Engkau saja yang KUDUS...

Wahyu 15: 1 – 8

1 Dan aku melihat suatu tanda lain di langit, besar dan ajaib: tujuh malaikat dengan tujuh malapetaka terakhir, karena dengan itu berakhirlah murka Allah.  2 Dan aku melihat sesuatu bagaikan lautan kaca bercampur api, dan di tepi lautan kaca itu berdiri orang-orang yang telah mengalahkan binatang itu dan patungnya dan bilangan namanya. Pada mereka ada kecapi Allah.  3 Dan mereka menyanyikan nyanyian Musa, hamba Allah, dan nyanyian Anak Domba, bunyinya: "Besar dan ajaib segala pekerjaan-Mu, ya Tuhan, Allah, Yang Mahakuasa! Adil dan benar segala jalan-Mu, ya Raja segala bangsa!  4 Siapakah yang tidak takut, ya Tuhan, dan yang tidak memuliakan nama-Mu? Sebab Engkau Saja Yang Kudus; karena semua bangsa akan datang dan sujud menyembah Engkau, sebab telah nyata kebenaran segala penghakiman-Mu."  5 Kemudian dari pada itu aku melihat orang membuka Bait Suci--kemah kesaksian--di sorga.  6 Dan ketujuh malaikat dengan ketujuh malapetaka itu, keluar dari Bait Suci, berpakaian lenan yang putih bersih dan berkilau-kilauan dan dadanya berlilitkan ikat pinggang dari emas.  7 Dan satu dari keempat makhluk itu memberikan kepada ketujuh malaikat itu tujuh cawan dari emas yang penuh berisi murka Allah, yaitu Allah yang hidup sampai selama-lamanya.  8 Dan Bait Suci itu dipenuhi asap karena kemuliaan Allah, dan karena kuasa-Nya, dan seorangpun tidak dapat memasuki Bait Suci itu, sebelum berakhir ketujuh malapetaka dari ketujuh malaikat itu.

     Manusia keturunan Adam yang lahir dari keinginan laki-laki dan perempuan adalah manusia yang disingkapkan dengan kata-nubuat ‘luka.’ ‘Luka’ (cut off) kerana terpisah dari segala realitas Roh Tuhan, dan Roh Kudus tidak turun ke atas ‘sumbu roh’ manusia berdosa! 'Luka' yang belum disembuhkan berarti tiada perdamaian di antara Sang Pencipta, Bapa segala roh, dengan roh manusia yang dibaluti daging.  Manusia ‘luka’ adalah cenderung kepada perbuatan dosa setiap hari; roh manusia yang 'luka,' adalah tidak suci. Namun, kerana namaNya adalah Firman, maka Tuhan dari semula telah menentukan untuk  menganugerahkan ‘Jalan,’ supaya kita dapat bergaul karib dengan Roh Tujuh Lapis.

    Melalui karya Roh Tujuh Lapis yang menganugerahkan Jalan, Pintu dan Kunci, semua ‘manusia luka’ ditawarkan harapan untuk 'karangan iman' dan 'perjalanan iman.' Sesunguhnya, tiadalah di antara kita yang 'suci' (pure)  kerana pusat kesedaran kita adalah 'daging' (otak).  Daging Adam bertunas dari bumi kemudiannya berkembang-biak melalui ‘benih;’ kita berasal dari ‘benih’ Adam (sperms and ova). Semua roh manusia tidak mempunyai kelayakan untuk diterima oleh hadirat Roh Tuhan Yang Maha Suci, Allah Bapa, yang semarakNya menghanguskan. Tiada siapapun yang layak diterima di hadapan hadirat Roh Allah Bapa jika alasannya adalah sekadar segala 'kebaikan-kebaikan' yang datang dari pemikiran manusia (intellectual precepts). Manusia 'luka' tidak ada sumber untuk mentahirkan atau menyucikan roh mereka sendiri. Urusan memasuki hadirat adalah disandarkan pada spiritual precepts yang ditunjangi oleh 'suara' Firman sebagai keyakinan kepada yang kita harapkan. Dan spiritual precept itu tidaklah terpesong dari tiga elemen ‘Deep calls deep,’ iaitu Jalan, Pintu dan Kunci. Paling tidakpun, pengikut 'Jalan' yang rajin dengan urusan ‘masuk kamar’ ('berdoa') akan hanya bersyukur dengan 'meng-imani' lirik nyanyian Daud: "Terpujilah Tuhan! Hari demi hari Ia menanggung bagi kita; Allah adalah keselamatan kita. Sela"  Mazmur 68: 19

   Ruangan kamar dalam Khemah Suci yang dinubuatkan sebagai kamar ‘Yang Mahasuci’ sebenarnya tidaklah 'suci' sepanjang masa kerana ia tertakluk kepada dosa-dosa kedua belas suku kaum Israel. Justeru itu, bilik atau the chamber ‘Yang Maha Suci’ (the holy of Holiest) itu boleh saja menjadi 'najis/impure' (defiled) pada bila-bila masa sahaja setiap hari! Ibadah ritus tabernakel atau Khemah Suci menuntut supaya 'tabut perjanjian' (the Ark of Covenant) perlu ditahirkan terlebih dahulu dengan percikan darah penebus dosa sebanyak 7 kali menurut Firman (pengajaran 'jalan' melalui Taurat), jika Imam Besar berurusan dengan Tuhan Yahuwah di kamar ‘the holy of Holiest.’ Justeru itu, 'jalan' berdoa melalui 'pintu' Tabernakel adalah ibadah (berdoa)  yang amat  membebankan.

    Maka, kamar ‘Yang Maha Suci’ itu hendaklah dianugerahkan dengan kuasa pentahiran dari Yahuwah terlebih dahulu berdasarkan pengajaran Taurat sebelum ia benar-benar 'Suci.' Tanpa anugerah pentahiran Yahuwah ke atas 'Tabut Perjanjian' di dalam kamar ‘Yang Maha Suci,’ maka ia tidak akan suci walaupun ia masih juga digelar atau designated sekadar nama sebagai kamar ‘Yang Maha Suci.’

   Setiap 'sumbu' roh orang percaya dalam Perjanjian Baru adalah 'bayangan' dari pengajaran Taurat sebagai kamar ‘Yang Maha Suci dalam ibadah 'altar' Perjanjian Lama,’ iaitu tempat Roh Kudus turun, yang perlu ditahirkan terlebih dahulu oleh kuasa darah Yeshua yang memberikan 'pengampunan dan pentahiran' dosa-dosa secara berlimpah-kasih dan taat. Oleh yang demikian, roh manusia orang-orang percaya masih juga digelar ‘orang-orang kudus’ kerana sebagaimana ‘Yang Maha Suci’ pada Tabernakel itu masih juga disebut ‘Yang Maha Suci,’ biarpun ia sebenarnya tidak lagi suci, maka demikianlah orang-orang percaya akan masih dijolok sebagai orang-orang kudus kerana sumbu-sumbu roh orang-orang percaya sepatutnya 'designated' untuk tempat Roh Tujuh Lapis turun. Sebab itulah teguran-teguran dari Roh Tuhan telah disampaikan menurut Why. 2 hingga Why.3, agar orang-orang percaya dapat menyelidiki  roh mereka sendiri yang disingkapkan oleh Roh Kudus. Entah 'sumbu roh'  mereka akan benar-benar berfungsi sebagai ‘Yang Maha suci’ yang dilepaskan dari dosa-dosa, ataupun sebaliknya.

