Wonder of Worship

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Contents

Preface

Origin Of Worship Relationship between God and angels

Origin Of Worship Relationship between God and Man

Correlation between GOD and the god-man

Humility as a way of Life and Ultimate form of worship

Baal, baalim, false gods and idol worship nahushtans

Later life

Theme Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:18

Celestial Contamination

Preface

WORSHIP and/or adoration originated from the heart of GOD. He in the beginning is written was, (the GODHEAD bodily-{body}) had nothing or no-one but HIMSELF to adulate Genesis 1:1, John 1. He had no equal therefore had no-one or nothing else to compare HIMSELF with but HIS OWN Sovereignty. It was from this UNION between the GODHEADS desire for HIS admiration and Love birthed. HE was LOVE and is and as HIS giving nature dictated his generosity, HE chose to duplicate HIMSELF in little forms for the purpose of veneration; admiration. With it came the responsibility of creation to and for which HE IS accountable. The Bible reads that without HIM was nothing made that was made John 1:13 and that everything came from HIM. HE as the source of all things created ALL (scriptural ref).

Creation story references the existence of angels before anything else was born. GOD describes in Ezekiel 28 the creation of HIS covering cherub, 2nd in command. In addition to the covering cherub, other arch-angels were formed; from which Michael and Gabriel derived. Michael and Gabriel and others like them (arch angels) or otherwise warring angels came after in ranking but not necessarily in strength as it’s referenced in scripture, Michael and his angels overcame Lucifer and his angels.

All this accomplishment of the formation of HIS majestic flying beings was for admiration, awe and respect. HE was it and it emanated from HIS being as LIGHT the sun, hence his attribute BRIGHT and MORNING STAR. John 1 describes that in HIM was LIFE and this LIFE was the LIGHT of men. These flying beings were created for worship; worship for HIS UTMOST BEING and admiration of HIS AWESOME WONDER night and day as they gazed at HIS GLORY, they were filled with admiration, at every peek and they expressed their reverence through devotion, discipline and dedication. The surge of attraction emanating from HIS UTMOST BEING like a magnet drew these beings in zeal and love.

Like the breath of life given freely to us was this magnetism towards HIM and without it life (mortality) deemed fatal. GOD could not create death since everything came from him that has breath lives; death (demise, loss or bereavement) is not a conclusion of a life but rather a beginning of a destruction, despair, demise; a commencement of grief; a woe (endless wretchedness and affliction).

A rectification of this state of being of demise and/or death takes place at the realization and/or awareness that LIFE is lived through HIM; and death the absence of HIM, making LOVE the catalyst and faith the medium. Without believing in LOVE there cannot be an existence as we believe it but destruction. We need worship to live; we were created for it.

Origin Of Worship

Relationship between God and angels

Through research of diverse materials mankind has come to learn of the existence of GOD and the existence of angels. Both God and angels have made themselves known through manifestations in physical form to the fallen state of man. Before touching the fallen state of man, before the creation of man, angels existed. They were said to have existed before man came to being; man’s predecessors as far as worship is concerned. GOD created them for worship and worship is what they continually project around the throne of Grace for their every and very existence. The First Book of Adam and Eve describes a detailed account of the relationship between God and angels before Man was created Isaiah 14:12-32

Worship brought conflict between GOD and His angels. God treated the angels of Heaven like His sons. Many a time referred to as the sons of GOD, Lucifer who was placed 2nd in command allowed envy and jealousy to permeate and lodge in his heart. God in His mercy allowed him to parade HIS courts just because HE is slow to anger giving Lucifer time to check him-self. The Bible records that lust, when it’s conceived, brings forth sin which when conceived brings forth death. He was turned away from his duty as the covering cherub and lusted after what he couldn’t have; The Throne of GOD.

The bible and other books describe the covering cherub as one who conducted the worship; therefore had to be admirable, splendid and highly regarded. As soon as worship began the wings that emanated from him would be spread out pan to pan providing the covering for HIS throne. Other detailed accounts of the Throne Room of GOD speak of an enchanting, astonishingly breathtaking captivating exquisite delightfully miraculous place filled with LOVE and LIGHT. The LOVE emanating from this throne engulfs and surrounds you. One becomes transformed at HIS PERSON just being in HIS presence experiencing HIS LOVE.

It was an enchanting experience, taken by the LOVE experience and HIS expression of HIS LOVE and the worshippers’ expression of theirs; a relationship surpassing human understanding and the union beyond fathoming. It’s also an expression of the fruits of the spirit. Not to mention the surge of POWER that surges through HIM as the source of it. Ever stood near or next to a power plant and heard the sounds that extend from it. In comparison? Infinity. There are no words to describe the POWER shooting forth from HIS PERSON, HIS PRESENCE, HIS Beauty. Only those allowed to behold were closest to HIM. Angels behold and beheld HIS Splendor. HIS Mysterious make up HIS PERSON, the creatures allowed to roam the throne crying HOLY at the sight of HIM who was, is and is to come deems one irrepressible and uncontainable. One cannot stand in HIS PRESENCE without going wild with admiration. Love, joy, peace; GLORY!

