November 2000

[Part Forty-three]

“SEALS OF GOD”

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            The three ways a thing can be sealed are: 1) with a metal signet impressed upon a document, 2) with a stone or secured lid placed over a holding place; or 3) by means of a well-kept secret. The Scriptures show that God uses all three kinds of seals in different places but for the same purposes: to safeguard something invaluable; and withhold a thing till the foreordained hour of its revelation!!
Men also employ these seals in their relationships with God and one another, as we see in Neh 9 & 10. In this account, Nehemiah cries out to the Lord on behalf of all the princes, Levites, and priests of Israel in contrite repentance for their faithlessness! In an impassioned plea for Mercy he first cites God’s Covenant of Love with them; then he and the leaders bind themselves- and their people- with an oath to obey all His commands, regulations and decrees in the Law of Moses and then combine this oath with a curse on any who ever break the oath. And to this covenant that ends with the words, “We will not forsake the House of our God”,
they each affix their seal!!
             This is surely the very covenant into which every son of God has entered and has attached his seal! Now I show you a revelation that utterly dispels the myth of man’s “free will” and it bears the Sovereign Seal of God so as to remove all dispute. Hear well.

“In a dream- in a vision of the night- when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber in a resting place [this is the corporate first Adam God cast into a deep sleep; Ge 2:21];
             He opens the ears of men and SEALS their instruction that He may withdraw man
from his own evil purpose; and hides man from his pride!! He holds man’s soul back from the pit (of destruction) and prevents his life from perishing by the (double-edged)sword (of Righteous Judgment). He is chastened with pain on his bed, suffering greatpain in all his bones...Yes, his soul draws near the grave; his life comes dangerouslyclose to the destroyers.
              If there is an attending Messenger that is one in a thousand who is an Interpreter(typifying the Holy Spirit) who can teach this man to walk uprightly before God, then He will give him grace saying, ‘Deliver this man’s soul from going down into the pit(of destruction); for I HAVE FOUND A RANSOM (this can only be the Lamb of God,the Last Adam, Jesus Christ)!’
           Then this man’s flesh will be restored to fresher and more tender than a child’s!
             HIS APPEARANCE AND VIGOR WILL RETURN TO THE DAYS OF HIS YOUTH! This man (representing all redeemed sons of God) will pray to God and his prayerwill find favor with Him (and accomplish that which is its purpose). And (best of all) HE SHALL SEE GOD’S FACE WITH JOY!! Then this (corporate last Adam) shall render to men (God’s)Righteousness as they testify to them, ‘(In my old flesh nature)I sinned and perverted what was right, but it profited nothing!!’ And (this testimony) shall deliver their souls (as his soul was delivered) from going into the pit; and shallpreserve their lives (as their own lives were preserved) and they shall see the Light!! Many times God does all these things with man, to bring his soul back from the pit to be enlightened with the Light of the living!” (Jb 33:16)

              Let all with “eyes to see, and ears to hear”, hear this Promise that is about to be fulfilled in the Overcomers of God! Yes, these hidden long-suffering sons shall soon experience such glories!

[TO BE CONTINUED]