10 “Son of man, describe the temple to the people of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their sins. Let them consider its perfection, 11 and if they are ashamed of all they have done, make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement, its exits and entrances—its whole design and all its regulations and laws. Write these down before them, so that they may be faithful to its design and follow all its regulations. 12 “This is the law of the temple: All the surrounding area on top of the mountain will be most holy. Such is the law of the temple. (Ezekiel 43: 10-12)

     Penyembahan sempurna kepada Tuhan adalah seperti yang disingkapkan oleh Roh kepada Nabi Ezekiel dalam Ezekiel 43: 10-12: menyembah di dalam roh dan kebenaran.  Kenapa "surrounding area on the top of the mountain" pula yang digelar atau designated sebagai 'Yang Maha Suci' (the most holy) dalam ayat 12 ? Bukankah 'Yang Maha Suci' itu adalah ruangan kamar yang terletak di rumah Tabernakel yang terdalam sekali, iaitu the innest Temple? Setiap roh orang-orang percaya adalah 'designated' dan dinubuatkan sebagai kamar  'the holy of holiest' atau 'Tabut Perjanjian;' 'sumbu roh' umat perjanjian baru adalah tempat 'lidah api' turun untuk memberikan Pintu Hadirat Roh Tuhan. Justeru itu, kita akan mengecapi spirit of prayer apabila berada di dalam hadiratNya yang dinyatakan di dalam 'the holy of holiest' orang percaya. ‘The holy of holiest’ perjanjian baru adalah adalah merujuk kepada roh-roh orang percaya yang telah dilahirkan kembali, lantas menjadi 'kamar' yang mempunyai 'sumbu roh' untuk Roh Kudus turun.

    Maka, Ezekiel 43: 10 -12 adalah dinubuatkan khusus untuk bangsa Ibrani agar mereka tahu bahawa Tuhan mereka tidak berdusta! Ia menjadi suatu 'tanda' sepanjang zaman kepada orang-orang Ibrani yang masih berusaha, terkial-kial, menyembah Tuhan YHVH menurut 'jalan-jalan' 'ritus-Taurat' yang berpusat pada Tabernakel Perjanjian Lama. Mereka akan 'malu' (they may be ashamed of their sins) kerana roh mereka seperti 'telanjang' apabila Hakim akan datang kelak! Ibadah rohani mereka akan dinilai oleh Hakim, dan Hukum Bait Allah yang dinubuatkan oleh Ezekiel dalam Ezekiel 43: 10 -12 itu akan menjadi salah satu 'tanda' yang spesifik kepada bangsa Ibrani! Tuhan mereka menuntut ibadah mereka, supaya meniti 'jalan ibadah' yang perfect, sebagaimana Roh Bapa di Sorga yang Sempurna.  Yeshua datang memberi 'jalan' ibadah yang sempurna dengan berfirman : "Akulah Jalan..."   Pihak berkuasa agama Perjanjian Lama telah menolakNya, kecuali ke-sebelas Rasul dan yang kemudiannya menjadi dua belas kembali, dan mereka telah dinubuatkan untuk menjadi 'batu asas' bersama dengan 'Batu Penjuru' bait-Allah Perjanjian Baru. "14 Dan tembok kota itu mempunyai dua belas batu dasar dan di atasnya tertulis kedua belas nama kedua belas rasul Anak Domba itu." (Wahyu 21: 14) 

Di manakah "jam sedang berdetik" bagi kita dalam nubuatan akhir 'zaman bangsa-bangsa'?

 

    Kita sedang melihat umat Tuhan di bumi yang sedang dihakimi oleh Roh Kudus. Sekarang! Roh kudus masih melaksanakan misi Raja Damai, tetapi ia juga melaksanakan penghakiman di bumi! Kita berada dalam tempoh 'masa' peralihan dua "nama" Kristus, iaitu dari Raja Damai kepada "nama" Hakim. Maka, kita sedang berada dalam Meterai ke-6, iaitu Wahyu 6: 12-13. Ayat 14 belum lagi terjadi kerana ia adalah "saat" yang merujuk saat Hakim Kristus turun ke bumi dalam awan yang "bergulung-gulung."

   Penghakiman umat Tuhan oleh Roh Kudus di bumi dalam Meterai ke-6 (ayat 12 dan ayat 13) adalah penuh dengan keadilan, dan ia juga bertujuan untuk mempersiapkan mempelai perempuan untuk dapat menyambut kedatangan mempelai laki-laki : "4... Ia memasang kemah di langit untuk matahari, 5 yang keluar bagaikan pengantin laki-laki yang keluar dari kamarnya, girang bagaikan pahlawan yang hendak melakukan perjalanannya.6 Dari ujung langit ia terbit, dan ia beredar sampai ke ujung yang lain; tidak ada yang terlindung dari panas sinarnya." (Alkitab Terjemahan Baru, Mazmur 19: 4-6).

Mazmur 50:4 "Ia berseru kepada langit di atas, dan kepada bumi untuk mengadili umat-Nya:"

    Apakah yang kita 'lihat' di 'langit' pada masa kini? Dalam belajar membaca bahasa rumi, kita perlu mahir asasnya, iaitu alphabet rumi dan susunan suku-kata. Dalam penafsiran bahasa nubuat Roh Kristus (Roh Tujuh karunia), kita perlu mengetahui bahasa asasnya, iaitu 'langit' dan 'bumi.' Maka, itulah sebabnya kenapa nubuatan dalam Kejadian fasal satu bermula dengan bahasa nubuat yang asas, iaitu "langit" dan "bumi." Dalam kes semasa sekarang berdasarkan bahasa asas nubuat dalam Mazmur 50: 4, Ia (Tuhan) "berseru langit di atas" dan memperlihatkan penglihatan roh seperti yang dinubuatkan dalam Wahyu 6: 12 "Maka aku melihat, ketika Anak Domba itu membuka meterai yang ke-enam, sesungguhnya terjadilah gempa bumi yang dahsyat dan matahari menjadi hitam bagaikan karung rambut dan bulan menjadi merah seluruhnya bagaikan darah.13 Dan bintang-bintang di langit berjatuhan ke atas bumi 'bagaikan' pohon ara menggugurkan buah-buahnya yang mentah, apabila ia digoncang angin yang kencang."

    Penghakiman Tuhan bermula pada umatNya sendiri. Nasihat/teguran (counsel), penghiburan (comfort) dan kata-kata membangun (edification) dari 'suara,' 'visions,' dan 'Dream dreams' dari Tuhan akan seperti mesej Tuhan kepada ketujuh jenis 'roh' orang percaya sebagaimana yang digambarkan secara profetik oleh ketujuh gereja di Asia Kecil dalam Wahyu 1: 19 --Wahyu 3: 22. 

    Walaupun, nubuatan-nubuatan dalam Why. 1 hingga Why 3: 22 adalah merujuk khusus tentang apa yang akan terjadi kepada jemaat-jemaat Tuhan di Asia kecil, namun mesej itu 'berbicara' kepada umat Tuhan sampai sekarang sesuai dengan roh nubuat yang menasihati, menghibur dan membangun! Ia masih berbicara secara 'individu' kepada kita kerana setiap kita boleh saja dikatakan "seperti" keadaan roh orang percaya yang terdapat di Asia Kecil itu!

