Pertaining
to the Separation in our Mind, and Our Joining
Together with Christ,
the One
New Body, and the Wedding Garments:
The non
canonical Gospel of Thomas introduces the Bridal
Chamber.
The
Bridal Chamber – Becoming One.
A
wedding is a re-uniting
or a reconciliation into ONE of the male and the female, Mark 10:8.
Concerning Man’s
pre-existent Oneness
and the Separation.
Jesus
said, “Blessed is
he who came into being before he came into being, Thomas
19.
Jesus
said, "Adam
came into being from a great power and a great wealth,
but he
did not become
worthy of you.
For had
he been worthy,
he would not have experienced death” or separation,
Thomas
85.
Humanity becomes divided:
male and female.
“On
the day when you were
ONE you became two.
But
when you become two,
what will you do?" Thomas
11.
In the bridal chamber within
there is
Oneness.
“When
the bridegroom
leaves the bridal chamber,
then
let them fast and
pray," Thomas
104.
And we
entered into the
closet.
Now, in
the bridal
chamber there is a joining, a reconciliation, a reuniting where
“There
is neither male
nor female, but ye are all one in Christ,” Galatians 3:28.
“When
you make the two
into one… then will you enter the kingdom," Thomas
22.
Put off
the old man. Put
on the new man, Ephesians 4:24.
Put off
the old
garment. Put
on
the new Garment.
The Cosmic Implications
There
are mysteries and
there are greater mysteries. The greater mysteries grow out of the
lesser
mysteries. The marriage of a man and woman becoming one flesh is a
natural
illustration revealing such secrets. On a deeper level it can represent
Male
Spirit and Female Soul reunited. On a larger scale, it is a picture of
coming
together of the male and female believers within the church. The male
bridegroom represents the spiritually minded gentile believers blessed
with all
spiritual blessing in heavenly places. The female bride can refer to
the Jewish
believers focused on the law and the earthly and soulish covenants.
Both are
reconciled together in ONE body, “to make in himself of twain
ONE new
man,” Ephesians
2:14-15.
On an
even larger scale,
it refers to the marriage of this Christ and the Church in whom are
gathered
all things into the one body, Ephesians
1:10, Colossians
1:20.
Paul
refers to this as “a
great mystery, Ephesians
5:31.
In
Paul’s language this
marriage takes on cosmic proportions, Ephesians
1:23, Ephesians
5:32.
This
Christ who is all is
the new corporate reunited man which is put on like a garment. Putting
on the
wedding garment is needed to enter in, and is the entering in.
For
there is only ONE
body, Ephesians
4:4.
The kingdom
of God’s
dear son, Colossians 1:13.
There is “[ONE]
like unto the Son of man, clothed
with a garment down to the foot,
and girt about the paps with a golden
girdle, Revelation 1:13
“For
in this we groan, earnestly
desiring to be clothed
upon with our house
which is from heaven,” 2
Corinthians 5:2.
In Him
all things are
made new, consist, and are joined and held together, Colossians
1:17, 2
Corinthians 5:17.
For
this “Marriage is
honorable in all,” Hebrews 13:4.
His
disciples said,
"When will you become revealed to us and when shall we see you?" Jesus
said, "When you disrobe
without being ashamed and take up
your garments, and place them under your feet like little children and
tread on
them, then will you see the
son of the living ONE, and you
will not be afraid," Thomas
37.
When you disrobe:
You put
off the old
garment, Colossians 3:9
You put
off the old
separated and divided humanity. Then
“We shall be like him; for we shall see him as
he IS,”
1
John 3:2.
You put
on this new
garment: You put on this new man. United, the two are one. For he has
made “in
himself from the two - one new
man,”
Ephesians 2:15.
In
reality, there is only
ONE body. Ephesians
4:4.
Jesus
said, "It is
impossible for a man to mount two horses or to stretch two bows. And it
is
impossible for a servant to serve two masters; otherwise, he will honor
the one
and treat the other contemptuously. No man drinks old wine and
immediately
desires to drink new wine. And new wine is not put into old wineskins,
lest
they burst; nor is old wine put into a new wineskin, lest it spoil it. An
old patch is not sewn onto a new garment, because a tear would result,"
Thomas
47.
To put
on this new
garment you must put away the old. You cannot operate in two realms.
