I have pondered this mystery myself. The answer for me was oddly prosaic. At the hands of his persecutors, he had been been savagely beaten beyond all recognition. My evidence is the tale of Doubting Thomas and the wounds. He had returned to flesh, but all those horrific wounds and bruises had not yet fully healed. Perhaps that’s just the explanation of one who has seen (and been in) one too many fights. But, like Christ himself, it makes sense in both worlds.
God bless you brother, and Happy Easter. He is risen!
Apostle Paul gives you the answer at 1 Cor 3... How the effects of glorification changed Moses' countenance such that the children of Israel couldn't look upon him. The effects of God's glory manifests in our face. As it should....
Which posits a very interesting idea about the spirituality behind COVID mask mandates... What about the face of a man is so offensive to the adversary, since man is no longer in God's image (Gen 5:3)? Sorta proves Paul's point, that man's redemption isn't restricted to only spiritual but includes a physical change as well. I always saw the mask-wearing as analogous to a baptism... A very public display of faith in man, not God.
joe;your writing and insights are brilliant!!! You and Naomi wolf are the top minds and writers of our time; precision insights, wonderful prose!: Blessings!;;;; how can i read your old travel articles???
After seeing your 2-part 'travelogue' through history and imagery, both reassuring and disturbing, I returned to this video, knowing that the Basilica of the Annunciation was featured, when Jim Caviezel, John Michael Talbot, the Reverend Father Don Calloway accompanied a keen group of zealots Palm Sunday 2019, just prior to such chaos. Pleased to spot the place you visited, as my Easter envy sets in. Hoping your intrepid research skills realign your substantial spine, bolsters marrow to deflect crazed verbal attacks, and lets you rest 'heart & soul & strength & mind' in His sublime perfect peace.
Christ can remove the scales from our eyes at will. He chooses when to reveal himself - I believe this is how he often removed himself from crowds. He is God and has supernatural power.
I think it's spiritual eyes. In the literal translation, Jesus asks those he encounters: Which one will you lead with? The one sent from the Father that belongs to me, or the one of self of a deity of mankind. That makes a lot of sense to me, because when we talk about Jesus opening the blinded eyes, healing the sick, making the lame to walk, I think it is also in a spiritual sense as much as his miracles were in a physical sense. Spiritually before we know Christ, we are dead, very sick, I imagine he would say, dead already, so in this way, for us to be healed and see the truth of who God is and his plan of salvation being Jesus and the promise of the giving of the Holy Spirit, then we're no longer living in a fleshly existence, but a spiritual one. We have been reborn of God's seed, taken out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of heaven, taken out of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and planted in a different tree: the tree of life. There are so many things that I could say to help people see what it is we are trying to overcome. We are trying to overcome ourselves, that part of us that believed the lie Satan told Eve, that she could be like God. God calls us the children of pride, beasts of the field, before we come to know Christ. We are really self-centered, and our thoughts are about ourselves. It is only when we learn by the help of the Holy Spirit that we should give that up and humble ourselves before the Lord and follow after his kingdom and his righteousness so that we may be made worthy to contain in a new vessel the Holy Spirit of God in a vessel that is completely wholly consecrated to God living in service and obedience to him. Will we keep our faith in Christ no matter what we face or what circumstance we might find ourselves in? That is the test. That is the thing they have came to see: if our blind eyes have been opened by the light of the Lord and his Spirit, and if we will lead with it to control the flesh and bring it into submission.
Yes, certainly, to the 'rational' mind of man, failure to recognize the risen Lord is inexplicable. Is this problematic though? How 'irrational' would we have to be to imagine that any human could fully comprehend the ways in which the Divine manifests itself in our earthly realm? Is it not a possibility that the lack of recognition lay in the eyes of the beholders, as opposed to a change In Christ's visage?
I'm reminded of Elisha and his servant in 2 Kings 6: "And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” He said, 'Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.' Then Elisha prayed and said, 'O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.' So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha."
Faith comes from hearing... (Romans 10) Jesus said, "Mary." He explained all the OT scriptures concerning the Messiah to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, broke bread with them, and spoke a blessing. He spoke and blessed the nets of Peter, John, and Thomas.
