The Great I Am, Who Said "Here Am I!"

By Nathaniel Burgett and Michelle Burgett

Provided as a scriptural guide to those saved or born again, or anyone interested in reading scripture and how it pertains to the daily struggles we all face. There are many aspects of our lives that we strive to improve on, too often during our daily lives some are trying to 'find their place' amongst the world. This book will help to understand where that fit is and why we are all here.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Feb 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483521565

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#1 Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Chapter 1

Salutations to the churches scattered throughout the world of travail, in these the last days before our beloved Lord returns to reign. Know well, that the Master is ever attentive to your affairs. The LORD has not abandoned His people nor forsaken the earth! The kingdom of God is nigh, at hand, and even within you! This shall prove either to your everlasting glory or unending shame depending upon your resolve (The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.). The Master of the house has sent Word that He will come quickly. Remember therefore your calling, that in reverence to your Lord, you are to fulfill the commandments given before His departure (For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.). And let this due benevolence be done without vain glory and self-praise, for we could know nothing of the will of the Master but for the Word which He has sent. Therefore, let all those quickened by the Spirit of the Word and filled with the zeal of (the) house of the LORD, obey. For the LORD is not petty in pride but rich in grace, counting you as His pride and glory and His names’ sake, seeing that you are enjoined through marriage to Jesus Christ, that you might bear the name of God as His faithful elect; who upon receipt of the Word of their Husband’s true grace, and being filled with the zeal of the Holy Spirit, loved not their lives unto the death, as becomes the saints of faith, and were equally willing to lay down their lives to Him who is blessed and faithful forever. For if Adam and Eve by their self-destructive works can bring sin and death upon all the world through their transgression, than behold the self-sacrificial works of Christ, who lay(s) down (His) life, that (He) might take it again, and of His bride, who present(s) (their) bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God: serving the LORD as sincerely in Spirit and righteousness as the world offends in flesh and sin, as is (y)our reasonable service! Amen.

Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he lives, he lives unto God. Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

It is common in the church to say that because we are saved by the free gift of grace and not of works, that there is no work to render in our walk with Jesus Christ. I wonder how much shorter the Bible would be if that were the case! How many Americans, living on the opposite side of the world would ever know the name of Jesus Christ if the Apostles held the same attitude? If any in all of existence were exempt, and had the right to forbear working, is it not God? Could not He have merely said, depart in peace, and be you warmed and filled, and done nothing? If then He Himself would lay out the example of righteousness by grace, by what right do we, covered in the blood of His sacrifice, have to do nothing? We, in our foolishness, have served sin a season believing to be made like God, and now, having been redeemed and sanctified unto the grace of God, are we to argue that it is vain to serve God, for the impossibility to honor Him according to His desert? God forbid. I am redeemed from the futility of vanity and sin, sanctified in righteousness that I and my works might be made acceptable to God, and promised by His doings to obtain an inheritance beyond my very ability to comprehend. I am not stifled to do and say nothing, but motivated beyond measure to apprehend and labor all the more fervent(lee) to honor the LORD according to His due. As then, the LORD does magnify Himself upon us, revealing Himself, from glory to glory, more than our estimation of Him, so does that ever elusive worth and obligation toward service to God magnify itself to us. For the more I come to understand God, the more I understand the Gift and works of God, and so the more I recognize mine example of righteousness before Him! For if by salvation we are enjoined as joint heirs with Him, unto our atonement unto God, then as Christ is to our eyes so we were meant to be before God's! Though I know it should seem futile, for who can serve the LORD according to His worth? But no more futile than my wanderings in the wilderness of sin, which could not achieve my desire. Being given my desire by grace, I am as though promised and guaranteed that I cannot fail, and would rather be damned than that my service should be neglectful on His behalf, whereas His was bountiful on my own!

For is God, who fill(s) heaven and earth, to be impressed with the abundance and multitude of your sacrifices? And how can I offer Him, as though by grace, that which is His own, as though by right? For He says, for every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof. As He then is LORD and creator of all, what then can I offer Him that is not His by right? What can I do before God but accept that which comes from Him, acknowledge what resulted from His grace, and commit our will in devotion to Him after His very example (I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.)? For if we truly account our salvation to be by God's grace and love, then love is the only thing adequate to repay this. With freewill I am given the ability to dedicate and commit myself freely, so that all that I have that is my own to offer God is the commitment of my will. And if I account my salvation to be a free gift by the commitment and offering of Christ toward me, whereby I am redeemed from sin and absolved of debt, with what can I so much as thank the LORD for my Jubilee but the commitment of all that I have gained through His grace toward me after the example of God in so offering it to me? Therefore if am absolved of debt (that He did not owe) by the LORD's grace and love, then though I have no debt to pay, yet the obligation of this absolution and sanctification compels me to commit unto the LORD the fullness of all that I am by His grace and love shed so generously for me! That it might be love for love, and grace for grace: for love that is forced is not true love!

