I was subjected to another early morning; after being roused from a deep sleep through the night by worry and fear grasping my mind like a wrestler applying the Crippler Crossface, it was like my mind had two large hands gripping it and choking out whatever peace had settled in there from prayer the night before, doubt followed like a wrestler’s apprentice pouncing with a series of continuous sucker punches, like a heartless bully with no moral sense or even a hint of kindness, he was seizing the opportunity to try and take control over me, at first the attack began to overload my mind with all kinds of thoughts as it sometimes does when I am caught off guard, because I was sound asleep these spirits decided to attack me without mercy knocking me around like a mugging in a dark alley but for a minute I don’t expect tenderness from the spirits of destruction anyhow, gentleness is not their style, attacking me while my mind is under the influence of deep sleep is not fair but who says the enemy is a gentleman.
I have learned that when the enemy assaults me through the night—like he did last night—that I must act quickly, if I don’t defend myself immediately and in turn begin a counterattack his ambush will overwhelm me, experience has taught me that the will of darkness is to oppress me with such force that my mind can end up in a hundred different hollow directions, lying spirits make their move to convince me that my life is about to come to an end right then and there, nevertheless the Spirit of God has taught me to fight back as he empowers me to counterstrike with the authority of Christ to immediately bind the spirits of worry and fear, I then restrain the spirit of doubt and cast all three of these agents of darkness far away from me, the Holy Spirit tells me that it is not enough to just send them away but they must pay for their offense by being ordered to the abyss where they must then lie in chains until their appointed time of temporary release from there.
Sometimes the battle is quick, sometimes it takes more than a few minutes to completely enforce the victory of Christ and overpower the attempted thrashing of the enemy, once the spiritual encounter is over my mind then regains the peace of God again so that I can be confident and believe the guarantee without doubting that God’s word is true and that he works to make sure his promises are fulfilled in my life.
Tonight, after I cast the enemy away with the power of Christ’s name, I made sure to thank the Lord for his atoning sacrifice in that I am cleansed of my iniquity and that my sins are forgiven, in addition, I never forget to thank him for the wounds he suffered because by these I am healed both physically and spiritually, I know from Scripture that Jesus suffered anxiety prior to the cross he was about to bear and that it was not an easy thing for him to do, or he would not have asked his Father three times to take it away from him, the extreme anguish he was feeling produced hematidrosis which is why he sweat drops of blood, in Gethsemane his soul was so grieved that he felt like dying right before his disciples eyes, and this is why he said that he could use their prayer support something he did not receive because they couldn’t even keep their eyes open.
After this, something important came into my mind: The Lord prayed three times that this cup or that this hour would pass from him, he was hoping that he would not have to go through with this horrible suffering, he knew the Scriptures and knew the terrible suffering he would have to endure, Jesus was trying to convince his Father to maybe have a change of heart, to come up with another way to atone for the sins of man so that we could receive redemption, he pointed out to his Father that he can do anything, but of course we know that God’s will was more important to him than his anguish, but my point is that the idea of another way was in his mind.
We know that at any time Jesus could have called the whole thing off, we know this because when the servants of the chief priests and elders grabbed onto Jesus to arrest him Peter cut the ear off of one of the men and then Jesus rebuked him, Jesus said that he had the option of ending this situation by calling out to his Father and he would have immediately without hesitation sent more than twelve legions of angels to get him out of there, if that scenario would have happened Jesus would still be the Lord, he would still be God.
If Jesus would have chosen to succumb to his anxiety, something we sometimes forget, he could have ended it all and his Father would not have hesitated one bit, God would have then and there raptured him up into heaven at that point, even while the disciples and the zealous crowd watched on, it could have been something like the way he raptured Elijah up into heaven in a whirlwind, I can picture Elijah’s experience and this scenario being similar, suddenly out of heaven could have come a chariot of fire and horses of fire coming down and separating Jesus from the crowd around him, and then in an instant a vortex come down and scoop Jesus up out of there, he would have been instantly transformed and given a glorified body just like Elijah and Enoch received when they were raptured, just like the glorified body the man Jesus Christ inhabits right now, or he could have been caught-up like we will be raptured, one second we are living and breathing as we always do and then in a twinkling of an eye we are snatched out of here and taken up into eternity; Jesus could have just disappeared in a flash right before their very eyes leaving them amazed and wondering what happened.
What would have been left for humanity at that point would have been to suffer eternal damnation, there would be no salvation for mankind or eternal life, man would likely have been destroyed from one end of the earth to other after that supposed scenario of the Christ being raptured up into heaven once his Father sent twelve legions of angels to rescue him from the crowd, likely God would have completely obliterated the earth’s population on that day and man would have ceased to exist anymore; what would be the point for man to continue to live and repopulate the earth if his destiny was only the Lake of Fire, the place of outer darkness where there is the weeping and gnashing of teeth, there would have been no Christ suffering on the cross for our sins and there would be no salvation by grace.
If the above scenario would have taken place in Gethsemane at that point Christ’s earthly body would have been transformed immediately into a glorified body once he was lifted out of there into eternity, he would have received the same glorified body that he eventually received forty days after his resurrection from the dead once he ascended back up into heaven, except he would not have had to suffer and been crucified and buried in the tomb, when Jesus was here on the earth in the days of his ministry to Israel he certainly lived in a human body but nonetheless he was defiantly God, he was God living in the flesh of a man’s body.
Before Jesus transformed himself from a literal spirit being into a human being he was indistinguishable from God the Father, not meaning he was the same personality as the Father because they are two distinct personalities, just as the Holy Spirit is a distinct personality from both the Father and the Son and equally God in eternal construction as them, but Jesus was of the same spiritual substance as the Father and of the Holy Spirit, a substance that is unique to them from all other spiritual substances, meaning the spiritual substance of angels, as well as all other living eternal beings, so when Jesus was divinely planted in Mary’s womb his substance was then clothed in human flesh, something the Father and Spirit have not experienced as far as we know, although the Spirit of God does dwell within every man that is born-again as the Scriptures reveal.
The Lord God Almighty knew when he decided to create a living breathing earthly life form that man would not remain with God’s glory upon him, so they knew in eternity one of them would have to exit eternity for a short while—which is like less than a nanosecond as far as the measurement of eternity is concerned—to reestablish God’s glory upon this earthly life form he decided to create, it is obvious that God’s work is important to him and he never ever leaves room for lasting failure, so when Christ took on the flesh of man internally he was still God but now different than the Father and the Spirit in that now has become a man, he is now the God-Man, the man Christ Jesus, so if Jesus had decided to call his Father to get him out of the situation he faced at Gethsemane God would have done it and Jesus would have been raptured into heaven and continue to be an eternal being forever, he would still be God forever but in a different spiritual substance than the Father and the Holy Spirit, it could be considered as God’s glory substance I guess, but considering that Christ did go through with God’s initial plan and be the atoning sacrifice for men then we should certainly understand what a great undertaking this was by The Lord God Almighty for man’s sake.
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