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Our Father sees
all, past present and future. Our Father is in total control of everything. He is
accountable, the twenty-four elders are in total agreement with His actions.
And our Father is good, He is love, He is gentle, kind, and He is a great
provider! Our Fathers actions bring praise and thanksgiving and He isn’t selfish.
Everything that He has, He has given to us through Jesus. Everything that He
is, He has made us one with through the power of the Holy Spirit. We are now one
with God, even while we are on this earth! The four creatures see this glorious Truth, the
twenty-four elders agree with it, and Jesus was willing to die to make it happen. That is
how special we are to our Father. That is how much He loves us.
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When I see in the
Word how Jesus personally dealt with other people I know that these actions
that John has seen of the creatures and elders have to be symbolic. Jesus told
the disciples that if they had seen Him, then they had seen the Father, John 14:9. When Jesus was raised up
from the dead and glorified back to the state that He had before He came to the
earth as a man, how did He act towards people? Did He command those who saw Him to bow down
before Him to pay Him His rightful homage, or did He prepare a meal for them
after miraculously given them a bounty? John
21:7-9. I don’t see our eternity as being an eternity of us bowing down
before our Father. We will worship Him, but as a loved child, not as a slave who
cowers at the feet of their master.
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I don’t believe
that God created these Elders just so they would bow to Him constantly. I don’t
think our Father is that insecure, because we can plainly see Who and How our Father in
Jesus? I think these visions show that God has a hierarchy in Heaven that loves
Him, trusts Him, honors Him, and agrees with Him. And no one and no angel and
no created being can ever say that God did not act in complete love and Truth
and fairness.
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Also notice that
the confession of faith in Heaven is that our Father created all things
according to His will. The glory given to our Father in Heaven is how His will
is in control. How ironic is it that in most churches today the glory spoken of
is how our Father gave us a free will, a will separate from His? A confession
of free will does not glorify the Truth, it glorifies man, and it will not set
you free.
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For we are God's [own] handiwork
(His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do
those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking
paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living
the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live]. Ephesians 2:10
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Even as [in His love] He chose us
[actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy
(consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above
reproach, before Him in love. For He foreordained us (destined us,
planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through
Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it
pleased Him and was His kind intent]-- Ephesians
1:4-5
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The anti-christ will be all about
free will, that is why his name is anti-christ, not anti-god or anti-jesus, but
anti God’s power working through us. Remember that men will be lovers of self,
boastful, prideful, and more arrogant during the last days then ever before. So of course they will
glorify that they have a free will and that they have decided correctly what to
do. They will tweet about themselves, Facebook every thing they do, and take thousands of selfies.
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