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THE BLOOD LINE. God drew a blood line from Heaven to earth and back to Heaven. Billye Brim recalls the story of a minister and his wife who were conducting meetings in a Canadian church which were inflicting great damage to the kingdom of darkness as many were being led to a new life in Jesus and being set free from bondages of S atan.
Salvation is more than just being saved from sin. Salvation is being saved to the glory of God. We were created in the likeness and the image of God, and it is His desire for us to be crowned with His glory and honor. The Blood and the Glory reveals how the power of the Blood of Jesus and the glory of God fit together in God's plan of redemption.
This exciting book draws from the experiences of great leaders of faith from the past to rekindle the power of the Blood of Jesus in the Church today. Combining personal stories with strong biblical principles, Billye Brim teaches the importance of depending upon the Blood of Jesus in your daily walk with God. You will understand as never before that without the Blood of Jesus, it is impossible to be prepared for the glory of God. By using the principles outlined in this book you will learn:How to use the Blood of Jesus to overcome the enemy How to use the Blood of Jesus to protect your family How to draw a blood line around your property and possessions How to maintain victory through the Blood of Jesus How the Blood of Jesus is connected to the outpourings of the Holy Spirit. We are in the last days. The circle of glory is almost complete. It is through the Blood of Jesus that we can be redeemed to our rightful place of glory and honor in the kingdom of God.
PDF, 2.27 MBThe Blood and The Gloryby Billye BrimHARRISON HOUSETulsa, OklahomaUnless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the KingJames Version of the Bible. (Author's comments within Scripture quotationsare enclosed in parentheses.)Some Scripture quotations are taken from The Amplified Bible, NewTestament (AMP). Copyright © 1958, 1987 by the Lockman Foundation, LaHabra, California. Used by permission.The Blood and The GloryISBN 1-57794-058-XCopyright © 1995 by Billye BrimP. Box 126Collinsville, Oklahoma 74021Published by Harrison House, Inc.P.
Box 35035Tulsa, Oklahoma 74153Printed in the United States of America.All rights reserved under International Copyright Law. Contents and/or covermay not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without the expresswritten consent of the Publisher.Contents1 The Revelation of the Blood: How It Came.
52 Remembering: Using the Name and the Blood To Bring Up Children. 83 The Old-Timers: And the Truth They Knew. 144 The Revelation of the Glory: How It Came. 225 The World That Then Was.246 Circle of Glory. 317 Divine Circles. 428 The Circle of the Blood.459 The Blood Line. 4910 If Rahab Could.We Can!.5711 Tokens: Answer to Terrorism.
6312 Defining:To Plead. 7113 Pleading Our Case: Redeemed by the Blood!.7514 How To. 8415 Holding the Blood.8716 Rewards for Overcoming.
9417 Earthquakes.9818 Anticipated Questions. 11119 The Rains of the Spirit. 11520 Witness the Rains.12121 The Blood and the Outpourings. 12522 The Latter Rain Outpouring.
12723 The Blood and the Latter Rain Outpouring. 13124 The Anointing for Power. 13725 The Blood and The Last Outpouring. 146The Revelation of theBlood: How It Came1I1was not looking for a revelation of the Blood when it came; I waslooking for a manifestation of the Glory.For I had been on a more than twenty-year-long Holy Spirit led studyof the Glory of God.
The revelation of God's glory manifested in Hischurch became the central theme of my ministry and the yearning of myheart.The church the Lord Jesus Christ comes to receive unto Himself willnot be a downtrodden, backslidden, weakened church, but will be filledwith the glory of God. (Ephesians 5:27.)I heard faithful men and women of God prophesy about it throughthose years. Reoccurring themes in the prophecies which so thrilled mespoke of signs, wonders, miracles, and even translations. I heard throughthe lips of more than one proven prophet that even the faces of believerswill be so changed they will shine with the glory of God as His presencefills His temple.Through these twenty years the Lord called me and caused me towitness prophecy-fulfilling world events. We began to travel and ministerin the Soviet Union in 1980. The ministry has covered the gamut ofrunning from the KGB down dark alleys and across railroad tracks topreaching openly in front of the former National Museum of Atheism afterthe collapse of communism.
