One like the Son of God

 At the time of His conception in Mary's womb, God prepared a uniquely formed body for Jesus Christ, but let's talk about the period before that happened. 

A unique body did not yet exist for Him, even though He was preordained to exist forever after in the body God formed for Him in Mary's womb, and He was preexisting in God's glory, Spirit, and power to invest in Him alone without measure and make Him His eternal and immortal Son forever, the "firstborn of many brethren". This word "conformed to"means that we actually have to become Christ-like, just like He became the captain of our salvation.

He is the only human being who preexisted Himself, and every other human being is saved through Him, and in Him, not through their own agency whatsoever. Words like became, and begotten, are used to describe His majesty, and God uses this language to honor Him as having agency for the sake of all the rest.

He alone is first and only begotten, in natural body, then all the saved are invested through Him; we must be born again by the voluntary acceptance of His word, Spirit, and testimony in eternal truth.

1Cor15:22 He is the Lord invested bodily from heaven, exalted, and enthroned immortal with the power to command the resurrection of all. And to save from among them, [the resurrected] those who will dwell together with Him in the new heaven and new earth, after the first death in the body has been destroyed completely. There will be a second death that refers to the eternally burning fire of torments in the resurrected body, at the second resurrection. 

The first resurrection refers to all who are regenerated in Christ, from the moment of new birth, by believing, to the moment of change at His appearing, first being secured in heaven with Himself, after death, and alive and remaining to the change at His appearing for the first death destruction of the rest along with the present heavens and earth sustaining the body of mortality. The whole environment will collapse. And only those born-again changed in the moment can survive it. For in that moment, they will never die in that moment, nor forever after.

To end all death, the environment created for the sustenance of the mortal body must be collapsed so that no other person is reproduced in the body of mortality from that time forward and forever. The final number of all those saved from humanity beginning to end has arrived. 1 Cor 15:26

Peter uses Gen 6:13 to reference the "reservation" of the present heavens and earth for fire, when God took the breath away from all the rest by water, the "type" cast universal destruction of the wicked, defined more clearly in preordained and final manifestation here in 2 Peter 3. 

Regarding this, let's say it loud and clear that God restarted humanity as originally created in the Garden, through Noah and his family. So that He could bring His beloved Son into the world through the lineage of Eve. The Lord Jesus Christ sat prophetically enthroned at the flood. 

The nephilim were destroyed and reserved in chains of darkness, along with the angels who had cohabited with women, perverting the DNA of humanity before the flood. God put an end to that; there is no more lineage to the nephilim. Period.

Yes, grapple with it, and discover the truth, how great both the freedom and eternal responsibility, and blessed hope, that is given to men through the manifestation and revelation of Jesus Christ.

This is the exploration of history for Him who was preordained to come, but not yet manifest in His bodily person. And the fate of those who refuse His voluntary solicitation to salvation during the only remaining period given from heaven for calling upon His name and being born again by His Spirit in acceptance of the truth as He reveals it about Himself, and from His own person, in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily in immortality.

In the case of the unredeemed and wicked, Psalm 21:9 makes a bold statement: You will make them burn like a fiery furnace...at the time of your [2nd] appearance. Most of the Old Testament scripture makes reference to the truth of the final situation in the manifestation of bodily immortality, or the resurrected state of final adjudication at the rejoin with the body of God's original intention for us, as it will be commanded in universal expression at the end. 

Adam was preordained to immortality along with all the rest in Christ; however, it is plainly revealed and reasonably understood that he was not yet immortal at his creation. The proof of which is that he had not yet eaten from the tree of life and immortality when and by which time, he was actually blessed out of the Garden to be "fruitful and multiply".

The fact that he would "certainly die" in the body was an unknown to the serpent and to the man until he had become aware of good and evil. The introduction to the knowledge of good and evil was an initiation of responsibility to the sovereignty of God's commandments, as a preordained subjection to vanity, by the presence of the serpent in the Garden. Romans 8:20

And the death of the body is subjugated to God's sovereignty, for the number of years given for voluntary solicitation of reconciliation. [Reduced to a standard of 120 years at the flood.]

