JESUS WALKED AND TALKED WITH MEN FROM THE GARDEN RIGHT AND ALL THROUGHOUT THE OT TIMES
What is one of the central errors of cults. Is it not that they focus around some false prophet who claims to speak with God. I was watching about the Moron cult that centered around a man with the last name of Jess; everyone in that cult gave him total obedience to the point that they would let him sexually abuse their own children.
How do people get that crazy. It was all about him claiming that God spoke to him and they had to follow what God told him. For to disobey him, was disobeying God. Of course the man was as deceived as they all were.
The error that causes these cults, is that most believe that God does not walk and talk to people here on the earth. BUT no one needs to seek a man who God talks to. For God desires to walk and talk to everyone that will seek Him.
Jesus calls us His Bride. Not just His sister. Jesus has very good reason for everything He says.
No man wants another man to teach his bride how to make love to him. Every man wants to teach his bride how to make love himself. The man that teaches the bride of another becomes a curse to the bridegroom. Just as these false prophets become a curse themselves.
Jesus constantly warned not to follow any mere man. That does not leave any man without direction; for Jesus told us that He would lead us Himself. He gave us His Holy Spirit to LIVE RIGHT INSIDE OF OUR SPIRIT. So Jesus is living inside of you, IF you have surrendered your life to Him. So help could not be any closer than He is.
But God never changes, He is the same today as He was long ago. He was the same long ago as He is today.
Let's look at how God walked and talked with mere men in The Holy Scriptures:
We see here that God was not far away even before He created mankind. He was hovering over the waters (this may be the matter in space that became our sun and the rest of the solar system)
But the important thing is that God was PERSONLLY involved. He did not create a place for us by sending someone else to do it. God created it all Himself. Just as He does not want to send someone to teach you. For Jesus desires to teach you Himself.
When you read my articles, you should be seeking Jesus and asking Him if they are from Him. For if they are from me, they are of no value. Seek Jesus and walk and talk with Him. For you are His Bride.
As we read the rest of Genesis 1, we see that God was personally involved at every step.
You can not get much more personal that God did when He breathed the breath of life into man.
Notice here that God did NOT send an angel or a prophet, who was another man, to speak to the man, but God spoke to Him personally.
We see here that God did this personally. He did not send someone else to do this.
NOTICE again The Lord did not send someone, but did this all Himself.
Some things to take note of here:
1- God did not come into the garden as some spirit that could not be seen with eyes, or heard with ears. They heard God walking in the garden.
2- We also see that God must have done this often for them to KNOW WHO IT WAS WALKING IN THE GARDEN EVEN BEFORE THEY SEEN ANYONE.
3- God noticed right away that Adam and Eve reacted to Him differently. They were now afraid of Him. Which means they must have come running up to Him before they ate of the tree. Otherwise there would have been nothing to notice that they did differently.
4- God was their friend before they ate of the tree. He walked and talked with them, maybe everyday. But they knew Him well and they recognized Him and were not afraid of Him.
5- God did not look like some fearsome being. He looked like Adam for they were created in His image. This is why they were not afraid of Him. God looked like them, He walked like them, He talked like them.
WE FEAR ANYTHING DIFFERANT THAN OURSELVES - WE DO NOT FEAR MEN LIKE OURSELVES
I remember seeing an insect that looked like a very large ant down in Florida. It was about an inch long and bright orange and had strips and was furry. I was afraid to touch it, for it was different. I had fear because I was not familiar with it.
Here is a photo of one:
Cow_Ant.JPG
It was a good thing I was afraid to touch it. They are not ants, but wasps with no wings. Their sting is so painfull that people used to believe that they killed cows. So they called them cow ants.
Why was I afraid. Because it was VERY DIFFERENT from anything I had seen before. It was very bright so it would stand out as DIFFERENT. "Do not touch" is the warning that is all over it. I have never been stung by one and I am very content to never know about it's sting.
Why do we fear lions. They are a DIFFERENT size and shape than we are. We do not have teeth and claws like that. Why do we fear spiders, because they are so much different than us.
WE FEAR THE UNFAMILIAR - WE DO NOT FEAR THE FAMILIAR IF IT IS LIKE US
We even fear men if they are different than us. We do not fear men that are like us.
If God revealed that a man who is a stranger was a very good Christian like you, you would not fear him.
If you were in North western Iraq right now and seen a man with a turbine, beard, and carrying an AK47, you would fear him. For he is of a different faith that desires to kill Christians. We fear men that are different than us.
Adam was not afraid of God because He was like him, or looked like a man. Really it is man that looks like God. God created us in His image.
There are going to be many posts in this thread. For God appeared to many men all throughout the OT.
GOD WANTS TO WALK AND TALK WITH YOU
JESUS CALLS US HIS BRIDE - how close does a man desire to be with his new bride.
JESUS CALLS US HIS BODY - no man can hate his own body. Any man loves his own body and cares for it.
Grace to you
Lou Newton
Bond servant of Jesus
What is one of the central errors of cults. Is it not that they focus around some false prophet who claims to speak with God. I was watching about the Moron cult that centered around a man with the last name of Jess; everyone in that cult gave him total obedience to the point that they would let him sexually abuse their own children.
How do people get that crazy. It was all about him claiming that God spoke to him and they had to follow what God told him. For to disobey him, was disobeying God. Of course the man was as deceived as they all were.
The error that causes these cults, is that most believe that God does not walk and talk to people here on the earth. BUT no one needs to seek a man who God talks to. For God desires to walk and talk to everyone that will seek Him.
Jesus calls us His Bride. Not just His sister. Jesus has very good reason for everything He says.
No man wants another man to teach his bride how to make love to him. Every man wants to teach his bride how to make love himself. The man that teaches the bride of another becomes a curse to the bridegroom. Just as these false prophets become a curse themselves.
Jesus constantly warned not to follow any mere man. That does not leave any man without direction; for Jesus told us that He would lead us Himself. He gave us His Holy Spirit to LIVE RIGHT INSIDE OF OUR SPIRIT. So Jesus is living inside of you, IF you have surrendered your life to Him. So help could not be any closer than He is.
But God never changes, He is the same today as He was long ago. He was the same long ago as He is today.
Let's look at how God walked and talked with mere men in The Holy Scriptures:
Genesis 1
New International Version (NIV)
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
New International Version (NIV)
The Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
But the important thing is that God was PERSONLLY involved. He did not create a place for us by sending someone else to do it. God created it all Himself. Just as He does not want to send someone to teach you. For Jesus desires to teach you Himself.
When you read my articles, you should be seeking Jesus and asking Him if they are from Him. For if they are from me, they are of no value. Seek Jesus and walk and talk with Him. For you are His Bride.
As we read the rest of Genesis 1, we see that God was personally involved at every step.
Gen 2
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Gen 2:15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Gen 2:19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
Gen 3: 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
1- God did not come into the garden as some spirit that could not be seen with eyes, or heard with ears. They heard God walking in the garden.
2- We also see that God must have done this often for them to KNOW WHO IT WAS WALKING IN THE GARDEN EVEN BEFORE THEY SEEN ANYONE.
3- God noticed right away that Adam and Eve reacted to Him differently. They were now afraid of Him. Which means they must have come running up to Him before they ate of the tree. Otherwise there would have been nothing to notice that they did differently.
4- God was their friend before they ate of the tree. He walked and talked with them, maybe everyday. But they knew Him well and they recognized Him and were not afraid of Him.
5- God did not look like some fearsome being. He looked like Adam for they were created in His image. This is why they were not afraid of Him. God looked like them, He walked like them, He talked like them.
WE FEAR ANYTHING DIFFERANT THAN OURSELVES - WE DO NOT FEAR MEN LIKE OURSELVES
I remember seeing an insect that looked like a very large ant down in Florida. It was about an inch long and bright orange and had strips and was furry. I was afraid to touch it, for it was different. I had fear because I was not familiar with it.
Here is a photo of one:
Cow_Ant.JPG
It was a good thing I was afraid to touch it. They are not ants, but wasps with no wings. Their sting is so painfull that people used to believe that they killed cows. So they called them cow ants.
Why was I afraid. Because it was VERY DIFFERENT from anything I had seen before. It was very bright so it would stand out as DIFFERENT. "Do not touch" is the warning that is all over it. I have never been stung by one and I am very content to never know about it's sting.
Why do we fear lions. They are a DIFFERENT size and shape than we are. We do not have teeth and claws like that. Why do we fear spiders, because they are so much different than us.
WE FEAR THE UNFAMILIAR - WE DO NOT FEAR THE FAMILIAR IF IT IS LIKE US
We even fear men if they are different than us. We do not fear men that are like us.
If God revealed that a man who is a stranger was a very good Christian like you, you would not fear him.
If you were in North western Iraq right now and seen a man with a turbine, beard, and carrying an AK47, you would fear him. For he is of a different faith that desires to kill Christians. We fear men that are different than us.
Adam was not afraid of God because He was like him, or looked like a man. Really it is man that looks like God. God created us in His image.
There are going to be many posts in this thread. For God appeared to many men all throughout the OT.
GOD WANTS TO WALK AND TALK WITH YOU
JESUS CALLS US HIS BRIDE - how close does a man desire to be with his new bride.
JESUS CALLS US HIS BODY - no man can hate his own body. Any man loves his own body and cares for it.
Grace to you
Lou Newton
Bond servant of Jesus
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