As God’s creation, we should not look to artificial and worldly sources for His Divine Nature.

Acts 17:29-31

Click for a description of the mark of the beast.
Click for a description of the image of the beast.

“Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.” Acts 17:29

We are the offspring of God, every single person in every nation are the creation and offspring of the Living Creator. The nature of God is Spirit, not of the elements of this earth, so as His offspring we must serve Him in spirit, not through the physical world. “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:24 God created the elements of the earth; the physical world did not create God. Nothing made in this world has created anything but is created by human hands. The spirit cannot be created by human hands and only through the Spirit can we know the Living Creator.

The Epicureans, Stoics, and people of Athens were creating things from the elements of this earth to show their worship to their god. However, the Divine Nature of God, and of the soul created by God, is not like gold, silver, stone, or anything shaped by art or from people’s ingenuity. It’s impossible to form a relationship with God, who is Spirit, by anything made from the elements of this world. God forms a relationship with His creation within our spirit through His Spirit. God lives from within our spirit and soul.

Today, Satan is using a tool that gives him power over physiology by the beast giving people what to speak, think, feel, and do. That beast is not spiritual but artificial, click here for a post on “Calculating the Number of the Beast”. Also, click here for Ezekiel’s vision of the space satellites, space station, and space shuttle. The Divine Nature of God is not determined by calculating a number, nor is the Divine Nature of God from space satellites. The Divine Nature of God is determined by belief and faith from within the spirit and soul. The beast of this world, the god of this world, is of this universe even as it has the ability to give breath/life to the image of the beast to speak and live through people. People are being groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do.

“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent…” Acts 17:30

There was a time of ignorance when peoples and nations didn’t have a clue of how to fellowship with God from within the spirit. Even the Jewish culture was relying on living for God through the laws of Judaism rather than through belief and faith without the letter of the law. Paul graciously surmised that the people of Athens were creating their idols from ignorance, not knowing how to live for God from within the spirit and soul. But now the days of ignorance are over and God commands people everywhere to repent.

 “…because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” Acts 17:31

All the world, all the creation of God in every country everywhere will be judged by the Man whom God has given that authority. That man is Jesus Christ. God sent His Son, Jesus, to proclaim the Kingdom of God, to bring the forgiveness of sin, and to unite us with God through the spirit. When our Lord Jesus died on the Cross to atone for sin, that opened access within our soul into the presence of the Spirit of God. Through Jesus, we are made the temple of the Holy Spirit. Before Jesus made atonement for sin, there was a curtain/veil within our soul separating us from fellowship with His Spirit. By His death on the Cross came the remission of sin, which tore the curtain/veil from top to bottom to reconcile us with God, “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom…” Matthew 27:50-51

Jesus died on the Cross to atone for sin, then God raised Him from the dead after three days. That resurrection is the guarantee of life beyond the grave, guarantee of eternal life for all His creation who believes in Him. That resurrection is also the guarantee of the judgment to come beyond the grave, “And at that time your people will be delivered, every one who is found written in the book… those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.” Daniel 12;1-3

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1