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The Promise
The Promise refers to the mystical experiences and spiritual pattern foretold in scripture, which 'erupts' within the individual. It is a personal,…
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Believe In Him
The promise was there in scripture, but I did not know it until it erupted in me thirty years later. From that moment on I could do nothing but think about it, talk about it, and share my experiences of it; for that is what I was sent to do. ... Christianity fulfills the promise of Judaism.
The Promise refers to the mystical experiences and spiritual pattern foretold in scripture, which 'erupts' within the individual. It is a personal, transformative revelation that fulfills the spiritual essence of Judaism through Christianity, leading to the individual's awakening and mission to share it.
God Is Light
The promise you will have to take on faith. I tell you from experience: it is true. I have experienced the fact that God is love, the fact that God is the Father. Who would have thought that one born in 1905 (and my friend who is here tonight - in 1911) with no social, intellectual or financial background, would experience the fact that we are God the Father. That God’s Son David - he who decreed: “I will tell of the decree of the Lord. He said unto me: ‘Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee’” - is our Son.
The Promise is the ultimate experience of realizing one's identity as God the Father, specifically through the experience of David (the Son) calling one 'Father'. This is a literal, personal experience that fulfills scripture.
Moses Elijah Jesus
He extracted a promise from his brothers that they will not leave his body in Egypt; they will take it up to the land that was promised by God to his forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The 'promised land' represents the ultimate state of spiritual fulfillment and divine inheritance, a state of consciousness promised by God to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which man's imagination (Joseph) is destined to inherit.
Secret Of Imagination
This comes, now, to the Promise that He made to all of us. His Promise is to give Himself to us, as though there were no others in the world – just you, because in giving Himself to you, there is no other. The whole vast world is “yourself pushed out.” ... Now when I read the Bible, I take all the related parts of the Promise and put them all together, for all these things put together will find their fulfillment in you. All His Promises find their “Yes” in Him, as you read it in 2nd Corinthians: “All the promises of God find their Yes” – their fulfillment – “in Him” (II Corinthians 1:20, R.S.V.). So there are 39 books, together they form one book; but the context, which means the meaning of it, you will find scattered over the 39. He pulls from this, from that, from the other, written over the centuries, and pulls it into one pattern, for Christ is the Pattern Man. That pattern is buried in man. It’s the only Christ in the world. When the pattern unfolds in man, it unfolds in man as the man in whom it unfolds. And then he knows Who-He-Is.
The Promise is God's ultimate gift of Himself to every individual, revealing that the entire world is 'yourself pushed out.' It is a series of mystical experiences (Resurrection, Birth from Above, finding David) that unfold within man, revealing the Christ pattern and the individual's true identity as God the Father. All biblical promises find their fulfillment in this personal awakening.
The Perfect Image
Paul makes the statement: "I stand before you on trial for the hope in that promise that God made to our fathers. O King Agrippa, why should it seem incredible to any of you that God raised the dead? Is this not the promise to our fathers?" Search the scriptures and you will find that the promise was made in the 46th chapter of Genesis. "The Lord spoke to Israel in visions of the night saying, 'Jacob, Jacob.'" (As you know, Jacob's name was changed to Israel which means, a man who rules as God because he knows he is God.) Jacob answers: "Here I am" and the Lord said: "I am God, the God of your father. Fear not to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. I will go down with you into Egypt and I will also bring you out again." Egypt is not a little place in North Africa; this world of death is Egypt, where everything appears, waxes, wanes, and vanishes. I have gone down into Egypt with you and I will keep my promise and bring you up. ... So for their sake let me say: the promise is the law on a higher level, and the law is very simple.
The Promise is God's ultimate commitment to humanity, revealed to the 'fathers' (e.g., Jacob/Israel), which involves God descending into the 'Egypt' (this world of death and limitation) with man and ultimately raising him out of it. This promise is the resurrection from the dead, the awakening to one's divine identity, and it operates on a higher level than the 'Law' of conscious creation.
The Promise Explained
The Bible tells the story of a promise – of a dream that existed two thousand years only in the imagination of Israel, and when their dream came true, Israel did not recognize their own harvest, and rejected their own harvest – denied it, for they were looking for it in an entirely different way. That is really the essence of the Bible a promise made to man, and then man believed it. It was to Abraham, and Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him as righteousness. So, he had the faith to sustain it and pass it on to generations, and they all believed it, and they maintained, only in their imagination, for two thousand years the dream. Then the dream erupted within an individual – within Israel, and he told the story, but they did not believe it.
The Promise is the central theme of the Bible, a divine dream held in the imagination of Israel for two millennia. It was made to Abraham, who believed it, and this faith sustained it through generations. When the Promise manifested within an individual, it was rejected because it did not conform to their preconceived expectations, highlighting the gap between imaginative faith and literal interpretation.
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How long, how severe, how frightening the anguish before we find Him was long to tell! But we will find Him, for that was the Promise. And all these promises find their “yes” – their fulfillment – in Jesus Christ.
Despite the suffering and anguish of human existence, humanity is guaranteed to ultimately find God, as this is a divine 'Promise' that finds its fulfillment and affirmation through the unfolding of the Jesus Christ pattern within each individual.