Chapter 2

Blessed be the name of the LORD, who both gives and takes away according to His will. Yea, He who gives the breath of life by the Spirit of His Word, and steals that same breath away in our astonishment, upon our discovery of the mystery of God’s dedicated love toward His elect. Forgive us LORD; for we sinned only because we could not believe your grace and your glory could extend so far, even unto us, and encompass all things. Surely the LORD has done all this. If only it were possible that our faith should span the length, and breadth and height of your love, my King; then might we walk worthy of it. Yea, blessed be the Everlasting LORD of Grace, who changes not: the Glorious Meridian and Eternal I Am, who’s every work, past, present and future was for our abundant glory. For though nothing is worthy of Him, God counted it not vain to bestow the confessions and tokens of His love upon us (for which He suffered the accusation of some unnamed sin by the angels that were with Him at that time), even through the long-sufferings of the foreknowledge of our betrayals and rebellions through sin. Blessed be the LORD our God, who for all this His (grace) is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still. For only by the overabundance of His righteousness could we exist, satisfying the deficit of our vanity with His infinite glory and abundant grace: through the Word of God in the days of creation, again in the manifestation of Jesus Christ unto our redemption, and promised in revelation by the blood of His righteousness and His Holy Spirit to preserve us in the last days of judgment. All that it may be made known forever that His grace spans the heavens, the earth, and the depths, even all that exists; for He has made all, and He forsakes none. But rather to our salvation has chastened us as His children, to reprove us from the ways of sin (that bear consequences beyond what we can presume or endure), that we may repent and be redeemed from the imminent death of sin, and be protected from the judgment that awaits the remorseless (who will be left to the devices that they have chosen).

For though all things are made perfect, being the works of God, perfection and righteousness is a delicate balance that must be maintained. With freewill given to mankind, made in the likeness and image of God, the choice to abide in the righteousness of God or to depart rests in us, who shall bear the fruits of our ways and reap the harvest according to that which we have sown, even as shall He. The righteousness of the will of God is proven in the grace by which He gave us freewill; honoring us even with the ability to defy Him! If all God cared for was obedience, then freewill was His mistake (which Satan poses himself to be the mistake of God through exercising freewill against Him; upon realizing that God had as though bid him God speed, Satan believes he can tarnish the virtue of God's righteousness by corrupting himself in sin and thus tainting the perfect works of God): if God is perfect, then His own works shall proclaim and prove Him so (Remember that you magnify His work, which men behold. Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.). As it is written, Look unto me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory!

For our righteous LORD (who does unto His people as He would have it done unto Him) will not neglect to honor even the will of those opposed to Him (thinking to treat Him as they believe they have been treated by Him). But as He blessed all creation from the beginning, that all that they should endeavor to do would prosper by His grace; even too to those who distance themselves from the perfect will of God (these choosing to separate themselves from His glory unto the illusion of splendor without Him, who choose to dwell in darkness), will He honor as well. For God, who is love, is rich in mercy upon both the wicked and the righteous; for the gifts and callings of God are without repentance, (meaning, God who declare(s) the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, is not a fool and makes no mistakes) and His love respects not persons, but all do reap as they sow. As it is written, Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense. The wicked who reign in this life (insisting to reign as God if He truly be righteous and fair) living by the law (under the ministry of judgment in which they thought to condemn God; as you have judged shall you be judged"), receive the unmerited favor of God’s grace that they may enjoy some glory before they inevitably return unto the darkness, which they have loved, seeing that they have denied the True Light of Christ, whom they have crucified in their rebellion and desire to reign. For by denying Christ’s rebuke of sin, they call God a liar; for if we contend against God as an enemy, either He is false or we are!

