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Another Coffee Break:
Aphiémi Healing, Part 17
Growing up in Eskimo villages in the arctic, snow storms were
not unusual. If Sunday came along and we were in the middle of a blizzard, who
cares! The only individuals who might stay home were the very aged and infirm.
Brother, have things ever changed! After fairly light snowfall on Thursday and
Friday a week ago here in the Yakima Valley which left us with an accumulation
of perhaps four inches, we woke up Sunday morning with an overnight snowstorm
that had dropped another seven inches on us.
With a fellowship of believers scattered across a distance of
more than a hundred miles, highways and city streets clogged with thick snow,
and warming temperatures that made things slick and treacherous for driving, we
found it prudent to cancel our gathering last Sunday. (Several other pastors
and church leaders let us know they had done the same thing.) Thinking back
over the years, this has to be only the second time in memory we've ever canceled
a Sunday gathering. Guess that's part of the problems we have in our modern,
civilized (?), technical age. In the arctic, folks just hitched up their dog
teams (if they had any distance to travel), or they dressed up for the weather
and headed out. Unless a person has chains or studded snow tires on their
vehicles in this kind of weather, they consider it too risky to travel. (These
are the kinds of times when I think back rather fondly to my dog-team days! :-)
OK. Let's get on with today's discussion.
John 3:47-51: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath
everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the
wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that
a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from
heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that
I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Jesus’ statement was predicated on the fact that His flesh would be
resurrected flesh. He knew that he was about to be killed, but He also knew
that they couldn’t keep him dead. He was going to rise from the dead.
Jesus was getting ready to keep our appointment with death.
Because life — zoe life — was in Him already, He could, with absolute authority
say, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man
eat of this bread, he shall live forever.”
For those of us as believers, when we obey Jesus’ command to be
water-baptized, we show to Satan and to all his minions that we likewise have
transferred our citizenship from that of this world to Heaven — to the Kingdom
of God.
But the Table of the Lord doesn’t leave our feast at simply eating
of Jesus’ flesh. We must also drink His Cup. Why? Take a look at a couple of
statements that David makes.
Psalm 16:5: The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance
and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. Psalm 23:5: Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine
enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Psalm 116:13: I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.
The Cup represents the very life-force of God Himself. It is the
life-force of the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit is the moving force,
the energizer of that life-force in us.
The Cup is the cup of life itself. For Jesus to instruct us to
drink His blood — or to drink His Cup — was to drink of the energizing force
that filled Him after the Holy Spirit manifested on and in Him. (The Greek word, erchomai, is used in
Matthew’s text, and it literally means to appear from within, to manifest, to
accompany, to appear, to enter).
Thus, Jesus was both baptized in water AND in/with the Holy
Spirit. It mattered not — in the final analysis — that Jesus was going to be
crucified; death couldn’t hang onto Him. He had drank of the Cup of the Spirit.
When Jesus died on the Cross and blood and water issued from His
side, there was no need for blood in His being any longer once He was raised
from the dead. When He appeared to the disciples after His resurrection, He
said to them, “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me,
and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.” (see Luke
24:39)
He didn’t refer to Himself as “flesh and blood.” The blood had
been shed. The appointment with death had been kept by the shedding of His
blood. Death was canceled. Now the Spirit of Life — everlasting — would make us
free from the Law of Sin and Death.
Let me take another track with this for a minute to show you
something.
There is are several rather fascinating scientific "white papers"
which touch on the subject of blood. These "white papers" propose
that blood is nothing more than congealed light. That's a rather bold concept
and treatise, but for blood to be congealed light would mean that the light had
slowed down rather dramatically. (That's a scientific discussion I don't want
to get into today, but one that we may come back to some other time.) Let me
quote briefly from one discussion in the realm of quantum physics -- an area
we've already touched on briefly as we talked about the aspect of faith.
"In [DeBroglie's]
research, he observed that sub-atomic particles also displayed wave-like
properties. Particles such as the electron and proton also had wavelengths. In
other words, inside the atom – which earlier science described as absolute
matter – there were non-material energy waves, contrary to materialist belief.
Just like light, these minute particles inside the atom behaved like waves at
times, and exhibited the properties of particles at others. "Contrary to
expectations, the absolute matter in the atom could be detected at certain
times, but disappeared at others. This major discovery showed that what we
imagine to be the real world were in fact shadows. Matter had completely
departed from the realm of physics and was headed in the direction of quantum
mechanics."
To sum up these conclusions, when you get to the core makeup
of everything, there is light! Science can demonstrate that all matter is
nothing more than congealed light! Consider this: light isn’t like the light
you see from the sun or a lamp, but waves of energy. At the subatomic level,
everything is energy waves – light. Recent discoveries have revealed that cells
communicate with one another via light called bio photons.
You see where I'm going with this, don't you? You'll remember
that Della and I have talked about our physicist friend, Dr. Joseph O'Neil.
This is the man who discovered that he could convert the makeup of blood into
sound and thereby determine a person's medical history and likely life-span based
on the music produced when scanning the blood. Since sound and light are all
part of the same energy spectrum, it takes no great rocket science to figure
out that if sound can be derived from blood, light is there as well.
What's the point of all of this? Consider again what we read in Genesis
2:23: "And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh
of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of
Man." Juxtapose that statement against Jesus' Word to the Disciples: “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me,
and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.”
