Bible study By C M White - Origin of Nations

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God’s Glory and Man’s Destiny Concerning God’s smiling face which these scriptures infer, psychological studies have shown that the greatest blessing in a child’s life is the smile of a parent. But one of the greatest stresses and one which imprints negatively on them for the rest of their lives, is a grumpy parent, sour faced and frowning! Seeing God’s face, will be an immensely exciting and wonderful moment (Matt 5:8). Christians will be resurrected at the return of Christ, just before the millenium, and it would seem that they will not see the Father until after the millenium: they, as new born babes, only 1,000 plus years old by the time the millenium is completed, actually seeing their Father! Nothing is more blessed and soothing than for a small child to look admirably upon the warm, smiling face of their father. The glow, the knowledge that He is so happy to see you; that He is well pleased with your achievements; that His smile is not a blessing in itself alone – but that the smile actually means that He has brought with Him priceless and amazing gifts for His children. Wonderful surprises are in store for each and every one of us if we make it into His kingdom. See the other scriptures on God’s warm, smiling face: Ps 41:12; 11:7; 42:2; Is 1:12 (original here is “see My face”). Notice Ps 17:15: “As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake [in the resurrection], with Thy likeness” (see too Job 14:14-15; IJohn 3:2) So much for anthropomorphism which teaches that God has not taken upon shape or form, but that He merely uses human language to convey something about His awesomeness. I am afraid that once one starts seeing large segments of the Word of God in a metaphorical way, it begins to snow-ball until most of His Word, including the Law, is spiritualised away. Unless a verse is obviously to be read metaphorically, it would be a fatal mistake to start seeing too much of the Bible that way. It is filled with duality containing literal/physical and metaphorical/spiritual meaning for Christians who are both physical and spiritual. The Australian Aboriginal peoples describe the creation of man thus: “In the beginning the world lay quiet, in utter darkness. There was no vegetation, no living or moving thing on the bare bones of the mountains. The world was not dead, It was asleep” They then describe how light manifest itself upon the earth. Man was created “in the bodily and mental form of the Baiame ... the Father-God, the Great Spirit” (Aboriginal Stories by A.W. Reed, pages 11, 8-9). Now if non-Christian religions can understand that God has take bodily appearance, how much more so should members of the Churches of God! By the way, Aboriginal legends also speak of giants and a great Flood! Sound familiar? 14
God’s Glory and Man’s Destiny All this about God's face and more from the hidden prophecies found deep within the book of Psalms – it is one of the more neglected books of many Churches of God, yet filled with an amazing amount of information directly relevant to Christians today. Great mysteries will be revealed to us 15
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