Appendix 12: The Messiah of Israel: Jesus Christ Crucified, Jesus Christ Winner; discovered by Moses ...

 

Christ Crucified, Christ Triumphant

 

2 visions for 2 men:

 

Moses, Joshua

 

 With 2 different missions

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Preamble

A personal experience

After my conversion and my baptism in August 1978, a great love was born in my heart for the Jewish people. From then on, I had the strong desire to embrace the 1st Jew believing that I would meet. The occasion was given to me by our Lord, in Avignon during an evangelization campaign in August 1980. Testifying of my faith in the public square, I met a man who in response to my testimony began to test me, to deeply scrutinize myself. His attitude quickly made me feel uncomfortable. I asked him, "What do you think?" His answer was brief: "I am Jewish". After making sure of his faith in the God of his Fathers, I asked him for permission to kiss him. How great was his astonishment and it had the beneficial effect of relaxing the situation on both sides. He was a French Jew who lived in Jerusalem today.

We then began a passionate discussion about the Messiah and Psalm 22-2 (Matthew 27-46) was quoted: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani?" that we Christians translate by: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He was very surprised by this word "abandoned". He declares himself to respect Jesus as having been a holy man and he does not understand his "abandonment" by God. I then ask him how he understands and translates this sentence. His answer challenges me then. "Sabachtani" comes from a word ("Sene" in Hebrew) that refers to a plant, a thorny bush of the desert, so tangled that it is impossible to dissect without injury. If anything was taken inside, it would be impossible to get it out. What causes its translation: "put in a thorny bush". I then explain to him the reason for the translation "abandoned" because covered with our sins. We are then mutually amazed by our discovery of what Jesus had to undergo.

The cross

Christ, then, would have been troubled by the sin that surrounded him on every side in his soul, in his spirit. Even his body (his head) was now surrounded by thorns. Only one thing seems to have physically surmount Christ: a crown of thorns. It is also the symbol of the only thing that has crushed him: our sin. Christ took in his body (on him) the curse that had fallen on the earth following the sin of Adam. Genesis 3-18 "The ground will produce you thorns and brambles". Christ put in a thorny bush had no strength. He was overcome by sin, without strength, like us, when we sin.

Another biblical passage describes this situation in a strangely similar way.

Genesis 22-13 Abraham saw a ram caught in a bush by the horns.

What prevented the ram from leaving, what controlled him by the horns (the source of his strength - Daniel 8-3à7) it was a ...

bush.                                       

The Messiah prisoner of a bush of thorns, a torture instrument similar to the ...

Cross                     

An eternal work that has appeared in the visible only once with... Jesus.

 

The work of Christ, the cross, is out of time. It was manifested here two thousand years ago, but it is eternal in the spiritual world.

 

The offering of the body of Christ to the crucifixion demonstrated in the visible,

 

The Eternal Spirit of Love and Sacrifice that dwells in the Son of God : Jesus-Christ

 

Matthew 27-27 The soldiers of the governor led Jesus into the Praetorium, and they gathered around him the whole cohort. 28 And they took off his clothes, and covered him with a scarlet robe. 29 And they plaited a crown of thorns, and laid it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand; Then, kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 35 And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes, and drew lots, that what should be done It was announced by the prophet: They divided my clothes, and they drew my tunic. 36 Then they sat down, and kept him. 37 And to indicate the subject of his condemnation, it was written over his head, This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.

John 19-31 For fear that the bodies might remain on the cross during the Sabbath, for it was the preparation, and on that sabbath day was a great day, the Jews asked Pilate that they break their legs on the Sabbath. The soldiers came and broke their legs to the first, and to the other who had been crucified with him. 33 And when they drew near to Jesus, and seeing that he was already dead, they did not break his legs; 34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water. 35 He who saw it testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he speaks the truth, so that you also believe. 36 These things happened, that the scripture might be fulfilled: None of his bones shall be broken. 37 And the scripture saith again, They shall see him whom they pierced.

Revelation 13-8 "And all the inhabitants of the earth will worship him, those whose names have not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world."

Hebrews 9-14 "The blood of Christ who, by an eternal Spirit, offered himself unblemished to God, will cleanse your conscience from dead works, that you may serve the living God".

1 Peter 1-19 "You have been redeemed by the blood of Christ, as a lamb without blemish and without spot, predestined before the foundation of the world and manifested at the end of time".