The Bible referred to reincarnate JESUS as the Son of GOD. Lucifer was also referred to as the son of GOD. In my imagination pre-incarnate Christ in an attempt to comfort HIS HEAVENLY Father for HIS LOSS, Lucifer, agreed to be conceived of His HOLY SPIRIT (GOD) who Was and Is and IS to come, debased Himself to the image of creation; a man, born of a sinless woman and lived as GOD in the flesh earning Him the title of SON! The First son, Lucifer, 2nd in command failed, but the 2nd SON Jesus couldn’t fail; He was GOD! We see in scripture how GOD continually blessed the 2nd time even in early Bible times. Example: Cain and Abel, Esau and Jacob, Perez and Zerah etc, Cain the wicked one Abel the righteous one, Esau the rebellious one, Jacob the obedient one, Zerah with the red scarlet string, Perez who broke the breach. I could go on and on, the blessing was always placed on the 2nd son in Jewish custom. The model here is a picture reflecting the order of things as they were in GOD’s HOUSE.

Lucifer was referred to as the 1st son of GOD, 2nd in command of the GODHEAD (after the order of GOD and the sons of GOD). Before Pre-incarnate Christ came in the flesh, GOD, in the Bible did refer to Him as Angel of GOD and Lord, also making Him Son. GOD the FATHER was LORD GOD ELOHIM, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. The Bible also describes this intertwined relationship calling Jesus the 2nd Adam after the 1st Adam sin (after the order of man). In Psalm 103, the Psalmist David in the Spirit understood the correlation between THE LORD and The Lord whereby he stated THE LORD said to my Lord, sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Pre-incarnate Christ was envied, envied by Lucifer that he got to enjoy a relationship with THE LORD as its written, Lucifer said in his heart (Isaiah 14:13) "I will ascend into Heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of GOD; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the North, (where GOD didn’t place Adam according to the 1st book of Adam and Eve as referenced here), BOOK 1, Chapter 1:2-9

"And to the north of the garden there is a sea of water, clear and pure to the taste, like unto nothing else; so that, through the clearness thereof, one may look into the depths of the earth. And when a man washes himself in it, becomes clean of the cleanness thereof, and white of its whiteness—even if he were dark. And God created that sea of His own good pleasure, for He knew what would come of the man He should make; so that after he had left the garden, on account of his transgression, men should be born in the earth, from among whom righteous ones should die, whose souls God would raise at the last day; when they should return to their flesh; should bathe in the water of that sea, and all of them repent of their sins. But when God made Adam go out of the garden, He did not place him on the border of it northward, lest he should draw near to the sea of water, and he and Eve wash themselves in it, be cleansed from their sins, forget the transgression they had committed, and he no longer reminded of it in the thought of their punishment. Then, again, as to the southern side of the garden, God was not pleased to let Adam dwell there; because, when the wind blew from the north, it would bring him, on that southern side, the delicious smell of the trees of the garden. Wherefore God did not put Adam there, lest he should smell the sweet smell of those trees forget his transgression, and find consolation for what he had done, take delight in the smell of the trees, and not be cleansed from his transgression. Again, also, because God is merciful and of great pity, and governs all things in a way He alone knows—He made our father Adam dwell in the western border of the garden, because on that side the earth is very broad. And God commanded him to dwell there in a cave in a rock—the Cave of Treasures below the garden."

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High" (Jesus Christ) Isaiah 14:14. After his lust for The Ultimate POWER and because his beauty filled his own head with pride according to Ezekiel 28:17-18, Lucifer was cast down because his heart was lifted up because of his beauty, he corrupted his wisdom for the sake of his splendor; and GOD cast him to the ground, laid him bare before the kings that they might gaze upon him. He defiled his sanctuaries by the multitude of his iniquities; by the iniquities of his trading, therefore GOD brought fire from his own midst (or within him -Psalm 104:3 who makes his angels spirits, his ministers a flaming fire) and it devoured him. GOD turned him to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who saw him. Jesus records in Luke 10:18 that He beheld Lucifer fall like lightning. He forgot angels didn’t have a will. Their will was to execute the will of GOD. Psalm 103:20-22 clearly states, bless the LORD, you His angels who excel in strength, who do His Word, heeding the Voice of His Word. Bless the LORD, all you His Hosts; you ministers of His, who do His Pleasure."

