Wednesday, February 9, 2011

The Heavenly Conversations of the Gospel

God is never changing, the God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament, and he is the God we serve.

NB: The italicised sections are not part of Scripture, I have added them in for emphasis and flow, using the implications of the Scriptures, it ive taken liberties, pls lemme know.

Jehovah: Moses, I have seen these people, they are a stiff-necked people. Now leave me alone that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. [Exodus 32:9&10] I look down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understands, any who seek God, everyone has turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is not one who does good, not even one.[Psalms 53:2-3]

Moses: I seek your favour LORD, turn from your fierce anger and; relent and do not bring disaster on your people...Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel to whom you swore by your own self. [Exodus 32:12-14] Let me atone for their sins, forgive them, if not, then blot me out of the book of life, along with them [Exodus 32:32].

Jehovah: Whoever sinned against me, I will blot out of the book of life. You will not atone for their sins. When the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.

Satan: These beings are not worthy of your grace, their hearts are cold to you every day, they deny you, I shall accuse them everyday before you [Rev 12:10]. They say they believe, but my servants and I also believe and tremble, but we will not receive life [James 2:19], they say they love you but yet they continue in their disobedience and spurn your commands [1 John 5:3]. They serve you because you have placed a hedge around them and blessed the works of their hands, stretch out your hand and strike what they have and they will surely curse you to your face. [Job 1:11;2:4&5] When I sinned against you, Lord, I received no pardon, when I swept a third of the angels from your temple, you showed me no mercy, but flung me to earth for a time [Revelations 12:4,13]. Show us your justice and damn them all to your wrath!

Jehovah: I shall have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I shall have compassion on whom I shall have compassion [Gen 33:19]. I am the LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet I do not leave the guilty unpunished. [Exodus 34:6&7] Ancient Serpent [Rev 12:9], Satan, I shall remember my promise to the first of their generation when I cursed you and them. I shall put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; you will indeed strike his heel, but he will surely crush your head. [Gen 3:15; Romans 16:20 through the mouthpiece of the Apostle Paul]

Jehovah: Moses, build a tabernacle, that I may dwell among you, but no one shall come into my dwelling place except the High Priest, once a year, after cleansing himself, and taking a sacrifice offering for the sins of the Israelites [Hebrews 9:7]. No one is to come into the Most Holy place without consecration, lest The fire of the Lord consume him.

Satan: You deal unjustly with this product of the dirt. They rail against you and you judge them not?

Satan: Justice! We call for justice! Condemnation for sin.

Jehovah: I am just, there shall indeed be atonement for sin, behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen one in whom my soul delights. He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. He will not cry, nor lift up his voice or let it be heard in the streets. A bruised reed he will not break, a dimly lit wick he will not quench. He will bring forth justice in truth. [Isaiah 42:1-3]

Isaiah: For unto us a son is born, and he shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Prince of Peace, Everlasting God [Isaiah 9:5]

John: The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father full of grace and truth. [John 1:14] For the law came through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. [John 1:17].

Satan: This child shall not be a thorn in my flesh, he shall not defeat me, or my dominion over this world. From his birth I shall destroy him, I shall indeed strike his heel, but he shall not crush my head.

So Herod, realising he had been outwitted by the Magi, was furious and gave the orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem. [Matthew 2:16]

Satan: I shall pursue the child and his mother, they shall not escape my reach.

When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to earth, he pursued the woman, and the child [Revelations 12:13], the child who will rule the nations with an iron scepter [Revelations 12:5] but he could not destroy them.

Satan: The woman and her child have evaded me, I shall surely make war against the rest of her offspring-those who obey God's commandments and hold onto the testimony of Jesus [Revelations 12:17]. I shall destroy his ministry with the passions of my world, he shall fall to temptation like the man that he is, I shall yet prevail.

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. After fasting for forty days and nights, he was hungry.[Matthew 4:2]

Satan: If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread. Your time has yet to come, but show your power now and save yourself, you need not fast, you need not suffer

Jesus: Man shall live not on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord [Deutronomy 8:3].

Satan: Throw yourself down this cliff, it is written in God's word that his angels will be commanded concerning you, and they shall lift you up, and they shall not allow your foot be struck upon a rock [Psalms 91:11,12]. Be carried away from this desert, leave this place of your torment.

Jesus: It is written in the same, that you shalt not put the Lord your God to the test. [Deut 6:16].

Satan: I have been given authority over every tribe, nation, people and language [Revelations 13:7], I shall give to you all the kingdoms of the world, in all their spleandour, you need not suffer, you need not drink the cup of wrath to inherit these blessings, bow to me, and they shall be yours![Matthew 4:8&9]

Jesus: Away from me Satan! It is written, Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only. [Matthew 4:10].