Make the
two into one, Thomas
22.
A New Way of Thinking
We
begin this journey to
wholeness when we put off the old man and the old garment, and we put
off the
old way of thinking. No longer “having the understanding
darkened, being
alienated from the life of God through…
ignorance…, because of the blindness of
(the) heart,” Ephesians
4:18.
We
reckon our old
self to be dead, Romans
6:11.
Jesus
said,
"Whoever has come to understand the world has found (only) a corpse,
and
whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world," Thomas
56.
We are
renewed in the
spirit of our mind, Colossians 3:10.
Jesus
said, "He who
has recognized the world has found the body, but he who has found the
body is
superior to the world." Thomas
80.
For
now, there is
only one body, Ephesians
4:4.
The new
Man.
The old
is passed and all
things are made new. Put on the new man.
When
you disrobe… you
put off the old man…and put on the new man
“For
as many of you as
have been baptized into Christ have put
on
Christ,” Galatians 3:27.
In this
body…We are his
hands and his feet. We are his flesh and his bones, Ephesians
5:30.
The
bridal chamber is the
holy of holies hidden within this veil, Philip,
Hebrew 10:20.
The
hidden man of the
heart, the quiet spirit, the pearl of great price, 1
Peter 3:4.
Jesus
said, "He who
seeks will find, and he who knocks will be let in," Thomas
94
Jesus
said, Recognize
what is in your sight, (the corpse)
and
that which is hidden
from you will become plain to you, Thomas
5.
There
will be a
manifestation of the son(s) of God.
For
nothing hidden will
not become manifest, Thomas
5.
.
Jesus
said, "Many
are standing at the door,
but it
is the ‘solitary’
who will enter the bridal chamber," Thomas
75.
Having
disrobed we
entered into the closet, Matthew 6:6.
But
Jesus said, "I
shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what
no hand
has touched and what has never occurred to the human mind," Thomas
17.
We walk
by faith not by
(natural) sight, 2
Corinthians 5:7.
For
this reason, “from
now on, we regard no one according to the flesh.
Even
though we have known Christ
according to the flesh,
yet now
we know [Him
thus] no longer,” 2
Corinthians 5:16.
Now
that Christ has
shined in our hearts, we look upon that which is hidden. Having
“commanded the
light to shine out of darkness,
(He) hath shined in
our hearts, bringing to light the hidden things of darkness, the
counsels of
the heart, revealing the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 1
Corinthians 4:5, 2
Corinthians 4:6.
Arising
from the darkness
of our mind, We find ourselves translated into the kingdom
of God’s
dear Son, For Christ gives us light. Ephesians
5:14, Colossians
1:12, 13.
And so
we clothe
ourselves in this new wedding garment, this armour of light, Romans 13:12,
This
New Man, dwelling in
the light
which no man can approach unto, We are
become light in the Lord, 1
Timothy 6:16, Ephesians 5:8,
13, 14.
Becoming
the ONE new body
of light. You are the light of the world. Matthew 5:14.
At one
time you were
darkness, Ephesians
5:8.
And
Jesus said, "Why
have you come out into the desert? To see a reed shaken by the wind?
And to
see a man
clothed in fine garments like
your kings and your great men?
Upon
them are the fine
garments,
and
they are unable to
discern the Truth," Thomas
78.
But Now
Behold The Unseen
Truth:
The
first man Adam was
made a living soul;
the
last Adam [was made]
a life giving spirit,
quickening all things,
The
kingdom is inside of
you, and it is outside of you, Thomas
3.
There
is neither male nor
female, Galatians 3:28.
All the
dichotomies are
absorbed and translated into the Kingdom
of God’s
dear Son,
In the
spirit of the mind
of Christ,
Reconnecting
the two, the
first and the last, male and female, inner and outer, right and left,
Making
the two into ONE, we “become a living spirit,” Thomas
4, 22,
114.
“He
that is joined to the
Lord is ONE Spirit,” 1
Corinthians 6:17.
In Him
all things
consist, and are held together, Colossians
1:17.
With
all things, in
Christ, we are the all reconciled into ONE, Ephesians
1:10, Colossians
1:20.
We are
the all reunited
and the completed: Joined in matrimony, the ONE body in Him Colossians 2:10.
He is,
and We are the
all!
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