Truth #52 states, \u201cGod is restoring knowledge concerning the rightful place of women in the family. This involves the start of the greater removal of the curse laid upon women from the beginning which was the result of sin.\u201d<\/p>\n
In past sermons and in a post addressing this subject, it has never been stated that women would ever experience a time when labor pain would no longer exist or that God would remove it. Women experiencing labor pain at birth has very little to do with the curses that came upon Adam and Eve after they sinned, and it has\u00a0nothing<\/strong>whatsoever to do with the 52nd Truth. Although this truth has been addressed in sermons and a post, it would be good to now build upon what has already been covered.<\/p>\n Restoring that Knowledge<\/strong> It would be good to begin by focusing more closely upon what this truth actually does say as stated within the \u201c57 Truths.\u201d<\/p>\n It states that this truth about women is something God is \u201crestoring knowledge\u201d of, but only within His Church, as the world cannot receive it. The reality and truth is that this knowledge was lost not long after God created Adam and Eve. This knowledge concerned\u00a0how<\/strong>\u00a0husbands and wives should \u201clive\u201d toward one another and toward God. It was knowledge based on spiritual law \u2013 that which affects the mind and thinking process that can work in harmony with the mind (the word, the ways) of God. This \u201cspiritual process\u201d at work in the mind of mankind requires access to God\u2019s spirit, as God\u2019s spiritual knowledge (of His laws, ways, truth) cannot be seen or sustained in the human mind without God\u2019s spirit and a\u00a0continuing<\/strong>\u00a0access to it.<\/p>\n God did not create Adam and Eve and then abandon them as some kind of caveman and cavewoman. God educated them and taught them\u00a0how<\/strong>\u00a0to live life. This means they were not left to themselves to have to figure out (decide for themselves) how to live. How people live determines what their experience in life will be like \u2013 good or bad, fulfilled or lacking and filled with emptiness, rewarding or suffering loss, joyful or sorrowful, exciting or filled with dread and fear, happy or sad, etc. God\u2019s ways that are contained in His word (His ways, His laws, and His truths) produce (yield) only one way \u2013 one result: fullness, joy, excitement, reward, contentment, and happiness in life \u2013 true peace.<\/p>\n Once Adam and Eve sinned, they began to \u201cthink differently\u201d from what God had given to them as \u201cthe way\u201d to think, which was one of unity and agreement with His ways. From that point forward, mankind became \u201ccut off\u201d from a true relationship with God, and the true knowledge of God\u2019s ways became polluted and defiled by mankind\u2019s \u201cown thinking,\u201d which is deciding for oneself what is right and what is wrong. God\u2019s own words as the only true source of the right ways of life were rejected \u2013 God was rejected. That is the \u201cway of mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n From the beginning, mankind became cut off from God \u2013 from His spirit. After this, for the next 6,000 years, only those whom God specifically called could come into a relationship with Him and then receive of His word, knowledge, truth, and of how to live life His way. But even in this, God has only progressively revealed His ways in an increasing manner through time, as He has been leading mankind back into the kind of relationship they could have with Him and one another, just as it was given in the beginning.<\/p>\n From Adam and Eve and up through the next 6,000 years, God has worked to bring mankind into the millennial reign of His Kingdom on earth. It is in this Kingdom that His Son will \u201crestore all things\u201d purposed in the beginning that mankind should have had as the true ways and true knowledge of life. This is why the words of Peter on the Day of Pentecost in 31 AD are so profound and meaningful.<\/p>\n \u201cRepent (Gk. – think differently) therefore and become converted (\u201cchanged\u201d \u2013 back to becoming what God offered in the beginning) so that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord\u201d (Acts 3:19).<\/p>\n Before quoting the rest of what Peter said, it is important to stop here and explain the word used as \u201crefreshing.\u201d It is from a Greek word meaning \u201crevival\u201d or \u201cthe recovery of breath (life).\u201d This is explaining the very process we are covering in this post. Adam and Eve turned away from the \u201cthinking\u201d (mind, word, revelatory thought) of God to their \u201cown thinking\u201d which is what mankind has followed ever since. Mankind judges for himself what he decides is right and wrong. Mankind\u00a0does<\/strong>\u00a0not<\/strong>\u00a0look to God for such true knowledge. God\u2019s plan is about a process of bringing mankind back into a unity and harmony with Him that He offered in the beginning.<\/p>\n So Peter is stating that there is a need for people to \u201cthink differently\u201d (repent) than they presently do (selfishly as from their own authority). They are to become \u201cchanged\u201d (converted) by doing so \u00ad\u2013 by thinking and then living differently, and thereby coming into harmony with God\u2019s ways \u2013 living them, which God had given from the beginning. Then their sins (walking contrary to God) will begin to be blotted out. This process is then referred to as a \u201ctime of refreshing\u201d that comes from the very presence of God in one\u2019s life.<\/p>\n This word translated as \u201crefreshing\u201d is incredibly meaningful when understood in Greek. Its meaning is also the very context of this post. Upon repentance and becoming changed (converted) by what we are living, we begin to be \u201crevived\u201d \u2013 to \u201crecover the life\u201d God offered in the beginning. But even more interesting and meaningful is that this Greek word is from a compound word. The first word means \u201crepetition or reversal.\u201d The other word means \u201cin the past\u201d or \u201cof yesterday.\u201d All this is literally speaking of the need to think differently and to now become changed into what God offered from His very presence \u201cin the past\u201d \u2013 in the beginning.<\/p>\n When are those \u201ctimes\u201d of refreshing that can only come from the presence of the Lord? For the Church over the past 2,000 years, that \u201ctime\u201d came for each person\u00a0when<\/strong>God called them. That \u201ctime of refreshing\u201d will come to the whole world in the Millennium.