    Dan siapakah pula 'bintang-bintang' yang berjatuhan itu? Motherhood umat Tuhan adalah bangsa Ibrani baik ia di zaman perjanjian lama mahupun zaman perjanjian baru. Ia dinubuatkan sebagai 'fig tree' (Pohon ara), dan buah-buahnya adalah converted gentiles. Dan converted gentiles itu mestilah 'masak' sepenuhnya untuk memberikan hasil tuaian yang sempurna! 

    Tapi dalam ayat 13, buah-buah yang gugur adalah 'mentah'! Ia bukanlah berarti mereka menemui ajal daging! Ia berarti bahawa ketika Tuhan Roh Kudus menghakimi umat Tuhan pada masa peralihan 'nama,' Tuhan mendapati banyak umat Tuhan yang belum bersedia untuk 'mengadap' Hakim Kristus yang turun kelak di bumi (dalam Why. 6: 14), maka mereka akan mendapati diri mereka berjalan dalam kegelapan: mereka tidak dapat mendengar (prophecies) suara Gembala Agung; mereka tiada melihat visions, dan mereka tiada Dream dreams! 

    Bila ketiga-tiga anugerah seperti janji Tuhan itu tiada dalam kehidupan rohani umat Tuhan sepertimana yang dinubuatkan oleh Nabi Yoel dalam Yoel 2: 28, maka itulah sebabnya mereka ('falling stars') akan berguguran kelak apabila Hakim menghakimi. Mereka tidak dapat menyempurnakan tanggungjawab rohani, iaitu nubuatan atau "pekerjaan ibadah" seperti dalam doa Bapa Kami! Majoriti daripada umat melakukan doa Bapa Kami dengan kekuatan intelek, justeru itu, segala ibadah mereka tidaklah disempurnakan! Mereka adalah 'seperti' jemaat-jemaat  di Sardis [1] dan Loadicea [2].

    Janji Tuhan kepada umatNya berbunyi: "28 Kemudian dari pada itu akan terjadi, bahwa Aku akan mencurahkan Roh-Ku ke atas semua manusia, maka anak-anakmu laki-laki dan perempuan akan bernubuat; orang-orangmu yang tua akan mendapat mimpi, teruna-terunamu akan mendapat penglihatan-penglihatan. 29 Juga ke atas hamba-hambamu laki-laki dan perempuan akan Kucurahkan Roh-Ku pada hari-hari itu.30 Aku akan mengadakan mujizat-mujizat di langit dan di bumi: darah dan api dan gumpalan-gumpalan asap.31 Matahari akan berubah menjadi gelap gulita dan bulan menjadi darah sebelum datangnya hari TUHAN yang hebat dan dahsyat itu.32 Dan barangsiapa yang berseru kepada nama TUHAN akan diselamatkan, sebab di gunung Sion dan di Yerusalem akan ada keselamatan, seperti yang telah difirmankan TUHAN; dan setiap orang yang dipanggil TUHAN akan termasuk orang-orang yang terlepas." (Yoel 2: 28).

    Mereka yang gugur adalah mereka yang "tidak bertobat," meskipun "teguran-teguran" seperti dalam nubuatan Why.1: 19 hingga Why. 3: 22 sudah disingkapkan oleh Roh Tuhan melalui mulut-mulutNya. Kegagalan untuk 'beriman' [c] secara jitu dan benar kepada Jalan, Pintu dan Kunci akan mengakibatkan mereka 'tertinggal' di belakang kerana mereka tidak dapat memasuki "kamar dan menutup pintunya rapat-rapat," sebagaimana yang dinubuatkan oleh nabi Yesaya dalam Kitab Yesaya 26: 20-21: "Mari bangsaku (umat Tuhan), masuklah ke dalam kamarmu, tutuplah pintumu sesudah engkau masuk, bersembunyilah barang 'sesaat' lamanya, sampai amarah itu berlalu.21 Sebab sesungguhnya, TUHAN mau keluar dari tempat-Nya untuk menghukum penduduk bumi karena kesalahannya, dan bumi tidak lagi menyembunyikan darah yang tertumpah di atasnya, tidak lagi menutupi orang-orang yang mati terbunuh di sana." 

    "Sesaat lamanya, sampai amarah itu berlalu" itu sebenarnya merujuk kepada tempoh masa dari Why. 6:12 hinggalah kepada selesainya penggenapan murka Tuhan Cawan yang ketujuh dalam Why. 16: 17-21 (Cawan murka Tuhan ke-7).

    Apakah pula "gempa-bumi yang dahsyat " dalam ayat 12 Wahyu 6 benar-benar  bermaksud secara harfiah? Jawabnya, tidak! Kita tahu bahawa Nabi Yesaya bernubuat dalam Yesaya 8:  "7...Tuhan akan membuat air sungai Efrat yang kuat dan besar, meluap-luap atas mereka, yaitu raja Asyur dengan segala kemuliaannya; air ini akan meluap melampaui segenap salurannya dan akan mengalir melampaui segenap tebingnya, 8 serta menerobos masuk ke Yehuda, ibarat banjir yang meluap-luap hingga sampai ke leher; dan sayap-sayapnya yang dikembangkan akan menutup seantero negerimu, ya Imanuel!"

    Nah, "banjir" itu tidaklah merujuk kepada banjir sebenar, tetapi ia merujuk kepada penaklukan perang yang melanda tanah Israel dan Yehuda yang dibuat oleh maharaja Ayshur. Raja Daud bernyanyi tentang "suara" Hakim seperti dalam Mazmur 29. Segala ungkapan perihal "suara" Hakim dalam Mazmur 29 menjelaskan bagaimana 'murka' Tuhan itu disampaikan oleh perwatakan profetik yang simbolis, iaitu pemberitaan oleh elemen-elemen yang ada di 'langit' dan di bumi. Pembaca zaman harus berdoa selanjutnya untuk mendapatkan keperincian 'mesej' roh yang tersingkap, supaya mereka dapat mengenalpasti maksud yang disampaikan oleh 'elemen-lement' yang ada di langit dan yang ada di bumi. Elemen-elemen di langit dan di bumi itu adalah dilihat dalam penglihatan roh.

    Oleh kerana "langit" dan "bumi" itu adalah pengaliran kebiasaan dalam penyampaian roh nubuat (flow of the spirit of prophecy), maka kita tahu bahwa "langit" turut menyingkapkan pekerjaan atau "nama" Tuhan yang akan melaksanakan karya yang diberitakan oleh mesej 'langit.'  Lirik nyanyian Daud bernubuat bahawa: "Langit menceritakan kemuliaan Allah, dan cakrawala memberitakan pekerjaan ['nama']  tangan-Nya;" (Mazmur 19: 1-2).  

    Dalam nubuatan Wahyu 6: 12-13 "nama Tuhan" yang diberitakan oleh 'langit' adalah Hakim : "...matahari menjadi hitam bagaikan karung rambut dan bulan menjadi merah seluruhnya bagaikan darah.13 Dan bintang-bintang di langit berjatuhan ke atas bumi 'bagaikan' pohon ara menggugurkan buah-buahnya yang mentah, apabila ia digoncang angin yang kencang."

    Seterusnya Tuhan berfirman Mazmur 50: 5-7: 5 "Bawalah kemari orang-orang yang Kukasihi, yang mengikat Perjanjian [Paskah] dengan Aku berdasarkan 'korban sembelihan'!" ['Paskah'] 6 Langit memberitakan keadilan-Nya, sebab Allah sendirilah Hakim. Sela 7 "Dengarlah, hai umat-Ku, Aku hendak berfirman, hai Israel, Aku hendak bersaksi terhadap kamu: Akulah Allah, Allahmu!

