Article-2 (Bro.K.M.Mathai, M.A,  Pastor & Teacher, Bhopal)

A B C D OF THE WORLD

 
THE VERY BEGINNING

PREVIOUS AGE

PUNISHMENT TO PREVIOUS GENERATION

NEW DISPENSATION

PLAN OF REDEMPTION 

MESSIAH IN HUMAN FORM

THE VERY BEGINNING 

I don’t know where and when the time began. If any body knows please tell me. There was no time when there was nothing. There were and are two things always: God with  His space and time. But human beings cant say when they began. When did God and time begin? None knows; even the wisest man admits the failure. If we say:  “both God and time existed together: it will be flawless. What is time and who is God?: both are puzzling questions. Those who boldly say- there was time and a person of life, of highest intelligence, of topmost engineering ability, of the best architectural ability, of the highest mathematical accuracy, of great scientific merit etc. conceive a supremacy Being came into existence in a moment by Himself.  There is no There was no time when there was no God. We have found out a word best suited to explain his sudden self-appearance, that is, “Swayambhu”. The Bible term for it is  “the First born”. Jesus Christ is qualified by this name “first born” Col 1:15. He came to existence not only first but also by Him-self. That is the only way to satisfy our brain and mouth. No created thing in the world is capable of creating another thing. There must therefore be a creator of highest caliber. In that situation the only solution is to embrace the word Swayambhu or the firstborn, without whom the creation of the millions of varieties or DNAs of animals, plants and birds and the wonderful persons was/is impossible.

 

 This Supreme Being used to appear as One some times; and at other times as three persons. He was/is the Triune God. They were of the same will, power, & glory and of all the essences of Godhead. In the world there are some other things too which being one can exist in plurality too. Example: the mercury falls down divide and unite in a second; etc. are also other examples. They live and work as one piece or as several pieces. Divide them, still each piece retains the same qualities of the original one. So is God; each of them has the qualities of its original one, yet one in kind! Marvelous; is it not? If there is oneness in plurality in the nature, and vise versa why not to have it in godhead.!

 

WAS THERE SPACE FOR THE TRIUNE GOD to exist?  And where did the Swayambhu exist if there was no place? The answer is: He existed in the DNA form in the place available with Himself. For example: an embryo in an egg exists and grows within the egg itself. Similarly the embryo Triune God existed within its own space. The three then commanded and that “big bang” created the heavens and the earth as described  in Genesis 1. The scripture says:

 

“Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants  of the world stand in owe of Him;

For He spoke and it was created; He commanded

And it stood fast.” Ps.33:8,9

“ Let them praise the  name of the Lord

For He commanded, and they were created.”Psa. 148:5

 

There is no creation record or proof better and truer than this Biblical testimony in the      universe. God, the wisest and the strongest of all the creations could not remain idle; He created the human beings in His own form. They were named as Adam and Eve. They imagined the four directions: the north, south, the east and the west, depending on the Sun.

The Triune God then made their dwelling place in the highest mount of the universe which was called as “the Mount of the congregation in the side of the north” as viewed by Isaiah (14:13,14.) and Ez.28: 13. It was a place full of dazzling light. This magnificent northern height became the office cum dwelling  and meeting place of Most High God in His Trinity. That was well known as the Mt. of the congregation in the northern heights. Officially it can be termed as the heavenly parliament house,  or the Sanctuary (Ps. 103:19) like our parliament house in New Delhi. In that official Mansion they used to meet together often to discuss over the wide and diverse creation and management aspects of the big universe of which we know only very little.

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  1. THE PREVIOUS AGE

Sitting in that highest position of vantage on the mount of the congregation God was looking down and observing every thing, good and bad, that was/is happening on the earth. Psalmist  recorded this fact:

“The fool has said in his heart: there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that understand and seeks God. They are all gone aside; they are altogether become filthy; there is none that does good, no not one; all are workers of iniquity, no knowledgewho eat up my people.” Psa.14:1- 4

Already they had noted and recorded many a wicked thing. God knew well what and when worse things will happen in future. To the Triune God, in fact the past, the present and the future were all alike visible. They had taken many punitive and remedial measures too. These were noted in the books in heaven. Some portions of which were revealed to some of the prophets who had reverently recorded them in the scriptures that have reached our hands too.

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  1. THE DEVASTATIVE PUNISHMENT GIVEN TO THE   PREVIOUS   GENERATION

Lucifer, the son of the morning appointed as the chief of the serving angels revolted against the Most High reining supreme in the world capital city with the parliament house in the north mount of the congregation boasted he will occupy the throne of the Most High. The all-knowing God  knew his heart ; hence ordered him to get out. He and all his company were expelled and pushed down to the aerial regions. He is the ill named Satan himself, the chief enemy of the Most High God. In vengeance he  took  part in instigating thousands of the angels of his group to revolt against God. If the hostile angels in thousands had gathered and shouted  might be it somewhat as follows:

      “Jehovah God! “murdabad,”vacate the congregation mount,

      the mansions are ours;. Vacate  them, we will occupy them.

