Scripture: Ephesians 1 v 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:"
God chose us before the foundation of the world!
Jeremiah 1 v 4 - 5: "Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."
Before Jeremiah, and therefore all of us too, was conceived in the womb, God knew him and us. He was set apart to God to be a prophet. What did God set us apart to do? For me, it was to receive this revelation.
Ecclesiastes 1 v 11: "There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after."
We have no memory of what happened. The "former things" relate to everything that happened before Genesis.
There are days when I wish that all that God revealed to me was a fantasy. It took 5 years, forty day fast, 7 trips to somewhere like heaven. The first was just God before anything else.
I was carried in Spirit into a multicoloured array of light and the most profound pure love, God's love, enveloped me. I knew He was Love. I knew He desired to love, to express His love. Out of it came His Son and all the host of Heaven.
I was given the word "Ransom". Key word. Looked up the verses. Jesus was the Ransom. Not He paid it. He was the payment. Before the world was formed.
Revelation 13 v 8 - 9: "And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear."
The Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world. Someone please hear this, says God. Okay, I am listening. I have been told, not proven, that in Isaiah 53 there is a Hebrew word linked to the Messiah being cut off, that translates as more than one violent death.
I am now way beyond the milk of the Word into meat most strong. Don't want to do or say anything wrong, don't want to change one word or bring in a contrary false direction. I run and hide for a while. But the Lord He is God, He is insistent. Ransom. Go out of the Bible He says and tell me what ransom means.
Okay that's easy. Someone or some group, family, plane load of tourists, held hostage for money or other reward. So who was the hostage, says God? Who did My Son become a ransom for? I really did not know. Bible did not say. I can't even begin to guess.
Go to Genesis 1. So I did and God said, now look backwards. Backwards where? How did Adam and Eve come here and why did they disobey and why did they reject Me for the Serpent. I wish I could say that my mind got it right then but it took time and a fast to unlock it properly.
The beginning of Adam and Eve was marriage which went wrong when the Serpent got involved. Then Revelation speaks of the Bride calling her Bridegroom, long after the Rapture. This puzzled me a long time because I was taught the Church is the Bride.
I set about looking for scripture about the Church being the Bride and kept seeing Israel as the Bride. I was not allowed to share this revelation in the time I was receiving it. 1979 to 1984. Could not ask. I found a book on ancient Jewish weddings and this was a Godsend. As explained in yesterday's blog "God Can Stop Covid -19".
It started me on a journey from Genesis back to events in Heaven. Questions I asked were:
What did Satan or Lucifer do to get permanently expelled from Heaven?
Where and how did God foreknow us?
Who are we?
Where did we come from (not birds and bees question)?
I also felt that Adam and Eve were a replay of events in Heaven. Something supposed to jog our memory. So I analysed what they did. They named the animals. Back in Heaven did the Son of God give us names? Name the angels? Revelation 2 v 17: "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it."
They ate the forbidden fruit and were thrown out of Eden. What did that connect with that needed to be remembered. The forbidden fruit was an act with Satan first Eve then Adam, that was sexual in nature.
What happened in Heaven that shattered the harmony and created the necessity for humans with broken souls and bodies to be planted here for a lifespan of 6000 years under the power of Satan?
It's easier to write this now than the wrestling match I had with myself and God back then. Peter wrote that one thousand years equals one day so I had a mathematical answer to 6000 Years equal 6 days of Creation.
Which meant that whatever happened in the Spirit realm before that was linked to six days. So I called it The Six Day Realm. And the events from Genesis till now are a slow motion action replay of what happened in Heaven before Satan fell into His realm of six days, and caused Earth to no longer be void but a habitable place for God to make new beings of flesh and blood because He needed to fix them.
They had to be able to manifest their ailments, emotions, twisted natures where they could be seen and assessed by Him.
The nutshell version is that the Son of God wanted a Bride, in Heaven. Out of His side God took a substance, translucent, transparent, and created a beautiful Bride for Him. Love at first sight. Preparations for marriage. Garments, food and most of all the Mansion.
While He was building that, She was in a secluded place making a garden. In strolls Lucifer, in his finest garments. (Ezekiel 28 v 16 - 18, the covering cherub that was in Eden the garden of God, looking back to Heaven, when he started something with The Bride).
It's what I saw. A flirtation. I heard the voice of the Father, cautioning her, but she said she could handle this. Then the day of the marriage arrived. She was arrayed in bridal garments.
The Son of God had a feast with His friends around a table. Him and twelve others. Lucifer was there. He said he had an errand to run. The Bridegroom said, hurry back. He did not return but the Bridegroom went to fetch His Bride and saw Lucifer leaving through the back door, the sullied Bride in disarray and broken.
War broke out in Heaven, Archangel Michael, the Guardian Angel, fought against Lucifer and his angels. They were thrown out of Heaven but took the broken bride as a hostage. She seemed glad to escape the Wrath and did not resist. I saw the Son of God leaning against the only wall of His mansion left standing. He was weeping.
Tomorrow I will tell of what happened in the 6 Days Realm that produced us.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, Your love never changes, not for us nor for the Bride. Let us only be worthy of it o God and let us grasp the much bigger picture of what You and Your Kingdom have been through to rescue Her and continue the interrupted wedding.
I pray that all who read this will have their memories restored and understand Your incredible grace and favour. In Jesus' name. Amen.
