The Still Small Voice

Post 335

We were in the middle of exploring what seems like several concepts simultaneously: The phases of the Ages, the sixth age of Women, the nature of those women-- both good and bad--, and that, in Type of the human nature of Christ’s bride regardless of gender. And even how all this applies to our present existence in the end of these last days in expectation of its future application in the Kingdom of Heaven yet to come. I left off with the unfinished discussion of a man with a troubled wife.
I confess that this is quite a handful of sub-topics to grasp, but we are now speaking on a level closer to where God dwells, that is; in dimensions beyond our comfortable and familiar four. Thinking on this plain stretches not only the mind but also the spirit, and it is our spirit that really needs the stretching due to atrophy by neglect.
Our spirit is multi-dimensional but we keep its wings clipped, dwelling exclusively here with our bodies trudging through time linearly. If it doesn’t “die of boredom” it finds troublesome ways of entertaining itself like a purposeless teenager on spring break:

“…and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away” Isaiah 64:6.

If our third dimension is a compounding of the first two with dynamic results, and the fourth addresses that third in various stages or conditions as Time, then we can only try to imagine what the fifth dimension includes as it compounds all our familiar dimensions in a dynamic that is still unimaginable to us, but I suggest are all layers of the singular onion of eternity.
As an example; Time is perhaps simply a facet of a simplistic linear dimension that any of the forms in the next dimensions can enter and exit at will and location like putting your four-dimensional finger anywhere on a two dimensional map then taking it away again. If angels work in the fifth dimension, and God actually lives in the tenth dimension, then his view of, and interaction with, the fifth and its activities is as we view the first.
My point is that whatever it’s like where God dwells, He intends us to eventually dwell with him for eternity. But our diminished minds and spirits are content to dwell in the very simplistic “now” and fail to contemplate the lasting benefits or consequences of our choices by ignoring the idea of eternity already in progress. This perspective may work very well for our temporal bodies that soon expire along with most those temporal benefits and consequences, but our eternal spirits presently connected to our bodies, require more because more is required of them:

“For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come” I Timothy 4:8.

The Grand Tapestry sketches out how our simple reality plays its part in a much bigger design that we are even now already participating in by a “spiritually prenatal stage” if you will. This sketching is precisely the meaning of God’s creation of Typologies for us to examine and apply. The more Typologies we can accurately fit together the better sketch we have of that design. The better we comprehend that design the better we can apply its principles, like giving the body a new immunity to a formerly deadly disease (*1). Humanity desperately needs to comprehend our role in this Greater Design because in these last days the spiritual diseases are becoming ever more aggressive and resistant, and in the end of the present contest for our souls there will be only the living and the dead-- who nonetheless never cease to exist, but by condition of that existence find their eternal place. We are quickly approaching the point in time when the redemption of the dead/lost is no longer the focus but simply the dividing between them and the living/saved:

“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still”… Revelation 22:11 (*2).

It is very much like choosing which side of the proverbial tracks you choose to live on for eternity. Which again is just another Typology created in our temporal reality for our enlightenment.

…“And behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work shall be” Revelation 22:12.

There are both good and bad people dwelling on both sides of the tracks, and many justify their habitat choice by the bad conduct of a few they know on the other side. This narrow focus keeps us from seeing the bigger picture of the “general neighborhood” that is far more important to the decision being made. But I digress a little from our chosen topic at hand.

I have long marveled at seeing Christians as a whole refuse to examine the apparent anomalies of promises in scripture that don’t seem to play out in reality. It seems by observation that these Christians are so committed to their religion as unquestionably true, that they don’t want to expose any flaws that might prove it a lie. I propose that this is because their very committed dogmatic faith is so weak and unsupported that most any disturbance would unseat it entirely. I accuse Muslims of this same mentality. Such a II Timothy 3:5-7 foolish faith is a figment of the imagination where reality would so easily prove its illusions.
I have no such fairytale faith. I want to know what is true and what is a lie, and if my God is a liar I want to know it now. I will not willingly be led into my eternal side-of-the-tracks-dwelling by a liar who makes pretty promises. How about you? So let’s explore one such apparent schism of Biblical Christian doctrine that to my knowledge has not been addressed before.
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A Promised Guidance:
Are there any Christians who don’t know almost by osmosis that the Holy Spirit is promised to teach us all things, lead us into all truth, and bring to mind everything that Jesus taught? Let’s go to the exact passages to make sure we understand this correctly:

“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you” John 14:16-18.