Even as Abraham wept for the separation of Ishmael and Isaac; the LORD decreed that Ishmael would be glorified as well as Isaac because he was the son of Abraham (the friend of God), but the promise would rest upon Isaac, and in him would his seed be called. Likewise those that choose to sin are allotted this season upon the earth either to repent or to reign in their portion of the inheritance of God’s grace, because they too are the sons of God (in flesh but not in faith, in that they deny the Lord Jesus Christ, who is their birthright unto eternal salvation). To put to shame all manner of accusation against God, whether against the Father, the Son or the elect Church filled with the Holy Spirit (and enjoined unto the eternal trinity of God by the adoption and betrothal through Jesus Christ our Lord, of whom we are called to testify), rather than exercise the letter of the law, in which no flesh could be saved, the LORD in grace judges by the spirit of the law, in mercy, rich upon all, without respect of persons. Eternal glory bestowed upon those true disciples of Christ, who endure with Him in His afflictions and long sufferings against sin in the world; and alas, a temporal glory for those who know not the first resurrection and reverence not the truth of the Word of God, which is Jesus Christ our beloved Lord.

Chapter 3

Let all who call upon the name of the Lord remember the Master’s covenant and obey the commandments given, reverencing Christ’s commandments as much a necessity of salvation as receiving Jesus Christ Himself, who is the Word of God. Forget not the angels before us, fallen from their first estate, trusting well in the grace of God unto salvation but not in honoring the commandments nor the anointed of the LORD (manifested in the rebellion and hardheartedness of the Jews, believing they must be blessed being the children of Abraham). All such, who live by their own judgments (manifesting the life of Christ under the law), lest they should repent and perform the commandments, are doomed, when all things are reconciled to God in victory, to manifest the glory of Christ’s death; whereas we, the born again of God in mercy and truth, shall manifest the glory of Christ’s resurrection, in that we died unto Him already, even according to our baptism. Blessed be the LORD our God, rich in mercy, who calls those things which are not, as though they were...to bring to naught those things which are.

Weep and howl for them (make you a mourning, as for an only son, a most bitter lamentation), for we do know the manner of tribulation that does await them that do not obey the truth. Beware that you forget not that they bear the anointing and blessing of God, as do you, and any soul that glories in their destruction shall join them in it. For if you, being redeemed unto the likeness of God through the Holy Spirit (given by the prayer and sacrifice of Jesus Christ), can forget to reverence their anointing in the LORD, perhaps He can so easily forget to reverence the anointing upon you. And if you can glory in their destruction as though willingly crucifying the LORD’s Anointed (as they did whom you sport yourselves over), what difference than is there between them and you; fear therefore that the LORD should so glory in your demise. For the manner of grace that we receive in judgment is defined by our representation of God’s grace before the world. Let us therefore reverence and obey the commandment, all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets, knowing that in judgment, the grace that we imparted should be returned to us by the hand of God. Forget not your own selves, nor your authority and responsibility as the resurrection of Christ, nor the commands of Jesus Christ to love your neighbor as yourself, and to love freely as the Lord loves you.

Remember also that our beloved Father, the Almighty God, pitied you in the days of your affliction, and that our salvation came about as we likewise pitied our anointed Lord upon the cross: counting even His own life forfeit pertaining to your salvation and resurrection; seizing the opportunity to express His true heart according to the example of Jesus Christ; foreknowing, even willing, His sufferings upon the cross to offer you a token and everlasting signet of His love toward you, which is the cross of Jesus Christ: in sufferings, and yet in glory; in righteousness, yet as sin and accursed; in perfection of the law, and in declaration of mercy; being judged of men, in offering a sacrifice unto salvation from the judgment of God; showing the wickedness of man’s works in God’s eyes (manifesting the broken Word of God, which is sin), and manifesting also the judgment befitting such (for it is written: "And your eye shall not pity; but life for life, eye for eye, and tooth for tooth...); and manifesting God’s works and will toward us in merciful self-sacrifice, and thus our example of righteousness and command of obedience, knowing that only Jesus obtained favor from God unto resurrection and ascension.

Dear saints, let us not forget that for all His works of creation and judgment we refused Him that spoke, and if not for the manifestation of the Lord’s true person and affection of grace toward us, we surely would perish with this world. Seeing then that God Himself has cast off the pride and glory of His reputation, repenting of the judgments of the law that were set against us, and humbling Himself to the customs of men, being led by the spirit that was then in us, even unto death; what manner of service shall we deny our LORD and Master who has so served us? For what idol or theology of God has declared such things? Or how dramatically beyond our expectation or comprehension is the grace of the one true Living God? Mourn then, for those which are lost, as your Lord wept over you (for did Jesus love Lazarus more than any other man? Or was it written for our sakes?); and fulfill the love that is now in you, even because God denied not those things that you were needful of in your distress.

