God as the patient Father that Loves his Children, frustrated with their failings, spoke to Moses after their departure from Egypt saying,
- The LORD spoke to Moses: Go! You and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt are to go up from here to the land about which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: I will give it to your descendants.a
- 2Driving out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, I will send an angel before youb
- 3to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I myself will not go up in your company, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise I might consume you on the way.
- 4When the people heard this painful news, they mourned, and no one wore any ornaments.
- 5The LORD spoke to Moses: Speak to the Israelites: You are a stiff-necked people. Were I to go up in your company even for a moment, I would destroy you. Now off with your ornaments! Let me think what to do with you.
What do you think was God’s greatest gift to Creation? The freedom to choose or life? Its quite certain theologians could debate this, almost, philosophical question because, well, “God means this, and God means that”, and the organization of Life continually splinters into other religious dogma with the notion of what God did, or what He did not do.
People are fallible. The Church God built is not. It is perfect.
God instituted something that no one else has ever done. He built a world unto himself and his likeness. This started with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, a place of perfection for Creation. But the Created wanted more. The serpent told them they could eat the fruit of knowledge, that it was God who wanted them Happy, and so, it must be that they were being neglected the knowledge of Good and of Evil.
They ate of that Fruit. They suddenly knew everything about shame and of guilt, and they ran further into the Garden to hide.
So God in his mercy, removed them from that Created place. He reorganized the system, and built one from his Own word. Adam and Eve went into the world, a world rife with Good and Evil, something sought by His Creation, but it was still God, God whom granted them the unique ability to participate with Him in Creation, despite being distinctly removed from the total gift of it. This is Child Birth and Sexual Intimacy.
They multiplied and the Bible describes their lifespans and epochs in their growth.
But there were problems. God understood that what he built was good, and He gave them “time” to learn, and to be appreciative of His Gift, of Life itself, because why would anyone not be thankful and appreciative of what God has done for them. He has after-all, done everything, he is the Creator, a God who spent 7 days building his Chosen, a model unlike any other, a model of Himself, in a world that He built.
They spurned God and did not appreciate or value Life. They were murderous sinful people who hated God and erected gods of stone, and powers that told them that they “were greater than He”.
God said. I am done with the place I have built. I will begin again.
And He wiped the world out and made changes. These changes were not just in scope of destruction and similar life, but an alteration of it, lifetimes, and manner in which all life would be permitted to live.
God never left and watched His people rebuild. He did not do this out of anger and hatred of Creation, but to allow His Creation the distinct ability to identify Himself in their midst, and thus, appreciate what He has built, what He has done, to Love Him, and to return to a state of Perfection.
God said, I will let them Choose Me. This is not an evolution of Gods law, it is the Perfection of it.
God said to Moses, you will guide my people and you will lead them out of Egypt to Freedom. Bondage, it is bondage and the promise of Yahweh that they be delivered, and in that deliverance, they will know Me.
Moses underwent a transformation from his time as a Prince of Egypt to that of Leader of Gods people. It is these later people, the Israelite’s, those that would carry Gods law.
God delivered them from their oppression.
God said, now that I am here, I will give them the law, and with the law, they will fasten it, and they will then know and Love me for what I have done. It is Right and Just.
They did love the Lord, but in their mortality neglected themselves before the presence of God, himself. God punished them.
But God said, I will have them build an Ark, and Ark of my Covenant with them. Then, they will know and appreciate me as their God, their Creator.
So he lended them his specifications and they built the Ark, and God dwelled with them upon it, through the Mercy Seat, a place between the Cherubim. It is here in this faculty of Life, that now that I am with my Creation, as it was for Me in my Garden, they will Love me Here as I have Loved them.
This is in effect a reversal of Adam and Even in the Garden with God.
God is now in the world with Creation, an imperfect world, with the Freedom of Creation to Choose, and a full willingness of God to provide that ability. An epic Mercy and an opportunity to seek Him.
But they are an obstinate people, easy to sin, easy to fall away. They shall walk for 40 years in the desert. And Moses shall not see the promised land, for even He, fell short, tapping the stone for water twice, taking my presence and my Trust within Him as something that could be broken. something taken for Granted. I have said Who I Am.
Gods promises are never broken.
So Gods people were delivered into their land.
And God watched.
They still do not appreciate my Laws and my Life within them. They do not know or care to know. I shall bring myself to them, and walk unto them, as they are. Then, then they will know me.
God sent his Angel to Mary and announced His plan. He became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, through the Holy Spirit, the process which moves within us, the code of Life, the promise of the Ark of the Covenant, the Tabernacle, and Mary became Home to the God Man, Jesus Christ.
And Jesus was Born in Bethlehem, and He taught in the synagogue. And no one listened, but all listened. They never understood, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up”. Even satan went to Jesus and tempted him, in his full mortality, to lose that Trust in God, to use knowledge of Creation to an advantage, for control, for dominion, if only Jesus would ignore His Father, Himself. This is Jesus in Gethsemane, a stand in for the Fall of Adam and Eve.
Jesus was not a man made building. He is not at a whim to a fallen nature, but responsible to the will of God. It was God’s promise within Himself to rebuild Creation new.
So they went and crucified him, but it was God himself that decided that process, not Man, not satan. It was mankind that did this because they are, as Dathan portrayed himself to Moses, Free, Rebellious, just as Adam and Eve were, and it was this, Jesus, the God Man, the One Truth that would bridge the gap between Man and God. He, satan, who now aspired to destroy the Temple, supplant, separate, from Him, a Temple that Man made, the One that God had intricately formed in the womb of Mothers, the Temple of Life, something that was built, formed, and Loved so dearly.
A Temple of God.
They who do not understand, choose evils without knowing what the Truth is.
So God went to the Cross in order to distinctly and unforgettably demonstrate Creation. In that way, God identifies Himself fully to Man for Who He Is, and what He has done. A God who says, “Do this in Memory of Me”, a God who calls Creation to participate with God, lest they forget themselves before God.
Then, they will Know Who I Am and then they will Choose to Love Me as I have Loved them. And when it is complete, I will bring them Home, and will destroy the evil that has ensnared them for so long.
But they will Choose. Because I am God and it is a Mercy to allow them to Choose Me freely.
This is a Holy, Noble, and Epic Story that can only be told through God’s Life, a Life that runs in Us.