That is quite a promise. A very important promise.
Many other verses and passages, especially in Acts, confirm that this future-tense promise (John 15:7) was activated after Jesus returned to the Father, and the Holy Ghost came upon the Church by degrees soon after, until the believers where all filled, and with the promise that he would never leave them.
Now-days the Holy Ghost Indwelling is so familiar to Christians as a doctrine that it almost goes without saying. Christians today have no problem with this indwelling concept and I don’t know of any realistically-Christian group existing that denies the Holy Spirit indwelling is foundational to Christianity, the disparity is only in explaining how this promise is actually manifest today.
Let’s look at another such promise:

“These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you” John 14:25-26.

More very important specifics to a very important promise. This aforementioned promised indwelling Holy Spirit is here promised to teach us all things, bringing all the things to mind that Jesus taught. That is some very comforting news indeed! (see Matthew 28:19-20 for our obligatory use of such benefits).
OK, let’s look at another:

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you” John 16:12-14.

More? Yes! Not only will this promised Comforter who will never leave us, bring to mind all things that Jesus taught so that we can rightly teach it to the world, but he will even teach us things that Jesus wanted to tell us but the Church was not yet ready to hear (see John 13:7 as one example, see Ephesians 3:2-6 as another). But this Spirit is even promised to show us things still to come! (see the Revelation as one example, Acts 2:17-18 for another).
Still more:

“…the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father” John 16:25b.

Jesus was killed not long after saying this, and we don’t see recorded this “plain revelation speech” he speaks of, though his disciples immediately tried to apply his future-tense promise in the very same conversation (John 16:26-30).
Jesus replied in what seems to be dry humor (John 16:31) before correcting their eager but incorrect perception (John 16:32). And now, in the passage of time, we can comprehend that he was referencing the instruction of the Holy Spirit that would follow his resurrection and ascension, which showed us plainly of the Father. Christ’s Spirit would thereafter speak, as Jesus prayed in the tense of an Age-changing process:

…“and this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent… And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep…those…” John 17:3+17:11.

And while there is still more, this is enough list to provide evidence of the very important and specific promises regarding the indwelling Holy Spirit that every Christian must have to be a “certified” Christian.

So here is my complaint:
Am I the only Christian who doesn’t see this promised Holy Spirit manifested in Christians today?
Example: If the Holy Spirit is supposed to teach me all things, why do I still get so many things wrong? Can you relate? The evidence speaks conclusively that I am far from alone in this area.
How many Christians do you know that have ever heard God speak, and that they can distinguish between God’s voice and their own mind or heart (which I believe is the meaning referenced in John 14:17 as “see (G2334) him”)? (Today we would use the terms; “recognize, discern,” him). Oh the number of Christians I have heard declare that God told them this or that, when even a child can see that it is the desires of their own heart speaking! It seems the Holy Spirit is utterly missing from Christianity today, so why is this scriptural disparity not a major topic from pulpits and among parishioners across Christendom? Why is this very significant issue just ignored as if it did not exist? Is it because they don’t want to expose God as a fraud and destroy an otherwise perfectly good religion? I wonder.
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Two Answers:
There are two very different but somewhat related issues that answer this problem. It is imperative that we determine which category applies to us personally in each case. The first is regarding what is declared by the opening “And” of our first example passage:

“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you” John 14:16-18.

But before we go where the “And” takes us regressively, let’s take a moment to contemplate the related part found here in this passage: The world cannot receive this promised Spirit for reasons explained, but to the Christian this Spirit is received for the antitheses of those reasons.
Here is the problem that is completely missed by a false perspective of assumed assurance: Many who honestly believe themselves to be Christian don’t see the Spirit nor even know him, because they cannot. Where does that leave them but in the category of “the world” when compared to Christians in the passage? This is just simple math.

“But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, and I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me” John 10:26-27.