Hebrews 9-25 It was not to offer himself many times that he entered the heavenly sanctuary, as the high priest who enters the sanctuary every year with foreign blood is obliged to do; otherwise, it would have been necessary for him to have suffered (this moment of atonement sacrifice) many times since the creation of the world, whereas now, at the end of the centuries, it appeared (appeared in the visible, the temporal) only once to abolish sin by his sacrifice.

There was no need for the Son of God to offer himself several times, He is inhabited by the Spirit of service and sacrifice, because the Son of God, Jesus Christ was not yes and no, but it is yes who has been in Him ... That is why the Amen through Him is pronounced also by us to the glory of God. (2 Corinthians 1-19,20)

What must we understand behind these truths? Jesus did a perfect work, excellent, sufficient, eternal ... He said "everything is accomplished". What more can we do, unless to believe in Him whom God has sent us (John 6-28,29). His work is so beautiful that the arms fall down from us. We will do something useful for God, only, if our work is stripped of all personal glory, and it will be so if we have a clear vision of His Marvellous Work.

Question:

Was Christ first motivated in his death by his Love to save us or, first of all, to defend the honor and immeasurable greatness of Father, to proclaim holiness and to fully satisfy the righteousness of God? for him, God loved so much that He gave ..., all comes first from the immensity of His Attributes, from His marvelous Nature.

 

Let us now see 2 examples of men who saw the work of Christ before accomplishing their mission.

This vision has totally transformed them.

 

 1 Moses

 

The context

Moses once realized the suffering of his people by going to visit him and he wanted to help his people in their sad conditions. Moses thought that his brothers would understand that God granted them deliverance by his hand - Acts 7-25. Was Moses ready for this period of his life - he was 40 years old - ready to do the work that God had prepared for him? No, he had to wait many more years – another 40 years. The day would come when he would no longer trust himself. Moses said to God, "Who am I to go to Pharaoh, and to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt?" - Exodus 3-11.

 

slavery

The unbearable, incomprehensible ordeal suffered by a whole people - Exodus 2-23,24. Slavery is long, in the beginning it is the revolt among Israel, certainly the resistance to Pharaoh. Man without the grace of God always rebels against oppression. But Pharaoh by force breaks this revolt, this rebellious spirit. And then, finally, the cries of wrath of the people of Israel became cries of lamentation, distress, cries as prayers, calls for help to God. The test purified their hearts. Then God saw, He heard and He acted.

Psalm 103-6,7 Jehovah does justice, He does justice to all the oppressed. He showed his ways to Moses, his works to the children of Israel.

Psalm 102-18,22 He is attentive to the prayer of the wretch, he does not disdain his prayer ... He looks from the high place of his holiness; from the heavens Jehovah looks on the earth, to hear the moans of the captives, to deliver those who are going to perish ...

The work of God is at first invisible but very real in the spiritual realm.

 

The burning bush

Exodus 3-2 The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire, in the middle of a bush (in Hebrew - bush: "Sene" - thorn bush - Sinai comes from the same root as "sene", meaning perhaps to be a mountain of suffering).

God's response to the slavery of his people will be this vision of Moses. I have long wondered the meaning of this vision. Many Jews and Christians have asked themselves this question.

God's people cry to God, he wants to be heard and delivered from slavery, but God can only respond if the sin of the people is atoned. Only then can he act and invest himself: And He will bear the sin of his people.

Isaiah 53-8 The messiah is struck for the sin of his people.

Isaiah 53-10 The messiah delivered his life for a sin offering.

The love that Moses has for his people and his desire to see them come out of slavery is a pain, a fire that devours his heart. This fire is not yet controlled by his God when he is 40 years old, and that will have the effect of keeping him away from his brothers because this fire brings him to violence.

Moses sees an angel in a burning bush and the bush is not consumed, he meets at this place, on this mountain of Sinai, a bush inhabited by Someone who is also excited, but not consumed by his fire. In fact it is not the bush that burns but the person who lives in it. The Angel of Jehovah, Christ in his first apparitions in the Bible, compassed by the sin of his people, expies their sins. In the same way, it is not the cross that is important but the Spirit of sacrifice of the Messiah that must be recognized. The external suffering must not hide the most important, its motivation, its inner fire.

The determination of Esther who said "if I must perish, I will perish" reveals her inner fire.