The serpent lied to him, but the serpent is also a created being and not omniscient. He presumed upon the reality that God is eternal and made man in His own image eternal, but that applied to the living soul as gifted by God and not the earthly body as built by God for a temporal habitation of humanity. A temporary earthly tabernacle, or tent, as called by New Testament writers.

 2 Peter 3 ...12 That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. 13 But in keeping with His promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where [only] righteousness dwells [and remains forever bodily immortal].

There should be no doubt that God will dissolve the present heavens and earth completely, and destroy the body of mortality and all that sustains the body of mortality. Immortality will consume all of mortality so that those who are alive and remain to that day will never die in the body, but rather be changed in that moment without ever dying. Jesus said, you will never die meaning the eternally living soul, then He also said, I am the resurrection and the life meaning that we will each be clothed upon with a resurrected or changed body, this is the "consummation" of all things, to bring everything that exists into the final form of which God ever preordained and intended to do at the end, from the beginning through voluntary solicitation. You don't have a choice about your initiation in the mortal body by natural birth and reproductive truth. 

Every creature reproduces after its own kind. And you are a creature, a created being, after the kind of Adam. 

You don't have a choice that you presently exist, as God has created you with an eternally living soul. You don't have a choice that you will be resurrected by the power and glory of God at the end of all opportunity for salvation.

If you want to survive death in the body and obtain salvation in the greater body of immortality, "you must be born again". John 3:3

Daniel 3:25 He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

God sent an angel of Christ's glory to be with them and deliver them from harm. 

Come with me for a moment of exploration, since there was from the seventh generation a man who had been born into the world, and become so Christ like, that God took him, and gave him a share in Christ's inheritance and glory, so much so, that he never died in the body, but has been preserved alive without ever dying in fellowship with God, and partnership with Christ, from his birth forward to this present moment. 

Amen! The Word of God and the glory of Christ cannot be reversed nor broken! Amen!

The direct agency of Christ's preordaination to bodily manifestation in glory was first shared with Enoch, for a witness of deliverance from death, in my exploration, to fuel the possible employment of Enoch in that instance being that he was a man birthed into the world and who became so Christ like He never died, becoming one with the Father and one like the Son of God in bodily form and person as first fruit of salvation in the eternally living soul, a first witness of becoming one "like the Son of God" in his bodily manifest person and communion with the Father and the Son in the same Spirit and truth of salvation in the soul, and in the preservation of the body. [not yet immortal]

However, Enoch was, and is, reserved in the state and spiritual body of God's preservation of him, until the universal command Christ will make at the end, to give him, as well as all of us who believe, an immortal body of the same substance and glory as Christ Himself alone possesses at present. 

Enoch, as far as the body is concerned "he was not" because God took him into a greater state of preservation, though he is not yet immortal in his body not having the power reserved by God as an inheritance to God's only begotten Son to command the victory over death, and resurrection to his own body, and not only His own but to command at a preordained end of all things mortal, a universal expression in greater transformation of body and to reveal of the eternal environments of immortality, and like all other human beings who have believed in Jesus Christ from the beginning to this present hour, is now ascended to the very presence of the immortal King he is reserved in the state and spiritual body of God's preservation from that time he was "taken" until now, and until the universal command Christ will make at the end. 

He was ascended with Christ, when He ascended, but beforehand, a fellow servant of Christ's redemption in spiritual preservation.

The Son of God was not yet formed and manifest in a body at that time, when Enoch was taken to become like Him, but we know that a body was reserved for Him, the Lord from heaven, from the beginning in the womb of Eve.

So why should we explore this possibility of Enoch's involvement? He is the first man who never died, in a sense of his existing from the time of his birth, and yet, and still to this present day, existing but in what form or substance? 

