PART 2 SETTING THE STAGE FOR RESURRECTION: JESUS ENTERS TIME

A CORNERSTONE IN ZION: RELATIONSHIPS AND A LOT MORE

“Applied Holy Bible Faith is not moved by what we see, hear, taste, touch, or feel.” Meaning ‘Holy faith” is NOT MOVED by anybody’s outer earth suit, nor power,earthly rank, prestige, nor privilege nor faith filled poverty,etc.

“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord” Ephesians 2:19-20 ( THE INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF FOUNDATIONAL MINISTRIES (IFFM) apostolic foundational Bible Verse)

ISAIAH 28:16,”Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.”

ROMANS 9:33 “….just as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion, a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, and he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

DEFINITION OF A CORNERSTONE from The Free Dictionary by Farlex
a. A stone at the corner of a building uniting two intersecting walls;
b. Such a stone, often inscribed, laid at a ceremony marking the origin of a building.
2. An indispensable and fundamental basis: the cornerstone of an argument.

NOTE: WHILE THIS SERIES IS “SETTING THE STAGE FOR RESURRECTION” I first must lay some historical foundations. So it may seem more like NATIVITY than RESURRECTION …in this posting…

NOW…OFFICIAL PART 2: SETTING THE STAGE FOR RESURRECTION: JESUS ENTERS TIME

“And he (John the Baptist) shall go before Him (Jesus Christ, Messiah) in the spirit and power of Elias (Elijah), to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” Luke 1:17 KJV

REVIEW OF PART 1:
** Isaiah 11:1-3 Prophetic Word concerning the future coming of the Messiah. The Old Testament time period prophetic WORD and it’s NEW TESTAMENT huge implications
** It was suggested that each person read the New Testament Gospels (Matthew /Mark/Luke/John) to examine the character of Christ as a God-man, but also as a SENIOR 5 FOLD OFFICE’S SENIOR OFFICE.

NOW: PART 2: LOOKING TOWARD THE RESURRECTION: JESUS ENTERS TIME(this starts with conditions at Jesus birth, but second half will include grown up, with John the Baptist)

“And he (John the Baptist) shall go before Him (Jesus Christ, Messiah) in the spirit and power of Elias (Elijah), to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” Luke 1:17 KJV

I mention the above Bible verse as one that is often quoted when pastors and minister talk of God sending a sweeping national, world wide revival. And many of them focus on the “Holy Spirit supernatural power of Elijah (meaning SIGNS AND WONDERS) which this writer is all for. (and we will delve into that and LUKE 1:17 but later…as in meaning; the next installment, coming PART 3)

One must duly note that there are certain other extremely important harbingers, aka, significant signs which resemble TRUE TRANSFORMATIONAL SPIRITUAL FRUIT which are also noted in Luke 1:17.

YET, I want to first set the stage by painting a word picture of the ERA into which The Heavenly Father chose to send down His only Son. It was an era of POLITICS, HARD LIVES and ALL WISE LEADERSHIP. It also was an era of human cruelty, enforced slavery and many false controlling personalities as well as tumbling “little g” gods and diverse (aplenty) idols.

And it was a also a day when MANY “normal, seeking, spiritually sensitive, exceedingly hungry curious people also worked and lived.

Thus, it was very much like today.

Yet God chose to move in to earthly TIME AND SPACE exceedingly subtley. He used understated… secret, stealth: planting His ISAIAH 11:2 SEVEN FLAMING HOLY ETERNAL SPIRITS…. all expertly hidden inside the Earth Suit of a Jewish boy child.

THE WRITER PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING IN RESPECTFUL SELAH/NOBLE BEREAN BIBLE STUDY FORM: “For sole purposes of provoking deep Selah Thought”

Although the Creator Father dearly loved His Son, He understood how short this TIME SPAN was, and that Jesus would be born, live and die…but then raise AGAIN in VICTORY …to increase the size of God’s Eternal Family…Also He deeply understood how SHORT this temporal earthly life is when compared to ETERNITY IN NEVER ENDING HEAVEN..

Thus Father God had no qualms about purposely SENDING this His child into harms way from the outset.

AND IN ADDITION, surely many of the townspeople were suspicious that when Mary began to show herself pregnant, that they presumed her to have sinned with her betrothed,Joseph. Perhaps Christ Jesus “perceived and discerned”as “illegitimate” and inferior..by the well off superior proud, the local accuser tongue waggers..all of which surely He as the prophet- seer would continually discern…the acute spiritual and natural,internal warfare..simply arising upward from His less than noble birth onward..could have paralyzed and even put a stop to Jesus “very different” Leader High Call.

“Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.” Psalm 123:4

YET Jesus Christ appeared to flourish (naturally, spiritually, emotionally) under the Love of His real Father GOD, but also under the love of his natural leader father,Josephs and Mary. However, being a prophet’s prophet, on His Divine Mission, was not easy from every single ministry angle and human half view point.

COMPARISONS BETWEEN JESUS DAY AND OUR CURRENT MODERN WORLD
GOD SENT JESUS down into an era containing many NATIONS, MULTICULTURALISM, POLYTHEISM and into various SubGroups of human peoples, each of whom vied for supreme POWER and DOMINANCE..be it political power, national, ruling power, or spiritual governing ultimate control and influential overseer authoritarian possessive power.

AMONG the many SUBGROUPS who dwelled, who set up offices,who tried to make recruits and who also sent out many commands from their top office headquarters were (to name just a few):

BACK THEN, THE BIBLE BASIC CATEGORIES OF HUMAN PEOPLE were JEWS and GENTILES, while all of the HEBREW JEWS were all under that one people group category, meaning that EVERYONE ELSE fell under the category of being GENTILE.

MULTIPLE PATRIARCHAL GROUPS(Duly note that when CHRIST CAME his kingdom was “not about rules and laws” and it also reconciled as well as ELEVATED many who were previously looked down on by Roman Patricianism and Old Testament Patriarchal, traditional Legalism) Selah. (if the 5 fold sr offices are NOT themselves UNDER the OLD TESTAMENT (or FEUDAL!) LAWS)

**The Patrician Romans, slave holders, supreme conquerors, ruled by 80 aristocratic, elite patrician high office decision maker leader

**Among the Traditional Levitical Pharisee, Sadducee leaders were the many (and surely mostly) NON- Phariseeical (ordinary) Hebrews who merely “happened” to live in an area where the Local Temple was run by Pharisees. These are not to be stereotyped as “Christ killers”( as some have historically bigoted, accused)… but the common ordinary human persons who were governed and controlled by the Big Religious Pharisee Mammon Chasing System. (Submitted Selah)

**Many Arab, African, Asian, diverse tribal, transient, oppressed, non Hebrew tradition nations (Apostle Paul later spent 13-14 years in Arabia getting the Holy Spirit download from which he personally received his ” abundance of many revelations” (evidently he, a Jew by blood, but then a follower of the Messiah Christ, found many whom he could trust and relate to for those 14 spiritually productive outcast by the First Church Organic 12 Apostles /abiding years)

**The Hebrew Pharisees temple office leaders, Levitical Law, Hebrew Temple policy enforcers, who also tried to stay on the good side of the Roman government and vied to keep their own perks, power and position under the guise of legalism.

AND PLEASE NOTE: History reveals that the PHARISEES who held temple office power in the DAY when JESUS was BORN and RAISED, were now ESAU (Edomite) DESCENDENTS,* who were HIRLINGS not spiritually passed down mantles as was required to be under the Hebrew Levitical Law. IT is no wonder that they loved MAMMON, PRESTIGE AND POWER.
KING HEROD, also, was an ESAU descendent*.
*(For more about this: PART 1: OBEDIAH AND THE ESAU TEMPLE HIGH PRIESTHOOD: BOOK OF OBADIAH http://wp.me/p4wnRh-2R (C)2014 Taveau D’Arcy All copyrights reserved www.drtdailynotes.wordpress.com Series of 3)

**The Sadducees: who did not believe in God’s supernatural power: notably they did not believe in the resurrection

**There were many styles of false idol worshippers,Temple Diana worshippers, Baal

**There were roving (Gadarene type) demoniacs

** There were the defenseless poor and the well off and aristocratic

**Gnostic Greeks using their form of human rationale and wisdom

**There were natural seekers, normal persons, coming from every race, tribe and belief system.

**There were the traveling traders, the sellers and the roving rabble rousers, many zealots, rising leaders who wanted to carve out their own position, supreme power and many, many different untold more. “false messiahs” were very common and many wrote off Jesus Christ’s claims as being “just another of that same KIND.” (sadly, due to the lack of accurate spiritual keen PERCEPTION and DISCERNMENT”)

