“And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?” Isaiah 53:1

(…continues from part one…)

2)            Does God have hands? Psalm 95:4 “In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.” Psalm 139:5 “Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.” Isaiah 53:1, “Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?” I know that some will easily argue that these hands and arm of God are metaphorical. Now let us take a Scriptural journey to the heavenly assizes itself. Something phenomenal happened in the Book of Revelation Chapter Five. Revelation 5:1 “And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.” Verse two, “And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?” And in verse 7, it reads, “And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.” I want you to see the profundity of this scriptural phenomenality. God the Father, seated as always, held, in His eternal hand, a scroll. It must be taken from Him for effectuality.

Only the Eternal hand can take from the eternal hand (Revelation 5:7)

                The hand that was worthy of recipience must be equally eternal. The eternality of worthiness cannot be found in any other save Jesus Christ. Another mind-blowing awesomeness of this celestial drama was that at this material moment Jesus, the man of Nazareth, had fused – in the hypostatic union – into the eternality of the Christ. Adamic elevation also stretched that arm in the empyrean assizes to take the scroll. God did not just decide to make Adam to look like Him anatomically, Jehovah had decided to elevate man to the status of God as well. Ponderous, if you see this phenomenon. In anthropomorphic terms, God the Father stretched His eternal hand, holding the scroll, and the eternality of Christ received the scroll.

                Daniel 7:9 saw something, “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.” The LORD God first had hair on His Divine head before applying similar fine tiny strands in anatomical adornment on Adamic caput. Why did God not decide to make man a headless entity? If He had created Adam without an anatomical caput, mankind will be incomplete as far as ‘in Our likeness’ is scripturally concerned, in fact, the anthropopathic extension to Adam will suffer a setback. It is that head that accounts for “and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” of the same verse. Hallelujah!

God had a face-to-face conversation with Abraham (Genesis 18)

                Having human emotions is what accounts for God’s anthropopathism. That the LORD God does emote is not a tag of adumbrative weakness in display; neither does His individualism connote a regret over any divine misdeed. His emotional words are evocative of Divine sanctionary. Sanctioning the original sin, “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee” (Genesis 3:16). Abraham pleased the LORD and for his obedience 15)“And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 16)And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: 17)That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; 18) And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice” (Genesis 22:15-18). The truth here is simply that God does not need us to be happy. The LORD God is the source of happiness: for does it not say, somewhere in the Divine documentation, “in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore”?

                A being of wisdom will ensure that God’s emotional discharge will bring favour of God and man to him. God wants us to be pleasing to Him. 1John 3:22 “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.” The LORD God, most definitely, wants none destroyed. 2Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” Metanoia (met-an’-oy-ah) is the Greek for ‘repentance’ and it means: ‘(subjectively) compunction (for guilt, including reformation); by implication reversal (of [another’s] decision).’ This is what Cain, Abel’s brother and murderer, refused to allow his divine encounter to produce, therefore, he continued in his perditionable life of the head of antediluvian miscreants. God’s will for man is a mark of salubrity. 1Timothy 2:3-4 3) “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4) Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”

                Getting born again is strictly a conscious effort on the part of an individual. It is of a personal conviction that, as the word of God says, Jesus is truly the only Saviour of the world. A soteriological dependence on the finished work of Jesus is the sole belief requirement of Scripture. Get born again by saying this simple prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(…to be continued…)

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