Nor forget that God is your example of righteousness, imparting to you the fullness of service and complete humility that only God is worthy to bear. Laboring in all things for your benefit, yet not in vain; God has always shown the example of service that he would receive from those that love as He has loved. For He has sown His seeds in faith (through the blessing and gift of freewill); and all things being done unto us, in grace, according to our will, as it was made known unto Him by the revelation of His foreknowledge (in that dominion was awarded before any works of man, whether he would hear or whether he would forbear the commandment of God’s will, that man should fulfill); and humble to our needs, even when we walk contrary to His will (in that He would take upon Himself our just punishment, even the curse of death, that we may know and never doubt, that we bear the fullness of God through His grace). For if we are called, as Isaac, the son of promise, destined to inherit the birthright and blessing of God, ought we not also manifest the righteous example of Isaac, being obedient unto death, humble unto the works of our Righteous Father, even unto the sacrifice of our very lives!

Chapter 4

Every covenant of God required some action on the part of man. Whether of Adam, Noah, Abraham, or the nation of Israel; every covenant required some service to be rendered, in faith, toward God. Surely, all the more in the everlasting covenant through Jesus Christ; as much as He is more and fulfills more and promises more than all before. For though Jesus Christ fulfilled the promises and covenants between man and God (as no one else could), in doing so, He initiates the covenant of betrothal between Him and yourselves. So that as woman ought to be subject to man, so ought man(kind) be humble to God (Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord the church: For we (all) are members of His body, of his flesh, and of his bones.)!

But before men cry out against woman's indiscretions and failure to obey; have you done by example before God that which you would desire of her, who also was made in the likeness and image of God (...You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonor you (not) God?)? For indeed man was first formed; as was Adam made before Christ came, and Saul ordained to reign before David, and the Jews called before the Church. Think upon it! Either you, after the likeness of God, receive the kingdom perfected in union with you as a great and overwhelming blessing, else you have despised God's graces and defiled His calling and ordination believing yourself to be worthy of more! Be a man appreciative of the gift of God, as was He in receiving you; else you forfeit your portion of the grace of God to the very one you deemed unworthy even of your graces! Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love, receiving her as joyously and freely as you offer yourself to be such a blessing from God to her, and to God for her! Womankind is not the afterthought of creation, though it took place after the days of creation, any more than Jesus Christ is the afterthought of the human race fallen in Adam! God is our creator, nurturer, caregiver, compassionate, humble, meek, gentle; we are born (again) as though by the breaking of His Body, sustained by His substance, captivated and aroused by His glory, strengthened and emboldened by His grace. All of these attributes are inherently feminine and yet are the defining characteristics and attributes of Him! Jesus is permanently set in the seat of the mediator of this final covenant, through the same offering available to all that faithfully enjoin Him in the fulfillment of all things. This is done through our obedience in reciprocating the laws of betrothal and example of grace through the sacrifice of our bodies to our Husband, paying the same benevolence that we received of God in His sacrifice; whereby we are no longer under the law, but in marriage to He who fulfills the law before God for His household. Either we, as the bride of Christ, can accept Jesus, the Word of God, to be Lord above us as a husband or ultimately our rebellion is against God, resenting His glorious title of the Most High, as sovereign above all! And either we, made as sons to God, can honor the gift of God, granting us life and will and dominion, as we would have the LORD glory in us, as an inheritance and dominion meet for him," else we rebel against the LORD's grace upon us, and manifest the likeness we would have others follow, as though beseeching their challenge to our rule even as we have sought to challenge His!

Ours is the everlasting covenant commissioned through the last Adam. As at the first, when Eve received the blessing and covenant through Adam (for she was yet (with)in (his) loins at the time it was spoken unto him), so too, we that are the bride of Christ receive our dominion, and blessing, and promises, and commissions of the covenant through the anointing of the blood of Jesus Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit that was yet within Him, before God caused the deep sleep to fall upon Him. Be not deceived, all dominion and power and blessing was appointed unto Him, who was not ashamed to be made like unto us in appearance, even unto death, so that we, in turn, being covered in the blood of Christ, should appear before God in the righteousness of our beloved Husband, even after the likeness and image of God (For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one...). Whereas Satan may creep in, bearing the appearance of the glory of God, or some false prophet, or the circumcision may try to supplant and rob you of your blessing; know that there is no dominion, or blessing, or glory, or magnitude of love that is not already yours, who abide in Christ. Yea, the LORD withholds no good thing from His Son, and likewise no good thing is withheld those that love Him as the Father loves Him. Think not as the sinners, that God restrains you from glory, but know that nothing could exist but by His grace; for by the law all things remain as they are, (shown true even in the laws of physics, which is why science ever drifts blindly away from the Truth) and all is vanity.

