by Pastor Mark Downey
| Continued from Shining Light of Glory Part 4 |
Now that we've covered this subject from the Old Testament (which conceals the New Testament) we will move into the new Testament (which reveals the Old Testament). Smoke, fire and light have been referred to, and if I could relate these metaphors to you, they would represent the Word of God as smoke, the Holy Spirit as fire and Jesus Christ as the Light. They are all interconnected to Israel.
Well, where is the Shining Light of Glory today? With so much darkness in the world, how can there be any light? If there is a false light or harmful radiation impersonating the Shining, then there likewise must be a false baptism. We can't see anything if we're in the dark! However, since the advent of Christ 2000 years ago, our race has gained a clarity as to our purpose and mission in life. The complete revelation of God to His people has now been manifested. In other words, the scriptures have given us a total understanding of how to bring about God's will.
It starts with smoke. Literal smoke is the result of friction. Friction is the resistance to relative motion between two bodies in contact. The history of Christianity is a clash between believers and their opposition. The faith of our people has conspicuously become a distinguished feature on the world stage. So much so, that wars have been waged for those fully persuaded to contend or fight for the Lord. The smoke of the battle clearly becomes the conflict between divine light and man's feeble attempt to illuminate the world with his own carnal understandings, as evidenced with the dogmatic practice of full body immersion.
Science has still not told us how light originates. Religious experts have still not explained to us how being submerged in water is God's plan of salvation. All we get is 'don't bother me with your insolent questions; just do it or die'. We don't know where God came from; we cannot grasp infinity even with an understanding of lightyears. So why should we be so presumptuous to shove a superficial comprehension of water baptism down people's throat? I've been drawing analogies between light and baptism and it's becoming clear that we immerse ourselves in the Word of God, and in so doing, live our lives impacting the world for good.
Yet, we behold the audacity of presumptuous jews, like Adam Weishopt, to form a group called the Illuminati, to take over the world in a Pax Judaica. It's most interesting and satisfying to read the Word of God and see that these false teachers and enemies of God will be consumed in fire. We saw it happen in Sodom and Gamorah, and we'll see it happen again with the jews and their lackies: for God is not mocked.
This manifestation of the Sons of God, which the whole creation groans for (Romans 8:19), is the Shining. The Christian separatists and supremacists will shine above the satanic angels of light (the false messengers): "for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet" (Malachi 4:3). We have our work cut out for us. Indeed it is a divine calling. So don't ever let anyone quench your spirit with a false baptism. With a holy countenance, we are to glow and radiate the intelligence of Jesus Christ, who said, "the gates of hell shall not prevail against us" (Mt. 16:18). Having the motive to separate ourselves from the children of darkness means that we shall "shine forth as the sun in the Kingdom of our Father" (Mt. 13:43). Just before that, in verse 42, it's talking about the reapers who gather the tares (those who impersonate the children of light) and cast them into a furnace of fire.
Who else shined as the sun? It was Christ in Mt. 17, transfigured before Peter, James and John, and His raiment was white as the light. There are those who reveal themselves with animus towards God's servants. Wear a white robe and find out. Having this ministry, we faint not at proclaiming the blood upon Calvary, for Jesus said, "they (the overcomers) shall walk with Me in white…he shall be clothed in white raiment" (Rev. 3:4,5); "these are they which came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb" (Rev. 7:14).
Not everybody is going to see the light or appreciate the good news of the gospel, as mentioned in II Cor. 4:3-4, "if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." We know God forms the light and the darkness from Isaiah 45:7. The good news isn't hidden from the lost sheep of Israel. It is hidden from the blinded minds of the unbelievers who do not believe God, but rather, believe the gods of this world; in other words: those who are opposed to God and promote blindness.
You cannot see if there is no light. And so the light of the glorious gospel of Christ is withdrawn from them lest they shine. There are those who are not meant to shine, just like the Pharisees were not meant to understand the parables of Christ lest they be converted. "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the power may be of God, and not of us" (II Cor. 4:6-7). And therein lies the problem of man exalting himself with power.
It is through the traditions of man employing sacraments, rituals, sacred names, phony Sabbaths, calendar keeping, numerology. The list goes on and on ad nauseam. And some pious thinking people really believe they're in tandem with God. But we know that all power is given unto Christ in heaven and in earth (Mt. 28:18). That leaves little authority for anything or anybody including horned devils, popes, politicians et al. As crazy and as corrupt as the world is out there, Philipians 2:15 says, "that ye may be born perfect in our race, pure blooded and not mongrelized, faultless before God amidst a nation crooked and perverse, among whom we shine as lights in the world." If we are the light of the world (as was Jesus) Mt. 5:14 says we're like a city on a hill that can't be hidden and in verse 15, "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house." It's important where you put a candle or open flame, otherwise you could burn the house down.
