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16   At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.   17   Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. ~ II TIMOTHY 4:16-17

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There is so much about this 4^th chapter of II Timothy. It was the prophet’s commission, and by his own confession he only read the first five verses. The sixth verse on is very telling on what Paul went through in his own ministry and what the prophet realized was also happening in his own. The total rejection and feeling of being forsaken mirrors that which Christ experienced on the Cross. Paul calls it the “mouth of the lion”. He could be referring to persecution in general, but I don’t think so. He had to endure many hardships, as we also do, but the hardship and trial is not the main thing. It is what we do with it that matters. It is our reaction that can be the "mouth of the lion" to us.

21   Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.   22   I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. ~ PSALM 22:21-22

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This is the most beautiful part of this Psalm of Christ’s suffering. “Save Me from the lion’s mouth.” Save me from this human anguish, this feeling of being forsaken by God, this condition that My Bride has come to the earth, and “I will declare Thy Name unto My brethren”. “I will stand in the MIDST of the Seven Golden Candlesticks” in a position that allows the restoration of all things!

1   My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?   2   O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. ~ PSALM 22:1-2

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This is one of the saddest Psalms in the Bible. Most Psalms were written due to some event in David’s life, or the lives of other known authors, but this Psalm is different. There is no event that triggered these words. This is strictly the Spirit of prophecy on David, foretelling the suffering of Christ on the Cross. This was human suffering. You were in Him then. This is the death He was dying with you in Him. Paul says in Phil 3:10-11, “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead”. To know Him in His resurrection, you must know Him in His death.

But now He is standing in the midst of the Church. As He stands there revealing Who He is in this last age, He calls Himself the "Author of the creation of God". This is ANOTHER CREATION. This has to do with the church. This is a special designation of Himself. He is the CREATOR of that church. The heavenly Bridegroom created his own bride. ~ PG 336-4  LAODICEAN CHURCH AGE  -  CHURCH AGE BOOK   

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God is a three-part Being. He is Soul, Spirit and Body. His Soul is the essence of Who He is, and it is expressed in Spirit and Body. The Bride, being part of Him, has the same qualities. The problem is that when She came on the earth the middle partition was corrupt. Her memory, conscience, reason, affection and imagination were all controlled by Her Body instead of Her Soul. Christ came to redeem Her back to Her original condition in Him. Now, in this New Creation, He stands in the “midst”, the middle area, showing He has restored Her back to His original purpose, which was to walk with mankind in flesh.

14   For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;   15   Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; ~ EPHESIANS 2:14-15

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I know that historically there was enmity between Jews and Gentiles, and that Paul is speaking of this enmity being a “middle wall of partition”, but let’s broaden our thought of this enmity. It is not just “bad blood”. It is human perspectives, much like the same thing we deal with in the churches when we don’t agree about doctrine. It is done away in Christ, not that doctrines don’t matter, but the oneness comes from our access to being “in Christ”. The “one new Man” that is the result is Christ in us in harmony with the whole body. We are not joined together by agreeing on doctrine. We are joined together by the Spirit of Christ.

Now, here is what I'm trying to say to you. The law of reproduction, bring forth of its kind, Genesis 1:11. These last days, true Church-Bride comes to the Headstone, will be the super Church, a super Race, as the... nears the great Headstone. They will be much like, so much like Him, even they will be in His very image, in the order to being united with Him. They will be One. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. Denominations can never produce This. This will be... They will produce their creeds and dogmas, mixed with the Word, and--and brings a hybrid product. ~ 62-0318  THE SPOKEN WORD IS THE ORIGINAL SEED 2

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“So much like Him, even they will be in His very image.” Heb 1:2 says He is the “express image of the His Person”, speaking of God. That means that we will be the expression of God. That’s a mouthful, but it is exactly what Jesus said when He told us, “I am the Vine, you are the Branches” (John 15:5). His Bride will bear the fruit of God. She will have the same ministry He had. It will not be hybrid fruit. It will be pure Word fruit or nothing. It will not be mixed with any ideas or thoughts that don’t have their origin in the mind of Christ. Faith measures the Kingdom and THIS is the Kingdom.

And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: ~ I CORINTHIANS 2:4   For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. ~ I THESSALONIANS 1:5

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When God would come down and walk with Adam, I don’t believe He came to preach Him a sermon. He walked with him in a fellowship, in demonstration of His love for him. I believe in teaching, and I think we should know our Bibles, but the lost are not looking for a sermon on clean living. They are looking for the “demonstration of the Spirit and of power”. They are looking for the fellowship they lost when sin banished them from the garden. They are looking for the power of love that will go down inside them and change them from the inside out.

These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; ~ REVELATION 3:14

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There are many varying thoughts about the term “the beginning of the creation of God”. Bro Branham even expresses different views of these words, and they are all tied together. He is the “Author” of this NEW CREATION, a special designation of Himself, as he says in the Church Age Book. God can’t be created, but He did have a thought of Himself coming to a condition, a fullness. In other words, He was a great Spirit, and then began forming Himself towards flesh. The “towards flesh” indicates He had a thought of Himself in a flesh creation, in order to walk with man. This fullness, this complete filling of Himself into His thought of Himself, THIS is what the PERFECTION of God is. “Perfect” means completion, which is when something has come to its fullness. Now we can understand what it means to be filled with the “fullness” of God. It means WE have come to His thought of Himself.

His--His first being was Spirit, God, supernatural, all right, the great Eternal. Second, He begin to form Himself towards flesh, in a theophany, it's called "the Word; a body." This then is the state He was in when He met Abraham, was called Melchisedec. He was in the form of theophany. Now we'll get to that and prove it in a few minutes, the Lord willing. He was the Word. ~ 65-0221E  WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC

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“He begin to form Himself towards flesh…” The thought that Christ had to be made perfect (Heb 2:10) still astounds me. If the Bride is part of Him, and He is not complete without Her, then this ultimate perfection lies in the placing of the Bride. If She doesn’t take Her position, the whole creation is lost. She bears the fruit of life, the seed of restoration, reconciliation, and if She fails to possess Her inheritance, then nothing can be restored. Christ was the beginning of the creation of God, God perfected in flesh, and the first fruit of many brethren to come. We, like Him, are the Word coming to flesh.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. ~ HEBREWS 2:10

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There is so much to be said about this verse because I believe it is a key to understanding the result of redemption in us. It is almost a paradox that it can be said of Christ, “to make the captain of their salvation PERFECT…” Christ had to be made perfect?? When the Word was made flesh, He also emptied Himself in a way that He took on Him the form of a servant (Phil 2). He did this for the purpose of overcoming our condition and taking it to the Cross. It was in the death of this “spirit of servitude” that He Himself was perfected, returning to Logos again and being appointed Heir of all things (Heb 1:2). It is through this suffering that He perfected all those who were part of His Body expression. The barrier to our position, the humanity that formerly reigned in our life, had been dealt with and rendered powerless in us. Now we have been given the power to BE the Sons of God (John 1:12).