The bush is not consumed because the dimension of the work of Christ is eternal, it will not pass because it is the consequence of its inner fire, the Spirit that animated him. He has become for all who believe in his name, the Author of an eternal salvation. He carries all who follow him into an eternal dimension, the knowledge of God, baptizing them with the Holy Spirit and Fire.

 

1 John 1-7 The blood of Jesus his Son purifies us (permanently - according to the original) from all sin.

But for all who reject him as their savior: Matthew 3-12 He will burn the straw in a fire that will not be extinguished.

 

God's tool

Exodus 3-4 God called Moses out of the midst of the bush and said, "Moses! Moses!

God acts in the spiritual realm first and foremost, his work is perfect. It must now be manifested in the realm of the visible. For that, God needs a man. He finds him in Moses, who was kneaded, fashioned by God. God depends on man to manifest His Work. Moses does not understand the meaning of this vision, but we understand it because it is the basis of Moses' future work. God thus reveals to us his Heart ready to invest always entirely to answer our prayers.

 

Everything is accomplished: even if it is 1490 years before the cross, during slavery in Egypt.

Exodus 3-5 God said, Do not come near here, take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

The work of Christ is perfect, accomplished. Sin is atoned, darkness no longer has the right to accuse the people of God, or rather, nothing prevents God from coming to deliver his people. There is no more darkness in this place, this earth is sanctified. There is no opposition. (Even though Moses will encounter dark opposition in Egypt, this opposition will have no strength to oppose God, to oppose Moses, it will be on a land where it has no rights, so it will have to be expelled as an usurper .)

Exodus 3-7 God says: I have seen the suffering of my people, I have heard their cries ... because I know its pains.

Christ knows his pains because He himself has suffered with this people to bear his sins.

 

God's plan: Exodus 3-8

1) I came down to deliver him from slavery,         this will be the work of Moses.

2) And to bring him up to a good and vast land,   this will be the work of Joshua.

 

Exodus 3-10 Now go ... you will bring my people out of Egypt, the children of Israel.

 

Conclusion: concerning the work of Moses.

We can say that the whole work of Moses (the law that was given to us by Moses) is based on the vision of the cross, the marvellous work of Christ, expelled from his heart.

If the Jewish people would understand the message of the burning bush, they would know all the work of love that their Messiah has done to them.

Let us realize how much God is involved in answering our prayers and stop crying before Him, without faith. Let us weigh our words in prayer. Our God is fully invested. Let us be baptized in the Holy Spirit and his Fire and we will then also invest our whole being in his service, following Him after having well understand His Work.

 

Joshua will also have to see the work of Christ before entering with the people in Canaan and conquering the land.

 

reflections

We hope and we sigh after a spiritual deliverance: an spiritual awakening. When will he come? How will it be manifested?

We have an answer in Exodus in chapters 2 and 3.

The oppression suffered by a people does not justify the necessity of deliverance. Especially when this people defends itself by committing sins horrible in the eyes of God: revolt, hatred, quarrels, divisions, pride, murder ... That was the state of many hearts among the Hebrew people under Egyptian slavery and that were the fruits they wore.

The test, the illness does not justify the necessity of an immediate delivery.

James 1-2,3,4 My brethren, consider the various trials to which you may be exposed as a subject of complete joy, knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience. But patience must accomplish its work perfectly, so that you may be perfect and accomplished without failing in any way.

God's response to oppression, will she be a man? Is the call that Moses received from his birth (Moses who was beautiful in the eyes of God: Acts 7-20) sufficient to bring deliverance? Will the appeal justify all means? Far from it, Moses will be rather an instrument that will slow down the work of God at the beginning. Moses thought that his brothers would understand his call. The call of God should not make us proud and cause us to think only that we must better know Christ. The call of God has a specific purpose, in this case the deliverance of the people and not the recognition of a man who will be followed because he comes as a liberator.

 

No, Moses will first have to be emptied of himself (broken) and filled with the Greatness of God, of Christ.

Likewise, when the people of God is emptied of his strength, God will act.

Daniel 12-1 There will be at the end of time: "a time of trouble, such as has not been since the nations existed until that time."

Daniel 12-7b "All these things (these times of trouble) will end when the strength of the holy people is completely broken."

Then will come the spiritual awakening, the salvation at the end of times. When I am weak, then I am strong, because my God is rising. The people will raise pure hands to God, a heart washed with a bad conscience, and God will accept their prayers.