In 1986, after my husband moved to heaven, Istudied Hebrew in Israel. Since then I return to the Land usually twice ayear and have spent much time there in the unique doors God has openedto watch the fig tree (Israel) close at hand.
Many of the miraculously5The Blood and the Gloryreturned Jews who are the sign of the soon return of the Lord are my closefriends.As a student of Bible prophecy, I saw signs in the nations, in the Jews,and in the church that now is the time. It is time for the glory of God to bepoured out upon and manifested through the church.And I was watching for it, closely, when I saw something else.Satanic AttacksI saw what seemed to be an increase in satanic attacks.All were terrible. Some were inexplicable.Strife struck between brethren who had preached the same messagefor years.
Homes were broken when lives we thought were dedicated tothe ministry of the Lord succumbed to sin and its consequences.But the 'inexplicable' cases especially drew me to seek an answer. Noplace-giving sin was involved.
Innocent lives were lost to earth's realmwhen drunk drivers out of nowhere hit vehicles carrying God's faithfulservants. Freak accidents in two cases struck the host ministry's familiesjust before large meetings.I sought the Lord about it.He answered me with a question.You preach about the last days and the signs of the times, do you not?' What did I tell you the devil would do in the last days?I knew where to look. So I turned to Revelation 12:12 and read,'.The devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because heknoweth that he hath but a short time.'
In my Bible I had written in the margin that the Greek word translated'time' is kairos which means a limited and definite portion of time, a settime.I thought first about the set time of Adam's lease.6The Revelation of the Blood: How It CameAfter God finished His six-day workweek, He handed the authority onearth to Adam.Some Bible scholars believe God gave Adam acorresponding six-day lease to work upon earth, with a thousand years as aday. Adam, however, committed high treason and delivered his authorityto Satan. He legally, but not morally, sub-let his domain to Satan whobecame the god of this world (Luke 4:6; 2 Corinthians 4:4). When the settime of Adam's lease is over, Satan will be evicted and sent to the pit.Satan knows about time. When Jesus was on earth, demons askedHim, '.Art thou come hither to torment us before the time?'
(Matthew8:29).The time. This has to do with the time. Satan's lease is aboutup and he's furiously defying the prophecy of his doom.Then I heard, Back up a verse.So I read Revelation 12:11, 'And they overcame him by the blood ofthe Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.' The Blood of Jesus!Rushing in upon me came Holy Spirit guided thoughts concerning theBlood of Jesus and the primary weapon it is for the final hour of this age.7Remembering: Using theName and the Blood ToBring Up Children22My thoughts traveled back to 1967 when I was baptized in the HolySpirit.For it was soon after that life-changing event that I first heard aboutusing the Blood of Jesus to overcome the devil.
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Extreme hunger for theWord of God consumed me. In one of the seminars I attended I heard theminister say, 'I always say it like this.
I say, 'In the Name of Jesus, I pleadthe Blood of Jesus.' 'I remembered how those welcome words penetrated my heart as ayoung mother of four. And I remembered how we used them to bring upour children without tragedy.Several incidents came to mind.Chip, our youngest, could be described as 'all boy' including almosteverything that description usually brings to mind.
Fun loving.And so on. I was particularly thankful for the right to use the Blood ofJesus when Chip as a teen driver left the house in his car.Things would transpire something like this. Chip, usually in a hurry toget to practice or a game or somewhere, would dutifully stand while I putmy right hand on top of his curly black hair and said, 'In the Name ofJesus, I apply the Blood of Jesus over Chip.' Sometimes I walked out to the car and put my hand on it, andsometimes I just added these words in the kitchen with my hand on hishead, 'In the Name of Jesus I apply the Blood of Jesus over Chip's car,bumper to bumper, side to side, top to bottom, every working part. Chip8Remembering: Using the Name and the Blood To Bring Up Childrenwill go and come home safe.' Once this people-loving teenager invited several members of his highschool football team to the house to cook hamburgers. As they prepared toleave, I decided not to embarrass Chip.