Chapter 5

In conclusion, I do not presume to add nor take away from the true and perfect Word of God. Yea, I dare not reprove my LORD by claiming some insufficiency or incompletion in the Word of God (which is of the Father and one with Him). I speak in the venting of my spirit, desiring to stir up the unified body of Christ in these last days, bringing into remembrance the righteous commandments of our Lord which you have known already. See to it that these letters are spread throughout the body of Christ, to call the faithful unto action. For the commandment says, how can we which claim to partake in the love of God close our hearts to the affliction of our neighbors, seeing that we are saved by the LORD’S pity upon our oppressions. Behold the fields are white. Disgrace not your faith by saying merely, Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body. Let us who hold the Word of God in truth, act upon the commands and give heed to the prophecies of our Lord, and watch for Him as He commanded us. Signed, a disciple who would keep the knowledge of God’s grace and the revelation of the gift of God closer in memory than mine own name. Yea, my only pride and glory is to be numbered among the sanctified, who bear the name of God through our righteous Lord Jesus Christ.

#2 Lo I come: In the volume of the book it is written of me.

Chapter 1

Salutations to the Seven Elect Sisters united unto one body by the Holy Spirit of God through Jesus Christ, the Holy One of the LORD. Blessed be the LORD and the brethren, sanctified and glorified by the gift of the eternal Word of God. For what has descended from the lips of the LORD and entered into man through his nostrils (by the sweet savor sacrifice of Jesus Christ upon the cross) whereby we are made a living soul in the likeness and image of God, save the precious Quickening Spirit of the Breath of Life and Word of God (For all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things and by him all things consist.). For the Word of the gospel that you have received unto salvation is the same Word spoken by God that brought all things into existence! The Word of God is His gift upon us whereby we receive the blessing of life and liberty and the revelation of God’s true person; for by the Word was the covenant initiated. But take heed how you hear, for it is written, Can two walk together unless they be agreed?

For here is the Prophet revealed, like unto the LORD (in that He is the Word of God made flesh), and like unto us (in that both man and the Word are filled with the Breath of Life), and therefore like a brother unto us: He who stands in the gap between us and the Almighty, mediating the covenant by which we were fore-given life, of whom it was prophesied that whosoever shall not hearken to Him, it shall be required of him. Here is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Living God, by whom we are enjoined through marriage in covenant unto the LORD; not by the works of flesh through the heritage of Adam, who is cursed to return unto the dust of the ground, from whence he was taken (For there is no preeminence in man above the beast of the field), but by the Righteousness of God through the Wonderful Counselor, the tried and tested Word of God (For no man has ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in heaven; to whom we are made one flesh and one Spirit before God, unto our salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.).

For if you needed not the right hand of God and His outstretched arm then ought you not to have needed to be created, as though you thought yourself to be God? If you needed not the intercession of a mediator ought you not to have already known the Word of God, having needed no intercessor nor counsellor, as one that heard His Word at His mouth, and could speak to God face to face? Yet Jesus marveled at the faith of the worthy centurion who said, Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it. And God commended the Jews who justified the need of a mediator to stand between them and God, so that Moses alone ascended and descended the mount of God. And Job was called perfect who explained the necessity of a Daysman to mediate the affairs of men to God and translate God's Word to us. And which of these truly counted themselves worthy of a place before God? Job who repented in dust and ashes? Or Moses, of whom it is written, and so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake? Yea, how often are strong and stubborn men shown their wretchedness, having their comeliness (was) turned (in them) into corruption? For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excels. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is glorious.

Yet through the abundance of the grace of God is their corruption become the righteousness of God! Whereas they once were rebuked for their stubbornness; having a neck (of) an iron sinew and a brass brow; yet now being transformed and converted in Christ, is the rebuke of their stubbornness and rebellion become the commemoration and account of their loyalty in Christ, made perfect in love! Now are they as refined silver, and tried gold; and their image shall be like that of He in whom they have trusted, or whom it is written, And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shines in his strength! Now are they become those of whom it is written, and I will make you unto this people a fenced brazen wall: and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says the LORD, and again, I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs brass: and you shall beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth. For if the stubbornness of your will was mounted up to be formidable against God, so that even He as though struggled to change you, who then could change you now after the transformation by which your rebellious stubbornness has become the strength of your devotion unto Him!