 

 

2 Joshua (Joshua 5-13 to 15)

The context

A people came out of Egypt, but 40 years later, the next generation is ready to enter the promised land. This new generation has seen miracles in the desert. She has just been upset by the passage of the Jordan which has been miraculously realized, like the one of the Red Sea, 40 years ago. She knows the law of God and walks in the fear of God (Jeremiah 2-2,3). She knows her mission: to take possession of the promised land. She lets herself be completely circumcised without murmuring, as was not unfortunately the case for Moses' wife: Zipporah (Exodus 4-25). All this people fear God and sigh, pray internally: How shall we take possession of the land? A country inhabited by giants, with fortified cities? But their fear of God is stronger in their hearts than the fear of men. Even the Canaanites are seized with fear (Joshua 5-1) at the sight of the children of Israel. Joshua too is in prayer and one morning he gets up and approaches Jericho to examine the city.

 

Conditions are gathered for God's action

Again (as in Exodus 2-23,24) God sees his people walking humbly with him, so He fully invests and acts, first in the unseen realm, in the heavenly places, in the spiritual realm against the wicked spirits in the heavenly places, against the princes of this world of darkness, against the authorities, against the dominions (Ephesians 6-12).

Joshua 5-13 There is a man standing before Joshua, his sword naked in his hand.

This man is none other than Christ, indeed Joshua prostrates himself before him. An angel would never have accepted that (Revelation 19-10). Joshua 6-2 tells us that it is the Lord who speaks to Joshua. The "Angel" has just given battle, his sword is unsheathed. Joshua asks: are you of ours or of our enemies? The answer is astonishing: no, neither for you nor for them, implied: I will be with you if you obey God.

Joshua 5-14 And the man said, No, but I am the head of the host of the LORD, I am coming now. As in Daniel 10-12-14, it is only after spiritual warfare that the angel can come (now!).

Joshua 5-15 Joshua asks his Lord: What have you to say to me?

The answer is simple but Joshua must always remember. "Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy, which means that victory is gained, that there is no darkness on this path, in this spiritual realm. God heard His people and He acted. Nothing will be able to resist his people if he remains faithful in obedience.

Deuteronomy 33-27 Before you, He chased away the enemy and He said: Exterminate!

 

The naked sword in the hand

Why a sword? Because it's the weapon of victory. The sword is the emblem of the Word of God (Ephesians 6-17, Hebrews 4-12, Revelation 2-12). The Word of God is the Truth and it is by faith in His Word that we are victorious. This Word proclaims the victory of Christ, the work of the cross. The sword is unsheathed because we must constantly meditate on the word of God, listen to it, receive it, nourish our thoughts, proclaim it, conform to it ... (Joshua 1-8, Psalm 1-2, Psalm 119 -97).

We are The People of The Word of God, which is CHRIST.

 

The Battle Plan

Walking around the city in order of battle and without saying anything, listening to the sound of the resounding trumpets that preceded the Ark of the Covenant. In this fight, one should not discuss but simply obey and listen, without saying anything, the resounding trumpets that proclaimed the glory of God. They were the voices of the Word of God in the Ark, the witnesses of victory in heavenly places. They had to say something like: "Glory to God, this earth is a holy land, it belongs to our God who has conquered." Victory is in proclamation with faith. The confession of the Word of God.

God made promises to his people? How will his people seize the benefits of God?

Hebrews 6-12 Keep full hope until the end, so that you do not become sluggish, and imitate those who by faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

 

Conclusion

These two men: Moses and Joshua saw great miracles. God greatly confirmed His Word. Why ?

Because these two men saw the spiritual work of their God and they believed it.

Let us take the time to consider the work of Christ, to meditate on it, to contemplate it, and to deprive ourselves of the works of the flesh, even of the most legitimate semblances, for they will always remain dead works in comparison with those realized by Christ who was inhabited by a motivation and an eternal spirit, and let us serve the living God after Christ, with love and in His Name only.

 

Jude 25

To God alone, our Savior,

through Jesus Christ our Lord,

be glory, majesty, strength, and power,

 from before all times, and now, and in all ages!

Amen!

 

Your brother, in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ

D.C. useless servant.

 

 

 

 

2. Here is The Perfect Man: The Strong and Mighty Man in Battles - The Man crucified and who does not open his mouth in his perfect offering to God.

