Sacrifice of God

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• Genesis 22:7
• Genesis 22:8
• John 12:24

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One Thousand Two Hundred Sixty Days

Let me share a vision with you now. We are told in the Book of Jeremiah that God sacrificed himself. In the story, Isaac said to Abraham: “Father, I see the fire and I see the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” Abraham answered his son, saying: “The Lord will provide himself, the lamb.” Here we see that no earthly sacrifice is required, for God sacrifices himself. He is the lamb provided for the great offering. Well, about two weeks ago, just before we retired, my wife said to me: “I can’t go to sleep before I tell you what has been disturbing me all day. I had a vivid vision when I saw you bathed in radiant light, carrying yourself in your arms. It was the same kind of a limp body as seen in Michelangelo’s Pieta, only you - a radiant being were carrying yourself, the sacrificed one.” Here is a vision with tremendous spiritual significance. This vision was showing her the only way that man can ever awake. You are God! You, yourself, became human for a divine purpose. You died, and at the very end you will see the symbol of what you did. It’s the story of the seed: “Unless a seed falls into the ground and dies it remains alone, but if it dies it brings forth much.” The seed of God is His image and Jesus Christ is the sperm which is buried in Man.

The ultimate sacrifice is God sacrificing Himself by becoming man, burying His divine image (Jesus Christ) within humanity. This 'death' (the human experience) is for a divine purpose: to awaken man to his true identity as God, symbolized by the seed dying to bring forth much fruit and the Pieta vision of the radiant self carrying the sacrificed self.

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