The unshaken disparity of confident self-perception seems to be founded in the false concept that all sheep are the Lord’s. In such a case “sheep” seems to be seen synonymously with Christian: “I’m no wolf so I must therefore be a Christian regardless of the elements that don’t seem to apply to me.” But the above verse seems to make this perspective absolutely wrong on several points.
So now let’s examine what the “And” makes its promise contingent upon:

“If ye love me, keep my commandments.
And I will pray the father…” John 14:15-16a.

I will speak plainly through the Spirit; there are a whole lot of worldly people thinking themselves to be Christian but aren’t, as evidenced that they do not keep Christ’s commandments and therefore do not love him in spite of their proclamations. These people cannot receive the Spirit of truth but are deceived by the beguiler to think they have.
These are the people I spoke to earnestly and at depth in the previous two books, who while reading them and agreeing with them, saw everything in there as speaking to “somebody else,” usually someone specific that they have planted firmly in their mind and thereby keeps the focus off themselves and so avoids the conviction that requires an address. Another avenue used by these conviction-avoiding people is a blanket rejection of my books by righteous feelings that I was being negative and troubling rather than being positive and affirming. In this way the accusatory rejection eliminates the need of addressing my arguments that brought undesirable conviction.
Either way, these worldly minded people cannot receive the Spirit of truth (*3).

When I earlier declared that I was actually writing to a generation still unborn but then proceeded to write to this generation in the present tense, I was writing in present-tense what would become history for a future people who could use the information by seeing a generation that could not repent. By speaking to the present generation as a tool I am explaining the Why and how in a practical reality which that future generation might be able to avoid repeating by having the historical information available like an inoculation. And in the process, a few of this generation might grasp the Spirit of truth and convert.

The second issue is something else entirely, and is very, very fascinating to explore and contemplate. I am now speaking to genuine Christians who nonetheless struggle to hear this promised Spirit that they know because he is with them, but doesn’t seem to be speaking and is therefore seemingly not in them comforting as promised.
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The Holy Spirit represented by the feminine?
In a recent Post, I suggested that women have been given their nature in likeness of the Holy Ghost. I am not intentionally lengthening the second issue answer but it’s complex. So let’s continue our contemplations by exploring this internal passionate fire as it reveals to us the nature of the Holy Spirit within the Christian. Nobody is going to suggest that the Earth’s internal fire is not dramatic, dynamic, powerful, dangerous, fluid, and volatile. The concept of all that burning in the heart of Earth is amazing and mysterious. It is even more curious to know that all that heart’s volatile fire is going on just under the relatively calm and stable surface skin that is always in motion but is nonetheless solid as rock and is therefore the perfect and beautiful temperate environment for life to thrive in what the Pagans have not wrongly labeled; Mother Earth.
We want-- no; we NEED-- that fire to continue churning perpetually, but we really don’t want it erupting onto the surface more than a little from time to time. It’s simply too powerful and dangerous.

Knowing now that this internal fire represents the Holy Ghost that gives life to an otherwise dead rock of a human being through the transformation of what God calls salvation through repentance and subsequent redemption, we combine this understanding of Salvation with the additional understanding of Righteousness as being what goes on at the surface through works of reflection. These are two very different but intimately related concepts.
We can quickly grasp that the sun represents God and the earth Humanity, and so the surface reflection by the earth is a masculine role taken up by the Husband as head of his own reflective family. We get that.
So let’s leave off the topic of Works for now and contemplate more thoroughly the idea of the hidden Spirit in the Christian that produces a unique atmosphere for life that other people do not have. The Scripture’s character descriptions of the Holy Spirit are what we commonly call feminine traits:

Isaiah 57:15 informs us cryptically that God’s name is Holy, which is a mysterious declaration that links the two as One. In this verse, God as Holy, declares himself to dwell with him (singular) who has a contrite and humble spirit. This is speaking of the Holy Ghost who himself ministers to those (plural) who reflect that Spirit through their own imitating contrite heart and humble spirit. Read the verse again and see how exciting the new understanding comes through.
Ephesians 4:30 and Isaiah 63:10 warns us not to grieve the Holy Spirit as if he were sensitive. John 14:16 tells us that the Holy Spirit is another Comforter to take over Jesus' task when Jesus departed physically. John 15:26 tells us that this Spirit-of-truth Comforter, comes from the Father, and testifies of Christ Jesus. This is a topic of delegated authority and submissive mission on behalf of another.
John 16:8 tells us that this sent-Spirit will come (has now come) to reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. This is a topic of function; that by delegated empowerment, has a lot of granted responsibility and authority over those in its care.