       We will reign;. The third heaven is ours. Lucifer Zindabad,” 

The global previous earth was most probably a glorious center of excursion to the High heavens. But the damage now caused was immeasurably vast. NOTE THE HUGE DAMAGE TO THE PREVIOUS GLORY due to that revolt as recorded very briefly in the very beginning of the Holy Bible due to which:

 “The earth was made without form and void ; the green land  is no more to be seen; darkness was  upon the face of the earth” and in the sky too: all the celestial  sources of lights, the sun, the moon and the stars were put off and the whole world was in utter darkness. All the lives and plants on the terrestrial globe ceased to exist. The exact reason and the duration and volume of that in-fight and the devastation  are not recorded in detail in the Bible.

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  1. THE THINGS BROUGHT FORWARD TO THE NEW DISPENSATION  

 

1.      A deformed water-covered earth and a darkened heaven.

2.      The Spirit of God was moving upon the face of waters.

3.      Satan, Lucifer by name, the fallen angel and his company were rebuked to get        out from the mount of congregation in the north to the airy bottom area of   heavens; but were free to fly about and make shuttle services to any area of the global earth. Some more time is allowed to them to repent or to be disciplined.

4.     The newly created human couple (Adam & Eve) was given the replenished terrestrial globe.  There they were directed to live on the new land.

5.      The celestial area was divided into three heavens and the holy angels were ordered to live according to their status and position depending on their faithful services and commendable behaviour. There were chieftains also among the angels like Michael and Gabriel. They were in overall charge of various areas of the vast universe, especially of the people of God.

However, the Lucifer was not silent. He flew all over the world and began to canvas multitudes to his side  and to untie the knots the Lord God had tied up. Wickedness  increased; no fear of God, the supreme; people suffer and lament.                                    

    

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  1.       PLAN OF REDEMPTION

          THE ALMIGHTY MEET  ON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION

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                                                       SCENE 1

                        

PSALM  4O:2: God used to look for God -fearing people.

PSA: 102 :19:  Read, then proceed please…one day The Almighty God made a purposeful, estimate-taking look to see:- How their people fare and observed:

1) The Terrible and Pathetic human condition down on the earth.

2) Millions are groaning in prisons

3) millions are appointed to death, eternal death.

4)  that the name of the Lord  yet to be  declared in  Zion /Jerusalem

and people yet to  gather in the kingdom to serve the Lord                                    

The Triune God deeply touched, moved: “Our people in utter sorrow, in curse, Satan Our enemy has captivated them.”

He the Father ordered: “Messiah, Pneuma, come we have to  plan and act now”. 

             SCENE 2

An emergency meeting of the triune God called for God the Father: Listen Messiah and the Pneuma, it seems our people have almost been captivated by our enemy, Satan. People have become wicked in our eyes, They deserve  no further living. Let us JUDGE them and the Satan too  that  made them revolt. Messiah, it is time for you to act.

The Messiah: Father, then millions and millions of people will have  to be destroyed. It is very pathetic. We created them wonderfully giving our life. Shall we not send some more messengers to them to plead them to repent and mend their ways?.

The Pneuma: I second that kind proposal; Father what you suggest is really just. Mercy will fetch much good. Then they will praise us. Well, I’ll be happy to see them repented and living a just life. I think that‘s not possible to them. Messiah, you took initiative to create them (Jn 1:3; Heb. 1:3). Naturally you may have more sympathy; but justice is justice. Life for life or blood for blood.  You know, We had passed  the law : “There is no  remission of sins without shedding of blood.”  That’s an eternal law. If a sinner is to  be saved from eternal death, blood of life has to be shed in propitiation. You know that is our established  law.

Messiah:  Let us sacrifice  some 1000 sheep for the entire human beings?

Father:  What is that for the millions? 

Mess:   Then shall we sacrifice 10,000 sheep and 1000 young bullocks?

Fr:      “We can’ be delightful in the blood of bullocks and lambs,”. (Isa. 1:11-13, Psa. 40:6-7; Mala. 1:8.). First, it is insufficient for millions of culprits.”                   

Most precious, purest blood has to be sacrificed for absolute  remission of the entire human beings numbering crores. Somebody like a super, purer heavenly being has to pay the price ; animal blood is not enough. You will remember, that is the new and better law that we enacted before the foundation of the world (1pt 1:20).

           What do you suggest Pneuma?  We want your will too.

Pneuma: I fully agree with you Father. We tried the blood of animals. But the culprits were keeping the best animals back and sacrificing the sick and the lame and that too without repentance.” Please read Isa.1:11-13 and proceed.

Mess: Shall we offer one of the heavenly beings , an angel?

Fr:      Angels are our creation;  they are  inferior beings.

Mess.  Then who can  pay the price of the entire human beings? Shall we offer them absolute free mercy and forgiveness? Free forgiveness?

Fr. That is insufficient, for, justice (judgement) is not kept. Both justice and kindness have to be met. (Psa.85:10;Jn.1:17);punishment and mercy are to meet. That will be praiseworthy in our court.