NO,This whole period of HISTORY and the specific historical LOCATION,GEOGRAPHY, was not a naturally, emotionally or spiritually EASY day for God to choose to send His Only Begotten Son…..yet it was a KEY DAY AND TIME..and in deep hindsight, it was clearly an EPIC NEW DAY which forever separated (spiritually) what was then KNOWN and “UNDER THE LEVITICAL LAW” to the NEW ongoing, being REVEALED via much prayer and fasting (using First Church apostolic terms)

AND from the perspective of ETERNITY (Before the HUMAN RACE, THE WORLD, THE IDEAS AND KNOWLEDGE AND COMMERCE AND GREATLY DIVERSE SECTS AND OPINIONS even existed….there was THE LIVING LOVING FATHER GOD (see PART ONE OF THIS SERIES about His 7 Spirits dwelling in His CHIEF APOSTLE’S APOSTLE SON).

THE PIONEERING CREATOR FATHER’S MOTIVES: ACHIEVING AND BUILDING VERSUS GAME PLAN FOR A APOSTOLIC FAMILY
MAIN POINT: As far back as GENESIS 1-3 Father Creator Father GOD had wanted a FAMILY.He had made Adam and Eve which had set into evolving,(unfolding) motion a PLAN to grow and to expand that FAMILY…meaning FOREVER..but IF they submitted and obeyed to Leader God’s ONLY CONDITION…which we all know they did not will to follow.(Genesis 1-3)

WITH THE FALL OF HUMAN KIND, WITHOUT RULES AND PENALTIES, MANKIND WOULD SELF DESTRUCT.

MAIN POINT: Before the human Fall, Adam and Eve did not need Rules to keep them GOVERNED. They were already SELF GOVERNING, SELF DISCIPLINED as they were each submitted to the LORD GOD but also perceived Him and discerned HIS GOODNESS, GLORY AND abiding PRESENCE in their own personal Real Time ‘abiding, dwelling’ back and forth abiding RELATIONSHIP with the Loving Lord (Genesis 3:8: the walked with God in the cool of the day in the Garden)

POINT: with the fall of humankind into sin, each human being would loose their own power of self control and self government..and without deep depth of accurate spiritual depth and discernment, and without boundaries, and with limited other centeredness, emotional sensitivity, (deep empathy/depth of ongoing compassion) and then the temptation to use the TONGUE to control, dominate, to accuse, to deceive, and WOUND…would need to have some PRICE TO PAY..indeed some set of external requirements and moral, relationship Legal LAWS to save all human persons from themselves AND from hurting many others.

TO SAVE HUMANKIND from mass slaughter and from deception, human frailty,achieving sin, and to put a leader boundary of MORAL CONSCIENCE and MANY REAL LIFE CONSEQUENCES..to counter act the FALLEN SIN NATURE (basically over all tendencies to LPV:Lust, Pride, Vanity) and to put in place SYMBOLS, ACTIONS, SACRIFICES, LEGAL LAWS, and many CELEBRATIONS..God then instituted (short synopsis: Hebrew sacrifices, the Mosaic Law, Ten Commandments,Levitical Law , etc) which carried human kind down to the end of the OLD TESTAMENT, Book of MALACHI…

But all along the way, God raised up PROPHETS who would address periods of SIN and national IDOLATRY…but in God’s national Hebrew leaders, temple high priests leaders.

2 Chronicles 7:14 “IF My people who are called by My Name shall humble themselves and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, THEN I will hear from heaven and HEAL THEIR LAND.”

Both Old and New Testament “LET judgement begin in the house of God” (implication: IF self judging is supposed to begin in “EACH HOUSE OF GOD” then WHERE inside each one of those hallowed houses is JUDGEMENT to first take place? IN THE TOP LEADER OF EACH HOUSE. Seals.

TO SUM UP the DAY and EPIC TIME PERIOD when God sent JESUS, was DIVERSE, PLURALISTIC, APOSTOLIC TRIBAL,GENERALLY IDOLATROUS, VERY INTERNATIONAL, MULTI-OPINIONATED, MANY BIG I’S AND LITTLE YOU’S, GREAT SLAVERY, UNEQUAL in RACE,GENDER,RELIGION..only to name a FEW.

ALSO, with all of this at last being stated, I now must CLOSE for right now, due to LENGTH..but NEXT PART 3 will discuss THE EPIC ARRIVAL INTO EARTHLY SPHERES OF CHRIST JESUS in LUKE 1:17.

Blessings!