A MASSIVE, GOD ORDAINED TRAP !

A MASSIVE, GOD ORDAINED TRAP ! In a flash, the demonic party was over. The spirits of darkness that has been reveling over the mistaken idea that Jesus the man was forever whipped, scattered and quaked like the cowards they are. He towered over them, looking like God Almighty Himself, speaking with God's own voice, eyes blazing with His glory, highly exalted and having been given the Name that is above every name: actually this is how every born again believer is supposed to be looking; because Christ Jesus is in you: you are supposed to develop that inner image that it may flow outwardly. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:10-11). That's when Jesus started to kick some demonic backside. He went into combat mode behind the gates of hell and won every fight. You cannot expect to have victory in your life when you're not conforming into the image of Christ Jesus: looking like the world, and saying what the world says: Jesus "Who, being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant , and was made in the likeness of men : and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." you should think it not robbery to be equal with Jesus as a man: after all, we are created in God's image and likeness. He defeated every demon, every principality, every power. And, He did it as the Son of Man: not as the Son of God; to show us that are born again of the same spirit have the same power dwelling in us. Then, "having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumping over them in it. in His death, burial, and resurrection" He put the devil and his defeated forces on public display. The New Testament terminology likens it to how the Romans army paraded their conquered foes through the streets of Rome. While jubilant crowds cheered in victory, vanquished kings and military leaders became spectacles as they were marched through the city as prisoners, bound with chains and with yokes around their necks. They were put on display as trophies of conquests for all to see. Jesus did essentially the same thing to the Enemies of humanity. After He conquered them and took the keys of death and hell away from him, Jesus paraded the devil down the avenues of hell in full view of the heroes of faith they watched in awe from the regions of the dead, in the place the Bible calls Abraham's bosom-paradise. All the prophets of the Old Testament--- those in the Hall of Faith - listed in (Hebrews 11--- were there in the grandstands that day, cheering wildly as Jesus defeated Satan, abolished death and brought forth life and in mortality. They must have been having an absolute fit of joy while all that was going on. I can almost hear them shouting, "Put it on him, Jesus ! Whip him again !" Those Old Covenant saints were thrilled, not only because the battle was being won, but because it was being won by a born again man--- a man as human as they, are you or me--- a man who had been dragged deeper into hell than any other and he had borne all sin and sicknesses as well as diseases. This born again man overpowered the entire demonic kingdom, dethroning him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and delivered them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. What's more, the same born again, resurrected man is the second Person of the Godhead today He didn't become something else when He ascended back into heaven. He is still a man. He will forever be a man. He has the same body He had while ministering on earth. It's glorified now, of course. The blood that once flowed through His veins was poured out in a sacrifice for us and replaced with the glory of God, but it's the same flesh- and bone body He had when He went to the Cross. He proved that to Thomas after the resurrection when He held up His hands and showed him the nail holes in them. Those holes are big enough to stick your finger through. The Roman nails that made them weighed over 2 pounds a piece, and the head of each was big enough to cover the entire palm of Jesus hand. This is the startling truth of Christianity--- that God's Son became a man forever and there is a resurrected, glorified man in the Trinity ! He Is the Champion of champions. He is the Victor of all, and He is our representative. We have been brought into the Godhead through Him Jesus The Anointed One !