12.1 Blood - Time - Judgment
© 2016 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
Why and how can evil actions take place inside the Being of a God of Love and Purity? Because God cannot sin. God cannot violate the integrity of any person.
The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable (Romans 11:29). By His command to Adam to subdue all, God had placed Adam as the authority over the nature and quality of heaven/earth. Incorruptibility, no knowing of sin, means that God has no thought ever about removing that authority from man.
Psychology, Not Force
Let me take this thought way out there. It’s not that God “cannot” use force to prevent an evil man from committing an evil action; it is that the thought of doing so never enters God’s mind. God gave authority to man; He never thinks of violating that gift.
That does not mean that God does not use psychology to turn arrogant humans in one direction instead of another. All we have to think of is Jonah and the whale. Solomon said that the Lord turns the heart of a king wherever He wishes (Proverbs 21) – turns by psychology, NOT by force.
Inside of God
You see, it is self-evident that if God used force to compel humans to do what He wants them to do, then there would be neither sin nor death, but only instant execution of God’s will. Except that God would be not-God, and a “god” of force would be a god of cruelty.
Yet the shattered-ness of Adam’s creation is taking place entirely inside of God; there is no “other” place. All wickedness and cruelty, all evil actions of theft, murder, and abuse, take place entirely inside of God, inside of His gentle Holy Spirit, and by the ongoing energy of the sustaining words of Christ. HOW does God cope? The answer is a simple one-word.
On Whom He Wills
But first we must make one more observation. Paul referred to Pharaoh regarding Psalm 105:25, stating that God turned Pharaoh’s heart against the children of Israel. Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens (Romans 9:18).
The wages of sin is death, and God has every right, according to the word He spoke to Adam, to allow all consequences to come against those who do evil. If God turns a wicked heart to the lust for greater wickedness, God has in no way violated the integrity of that person. Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! (Romans 9:14) – But how does God cope with all this evil?
Blood
Blood. God copes with evil actions taking place inside of Himself by one means only, by Blood.
God has no Plan B. Everything of God, coming out from Him to demonstrate His Heart and His Word, is found first in the pro-knowing of God. God has not deterred in any way for any reason from His original purpose to be known by His creation through His image, man. In fact, quite the opposite. The Heart of God is life laid down and love poured out. God’s intention IS to reveal His heart.
The Lamb-Slain
Blood is God’s metaphor of life laid down and love poured out. Blood is the outflow of God’s heart.
Jesus IS the Lamb-slain. Remember that there is no such thing as “before” or “after” in God’s being. God is all here now; thus Jesus must be all here now. Jesus as the Lamb-slain simply IS.
But Jesus as the Lamb-slain, as the very Heart of an always all God, cannot save anyone as He is inside the Father. There must also be blood in the dirt.
An Outline of This Session
I began this lesson with no title, and although I know what must go into this session, I had no present outline. The three questions we must attempt to answer inside this session is – What is Blood? – What is Time? – and, What is Judgment? All three must be addressed together; they cannot be separated, for they mean each other. We cannot know any one of these outside of the other two.
Here, then, is the outline for this session. This lesson will attempt a definitional explanation of these three things, the next lesson will look at these three prior to the cross and the third will consider them after the cross.
Might Make Known
Read Romans 9. Indeed, Paul’s argument is at the center of what we must know in this transition from sin and death to redemption and salvation. What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for (cessation), and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory? (Romans 9:22-23).
God “endures” wickedness that He might make known glory. And the key to all of this is a Godly understanding of time. Time is utterly of God. Time is an eternal God showing up in His creation. Time is God becoming known.
Time Is Making-Known
“That He might make known” is time; time is making-known.
But we cannot even begin to define time inside of God without dealing with a ridiculous piece of King James’ nonsense first. And the angel… sware by him that liveth for ever and ever… that there should be time no longer (Revelation 10:5-6 KJV). “Time shall be no more.” – Hogwash!
Yes, the Greek word John used here is chronos, which does mean time; but chronos, like all words, has various shades of meaning, meaning that can be known only by the context. The context in Revelation 10 is clear, that there should be no more delay – in completing the mystery of God.
The Hatred of Man
But the damage has been done, and thus many deeper truth preachers tend to wax eloquent on “time” as being something contrary to God, something God intends to eliminate. The problem is that Nicene Christianity is the victory of Gnosticism over the gospel of Christ. There are a number of sessions coming up in which we will investigate the victory of the serpent over in-part Christianity. At the core of that victory is the renaming of death, calling death “Savior,” and being dead, “salvation.”
The serpent hates man as the image of God. Thus if time is God manifest in the flesh, then let’s dupe these Christians into believing that God hates time.
