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Part 1
LIVING
EPISTLES MINISTRIES
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018 - Part 1
A PLA=
CE
TEEMING WITH LIFE - Part 1
Sheila R. Vitale,
Pastor, Teacher & Founder
LIVING EPISTLES
MINISTRIES
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tual
Philosophy ~
Art Department
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Ministry Illustrator
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Transcriber & Editor
Cecelia Bryant,
Transcriber
June Eble, Transc=
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& Editor
Kerry LaManna,
Transcriber
Lape Molbolaji-La=
wal,
Transcriber & Editor
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Transcriber & Editor
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Mary Jane Sears,
Transcriber & Editor
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Defi=
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E IS
NO MALE OR FEMALE IN CHRIST JESUS (Gal. 3:28). Accordingly, all textual ref=
erences
to MALE and FEMALE point to spiritual principle=
s,
and the words MAN and MEN, as well as the pronouns, HE, HIS and HIM,
include, WOMAN, WOMEN, SHE and HER.
CHRI=
ST
JESUS is the only spiritual male. Accordingly, all powers and principalities
other than Christ Jesus are identified as female IN RELATION TO HIM=
i>.
The =
powers
and principalities which have incarnated this fallen world (2 Cor. 4:4) are=
male
IN RELATION TO FALLEN MANKIND, and female IN RELATION TO
CHRIST JESUS.
John 7:17‑18
17 If any =
man
will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or
whether I speak of myself.
18 He that
speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory th=
at
sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. (KJV)
The Following Mes=
sage
Has Been Transcribed And Edited For Clarity, Continuity Of Thought, And
Punctuation By
The LEM Transcrib=
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& Editing Team.
Content Edited By
Sheila R. Vitale. Pastor, Teacher & Founder
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Transcriber & Editor
Margaret Mobolaji=
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A PL=
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TEEMING WITH LIFE
PROP=
HECY
Peace unto you, saith the Lord, for
indeed thou art My creation, yea I have formed thee in My thoughts from bef=
ore
the foundation of the earth, and by the word of my power, saith God. I have
lowered you into this realm of appearance, whereby I am molding thee, and
forming thee, and bringing thee into conformity with My thought of thee, saith the Lord Go=
d,
and I shall enter into thee and I shall fill thee, and I shall be one with
thee, and I shall dwell with thee, and indeed I shall be the salt of your e=
arth,
saith the Lord God, and because my presence is within thee, thy earth shall=
not
corrupt, saith the Lord, and thou shalt dwell with Me, in the realm of the
Spirit of God, for indeed that is where I live, saith the Lord, and I shall
anchor you there, and I shall hold you there, and you shall receive all the
benefits of that realm through your connection with me, saith God and, yea,=
the
realm of the Spirit of God and the realm of time shall indeed be one, saith=
the
Lord, and my imagination, that I imagined of you before the foundations of =
the
earth, saith God, it shall come to pass, saith the Lord, yea My creation, e=
ven
the Cherubim, that which I imagined, saith God, I have indeed performed it.=
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The message that God has given us =
for
today is A Place Teeming with Life. It is the pure spiritual
truth of how the creation came into being.=
If you examine what is being preac=
hed in
the churches today, you will see that they are preaching the message of what
happened when the man, Jesus Christ of Nazareth manifested at the end of the
age, and died on the cross to put away sin. That is a nice message which will =
bring
the Holy Spirit into your heart to do the work that the Holy Spirit does.
But that is not the message that w=
ill
bring forth the Christ in you.
On the other hand, the message tha=
t is
coming forth in this ministry, continuously blows my mind. The only way I c=
an
describe it is that it is pure spiritual truth. It is powerful, it burns, a=
nd a
lot of people cannot bear it. I want to admonish you to come up for deliver=
ance
if you get upset at anything I say. Do not go home with it.