These few listed character traits among others, are all concept traits normally associated with the feminine. And isn’t it curious that this Comforter never speaks of himself (i.e. does not come to the surface) but only speaks on behalf of Jesus the Son of God:

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come… he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak… He shall glorify me…” John 16:13-14a.

This is a chain-of-authority in action: Father - Son - Holy Spirit.
This submissive reflection by the Holy Ghost with these traits, is specifically commanded to Christian women toward their husbands in direct Typology of the Christian to Christ, and likewise husbands to Christ in Type of Christ to the Father. This submissive concept is very important so let’s take the time to review it now as we focus on the Holy Spirit’s role:

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For [/because] the husband is the head of the wife, even as [/in Typology] Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore [/because of this fact;] as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing” Ephesians 5:22-24.

I am hoping that we have so gradually warmed up to this concept that any woman reading this Blog will not have just thrown her coffee cup through her monitor in the finality of complete rejection. Our progressive global culture has so successfully beguiled the hearts of today’s woman that such a concept is only vaguely accepted by the Church, IF it can be explained away as symbolic and not in any way expected as an actual requirement by God himself.
But to stubbornly-- though defensively-- refuse this admonition “in this modern age” is to destroy the important Typology God intended by design. When Christian wives refuse to submit to their husbands in this context likeness of the Church to Christ, then, not only the wife but the children and husband as well, have a wholly twisted and dysfunctional comprehension of the Church’s relationship with Christ.
Today’s modern Christians entrenched in the modern mindframe really do approach their relationship with Christ as empowered equals with equal rights in deciding just how and what things will and will not be done in this family. Christians have learned to boldly tell Christ how things are going to be in this relationship. But the submissive and demure Holy Spirit has no part or likeness in such a foundational subversion of power… and neither does a true Christian wife.

Do you find yourself choking on that concept like a bone going down sideways? This is evidence that your mind and spirit, like Eve’s, has been beguiled much further away from God’s truth than you presently imagine. The only thing I can ask you to do at this point is to drink lots of water of the word to wash down the lump and continue with our present thought to its conclusion. Remember; I am now speaking to men in the same way I was before speaking to women; That is, I am not speaking to gender as much as to comprehension irrelevant of gender. But I cannot withdraw the statements of offense, as they are very clearly the word of God. This is fully a conflict between present perspective and God’s Grand Tapestry. So let’s continue to my main point that should pleasantly surprise you, though we need to clear up a potential miscomprehension first:
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With all these feminine characteristics, are we to conclude that the Holy Spirit is somehow female?
No. Do not confuse the direction in which this concept is to flow.
God is the composite of all natures gifted to humanity in part. God selected out certain elements of his nature and gifted them into different groups He called genders. To man he gave some of his nature and to women he gave some other. The division of his nature is what created the distinction of genders beyond the physical presentation and function in the creation. This is why a man and a woman must marry to become one flesh; a more complete likeness of God, and why, when in conflict, the family experiences the great schizophrenic turmoil of a singular divided house (Mark 3:25).

God the Father is always spoken of in scripture as distinctly masculine, obviously. This concept is ultimately foundational to the Grand Tapestry design as I have already begun to show in previous Posts. This is an authority concept. Somebody has to lead, and who that is, is not up for selection: God IS the Creator, it’s His job to lead-- by the fact of creation He makes the rules in his creation. That’s the nature of reality. A clockmaker determines the action of the clock by the fact that it was made by him. William Blackstone worded it like this:

“Thus when the supreme being formed the universe, and created matter out of nothing, he impressed certain principles upon that matter, from which it can never depart, and without which it would cease to be. When he put that matter into motion, he established certain laws of motion, to which all movable bodies must conform.”- Commentaries on the Laws of England Vol. 1, 1765.