Anyway, just a thought. We can all ask Jesus when we see Him face-to-face, 'Lord, what was up with that in Gethsemane, on the road to Emmaus, and by the Sea of Galilee?' :)
The LORD might have looked different after resurrection. The LORD wants people to focus on spirit instead of image. Because when God created man, male and female, He created them in spirit. That's why words of God matter. The Word of God matters. Because words reveal character. "For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart." (Matthew 12: 34) "It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man." (Matthew 15: 11)
The LORD never said images reveal character. Because image is what the pagans of Death Cult love. The Death Cult loves people to focus on details of image. All the cursed demons that had been made into mummy - those in “cursed” pink sarcophagus of Egyptian “pyramid keeper” were all having very detailed image. They wanted to be remembered vividly how they looked like when they were alive. Like those were found in the Saqqara necropolis, the "City of the Dead", near Cairo. One of the pink granite coffins is about 3300 years old (since 1278 BC) which belongs to a prominent politician called “Ptah-M-Wiah”, a high-ranking official who lived during the reign of Ramses II (reign 1279 BCE - 1213 BCE, 19th Dynasty). He had his image painted and buried along with him in his coffin. You can see very clearly how he looked like when he was alive, eyes, beards, everything, even color of his hair. But the mummy's tongue was ripped off, instead, a thin, man made gold tongue was positioned in his mouth. That means he belongs to Ashtaroth - Hindu's Kali, the queen of Kur, the queen of Underworld. When Irene of Athens was selected to become the bride of Leo IV the Khazar of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) in 768 AD, when she harbored iconophile and cancelled iconoclast, you know that she was Hecate's young flesh. And the Death Cult started ruling over the Roman Empire at least as early as in 768 AD even if the emperors had truly converted to God after the Edict of Milan in 313 AD. I actually don't think they had ever truly converted at all.
Images, sculptures in details, definitely are not things of God.
I have pondered this mystery myself. The answer for me was oddly prosaic. At the hands of his persecutors, he had been been savagely beaten beyond all recognition. My evidence is the tale of Doubting Thomas and the wounds. He had returned to flesh, but all those horrific wounds and bruises had not yet fully healed. Perhaps that’s just the explanation of one who has seen (and been in) one too many fights. But, like Christ himself, it makes sense in both worlds.
God bless you brother, and Happy Easter. He is risen!
Apostle Paul gives you the answer at 1 Cor 3... How the effects of glorification changed Moses' countenance such that the children of Israel couldn't look upon him. The effects of God's glory manifests in our face. As it should....
Which posits a very interesting idea about the spirituality behind COVID mask mandates... What about the face of a man is so offensive to the adversary, since man is no longer in God's image (Gen 5:3)? Sorta proves Paul's point, that man's redemption isn't restricted to only spiritual but includes a physical change as well. I always saw the mask-wearing as analogous to a baptism... A very public display of faith in man, not God.
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nice job w/ the presentation my man!
Thank you so much for putting these amazing efforts into the world, Joe. Grateful to you.
joe;your writing and insights are brilliant!!! You and Naomi wolf are the top minds and writers of our time; precision insights, wonderful prose!: Blessings!;;;; how can i read your old travel articles???
Joe Allen is a voice in the wilderness. Thank you Joe.
After seeing your 2-part 'travelogue' through history and imagery, both reassuring and disturbing, I returned to this video, knowing that the Basilica of the Annunciation was featured, when Jim Caviezel, John Michael Talbot, the Reverend Father Don Calloway accompanied a keen group of zealots Palm Sunday 2019, just prior to such chaos. Pleased to spot the place you visited, as my Easter envy sets in. Hoping your intrepid research skills realign your substantial spine, bolsters marrow to deflect crazed verbal attacks, and lets you rest 'heart & soul & strength & mind' in His sublime perfect peace.
54min well spent; https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Ldyjhz7Wipw
Happy Easter, Joe.
Christ can remove the scales from our eyes at will. He chooses when to reveal himself - I believe this is how he often removed himself from crowds. He is God and has supernatural power.
