May you have peace!
As to your second post, first: BIG smile! HUGE!! I got it... and I know why you were told to "send" it. Yes, it is timely and "healing." Thank you for allowing our Lord to use you... to "minister" to me. THANK you!
As to your first post:
and I think that the psalms speak of the actual flesh not decaying...
Yes! Although our Lord DID die (he had to)... his flesh did not decay nor did he see the pit or destruction.
there is either seeing corruption or not seeing corruption.
This true... to an extent. IF the word "corruption" meant the same thing as the scribes used it in each place, your statement would be totally correct. It doesn't, though. Although the ENGLISH word "corruption" is used in BOTH places... the Hebrew/Greek words do NOT mean exactly the same thing. It would have been BETTER if the accounts had said "his flesh saw death ("corruption") and "but his flesh did not see decay "corruption")... or the pit ("corruption")." Do you see? The ERROR is that they use the word "corruption" for two different things, as if they are the same thing. They are not. (NOTE: It is exactly the same thing with the whole "god" thing: in one way, a "god" is a deity; in another sense, it is just a being that is immortal. In one place it is "God" and in another "god." Yet, in GREEK... it is the SAME word, "theos." Unfortunately, some of the readers' consciences are SO fragile... that they simply refuse to see the truth... and difference... in this regard).
his flesh would only need to be re-created if it was corruptible...
And it was: it had sin and death IN it... and so died. COULD die. If it were INcorruptible... it could not HAVE died. He put OFF the corruptible and put ON the incorruptible. The SUBSTANCE of his flesh... CHANGED. But not its [entire] APPEARANCE. The sinFUL flesh that he HAD... was "healed"... completely... so that it became sinLESS flesh. Flesh WITHOUT sin... and DEATH... in it.
To help you understand this, I am to ask if you know who is "speaking" in the 41st Psalm? If your response is "the Christ," then I am to ask you how is it that he said:
"Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You"...
and... “An evil disease,” they say, “clings to him. And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more...”
and refer you to Isaiah 52:14, 15 and 53:2-5. If your response is someone other than the Christ, I am to ask you how it is that the speaker said:
"Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me..."
and refer you to Matthew 26:24-26; Mark 14:17-20; Luke 22:19-23; and John 13:21-26
it was resurrected "as is" so thomas could "see" the wounds...fresh...incorruptible...undamaged by death...anything that death "clings" to.
Not quite. It wasn't resurrected entirely "as is" if that were the case, the sins/death of the people he healed/resurrected... would have still be evident. BUT... it was resurrected WITHOUT the sin and death it had IN it... when he died. He... CARRIED AWAY... such sin and death. You see, when he healed people he did so by taking THEIR 'sin' into HIS body. That is why he was... well, deformed. He looked SO hideous that (1) the people considered HIM "afflicted by God"; so much so that (2) he SAID to the Pharisees, "No doubt, you will say to ME, 'Physician... heal THYSELF"; and (3) the people who came to arrest him gasped and fell away when they saw him (due to his appearance - he looked UNCLEAN... because he had taken others UNCLEANNESS... corruption of the flesh... INTO his own flesh.. and under the LAW Covenant, if THEY touched him... they, TOO, became "unclean").
True, the nail holes were present... to show it was the SAME body... that HAD been healed and HAD been resurrected. But nothing else: no leprosy, no deafness or blindness, no flow of blood, none of the sicknesses that had taken the people he had resurrected, no lameness. ALL of this... he took into the body... and took to the grave. When he came BACK... NONE of it was there. Because it was impaled WITH him. The holes were there, as you say, so that Thomas could "see" that it was the SAME body... RE-created (it was initially created when it came from Mary, a woman of "sinFUL" flesh, the one from whom he inherited his flesh). If it was an entirely NEW body... it would have been CREATED. It was his OLD body... that was RE-created. Made... NEW again.
well, I think ya do...that's why I said something.
Yes. I undertand. And I do not WANT to offend. Goodness, the TRUTH is that I don't even always want to "go"!! I mean, c'mon, if you were me... would YOU? But I must. LOVE... for God, Christ... and my "brother/neighbor" says I must. But, given your perception, I asked our Lord what it is I could do.... SHOULD do. And the word of my Lord to me is that I am to ask YOU... to be please patient with ME, your servant... and to not "hurry" yourself to be offended, as no offense is INTENDED. I am also to ask that, since love "covers a multitude of transgressions," perhaps you can fnd it in YOUR heart to allow your love "cover" my "transgression." As you have done before... and as you have done here.
He has also directed me to tell you that you can know that such request WAS from him because if you knew ME... you would know that I would have just as soon said, "Oh, well, you would want to get..." well, you know what I mean. LOLOLOL! I mean, this is TOUGH... and Israel almost ALWAYS "opposes"... and so I have to PRAY for strength to keep going. And I do, because he consistently reminds me that the sheep don't belong to ME... that I am just a servant of HIM, their Shepherd... which also makes me a servant of the sheep themselves. And while it is true that the SHEEP might want me to say something different... or in a different manner... or with a different tone... it is him that I have to listen to.
Otherwise, he cautions that I might find myself in the same situation as of long ago, when Israel began to want something OTHER than the manna from heaven to eat, and so complained and murmured, to their own detriment. And so, I must now ask you to "receive" the following in the way that is "right" for you:
"Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: 'Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being [is] dried up; [there is] nothing at all except this manna [before] our eyes!'... Then Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, everyone at the door of his tent; and the anger of [JHVH] was greatly aroused; Moses also was displeased. So Moses said to [JHVH], 'Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me? Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, 'Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,' to the land which You swore to their fathers? Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.' I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden [is] too heavy for me. If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now--if I have found favor in Your sight--and do not let me see my wretchedness!" Numbers 16:4-15
In light of these verses, I can say I often know exactly how others felt when trying to do what the Spirit directs them... as it relates to Israel. You expect it from the world... but not from Israel... BECAUSE THEY HAVE THESCRIPTURES... and so these things should NOT be "foreign" to them. Yet, it is. But, praise JAH, even our Lord grew impatient at their lack of faith at times. And a slave is NOT greater than her master. Matthew 17:16-17; Mark 9:14-19
you're talking to number 666...thank God!..in the flesh...
I do not understand. Can you please clarify? Thank you!
In the meantime, our Lord sends you his peace... and I bid you peace... and love ... as well.
YOUR servant... and fellow slave of Christ,
Shelby
