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Hebrews 12:1-3
"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls."
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i reckon one of the most misunderstood passages of the word of God is The Coming of our Lord. For thousands of years people have waited for Jesus to come down from Heaven to pick them up from Down Here and take them to glory.
i found in my life that wherever sin reigned in my heart, Jesus - The Truth - had to come down from Heaven and 'rapture' me away from that place, and lift me Up high His Way.
Living His Word true sees the raptures of His Comings inside our own hearts. Our Lord Jesus ruling from a cloud of witnesses, were we see the truths of the word of God come alive within us. God's right Alive in our own heart The Spirit of Jesus bringing us His New Life lived every Today more of His truth to find life inside of us. Hebrew 12 style.
i wrote a poem about this once how He appeared to me in my fallen state and 'took' me Up into His Ways instead of mine.
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Rapture
I thought I been no good all my life,
held fast in cold, loveless strife.
Most of me had little faith in grace,
my loveless ways hid me from His face.
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In my bad life I was untrue, insincere,
weak, overcome, consumed by fear.
I could not believe God loved me as well,
still listening to what those liars tell.
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Great hailstones pounded down on me,
as I saw how wrong I come to be.
Fire and brimstone fed despair,
truthfully loving thoughts were rare.
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"Where is your God?" tormentors cried,
the pit yawned open, dark and wide.
My good life burned up as I fell down,
in my godlessness I began to drown.
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Unbearable agony—sinner's fate,
flames of lies that burn and berate.
Self-hate stoked the furnace high,
gnashing teeth, an endless cry
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So I languished, lost in fate,
still asking how I come too late.
Unbelief constantly feeding misery,
as I watched myself turn ungodly.
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My hell an endless, tortured night,
born from the bad life held inside.
Loveless deeds, untrue and deep,
now fire and judgement reap for keeps.
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But after years, the Truth broke through,
God's grace reached into all I knew.
My bad life left to judgement's keep,
as angels came and reaped His sheep.
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Awakened, i rose as from the dead,
His breath of truth filled me instead.
An army stood within my soul,
His blazing light became my goal.
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Then in a moment, i rose to the sky,
to meet my Lord in the blink of an eye.
Behind me fell the rule of the lie,
as judgement answered every cry.
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His smile held no trace of harm,
sin lost its will within His charm.
Even as He baptised me His holy fire,
truth restoring my life's desire.
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A holy host Jesus brought down from Above,
rebuilding me in His kingdom of love.
He taught my heart His righteous way,
His love drove the rule of wrong away.