While it is true that the Holy Spirit is spoken of in Scripture sometimes without gender, it is only due to un-specified identification (Psalm 51:11, Isaiah 63:11, Daniel 4:8, Luke 11:13, Acts 2:4, etc.). Review John 14:16-18 above and see that God is spoken of specifically as “He” eight times. Now go back through and try to identify if each “he” is speaking of the Father or the Spirit. It begins to emerge that they are one-in-the-same though expressed as distinctly one from the other by application in our four-dimensional reality.
The Holy Spirit is masculine, being the Spirit of God who is clearly identified as masculine (Isaiah 63:11 etc.) even by the very title of Father. God the Creator is speaking to humanity of Himself in a way that we, the creation, can comprehend. Women did not get “a lesser portion of God” than men. Just different.

OK, so now we glean the idea that women were gifted into their gender the nature found in the Holy Spirit, when breaking this Spirit out from the Father for description purposes. This intended likeness is the very reason why God designed the woman from and for the man (I Corinthians 11:8-9), and why she is admonished to keep silence in the churches and instead turn to her husband for clarification and instruction (I Corinthians 14:34-35) just as the Holy Spirit subordinates (G5293) to the Father. This is not a design to “keep women in their place” but to maintain the Typology of their likeness of the Holy Spirit of God… who never speaks of himself or puts himself forward. The Holy Spirit is demure by nature. This concept is confirmed by the very next verse that sums up the point of the text:

“What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?” I Corinthians 14:36.

This question is speaking to the Church as a whole; meaning both men and women, in the summation context of the topic regarding the gender relationship. Did the word of God come FROM our own minds and ideas as the human prophets and apostles wrote and spoke it to others, or did it only come TO humanity for us to distribute in reflection?
We are assured that it came only TO us from God himself via the Holy Ghost (II Peter 1:20-21).
For our comprehension, Christ is the man in this Typology and the Holy Spirit the woman. As the Holy Spirit does not say anything that he did not get from the Father, so the woman should not speak in the Church from her own mind and ideas, but rather only what she gets from her husband who is submissive to Christ. In the relationship between Christ and the Father, (Christ being now human), Christ takes up the submissive role of the Son and himself speaks nothing that the Father does not direct. Do you see clearly that this is not about who is the man and who is the woman, but about the relationship that by the very nature of relationship requires two roles. One dominate and one submissive.

But this submissive role concept is utterly repugnant in today’s age of Woman’s Liberation from what she perceives as long oppression by men. Yet here is the thing: This is not a passage instructing men to force such an idea upon women. Frankly, this is a passage to liberated women to apply for themselves. Men have a lot of their own rules of application as the passage context is covering what should and should not be spoken as instruction in the Church, i.e. doctrine. Men don’t have permission to speak their own ideas into the church doctrine either, but only what they get from Christ.
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So what is a man to do if his modern wife cannot find it within herself to submit as Christ so clearly instructs NT Christian women? We answer this question by referring to the one who we men are to reflect ourselves; The Lord Jesus Christ.
So what does Jesus Christ do if the Church, his bride, cannot find it within herself to submit to His commands in this New Testament age of liberation from the law, but chooses instead to demand her ideas; her doctrine, be included as equal partners?
Men; mankind, YOU are the bride in this case. How do you like submitting to an authority, such as a boss, when you think he’s dead wrong? How does Christ treat you when you don’t follow his lead because it just doesn’t set well with your perspective? Does he scream and yell in frustrated anger, or does he give you the silent treatment and let you do your own thing to your mutual harm?
It’s an interesting question to search out earnestly. I find that along with the silent treatment and a hands-off “liberation,” comes a progressive lack of access to his resources; “If you want to go bad, do it without my help.” But I also find that this is not a case of abandonment, as he tends to over-watch from an offended distance as-it-were, being careful not to allow any greater destruction than the degree of waywardness warrants and allows. At that point of danger he does a lot of under-the-table unpleasant things to encourage the wayward progression to stop.
This is quite a juggling act for him, and it doesn’t make him very happy.
Oddly enough, I find that I have quite a number of both Godly and Pagan male friends who seem to be naturally exampling Christ in their marriages as their wives are running wild having been liberated by society. Their wives are far from oppressed, but they find that their running reveals no value (see Post 329), yet like a wild pony, most cannot make themselves return to where they did have value. This is simply a case of misapplied liberty. But the misapplication is so entrenched by the doctrine of false assurance, that there is little hope of finding the solution. It’s very much a case of “Separation of Church and State” having been taught to a generation as the intent of the founders. How then do you discover that the truth is actually the opposite, while merging them into one is not the answer either?
The answer is a marriage of separate powers in a check-and-balance kind of way.

