Saturday, March 12, 2016

What are the 3 witnesses? - 3 Major Divine Initiations on earth (1Jn5.8)

3 Times God says in Jer. 22.29, "Earth Earth Earth, hear the word of the Lord!!!"
Sometimes people have it the wrong way round.
They emphasize man "desiring God".
The Bible sets the record straight, "not that we loved God".
In fact our planet is quite fallen, entirely given over.
Yet God, 3 in heaven, which are one, strongly initiates towards us. He is not a God afar off. He is not far from each one of us. He has penetrated our world. He peers through the lattice. He desperately desires us. He pleads for us to be reconciled to Him.
He stoops down into our stock, and initiates 3 major witnesses, on earth (1Jn5.8)

The 3 Major* Divine Initiations on Earth:

  1. GOD HIMSELF - The Spirit - The Holy Spirit - Different, Divine, Holy, Deeply, Penetrating our inner man, witnessing, showing, revealing, shining, touching, communicating, expressing, contacting us with nothing less that the Presence and Person of God Himself. This is God's Real Agent in the world today. Making men new. Convicting. Working. Connecting us to heaven.
  2. THE PREACHERS - The Water - The Message (& messengers) - this is the clean, true, word - preachers, inspired prophets and apostles, contradicting the narrative of Satan and this world and our flesh's lies, this is heaven, reaching right down, penetrating our world, and strongly desiring us, trying to get our attention, getting really close, in our very ears and consciousness, in our native language, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, English, expressing the very thoughts of the God who is in love with us
  3. THE CROSS - The Blood - The Divine Blood of Christ - If the Holy Spirit and the inspired preachers (apostles and prophets) aren't enough to persuade us, get this.... God's greatest and most profound initiation - the Eternally Existent Son, entering in the human race, with the Perfect Blood of God, revealing the Perfect Divine Nature, pleasing to God, the only Perfect One here, offered, on earth, by heaven, on behalf of earth, back to heaven, appeasing heaven, freely for earth, a blood sacrifice - Calvary- which could cleanse and purge the conscience of men, bringing them to God, in one mighty powerful initiation, that in one drop, is enough to save the whole world. This blood, shed on earth, still affecting earth, was taken to heaven, standing against Satan and for men, forever.
These 3 Divine initiations, are enough to make us so full of faith, make us so God conscious that He is for us, with us and has blessed us because He desires us.

*There are many other incredible initiations of God to man, including general revelation, special revelation, angels etc (see Ps 19), but we focus on these 3 right now, as pointed out by John in 1Jn5.