (if, indeed, we have believed).
The eschaton is a RUNNING END. Do not cry hosanna, for that has come and gone. Now we say, "Thank you, YHWH, for the Feast. It's wonderful!" As it is uncredited in the book, this poem might be Dodd's own observation:
"For the end of the world was long ago,
And all we dwell to-day
As children of some second birth,
Like a strange people left on earth
After a judgment day."
Observes the Apostle to the Hebrews in chapter 9:
"26. And if otherwise, He would have had to suffer the Passion many seasons since the beginning of the universe. Now, however, He offered Himself only one time* (one season) AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE in the Sacrifice that annihilates sin.
27. And whereas He consecrated for human beings to die one season, and after their death, one judgment,
28. Likewise also the Messiah offered Himself one season, through His [human] Essence He obliterated the sins of many, so as in the second season those who held onto Him would see themselves Alive without their sins" (Alexander, emphasis mine).
After our death, one judgment: Alive without our sins. Jesus' death was the END of the universe: the end ... was; the Kingdom ... is. The Age to Come HAS come. We are in the second season now, raised WITH HIM, if indeed we have believed (held onto Him). We were healed WITH HIM, if indeed we have believed. For healing and salvation are the SAME THING.
Have we mistranslated the expression, "the Lord Jesus Christ," for two thousand years? "The Lord" in Hebrew is YHWH, Jehovah. Should it not be like Jehovah Jireh and Jehovah Rapha: Jehovah Yeshua, Jehovah Saving Us? (Jehovah-Raah—The Lord Our Shepherd; Jehovah-Jirah—The Lord Sees And Provides; Jehovah-Rapha—The Lord Our Healer; Jehovah-Tsidkenu—The Lord Our Righteousness; Jehovah-Shalom—The Lord Our Peace; Jehovah-Shamma—The Lord Is Present; Jehovah-Nissi—The Lord Our Banner.) Yes, that would be an EIGHTH "Jehovah," THE KINGDOM OF GOD!! God's NATURE is inherent is the universe!!
God HAS GIVEN us the Paradise. We have just forgotten. The Cherubim with the flaming sword turned every way preserve the way to the tree of life (see Bullinger, The Companion Bible, p. 8). These lives are the ingredients to Paradise. The way is praise Him for them. So, "Isn't it wonderful?!"
I have a small collection of peculiar books which have informed my outlook: Channels of Spiritual Power by Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Jesus and the New Age of Faith by C. F. Rehnborg, The Worship of the Dead by Col. J. Garnier, God is a Verb by Rabbi David A. Cooper, Young's Literal Translation of the Bible by Robert Young (its Introduction demonstrates the Scriptures have no future tense), Story of Jesus From His Own Words by Victor Alexander, and his translations from the ancient Aramaic. I have listed these and others I especially value elsewhere in this blog. Probably premier among these is The Apostolic Preaching and Its Development by Professor C. H. Dodd. If you fancy yourself a theologian or a student of the Bible and do not have this book, well, good luck.
The book's appendix, "Eschatology and History," is what we are looking at here (this is one of those books you wind up underlining almost from beginning to end). In the appendix, Dodd draws out the fact that the Apostles preached that the eschaton, the End of the Age--the Day of the Lord, has already come in its fullness. We are not to be waiting for it; we are to be enjoying it. For in Christ we DIED. We are past that now: we are citizens of Heaven, seated in power and authority in the heavenlies (if, indeed, we have believed).
The eschaton is a RUNNING END. Do not cry hosanna, for that has come and gone. Now we say, "Thank you, YHWH, for the Feast. It's wonderful!" As it is uncredited in the book, this poem might be Dodd's own observation:
"For the end of the world was long ago,
And all we dwell to-day
As children of some second birth,
Like a strange people left on earth
After a judgment day."
Observes the Apostle to the Hebrews in chapter 9:
"26. And if otherwise, He would have had to suffer the Passion many seasons since the beginning of the universe. Now, however, He offered Himself only one time* (one season) AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE in the Sacrifice that annihilates sin.
27. And whereas He consecrated for human beings to die one season, and after their death, one judgment,
28. Likewise also the Messiah offered Himself one season, through His [human] Essence He obliterated the sins of many, so as in the second season those who held onto Him would see themselves Alive without their sins" (Alexander, emphasis mine).
After our death, one judgment: Alive without our sins. Jesus' death was the END of the universe: the end ... was; the Kingdom ... is. The Age to Come HAS come. We are in the second season now, raised WITH HIM, if indeed we have believed (held onto Him). We were healed WITH HIM, if indeed we have believed. For healing and salvation are the SAME THING.
Have we mistranslated the expression, "the Lord Jesus Christ," for two thousand years? "The Lord" in Hebrew is YHWH, Jehovah. Should it not be like Jehovah Jireh and Jehovah Rapha: Jehovah Yeshua, Jehovah Saving Us? (Jehovah-Raah—The Lord Our Shepherd; Jehovah-Jirah—The Lord Sees And Provides; Jehovah-Rapha—The Lord Our Healer; Jehovah-Tsidkenu—The Lord Our Righteousness; Jehovah-Shalom—The Lord Our Peace; Jehovah-Shamma—The Lord Is Present; Jehovah-Nissi—The Lord Our Banner.) Yes, that would be an EIGHTH "Jehovah," THE KINGDOM OF GOD!! God's NATURE is inherent is the universe!!
God HAS GIVEN us the Paradise. We have just forgotten. The Cherubim with the flaming sword turned every way preserve the way to the tree of life (see Bullinger, The Companion Bible, p. 8). These lives are the ingredients to Paradise. The way is praise Him for them. So, "Isn't it wonderful?!"
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