Only one generation ago our fathers as young men understood the proper role of employee whereas today it has been forgotten. Employees of the past may have felt very strongly that their employer was being a wretch, and even doing things wrongly, but he is the employer; it’s his show, the employee can either comply or quit… but a well-established pleasing and useful employee has one additional option; to appeal, to demure.
In God’s design everyone is required to be submissive to someone above them, even if that someone is only God himself and on the day of Judgment. There is not an age in the history of humanity were the modern woman would have less right to crave liberation than today, yet it is today that she screams the loudest because she feels intolerably oppressed. But she screams NOW because she has the liberty to do so. Isn’t that ironic? This same concept applies to blacks, and unions, and minorities, etc. It’s a general concept that speaks of this Sixth Age of seven. The Age of Liberty.

OK, so now we come to the actual answer of the complaint, having waded through many potential secondary causes and details of importance to the topic question: “If the Holy Spirit is promised to lead and teach me all things, why do I keep getting so much wrong?”
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It’s Yours To Do!
While it is true that the woman is the passionate and fiery heart of the marriage, and her influence is very strong in a man’s life and actions by her state of bliss or lack thereof; It’s the man to whom God gave the authority of final say of just what and how the family will be run. She may weep and cry and pray a lot in the effort to influence his choices but it’s his to do or not do, “It’s My House and we play by MY rules.”
It has long been rightly said; “It’s a man’s world,” and so it is by the command of God himself, so ladies, climb off your man’s back and let him do his job of shepherding. Your nagging is not becoming because it fails to reflect the nature of the Holy Spirit (Proverbs 27:15-16, 21:9).

But curiously enough, the indwelling Holy Spirit in our lives plays the part of the woman. It demurs to our will because it’s our God given life to live, he’s just there as councilor, advisor, another idea, the suggestion of a better way, a connection to God himself. So why then do so many Christians pray earnestly to God that he run their lives? These “faithful Christians” sit around in their sin just waiting for the day when God tells them what to do… but he never does (James 4:8).
Then there is the other expression of the same sin, who hearing nothing, bull ahead into one disaster after another, but feel comfortable blaming God because he didn’t guide them.
But IF… just if, we listen, the Holy Spirit has a lot to say regarding what he would like to see in the effort to create a happy life and home to dwell in. It offers a “Spirit’s intuition” warning regarding choices we are about to make. It leads us into all truth, not drive us directly to it. We earnest Christians don’t hear his voice because we have not learned to listen for it on the frequency it speaks. The Holy Spirit doesn’t speak our language, but that’s the only language we are ready to hear (John 16:12). If we don’t hear anything we assume he isn’t speaking, rather than assume we aren’t listening.

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I struggled with the first word for a good 30 seconds, but every word after that came automatically after I understood the tenor of the author’s delivery. How can people so easily comprehend this strange gibberish but complain that God’s word is too hard to understand? It’s because, unlike with this example, we refuse to accept God’s “worldview” in how he chooses to communicate his meaning: Spiritually.

An Unfamiliar Voice:
In I Kings 19 we get a glimpse of this difficult idea.
Elijah was a very successful and dynamic prophet of God whose very manly ministry was full of miracles and dramatic displays of God’s masculine power. Then troubling circumstances coming at just the time in his human weakness, found him hiding/resting in a cave in the wilderness… by happen chance on the very same mountain upon which Moses received the Law (I Kings 19:8).
And the word of the LORD came to him there, and clearly they had a two-way conversation. Elijah heard the voice of God as he always had. No problem. But when the LORD asked him a question and he answered, the LORD seemed to have something else in mind. Not that Elijah’s answer was wrong, just that the LORD was not getting through the message to him that he wanted him to hear. So the LORD ran him through some events that spoke his intent in a way that Elijah understood.
First a great wind that ripped mountains and broke rocks, but the LORD was not in the wind (I Kings 19:11). Then the same with an earthquake, and a fire, but the LORD was not in these manly and dramatic events. Elijah was getting a hard-to-comprehend message, that God was going to use an entirely different method of communication:

“…after the fire a still small voice” I Kings 19:12b.

