Rebuilding the Ancient Ruins

Kathie Walters: The Bounce-Back Cloud or Come into a New Level of the Glory of God

• June 26th, 2006

THIS IS THE TIME to receive a deeper and stronger anointing. Did you realize that God’s glory is meant to be a part of your life? It is the inheritance of the Body of Christ.  Read the full article on: http://goodnews.netministries.org/bouncebackcloud.htm

Taking the Land, Part XXXII

• June 26th, 2006

“As we studied last week, love is the essential foundation for all true discernment. This is why we teach our prophetically gifted people not to trust a negative revelation about anyone they have been hurt or rejected by, but rather resolve to pray for them, grow in love for them, and only accept positive revelation about them until they are healed of any rejection or resentment. Of course, this is a principle and not a law. Principles have exceptions, but we have found this to be one that rarely has an exception.” Read the full article on http://www.morningstarministries.org/feature/wftw/2006/2606.htm

Son of Man and Son of God

• June 23rd, 2006

Jesus was both the Son of Man, and the Son of God, “The Word became human being and lived with us, and we saw his Sh’khinah, The Sh’khinah of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14)  Did everyone know Jesus as both the Son of Man and the Son of God?

Son of Man could also be interpreted as “human being,” or “son of Adam”.  In the book of Ezekiel, God frequently called Ezekiel “son of man,” or “human being,” depending on the translation of the bible.  Adam was the first born of many, the first man and all of us are the sons of Adam.  Jesus was both the Son of Man and the Son of God, also the first born among many, “because those whom he knew in advance, he also determined in advance would be conformed to the pattern of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers; and those whom he thus determined in advance, he also called; and those whom he called he also caused to be considered righteous; and those whom he caused to be considered righteous he also glorified!” (Romans 8:29-30; emphasis added) When the Word (Jesus, the Son of God) became flesh, John writes that they saw his glory, and in the same way those who are the spiritual sons of Jesus, are too the sons of God and will reveal His glory.  “How blessed are those who make peace!  For they will be called the sons of God.” (Matthew 5:9) Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice, the ultimate peace maker who came to restore man back to God.  We too have been called after the pattern of the peace maker to restore man back to God.  “He determined in advance that through Yeshua the Messiah we would be his sons - in keeping with his pleasure and purpose - so that we would bring him praise commensurate with the glory of the grace he gave us through the Beloved One” (Ephesians 1:5-6)

How did those who listened to Jesus as he walked the earth perceive His reference to the “son of man?”  The people, I believe would have heard, “human being,” there are possibly a few who had already seen Him as the Son of God who may have known he was referring to The Son of Man as referenced in Daniel 7:13, “…when I saw, coming with the clouds of heaven, someone like a son of man.”  Perhaps the disciples would have only made sense of this after Jesus had ascended, as was the case when Jesus overturned the tables in the temple, “His talmidim later recalled that the Tanakh says, “Zeal for your house will devour me.”)” (John 2:17)  But Jesus did not go around declaring that he was the Son of God.  Everyone knew Him as the Son of Man, but only a few had it revealed to them that He was the Son of God.  Many of the things Jesus had said were difficult for others, even the disciples, to understand.  It was only after the resurrection that Jesus spoke clearly and after he had transcended He continued to speak and teach through the Holy Spirit whom we now have with us.  “I have said these things to you with the help of illustrations; however, a time is coming when I will no longer speak indirectly, but will talk about the Father in plain language.”  (John 16:25)

Everyone that saw Jesus could identify Him as a son of man, but when they spoke to Him, they would realize that he was no ordinary man.  Even when He was a boy, “everyone who heard him was astonished at his insight and his responses.” (Luke 2:47)  Jesus asked His disciples, “Who are people saying the Son of Man is?” and they responded, “Well, some say Yochanan the Immserser [John the Baptist], others Eliyahu [Elijah] still others Yirmeyahu [Jeremiah] or one of the prohets” (Matthew 16:13b-14) They knew he was anointed by God, the evidence was in the miracles and they way he spoke, but they didn’t know he was God.  Then Jesus asked His disciples, “”But you,” he said to hem, “who do you say I am?”  Shim’on Kefa [Simon Peter] answered, “You are the Mashiach [Messiah], the Son of the living God.”  “Shim’on Bar-Yochanan [Simon, son of John],” Yeshua said to him, “how blessed you are!  For no human being revealed this to you, no it was my Father in heaven. “ (Matthew 16:15) Then Jesus “warned the talmidim [disciples] not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.” (Matthew 16:20)  This is how Jesus walked the earth, as a human being, revealing the Father’s glory by the miracles and words he spoke, but to some he was revealed as the Son of God.  “As they went up into the boat, the wind ceased.  The men in the boat fell down before him and exclaimed, “You really are God’s son!” (Matthew 14:32-33)

How do we know Jesus today?  As the Son of Man, or as the Son of God?  Many know of Jesus, have heard of Him, but may not know Jesus as the Son of God, when the disciples saw Jesus as the Son of God they fell down and worshiped Him.  If we know Jesus as the Son of God, we too will fall down and worship Him.  Third Day sings this song, “Show Me Your Glory”

I caught a glimpse of Your splendor
In the corner of my eye
The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen
And it was like a flash of lightning
Reflected off the sky
And I know I’ll never be the same

Show me Your glory
Send down Your presence
I want to see Your face
Show me Your glory
Majesty shines about You
I can’t go on without You, Lord

When I climb down the mountain
And get back to my life
I won’t settle for ordinary things
I’m gonna follow You forever
And for all of my days
I won’t rest ’til I see You again

Show me Your glory
Show me Your glory
I can’t live without You

I believe this experience would be true for us, just as it was for the disciples, as we’re walking along life’s road, we see these flashes of lightning revealing God’s Glory through His Son, and once we’re seen this we will not settle for ordinary things because we know Him as the Son of God and nothing else will do.