Here is the Anthropos (the man) said Pilate. John 19-5

 

JESUS

"You are worthy

to take the book, and to open the seals;

because you were immolated,

and you redeemed for God

by your blood

Men of every tribe, of every language, of every people, and of every nation;

you made Them

A Kingdom

and Priests

for our God,

and they will reign on the earth."

 

(Revelation 5-9/10)

 

              

He did not open his mouth to cry out under suffering. Isaiah 53-7

Here is a great truth that The Holy Scriptures emphasize 2 times in the same verse,

Because it was The Just Punishment coming... from GOD, in order to obtain salvation for All of Us.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth.

As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and

as a sheep that before its shearers is mute,

so he didn't open his mouth.

 

 

"The substitution, against which so many objections have been raised, presents nothing which can offend the moral sense. Assuredly one could without injustice suffer for all, if his suffering was not a compensation of theirs but a revelation presented to all of what all would have deserved to suffer and what will really suffer those who will not returned to God, repentants and believers, by the spectacle of this expiation...

To adhere to the death of Christ for sin is to die to sin, that is, to break with him radically.

This is the profound repercussion which the believer receives from the knock from which Christ was struck for him." (Frédéric GODET)

 

Isaiah 53

10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer.

When you make his soul an offering for sin,

he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days,

and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.

11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied.

My righteous servant will justify many

by the knowledge of himself;

and he will bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great,

and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;

because he poured out his soul to death,

and was numbered with the transgressors;

yet he bore the sin of many,

and made intercession for the transgressors.

 

By virtue of the solidarity of the human species only one (Adam) sinned and passed on to his descendants the genes of disobedience. The sinner has begotten sinners.

A single righteous (Jesus: The Second Adam) will justify all those who will believe in his atoning sacrifice.

If God made me to be born a sinner by inheritance from Adam, God also gives me the gift of justification by faith, by His Grace alone through the work accomplished by Jesus Christ on the cross of Golgotha.

2 Corinthians 5-14 For the love of Christ urges us on, because we believe that if one died for all, then all died; 15 and that he died for all, that those who live no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them.

 

I borrow the following texts from Frédéric GODET, from his Study on "the Angels":

 

Satan was a rebellious vassal; God gave his domain (the earth) to man. But the latter was called to conquer it himself; and he must fulfill this mission, not by the superiority of force, but by that of obedience.

We understand, from this point of view, the eagerness with which Satan worked from the first hour to divert man from submission and to lead him into his revolt. What could be more interesting for a rebel than to have to turn around the opposite army to reduce it, and to lead it into combat against the same man who had raised him against him!

But what can the tricks, the very victories of Satan, against the plans of the sovereign divine wisdom? The defection of humanity, this masterpiece of evil skill, brought out the beauty of God's plan in a more vivid way.

By the fact of the man sin, Satan remained, without doubt, the master of this earth; he even won one more agent. Whoever was to take away his empire, became his ally, his slave; and what wilt did he not inflict on his unhappy captive? Of what heavy chains did he not load him?

Idolatry with its shameful practices, war with its bloody horrors, death with its inexpressible anguish, sin especially with its turpitudes and remorse, these are the monuments of Satan's power over humanity, the trophies of his victory over our earth.

What is God doing? Does he crush his adversary and ours in his fury? It wouldn't be defeating him. To win, in a fight like this, you have to confuse, and to confuse is to show yourself not the strongest, but the best.

Do you see this humble child lying in a manger? Here is the new champion whom God chooses and with whom he walks before the prince of this world.

Satan, creature, had aspired to the autonomy and the glory of a god; God detaches from himself a mysterious being, another Himself, who, voluntarily stripping himself of the divine state, is reduced to the dependence and the infirmity of the creature.

The archangel had made himself god; the Son of God becomes man; the Word becomes flesh.

In the most humble form of human life, he realizes this absolute submission to God to which the archangel and the first man had refused. Satan this time feels in humanity a point that resists; he runs up. He understands that his power is threatened.

As he had once won in Eden, in the garden of abundance, he hopes to defeat Jesus now in the desert, by means of privation.

But his calculation is foiled; he met his winner. Jesus remains firm, despite all his suggestions and offers; Jesus persists in referring only to God; to God, for the preservation of his physical existence; to God, for the means of establishing his reign here below; to God, for the hour when he will have to work his miracles.

All the rest of his ministry is only the confirmation of this unconditional dependence which he thus vowed in the desert. And after he has consumed his expiatory and restorative work, he is crowned and installed as the new sovereign of the earth.