God’s Opportunity
The only opportunity God has to make Himself known to His creation is inside of and through time. You and I are not and never will be eternal – in our ever-lasting human form. Yet, we are eternal inside God’s heart, inside the connection of Jesus that places us inside the pro-knowing of God.
Eternal means ALL now. Sorry, but only God is all now. Jesus is all now only as He lives in the Father and as the Father lives in Him; that is, Jesus is all now as He proceeds forth from Father. What we are after is an understanding of this mind-boggling connection between God and man.
The Connection
We know the Father only by knowing the connection, that is, Jesus Sent. Consider the following limited diagram.
That Love on the left is a HUMAN Being inside of God, and inside of that formed and seasonal Human are you and me. That Faith on the right is a DIVINE Being inside of us, and inside of that eternal and omnipresent Person is the Father. It is Jesus, inside His own Being, who makes the connection, bridges the gap, forms God and us together as one.
Transubstantiation
There is a quality inside of Jesus that makes this beyond-all-belief connection real and constant. I think the Catholics have the best term for that quality. Transubstantiation.
I am stealing that term and redefining it slightly. Transubstantiation is not the quality of Jesus that turns a piece of bread and a sip of wine into Himself. Transubstantiation is that quality of Jesus that connects an eternal and infinite God utterly together as one person with finite and seasonal humans. As you and I eat of Him, we become all that He is.
Time, the Unfolding of Eternal
Every moment of what we call “time” exists entirely inside the Pro-Knowing of God, all now. But as God reveals to creation all that is in His pro-knowing, He does so by unfolding all things a bit at a time. Picture a bolt of cloth printed with a tapestry painting. The entire tapestry is inside that bolt, but the clerk rolls the bolt out, unfolds it, one portion at a time.
Time is the unfolding of the eternal, all here now, pro-knowing of God into the experience of creation. Time is the tip-point of the pillar of fire touching the earth. Time is the knowable expression of the eternal; time is God made known inside our every moment.
The Metaphor of Life
Blood is God’s metaphor of LIFE. Blood is that sending forth from God’s heart the word that sustains all things by life, and blood is that returning power bearing inside itself all human sin into the empty grave. The lungs that place the life of oxygen into the blood also remove the carbon dioxide that is poison to the human body. The lungs, breath in – breath out, are the very work of the Atonement brought into our lives through Blood. We are saved by His life (Romans 5:10).
Blood is eternal inside the pro-knowing of God; blood happened in the earth at the appropriate time BECAUSE it was already substance inside of God.
The Legal Grounds of Relationship
Blood allows God to relate with a shattered creation entirely on legal or judicial grounds.
Jesus is the speaking of God by which all things are created and sustained. Jesus is a very personal Person. Jesus, in the substance of God, was already the full agreement of the exchange that would take place in time and space in a garden we call Gethsemane. Jesus, inside the Pro-Knowing of God (not “foreknowledge” but the substance of all reality), was already the full cessation of all that was of Adam’s shattered creation and the birthing of the new creation.
Yet the unfolding of that exchange takes place through time.
Judgment Is Already Complete
Finally, judgment in its essence is the cessation of the old creation as it appears through the seasons of time. This judgment (the cross) is already full and complete inside of Jesus inside the Pro-Knowing of God.
Yet the judgment of all iniquity must show itself in time in a very specific manner. First, judgment must show itself as the cross as a singular object of space/time planted utterly in the earth. The cross represents to us both Blood and Judgment. Then, judgment MUST follow a specific course for every individual person, both human and angelic, BECAUSE God has no thought of sin, no thought of forcing anything on anyone.
Justify God
Judgment is NOT “God punishing Jesus because of our sins.” Judgment is Jesus bringing all that is old to full cessation that you and I might pass from the old and into the new inside of Him. How does that happen for us?
Let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written: “That You may be justified in Your words, and may overcome when You are judged” (Romans 3:4). All sin is an accusation against God: “God, You designed and appointed me falsely.” Thus all accusation must cease by the willful acknowledgement of each individual person. That every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God (Romans 3:19b).
The Unfolding of Substance
Only when a person justifies God in all things, finding Him alone right and true, silencing him or herself utterly before all just Holiness, can any human pass from death and into life. That passage out from the old and into the new is judgment, a judgment that already is all inside the substance of God, but that shows itself in creation through the unfolding of time.
Paul used the term “the fullness of time,” and Peter used the term “the suitable or opportune time.” From these two phrases we know that God has specific seasons for the unfolding of all substance into the experience of time. Thus we want to look at God through time before the cross first, and God through time after the cross second.