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[1] 1 He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: “I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die; for I have not found your deeds completed in the sight of My God. 3 So, remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. 4 But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. 5 He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. 6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” (Rev. 3: 1-6, NASB) 

[2] Message to Laodicea:  14 “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this: 15 ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16 So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will [l] spit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, 18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. 19 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. 21 He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’” (Rev. 3: 14- 22, NASB).
[c] 1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the men of old gained approval. (Hebrews 11: 1-2).

Nota kaki

[1] "Revelation 3:1-6."  New American Standard Bible (NASB). BibleGateway, 11 Aug. 2017, biblegateway.com. 

[2] "Revelation 3: 14- 22."  New American Standard Bible (NASB). BibleGateway, 11 Aug. 2017, biblegateway.com.

[3] "Hebrew 11:1-2."  New American Standard Bible (NASB). BibleGateway, 11 Aug. 2017, biblegateway.com.

Sitasi 

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru. Yayasan Lembaga SABDA, sabda.org. Diakses 28 September 2015.

Siapa yang mempersembahkan 'syukur' sebagai 'korban,' ia memuliakan Aku; siapa yang jujur jalannya, keselamatan yang dari Allah akan Kuperlihatkan kepadanya" (Mazmur 50: 23).

Siapa yang mempersembahkan 'syukur' sebagai 'korban,' ia memuliakan Aku; siapa yang jujur jalannya, keselamatan yang dari Allah akan Kuperlihatkan kepadanya" (Alkitab Terjemahan Baru, Mazmur 50: 23).

    Nubuatan perihal tanggung-jawab rohani atau ibadah setiap citizen of the Kingdom of God adalah seperti yang dinubuatkan dalam rangkai kata doa Bapa Kami (Our Father).  Ia menerangkan 'Kehendak Bapa' ke atas setiap anak-anak yang ditebus. Roh Tuhan mengkehendaki bahawa setiap anak akan memanggil Tuhan sebagai Bapa mereka yang kekal abadi. Santo Yohanes menerangkan bagaimana seseorang itu menjadi 'anak':"10 Ia telah ada di dalam dunia dan dunia dijadikan oleh-Nya, tetapi dunia tidak mengenal-Nya.  11 Ia datang kepada milik kepunyaan-Nya, tetapi orang-orang kepunyaan-Nya itu tidak menerima-Nya. 12 Tetapi semua orang yang menerima-Nya [percaya] diberi-Nya kuasa supaya menjadi anak-anak Allah, yaitu mereka yang percaya dalam nama-Nya;" (Yoh. 1: 10-12) 

    Setiap warga Kerajaan Allah akan memuliakan 'nama'-Nya. Setiap anak memasuki hadirat-Nya untuk bertemu dengan Raja segala raja dan tuan segala tuan: Raja Kebenaran.  Pengertian kita hanyalah terkial-kial berkisar pada tahap kemampuan kapasiti intelek jika sekiranya kita tidak dapat bertemu dengan Raja segala raja kepada kerajaan Allah. Memasuki hadirat roh Raja segala raja akan menambahi pemahaman kita tentang roh pengertian dan juga roh hikmat. Justeru itu, dalam bisnes 'doa,' pemahaman kita mengenai 'kehendakNya' akan semakin mendalam.

9 “Pray, then, in this way: 

‘Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 ‘Your Kingdom come.
Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread [Manna from Heaven].
12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’]  [1]

    Kita juga mendapat pengertian dan pengetahuan akan Tuhan melalui mulut-mulutNya (Nabi-nabiNya): "Karena Tuhanlah yang memberikan hikmat, dari mulut-Nya datang pengetahuan dan kepandaian" Amsal 2: 6. Dalam mengerjakan ibadah setiap hari dengan menuruti mesej nubuatan Yeshua dalam doa "Bapa Kami," Matius 6: 9-13, kita mulakan ibadah setiap hari dengan mempersembahkan ucapan syukur." Ucapan syukur adalah pernyataan iman dalam memuliakan nama Tuhan. Dengan anugerah karunia-karunia 7 (tujuh) lapis Roh Tuhan, kita dapat 'mengucap syukur' kepada Tuhan. 

    Tanpa anugerah 7 karunia-karunia asas Roh Tuhan tersebut, maka sukarlah kita untuk 'bersyukur' dan berterimakasih kepada Tuhan. 'Daging' (kapasiti intelek) adalah amat lemah untuk menyempurnakan ibadah atau doa. Malah, 'daging' jelas sekali  tidak mempunyai kemampuan untuk 'berdoa': Tuhan itu Roh! Roh Tuhan berkomunikasi dengan roh manusia, iaitu melalui 'sumbu rohnya,' atau disebut "heart" dalam bahasa Inggeris : ia adalah komunikasi alam roh yang dinyanyikan oleh Daud sebagai "...Deep calls deep".  Salah satu aspek (facet) ibadah (Bapa Kami) kita kepada Tuhan atau spiritual duties adalah "memuliakan" (glorifying or hallowing) 'nama' Tuhan.

    "Mempersembahkan korban" (burnt offering) adalah "jalan berdoa" dalam bentuk 'ritus' di zaman patriarchs, dan dan juga di zaman kerajaan Imamat di Tanah Suci. Ritus Altar yang dianuti oleh Abel dan juga Noah itu adalah pengajaran Altar Sorgawi.  Altar adalah jalan untuk mendapatkan berkat Penebusan dan Keselamatan. Ritus altar adalah cara berdoa, samada untuk menyelesaikan dosa ataupun dengan maksud mengucap syukur-terima-kasih kepada Tuhan. 

    Altar sempurna bagi umat manusia keturunan Adam di bumi adalah "Altar Sorgawi yang turun terjadi di bumi:" ia adalah penggenapan nubuatan " ...jadilah kehendakMu di bumi seperti di Sorga..." Ritus Altar di bumi yang diupacarakan menurut Ordo Melkisedek  ialah 'kematian' Yeshua Di atas Kayu Salib. Kematian "Domba Tuhan" itu adalah mengenapi Taurat, nubuat nabi-nabi dan juga mengenapi maksud lirik-lirik lagi dalam Kitab Mazmur! Pengupacaraan Yeshua akan kematiannya sendiri sebagai korban 'altar di bumi' adalah suatu penggenapan Lukas 24: 44. Status pengupacaraan Ilahi adalah "Sudah selesai." (Yoh. 24: 44).

    Domba Tuhan Altar di bumi, iaitu Yeshua adalah Jalan yang benar yang menganugerahkan keselamatan. "Jalan yang 'jujur' dalam Mazmur 50: 23 bermaksud jalan yang 'benar.' Yeshua adalah satu-satunya 'Jalan' yang seratus-peratus jujur (benar) di mata Roh Bapa (benar). Perjalanan iman kita menurut kapasiti intelek tidaklah 'jujur' kerana daging itu lemah, maka jalan seumpama itu adalah senantiasa diwarnai dengan dosa-dosa pada setiap hari. 

    Domba Tuhan adalah Altar, atau 'Jalan' beribadah yang sempurna. Jalan Altar Yeshua itulah yang kita turuti untuk melaksanakan tanggungjawab-rohani (spiritual duties). Maka kita disebut sebagai pengikut 'jalan' Altar: pengikut Kristus. Yeshua berkata: "You are my friends if you do what I command you." Dan inilah perintah Tuhan, iaitu Kasihilah Tuhanmu sepenuh hati dan kasihilah jiranmu sebagaimana kau mengasihi dirimu sendiri.