I think it's spiritual eyes. In the literal translation, Jesus asks those he encounters: Which one will you lead with? The one sent from the Father that belongs to me, or the one of self of a deity of mankind. That makes a lot of sense to me, because when we talk about Jesus opening the blinded eyes, healing the sick, making the lame to walk, I think it is also in a spiritual sense as much as his miracles were in a physical sense. Spiritually before we know Christ, we are dead, very sick, I imagine he would say, dead already, so in this way, for us to be healed and see the truth of who God is and his plan of salvation being Jesus and the promise of the giving of the Holy Spirit, then we're no longer living in a fleshly existence, but a spiritual one. We have been reborn of God's seed, taken out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of heaven, taken out of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and planted in a different tree: the tree of life. There are so many things that I could say to help people see what it is we are trying to overcome. We are trying to overcome ourselves, that part of us that believed the lie Satan told Eve, that she could be like God. God calls us the children of pride, beasts of the field, before we come to know Christ. We are really self-centered, and our thoughts are about ourselves. It is only when we learn by the help of the Holy Spirit that we should give that up and humble ourselves before the Lord and follow after his kingdom and his righteousness so that we may be made worthy to contain in a new vessel the Holy Spirit of God in a vessel that is completely wholly consecrated to God living in service and obedience to him. Will we keep our faith in Christ no matter what we face or what circumstance we might find ourselves in? That is the test. That is the thing they have came to see: if our blind eyes have been opened by the light of the Lord and his Spirit, and if we will lead with it to control the flesh and bring it into submission.
Yes, certainly, to the 'rational' mind of man, failure to recognize the risen Lord is inexplicable. Is this problematic though? How 'irrational' would we have to be to imagine that any human could fully comprehend the ways in which the Divine manifests itself in our earthly realm? Is it not a possibility that the lack of recognition lay in the eyes of the beholders, as opposed to a change In Christ's visage?
I'm reminded of Elisha and his servant in 2 Kings 6: "And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?” He said, 'Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.' Then Elisha prayed and said, 'O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.' So the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha."
Faith comes from hearing... (Romans 10) Jesus said, "Mary." He explained all the OT scriptures concerning the Messiah to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, broke bread with them, and spoke a blessing. He spoke and blessed the nets of Peter, John, and Thomas.
Anyway, just a thought. We can all ask Jesus when we see Him face-to-face, 'Lord, what was up with that in Gethsemane, on the road to Emmaus, and by the Sea of Galilee?' :)
The LORD might have looked different after resurrection. The LORD wants people to focus on spirit instead of image. Because when God created man, male and female, He created them in spirit. That's why words of God matter. The Word of God matters. Because words reveal character. "For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart." (Matthew 12: 34) "It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man." (Matthew 15: 11)
The LORD never said images reveal character. Because image is what the pagans of Death Cult love. The Death Cult loves people to focus on details of image. All the cursed demons that had been made into mummy - those in “cursed” pink sarcophagus of Egyptian “pyramid keeper” were all having very detailed image. They wanted to be remembered vividly how they looked like when they were alive. Like those were found in the Saqqara necropolis, the "City of the Dead", near Cairo. One of the pink granite coffins is about 3300 years old (since 1278 BC) which belongs to a prominent politician called “Ptah-M-Wiah”, a high-ranking official who lived during the reign of Ramses II (reign 1279 BCE - 1213 BCE, 19th Dynasty). He had his image painted and buried along with him in his coffin. You can see very clearly how he looked like when he was alive, eyes, beards, everything, even color of his hair. But the mummy's tongue was ripped off, instead, a thin, man made gold tongue was positioned in his mouth. That means he belongs to Ashtaroth - Hindu's Kali, the queen of Kur, the queen of Underworld. When Irene of Athens was selected to become the bride of Leo IV the Khazar of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) in 768 AD, when she harbored iconophile and cancelled iconoclast, you know that she was Hecate's young flesh. And the Death Cult started ruling over the Roman Empire at least as early as in 768 AD even if the emperors had truly converted to God after the Edict of Milan in 313 AD. I actually don't think they had ever truly converted at all.
Images, sculptures in details, definitely are not things of God.