The Nation of God. Psa 33:8 Let all the earth, stand in awe of Yahweh, Of him, be in dread, all ye inhabitants of the world; 9 For, he, spake, and it was, He, commanded, and it stood forth. 10 Yahweh, hath frustrated the counsel of nations, hath brought to nothing the devices of peoples. 11 The counsel of Yahweh, to times age-abiding, shall stand, The devices of his heart, from generation to generation. 12 How happy the nation whose God is, Yahweh, The people he hath chosen as his own inheritance! 13 Out of the heavens, hath Yahweh looked, He hath seen all the sons of men: 14 Out of his settled place of abode, hath he fixed his gaze on all the inhabitants of the earth: 15 Who fashioneth their heart all together, Who understandeth all their doings. 16 Not a king, can be saved by greatness of force, nor, hero, deliver himself by greatness of strength: 17 A deception, is the horse, for victory, and, by his great strength, shall he not deliver. 18 Lo! the eye of Yahweh, is toward them who revere him, unto such as are waiting for his lovingkindness: 19 To rescue, from death, their soul, and to keep them alive in famine. 20 Our own soul, hath waited for Yahweh, Our help and our shield, is he! 21 For, in him, shall our heart rejoice, For, in his holy Name, have we trusted. 22 Be thy lovingkindness, O Yahweh, upon us, According as we have waited for thee. 1Pe 1:12 Unto whom it was revealed - that, Not unto themselves, but unto us, they were ministering them, which things have, now, been announced unto you through them who have told you the good tidings with Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven: into which things messengers are coveting to obtain a nearer view. 13 Wherefore, girding up the loins of your mind, keeping sober, perseveringly direct your hope unto the favour, being borne along to you, in the revealing of Jesus Christ: 14 As obedient persons, not configuring yourselves unto your former covetings in your ignorance: 15 But, according as he that hath called you is holy, do, ye yourselves, also become, holy in all manner of behaviour, - 16 Inasmuch as it is written - Holy shall ye be, because, I, am holy. 17 And, if, as Father, ye are invoking him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to each mans work, with reverence, for the time of your sojourning, behave ye; 18 Knowing that, Not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, have ye been redeemed from your unmeaning behaviour paternally handed down, 19 But with precious blood, as of a lamb, unblemished and unspotted, of an Anointed One, - 20 Foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, but made manifest at a last stage of the times, for the sake of you 21 who, through him, are faithful towards God, - Who raised him from among the dead, and glory to him gave, So that your faith and hope are directed towards God: 22 Having purified, your souls, by the obedience of the truth, unto unfeigned brotherly affection, from the heart, love, one another, earnestly; 23 Having been regenerated - Not out of corruptible seed, but incorruptible - through means of the word of a Living and Abiding God; 24 Inasmuch as - All flesh, is as grass, and, all the glory thereof, as the flower of grass, - The grass hath withered, and the flower hath fallen out, 25 But the declaration of the Lord age-abidingly remaineth; And, this, is a declaration which in the joyful message hath been announced unto you. 1Pe 2:1 Putting away, therefore, all vice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envyings and all detractions, 2 As new-born babes, for the pure milk that is for the mind, eagerly crave, that, thereby, ye may grow unto salvation: - 3 If ye have tasted for yourselves that, gracious, is the Lord, - 4 Unto whom coming near, as unto a living stone - by men, indeed, rejected, but, with God, chosen, held in honour, 5 Yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, for a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, well-pleasing unto God through Jesus Christ; 6 Inasmuch as it is contained in scripture - Lo! I lay in Zion an outmost corner stone, chosen, held in honour, and, he that resteth faith thereupon, shall not be put to shame. 7 Unto you, then, is the honour - unto you who believe; but, unto such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, - The same, hath become head of the corner, 8 And a stone to strike against, and a rock to stumble over: Who stumble because, unto the word, they do not yield, - unto which also they have been appointed; 9 But, ye, are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a peculiar treasure, that, the excellences, ye may tell forth, of him who, out of darkness, hath called you into his marvellous light: - 10 Who, at one time, were a No-people, but, now, are a people of God, - who had not been enjoying mercy, but, now, have received mercy. Heb 12:18 For ye have not approached - unto, a searching and scorching fire, and gloom, and mist, and tempest, 19 And a trumpets peal, - and a sound of things spoken: - from which they who heard excused themselves, lest there should be added to them, a word; 20 For they could not bear, that which was being enjoined, - and, should a beast be touching the mountain, it shall be stoned; 21 And, so fearful was that which was showing itself, Moses, said - I am terrified, and do tremble l 22 But ye have approached - unto Zions mountain, and unto the city of a Living God, a heavenly Jerusalem, - and unto myriads of messengers, 23 in high festival, - and unto an assembly of firstborn ones, enrolled in the heavens, - and unto God, judge of all, - and unto the spirits of righteous ones made perfect, - 24 And unto the mediator of a new covenant, Jesus, - and unto the blood of sprinkling, more excellently speaking, than, Abel. 1Jn 2:24 As for you, what ye have heard from the beginning, in you, let it abide. If, in you, shall abide, that which, from the beginning, ye have heard, ye also, in the Son, and in the Father, shall abide. 25 And, this, is the promise, which he hath promised unto us, - The age-abiding life. If we hear the Word from the beginning, being taught of Christ, the Beginning, we understand from the type in Abel, along with his brother Cain, the parable from the beginning, of the good seed and the bad seed. Before the example of Israel, from the beginning, the foundation, the Rock, the chosen seed, the Holy nation was the good seed. Understanding that both seeds are in every man, as in type in Adam, who is the father of Cain and Abel, the physical type for flesh and spirit, yet spiritual in reality, the reality of perception of this life is established in the mind of the flesh or the mind of the spirit, in constant conflict with each other, but only one prevails in this life. The reality is the Holy nation is comprised of overcomers, those that overcome the earth or flesh and are led of the spirit, the spirit being developed by God in His image, Christ. Christ also being the stumbling, the Rock of offence, to those that dwell in the flesh mind, dependent on the earthly things, we must overcome the physical types to come to the fullness of Christ. Rom 1:19-20 declares the physical things are revealing the spiritual, let us not make this error of dwelling in the physical realm, but looking upon the things of above, the Heavenly Jerusalem, the incorruptible city established in the first fruits of God in Christ.
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