We never know how we will react to=
a
spiritual message,, because fallen Adam, the natural man who does not want =
us
to know the truth about our creation, will rise up within us and, if he has=
the
power, will I do not know whether you can rece=
ive
that or not, but I receive it. I believe it because I have been victimized =
by
it. I had a lot of witchcraft when I came to the Lord, so when spiritual tr=
uth
was imparted to me, fallen Adam would rise up and try to steal it from me. I
would resist fallen Adam, and he would punish me. For years I did not know =
what
was going on until God told me it was spiritual punishment. I would have torment in my mind,
sickness in my body, and harassment in my life in relationships. I would ha=
ve
all kinds of trouble, and one day God said to me, "It is time to face =
the
reality that you are experiencing spiritual punishment." Satan, the spirit that rules throu=
gh the
natural man, which is the unconscious part of the Carnal Mind, is in your o=
wn
mind and heart, and has power to punish you. You are still under his power =
as
you move into Christ. You are half and half. You are under the anointing of
God, but Satan, the unconscious part of your own Carnal Mind, continues to =
have
power over you until you are completely divorced from him -- until the harv=
est,
when we come out of this body. We have two kings ruling in our mi=
nd,
but only one is supreme. We know that Jesus Christ can keep us from anything
that tries to harm us, but He does permit us to fall prey to our old king, =
or
our old husband, until the harvest is complete. We see this clearly in the =
book
of Revelation. This is not my message, but the Lo=
rd
wants you to hear it, so I will give it to you. In the book of Revelation
Chapter 12, Verse 7, we are told that, after the manchild is born, there is=
a
war in heaven, and Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon. We know from Message, #4, Ou=
t Of
The Dust, that Michael represents the Son of God in the mind of the
believer who has just birthed the Christ. Michael and his angels fought agai=
nst
the Dragon, and Satan, the unconscious part of the Carnal Mind, was still t=
here
in the mind of the believer that had just birthed the Christ, Hallelujah. <=
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bring
forth the manchild in our spiritual reproductive parts. There is going to be
persecution, and the Lord never told us in the Bible that we are going to
escape that persecution. He did tell us, however, that we will survive it. =
We can be cast down, but not destr=
oyed.
The end result will be that Satan, the unconscious part of the Carnal Mind,
will be totally swallowed up. But the Lord never told us that we would not =
be
persecuted or tormented, or, as the Lord told me,"punished." Verse 14 says, "And to the wo=
man
were given two wings of a great eagle [representing the Spirit of God] that=
she
might fly into the wilderness into her place where she is nourished for a t=
ime,
and times and half a time from the face of the Serpent. Now, it is Satan, the unconscious =
part
of the Carnal Mind, that causes us to fall, to die, and to do things that w=
ill
bring the wrath of God upon us. But the life of Christ is growing in us als=
o.
We are spiritual wombs which are nourishing the Son of God, who can be like=
ned
to a spiritual fetus. When He is mature enough to live outside of a physical
body, He will emerge from His spiritual womb. The physical body will fall a=
way,
but the human spirit will go with Him. @means that Satan, the unconscious part of the Carnal Mind, is
pouring out spiritual power to kill the believers who are pregnant with the
Christ child, which cannot survive the premature separation from the
physical body. He is trying to kill us, destroy u=
s, or
put us in a mental institution. He is trying to get us to rebel against and
hate God. He will do anything that will result in the death of the fetal Ch=
rist
before, or immediately after He is born. Ideally, He would love to see the
physical body die and the life of Christ come to naught, but, would be
satisfied if we sin against God,
lose our mind, or wind up in a mental institution. This is a very real warfare that is
going on between the Christ in us and Satan, the unconscious part of our Ca=
rnal
Mind. Our human spirit is the part of us that is being separated from Satan,
the unconscious part of our Carnal Mind, and joined to Christ. Our par=
t is
to throw ourselves in line with Christ, and to find a place to hide by seek=
ing
His protection. We have to find the tower of His S=
pirit,
where we will be protected, Satan will still pound us, but we will always h=
ave
the victory in Christ Jesus. We cannot be destroyed when we hide in Him. Verse 17 says, "And the Drago=
n was
wroth with the woman." He is enraged with the woman that =
is
bringing forth the Christ. We need to stop trying to fight th=
is
battle by ourselves, and turn ourselves over to God, saying, "Lord thi=
s is
a spiritual battle, and I cannot take on this Serpent without Your protecti=
on.
I need Your spirit manifesting through me to give me spiritual power."=
When we throw ourselves in line wi=
th
God, the battle becomes the Lord's, and we are undefeatable. When we fight =
in
our own power, we can be defeated. Somebody told me that the demons got one=
of
the authors of the book, War On The Saints, because he became
insane and he went into a mental institution. It can really make you worry, if t=
he co‑author
of a book like War On The Saints goes insane. How could somet=
hing
like that happen? There is only one way: He never threw himself in line with
the Spirit of God. He must have been fighting Satan, the unconscious part of
the Carnal Mind, in his own power, and he was overtaken. When we join with Christ by saying,
"Lord, you are the commander, you are the boss. When you tell me to ca=
st
out the demon, I will cast it out. When you tell me to heal the sick, I will
heal the sick. No matter how much I want to help someone, if you are not you
telling me to minister to them, I will not do it." When we move into the realm where =
we are
in submission to the Lord God, He becomes our defense. He becomes Michael, =
who
fights Satan, and it is all over for the Dragon. Hallelujah. Well, that was an extra blessing. =
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AGE The message for today is A P=
lace
Teeming With Life. This will be a multi-part message. We are starti=
ng
in Genesis 2:4‑8. God wants us to understand how we were created, and
what His purpose is for us. Genesis 2:4‑8, "These a=
re the
generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the =
day
that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the fi=
eld
before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew, for=
the
Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man =
to
til the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth and watered the who=
le
face of the ground, and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, =
and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a Living Soul.
And the Lord God planted a Garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man
whom He had formed." Hallelujah. God has some deep spiritual truth =
for us
today. As we have said in other messages, particularly The Seduction =
of
Eve, the whole Bible is a parable but the story of the creation, in
particular, is a parable. The account of creation is such a =
deep
spiritual truth that God clouded it over. You really have to be anointed of=
God
to understand it. God hid it so that people who cannot receive deep spiritu=
al
truth can have something to hold on to that will help them to function in t=
his
life and resist a doctrine like humanism. The parable imparts the understand=
ing that
God created the earth, but those who God are calling to a higher spiritual
realm where they will manifest His power and execute His judgments, require=
a
deeper revelation. We touched on this earlier. The mi=
nistry
of the Son is much deeper than healing the sick and casting out demons. so =
we
have to be very careful not to do anything that is not under the anointing.=
He
will be sending us to people with the Word of the Lord, and if they do not
repent, we may have to pronouncement the appropriate judgment. To pronounce a judgment in the fle=
sh, is
witchcraft, so if you cannot discern whether or not it is the Spirit of God
speaking through you, be quiet. If you pronounce a judgment, and it is not =
God,
God is going to go after you. If you would like this kind of min=
istry,
but you cannot tell whether or not you are manifesting Christ, ask the
Lord. He will give you any
righteous thing you ask for, unless your request does not line with His plan
for your life. You may not receive it right away, but He will give it to yo=
u in
due season. I am pleading wit=
h you
to be very careful if you are not sure you have this anointing, because thi=
s is
a very serious ministry. It took me quite a while to compreh=
end
that spiritual authority is a very serious thing. Look around and, just as =
you
see the authority of the police and the armed forces in the natural realm,
there is also spiritual authority in the realm of God. We need a spiritual
revelation that God The Hebrew word translated c=
reated
means "to select, to choose, to dispatch, to send forth."=
It
means @ The word @ means the actual shaping of the creation. Hallelujah. The Hebrew word translated h=
eaven is
from an unused root which means "to be lofty." It is the firmament
that you see in the sky, which appears to be spread out over the globe, and=
it
is supported by columns. "Lord we pray for the message=
, this
is a tough one, Lord, so let everybody understand this." Try to imagine this whole world th=
at we
live in, even the whole universe, as a big ball that is within something el=
se.