Chapter 2

Blessed be the saved of the LORD, redeemed from the hand of His wrath by the hand of His grace. Yea, blessed be the everlasting Bride of Christ: satisfied by her Husband’s grace by the Spirit of God in her midst; filling the void of her heart with the fullness of His love and the seed of His Word (according to the anatomy of man and wife, which is the great mystery concerning Christ and the Church, joined in marriage to conceive godly seed unto the LORD); born again, in the receiving of the life of Lord to dwell within her; which being satisfied by the same Spirit, grows and matures within her according to the time of life; and through her travail is delivered unto the world as a testimony of her Husband, and a praise and glory unto God. But let your temples be pure and wholly dedicated, as wives faithful unto one Husband, and not defiled by the world of deceivers that covet the prize and life within you; lest you be judged as adulterers and harlots and all those that break the covenant of wedlock, if your testimony should fail to bear the Likeness and Image of the Father.

For the Deceiver is privy that the ministry of our infinite and Almighty God is not bound by the dynamics of space and time. Therefore whatsoever God has done in Spirit before the world, He can do in any one soul, and whatsoever is done in any one soul, prophesies of the same before the entire world. Wherein God's works upon Adam and Noah and even all the nation of Israel represent what God is capable and willing to do in us through Christ. For they all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and served but a shadow of good things to come, but we the very brightness of His glory, and express image of His person! For even according to mankind’s history, so too in each soul’s life: is there not an innocence in childhood, then a day of reckoning the judgments between good and evil, and thus an initiation into the governing laws of the consequence for our actions, and a time of a presumptuous departure from the house of our parents in attempt to establish an estate of our own? And for the souls who receive Christ as their redemption from death (for like the world, and the lives of our souls, after all these things, what else awaits us? Only death.), according to the prophecies, the devil comes with great wrath, in a last attempt to destroy the testimony of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. For with every soul saved, there is within them a new revelation of the victory of God in Jesus Christ, whereby Satan doth know he has but a short time!

Behold the ministry of sin and betrayal against our beloved Lord as revealed in the garden of Eden: The serpent in deception (being covered in the glory of God, as once an angel of light, but within him is ravening wickedness: approaching with the kiss of Judas; honoring with his lips but his heart is far from you), speaks as though in the name of the LORD; promising blessing, but offering death; questioning the grace of God by insinuating that the commandment was a limitation of His love, and therefore His kingdom and power have an end; offering sin as the salvation from the supposed cruel bondage of God’s law; inferring that God cannot fully judge sin within His kingdom without condemning Himself and admitting an imperfection within Himself, because man was made in His image and all things are the works of the LORD (Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: and if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?); and that once freed from God’s inferred tyranny by migrating into the darkness, God could not harm them, for He can have no fellowship with darkness nor touch the unclean; therefore they could have their own kingdom separate and apart from God without any recourse or recompense (Herein is the forming of the unholy trinity and the covenant with death to be revealed again in the last days. He, who has ears, let him hear.).

Satan then, seeming to stand alone and independent from God and His Word, as though existing unto himself, blasphemes and accuses God of weakness or blindness; in that if God were truly as powerful and foreknowing as His reputation suggests, He should have resisted and defeated Satan’s ministry (Yea, if the Goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have not suffered his house to be broken up.); stating that if man, made in the image of God can sin, it is because iniquity came of the heritage of the Father; and that because God could not honor the blessing and grace upon mankind as well as enforce the sentence He pronounced against sin, that the Almighty Word of God had been made powerless and fallen to the ground, made of no effect, negating all power and glory of God’s reputation (Accusing God’s doctrine of grace as His weakness unto defeat, and mocking His Word as though an oath foolishly sworn, that cannot be reversed, as with the story of the daughter of Jephthah, or Jonathan the son of Saul, or the death of John the Baptist); and that the LORD Himself could either cast off His pride in professing His righteousness and join in sin following mankind in worshiping Satan or die, as if it were possible, in the shame that He had been so defeated by one considered inferior to Himself (And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.). Standing against the Most High, as though like Moses against pharaoh, threatening plagues unto the destruction of His kingdom and the death of His Son, if the people would not be let go to serve sin which had freed them from Him; or like David against Goliath, Satan stood against the Almighty God, and thought to obtain an eternal throne by becoming the people’s champion and defeating Him.

