1st Corinthians 13.12b We know in part and we see in part, but when that which is perfect has come that which is in part will be done away with.  Learn what the perfect is.
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Rom 12.2 that you may know what Gods good acceptable and perfect will is. And when you know it, you are no longer subject to guardians and tutors of that which is in part. You are no longer held captive to the elements that are bound by days, months , seasons and years. Galatians 3.9-11
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He who we understand by performing the cycles associated with time and matter, being the Sabbath and all the feasts, have a purpose, and we have a destiny and a goal by serving those tasks. For even the law was given for repetitions to accommodate those who are waking up.
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The waking up is one of the first effects that one experiences in a spiritual sense. By walking through the cycles that leave an imprint of the one who is invisible, the one who in no other way would be seen or known. It is in this way the cycles are the vehicle for true transformation when you see Christ in them. “Behold I have come in the volume of the book, it is written of Me” You learn to see the one of whom the cycles are about. The law and the prophets reveal the anatomy of God.
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Ezekiel calls them “wheels within wheels that are dreadfully high”. It is also referred to in the holy writ by Jacob as a “ladder to heaven”. And as much as these men try to describe what they saw, not with human eyes but “the eyes of understanding”, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. They were trying to describe something that is invisible but “like”. However this invisible they experienced was indelibly etched on their soul leaving an imprint or a “likeness” on their hearts and minds.
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But these things cannot be carnally apprehended for the carnal mind is enmity against God. For the carnal rejects Gods invisible-ness by making Him visible like them. They make God a man like themselves, in their mind.
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Those of this sort claim to know God but deny His power to save in the here and now. Not just the saving for putting them on ice waiting for the second coming but the power of God unto salvation to all who believe. (Rom 1.17 ) They theorize how the word of God must once again be manifest in the flesh for the second coming of Jesus Christ. They are looking for a distant coming Christ to reign on earth as a man. This is the wrong Jesus.
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Paul the apostle wrote precisely of this in Romans 1 saying ” although they knew God, (or had the things of God for their knowing) they glorified Him not as God, nor were they thankful. They became futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise they became fools, (and their crime) “They changed the glory of an incorruptible (invisible) God into an image of a man. (to be seen physically)
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Oh what a blunder they have committed. By doing so they reject the truth of God seen in Jesus Christ. Not His human body, for no description of Him was left, but the actions seen by Him. Not knowing this they promote a delusion. By ignoring Gods invisible power and attributes, Him being forever eternal, immortal and invisible in His true nature. They construct the image of a man in the minds of their students of a Jesus with long hair, a beard, a robe and sandals returning to planet earth to save them. What a blasphemous notion condemned even in the 10 commandments. Thou shall not make any graven image in any likeness of anything in heaven. You shall not bow down and worship them. No pictures portraits or drawings. Period.
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Why was that command given? Because anything that gives the illusion that God is an elemental  creature, blocks the person from receiving the imprint in the mind and soul of the true worshiper, follower and obtain-er of “the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ” who by the correct imprint is their self transfigured into the same full image by the spirit to the Glory. 2 Cor 3.18.
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Paul was the apostle who was born out of time. The requirements of an apostle is that they had to have seen the Lord. But Paul saw Him not with human eyes but a blinding light that shown from the eternal, and the voice that accompanied it. So having seen God, not with carnal eyes for he was blinded but learned to see Him who is high and lifted up. He saw with the renewed mind something much greater than the eye can see as said in here in 1st Timothy 6.16 of Jesus Christ “who alone has immortality dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see”. At least not with human eyes.Â
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Paul then having been picked by Jesus Christ coming to Him in His eternal Glory, him seeing not a man but the true Christ in His resurrected ascended eternal existence of who He always was, he became qualified to be the 12th disciple, having the heavenly site indelibly etched on the hard drive of his mind, for Paul did not see the man Jesus. And this is what Paul taught, We knew Christ according to the flesh, but hence forth know we Him that way no more” 2 Cor 5.16
Even Peter said that “we made known to you the power and the coming of the Lord”. Meaning a 2nd coming?  No.  But  “we were eye witnesses of His majesty”.  He witnessed what you are looking for in a 2nd coming.
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So it is not an earthly image of a man that was left for us to know Him, but His word. It is of this that Jesus Christ attested to in John 17 saying “I have manifest your name and your word and they have kept them. Saying ” I am no longer in the world but these are, keep them in your name that they may be one as we are one. Take them not out of the world but keep them from evil. I pray not for just these here but those who are to come (us) that they also may be one in Us. As you Father are in Me and I in You, that they also may be made perfect in one in Us that the world may believe!” (vs 21)Â
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This is a promise spoken to them and to us not of a future event but now! “that the world may know”. The same mouth who said let there be light, and there was light, spoke not these words in vain. Where does a 2000 year interlude enter into any of His words. The kingdom of God is now! Â And He goes on to say “Father, I desire that they also whom You have given Me may be with Me where I am , that they may behold My Glory which you have given Me for you have loved Me from the foundations of the world.
To this I say, there is no transformation without seeing His transformation, His Glory, not of a future event but an eternal reality. We are now being transformed into His self same image, perfection, from Glory to Glory. Glory is the power that transforms. If you are stagnant in your faith, receive His words that where He is you may be now! If you believe that His Glory is future, you are missing out of the gift of God “In Christ” Which is to be with Him where He is beholding His Glory.
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You see Jesus Christ brought the Kingdom with Him from the beginning. For He is the Kingdom. He said these words. “The Kingdom of God is at hand”. Then He spent the rest of His time on planet earth showing that, defining that, showing away for us to escape and be one in Him with Him and the Father in the Spirit.
Follow Me that where I am you may be also. That is… to be In Christ. John 17.7 all things are given to the Son, past present and future. All eternal things are In Christ and the eternal things are not subject to time and events.Â
The message saying “The Kingdom of God is at hand” was never retracted as though it left to come a  2nd time in the flesh. Were not the Jews expecting a visible Kingdom?  What was their demise?
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1st John 5.20Â And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life. Â (this is the Kingdom)
21Â Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.