12.2 Every Knee Will Bow

Therefore, also, God highly exalted Him and graced Him with the name above every name, that inside of the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, every heavenly knee, every earthly knee, and every under-earthly knee and every tongue should speak the same thing, that is, the Lord Jesus Christ, penetrating into the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:9-11). Now, when He [Father God] shall have placed all under Him [Christ Jesus], then also the Son Himself will be placed under the One having placed all under Him, so that God may be all inside of all (1 Corinthians 15:28).

We now turn to the Glorious Salvation of God that comes after the Age of Tabernacles, inside the greatest of the ages.

Out of Hades. What does God mean when He says that every knee will bow?”

Creation began its fall into a nightmare when Adam and the serpent refused to give thanks in the same moment. The nightmare called hades became the experience of all when Adam, having rejected any measure of personal costliness in order to love his wife, ate instead of the power to control her. The way out of that hades begins for every created entity with giving thanks inside of and for the sake of all things, and is made complete in loving one another.

“Every knee will bow” MEANS that every angel and every human will give thanks for each moment of their lives, in the full knowing that Jesus was loving and sustaining them in all.

Justice. God requires justice. Granting a “blanket forgiveness” destroys justice. Punishing the guilty destroys justice. God requires justice.

What is justice? I think we can freely say that the period of time, coming after the Age of Tabernacles, that God calls “the age above all the ages,” could be called the Age of Justice.

Justice is three things. God requires all three. The first is justice for God, the Father. The second is justice for the Spirit of God. And the third is justice for the Word God speaks. Yet all three are found only in the resolution of every moment that each angel or human has ever lived.

First from Us. Let’s begin with ourselves, for we are the firstfruits of God. That means that whatever comes to any person in the Age of Justice comes first to us now, in the Age of God’s Patience. It is the right season for the judgment to have begun from the house of God, and if now first from us… (1 Peter 4:12). – And I saw thrones, and THEY sat upon them, and judgment was given to THEM (Revelation 20:4).

There is a direct and immediate connection between judgment proven inside of us now and the same prevailing of justice for every “bending knee” in the Age of Justice. The first justice, for God the Father, is to say, with all finality, and with nothing added, “I was wrong.” We must know exactly what this means.

“I Am Wrong.” God is all here now. All things exist inside of God, all now. And inside of God, every false accusation and every conflict, every hurt and every theft, is all now, by metaphor “written in His book,” that is, the Pro-Knowing that is God.

God does not know sin, but He does know pain. Every single accusation against God, either that His Word is false, or that He is the one at fault for causing our troubles, must be shown, by God, to be wrong – inside the exact scenario in which that accusation was uttered. As Jesus said, “They hated Me for no reason whatsoever.” There is a difference between speaking from hurt and confusion or speaking with blame. We see again every single time we have spoken blame falsely, and we see and we say that “I am wrong.”

Every Accusation Silenced. As we have seen, according to Paul in Romans 3, all redemption begins with, “I am wrong.” Love cannot be known unless the accusation, every individual accusation, ceases. – Silence. This, then, becomes the Rivers of Living Water flowing into all creation, coming to every “knee and tongue” from the judgment that begins in the House of God, inside you and me.

I hated my eighth grade teacher, and I spoke wicked and rebellious things against him in my adolescence. Jesus shows me that in those moments when pain came from that teacher to me, Jesus shared all with me inside the Father inside of Love. All my wicked speaking was WRONG, and I say towards God and my teacher, “Sir, I was wrong.” Thus out from my present judgment with Jesus, there flows a River of Life to my teacher, wherever he might be, gracing him with the same Love.

Give Thanks. But what good can there be for my teacher except he also see and say, “Please forgive me, I was wrong,” in the midst of every accusation of his own against God. – Every knee will bow. And thus the River, having begun out from me, continues on bringing justice to the Father in every place it goes.

Give thanks inside of everything; for this is God’s desire inside of Christ Jesus entering into you. Do not quench or suppress the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:18-19). – And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. – For having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were they thankful (Genesis 1:2 & Romans 1:21a). Acts of injustice committed against the Spirit of God begin with refusing to give thanks, yet that is only the start of our aggressive offensiveness against the gentle and Devoted Spirit.