If you go s far out as you can within the universe, you will find yourself
within a casing, just like the skin of our physical body is the casing that
contains all of our organs. Imagine that the whole universe is within a cas=
ing,
but that there is something outside of the casing, and that which is outsid=
e of
the casing is the Spirit of God. God has created a creation that ex=
ists
beneath Him, or within Him. When He wants to reach us, He pours through
openings in the skin, A good example is when we want a drink, or to eat, we=
open
our mouth and pour it in. Drinking and eating is a natural type of the
spiritual reality of the relationship between the world and God. He is beyo=
nd
the realm of the natural. When He wants to reach us, there is an opening in=
the
spiritual realm that He pours through. Praise the Lord. In the past, we have talked about =
the
realm of the spirit being likened to
things that we learn in chemistry. We know that the basic elements c=
an
take three forms. They could be gas, liquid, or they could be solid. Spirit=
ual
life can be likened to gas, but the earth is solid. We are talking about the basic bui=
lding
blocks of the creation, the realm of the spirit being in a gaseous form, and
the realm that we live in being in a solid form. An ice cube turns to water
when you melt it, and water turns to vapor when you heat it, because it is =
the
still the same basic element, H2O. Water can be in the form of an
ice cube, water, or steam. We that dwell in this realm of
appearance are in a solid form, and the earth that was created was the solid
form. God took these basic building blocks, some of the spiritual elements =
were
in the form of vapor, spirit, and some were solid. That is how God made the
earth First He made the heavens <=
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that
means "to bear young, to begat, to act as a midwife, or bring forth
children." God is saying here in verse 4 that, "These are the
histories of the bringing forth of the children, of the reproduction of mys=
elf,
which started with the creation of the heavens and the earth." God's whole purpose in this creati=
on is
to bring forth children. He is reproducing Himself. Hallelujah, glory to Go=
d,
Hallelujah. "These are the generations of=
the
heavens, and of the earth, when they were created in the day that the Lord =
God
made the heavens and the earth." First, He created them, and then He m=
ade
them, and He did it in a day. Now the word day mea=
ns
"to be hot," and refers to the warm hours. It means Obviously, we cannot meet our own
spiritual needs at this time. We need God, we need help, which means that we
are still spiritual children. I do not know whether this age is equivalent =
to a
one‑year old, or a two‑year old, but we are young, spiritual
children. We are at the age when God created, when He made the heavens and =
the
earth. This is the time that the spiritual children were filled with lust,
emotions, and passion. Hallelujah. We know that there are human being=
s in
the earth that are all different spiritual ages. People that have no knowle=
dge
of God are in the beginning. They are in the day that God made the heavens =
and
earth. They are out there punching each other in the nose, fighting wars,
torturing each other, and doing many terrible things that you see our child=
ren
do on a very minor level. I see children, sometimes, and I c=
annot
believe how violent they are. They
punch and attack each other, and, if there is not an adult nearby to stop t=
hem,
they could really damage one another. We are damaging one another, brethren=
, we
really are. I am suggesting to you that the hi=
story
of God's reproduction of Himself, through bearing children, was originally
brought forth in a state of deep emotion and passion. Hallelujah, Glory to =
God.
