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Now JESUS was slain to receive power, authority and glory in all these things not for Himself, but for us. He already had everything that He needed. Now He has seven eyes and seven horns which are the seven Spirits of God. I'm going to tell you something else, those seven eyes and seven horns are the ministering angels and angelic presences of Himself which go all over the earth and that see's everything. I can prove to you that they are the eyes of the LORD. "The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good." (Proverbs 15:3) God did this work to fulfill His plan of salvation for mankind, because of His love for us all and to set by His own power - a place by Him for us; not just to move to the right hand position and because the LORD Himself did not want to be alone, and man was not there beside of Him any more!
When god put Moses in that cliff of that rock, and placed him thate He held His hand over the lciff of that rock and walked by him, and just as soon as He got by, so that Moses couldn't see His face, God moved His hand and allowed Moses look at His hinder parts. God howed Moses the first five books of the Bible, and allowed him to write them. god let Moses see the beginning of creation, but Moses wanted to see what was on the other side; but under the old law, he didn't get to see. But on the mountain of Transfiguration, he did. Man had fallen and there was no one to bring him back, except God in a man.
The throne is vacant in heaven where JESUS is now at the right hand, and as you read the scriptures, you will see the Lamb standing in the middle of the throne. You say where is the one seated on the throne? Where did JESUS go? I told you where He went, He went to the right hand of power, and in order for Him to reach man in the earth, under the earth, god had to reach even into the regions of darkness and hell if you please. He had to stretch from heaven to hell, from the beginning to the end. That's why JESUS said. "...even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." (Revelation 3:21) The Father, the Spirit, and the Word are one. JESUS is both Lord and Christ, Father and Son, God and man. And God was in the second man Adam. And as I have over come and am sat down with my Father, and not beside my Father in His throne. JESUS is the one and only God seated on that throne, and He is the Lamb of God; "For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily," (Colossians 2:9) He has seven eyes and seven horns which are the seven Spirits of God. He was perfect, holy, righteous and pure, but there wasn't anyone or anyway for god to get us back. Someone worthy had to get down to where man had fallen. So on the cross there was a separation, the Father, the Spirit, and God if you please, left that body. That body was going down to death, down to where we were. He went beyond walkin in flesh, He went into death, and He became our death, He became our sin, when He stepped down, He did it willfully just like Adam stepped down fro his wife. There was something that had to be taken care of. He had already been married. He was married to that woman - Israel by law, and there wasn't any way in the world that He could legally take a new bride, until He was legally free from her. Even though she didn't know who He was when He came in the form of flesh. Oh she knew Him when He was in the Bush, the Cloud, and the Rock, because He scared her nearly to death.
He got so angry at her, that He called her a backsliding heifer. "For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place," (Hoseea 4:16) He used some choice words, when He told her, you ain't nothing but a backsliding heifer. They never did get along. There never was a child born - again of their family. What god had to do, was to take care of all the nations in the world and reach out to a new bride, and then deal with the old woman, (the old - bride) legally. I hope you don't get angry with me, for the way I'm preaching, because I believe if God could handle that woman at the well with five husbands and even though the man she was with was not her own. I know God can handle anything you've got going. But legally for Him, there was no way that He could be free to take this bride, until He was legally freed from her. There was only one way that He could be free; one of them had to die. He couldn't just let her die, because there was no one that could help her and get her back so, He had to die. JESUS said, "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." (John 10:18)
You see, legally, it didn't matter how long JESUS was dead, just as long as He died. Jesus was crucified, and through His death, He settled it on the cross when He said, "...It is finished..." (John 19:30) It was finishe dthe moment He bowed something equal to Himself, called it by Gimself, and He had to make it of Himself, and yet, being able to separate Himself from Himself and allow Himself to die. It was impossible for jesus to sin, but yet there was no way for Him to get into the place where we were held captive spiritually, unless the door of sin was opened. Alright, there was no way He could sin, so He legally became sin, not a sinner but sin. So, He came down to the right hand of Power. Jesus was the High Priest, the Advocate, the propitiation, and He was the Mediato. "For there is on God, and one mediator between God and men, the man CHRIST JESUS;" (I Timothy 2:5) Only God could do such a thing as this, He did it right under that old long nose of the devil. That ignorant devil, he didn't even know what God was doing. So when God came down, knowing that somebody had to die. In the goaarden of Gathesemene, that's why the flesh prayed and cried till the sweat became like great drops of blood: it was the Spirit becoming so obedient to and being under subjection to the will of the predetermined counsel of God. It was the Flesh coming subject to the Spirit, knowing that the Spirit could not die. 7) "who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; 8) though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;" (Hebrews 5:7-8) The true and living God, in a body of flesh, had to have something equal to Himself, call it by Himself, fill it with Himself; and my friend it was Himself!! It was impossible for God to die, He couldn't die, If God would have died, the whole universe would have just folded up and there wouldn't have been anything else in existence, because He held everything together by His life. It was impossible for JESUS to sin and to get where people were held in death, and it took sin to get JESUS into that place, or death if you please. He couldn't sin, so He became sin. And because it was impossible for God to die, so He had to make something equal to Himself, this is why "Who, being in the form of god, thought it not robbery to be equal with God" (Philipians 2:6) You see God made it this way. This is actually the way it happened Spiritually.
Now in the garden, there was getting ready to be a separation. God the Father would stay with Jesus, and God the Father being in Him while they beat the flesh from His back, while they put the crown of thorns on His head when they hung Him on that cross, He would still be in Him. He would still be in Christ the body. You see, He's LORD and CHRIST, Spirit and Word, Father and Son, Shepherd and Sheep. He's God and Man, He was still in that body when they drove the nails in His hands and feet that held Him up there on the cross between heaven and earth. But during a period of darkness that soon came, God the Father went out of that body. "And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour." (Luke 23:44) You might say, "Well there is two Gods then." No! the same true and only God that went out of that body was the Spirit image. What was hanging on that cross was the flesh body of Jesus, the second man Adam. You couldn't see what came out of that body, it wasn't something floating around that you could see.
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