Jesus Christ: Just as Moses lifted the snake in the desert [Numbers 21:4-9]where the punishment of God was averted by gazing unto the lifted snake, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.[John 3:14] whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned because he has not believed the name of God's one and only Son, [John 3:18] God's wrath remains on him [John 3:36] I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father, from now on, you do know him and have seen him. [John 14:6&7]

Jesus: The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, whole the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honour the one who serves me. Now my heart is troubled, and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name! [John 12:27&28].

God the Father: I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.

Jesus: Now is the time for judgement on this world; now the prince of this world, (Satan) is to be driven out. But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself. [John 12:33]

Satan: I shall turn his disciples on him, I shall use his trusted friends to convince him against this.

Then Peter took the Lord aside and began to rebuke him. “Never Lord!” He said. “This shall never happen to you!”

Jesus: Get behind me Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men [Matthew 16:23]Shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me [John 18:11]? The Holy Spirit shall come to this world and convict the world of sin, of righteousness and judgement, of judgement, because you, Satan, prince of this world, have been condemned [John 16:11].

Satan: If he shall not be refrain from his mission, then it shall be I who banishes him to his grave.

Jesus had his last supper with his disciples.
Jesus: Judas, do what you are to do quickly [John 13:27]

Then Satan entered Judas, and he left. [John 13:27]

Jesus was arrested in the garden, after his prayers, and the Chief priests and elders handed Jesus over to be crucified [John 19:6]. The soldiers took charge of Jesus and, carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull. Here they crucified him. [John 19:17].

Paul: For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own son, in the likeness of sinful man, to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteousness requirements of the law might be fully met in us [Romans 8:3&4]

Paul: He made him who had no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we may become the righteousness of God in him. [1 Cor 5:21]

Hebrews author: He shall bear the sins of many [Hebrews 9:28]

Isaiah: Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him [Isaiah 53:4-6]

He suffered for the sins of the world, from the sixth hour to the ninth, there was darkness over the earth as the Father poured out the full cup of his wrath unto his sin-laden Son. He could no longer relate to his Holy Father.

About the 9th hour, Jesus cried out, '”My God, My God, why have thou forsaken me?” [Matthew 27:46]

Habbakuk : Lord, your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, you cannot tolerate wrong [Habbakuk 1:13]

Isaiah: Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him and cause him to suffer and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.

Jesus drank deep and long of the cup of wrath, and at the 9th hour, he said “It is finished” [John 19:30] and died.

At that moment, the curtain to the temple, leading into the Most Holy place, was torn into two. [Matthew 27:51]

On the 3rd day, two women went with the spices they had prepared to put them on the body of Jesus, and met two angels, dressed in gleaming clothes, and they asked the women, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, he has risen! Remember how he told you when you while he was still with you in Galilee? [Luke 24:5&6].

Paul: He was put to death for our sins, and raised for our justification. For I passed on to you what I also received as of first importance; that Christ died for sins, according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures [1 Cor 15:3&4]. The mystery of God has been kept hidden for generations, from men and from angels. God intends to make known his manifold wisdom through the church, a redeemed bride, through Jesus Christ, accomplishing his eternal purpose, allowing us to approach him in confidence, redeeming us back to him. [Eph 3:7-13] He disarmed powers and authorities, making a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. [Colossians 2:15].

John: You are worthy to open the scroll,
and to open its seals.
Because you were slain,
and with your blood you purchased men for God
from every tribe and language and people and nation,
You have made them to be a kingdom of priests to serve our God
and they will reign on the earth [Revelations 7:9-10]

Jesus: I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me-just as the Father knows me and I know thhe Father-i lay down my life for my sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will hear my voice, and there shall be one flock, and one shepherd [John 10:14-16]. All authority in heaven and on earth and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. [Matthew 28:18-20]

4 comments:

  1. Ok, so i was clearly unable to italisize the stuff, ma bad. Its late, will get on that on the morrow :)

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  2. yoh yoh yoh...
    this just makes me want to shout
    HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Thank you for putting this together... wow. It is a powerful illustration that hits me right to the core and forces me to remember the totality of the atonement and the battle over which Christ has made us victors.

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  3. Nice one hunja! How long did it take you to put this all together? It is really good! Excellent work... Njenga

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  4. im glad its proving a blessing Ellie, i was so so moved while doing it, the Gospel is truly life changing stuff.

    Njenga, ive been working on it on an off for a bit, but the best part of it took about a day and a bit to put together, the biggest thing was deciding what to put in and what to leave out.

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