We could say in the substance of Christ, his existence was and is preserved, but what of his body? His body was never given to death, never descended to the grave, but in what state of preservation was he in until Christ came in His own person and Enoch was ascended up with all those who had preexisted the moment of Christ's appearing, to ascend with Him to the place that Christ in His own glorious body has prepared for us with Himself in heavenly places?

What manner of work, or partnership with Christ, have Enoch and thereafter Elijah engaged in for God's purpose and advancing plan between the time that each of them was yet in the environments of earth in their mortal bodies and that subsequent time in which they were each, from their own origin of generation in like bodies to ourselves, thereafter sustained by God without ever dying at all? 

God's word, and witness of inform and workmanship by partnership with Christ who was from the beginning preordained to come into the world, performing His promise to deliver us from death from generation to generation, through a continuity of increase to our understanding, relates Enoch as a man from the seventh generation, as the first man who received a manifest deliverance, of God's promise to deliver us from death, based on what Christ would do, when Christ would come to be formed in the body, by the seed reserved by God for Him in a virgin woman, as was declared by God in the Garden and made manifest in Mary. 

So then, let us resolve that because Adam, as a man created of the earthen body and prone to sin, once fallen, is helpless by virtue of his lesser and carnal estate to attain that for which he was created to inherit in true Sonship to God by his own effort or created means. 

It is God alone that must initiate from His own glory and substance of eternal life, a form and body for redemption by another man, as formed in the like substance of an earthly body, who must demonstrate a voluntary allegiance and partnership with God's desire to deliver and make a way for salvation of those who turn voluntarily to the Lord.

God's desire and intention to deliver us from death is pronounced and demonstrated at the very beginning and in the Garden, when He clothes Adam and Eve with His own righteousness, at the same moment when they earned death as a payment for their sin, a lamb that was slain by God instead, and was the source and outer skin of their clothing upon, before being blessed out of the Garden to fulfill God's will, and enjoy His mercy and goodness to sustain them in hope of salvation, until the Lord would come! 

And since He did, we have a more sure word of prophecy to become, like the son of God, in equal share of His inheritance, if we remain faithful and loyal to the end.

2 Peter 1:16-21 Don't be distracted by conjecture or flamboyance.

Thank you for reading this. My prayer for you:

Father of glory, fully invested irreversibly in the body of Jesus Christ, eternal and immortal, build up the Church in faith and expression by the gift of Your Holy Spirit poured out on all flesh from the 10th day after Your ascension to where You are now. 

For now, let the mystery of Your Kingdom from heaven be more greatly revealed to all who call upon Your name, which was never previously given throughout all ages before Your manifestation in Mary's womb. 

Ah, Lord God, how great are the glories of Your plans and purpose of redemption to the body in immortality from the beginning! 

And just as Peter first proclaims in Acts 3:21, and Paul declares in Romans 8:23, You have preordained our salvation, and redemption in the body to immortality, but we must choose it in Your beloved! 

Thank you for opening the eyes of our understanding and bringing us along in as much as anyone may perceive Your desire to save and deliver, so much so, that they come near by calling upon Your Holy name today. 

If anyone read this testimony of Your glory today, and believe in their heart, and open up their mouth to call out to you, they may receive the corresponding witness of Your love for them and be changed by the gift of Your Holy Spirit, the internal witness of Your glory be invested in them in the moment being born again by believing the truth, and saved from glory to glory preserved by Your power to the end. 

In Jesus' Name Amen! 

For let us also know and more greatly understand that You have died the first death in Your own body, commanded over Adam, so that being redeemed by faith and partnerhsip with your eternal glory and Godhead, neither Enoch nor Elijah will ever die at all, and in the generation of Your return, we who believe in You to the saving of the soul, will also be changed without every dying, and in the greater peformance of Your promise and our blessed hope, because You died once as appointed unto men, that we could live forecver with You in the greater body of immortality! 

Forever and ever in a new heaven and earth that You will provide for us to dwell together with You after the consummation! Amen! Amen!

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