The only will to be executed was the Will of GOD. Unlike man who was given a free will to protect him from Lucifer’s sentence, angels weren’t created with a free will. Genesis 1:26 records a conversation between the GODHEAD Body i.e. Father, Son and Holy Ghost wherefore it is written that God said to the rest of HIMSELF (ONE GOD three persons) Let US make man in OUR own image, according to OUR likeness; let them (futuring a generation of the human population) have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. The other characteristic differentiation angels from humans is that man is a triune being made, fashioned and created to be like GOD even though we are made a little lower than angels, man was crowned with power and glory, dominion and authority. Angels cannot procreate either; that’s the power GOD gave to man. Angels as seen in the Book of Enoch or the Book of Noah a cross breed between man and angels would have to occur to cause another form of life to be created. Angels cannot procreate independently without an earthen vessel or human entity. They are prohibited.

It’s in this dynamic relationship between the GODHEAD and man that created the unity. Man was created with a soul, body and spirit. The soul housing the mind, heart will emotions, emulated the part of GOD that we refer to as the Father even though all three have the same characteristics carrying different attributes. The BODY represented Christ and His relationship with us humans as it relates to the Body of Christ and the Spirit was the symbol of the HOLY SPIRIT whom no-one was to blasphemy and be forgiven. The HOLY SPIRIT of GOD or the BREATH OF GOD was said to be the intellect. GOD spoke the WORK (Jesus CHRIST) and The Spirit performed the WORD! GOD the FATHER was the mind of GOD and it was the HOLY SPIRIT that knew the intent (mind) of GOD.

Origin Of Worship

Relationship between God and Man

God from the beginning never intended him to suffer. God created an environment of complete provision which didn’t negate the aspect of complete control. After Lucifer’s fall, the position of covering cherub which also entailed worship leading remained void and the need for replacement apparent. Replacement Theology concept didn’t begin with the New Testament church replacing Zionism or the children of Israel. God had it in mind long before.

A void prompted the master builder and creator of the universe to replace the fallen angel and his other fallen angels. Sequence was broken, consequences followed and a need to return to the order of things sparked the creation of Adam. The Life of Adam and Eve recounts the ultimate reason why Satan (Lucifer) was expelled and turned to ashes. The following passages narrate events that took place before, on and during the fall of Adam and Lucifer.

Ref: http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/anderson/vita/english/vita.lat.html

12.1 Groaning, the Devil said: O Adam, all my enmity, jealousy, and resentment is towards you, since on account of you I was expelled and alienated from my glory, which I had in heaven in the midst of the angels. On account of you I was cast out upon the earth.

12.2 Adam answered: "What have I done to you?

12.3 What fault do I have against you? Since you have not been harmed nor injured by us, why do you persecute us?"

13.1 The Devil answered: "Adam what are you saying to me? On account of you I was cast out from heaven.

13.2 When you were formed, I was cast out from the face of God and was sent forth from the company of the angels. When God blew into you the breath of life and your countenance and likeness were made in the image of God, Michael led you and made you worship in the sight of God. The Lord God then said: ‘Behold, Adam, I have made you in our image and likeness.’

14.1 Having gone forth Michael called all the angels saying: ‘Worship the image of the Lord God, just as the Lord God has commanded.’

14.2 Michael himself worshipped first then he called me and said: ‘Worship the image of God Jehovah.’

14.3 I answered: ‘I do not have it within me to worship Adam.’ When Michael compelled me to worship, I said to him: ‘Why do you compel me? I will not worship him who is lower and posterior to me. I am prior to that creature. Before he was made, I had already been made. He ought to worship me.’

15.1 Hearing this, other angels who were under me were unwilling to worship him.

15.2 Michael said: ‘Worship the image of God. If you do not worship, the Lord God will grow angry with you.’

15.3 said: ‘If he grows angry with me, I will place my seat above the stars of heaven and I will be like the Most High.’

16.1 Then the Lord God grew angry with me and sent me forth with my angels from our glory. On account of you we were expelled from our dwelling into this world and cast out upon the earth.

16.2 Immediately we were in grief, since we had been despoiled of so much glory,

16.3 and we grieved to see you in such a great happiness of delights.

16:4 By a trick I cheated your wife and caused you to be expelled through her from the delights of your happiness, just as I had been expelled from my glory."

17.1 Hearing this, Adam cried out with a great shout because of the Devil, and said: O Lord my God, in your hands is my life. Make this adversary of mine be far from me, who seeks to ruin my soul. Give me his glory which he himself lost.

17.2 Immediately the Devil no longer appeared to him.

17.3 Adam truly persevered for forty days standing in penitence in the waters of the Jordan.

Isaiah 14:12-32 continues to relay