Similarly, we don't cast our pearls before swine. I heard recently that the Korean Reverend Moon, who considers himself the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, got together with some very well known televangelists for a prayer fest; if you pardon the pun: this prayer theme for the unification of moonies and judeo-christians is jew inspired lunacy. I can only pray that their brotherhood of diversity ignites into a warm glow of gooey integration and drains into the cesspools of Gehenna, into the dark bottomless pit of race traitors and miscegenaters and every unclean pulpit pimp there is.
Why am I talking about light to you? According to Eph. 4:29, 'no corrupt communication is to proceed from my mouth'. I am to speak only what is helpful to build you up, so that you may receive the benefits of God's favor. If we fulfill the lighting requirements of the Bible and do not grieve the Holy Spirit, as Eph. 4:30 seals us for the day of redemption, then with verse 31, we are to put away all bitterness and anger and impulsive behavior and disorder, along with all evil things (that spoil); verse 32 continues the thought that we should be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving yourselves, as God in Christ forgives us. I can communicate to you about what is corrupt in the world with all of the disdain and contempt that our Lord described, because there are no redeeming values of darkness.
As each of us radiate the Word of God in our lives, we become a brighter light, we become a beacon of hope for each other and will attract our lost kinsman who wander in the dark. My calling is not to merely inform, but to transform. Because I Peter 2:9 tells me, "ye are a chosen generation , a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." There are too many preachers who are whiners; long on diagnosis and short on remedy. This may make them wise in their own eyes, but rarely changes anything. Instead of lighting a candle, they just curse the darkness.
Jesus said in John 10:10, "I've come that you might have life." He didn't say. 'I've come that you may have religion'. Christianity, as we need to be reminded from time to time, is a way of life. Well, some may ask 'so what! What difference does it make, the way we live in this crazy ole world?' Well, when we apply biblical doctrines and principles in practical and relevant ways, our lives get better, things brighten up.
Light (#219 in Strong's Concordance) figuratively means prosperity. We need to transform our lives, not the Bible. And we need to properly translate the Bible so that the lost sheep know that it's been mistranslated by the 'darkness that covers the earth' (Is. 60:2) ... by the priestcraft of Baal. Is it any wonder why Jesus ran the moneychangers out of the temple? And He said, "greater works than these, shall ye do." If we were to practice God's economic laws, do you think our pocketbooks would be as pinched as they are today in the economy of Babylon? I don't think so. If we could have less preaching about the forces of darkness and more sermons shedding light on how to kick the bastards out of our national temple, then these thieves and robbers would be history and we would be the recipients of Jesus giving us life and that we may have it more abundantly.
"In Him (Christ) was life, and the life was the light of men" (John 1:4). "Men and brethren, what shall we do?" (Acts 2:37). The following verse (v.38), "be baptized every one of you…." is a favorite 'proof text' for the full body immersionists, and yet no such mode of baptism is ever suggested, let alone commanded. Does the Bible tell us how to be the light of the world? Jesus guarantees it in John 8:12 by saying, "you who follow Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness" (John 12:46); following, believing and then acting upon His teachings. "As many as received Him, to them He gave power to become the sons of God" (John 1:12). Jesus began His ministering to the people with the 'Sermon on the Mount' by sharing 8 secrets of genuine happiness. Then He talked about living an exemplary lifestyle, controlling anger, restoring relationships, of keeping promises and returning good for evil. He told us how to give with the right attitude, how to pray, how to store up treasure in heaven, how to overcome worry and how to deal with false teachers. He taught us how to obey the law as a matter of love and to trust in Him as a cure for anxiety.
Mt. 6:33 tells us, "seek first the Kingdom (or government) of God and His righteousness and all these things (the necessities of life) shall be added unto you." It's not enough to simply proclaim 'Christ is the Answer'. We must show our lost kinsman how Christ is the answer. We do that by changing our ways and conforming to the ways of Christ. The bumper sticker mentality of taking John 3:16 out of context rarely tells us the rest of the story. Let's read the context for ourselves: "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned; but he that believeth not is already condemned, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. " And that's how it works.
We are the children of light and our destiny is to shine above the soothsayers of doom and gloom, promulgating meaningless lives, waiting for flying saucers to rapture them off into outer space, which just may be what the Bible calls "outer darkness". They should really be more circumspect in what they pray for. I pray for White people to awaken to the great truth that our lives do have meaning; it is that the Shining Light of Glory is life.
