THE BLESSING OF THE LORD AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD !

THE BLESSING OF THE LORD AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD ! If Moses, word has experienced only cloud veiled glimpses of God's glory, has such a desperate desire to see THE LORD, imagine what Adam and Eve must have felt after the Fall. Imagine how they must have grieved over their spiritual blindness. They had once fellowship with God face-to-face. They had walked with Him and talked with Him in the cloud of the day. But through sin and spiritual death, they'd been separated from Him. That's why it is necessary for you to be born again in order to be connected back to God. Essentially, they were in the same situation Moses, with one big difference. They knew what they were missing. Many folks who are not born again do not know what they're missing, because of spiritual blindness and spiritual death ! The splendor of God's glory and the realm of the spirit had once been as tangible and accessible to them as the material realm. Now that whole realm had vanished, and they found themselves trapped by darkness below the light line. Below the light line is darkness and spiritual death. What is the light line ? It's the line that separates the spiritual realm from the material realm. It exists because the light God released on the first day of Creation functions on two different levels. The higher level constitutes the world of the spirit, and the lower (or slower) level constitutes the physical world of matter. The Bible says that it the time of Creation, God made both a seen and an unseen realm. Many people put more faith in the seen realm than they do in the unseen realm. "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible. . ." The invisible realm above the light line, is where angels and other spirit beings live. Heaven is there. All kinds of glorious things or there. We can't see them with our natural eyes or touch them with our natural hands, but they're there, nonetheless, and just as real (or even more real than the natural) as the things in this physical realm. Above the light line, spirit to spirit is firm and tangible, just as in the natural realm flash to flesh is firm and tangible. Angels can touch one another. They can see each other. They aren't just floating mists, disappearing and reappearing. Their bodies have form and substance just as ours do, but they are made of spiritual, rather than material substance. Because of that fact, as long as we are in our physical bodies, you and I can't see them, unless God permits it. Occasionally, when they are on special assignment at the direction of THE LORD, they'll slow down to our speed and made an appearance. But otherwise, our natural senses cannot detect their presence. When we die, that is when the body dies, however, and our spirit leave our bodies, all that changes. We will instantly become aware of the spirit realm. It will be as real to us as this earthly realm is now. We'll be able to see, touch and interact with everything and everyone in it. If your loved ones have died in Christ you will see them again, they are in your future. The moment our reborn spirits, which are already functioning at that upper-level of light speed, are free from the encumbrance of our bodies, we will suddenly find ourselves in heaven. "Absent from the body, and present with THE LORD. Now, this is not so with the unborn again person or persons: to be absent from the body is to be present in hell ! Brother Lewis, will we lose our shape when that happens ? Will we just become a ghost or some kind of spiritual cloud ? No, our spirits aren't a shapeless vapor, they have the same form our natural bodies have. Our spirits fit into our bodies like a hand fits into a glove. So, when we slip out of our bodies, we'll look just like we do now--- but a lot better and more glorious. Everything in the heavenly realm is superior to this natural realm. Everything in it shines with the perfection and glory of God. That's why it was such a blow for Adam and Eve to lose contact with that realm. Before the Fall, the glorious things in the spiritual world were just as real and visible to them as natural thing. The fire of God's glory that clothed them was a spiritual substance, but they could see it.