I would wait till they left and thenmake my confession of God's provision in Jesus' Blood.Chip got into his car loaded with friends, then got out of it and cameback into the kitchen and asked in a somewhat demanding tone, 'Whatkind of a mother are you? Are you going to let me go without the Blood ofJesus on me?' Later, when he was in college an interesting thing happened. Chip andthree friends decided to rent a house their second year rather than to live inthe dorm.Early one morning my telephone rang. At first I didn't recognize thehigh-pitched distorted voices.' They squeaked excitedly.I figured out it was Chip and his basketball player friend, Conley.They told me their scary story.The doublewide mobile home they rented was far out in the country.The first day when the boys arrived home from school in one car, theynoticed strange things.
The doors and windows were open. Hair dryers andtoasters were on. The television and stereos were blasting. They thought itwas someone playing a joke. But when they checked with the owner, noone else had a key. For several days thereafter when they came home thesame things were happening.
And then came the eventful night before theycalled me.Chip was in his bedroom studying. Everyone else was in bed. Heheard the front door slam hard. The whole mobile home shook. He got upto investigate.
Then the door to Conley's room opened wide and slammedclosed.9The Blood and the GloryChip asked Matt, who slept on the living room couch, 'Did you seethat?' What was it?' At that Conley's door opened and slammed again.Then Chip and Matt saw a dark figure go out the front door whichopened and slammed shut.Matt and Chip ran to Chip's room where they both spent the rest of thenight in his twin bed. They promised never to tell anyone what they saw.Rising unusually early Conley said to Chip, 'I've got to talk to youabout last night.'
(Conley and Chip grew up together. Conley's parents were Spiritfilled Christians, too.
Chip told me when we discussed this for the book,however, that he and Conley were not living for God as they knew to atthe time.)Robert evidently had heard it too, for he asked, 'What was all that?' Conley said, 'Something came into my room and stood over my bed.It was hooded and carried a scythe like the grim reaper. I think he came totell me I'm going to die.' Matt cried out, 'Oh, my God!'
With that the four boys took off running down the road toward a littlestore a mile away where they called me from the pay phone.Such cases are low-level devils. They can only frighten. But this onehad succeeded fairly well.
For I am certain those macho athletic typeswould not have wanted the girls on campus to have observed their shakingand squeaking.' It's just low-level devils,' I assured them. I gave them Scriptures andtold them how to cast out the devils.Then I instructed them further. 'Do you have any oil?
Demons don'thave to use windows and doors, but as a point of contact for your faith,10Remembering: Using the Name and the Blood To Bring Up Childrenand as a symbol of entry into your house, anoint all the doors and windowswith this oil and say, 'In the Name of Jesus we apply the Blood of Jesus.Demons, you cannot enter our house.' 'The boys chipped in and bought oil at the store. Then they went backto the house—which they'd vowed on the way to the store they wouldnever enter again—and carried out the instructions in detail.They had no further trouble. And as a result of the evident power ofGod over the power of the devil, the boys started going to church.Our older son, Terry, had a similar incident his senior year atPanhandle State University in far western Oklahoma. Terry and his friendswere cowboys.Terry had just rented a bedroom two days before from some otherstudents to cut down on expenses. That night there had been a lot ofalcohol, girls, and music.
Terry who was not partying just went to bed.About an hour later his room got very cold and dark. Slowly his twinbed with him in it rose about three feet off the floor.These are his words as he described it to me for this book.'
I knew what it was. And I knew if I could say Jesus it would quit.But I felt literally paralyzed. I could have said anything but Jesus. It waslike that part of my brain that could say Jesus was gone. But I kept trying.When I did get it out, the bed slowly came down.' Terry told a Christian professor he knew from the church he attendedin Guymon. The teacher came in with him and they applied the Blood ofJesus over the mobile home.