     Kita semua senantiasa gagal dalam menyempurnakan Perintah Kasih Tuhan sebab daging itu amat lemah meskipun roh itu penurut. Hanya seorang sahaja manusia yang sejatinya dapat mengasihi Tuhan dan mengasihi semua orang dengan sempurna, iaitu Anak Manusia, Yeshua Kristus. Yeshua adalah Altar yang sempurna untuk kita membuat pengakuan dosa-dosa, supaya urusan memasuki hadiratNya tidak dihalang oleh dosa. Ia juga adalah 'Jalan' untuk meluputkan kita dari pertuduhan suara hati yang tidak putus-putus.  Pengakuan di hadapan Domba Altar menyelesaikan dosa-dosa dan juga melupuskan segala pertuduhan yang dibuat oleh suara hati kita sendiri. 

    Yeshua berkata dalam Matius 5: 48: "Be perfect, therefore, as my Father in heaven is perfect." Yeshua bukanlah mengajar kita supaya menjadi penganut perfectionism.  Dia tahu bahawa kita adalah keturunan Adam yang dibaluti 'debu.' Yeshua cuma mengatakan bahawa 'nature' Roh Tuhan adalah perfect, Suci dan berkuasa. Ia menyeru kepada pengikut Kristus supaya menuruti "Jalan" beribadah yang perfect, supaya kita dapat berurusan dengan Roh Tuhan yang Perfect di dalam bisnes doa, iaitu melalui Jalan, Pintu, dan Kunci yang 'perfect:' Roh Tuhan yang menganugerahkan 'Tujuh-Lapis-Karunia' asas. Dengan menuruti Firman (Kristus), kita dimungkinkan anugerah "Jalan sempurna" dalam urusan "Deep calls deep" dengan Roh Tuhan yang Perfect.

    Oleh kerana rohNya sempurna dan suci, maka benarlah bahawa tanpa Jalan, iaitu Yeshua, doa kita langsung tidak membawa apa-apa arti. Kita tidak dapat memasuki hadirat Roh Tuhan tanpa "Jalan" itu, iaitu Altar Domba Tuhan. Nabi-nabi dalam Perjanjian Lama juga tertakluk kepada pengajaran 'jalan' altar untuk beribadah, malah ada kasus Altar Sorga yang mengutus para malaikat untuk menganugerahkan Kasih Karunia dan Mercy seperti yang dilalui oleh Nabi Daniel dan Nabi Isaiah. 

    Nabi Daniel ternyata tiada 'altar' di Babylon kerana mereka (Judahites) dalam tempoh pembuangan dan sedang menerima hukuman selama 70 tahun di sana, tetapi "Altar Sorgawi" atau "Kehendak Kasih " berlimpah setia menganugerahkan "Mercy" dengan mengutus malaikat kepadanya. Kita menerima Kasih Karunia kerana kita dianugerahkan dengan 'karangan' iman untuk percaya-penuh kepada "Altar Sorgawi yang turun terjadi di bumi." Maka, hakikatnya, semua nabi-nabi dalam Perjanjian Lama dan umat Perjanjian Baru adalah sama sahaja kerana mereka semua adalah penerima Kasih Karunia dan Mercy Tuhan.

    Sifat Ilahi yang disebut Agape Love bila Ia berkehendak, maka ia akan diperlihatkan dalam penglihatan rohani sebagai Altar Sorgawi dan ada dua malaikat Seraphim melayani altar Sorgawi itu seperti yang pernah dilihat oleh Isaiah dalam Yesaya 6. Apabila "...jadilah kehendakMu di bumi seperti di Sorga..." digenapi atau "sudah selesai" ("It is finished"), maka Altar Sorgawi yang turun ke bumi itu dilihat oleh manusia di bumi sebagai "kematian Yeshua" di Kayu Salib (Altar Tuhan di bumi)! Maka, melihatlah mata-roh semua orang yang tertulis namanya dalam buku kehidupan akan arti tulisan Santo Yohanes dalam Yohanes 3: 16; " ...karena begitu besar Kasih Tuhan akan dunia sehingga Ia mengutus Anak (Domba Tuhan) yang tunggal..."

16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.” [2]

Nota kaki


[1] “Matthew 6: 9-13.” New American Standard Bible (NASB), BibleGateway. 21 Sept. 2016. biblegateway.com

[2] "John 3: 16-21." New American Standard Bible (NASB), BibleGateway. 21 Sept. 2016. biblegateway.com

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru. SABDA.org/ALKITAB, Yayasan Lembaga SABDA, www.sabda.org. Diakses 21 Aug. 2016

The prophesied 'Seed' and the citizens' 'spiritual ascriptions' to the Kingdom of God...

The prophecy about  the ‘seeds’ within a man

" 26 Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth,and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” 27 So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” 29 God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day." (Genesis 1: 26 – 31) [a] 

Be Holy

"Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” 17 Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. 18  For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.  20  He was chosen before the Creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.  21  Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God. 22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth, so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.  23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring the Word of God. 24 For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.” And this is the word that was preached to you. " (1 Peter 1: 13-25). [b] 


What is the spiritual meaning of  the words "...Father who judges each person’s work ..."?

    What is the phrasal meaning of "...each person's work" ?  There are two distinguishable interpretations concerning the word "deed" or "work" : the earthly deeds and spiritual deeds. Earthly intellectual deeds are not necessarily for our survival per se,  but God said “...the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth.”  St.Peter's words "each person's work," therefore, referring to the born-again believers' responses unto their Creator's "Deep calls deep" : faith (Hebrew 11: 1). The word "work' in verse 17 is referring to our spiritual works based upon the imperishable Seed (the Word of God) which demands faith. God's design for man was originally a spiritual man; a man who lived by faith.  Adam's center of consciousness was dominantly on his spirit, before he was "wounded" by his transgression against the Source of life. 

    Therefore, the phrase "a man's works" in St. Peter's Epistle  in 1 Peter 1: 17 refers to the divine-ordained 'spiritual' duties.  Of course, the 'perishable being' (flesh) is weak and constantly marring the 'gist en' [it consists in, it lies in] [c] of the 'imperishable being' within; the weakened predisposition of the mortal being is always soiling the 'wounded' spiritual being of every man.  The subtle and intricate relationships between the flesh, the soul and the spirit are constantly soiling even the born again spirits. We are not only inheriting the ‘weakened seeds'  of  'flesh,' but also partaking the fate of darkened-spirits (cut off from the Source of light). The 'fall of man' explains why our consciousness is gravitated towards the intellectual capacities and nervous activities, though our spirits are obviously capable of occult practices... Nevertheless, the flesh-centered awareness of a man appeals dominantly to our five senses. Therefore, we are easily enslaved into fulfilling the desires of the 'flesh,' which also means  ceaseless ‘wounding.’ 

    As we keep on wounding ourselves every day, the ‘wounds’ have kept on ‘cutting off’  the sensitivity of our ‘wicks of our spirits from 'entering' into the 'presence of the Imperishable Seed' (the Light  of God). The phrase "...each person's work" simply refers to the messages of the prophetic prayer in "Our Father" taught by Yeshua unto all believers. Praying 'Our Father' is the trait or lifestyle for every doer of The Word of God. The redeemed children of God were prophesied to call upon God as their eternal Holy Father. Every line in that prophetic prayer reveals the very core of daily 'worship' among the born-again believers, as if it becomes their 'lifestyles.' It points to the 'spiritual works' of a spiritual man as the citizen of the Kingdom: the citizens are the doers of the Word of God. 