The heavens, on the other hand, ar=
e the
realm of the spirit for both God and for Satan, the spiritual element of mo=
ral
man. Every man has a spiritual element within himself. If we do not have Je=
sus
Christ, we still have a spiritual element within us, but it is Satanic. It =
is a
spirituality that is in darkness, that is without God, and, if it is utiliz=
ed,
it is utilized by ungodly power. The earth is the hard part, it is the oppo=
site
of the spirit, which is gaseous or liquid. Now, when God decided to reproduce=
and
bring forth spiritual substance from Himself, where did He get the substance
that He worked with? When we produce children in the natural realm, it comes
from our body. We bring forth an ovarian egg in a woman. Take any woman sit=
ting
here, we all have ovarian eggs, that are part of our body. To get an ovarian
egg out of me, you would have to cut me open, and if you do not know what y=
ou
are doing, you could kill me. That egg is a part of my body, so you could h=
urt
me, you could kill me, I could get an infection. We do not normally do thin=
gs
like that. The substance that a child is orig=
inally
conceived with in the natural man, is a part of our very own being. It is t=
he
same in the realm of the spirit, When God proceeded to reproduce, there was=
a
part deep within Him that was part of His spirit that He separated from
Himself. What happens with a woman is that =
an egg
separates from her ovary. It comes down the fallopian tube, so the first th=
ing
that happens is that a part of the woman separates from the whole woman, an=
d is
fertilized. The egg grows within the woman, and eventually it passes out of
her. The same thing happened with God. =
He
reached down deep within Himself, separated a part of Himself, and passed it
into a place that was still within the realm of the spirit of God, because
there is no place outside of God, Hallelujah. God created the world by cutting i=
t out
the basic raw material of Himself. There is nothing outside of God. He cut =
off
a piece of Himself, separated it, and lowered it into a lower spiritual rea=
lm,
just like when you cool steam , you lower it into a more solid form. It bec=
omes
water, and then ice. He forme=
d the
solid earth by cutting off a part of Himself and lowering it to a lower
spiritual realm. Hallelujah. Glory to God. God created the heavens and the ea=
rth by
cutting a part of Himself away for the purpose of reproduction, and He used=
the
raw material of His own spirit. He did not start with the earth because His
basic building block was Spirit. First, He created the heavens, the spiritu=
al
realm that exists in man, then He took some of the spiritual elements and
lowered them, and continued to lower them until the earth appeared. So, we =
have
the spiritual element in man, and then the earth appears as God continues w=
ith
His work. God started with His basic building
block, spirit, and then continued to work downward as He formed His creatio=
n.
Hallelujah. He named the realm of existence on which this natural world wou=
ld
exist, and He called it "the world of time," which is the exact
opposite of the eternal, indestructible, and unchangeable realm of the spir=
it
of God. How can you mold and change someth=
ing in
a realm that never changes? He took a part of Himself, and lowered it to a
realm that was not eternal, where He could work with it, because God's purp=
ose
was to take a different form. He did not want to be God in spirit form alone
anymore, so He took a part of Himself, lowered it from the realm of eternity
where it could not be changed, until it comes to a changeable form, and then
brings it back up to the heavenlies again. If you are working with metal, or =
glass,
if you take basic raw glass and you want to form a vase, what do you have to
do? You have to melt the glass. You put it in a mold, you fix it up, that i=
s a
low state, melted glass, Who could use it? It is not functional, it is not =
good
for anything. It is hot, if y=
ou
touch it you burn yourself, but after you take it out of the mold polish it=
and
fix it up, you can restore it to a
realm where it can be beneficial to you. Hallelujah. This is what God is doing with the
creation. He took the substance of Himself, separated it, lowered it into a=
low
spiritual realm where it is worthless, and, as we will see later on, called=
it
"rubbish." We are made from spiritual rubbish. The natural man is made from spiri=
tual
rubbish, wherefore he is useless, broken down, and good for nothing but the
garbage pail. The Lord is shaping and forming us by putting us in the fire.=
He
is molding and polishing us, and raising us back up to the realm of the spi=
rit
where we will exist side‑by‑side with Him. We shall be one with=
Him
and equal with Him, sharing in every gift of the spiritual realm -- but only
when He brings us up. Not when the ungodly spirit brings us u=
p,
Hallelujah. The creation is still being create=
d, and
we are suffering because it is not pleasant being burnt, and melted, and
formed. This is the painful reality of our spiritual condition. Glory to Go=
d. The realm that He lowered us into =
for
the purpose of burning, melting, and forming, is called "time." G=
od
broke time into a series of
periods, and called them days,
generations or ages, so that He could process man in a different way in each age=
. The
ultimate result of all this is that we shall return to the realm of God in a
brand new form, with all provision, Hallelujah. The ultimate purpose of God is tha=
t He
should take another form, a form in which He could be seen, Hallelujah. After God created the spiritual el=
ements
out of Himself, He proceeded to form them, mold them, or to conform them to
what He thought they should be. God started out with a thought, an imagina&=
shy;tion
that the Bible calls the Cherubim, which means "imagination." He
thought of us, He cut a piece out from Himself, and lowered it into the fir=
e of
a realm where it could be changed, Hallelujah, glory to God, who is conforming us to what He wants us =
to be.
