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Re: Signed `I, Jesus.` (Rev. 22: 16) [message #11427 is a reply to message #11409]

Sun, 23 November 2014 14:47

Gary
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Marilyn Wrote: Have we considered that this person is the greatest person of all time & eternity, who has achieved the greatest victory by the greatest price there ever was. Yet.....when it comes to signing His book,

More thoughts on this. Jesus, "God" is the center of all things. How could He not be since He created us out of nothing.

This world in which we live in is our reality but it is not the real reality that exists. Heaven is the real reality because that is where God exists before all the Holy Angels who He created as well. One day this life will cease to exist and as I believe it will be sort of like a dream. You know how when you dream something then wake up and you still remember the dream but you know that it is something that just happened in your state of sleep. But you do remember it and what took place in the dream. Not trying to be philosophical but trying to get a perspective on God as we know Him.

God is not in the realm of time He created time for us. As created beings if we try to comprehend eternity we find it is impossible. Think for a moment in our terms a trillion, billion, million years ago there was God and He was from all Eternity, there was never a beginning. So with the measurement of time it can only be seen as endless beyond our finite brains ability to rationalize. A created being can only realize that it has happened because God told us this is how we exist today, and where He came from. That is: Out of eternity comes One called the Ancient of Days, the Eternal One with no end.

This is who we put our faith and trust in to take care of us and know that He will show us His salvation.

As you said; "He is the greatest person" and we know that with out Him we would never be able to exist. We can now understand His Love and at what great lengths God went to be able to give us salvation.

Nothing was held back, to send your only Son to be cruelly crucified and to suffer and die on a cross shows the heart of God and His love for all mankind.

Jesus will always be the Center of All, throughout eternity.

Men place a lot of importance on having titles before their names and letters that follow their names, showing their fields of study in some university. None of these fancy titles will be written in the Book of Life.

The more we know God the better we understand statements like this: `...comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth & length & height & depth, & to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge....`(Eph. 3: 18 & 19)

God's Love surpasses all knowledge. Knowing that He chose us before the foundations of the earth to be partakers with the saints in light is most outstanding.

The verse you shared goes on to give "all" on this earth a warning:

Quote:

16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

It's important to never "take away from this book" or to "add to this book".

Its easy to do away with things in this book and also to add to the Book of revelation, making it say things that do not exist in the book. We can only take it for what it says.

But again I realize God says at the beginning of the book He will give us understanding of things to come.

Quote:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants—things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John, 2 who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.

I believe God wants us to understand it by His Spirit, that is why He showed us this, the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

I,Jesus

Gary

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