In the six months he had left to live thereuntil graduation nothing like that happened again.In teaching on the power in the Name of Jesus and the Blood of JesusI have told this incident and asked how many have had a like experience.It seems to be rather common. But it is always the case—no matter whatthe demonic deception—that one can utter that Name and the devils have11The Blood and the Gloryto flee as it is written. (Mark 16:17; James 4:7.)While writing this book at home tonight, I telephoned both sons to getdetails of the accounts I've included. Both made similar statements to thiseffect: It was amazingly easy to stop the demon activity. And since seeinghow easy it was, demons have not been able to so frighten them.Both told me how they now use the Name of Jesus and the Blood ofJesus with their mouths morning and night over their families.We recalled lots of other incidents.Terry, who was a bull rider, remembered one close call when a gatefailed to open properly and he was hung up in a chute with a violent bull.Someone who helped him get out said they didn't know how every bone inhis body was not broken. Terry knew why.We always used Psalm 34:19,20: 'Many are the afflictions of therighteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
He keepeth all hisbones: not one of them is broken.' With almost daily confession of thisScripture, we brought up four very active children—even our daughter,Brenda, played basketball—without one broken bone.Chip recalled how we had him read Psalm 91 before every game.And talking about how I used to plead the Blood over his car, he said,'I wouldn't be alive if you hadn't done that.' I didn't push him for detailsbecause I really don't want to know.Shelli, our oldest, is an anointed preacher and a singer. Brenda worksin the administration of our ministry.
They too are bringing up their boysand girls using the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of God.Because of God's wonderful provision I know the joy of anotherScripture. This is my own paraphrase, 'I rejoice greatly that I find mychildren walking in truth.' (2 John 1:4.)It makes much sense to me that when I sought the Lord about theincrease in satanic attacks and He began to give me the illumination about12Remembering: Using the Name and the Blood To Bring Up ChildrenHis Blood, the first thing He brought to my mind concerned families andloved ones.For I seemed to sense the heart cry of parents all over the world whoare bringing up children in these trying times. I was conscious of thedesperate cry of mothers in inner cities, 'What can I do? How can I keep my child alive?' I seemed to know they were crying out for knowledge of the power inthe Blood of Jesus to overcome Satan and his demons.The illumination I would be led into of the use of the power in theBlood of Jesus would surpass anything I had known and was to be sharedwith others.
Hence this book.Later we shall examine in detail the scriptural basis for pleading, orapplying, the Blood of Jesus. We shall see that one can draw a Blood linearound loved ones and possessions.But now, for the next step God took me down on this road ofrevelation concerning the powerful weapon of the Blood of Jesus inovercoming the devil.13The Old-Timers: And theTruth They Knew3T3he next step eventually led to a bright light in the Word of God.When I saw it, it illuminated me concerning my questions:'How is the enemy able to 'come out of the blue' so to speak inattacks against faithful Christians? And how can we prevent them?' First, a statement in Dr. Hagin's book, The TriumphantChurch,1 struck me deeply.He gave an account of how a missionary in the early part of thiscentury overcame the always deadly sting of a venomous scorpion bysaying, 'I plead the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ against this scorpionsting.'
The natives watched the woman expecting her to die. When shesuffered no ill effects most of them accepted Jesus.In relating this Dr. Hagin commented, 'Every benefit and blessing wepossess in our redemption, including complete and total victory overSatan, is based on Jesus and His triumph over Satan at the Cross.
We havevictory over Satan because of Jesus' shed Blood. The old-timers inPentecost understood a truth about the Blood of Jesus. They would pleadthe Blood against the devil. That's scriptural.' Those last three sentences leaped from the page and lodged in myheart. And from deep within me sprang up, what I believe to be, a Godgiven desire to know what the old-timers understood about the Blood ofJesus.Almost immediately thereafter someone just handed me Mrs. C.Nuzum's book, The Life of Faith.2 I remembered at once this was the firstbook Kenneth Hagin read about faith after he came off the deathbed14The Old-Timers: And the Truth They Knewthrough faith in God.
It was first published in 1928 and Mrs. Nuzum wasat least 71 at the time so she qualified as an old-timer.Faith in the BloodMrs. Nuzum's clear communication of her effectual faith fed my own.But it was especially her faith in and use of the Blood of Jesus whichanswered both the desires and questions of my heart.Mrs.
Nuzum, a missionary to Mexico, 'was born sick' according tothe words of her testimony.3 She described herself throughout childhoodand young womanhood as crippled with rheumatism, paralyzed on the leftside, suffering heart problems, and given up by the best doctors to die—until she received divine healing.' For 27 years,' she says, 'I was never free from pain.But now at theage of 71, I am doing the work of three women and have not lain in bedfrom sickness for so long that I cannot remember when I did so last.' She considered all the evil that can come to us as from the devil,directly or indirectly.4 But she clearly believed and demonstrated, 'God isnot willing that we should be overcome even once, (He) 'always causethus to triumph in Christ'—not one failure as we obey and trust.' 5God has given us a wonderful weapon to use, the blood of Jesus.This is our weapon, our shield, our hiding place.In Revelation 12:11 we are told that, 'They overcame him by theblood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony.'
Sin,temptation, sickness, disease, everything that comes from Satanis included in that. The Blood overcame him.
When anything isovercome it has no more power. This Book says they overcamehim by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of theirtestimony. Not merely by your word or their word, but by yourtestimony to what God has done coupled with your faith in theBlood is the overcoming accomplished. No matter in what way15The Blood and the Glorythe enemy comes, whether in discouragement, temptation,sickness, or any other way, he is overcome by the blood of theLamb, and by the word of our testimony.6Mrs. Nuzum proved her weapons. Notice how the challenges shefaced match any of the present day.I want to give you some instances showing that God does reallystand by His promises concerning the Blood.I was down in Mexico when so many bandits were active, and atone time was in a town when the United States authorities sentus word to get out, that we were in great danger, the red-flaggerswere coming.
The Mexican authorities also sent us word to getout. Nearly all the families went away and they asked me to go,but God did not give me any liberty to go, although theauthorities did not promise me any protection. However, I toldthem I was not looking to them to take care of me, but wastrusting God; and, as He was taking care of me, I was just as safesurrounded by those marauders as when alone.One day I heard a noise and looking out, I saw.soldiers coming.I never thought of danger, although the road ran very close tomy door. I went and stood in the doorway to look in their facesand see what they were like (I tell this to show how God hadtaken the fear away). I was in a large adobe house all alone withGod, and I went to bed and slept sweetly all night. Thesesoldiers were in the town two days and nights, and usually theytook the largest house in town (I was in the largest), but theyentered every house except mine, and did not come into myhouse at all.This Blood avails for all things; it is our protection against16The Old-Timers: And the Truth They Kneweverything if we will cry for it and trust in it.
At one time Iwalked to a town about six miles distant, as the mules and horseswere all away. On my way back I was some distance from anyhouse, when I saw a company of men sitting and drinkingmuscale (.whiskey), and I saw they were becoming quite drunkwith it. I left the path and circled around, but perceiving one ofthem had seen me and was coming after me as fast as he could,and was rapidly gaining on me at every step; I saw my dangerand cried out for the Blood to protect me from this drunken man.Almost immediately his attention was attracted by some littlething along the road and he seemed to forget all about me.One day I was starting to go into a house, and just as I steppedinside the gate, there was a terrible ferocious bulldog. I held myumbrella in front of me but he broke it in an instant; then hegrabbed me close to the knee, holding my limb between histeeth. I cried for the protection of the Blood, and that dog couldnot shut his jaws.
The people in the house were greatly surprisedthat I was not torn to pieces.I went into a house one day and found the whole family downwith a fever similar to yellow fever; it is very dangerous. No onewould come to help them because they were afraid of it. I feltthat I could not leave them that way, so I cried out for theprotection of the Blood and stayed with them all that day andnight, going from one bed to another waiting on them.
I neverhad a sign of the fever.Even death has to recede before this precious Blood of Jesus. Awoman in Douglas had consumption. Her husband was arailroad man and friends telegraphed him that his wife was17The Blood and the Glorydying. In their house was a friend who believed in DivineHealing and she sent for me. We had prayer and the woman wasbetter, but the devil came in an onslaught.
When I went back myfriend said she had a sort of vision and everything in the roomwas black, except herself and me, and we were like two whitespecks. She said, 'I know death has struck her,' and I saw thather face was ashy. I just bent over her and pleaded the power ofthe Blood of Jesus Christ. After a while she drew a long breath,opened her eyes and said: 'It is gone.' Surely, death had fledbefore the mighty Name and the Blood of Jesus Christ. She is awell woman today.I do not believe we half know the gift Jesus Christ gave us whenHe gave us this Blood.7I found in Mrs. Nuzum's book—as well as in the accounts of manyother old-timers affected by the outpouring of the Spirit at the beginningof the Twentieth Century—much emphasis on the Blood.
It was upon theirlips in prayer, practical use, sermon, and song. Many of our songs aboutthe Blood come from that time.This might be a good place to insert something else the Lord spoke tome about the Blood. He showed me that Satan has systematically tried torob from the church, truth about the Blood of Jesus and its practical use.Especially as a primary weapon against him.He called to my remembrance how some years ago a majordenomination took all the Blood songs out of their hymnals, with aresultant loss of power. They said the Blood frightened little children.Little children are not frightened by the joyous singing of, 'There ispower, power; Wonder-working power, In the Blood, of the Lamb.' But someone is.
Satan is.Then the Lord impressed me, You (the Word or Charismatic churches18The Old-Timers: And the Truth They KnewI usually speak in) do not have song books. You have overhead projectors.But what is the difference in their removing the Blood songs from theirhymn books and your removing them from your repertoires?So I began to take a survey. I paid close attention when I went to ourchurches. Much more often than not the song service did not include onesong about the Blood. (And consider that it is through the Blood we haveaccess.) The preaching usually did not contain mention of the Blood.
Ibelieve this is changing now, however, for it must.One old-timer, Carl Roos, told me before he moved to heaven, 'TheLord told us, 'Make much of the Blood; and the Blood will make much ofyou.' That concept of 'honoring the Blood of Jesus' was well known to thesaints I have researched. Nuzum they had faith in the power ofthe Blood. And they wielded their weapon. Often by setting a watch withit—a Blood watch.The Price of Constant VictoryIt was in this area that I found the answer I was seeking.
Thepreventative action we can take against Satan's unfair blows.In Mrs. Nuzum's book in Chapter Seven entitled, 'Hold Fast ThatWhich Thou Hast' she exposed the doors Satan uses to enter and 'take aplace.' We are all in the land of the enemy and are subject to his attacksin spirit, soul, and body, but God says, 'Give no place to thedevil' (Ephesians 4:27). That means that he cannot take a placein us when he attacks us if we do not let him. We open the wayfor him to come in if we sin; the smallest sin we commit inword, deed, or thought, gives place for the devil to do us harm.8The first door she mentioned is obvious—sin.Thank God for the Blood of Jesus which cleanses us from all sin and19The Blood and the Glorymakes us new creations when we are born again.And thank God, if we sin after we are born again, we can takeadvantage of First John 1:9: 'If we confess our sins, he is faithful and justto forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.' It is the Blood in either case which cleanses us and closes the door ofopportunity to the devil.But when I read what she had to say about another door—I knew Ihad what I was looking for—an opening Satan uses to afflict theinnocents, and how to keep it closed.God's remedy always accomplishes just what God says it willaccomplish—overcome the enemy. But watchfulness is the priceof constant victory.
'Be vigilant (watch all the time) becauseyour adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about, seekingwhom he may devour' (1 Peter 5:8).Our enemy is so set on our destruction that he never sleeps, orneglects to follow after us to destroy us. How sad that we, whohave so much at stake, should be less diligent than he. A failureto watch, also gives the devil a place in us or permits him toreturn. 'I say unto all, Watch.'
We are not safe from his attackone moment, without the Blood of Jesus. As soon as we wakenin the morning we should cry for the Blood to be upon us, withinus, around us, and between us and all evil and the author of evil.The last thing before we sleep we should, in the same way, cryfor the protection of the Blood.Oh, that we could rouse ourselves to a greater intensity in thethings of God. We are so halfhearted and yet we must overcomean enemy that is constantly alert and ready to take advantage ofall carelessness and neglect. Soldiers are severely dealt with for20The Old-Timers: And the Truth They Kneweven a small carelessness or neglect.
If we neglect to watch, canGod call us good soldiers? Oh, how much we suffer because wefail to watch all the time. 'I say unto all, Watch.' Not one personis excused from watching.
We shall never in this life get to aplace where the enemy cannot attack us, but God is not willingthat we should be overcome even once, 'always causeth us totriumph in Christ'—not one failure as we obey and trust.9I saw it! First Peter 5:8 is so clear! Watch!That's how he slips in on us! A lack of watchfulness!The old-timers set up a watch. A Word watch. A Blood watch. Theydrew a Blood line Satan could not cross.But can you do it?What is the scriptural basis?I had to go back.
All the way back. Back to the plan of God.
Back tothe glory. Back before the foundation of the world.1 Kenneth E.
Hagin, The Triumphant Church (Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Box 50126,Tulsa, OK 74150), 187,188.2 Mrs. Nuzum, The Life of Faith (Gospel Publishing House, Springfield, MO65802).3 Ibid., 11-13.4 Ibid., 37,60.5 Ibid., 39.6 Ibid., 50, 54.7 Ibid., 56-59.8 Ibid., 37.9 Ibid., 38,39.21The Revelation of theGlory: How It Came4L4ife in the early 70s was busy and happy for me. At home I was awife and mother of four. At work I was editor of publications fora minister who had been charged by the Lord to put all histeachings into printed form. My job was to help him do that by editingthem into a magazine and books which now have reached around theglobe in multiplied millions.My childhood call to the ministry knew its real beginning—though Idid not recognize it as such until years later—when the eight or somembers of the adult Sunday School class of the Friends (Quaker) churchelected me teacher in about 1973.Every Sunday I taught the good Word of God I'd learned in thelessons I had edited the previous week. And in the move of the Spirit sothrilling in those days, the class grew from eight to two hundred andmoved from the choir loft to fill the auditorium.The minister I worked for based his ministry on the written Word ofGod and being led by the Spirit of God.
He walked with the Lord in close,personal fellowship and aimed to conduct the ministry in obedience to theLord's leadings.About this time he was impressed of the Lord that it would behoovehim to study all the Scriptures on 'the glory.' And from time totime as the Lord led, he preached on 'The Glory of God.'
He usually began the message by simply reading the Scriptures whichdescribe God's glory in manifestation from the Old Testament through theNew. Often an unusual presence of God would accompany this special22The Revelation of the Glory: How It Camesermon. Sometimes the glory of God took the form of a bright cloud as inthe Old Testament. Like a wave it would roll across the congregation.Signs and wonders would follow as God confirmed His Word.Inspired by the evidently supernatural touch upon this subject, and ledby the Spirit I am sure, I received a thought that affected the rest of my lifeand ministry.If it would behoove him to study these Scriptures, it would behooveme.So I determined to study the glory. About the same time I madeanother decision. Our rapidly growing Sunday School class included manynew believers unfamiliar with the overall plan of God.
So I decided tobegin at Genesis and take an overview of God's plan of redemption. Thetwo studies so merged that I came to see the Bible as 'The Story of theGlory.' For a few years, I experienced a most wonderful Holy Spirit guidedcourse of learning.
