1.3 Connections to Pro-Thesis
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The ruling verse of the Bible is Romans 8:28-30. – God is determined to symmorphose me as one person together with Jesus as the revelation of the Father. Everything in the Bible and in all reality must come under and be known by the universe-shaping words in these three verses together as one.
This course is based entirely on the course Symmorphy I: Purpose along with Essence and Kingdom. Thus, on a regular basis, this course assumes that the learner has completed every element in the first three courses on Symmorphy and thus knows, at least a little bit, the wondrous purpose of God for us and for creation.
Ruling Words
Five HUGE Greek words, then, coming into English, come out from this most important verse, the first defining verse of everything in our minds. Pro-Thesis; Pro-Knowing; Pro-Determination; Symmorphose; and Image.
Pro-Thesis is the set forth purpose of God out from which all things flow and towards which all things work, God’s intention, the Father’s DESIRE. Pro-Thesis is the Word by which all things are created; it is the Father working.
Pro-Knowing is the intimate knowing of the Heart of God out from which all things proceed, a knowledge that IS God, His KNOWING of you and me at all times and in every way.
Pro-Determination is the action of God, out from the core of His Being, a Determination that has seized you and me in its grip, a Determination that WILL accomplish all that the Father intends.
Symmorphose is the ruling verb of the nature and Being of God, Person inside of Persons inside of persons, God and us merged together as one person by every word that is Christ, sharing the same form.
Finally, Image is the outer expression of God’s purpose, God Himself appearing to His creation as you and me, the revelation of Jesus Christ, that the Father might be seen and known, touched and handled by all of His creation.
Defining Verses
In the simplest terms, this entire course is an in-depth study of Romans 8:28-30, the ruling verse of the Bible. To that central verse, we add its two key supporting verses, 1 John 3:2 and 2 Corinthians 3:18, two verses that must be known always together.
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that IF He appears to us, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. – But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Being made like Jesus is NOW, not some future event.
Word and Oath
We are looking for defining verses, and so I must reach and place without any apparent order.
Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things (word and oath), in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us (Hebrews 6:17-18).
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God… (2 Corinthians 5:17-18a).
In (Christ) you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit (Ephesians 2:22).
Christ Written
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them (Hebrews 8:10-11).
Clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart (2 Corinthians 3:3).
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent (John 17:3).
Life
To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God (Revelation 2:7).
In that day you shall know that I am in the Father and you in Me and I in you (John 14:20).
Now, there are elements of Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, and Colossians, etc., that deal with an outer issue of the Covenant, and that is how God eliminates sin. (Consider Romans 8:2.) Those issues are not the true meaning of Covenant, for Covenant is incorruptible life; sin and death have no existence in this consideration of Covenant. Yet sin is an issue for those Christians who will not believe in Jesus as Scapegoat; therefore those outer parts of Covenant will have their place in this study – Veil, Door, and Gate.
Pro-Thesis
My Father has been working until now, and I have been working (John 5:17).
We will not find Covenant in the gospel of justification from sin, but rather, in the life of the One who is Covenant. Thus all the Covenant verses simply point us to that One, the One who lives as us, the One whom we are being made like, the One who connects us in all ways with the Father. God’s purpose is to WORK inside His creation – but for God to work, visible and present, He must have a body, an outer form, a body that matches all things in the spiritual side and all things in the physical side of the universe. God’s purpose is to WORK in, through, WITH, and as us.
Pro-Knowing
He who overcomes… I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name (Revelation 3:12).
The Pro-Knowing of God, His deepest knowledge of all things inside His own Heart, that is, the source of the meaning and essence of every created thing, as that Pro-Knowing joins with us in Covenant, we know of it as the name of Father written upon our forehead. Adam received just a taste of that pro-knowing as he named the animals together with God. We live in it forever.
And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them (John 17:26).
Pro-Determination
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this (Isaiah 9:7b). – Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him (Isaiah 59:16).
I did not know it until a sister reminded me of the last part of Isaiah 9:7, the zeal of the Lord of hosts, but when I looked back at my outline, I saw that, in fact, Pro-Determination follows our study of the Veil. This is one of those things never before given to mankind.
Look back at the diagram for locating the Tabernacle in the last lesson. God has successfully gotten millions of people into the Holy Place, but they will not enter into the Holiest. God Himself will burst through that Veil a second time, to bring them into LIFE! – God manifest in the flesh.
Symmorphy
Our Symmorphy – sharing the same form with Jesus, the One who shares the same form with Father.
I have presented Symmorphy to you as its own unique branch of human study, similar to Physics and Engineering. Just as Engineering requires a theoretical study of Physics from which to operate, so does Symmorphy. And as Physics is proven out in practical application through Engineering, so also is Symmorphy. In a sense, Covenant is the theoretical study of Symmorphy, delving into its root concepts, whereas Kingdom and Life are the practical application sides of Symmorphy. The study of how Jesus connects us with Father is without end.
Image
Image – the visible representation or outward form of an invisible God, the appearance of God Himself in creation. Symmorphosed with the image of His Son. – He that has seen Me has seen the Father. – That He might be the firstborn among many brethren. – And I will write upon him My new name.
This is a mystery. Christ Jesus lives now as us; He in Person is our very and only life. Yet God also calls each one of us by name – To him who overcomes I will give a new name. For that reason we also are just like Jesus in our new incorruptible life. BOTH/AND – forever, the image of God.
Concluding Thoughts
If you are not blown away already, then you have not caught up with me, for I am utterly blown away. Tell me one thing I have written in these three lessons that is not what the Bible says. Yet I can promise you this, the winds of God through us have only just begun to blow.
For this moment, I am given an understanding of Christ now through us so real and tangible, and so beyond all measure, that I am unable to put it into words. We shall be like Him – God manifest in the flesh – a second time – for the sake of His Body, which is the Church.
Okay, let’s breathe deeply and come back to the classroom.
For Failures Only
There is no purpose, however, for you to take this course or to continue reading one more word, unless the desire and commitment of your heart is to be just like Jesus, God through you, now upon this present planet. This path is only for those who have NO HOPE in themselves, but have cast themselves absolutely into the grip of an All-Consuming Fire and Determination. No games are being played here; dishonesty was abandoned a long time ago. This course is only for absolute failures who love Jesus more than life itself.
Yet this path is for you, if you would take the next step inside all the Love of God.
The Ark of the Covenant
Of all that would teach us Covenant, the central representation is the Ark of the Covenant with the Mercy Seat upon it. Here is that same Ark in the New Testament. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only Seed of the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14). Monogenes – one Seed; prototokos, first of many born.
Although Covenant is, primarily, theory, that is, our understanding of the patterns of truth, still there is the deepest and most important of all applications inside of Covenant. – Our practice of being the Mercy Seat, that is, sharing Heart with God.
Welcome to This Course
As learners going through this course and all courses at Christ Revealed Bible Institute, you will know the Spirit of God leading you, personally, into all truth, into all the knowledge of Jesus alive and real inside your heart. There is no other purpose for anything, yet all things of joy and goodness flow out of our hearts, the Mercy Seat, the throne of God, out of Father in all abundance.
As you work your way through this course, stay always with Jesus. He alone teaches you. The pages of this text have no meaning at all unless Jesus is making Himself known to you by using what is written here just a little bit. I am confident that is exactly what He is doing in you.