Chapter 3

Blessed be the LORD God, Almighty and Foreknowing. He who is rich in grace beyond all comprehension and expectation; that the sons of God should follow righteousness in faith, and not by sight or the judgments of their own wisdom, unto the salvation of the LORD’S beloved elect, by the eternal victory over sin, through the righteous sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Lord (Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.). To put away and silence all such rebellion and self-righteous judgments against God once and for all; behold the grace of our LORD of longsuffering, who teaches the faith and patience of the saints. For lest the LORD live out righteousness by example, there would be no righteous manner for His people to follow. For how can the LORD be perfect and foreknowing if He must change His mind or alter His course and doctrine to overcome? So Satan poses himself as the monkey wrench in His works, and the pebble in His shoe (so to speak); the devil's advocate against the Word of God to contest the righteous reputation of God's perfection. So it happens that Satan believes to prosper against God through sin because the LORD is so abundantly gracious, genuinely granting all his desire and in so doing formulates the example and likeness that His people are to follow (Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.)!

Yet herein is the victory of God, and the ministry of our salvation in Jesus Christ: the LORD’S true victory and righteousness is proven throughout the history of this world, which exists as a parable and token of His infinite grace. For just as Jesus used parables to explain the principles of His ministry, the earth and all that exists is God the Father’s parable denoting the truths of His Word. This victory is seen throughout scripture as well, to record before all believers the righteousness of the LORD and sovereignty of the Word of God (Just as it is written that there is a Book of Remembrance written before the LORD, recording the righteous words of God’s faithful saints upon the earth). The antitype of Adam, tasting of death for every man; the antitype of Satan, as the angel of light; the righteous sacrifice and death of Abel; the ascension of Enoch; obedient Noah who fulfilled the LORD’S Word unto the salvation of his household; Shem, in covering the nakedness of his father’s wife; Isaac the son of promise, and obedient unto death; Jacob, in serving for a wife in the house of her father; Joseph, in being raised from the prison unto the right hand of power, unto the salvation of his brethren; Moses in the deliverance from the hand of Pharaoh, and watching over the battles of Israel with arms held up in praise unto the LORD (For it was that so long as Moses’ arms were lifted up, that Israel was victorious, therefore, Aaron on one side and Hur on the other, held his arms outstretched for the victory of Israel.);

Joshua, in leading Israel unto their inheritance; Samson, in pulling down the pillars of the Philistine coliseum with the sacrifice of his life; David, in dancing naked before the LORD in worship and thanksgiving, bearing the accusation of his wife, and championing Israel before Goliath and setting up the eternal throne; Solomon, in building the temple of the LORD; Mordecai, in revealing to the king the plot of betrayal against him (which Christ did bearing sin’s plot of betrayal against God upon his very flesh, wherein it is written, He that hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.) for which the king exalted him supremely; Ezekiel, in serving as a sign unto Israel in carrying his goods out of Jerusalem, announcing the prophecy of the wrath of God (which Christ did bearing the cross and the sins of His people upon Him as He carried the cross without the camp.). These and numerous other examples show God’s infinite and eternal grace and assured victory and supremacy over all in Jesus Christ (Search the scriptures; for in them you think to have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me, says our Lord Jesus, and, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me.). And if we accredit these chronicles to be a true and accurate historical record of people's lives, what does that suggest of our lives now? Are there not types of Christ among us? How many occurrences in our lives are an allegory, or ensamples, or a shadow and parable of the gospel? Or how powerful are even the indirect effects of actions, wicked or righteous, that they are still being studied millennia afterwards? And as the LORD's act of righteousness, which brought all else to pass, is the definitive example of such, what great work is there left undone but to testify of the glorious works of God in word and in deed, accounting His example as the very definition of righteousness and the revelation of the will of God (Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.)?

And herein is this victory: Whereas Satan plots against the will of God, trusting in his own works and wisdom, believing through the abundance of the grace of God that by the dedication of his will his own right hand can bring him all his desire; saying within his heart, I will...I will...be as the Most High, the LORD Almighty and Sovereign reminds us, I Am That I Am! God, being infinite and everlasting, is immeasurably more than that which we would accredit Him to be! God is the ultimate fulfillment of that which we would idolize and aspire to be. In essence, God is the fulfillment of our will, as a prophecy come to fruition by Him, the Ancient of days who lives forever, as we are to live according to the will of God proving true the promises and prophecies of His Word! In every point, according to every glory, in every work, all that Satan hoped to accomplish through sin, God has accomplished in righteousness through Jesus Christ. And all the glory and deity of God that Satan thought to assume upon himself, God has proven Himself to be (The one and only LORD God, who is blessed and faithful forever), manifested by God’s own right hand, even Jesus Christ, the Most Holy. Befitting the judgment of the law upon a liar, it is done unto him as he thought to do unto his brother (Seeing that he has made himself equal with God by his own works and having denounced the grace of God). Wherein Satan, who is Lucifer (which means Day Star), thought to obtain the deity and glory of the Highest, the everlasting Word of God has assumed the glory of the name of Lucifer; for whereas Satan says, I will be as the Most High, Jesus Christ, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings, in the fullness of victory, has affirmed, I Am...the bright and morning star.

