Hi all,
I'm
sharing a few things I've asked the Lord during visitations that fall
under the category of 'quantum physics', continuing today with the
question: "How did you walk through the crowds in Luke 4:29-30 and John
8:58-59?"
Setting the context of my understanding
Luke
4 records Jesus in His hometown reading in synagogue from Isaiah 61:
1-2, stopping mid-verse: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because the
Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the meek, to bind up the
broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of
the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of
the Lord..." and He stopped and sat down, saying 'This day is this
scripture fulfilled in your ears.'
Let me insert here why He stopped mid-sentence. it is because the whole verse says: "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God."
Jesus
stopped at 'the acceptable year of the Lord' and sat down. The Jews (to
this day) didn't understand their would be two appearances by Messiah -
one to pay for sin and one to bring His kingdom to earth as the
conquering King. This verse includes both - the acceptable year of the
Lord AND the day of vengeance of our God.
What
the Father never told anyone is the mystery of the 2 appearing's,
planned from the start yet to us a surprise; that God included the
opportunity for Gentiles - non-Jews - to become part of the covenant.
Ephesians 3:3-6; "How God made known to me the mystery, the mystery that
had been hidden from ages and generations, but is now revealed to His
holy apostles and prophets, that the Gentiles should be made fellow heirs..."
"Even
the mystery which was kept secret from ages and generations, but is now
revealed to His saints, to whom God would make known the riches of His
glory in this mystery to the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." Colossians 1:26-27
"But now to the power which can establish you in Christ Jesus, a mystery which was kept secret since the world began but is now being revealed to all nations for the obedience of faith..." Romans 16:25-26
This
is why Old Testament prophecies seem to go point to point without
mention of the church - God had not revealed to any Old Testament
prophets that there would be about a 2,000 year season when He would
give the Gentiles the opportunity to come into covenant with Him - that
only became known at and after Pentecost when all people received the
Holy Spirit, children and the aged, men and women, slaves and free,
without regard to nation, social, or ethnic group - all are equal in
Christ.
But
in Luke 4, they didn't know any of that and much of what Jesus shared
with the disciples later about 'the church' was lost on them at the time
as a result. These last 2,000 years has been largely for the Gentiles,
but there will be a time when (we) are removed and God will once again
focus on Israel - the last 7 years of the age. Jesus said "Jerusalem
will be trodden down by the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles is
fulfilled*" and Paul said, "Blindness in part has happened to Israel,
until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in."* Luke 21:24, Romans 11:25
Back to Jesus nearly being thrown off a cliff; Luke 4:28-30
Jesus
stopped mid-sentence perplexing the audience, and even more when He
said Isaiah 61:1-2a had been fulfilled that day! After He made other
statements:
"And
they in the synagogue, all who heard these things, were filled with
wrath, and rose up and thrust Him out of the city, to a brow of a hill
upon which their city was built, that they might throw Him down from
there headlong. But He, passing through the midst of them, went His
way."
How did He walk through 'the midst of them' and go His way? That's what I wanted to know.
Jesus going through another crowd: John 8: 58-59
"Jesus
said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you; Before Abraham was, I AM'.
And they picked up stones to throw at Him, but Jesus hid Himself, and
went out of the temple through the midst of them, and so passed by."
The
phrase 'through the midst of them' uses 'meso' for 'midst', in this
sense as an adverb describing the action - He walked right through the
middle of the crowd in each case. The word 'hid' is exactly that - hide
or conceal. So I wanted to know how He did each of those disappearing
acts. Some would suggest He threw a wrap over His face and pushed His
way through, but that doesn't make sense since He was 1 man against an
angry mob intent on murdering Him. Some have supposed He blinded them
temporarily or some other supernatural explanation - I wanted to know,
so I asked.
The only time He has referred to contemporary culture to explain Himself
"Remember
the Matrix and how they moved in a way it seemed bullets flying at them
were in slow motion? It was like that. Remember the episode of Star
Trek where the crew of the Enterprise heard a buzzing sound, until some
of them entered that dimension and found beings moving much faster than
normal time, which was making that buzzing sound to the crew of the
Enterprise. They were moving so fast that to them, it seemed the crew
was almost standing still."
"Remember,
I AM. So all I had to do was speed up near the speed of light, and to
me, it seemed like they were moving very slowly, but to them they
suddenly couldn't see me and I walked through their midst."
Jesus stated several times He was the I AM. As I shared last week, in Matthew 14:27 when walking on the water towards the frightened men: "Be happy! I AM! Now stop being afraid." Also here in John 8:58,
"Before Abraham was; I AM". And in John 18:5-6 when they came looking
for Him and He asked who they were looking for. They responded, "Jesus
of Nazareth...and He said to them; 'I AM!' And when He said to them, I
AM, immediately they moved backwards and fell to the ground."
In
the last case He unleashed enough of His power to let all present know
He was going voluntarily to His death, not by force. He is the I AM, the
One who spoke to Moses from the burning bush, the Ever-present One.
I can't explain this with chapter and verse but I believe...
We've
all seen pictures of atoms, or at least recognize a picture of a
nucleus with orbiting smaller particles like electrons and neutrons and
protons - we've all been to school after all, lol. Somehow molecules -
assuming there are spiritual realm molecules (but for lack of a better
term) the Lord's realm seem to move at a faster rate than molecules on
earth.
When
I was given a tour of heaven one of the most amazing things was the
ability of my eyes to examine anything I wanted as close as I wanted. I
remember the first thing I looked at was a tree about 1/2 mile away
(.8km) and just by willing it I could look closer and closer at a leaf
until I was looking with unaided eye at the molecular structure - and
could even see the atoms moving and hear the hum. I was so startled I
immediately started doing that with everything I saw - trees and each
tree of a different kind had a slightly different hum than other trees
of other species - yet somehow I knew they were all grouped in the same
category of hum - not sure how to explain it better than that.
I
looked at grass, flowers, rock, the living water - and it all seemed to
be moving at a level higher than earthly molecules move - as a higher
level of existence and being.
I
think that is the action the Lord was referring to when He said He sped
up, close to the speed of light - and it makes me wonder about the same
process in transporting the boat half way across the lake, and later
how Philip was instantly taken 20 miles or so (32km) to meet up with the
Ethiopian official. Paul says it so elegantly in I Corinthians 15:39-54
in part: "All flesh is not the same flesh...there are bodies celestial,
and bodies terrestrial....it is sown a natural body, it is raise a
spiritual body...as we have born the image of the earthy, we shall also
bear the image of the heavenly...for corruption must put on
incorruption, and mortal must put on immortality..."
I
hope this has been a blessing - maybe at a later time I'll share more,
but for now a lot of what I've seen and heard remain private - Jesus is
amazing! New subject next week, until then, blessings,
John Fenn
www.cwowi.org and email me at cwowi@aol.com
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