     The prophetic meanings of the unfolding of the words of God in that prayer reveal the very 'seeds' which would germinate into the 'imperishable' being of each believer.  The unfolding of the words in every line of the prayer of "Our Father" points to the main principles of spiritual life, so that they may grow as the fruitful citizens of the Kingdom of God. Every born again child sees that Heaven is God's 'seat' of His Sovereignty, heaven is likened to be the Father's headquarters in fulfilling his revealed wills: the Word of God or Christ. When the 'Seed' comes down on earth, then we shall see the  fulfillment of the words  of God: "...Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." If only we have that 'seed' in doing every work of God even "as small as a mustard seed," then our spiritual works shall be completed. 

    The earth was predestined to be the place for the 'spiritual' man, and God commanded them "to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it." Such divine command remained the same though the first man, formerly a spiritual man, had chosen to be independent from God's will. Since then, those who do not embrace the "seeds," as revealed in the prophetic prayer of Our Father, would unknowingly trying to subdue the earth by harnessing the lesser precepts based on the corruptible 'seeds': intellectual capacities and nervous activities." 'Be fruitful' refers to Divine will for every spiritual man. It does not to be literally interpreted as "productive procreation."[1] Procreation is merely related to the perishable seeds. God is rather concerned about "spiritual fruitfulness."[2] Prophet Isaiah revealed the Word of God: "the fruit of righteousness is peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever." (Isaiah 32: 17). 

    God’s will for every spiritual man is to multiply, if he chooses to be fruitful. When ones are fruitful, then there would be many 'seeds.' We need more seeds when we want great multiplications. Continuous multiplication is easy when it is fruitful. The Kingdom of God is likened to be the work of the yeast in rice-wine-making. Each bacteria of the yeast is producing the same product: alcohol.  Eventually they would succeed in subduing the whole lump of carbohydrates. They follow the "principles" of "to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it."[3] Our spiritual works must embrace those principles: fruitful, multiply, fill and subdue. Failure to be fruitful will cause less 'seeds,' and less seeds means slower rate of multiplying, and unproductive process in filling 'a space.' Therefore, 'unfruitfulness' is causing the unproductive process of subduing the earth. To be fruitful, we must have a complete trust in the Sower or the Giver of seeds: Christ. Witness of Christ is essentially the Spirit of prophecy, and without such, multiplication would merely fill a believer with  intellectual digest. Outwardly, we may claim that we have subdued the earth, but unless we have learned to the secret of the Kingdom,  then we would end up as the ones whom the Judge says:... "...I will come like a thief. you will not know at what time I will come to you"...(Rev. 3: 3): we need the genuine 'Seed,' in order to 'wake up' the dying inside, otherwise the Judge says "your spiritual duties becomes an incomplete work."  

    All Spiritual works are based on all the Word of God either the written words of God or the spoken word of God. St. Peter wrote in 1 Peter 1: 15: But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” "...in all you do" refers to all Word of God. We are not demanded by God to be holy in doing the things what belonged to 'Caesars'. However, we might occasionally be entrapped and tempted to sin against Him, while we seek to fulfill our duties which belong to Caesar or our employers. Nevertheless, all sins are forgivable, thus we learn to see the goodness of God's blessing. The divine exhortation "Be holy, because I am holy"  is rather practical when it is seen concerning the business of prayer, in which we are demanded to put on "the holy tunic" endowed by the Altar (the 'Way').  Thus, sinner is unable to call upon the Most Holy God, unless he is given the "Way" in covering oneself with the garment of righteousness!

    Life without "the Word of God" would incline us into lower-self life-goals as revealed by the prophetic phrases: "eating and drinking; 'brick-making'; building a city; building a tower; marriage and giving in marriage; seeking a 'name' for ourselves, and also the end-times' enslaving "buying or selling." All the above phrases are the daily chores of the 'wounded' man who seeks after the 'corruptible treasures.' When adjudged in front of the Almighty Judge, those 'works' would be as 'grain-less-sheaves or tares' which would be readily consumed by a breath upon his nostrils (Judge). Everyone who calls upon the Lord would be adjudged whether ones' works are perfect or incomplete. Those whose works found to be incomplete in the sight of God would be exhorted to obey and repent. Obeying means 'total' confidence in the things of what we are hoping for in the names of God: faith. Those 'Sardis-like-believers' are exhorted to repent because of their "incomplete works." The goals are based on corruptible 'seeds'. We understand right from the beginning that the 'wounded' man tries to justify himself in the sight of God,  just as what had been done by Adam: "sewing the fig-leaves." Doing the will of God as revealed in prayer, Our Father, "thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," must not over ride this 'basic' spiritual 'covering' in prayer. To be the doer of the Word of God, we are demanded to put on a 'perfect' (holy) 'covering' according to the Word of God.  Unless we have learned 'complete trust's in the Way, our covering would merely reverberate what Adam and Eve had done after their 'fall.'  Such "sewn-fig-leaves" covering was driven by the corruptible precepts within the unrefined believers.

    Our spiritual work must be based on the 'incorruptible seed  i.e.  the Word of God: Christ. Those who strive to please God by merely covering themselves with the "sewn fig-leaves," like what had Adam and Eve did in Eden, would definitely end up walking in 'darkness', so that they may learn to see the essence of priority in the Kingdom of God. Through divine mercy, they may see what is "precious" in their lives or else they may become 'the falling unripened fig tree fruits,' when the skies proclaim his handiwork ('name').  "But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you." (Rev. 3: 3). God reveals that those who have complete works (perfect) are those who have not soiled their garment. They are "dressed in white." Those who had learned how to dress in white would be promised that their names not to be blotted out from the book of life. And their names would be acknowledged before Our Father and his angels. (Rev. 3: 5-6).

    Only those who have been taught by the Seven-fold-Spirit in putting on the "white garment" could withstand the present of the consuming fire of the Lord. Every Prophet had learned this lesson i.e. walking in 'darkness.' For those who are walking in darkness prior to that Day of the Lord, know therefore, that darkness is not your enemy, but like sons of Korah's expression in Psalm 88:  let them say "...the darkness is my closest friends." In God's perfect knowledge and wisdom, 'darkness' is the very place to discern God's finger that once touched Jacob's peniel and transformed him to be a man who knew the meaning of 'complete trust in God.  Prophet Isaiah prophesied "Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. (Isaiah 50: 10). Trusting in the 'name' of the Lord could be discerned as "trusting completely  in the Word of God." Divine "name' means divine handiwork i.e. the Word of God (Seven-fold Spirit). Thus, "complete works" must begin with "complete trust" in the handiworks of the Seven-fold Spirit. Unless our faith is refined, our trust would linger within mental level: Without faith, God is not pleased.