When you realize that we have no mention of blood at all in the
Word prior to Adam and Eve eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil, and we first see blood as producing sound (Genesis 4:10) when Abel's
blood "cries" out to the Lord, it provides us with the very unique
perspective that Adam and Eve actually had light flowing in their veins prior
to the introduction of sin and the contamination of their DNA.
If indeed blood is slowed-down and congealed light, it gives us a
unique revelation of what Jesus did for us at the Cross, and why He gave us His
Table as a picture of the restoration of our return to timeless existence in
and through Him.
In Coffee Breaks published throughout past years, I've shared a
tiny portion of my own set of experiences which took place back in 1996 when I
transported in the realm of the Spirit outside of time, into eternity, and back
and forth into various points in time going back to the Garden of Eden, into
the future to see things during the thousand years of peace, and even seeing
the "New Heavens and the New Earth" as John describes in Revelation
when "time should be no more."
One of the things which became very clear to me was that until
Adam and Eve sinned by eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,
time -- at least in the way that we know it -- was not measured. There is
pretty clear evidence in the Word for this. Consider what Peter had to say
about it in his second general letter to the body of Christ (See II Peter
3:5-8):
"For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word
of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in
the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are
kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of
ungodly men."But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day
is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
day." Get it? He says, "By the word of God the
heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the
water."
When He spoke, creation was old and aged by hundreds of thousands
and millions of years (according to the way that science likes to measure
things), but the age and all of the "periods of time" that geologists
like to assign to the earth occurred instantly when the Word came forth.
OK, now! Don't go throwing rocks at me! I didn't say that: Peter
wrote that under the inspiration of Holy Spirit. God spoke the Word. Age
existed at the moment He spoke. Let me tell you why I believe this without a
shred of doubt.
When you see creative miracles unfold before your eyes, when you
see eyes form in eye sockets where eyes have been removed, when you see four
inches of bone grow in seconds to replace bone which has been surgically
removed, when you see an arm grow which had never grown because of a birth
defect, and it changes from the size of a baby's arm to the size needed for a
full-grown woman in a matter of seconds -- you get the idea!
When you see the dead raised to life -- and even experience being
raised from the dead yourself -- when you experience instant dematerialization,
or a reconstruction of your molecular makeup (or whatever you want to call it)
so that you pass through a solid object in a split second and are instantly
changed back, when you are transported physically, along with a group of other
people, hundreds of miles in less time than it takes to blink an eye -- when
you begin to experience these kinds of events for yourself, you suddenly
realize that the creative power in the Word of God exceeds anything our
natural, physical world can even comprehend!
Watching creative miracles take place in front of your eyes that
happen either in seconds or virtually instantly, you suddenly understand the
concept of God speaking the Word, "Light BE!" and everything
materializing out of what seems to be nothingness in a split second as though
it was fully grown, fully matured, with time and age built into its very
existence! Sorry! I'm getting off on a rabbit trail here. What I saw in the
adventures experienced in those travels was that time was created specifically
as an envelope or a container to hold death, sin, the curse and Satan. Here's
how John (in Revelation 10:5-6) describes it:
"And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the
earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth forever and
ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and
the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that
there should be time no longer."
So what are we getting at here? Follow this sequence:
If (1) light was slowed in order to create this envelope we know
as time, and (2) light was what Adam and Eve initially had flowing in their
veins, and (3) sin/time caused such a slowdown in the flow of the light in
their veins that it caused that light to congeal into what we now know as
blood, then (4) we can easily conclude that the blood that Jesus shed for us --
both when he bore the stripes for our healing, as well as when he hung on the
Cross -- was a demonstration of what we have in Him!
Did that come out right? Let's go through this one more time! Jesus
came into this world in the form of flesh and blood because he had to take on
the form or the likeness of sinful flesh in order to begin the process of
restoring us from time-space-based beings into eternity-based beings.
As time-space-based beings our ability to function from eternity
was hampered and even prevented because the light and life of Father God which
had once flowed in our beings had been retarded, slowed to the point of being
congealed.
In order for the restoration to our former existence as
light-based beings could happen we needed to be rid of the congealed light
flowing in our veins. Blood sacrifices were established under the Law of Moses
as an interim means of atonement for our sins -- and we all know that
"atonement" is only a covering over, NOT an eradication of the sin,
or forgiveness, or "remission" (Aphiémi) and even the wiping out of
the memory of our sins.
Jesus became the "once and for all time" sacrifice on
our behalf, in the process suffering stripes and wounds to his physical body
such that there was scarcely a square inch of his body that wasn't bleeding.
Acting in His position as The Son of God (who Himself was legally free from the
Law of Sin and Death), by taking our sins, our transgressions, our iniquities
(or character traits that tended or bent towards sin), our sicknesses, our
diseases, our infirmities, and everything about our flesh and blood-based frame
that was death-oriented to the Cross, Jesus drained every vestige of blood --
that congealed light -- from His body and in the process made possible for us
an end to our time-space-based existence.
When Jesus rose from the dead, there wasn't an ounce of blood
flowing in His veins. The risen Lord had been returned to his Spirit-based
existence with light being the very essence of His core makeup.
Are you beginning to get a better grasp now on the significance of
the Cup at the Table of the Lord? Do you now begin to understand why Jesus
said, "this do in remembrance of me"?
In the natural world, wine is often referred to as
"spirits." By the same token, Jesus used wine in the Cup at His Table
to signify the transition available to us from blood-based (congealed light)
existence to Spirit-based existence. Let's wrap up today's discussion by again
quoting Romans 8:2:
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
made me free from the law of sin and death."
Are we good? Excellent! See you next week.
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Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
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