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From The Foundation Of The World
The founding of the world is talking about the founding of our existence. God sends forth the root of Israel to be incarnate in a human person, and that is the founding of the world; that is how we are chosen.
1 Cor 3:11-17
11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
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Eph 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
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The Lord told me something very interesting about the scriptural phrase, To be chosen from the foundation of the world. I have been translating it for a long time now, from the founding of the world, meaning, we were chosen from the time that the world was founded, still thinking that the Scripture is talking about the earthen world. But what it really means is that we were chosen when the root of Israel, the only foundation that was ever laid, was laid in us.
The founding of the world is talking about the founding of our existence. God sends forth the root of Israel to be incarnate in a human person, and that is the founding of the world; that is how we are chosen.
It means that this baby being born is chosen to receive an additional soul of the root of Israel. Those are the chosen ones. One of the first messages that I ever preached was of being born by the will of the flesh or the will of God. Either a child is born at the will of the flesh (either it happens that a man and a woman desire a child, or because of a flesh experience of human sexual intercourse) or because God wills it to be born. Children are born every day. God picks the person, or the baby, that the soul of Israel will incarnate in. When that person is born, the earth is founded, that earth, that human earthling, that earth baby, that foundation becomes the foundation of God. That is who the chosen person is.
If the foundation of God is not in the baby, then their foundation is earth. That is what Paul was talking about when he said, When the floods come; when the ups and downs and the hard times of this world come, you will not stand. The hard times of this world kill people all the time. Paul is explaining that, if you do not have the foundation of Christ laid in you, you are subject to the ups and downs of this world. But the baby in which the soul of Israel is incarnating in, that is a world being born with a foundation. Every other human being has a foundation of earth, and when the hard times of this world come, it results in death, because everybody sins. We are born with sin.
In 1 Corinthians, Chapter 3, verse 11, Paul says, The only foundation that was ever laid; that is laid in us. I always loved that Scripture, but I did not understand it. In other words, the people that are born with the root of Israel are the chosen ones. The root of Israel is the foundation of the spiritual building that imparts eternal life to the building. The mystery is that the world that Paul is talking about is not planet earth. It is the cosmos of our own spiritual universe, which is our soul. The soul/body combination of the human being that has this foundation stone laid in it is a chosen one. What makes us chosen is that the foundation stone, the root of Israel, is laid in us, or incarnate in us, and we are the stones of the temple.
The chosen ones are the stones of the eternal temple, and we are chosen because the root of Israel is in us. So the incarnating root chose us as its house, or garment, in this world.
The Church preaches that thousands of years ago, before the world every came into existence, it was planned that we would come into existence. No; we were chosen from the minute we were born because the root of Israel is in us. We were chosen before we were born because the root of Israel was standing ready to incarnate in us. We are the world, we are the temple, we are the city, we are the house; it is all about a house for God, through the mediatorship of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is going to step into us like a garment; whoever is ready for it when He comes.
The reality of the message is overwhelming.
God bless you,
Sheila R. Vitale
Pastor, Teacher, Founder
Living Epistles Ministries