Every Conflict Resolved. God uses the metaphor of a dove to show us His Devoted and Gentle Spirit. Doves are frightened of any commotion or disturbance, and they hide themselves from conflict.

I experienced a significant level of personal conflict with one of my college teachers, not an outward conflict, but an inward one of the most difficult kind for me. When I wrote my life story, I was forced by the Spirit of God to look again at this teacher. All the turmoil I had known was right there, remaining inside of me. I knew that I could not continue until I had resolved that conflict inside my heart, inside the Spirit of God.

All conflict is personal and between only two in every given moment. Every knee bowing MEANS every conflict resolved.

Winning the Heart. The most difficult part of giving an account of every moment of one’s life inside the presence of God is not facing and being honest towards every act of injustice I have perpetrated, but rather knowing that this other person I abused and hurt is also giving an account inside of honesty, an account broadcast “across the rooftops,” as Jesus said, of my interaction with them, of the great hurt I caused them.

God requires justice for every hurt inflicted upon His gentle and Devoted Spirit by our raging and unwarranted conflicts, conflicts that came about ONLY because we were refusing to give thanks. God requires justice. God requires that I win the heart of this one whom I once despised, to make him or her my best friend forever.

No Barrier Stands. Here is where we fit in a most extraordinary statement of Jesus. – On this rock (the Father revealing Himself to us through Jesus), I will build My church, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18b).

No barrier anyone raises against God, no defense meant to protect confusion and pain, can prevail against God’s Church, against you and me reaching through those hardened entrances with the loving kindness of God. This is the POWER of the Rivers of Spirit flowing out from us, even through our great travail shared with God, as the Spirit personally brings us in line with Father for the sake of others. We are peacemakers, as Jesus said, and we bring all-resolution to every conflict between two there has ever been.

Everything Stolen Returned. Justice for the Word God speaks is the largest, and likely the justice that takes the most time inside the greatest of all the ages, the Age of Justice. EVERYTHING stolen in the darkness must be returned, double. This is the finality of Justice.

The “ten commandments” can be reduced to – “You shall not steal” anything God has given to another person or reserved for Himself. The converse of that Word, inside the Gospel, is “Owe no one anything, except to Love one another.” Stealing ten bucks from someone can be returned double in this present time. But rape – stealing someone’s personal integrity? Or murder – stealing someone’s life? These things cannot be returned at all in the present day.

Out from Jesus and through the Spirit. Neither could those wicked actions come to justice inside of sinfulness. Nothing stolen in the darkness can be restored to its rightful owner except out from Christ Jesus and through the River of Life.

During my twenties, I stole three things from other men while I was living in the men’s dorm. I stole a screwdriver from one, an alarm clock from another, and a set of weights from a third. I remember each face and each theft with sorrow. I don’t remember the name of the first, but the other two were friends who have since passed on. How can I return double what I stole? I can do so only out from Christ Jesus inside my heart and through the River of Life flowing out from me.

All Will Speak Christ. And that every tongue should speak the same thing, that is, the Lord Jesus Christ, into the glory of God the Father.

Justice for God requires far more than every knee bowing, far more than every accusation spoken gone silent into “I was wrong,” far more than every conflict resolved, far more than everything stolen in the darkness returned double. Justice for God requires His intention for all things from the beginning, that all would speak the same Word that is Christ Jesus, that the Father would be glorified by His Word returning to Himself from every created thing. It is by the speaking of Christ Jesus made personal to us that all things are returned to the Father, that God is all inside of all.

Our Glorious Liberty. I have covered a very large and mostly unknown part of our Glorious Salvation, the Salvation of God flowing out from us into every place, in a very small lesson. Even though those who sit in judgment out from God will be far more versed in the Justice that is God, I am satisfied that I have given you the heart of it, made personal to you, and flowing out from Christ Jesus inside of you as Rivers of Life. And I am satisfied that I have presented this consequential part of the Salvation of God out from critical Gospel verses.

I must approach the far larger topic of the next lesson, our glorious LIBERTY into which we bring all created things, in a similar way. And since I am not writing fantasy, as Milton or Dante did, I will approach the future only as our present glory.