 

Then there was pin-drop silence for about 34 minutes! (One minute for one year of Jesus’ public life).

All the three silent; they looked each other. Life for life ie without shedding of blood in which is the life we shall not offer forgiveness and salvation.

           That is our established  fore ordained law Rev 13:8.

                Why dont you Messiah, find a sure means to save the human kind in millions? You took first hand in  creation . Have we not imparted our life by breathing into them! I suggest this because you were chosen as the Executive for the creation and for its maintenance works.(Heb. 1:3; Jn. 1:3). You are entrused with the great jobs of doing away with Satan and his powers, and to deal with sin, death and resurrections.  They come under your portfolio. Are they not? You have to do it even at the cost of your life.

Mes.- Well , then I’am ready for it. But where is blood in me Father?

Pneuma: Yes,a special body shall be prepared for you, a body of purest blood, supreme,  and  precious. (Ps. 4o: 6 – 8; Heb. 10:5).

Mess. “I delight to do thy will, O my God; Lo, I come; In the volume of the book it is written of me. ”

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  1. THE SIN BEARER MESSIAH IS GIVEN HUMAN BODY         

            

     The eternal Messiah is incarnated, having been sent down in the size of a nucleus to the virgin Mary’s womb   where He grew  “In the fullness of time the Messiah (also called “The Word´) became flesh, and handed over Himself to the wicked people quite prepared to fulfill your will Father, on behalf of the millions of the condemned human beings.

   

The word of God says in Jn.1:14; Acts 2:23 (please read before you proceed): “Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken by the wicked hands and have crucified and slain  him.”

 

“THE LORD LAID ON MESSIAH THE INIQUITY OF ALL”

 THE SUFFERING MESSIAH LAMENTS FORETOLD PROPHECY IN B.C. 1000 WHICH WAS FULFILLED EXACTLY IN JESUS

 

The Messiah suffers on behalf of the guilty wicked people

The afflicted man in Ps. 102 is the Messiah himself, the substitute

for the condemned sinner Note: THE  SHRIL CRY OF the afflicted man, Messiah on the Earth.

The Cry is a single man’s cry  --but heard as the LOUDEST cry of  millions together.

He laments loudly : “My heart is burned as grass. I forget to eat my bread.

My bones are stuck to the skin. My heart is withered like grass

I am like a pelican and owl in the desert. I am like a lone sparrow upon the house.

My enemies reproach me .  I am  like one eating ashes

My tears are mingled with blood  -Oh God thy wrath on the wicked is poured on me.

THOU   lifted and caste me down.  My days are like declining shadow

I am like the withered grass.

I am like a sparrow on the house top;  My bones adhere to my skin.

 

This suffering person is none else than the Messiah, the mediator  is chosen to be punished instead of the guilty human beings. He is shielding us, the guilty.

 

The Father’s satisfaction: “Messiah, you made intercession for the transgressors and  poured out your soul unto sacrificial  death on behalf of the condemned sinners.

 

             THE AGONY OF Messiah, THE SIN BEARER (Foretold  1000 years even before His birth. Exactly fulfilled to latter)

Psalm 102:verse 23: The Messiah cried aloud:” God weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days; I said : take me not in the midst of  my days”;(because the Messiah foresaw his  fall on His face in the garden of Gethsemene and His immature death at the age of 33 on behalf of the condemned human beings. Then He gave  up his life as a ransom .He foresaw  all these and wept.

(Reader: “Are not these words anything to you?)

 

AT ONCE THE HEAVENLY FATHER COMFORTS His CRYING SON

 Read it in the psalm from the middle of v.24:”Thy years are throughout all generations. Of old thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of thy hands; they shall perish, but thou shalt endure….thy years have no end………..”.

Readers, realize the mystery in these words of prophecy,This enactment and determinations took place before the foundations of the earth and the heavens as recorded in Rev. 13:8 and 1 Pet. 2:19 and 20; Eph. 1:4; Acts 2:22,23etc. As decided and recorded in the heavenly books in the unknown eternal past things have  happened before the first 40 years of the first century A.D.

That is history  now; facts deeply recorded in  various history books on the earth. The Creator had this definite plan and aim to redeem you and me the condemned, disobedient, wanderers sold to the hands of Satan, the dead enemy of God. Are you one among them! Believe this prehistoric  divine determinations. God in heaven saw you and me in Satan’s clutches heading on to the sheol (burning hell for eternal condemnation) see Numbers 16:30. These records of heavenly discussions of decisions are recorded for the fallen humanity. I trusted in Jesus mediation and got eternal peace.  Believe you too, confess your sins, fall at the feet of the Saviour ask pardon believing in His cross and secure immediate  exemption from hell fire.

            As the message acted in its freshness and warmth in the first century thru’ the Christ’s  devoted disciples, may it be acted in the readers minds screen of those who read this drama. May the loving God harness it for His glory.

 

 

   The drama  is dedicated  at JESUS FEET in all reverence  for HIS blessings.

        

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bro.K.M.Mathai, M.A,B-230, Minal Residency, J.K.Road  Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA