The Father CHOSE Us IN Christ Before The World Existed
“To choose” means the profound and total utilization of the
will. In Yahweh’s case, he had the option of choosing or not
choosing us. Given the fact that, in his pre-knowledge, he
knew that which his children would choose in their incorrect use of
their free will, the sensible thing to do was not to choose
us. Yet his eternal Manifestation known as Melquizedec, as
the priest of the Most High God Loved us so much that, even before
there was one atom, he offered his life on behalf of each of his
repentant creatures who someday would become tangible realities (since
way back then the priestly order of Melchizedec has existed).
Melchizedec is the Manifestation of
YAHWEH known by many Names such as eternal Wisdom and the Son of
God. It was IN him (who someday would also be known as
Christ) that the totality of the rational inhabitants of a small planet
(in a universe that did not exist as yet) would be placed.
There would not be one human being who had not been known by name and
Loved by YAHWEH from a past eternity. IN Christ, YAHWEH in
his Manifestation as the Father chose all of us and IN him he blessed
us with every spiritual blessing in celestial places.
In addition, the creatures chosen by
YAHWEH IN Christ would enjoy the holiness and absolute purity of
divinity. Such is the destiny of everyone living in this
planet. Even before there was a human being, IN Christ began
the gestation of a race that, in due time, would consist of flesh and
bones and as such would cause boundless joy to the heart of the loving
Creator.
YAHWEH, however, knows all things eons
before they take place (he knows the end from the beginning).
He saw when the race of rational creatures would turn their backs on
him. That decision would cause such unbearable pain to him
that he would have been justified if, even before he formed a physical
human being, he would have discarded the eternal plan and begun anew.
But Christ, as a mother that Loves with
all her heart the baby that grows inside her womb, knowing us since way
back then and Loving us beyond human understanding, chose the
inconceivable pain and continued with the plan established before the
creation of mankind.
YAHWEH knew that during the dark ages of
sin’s reign, in the midst of the anguish and maddening confusion, there
would be creatures that would choose the divine, eternal
plan. It was by reason of those few individuals that the
divine plan remained in force. It was through them that the
circle of Agape Love would be completed. The purpose of sin
was to obliterate forever the divine circle--there had to be no one who
would respond to the eternal voice of God’s Love. Since the
days of Abel, however, YAHWEH has had chosen ones in the cursed and
rebellious world. Abel, whose name means Father God, went
through this life as a blessed symbol of his Father, Christ, whose own
life was cut off in the strength and beauty of his ministry.
To choose Jesus (Yashua is his Hebrew
Name) as Savior, Master and Lord is the biggest miracle, the greatest
wonder that can ever happen to a human being. This
inconceivable event, however, is produced by YAHWEH himself.
In the Manifestation of Christ, he breathes the Manifestation of the
Holy Spirit upon those who yearn to choose the divine plan for their
lives. IN the Holy Spirit (also known as the Power of the
Most High) Yashua envelops his believing children, and also saturates
them, in the atmosphere of divinity. In the atmosphere of
Agape Love, Christ performs the miracle of opening their understanding
so that they can comprehend the Holy Scriptures.
It is not possible to comprehend the
Word of God outside the atmosphere of the breath of the Holy Spirit
imparted by the Lord Jesus himself. Those who understand and
believe wholeheartedly are transformed automatically from the called
into the elect of Christ. This fundamental truth signifies
that the bulk of the sheep attending the congregations of the earth are
classified by him in the category of sheep without a
shepherd. Yashua has infinite compassion for them and insists
on feeding and leading them from the condition of called to his
elect. Yet, to begin with, he tells them, “If anyone wants to
follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross every day and follow
me. Everyone who wants to preserve his life shall lose it;
but those who lose their life for my name’s sake, shall find it.”
The path from called to elect of Christ
(the same traversed by the apostles) implies a Gethsemane, a Calvary,
maddening torment. This is followed by the marvelous and
unexplainable surprise of the resurrection. Then comes the unbelievable
encounter, face to face, with the resurrected Savior. What
follows is the breath of Christ.
What Yashua does as he breathes the Holy
Spirit and then opens his disciples’ understanding to comprehend the
Holy Scriptures is restore the image of God in the life of a
mortal. Such a person, IN Christ, is being restored totally
and completely. He/she is a new spiritual creature.
He/she is a mirror polished to perfection where the only image visible
is the face of the Master. The human is not recognizable any
longer. Irrevocably, such a person is going beyond being
called and becoming an ELECT of Christ. Their old man of sin
has died IN him, and IN him the elect has resurrected in order to
occupy the glorified position which was his/hers since before the
foundation of the world. IN Christ they enjoy every spiritual
blessing in heavenly places. IN the Beloved (Jesus), the
Father has chosen him/her to live a holy and blameless life in the
midst of a corrupt, decomposed and rebellious humanity.
Those who choose to go beyond being
called and become the elect of the Lord are very few indeed.
The price to pay is extremely high: Here we are talking about life
itself. To Christ belong the most peaceful hours in the daily
lives of his children. He demands that his elect carry with
them eternal life as it is contained in the Gospel. (No
half-baked Christian, a called, is in a position to represent him just
as he is. The immaculate message of the Gospel cannot be
mixed with a nano particle of sin. Such is the reason why
Yashua first must transform the called into the elect.) That
is why he clarifies the spiritual vision of those who take him
seriously and devote to him, on a daily basis, the quality time
required to know him in the four Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Eternal life consists of knowing Christ
and the Father. In this there can be no human ideas nor
motives that do not proceed exclusively from Agape Love. He
knows our condition, remembers that we are but dust, nevertheless he
will not tolerate an incomplete devotion. “No one can serve
two masters,” he declares with supreme authority. In order to
rescue his original called disciples from such a curse, he delivered
them from their old man of sin. When they discovered such a
marvelous reality, those men and women learned that: They
were new persons; they were gods walking on the earth; divinity was
flowing through them; they Loved the human race as YAHWEH Loves it; it
was impossible to mix divinity with sin, since they are mutually
exclusive; they were the ELECT of the Savior whom they Loved more than
they loved their own life.
The result of all this became evident in
the saturation of the entire earth with the overwhelming message of the
Gospel. The inhabitant of the most isolated corner of the
planet as well as the least mentally endowed individual, through the
mighty preaching wrought by the Holy Spirit through some humble elect,
by the time the temple was being overthrown in Jerusalem had had the
opportunity to accept or reject the incomprehensible Love of YAHWEH.
Today, as the Day of the Lord draws near
in colossal explosions and flames that reach into the atmosphere and
leave nothing standing, the preaching, the invitation, the hope once
again rest upon the shoulders of the elect of the Lord. What
the called preach, and practice, consists of half truths which is
nothing but lies. The final invitation of Jesus is for the
called. They must repent before the great and terrible Day of
Lord strikes. Christ knows them collectively as
Laodicea. To those extremely few individuals among the oceans
of professed followers of his who at long last opt for opening the door
of their heart so that he may come in and save them, Yashua dedicates
the most sublime of all the blessings and rewards recorded in the
Bible: Once they are transformed into his ELECT, someday they will
occupy his marvelous throne, sit by his side and, in blessed intimacy,
spend eons of the glorious eternity that is about to
materialize.