Betrothed by the Ancient of Days

My ability to rest fully in the love of my Saviour depended not only upon His promises to me, but also upon the acceptance and approval of His Father. Through my years of studying the Scriptures, I had learned that it is in the judgment that I must stand before God and really meet the Father of my

Beloved in the Most Holy Place.

My uneasiness about meeting my Beloved’s Father was often hidden from others and even from myself, yet manifested itself in various ways. Each time I would fall into sin, I would repent, but also sometimes I began to float into a state of denial. My deep-seated fear drove me more forcibly towards entertainment, indulgence and self-pity.

As I began to study the Bible and appreciate my Saviour, the path to the Most Holy started to take shape. I then realised that since 1844 my Beloved had taken up a special work of intercession and judgment in the Most Holy Place.

I would take comfort in the thought that Jesus represented me to the Father. I could even see evidence that the Father loved me. Yet the seed sewn by the tempter concerning the need for respect and

approval through my achievement clashed head-on with the reality of this Being on the throne who gives life and breath to all.

As long as there was any trace of affection in my heart for the tempter’s idol, I would never be able to stand before the Source of all being and the Fountain of all law and feel able to rest. This is why the majority of the Christian world completely denies the work of judgment begun in 1844. Many Christians emotionally do not want to meet the Father; they only wish to have their image of whom they think Jesus to be.

The only reason we would want to go into the Most Holy Place is because we truly love our Saviour. Like Esther we can say:

…I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. Esther 4:16.

Our sweet Beloved braces us to face whatever must be faced in order to hold onto Him. The other amazing thing about our ability to approach the Father in the Most Holy Place is that only when we truly love Jesus will we truly know the heart of the Father and His love for us. The whole process is fool proof.

When Elijah1 came to me and showed me the clear difference between the Trinity and the Father and Son, I saw that the figure called the Father within the Trinity was actually unreachable with my heart. He was not truly the Father of Jesus, and therefore He did not truly give His Son. When He spoke the words, “You are my beloved Son,” part of me rejoiced, but another unspoken part sensed that this was not the deepest reality.

As I beheld the real Son of God, He opened for me a path of approach to the Father; His approach to the Father became the cornerstone of my approach. The Father’s love for His Son became the cornerstone of His love for me. Only in this real Father and Son relationship could I know the Father truly loved and accepted me.

Only through the principle of inheritance could I take comfort in the

words:

he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; John 14:9.

1. By Elijah coming to me, I mean the message of Elijah that makes a clear distinction

between the Father and Son and the Trinity.

As I beheld the exact likeness of my Beloved to His Father, my heart took courage in the promise:

To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. Ephesians 1:6.

So many times I had read these words, told myself to believe them, and clung to them. Yet I found myself often sliding away from the path to the Most Holy Place into another path. If Elijah had not revealed my secret love for self through the perversion of the Trinity, I would never have felt confident to approach the Father of my Beloved.

Many church members have already abandoned this process. They proclaim that “Jesus took my judgment” or that 1844 is simply a meaningful little ceremony to apply the benefits of the atonement and to reveal to the universe what God already knew. All of this belies the reality that such human hearts will not surrender the seed of the serpent which refuses the truth that the Father is the great source of all.

None of these theological devices remove the reality that we need a true sense of acceptance from the Father of the Groom. Only the reality of a Father yielding up His Son for our sins can grip the soul enough to endure the Most Holy Place experience.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. (10) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:9-10.

In the face of the great judge of the universe, any parallel reality switching into a notion that God is actually three co-eternal beings will kill the bedrock reality that God gave His Son because He loves us. A metaphorical gift means a metaphorical acceptance which is completely exposed under the scrutiny of judgment.

For the soul who has found joy in the begotten Son, the footsteps of the Father towards the judgment seat in heaven are real footsteps. For the lover of self, these are yet another metaphor of the great love of the Trinitarian god projected onto the souls of humanity to provide us a source of hope. The Trinitarian mind often is required to make the footsteps of the Father towards the Most Holy metaphorical because actual steps towards judgment are too frightening to contemplate.

For those who have gazed long into the eyes of our Saviour, the footsteps of the Father reveal His eagerness to betroth His Son to the bride. The judgment process reveals who truly loves His Son and therefore whom He can seal to live forever with Him. Only those who truly know the Father through His Son can find the secret place of the Most High.

We do not need to fear the judgment of God. He yearns to reveal His loving acceptance of us. The key is simply in acknowledging who He and His Son are, and in that acknowledgment we have eternal life.

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3.

Shall we not approach the throne of mercy with confidence and boldness knowing that all our needs will be met and that the Father truly does approve of our love for His Son?

Date: 2015-12-18; view: 570