    Complete trust is pleasing in the sight of the Lord. You are not accepted based on our mental precepts.  God's power could only flow into us when we have learned the basic lesson of complete trust to the 'incorruptible Seed.' Yeshua is the 'incorruptible Seed: the Seven-fold Spirit or the Word of God. All believers must be the branches to the Seven-fold Spirit in order to be able to flow into the spirit of prayer: Our Father. When unfolded by God, the prayer--Our Father would be seen as the spiritual precepts  in becoming the doers of  the Word of God. A complete trusting in the Work of God would lead us as the "overcomers:"  complete works. Without 'complete trust,' in that Seed, we couldn't overcome the world. The 'world' or 'earth' means: "eating and drinking; 'brick-making'; building a city; building a tower; marriage and giving in marriage; seeking a 'name' for ourselves, and also the end-times' enslaving "buying or selling."  Those prophetic phrases are the things men on earth do everyday. They are diverting our 'priority' as the citizens of the greater Kingdom of the King of Kings and Lord of lords. Without 'complete trust' or 'genuine faith' (even as small as mustard seed), we are unable to be  fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.  We cannot subdue the prophetic phrases "eating and drinking; 'brick-making'; building a city; building a tower; marriage and giving in marriage; seeking a 'name' for ourselves, and also the end-times' enslaving "buying or selling," unless we have learned "complete trust" in the incorruptible "Seed." 

    Yeshua counsels, comforts and edifies us with these words: "These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” ( John 16: 33).  We cannot escape ourselves from 'receiving' the "mark on the forehead and the mark on the the right hand" or the 'name' of the beast. That 'mark' is the prophesied end-times' mammon in 'brick-making' (ancient prophetic words in Genesis 11)  or "buying or selling." The 'name' or 'the handiwork' ('name') of all governments on earth is the greatest force on earth that steals away the 'priority' of every citizen of the Kingdom. That 'name' is the very core or 'the brick' for the activities of "buying or selling" on earth. Modern transaction of "buying or selling" is birthed out from modern 'Mammonism.' The post World-War II 'monetary' or the 'name' of every beast in every nation is enslaving the inhabitants of the earth. And even the "free-men" (born again followers of the 'Way') are  subjected to that "receiving" of "the mark." We cannot freed ourselves from that subtle false source of life, except we have learned the basic principle of the Word of God i.e. "to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it." This is the spiritual principle to be embraced by every citizen in the Kingdom of God.   Modern mam-monism steals away the followers' priority Matthew 6: 33. 

    Modern Mammonism ('monetary') itself in the eyes of secular view is the basic medium for "buying or selling" on earth. It is the pulsating heartbeat for 'nation-building' of all governments on earth just as the prophetic words of 'brick-making' which was the basis of 'city-building' in ancient Babel in Genesis 11. God's names are the eternal Sources of life on earth because He is the Creator and owner of this Creation. Modern monetary is the human 'handiwork' on earth: it is the 'name' of man.  Lamb of God, for example, was the 'name' or 'mission' ('handiwork') of Divine Spirit on earth. Divine handiwork is the Word of God. We are spirit creatures clothed with the flesh. In the age of the Prince of Peace, it seemed that we need both the divine 'names' and also the 'names' made by man on earth. Nonetheless, Yeshua revealed that we cannot serve two masters. 

    Yeshua's exhortation in Matthew 6: 33 suggests which one we serve, but we are somehow serving and seeking both of them. The worship is somehow like a tug of war for every believer. Only the incorruptible Seed that has the ability to empower us in subduing the 'mark' from enchanting our spirits.  The words of the ancient people at the tower of Babel kept on enchanting human race on earth.  “...come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name." And those words remind us of what the Lord had revealed unto us through Prophet Isaiah in Isaiah 46: 10: " [He is] declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done." That ancient prophetic-phrases "let us make for ourselves a name" reverberates into this present times, and the "name" we made on earth is "monetary." The leaders of the "name" are the ruler of every nation on earth. The leading ruler of the modern covenant of monetary on earth was the United States of America, and she has not yet ceased to be the money-hegemony on earth. The prophetic phrases in Genesis 11 "...let us make for ourselves a name..." prophesied to be the adversary of divine "names" on earth. Modern-'monetary', in truth, is the 'name' or 'handiwork' made by the inhabitants of the earth in the last hours; Monetary as the basis of 'nation-building' still fulfills the principle of fruitfulness of this mortal-life that glorifies "the tree of knowledge," and yet it denies the true application of fruitfulness of righteousness since monetary was birthed out in sins. It deprives us the true practice of "the true branches of the True Vine." Since our consciousness is centered on the flesh, monetary naturally becomes the 'brick' for us in every transaction of "buying or selling" in our life. It subtly devalues the divine gift of eternal life ('fullness of life'). It steals away the significance of "seeking first the kingdom of God" from every heart of the citizen of the Kingdom.

     Modern 'mammonism' diverts our spiritual "seeking" for the 'names of God:" it opposes the divine design for every spiritual man which is redeemed by the 'Seed,' so that those whom he called to in the book of life would be dependent upon the true Source of Life: the Word of God. The divine names are the Sources of life, but eventually all people on earth would be subtly enslaved with another object of "seeking:"  We seek mammon everyday, as if it is the source of life! God's Spirit, the Father of all spirits, teaches us that His "names" are the eternal Sources of life. He told us that His Sevenfold-spirit is the true treasure for every 'spiritual man'  whose names written in the book of life (Isaiah 33: 6). However, the words which keep on reverberating from ancient times "...let us make for ourselves a name..."  have become the enchanting consciousness which subtly contends against the revealed Divine 'names.'    

    No governments on earth has ever acknowledged the 'names' of God, as the Sources of life.  All peoples on earth are saying the same words from the ancient Babel: "...let us make for ourselves a name..." They are now saying the same words through the United Nations.  We are seeing the 'appearances' of the 'signs of times.'  Since 1945 CE, we have seen two horns simultaneously that "came out from the earth." The first horn was the power to achieve "peace and security" on earth, and the second horn was the authority to establish 'practical medium' for business transaction in "buying or selling" i.e. covenanted "modern-monetary."  The leading ruler is undeniably the United States of America. The establishment of the United Nations after WW 2 was fulfilling the prophetic words "like a lamb" in Revelation 13 because she says "peace and security:" the five-veto-power nations became the cabal leaders of that world governance.  That world governance does not intend to embrace the Word of God as the true source of "peace." Every spiritual man sees that the establishment of the modern mammon is likened to that ancient 'brick-making' for erecting "a tower that reached to the sky." Modern Mammonism is the basis of 'nation-building.' It is likened to 'brick-making' activities that became the basis business in erecting a tower, and building a city in East Shinar: they enslaved themselves in building "...the tower that reaches to the sky."  Thus, we are on the brink of hearing Divine pronouncement "Come, let us go down ..." We are in the last hour of modern Mammon's enslavement. Modern-Mammonism is the basis for the prophetic phrase in Revelation 13, "buying or selling." You cannot personally 'subdue' mammon in our lives, unless we have learned the basic to be the true branches of the true Vine i.e. "'complete trust" in the greatest Seed (the incorruptible Seed: the Word of God).  Only then, we  could say that we may understand the spoken message of Yeshua in John 16: 33:  "These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world."

The  greatest ‘seed’

20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed (the incorruptible ‘Seed’~the 'Seven-fold Spirit'), you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” (Matthew 17: 20)

    That Seed is the Word of God. The Word of God is covenanted by the divine 'handiwork' ('name'). All God's Word is "spirit and life." A genuine 'Seed,' though as small as mustard seed, is able to move a mountain of 'unbelief.' Faith that moves mountain cannot be learned overnight.  It is refined through 'personal' wilderness or darkness. Neither it can be learned through secular education nor through formal Biblical-study . 