I propose that this event with Elijah was a foretelling of the Holy Spirit who was about to speak to God’s people in an entirely different way after Jesus came.
When you are familiar and used to God speaking dramatically through prophets, it takes some getting use to, to hear a gentle subdued voice that never speaks of itself.

A man can try really hard to take into account his wife’s opinions and desires and intuitions when planning their life, but “she is just so complicated that I can’t figure out what she actually wants!” That’s the nature of women! And if I may add, even women don’t actually know what they really want.
God designed it like that because of her Typology of the Holy Spirit’s function in our lives. You still get so much wrong in your earnest efforts, because you have not yet learned the secrets of understanding your wife’s heart rather than just trying to understand the expression of her mind. It’s supposed to be hard to do, so that you will comprehend better how you are supposed to go about hearing the leading and teaching and guiding and speaking of the Holy Spirit, who is of God and not of Man. It’s not easy for the created to hear the Creator on his level. But it our job to do!

“Likewise ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel (a title honor), and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered” I Peter 3:7.

Now, before you women get all righteously delighted that your voice is in Type of the Holy Spirit to your husbands, take into account that while your husband’s voice is in Type of the Father, he doesn’t do a very good job of it. And neither do you. You kick against the consequences of his failures, and so does he yours. This is a very difficult thing to get right.

“And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it…” Genesis 3:17a.

This too is designed into the Type on purpose.
The man is not simply supposed to do whatever his wife suggests; He is supposed to discover what’s in her heart as an input, and then figure out how to make the right choices by what he knows to be right.
She may be wrong, because this keep him from becoming a yes man. The Holy Spirit is our guide, our counselor, our comforter, even our insight, but the choices we make in the age of Liberty are ours to choose for Grand Tapestry reasons that we have yet to explore.
We are no longer servants, or even friends, but future heirs together with Christ! This is the very reason for the periods of apparent failure by God’s Types; it helps us get our working feet under us for what is still to come that is ours to do. Christ is not interested in marrying a doormat. But neither does he want a willful bride. When you and the Holy Ghost, and the Word of God, all agree on the right thing to do, THEN you’re unstoppable!
The more intimate time I spend communing with the Holy Spirit the more I comprehend his spirit. It’s almost as easy as understanding women!~
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(*1) Humanity has a natural propensity to fight off deadly attacks from recognized evils that threaten our well being, be it evil empires aggressively striving for our conquest, or individuals endangering our loved ones. But when humanity does not recognize an evil, such as social cancer in the form of Movie indoctrination or a progressive agenda transforming our very mindframe and culture, we put up no fight at all. If we don’t even recognize the reality of an enemy-- such as demons and spirits working through people or not, how much less are we able to put up a defense?

(*2) For a better understanding of the concept in today’s twisted mindframe, we might call it the Zombie Apocalypse. Have you every contemplated that in that scenario the majority of the population are Zombies? How does the virtue of democracy work then? “All in favor of legalizing brain-eating raise your hand.” This may seem a bit silly, but in this way you can get a new perspective of our present spiritual Zombification: “All in favor of legalizing the murder of unborn children by dismemberment or scissors to the brain-stem, raise your hands.” So you tell me; Just how close are we to that Zombie Apocalypse of the walking spiritually dead?

If you, in this society of excessive unconditional love and tolerance, have no mercy on movie Zombies and can take pleasure in killing them off in as many creative ways as can be imagined, how do you presume to cast judgment upon the Creator for calling it quits on the rescue-mission and destroying the unredeemable spiritually dead like plowing Zombies? A Zombie does not have the capacity to repent from his ways and this is what makes him unredeemable, do you?

(*3) “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.” - Author Frantz Fanon.
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