It was even interspersed with vision which broughtprecious insight into the glory of His plan.My now twenty-year-long study of, meditation on, preaching about,yearning and watching for, 'The Glory of God' is condensed and offeredhere because it fits. The Blood and the Glory go together in God'swonderful plan of redemption.Oh! What a Planner! What a Plan!23The World That Then Was5F5rom the start of our Sunday School class journey beginning at thebeginnings, light shined upon questions I'd had since childhoodbut was afraid to ask.Why did God make the devil, anyway? Didn't He know he was goingto cause me all this trouble?How old is earth? How long has man lived on it?Is science right? Are the preachers right?While I would not be dogmatic about some of these things, theyenlightened me as to our ability always to triumph in Christ Jesus over theenemy.GENESIS 1:11 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.Only God could sum up so much in so few words.
For everything theBible's opening verse includes would fill volumes the world could notcontain.What it does not include is verse two.GENESIS 1:22 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness wasupon the face of the deep.God did not create the earth 'without form and void.' That state ofthings came later. The original language of the Bible reveals this to us.The Hebrew words translated 'without form and void' are therhyming words tohu va' bohu. (Pronounced phonetically: toe'-who vahbow'-who.)A Hebrew English lexicon defines them as: Tohu: formlessness,24The World That Then Wasconfusion, unreality, emptiness, chaos, waste.
Bohu: emptiness. Va simplymeans 'and'.1When I taught along these lines at a Bible School in Munich, aGerman woman helped me with the definition of this phrase. Her eyes litup with understanding when I said the Hebrew words.' We know what tohu v'bohu means,' she spoke out loudly.
'We usethat saying. We got it from the Jews. It's like this. You cleaned your houseperfectly.
It is spotless. Then you walk down the hall and open the door toyour teenager's room. You scream, 'This place is tohu v'bohu! Clean it atonce!'
'God did not create earth a formless, confused, empty, chaotic mess.Such a creation would not meet the biblical criteria for God's work.God's work is perfect (Deuteronomy 32:4).God's work is glorious (Psalm 111:3).The Bible provides its own commentary on tohu v'bohu. We willexamine two passages which give further revelation to the first two versesof the Bible.The first specifically states that God did not make earth tohu.ISAIAH 45:1818 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; Godhimself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it,he created it not in vain (tohu), he formed it to be inhabited: Iam the LORD; and there is none else.God created earth in a state of glorious perfection.Planet earth fell into the chaotic ruin described in the Bible's secondverse.The Hebrew word translated 'was' in Genesis 1:2 is veryenlightening. The Lexicon gives the basic meaning of this verb as fall out,come to pass, become, be. Further definition includes happen, occur, cometo pass.225The Blood and the GloryWith the meaning of so it came to pass, the King James translates thesame word 'and it was so' in Genesis 1:7,9,11,15,24,30.In many places the King James Version translates this word, 'And itcame to pass.' Genesis 12:14 is one of them.The first two verses of the Bible can be translated as well:1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.2. And the earth became without form, and void (tohu v' bohu) anddarkness was upon the face of the deep.E.
Bullinger's comments in The Companion Bible state it like this:Not created tohu (Isaiah 45:18), but became tohu (Genesis 1:2, 2 Peter3:5,6).3Something catastrophic happened between the first and second versesof Genesis. Millions, perhaps billions, of years lie between them.Someone has said, 'As long as true science requires.' God created Adam around 6000 years ago. But Earth is much older.Science now estimates it to be more than four billion years old.The Day the Dinosaurs Died?Bullinger's note on Genesis 1:1 reads: 'The World That Then Was' (2Peter 3:5,6). Creation in eternity past, to which all Fossils and 'Remains'belong.4Earth we are told was habitable when God created it (Isaiah 45:18).Dinosaurs may have been part of the 'the world that then was.'
Weknow they were here long, long ago.A big question among scientists is, 'What happened to the dinosaurs?' A wide range of theories—some of them quite funny—were put forthto answer this question. But recently many scientists have agreed on atheory that the last of the dinosaurs died on one cataclysmic day. They26The World That Then Wasbelieve that a widespread mass extinction of animal life occurred when anasteroid collided with earth.It is possible they are coming closer to the truth in that they realizethere was indeed one catastrophic day.I believe it was the day Lucifer fell.For the Word of God gives us another passage using tohu v'bohu.
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