We had a very deep message last Su=
nday
about God conforming us to His thought of us. God thinks that we are S=
ons
of God who abide in the heavenly realm of ultimate provision, and is modify=
ing
us, spirit, soul, and body, according to that the mind set. Hallelujah. Glo=
ry
to God. When God began to form or mold the
elements, He started with the earth. I want to point this out to you in Ver=
se
4. "These are the generations of the heavens and the earth [heavens
first], when they were created, [when they were carved out of God],<=
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style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> We form their minds, we form their
personalities, and we form their thoughts. Children grow up to be just like
their parents, whether that be a positive or negative event. Children who g=
row
up in a household with a lot of ungodly influences, usually, unless God
intervenes, turn out the same way. How many alcoholics and child abus=
ers,
when interviewed say, "I hated my father abusing me, I hated his drink=
ing,
and here I am doing the same thing."&=
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We are formed by our environment. Hallelujah. If we are called =
into
Christ, we must be formed according to the image of our Father, and we will,
ultimately, be just like Him. We must lay hold of this vision if=
we
are to go through these processings and retain a knowledge of who we really
are. Hallelujah. Glory to God. When we are first called to Christ, we are as
helpless as an infant, as a new born infant in the natural, glory to God, a=
nd
the Lord has a lot of work to do with us. Verse 4, "These are the gener=
ations
of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day when the =
Lord
God made the earth and the heavens." Alternate Translation, "These=
are
the histories of the realm of spirit and the realm of the earth, called tim=
e or
ages, when they were carved out of God Himself, in the time period, or the =
age,
called =3D the time of heat, lust, and passion. I would like to call your attentio=
n to
the fact that even though Verse 5 starts with the word "and," the
Scripture is really saying that, "These are the generations of every p=
lant
of the field, these are the histories, this is the story of how every plant=
of
the field came into being before it was in the earth, and this is how every
herb of the field, came into being before it grew." Hallelujah. Now, the Hebrew word translated plant
means "a shoot uttered or put forth." It is from a Hebrew
root that means "to ponder, to converse with oneself." It is a ve=
ry
spiritual word that is used only one other time in the Scripture. It means =
that
God spoke, and an image of what God was talking about appeared. We touched on this in the message =
last
Sunday. When God wants to incarnate His Son, He thinks of him in the realm =
of
appearance, and the Son of God is birthed into the visible world. This=
is
what @ and the Man appeared in the visible world. We said that one of the translatio=
ns of
the Hebrew word translated plant, is "a shoot," and
that Webster's definition of shoot is "sending out of new growth, or t=
he
growth itself that is sent out." It means a stem or a branch with all =
of
its appendages which are not yet mature. It also could mean, "a fallin=
g of
detached mass of earth." God brought forth the spiritual pl=
ants
of creation by speaking them into existence. He spoke a Creative Word and a
part of Himself separated, be=
came
solid, fell down into the visible world as a fallen or a detached mass of
spiritual earth, and the spiritual, visible world came into being. Eventual=
ly,
the creation will be a totally glorified man. The creation was worthless in=
the
beginning, just like our infants at birth are worthless, except that we love
them. Newborns require continuous attention, which they vocally demand with=
out
hesitation, and are nothing but trouble and work B but we love them. The word branch mean=
s,
"a well developed member," and we know that Jesus is the Branch.
Zechariah 3:8 says, "Hear now, oh Joshua, the high priest, thou and thy
fellows that set before thee, they are men wondered at, behold, I will bring
forth My Servant the Branch." The Branch is the spiritually mature man
that is the finished product of God
The heavens, is not just the sky. God did not=
start
with the sky that we see up there. The heavens are much bigger than that. T=
he
Hebrew word translated earth is from an unused root, which me=
ans
"to be firm." Earth
is the opposite of sea.