This is the real change of dynasty here below; the world passes to another master.

John 12-31 Now the judgment of this world takes place; now the prince of this world will be thrown out. 32 And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to me.

Satan is deposed; and its sovereignty passed on to Jesus Christ. Jesus in turn transmits it to humanity, his family in whose name he fought, obeyed, defeated.

Such transmission is possible; for by virtue of the solidarity of the species, which is the character of humanity and which distinguishes it from the angels, humanity can be saved entirely in one. Such a mode of salvation would not be applicable to fallen angels; for they are only individuals, without collective existence.

Hebrews 2-14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For most certainly, he doesn't give help to angels, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham. 17 Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

About the creation and existence of the Angels:

Let us observe the relation of the individual to the species in the three orders of living beings which nature presents to us, and we will see if this relation does not lead us to suppose the higher order of which we speak.

In the vegetable world, what properly exists is the species, the species alone; the individual is only its representation; nothing beyond, nothing above. Place a rose in the environment proper to its development, it will not be there anything other than what would have been, any other rose placed under the same conditions.

The language applies to individuals, in the world of plants, the term of copies. It is that they are in the species, what the copies of a photograph are with the stereotype which they reproduce identically. There is really only one rose, the pink kind, which lives and is reborn constantly in the transient apparitions in which we contemplate it.

The plant is similar to an indivisible heritage where each shareholder lives only on the mass and for the mass. In the world of plants, the individual does not exist as such; the species alone is.

In animals, the species is still the essential; but the individual is already something beside and above it. Individuality is beginning to emerge.

However, the animal is dominated by instinct. Now, what is instinct, if not the power of the species in the individual? Subject to this thoughtless and irresistible law, the individual is unable to draw a determination from his own funds, to take a resolution that is truly his.

Hence the absence of responsibility; hence also the lack of progress. Today's lion does exactly what its ancestors did, what its most distant descendants will do. Unless the man extends his hand to him by training, the animal turns and returns unceasingly in the circle which the instinct traces to him.

The individual lives, but as a captive of the species. His jailer allows him to take a few steps as he pleases in the prison yard, never to cross the wall.

The passage from animal to man is marked by a complete reversal of the relationship of the individual to the species. It still exists in humans, no doubt. We are talking, not without reason, of a human species.

Each man owes existence to parents; and this is the trait that constitutes the species. In man, as well as in animals, the species is the primordial, obscure, mysterious background, on which each individual existence stands out.

But, and here is what the reversal of the relationship consists of, the law of instinct, while exercising its power over man, does not inevitably dominate it. Instinct is his first master, but by no means his eternal tyrant.

Man can fight against natural appetites; he can even, with the aid of conscience and reflection, overcome the solicitation of desires and immolate them on the altar of moral obligation. The captive can force the door of the courtyard and leave his prison.

And since he can, he must. The individual only really becomes a man insofar as he exercises this glorious prerogative. If he neglects to make use of it, he remains at the level of the animal and even ends up exceeding it in brutality. He falls for his punishment below these natural instincts which he should have tamed.

From this faculty to free oneself results in man the one to progress. Instinct, the cradle and temporary safeguard of the individual, is only the starting point for his development. As soon as he has broken down this barrier by an act of thoughtful will, man sees the career of all individual and social improvements open up before him.

The species therefore still exists in humanity; but the individual is not absolutely captivated by his embrace. The noble mission of man is to arrive at being him, by freely subordinating the blind instincts of his nature to moral obligation.

Man is neither a copy, nor only an individual; it is a person.

From the bringing together of these three forms of existence offered to us by terrestrial nature, clearly emerges a law which appears to be that of creation: it is the growing preponderance of the individual relative to the species.

In the first degree, the individual is not; in the second, he is, but in the state of a slave; in the third, he appears free and master of what constitutes in him the life of the species.

Is there not a fourth state, an order of beings superior even to the third and completing the whole system?

In any mathematical series, one can, knowing three terms, calculate with certainty the fourth. The two known average terms make it possible to deduce from the first known extreme the second still unknown.

Are not the animal and the man in the system of the life these two average terms by which the thought can rise from the idea of ​​the plant, the first extreme, to that of the second, still unknown, the angel?

We have noted here three forms of existence: the species without the individual, the individual subject to the species, the species tamed by the individual; there remains a fourth possible form, complement and antipode of the first: the individual without the species.

