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9   Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.   10   And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?   11   He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. ~ MATTHEW 13:9-11

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To the world, the whole Bible is a parable, a mystery. Although there are men who believe they know the scripture, it is only intellectual knowledge unless they are given revelation. Some of it might be right, but the reality of the parable is ONLY revealed to the elect. Many, even in this Message, have heard the voice of the prophet, but have they really heard the Voice of the Lord? What are the parables? Are they only the things that Jesus spoke or is the whole Bible a parable that takes revelation to see. Some will only see the parable and take it as the reality, thinking it is the mystery revealed, when the truth lays within, or under the thing that is spoken.

You're a time being until you're born again, then you're a Eternal being. And the only way you can get It is have part of God in you, being Eternal Life. Can you see it? Certainly. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;... I love Him. Don’t you? I’m so glad to have Eternal Life. That doesn’t bother me anymore, because that we have Eternal Life now. And I know that, and I trust that everybody will have It, all of us. ~ 60-1206  THE SMYRNAEAN CHURCH AGE

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Do we really know what it means to HAVE eternal life? It is not just living forever, but it is having the LIFE of God. We are just as subject to time as God is. We are just as bound to the world “kosmos”, the world order, as God is. Is God in control of everything? So are you. We are no longer time beings. The Angel of the Covenant, Christ, has purchased AND claimed YOU for Himself. He holds you in His hand and proclaims that “time is no longer”. You are NOW a King and Priest to God, after the order of Melchisedec, without beginning of days or ending of life.

5   And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,    6   And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:    7   But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. ~ REVELATION 10:5-7

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The paradox here is that this event has already been manifested in our age, yet time is still going on. Maybe the declaration of “time no longer” doesn’t have to do with literal time being no more, but the effect of time on those that are the focus of this prophetic event. Maybe THE mystery being “finished” requires a view outside of time. Maybe the Mind of Christ has nothing to do with a time perspective at all, but sees things as they are and have always been. Maybe the mystery being revealed has something to do with YOU being “without beginning of days or ending of life”.

14   Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.    15   And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;   16   As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. ~ II PETER 3:14-16

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To understand these scriptures and their importance you must follow the context. Peter is talking about the world systems being annihilated, just as our “world” or time perspective is done away in Christ. Peter is telling us that Paul talks about things with a perspective that cannot be understood with a time perspective, yet many wrestle with these thoughts, interpretating them according to their own thinking, but it is to “their own destruction”. It is abundantly clear that it takes an inward change by revelation, to recognize the mystery that is revealed. Intellectual learning, even from the words of the prophet, will not be sufficient to change us.

25   Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,    26   But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:    27   To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen. ~ ROMANS 16:25-27

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“According to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began…” If human thinking, theology, can go back to the beginning because there was Word for us to SEE, then to go back before the beginning is to go into the things that cannot be seen. That is the eternal. That is the essence of who we are. The secret, the mystery, is hidden because of the way we look at it. To rely on our human mind to perceive the thoughts of God, which is what revelation is, will not ever free the eternal in your life.

Jesus said, "It wasn't so from the beginning." That's when time began, when God made it first in His original creation. ~ 65-0221M MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

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When did time begin? I think I used to associate time with sin and therefore, I believed time began when sin began. Time began when something was created. In fact, Genesis 8:22 says, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease”. The Bible uses phrases like, “before the foundation of the world” or “before the world began”. Our minds cannot comprehend an eternity with no existence, but there was, and we were in Him then. Now, in this hour the Angel has descended (Rev 10) and declared “there should be time no longer”. I don’t think this means there is no more days, but that we recognize that we were before there was time, before the beginning. Intellectually we cannot conceive of this, but by revelation we cannot doubt who we are. As He has pulled the cover off the whole thing, revealing THE mystery of the Bride in Christ, we are privileged to see the full thought of God.

Notice, like the sculpture, he hides, with a--a mask over it. That's what God has done to this age. It's been hid. All these things has been hid, and is supposed to be revealed in this age. Now, the Bible says they will be revealed in the latter times. It's like a sculptor keeping his--his piece of work all covered over until the time he takes the mask off of it and there it is. And that's what the Bible has been. It has been a work of God that's been covered up. And It's been hid since the foundation of the world, and Its sevenfold mystery. And God promised in this day, at the age of this Laodicean church, He would take the mask off the whole thing and we could see It. What a glorious thing! ~ 65-0221E  WHO IS THIS MELCHISEDEC

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I don’t know what our thoughts are about things that are hidden. Maybe we think there are things in a book that nobody knows about, but I don’t think that is what it is. God’s original purpose was hidden underneath the fall, hidden from our view because of the shadow of sin that kept us from clearly seeing it. If we live in Laodicea we have a sin perspective. We struggle and fight against our problems and mistakes, hoping that one day there will be a full deliverance from these things. BUT, if we live beyond sin, if we have an eternal perspective, which the death of Christ freed us to have, the battle is over. We are walking in newness of life. Everything is different.

8   Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;    9   And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:    10   To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,   11   According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: ~ EPHESIANS 3:8-11

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The Bible is full of mysteries, things that are hidden for the purpose of being revealed. We know that this is the hour that ALL the mysteries are to be made known. The prophet uses terminology like “He would take the mask off the whole thing and we could see It.” What is the “mask”? It is time. It is what has covered eternity ever since the beginning. God’s eternal purpose was hid, but when the mask is removed we can clearly see what this whole thing has been about and our part in God’s original thoughts about Himself. If we ever see this, how can we go back to our old perspective?

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. ~ JOHN 5:30

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This is a scripture we ought to challenge ourselves with. “I can of mine own self do nothing.” What was Christ being led by? He was the Word made flesh. In other words, before He was flesh, He was Logos, the Word. The prophet describes that as Theophany. I believe it would be correct to say that Jesus’ whole life was controlled by the Word that He was. This is what true Headship is. It was not Jesus following commands, but it was being led only by the Will of the Father (Theophany). When Jesus said, “I and My Father are ONE”, they took up stones to stone Him because He was making Himself God in the flesh. What is OUR Theophany, but the same Word that was made flesh in Jesus. When we stand at the tomb of Lazarus and speak, it WILL have the same result.

Saint John the 1st chapter and the 1st verse, notice, this is, "In the beginning." But, before, the Eternal! Notice, "In the beginning was the Word." When the time begin, it was Word. But before it was Word, it was attribute, a thought. Then it was expressed, "In the beginning was," the expression, "the Word." Now we’re getting where Melchisedec is. That’s this mysterious Person. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” “And then the Word became flesh and dwelled among us.” Hold that there now, notice. 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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Paul tells us in Hebrews 7, this Melchisedec had no father or mother, no beginning of days or ending of life. It was God, Who formed Himself into Word to create. It was the eternal Spirit of God manifested in a form and this form became expressed in the Person of Jesus. The Father was in Jesus reconciling the world to Himself (II Cor 5:19). Now, we are the ambassadors because “At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” (John 14:20) The Father in us IS the inner man.