Chapter 4

The sacrifice of Isaac serves as a powerful type, in that Abraham received both the ministry of condemnation (asked to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, whom (he) loves) and the ministry of grace (being spared his son’s life and receiving the renewal of the blessing upon him). This shows the importance of reverencing the Word of God in a spiritual relationship with Him, rather than improvise your life by the letter of His words already received (for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.). For the law is to be reverenced in that the LORD spoke it by His Word: is not then the perfect Word of God that which is to be followed rather than our limited perception of the law? If we hold God to be infinite, then no matter how vast our perspective of God to be, it cannot encompass Him fully! For imagine how the world might have changed if Abraham, rather than continue to obey the Word of God (when the LORD spared Isaac’s life), refused to hear and said within himself, I must fulfill the (law) commandment given. Israel might never have been a nation and the Messiah never entered into the world (though the LORD prophesied beforehand such things to come, not as though dependent upon our righteousness, yet foreknowing Abraham's faith and obedience, and would hinge the fulfillment of His Word upon him to show that all things must come to pass as He has spoken it). All to illustrate the importance in serving the LORD in truth, whether He lead you to the right hand, or to the left, and not serving for wisdom, or glory, or self gain (as the multitudes that followed Christ, not as disciples, but because of the miracle whereby they were satisfied with bread, or as the Pharisees that would rebuke God Himself in there arrogance of the knowledge of the commandments of God’s Law).

It is likewise important to ask ourselves, why do we serve the Lord? Do we reverence Him or merely His gifts of exaltation toward us? Do we honor His Word and commandments for the wisdom that we recognize in them, or the wisdom we know is in Him? Do we worship and obey the LORD merely for salvation’s sake? Do we serve the LORD only because of his promises of salvation and eternal glory and immortality or for the love of God that we receive by His grace in that such promises were ever made (For David, a servant after the LORD’S own heart, wrote, better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere, and even Balaam confessed, Let me die the death of righteousness and let my last end be as His.)? How is it that we pray to God, Almighty, that He concern Himself with our affairs and be compassionate to our sorrows, yet whensoever we believe to hold the advantage, and imagine Him dependent upon our graces, we formulate excuses and reasons why we believe ourselves exempt from accomplishing His will and honoring His supplications? For our failure in sin is reverencing either our own judgments or even God’s gifts (whether by the law or grace) above a relationship with Him. In sin, Adam and Eve forsook all of God’s graces, in faith, upon the word of Satan (refusing the Word of God and honoring Satan’s words, thereby yielding themselves servants to their new master and god); surely then, we are to forsake the mere creature comforts of this world, and bear our cross, having been redeemed by the righteous Word of God and the true Angel of Light. For the proof of Jesus Christ being our only means of salvation and glory is spoken by the very mouth of the LORD, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever. For Adam and Eve were surrounded by the world of God’s grace, and hearkened unto one voice of temptation; therefore redemption shall be to those surrounded by a world of sin, among a people defiled by their own works, who hearken to the words of God’s true Angel of Light, sent to redeem all things unto Himself, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates. For I wonder how much the flaming sword must have looked like a man forced to hang(s) on a tree being tried(by) fire, or a bush that burned with fire yet was not consumed!

For why do we, who are freed from the dying world, continue to search the globe for glory and wisdom and fortune, which comes truly only from God, as though we still searched for Him? Searching for familiar spirits and wisdoms from all sources in a dying world, but not from the Ancient of Days who lives forever; Should not a people seek unto their God? Or will you search for the living to the dead? Or in our desire for the fortunes and glories of God, we are dazzled by His great works, and persuaded to compromise for the glory of God that is easier to obtain, and ever before our face upon the earth (For we see the splendor of His works, and look upon the glory of His ways of old, and know that surely God was here). But we are not distanced from God to reverence the mere holy ground where once He stood, but rather the very person of He who is Holy; to seek no more the mere hem of His garment, but seek the face of He who has healed you. But woe unto you that are rich, for you have received your consolation! For all those who till the ground in search for buried treasure, have unknowingly dug their own sepulcher, and consumed the glory of their lives for the glory of God, which cannot be obtained through their labors ("Go to now, you rich men, weep and