This somewhat strange formula indicates, if you think about it, an extremely simple and much less complicated mode of existence than ours: an order of beings in which, the species does not exist, each individual owes his existence, not to parents like him, but immediately to the creative will.

Would this not be the angel, whose existence would thus complete the system of creation? The world of existence that we have just described is precisely that which The Holy Scripture attributes to these mysterious beings which it designates by this name.

While speaking of us she frequently uses the expression of the son of man, she calls the angels sons of God, never sons of angels. Why, if not because they came into existence by direct creation, not procreation?

In the most explicit statement we find in Scripture on the nature of angels, Jesus makes a remarkable connection between angels and the glorified faithful:

The children of this century, he says, marry wives, and the wives of husbands; but those who will be judged worthy to share in the century to come and in the resurrection of the dead will not marry and will not be given in marriage; for also they will no longer be able to die, seeing that they will be like angels and that they will be sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. (Luke 20-34 to 36)

This statement contains four remarkable data on the nature of angels:

1. These beings have a body, since the body of the risen must be similar to theirs.

2. This body does not owe existence to a process of filiation, but to an immediate creation, since its origin is similar to that of the body with which the faithful will be clothed by the fact of their resurrection. Also in the coming existence the glorified faithful will be, as well as the angels, worthy to bear the name of the son of God; they (the faithful) will be sons of God, as sons of the resurrection.

3. Conjugal relationships will not exist more in glorified men than they do in angels.

4. This emancipation from conjugal relations will correspond in these two orders of beings to the exemption from death. This clear content of the Lord's declaration accords as exactly as possible with the result to which has led us the observation of living beings presented to us by nature.

So long as our inductions are founded and Jesus spoke as a man who knows the subject on which he is speaking, we can consider the question of the reality and the nature of the angels as resolved and consider them as beings who must each have his existence from God alone; who have a body of a higher nature than our present body; in which, finally, there is neither the distinction of the sexes, nor the loss of life which leads to death.

 

 

Christ in Your Heart - Be Rooted, Founded and Know His Love - The Fullness of God

Ephesians 3-14 I bend my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

16 so that He may give you, according to the riches of His glory, to be fortified by His Spirit in the inner man

17 so that Christ dwells in your hearts by faith; so that being rooted and grounded in love,

18 you can understand with all the saints what is:

  • The breadth, width  (His love includes all men),
  • The length              (For all men of all time),
  • The depth             (Whatever their sins are, as dark and as low as they are) and
  • The height           (To bring them to the highest point, The Adoption by the Heavenly Father),

19 and know the love of Christ, which surpasses all knowledge, that you may be filled to the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do, by the power that works in us, infinitely beyond all that we ask or think,

21 be to him glory in the Church and in Jesus Christ, in all generations, for centuries! Amen!

 

What is unshakeable in the eyes of the heavenly Father ?

The Obedience of His Son Jesus

 

The Faith of God comes, find his fundation, only from the Work of His Son.

It pleased the Father to see how far his beloved Son would go to manifest all the greatness of God ‘s Love, He was pleased to break Him by suffering (Isaiah 53-10), it was necessary to open with the nail the head of the turtledove offered, to shred by thorns of sin, the Lamb shut up in the « sene », that thorn-bush which was not consumed, that everybody might see the fire of Love, which consume the Heart of the Son. 

The treasure enclosed in the Son was fully manifested by the hands of the Father. Yes God has revealed to Moses the Cross, the Work of His Son, this Holy Place, this Wonderful Reality. In perfect harmony between the Father and the Son, both have manifested all the greatness of their Love.

Through the Eternal Spirit, Christ offered a sacrifice that sustains all the Faith of the Father. If Father created the world it was only by faith in the Heart of His Son. Yes Father proclaimed by the Son and everything came into existence because The Powerful Word had a vision as support of His Faith: the obedient Heart of His Son Jesus.

How much more will the Blood of Christ, who by the Eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify your conscience from dead works, that You may serve the living God! By one offering, Jesus brought to perfection those who are sanctified forever. Hebrew 9-14 & 10-14

 

On what mystery will the kingdom of God laid ?

Jesus Christ with all things united in Him.

 

Ephesians 1

9 God has made known unto us the mystery of his will,

 according to his good pleasure which he has purposed in himself

10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times

he might gather together in one all things in Christ,

both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, in him.

 

(See Chapters 42 & 59)