You have a ( ? ) on your non changing God statement so I can only guess that your intent is to ask if I think that God changed or to indicate confusion. I don't think God himself changed because his plan of salvation existed from the beginning. I agree with you that priestly or ecclesiastical control changed because the curtain was rent . But priestly assumption of authority didnt change immediately as far as what they were doing because they had Paul chasing down imprisoning persecuting maybe even murdering ? Christs followers.
There was more of a change in what the actual real church was at that point than what the gov. was....but they did set up the administration of the new ministry. Not long after the Romans leveled Jerusalem so that kind of put the jew priesthood out of business also....so...?
I don't think God himself changed but the way that he was then directly dealing with man through Jesus Christ ascending to the throne and establishing new church and ministry and Kingdom changed everything and gave us the path to forgiveness life and intercession by a merciful benevolant benefactor. But no I don't think he changed he took us back to himself being King and judge like you said in the books of judges.
Christ is King I don't think Pilot ever got him to deny it did he? God is Judge ( Daniel)
means God is judge so in my view there is only one Judge one King one Lord God and the King and the Lord are one also....the King being our savior and intercessor and high priest and Lord God being our merciful Father and Judge and the Master creator we submit to direction from within by way of his Holiest Spirit of life.....
The blind now see the unseen because even in darkness what isn't seen is felt and known .
Only doubt or deception blinds.....so yes unseen maybe but not really to those of faith....because I see God everywhere in people in creation and what I dont see I feel in full faith.
I have been out of body for 26 minutes and to a heaven somewhere so unseen is unseen but because of what I did see for 26 minutes which included my own heart out of my body and being held under an eternal waterfall as I cried out father ABBA....I havent seen the face of God but I have seen his hands.
So no doubt lives in me and no doubt could live in anyone who has seen what I have seen.....because I saw my own divine healing and baptism adoption. Praise the all merciful Glorious God our Father and our Saviour in Grace Jesus Christ our victorious King!
30 years have passed but I still see the unseen and still weep in testimony of the power of the unseen and the merciful Love of the unseen!
The detail of the unseen is unbelievably indescribable
Nice to see someone else, posting something similar to that which I myself experienced. I called it "an event", for so many years, looking for something in the Bible equivalent to what I experienced!
T'was the "Great and Terrible Day of the Lord!" Great in His love, and very Terribly scarey, in it's revealings!
Didn't see any hands. Just His voice! And, like you, it lasted 20 minutes er thereabouts.
The Love in the Glory of His presence? I've tried to explain! The "wiping away of every tear"
Revelation 21
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Even these verses, don't give "the experience" the "justice" it desereves! No words can!
It was during this time He told me, I had "Done works attributable to Righteousness!"
There I was! My whole body spreading like melting protoplasm, all over the floor! My beating heart with Him!
Although, I must admit? There were several times after that time, I did see Him "shakin' His tail feathers, in a "Happy Dance!" T'was then I seen His hand on His back side like tail feathers on a turkey!
I wasn't expecting it. I wasn't praying or asking, or nuttin'! Just living my life, after I had just up and walked away from doing crack cocaine. Just 1 day, I said
ENOUGH! "I'M DONE!"
About 2 weeks after I quit, had some pretty dreadful visions, where I seen myself rise above the bed I was sleeping on, while some half the size of a "munchkin" (green pocked from head to toe, and quite "yougly"= 10,000 uglies) "imp" crawled onto my bed, and set beside me, lifting his mouth towards the cieling, as if shouting to the heavens, and started forth with blasphemies, as a scroll unrolling from its opened mouth! It's as if my hands and feet were tied off to the 4 corners of my bedposts, as this was transpiring. Which struck me as rather odd, seeings how my bed didn't have posts of any kind on it.
The great and terrible day of the Lord, came around 6-8 weeks after that!
Changed my life FOREVER!
And, like you? I be a staunch non-conformist. Not caring what
anyone thinks! Nor even bothering in the
honoring of men with titles, such as "your honor" (got me kicked off jury duty, it did
), or Dr., or professor, or reverend, bishop, apostle, like the way people use titles like it's that persons first name!
I just come in CC trying my best in wittnessing, and testifying, and teaching the interpretaings that as they have been revealed unto me!
Same as you!
Crazy? Don't really care! God ain't out to win no popularity contest!
That's my story? And I'm stickin' to it!