The 'mysterious' promise 

    51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed--52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”

The Creation of Man and Woman

"1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts.2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made earth and heaven.5 Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6 But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.8 The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. 9 Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.10 Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.11 The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.12 The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. 16 The Lord God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely;17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.20 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.”24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed." [d] 

The Manna from Heaven : the Sevenfold Spirit (the Word of God)

4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God’” (Matthew 4: 4, NASB).

     In the beginning, as He hath seen it from the end of it as well, God created man from two types of ‘essence’: the perishable body  which sprang forth from the earth, and also from the imperishable being (spirit) which was breathed into by the nostril of God. Those two types of body were carrying the 'seeds' subtly woven in every cell of his body, and it explained why man was ‘a spirit-creature,’ and yet he was also clothed with the earthen corruptible vessel. The imperishable being clothed with the corruptible being (flesh). This truth also explains why Yeshua said: ‘Man shall not live on bread (corruptible) alone, but on every word (incorruptible) that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4: 4).  A man has two beings in ‘one’ i.e. the perishable body and the imperishable body, though it would certainly known to be subjected to ‘darkening’ (without the Source of Light).    The literal bread represents the sustenance for the corruptible being, and the Word of God is the sustenance for the incorruptible being i.e. inter-weaved or trapped within this earthen vessel! It also explains the reason why every believer should be praying for the providence of either the corruptible food or the the incorruptible food. Therefore, our existence on earth needs two types of sustenance: the food for the flesh and the food for the spirit.

    7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground (corruptible being), and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (incorruptible being) ; and man became a living being (Genesis 2 : 7). Originally, He designed and created man as ‘a spiritual-man.’ A spiritual man means a man whose consciousness is dominant and dependent on the tree of Life (incorruptible sustenance). So, a spiritual man means a person who is dependent on the incorruptible divine sustenance: the Word of God. We could rephrase that prophecy in verse 7: God formed man from perishable being (dust), and he breathed imperishable being into the perishable being. Then, later on man began to ‘eat’ the perishable sustenance  in Eden (the forbidden fruits from the tree of knowledge), and God had to ‘cut off’ the accessibility of Adam to that incorruptible sustenance,’ fruits of the tree of Life. Thus, God created man and woman to live by ‘faith’ in Eden i.e. total dependent upon the Word of God (the incorruptible seed)! All word of God are divine Law. God’s design for Adam and Eve was total dependency: “to live by faith.”

    The absolute spiritual divine Law in Eden is “to live by faith.” Eating the forbidden fruits from the Tree of Knowledge means failure to live by faith. And this resulted the prophetic word ‘death’ would dominate the whole being of man. Unless God endowed the ‘way’ unto the transgressor, he remained to be subjected to that power of death. Later on earth, the descendants of Adam continue to seek many schemes in order to sustain the corruptible and incorruptible being within him.  Adam's naivety, by ignoring divine laws which forbade him from eating the forbidden fruits, had activated the corruptions of both 'essence' within him:  the perishable and the imperishable. The chain-effects of that disobedience (unbelief) re-predestined  the seeds within Adam to spring forth the descendants whom God saw as  sinners: After the deluge, He said: “...the intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth.”

    The account of Eden and Genesis 1 did not tell us about the dawn of mankind in literal sense.  All divine words in Genesis spoken through Prophet Moshe are prophesying about the 'ends,' and the 'beginnings' of  mankind. They reveal unto us the destiny of  the ‘seeds’ entrapped within each one of us.  And man had chosen to live by sight since Adam because “6 ...the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.” It rather  prophesied their predisposing choice in glorifying the perishable being within them. Eating the forbidden fruits of the tree of knowledge means they glorified the perishable being within them. They transgressed and defied divine instructions i.e. the incorruptible Manna. 

   They began to live by the corruptible side of man: the senses of the earthen vessel. They defied the divine ultimate design that was to live by faith in Eden. The laws of Eden says that if they ever wanted​ to stay in Eden, then “they must live by faith:” the tree of Life. A single act of failure in obeying the laws of faith caused them to be ‘cut off’ from the providence (Manna) of the Tree of Life. The rebellious man cannot partake what is incorruptible in the Kingdom of God.  It is against the Laws of Sustenance in Eden. God had to ‘cut off’ Adam from partaking the holy sustenance or the incorruptible fruits of the tree of Life. They must be holy if they ever wanted to be forever as the partakers of the ‘incorruptible food’ (the fruits of the tree of Life).

    The prerequisite in partaking the incorruptible Manna in Eden is ‘holiness.’ The consequence of defying or rebelling against the rule of holiness was to be driven out of Eden. The phrase “to be driven out of Eden”is better understood as the revelation of the truth concerning the spiritual laws of holy Manna of Eden. To be the partaker of the fruits of Tree of Life, then one must be holy. Thus, the prerequisite to be fruitful also means to be the partaker of the imperishable seed of Eden. Sinner is forbidden to take part of the fruits of the tree  of Life.  

    Therefore, a sinner means an unfruitful man in the sight of God. Sinners not only defile this earth with blood-shedding, but also frequently intend to destroy this earth, and yet God had predestined their destiny: " 18 and the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” (Revelation 11: 18).  In the end, the destiny for those unfruitful men would be meted out in Judgment. Unless we are given the Divine ‘way,’ then sinners have no access to partake the 'Manna' of the Kingdom of God. The mythical ‘expulsion’ of Adam from Eden is, in truth, rather spiritually discerned as a prophetic revelation! So, the whole book of Genesis is prophetic revelations. The messages in the holy book of Genesis are given unto us according to the Spirit of Prophecy. It reveals that man was created from two types of essence, and they were carrying within them those two types of seeds: the corruptible seeds (flesh) and the incorruptible seeds (spirit) ! The flesh was corrupted while the spirit was darkened due to the power of 'sins.' 

    Everything is in small things (seeds), and small things (seeds) are in everything. God began the intangible and tangible realities with ‘seeds.’ God created the incorruptible ‘seeds’ from His Word (Seven-fold Spirit). And He also created the corruptible body from the ‘earth.’ Genesis 1: 26 says: Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness (Incorruptible 'seed'~spirit); and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth,and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” Man was predestined to enjoy freedom with his freewill, and to be the ruler on earth. The power of Sins entered into human’s seeds, and man began to be enslaved in sins (the power of death), and they began to wage wars against each another, seeking to dominate each another, and even endeavoring to enslave each another. Christ came to liberate us from the 'root' of the power of death, thus, that man may live again as a spiritual man. When the 'imperishable being' within a man was darkened or disconnected to its Source of Light, it needs the prophesied 'Seed' to resurrect the darkened spirit. Thus, he came ( to us), as the Lux Lucet in tenebris! 

References

[a] “Genesis 1: 26 – 31.”  BibleGateway. The Creation of Man adn woman. The Lockman Foundation. 7 September 2016. <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1&version=NASB>

[b] “1 Peter 1: 13-25.” BibleGateway. The Creation of Man adn woman. The Lockman Foundation. 7 September 2016. <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Peter+2&version=NASB>

[c]   Harper, Douglas. Word Origin and History for gist Expand.  Online Etymology Dictionary © 2010. 06 September 2016. <http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gist?s=t#>

[d]  “Genesis 2.” BibleGateway. The Creation of Man adn woman. The Lockman Foundation. 7 September 2016. <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2&version=NASB>

[1] Munroe, Myles. your destiny is chosen by God, but its fulfillment is decided by you.  05 September 2016. <https://www.Facebook.com.you tube.com/watch?v=0w_a_...>
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.