<\/p>\n Repeating Lesson<\/strong> In the beginning, in the Garden of Eden, God began to educate mankind in His ways of life. There was much knowledge of God\u2019s ways and purpose to be given, but it was cut short in sin. The first two, who were a married couple \u2013 the first parents \u2013 were cut off from God. Adam and Eve not only ceased to learn more of that which God had offered to continue to give them, but they began to lose what they had already received.<\/p>\n The example of what happened to Adam and Eve has been repeated constantly throughout the history of God\u2019s Church. However, there is one great difference. Adam and Eve were given access to God\u2019s spirit from the beginning, but in time they made a choice to disobey God and they became cut off from that spiritual life sustaining power that enables mankind to \u201csee\u201d what is of God and to be able to retain it. Once sin entered, their eyes were closed and they could no longer continue in God\u2019s ways.<\/p>\n Since that time, individuals have had to be \u201ccalled\u201d (invited) into a relationship with God through God\u2019s mercy and grace that is extended to them. Once the Church began, the means for the forgiveness of sin and the greater purpose God was working in mankind (to become Elohim) through the Passover became manifest. Upon being called into God\u2019s Church and receiving the Passover sacrifice into their lives, individuals were given constant and continual access to God\u2019s spirit as they consistently would repent and change. However, there are those who have been tried and tested who would no longer follow God as they reverted back to the old sin of deciding for themselves what is right and wrong about following God. They became cut off from God\u2019s spirit, just as Adam and Eve were cut off from the tree of life. But for someone in the Church to do this, when turning against what God had drawn them to, they multiplied sin upon themselves by not only rejecting God, but by rejecting His sacrifice given to mankind \u2013 His Son who became their Passover. The apostle John actually teaches that they become antichrist at such time, and continue to be so unless or until they come to repent of not following where Christ leads. Obviously, this is no small thing with God.<\/p>\n This reveals one of the most important and most basic lessons of life. God\u2019s laws, ways, truth and word are spiritual and can only be learned and sustained by God\u2019s constant spirit \u2013 from the presence of the Lord \u2013 abiding in one\u2019s life. Sin cuts off that constant flow of God\u2019s spirit, and in the Church one must additionally have consistent repentance and change (conversion) in\u00a0how<\/strong>\u00a0one is living (growing spiritually) and applying God\u2019s way of life.<\/p>\n If someone today becomes cut off from God\u2019s spirit, they can no longer\u00a0hear<\/strong>\u00a0what they could hear before. The much needed removal of the curse upon women can then be seen as a physical matter of physical labor at childbirth rather than the spiritual result of wrong thinking in the mind that comes from the absence of God\u2019s spirit in the reliance upon self to make decisions in life of right or wrong. Rather than seeing God as their \u201crock\u201d of safety and protection, people will look to a physical location of Petra for safety and protection. Rather than seeing who the man of sin was in the Apostasy of the Church, people will begin to turn to the identity of the pope being the man of sin or of his being \u201cthe antichrist.\u201d This list could go on and on, for these are the kind of things that have happened to people who once had the life of God and Christ abidingin<\/strong>\u00a0them, but became as Adam and Eve \u2013 separated from God\u2019s spirit.<\/p>\n If one encounters sin of which they will not repent or if one ceases to apply what is being learned (taught \u2013 as the \u201c57 Truths\u201d), then God\u2019s presence (indwelling) of His spirit will cease to\u00a0live<\/strong>\u00a0in that person\u2019s life. They can no longer continue learning what God progressively reveals, but they will quickly begin to lose what was given. A person cannot be sustained in the spiritual truths and ways of God without His spirit dwellingin<\/strong>\u00a0them. It seems so simple, but when cut off from God\u2019s spirit there is\u00a0no<\/strong>\u00a0longer the ability to\u00a0see<\/strong>\u00a0what is spiritual \u2013 what is\u00a0from<\/strong>\u00a0God.<\/p>\n \u201cRepent (think differently) therefore and become converted (changed through transformation) so that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And He (God) shall send Jesus Christ (once called, both can come to dwell in one\u2019s life), who was preached unto you. Whom the heaven must receive until the restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world began\u201d (Acts 3:19-21).<\/p>\n The \u201crestitution of all things\u201d will come to all mankind through Jesus Christ once the Kingdom of God has been established. This \u201crestitution\u201d in Greek literally means \u201creconstitution\u201d and is a compound origin meaning to \u201crestore again.\u201d God is going to restore again what He began to give and reveal in the beginning. Through time, God has been progressively restoring truth \u2013 His ways and purpose \u2013 to mankind for 6,000 years (primarily the 144,000 up to this very end-time). As we are nearly to the end of that period and about to enter the Millennial period, God has been accelerating His restoration of His ways to help prepare and pave \u201cthe way\u201d for the restitution of all things in the Millennium.<\/p>\n (Part\u00a0 2 will be coming some time next week)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Truth #52 states, \u201cGod is restoring knowledge concerning the rightful place of women in the family. 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\nFrom the beginning, when God began to reveal this truth to His Church, it was always in the context of both men and women throughout the world and their coming out of the bondage of spiritual Egypt in the Millennium. As God\u2019s truth spreads into all the world through the establishment of His one true Church and the removal of all other false religions, the rightful place of women, especially in the family, will begin to be restored to the true purpose and beauty God created it to be at the beginning. God has partially begun to restore this in His Church, which is the\u00a0means<\/strong>\u00a0of removing the curse (not physical labor pain), just before the Millennium.<\/p>\n
\nThe misapplied and misappropriated statement quoted in the beginning of this post, coupled with the subject of the 52nd Truth, is the crux of the issue at hand regarding what Peter was preaching on that Day of Pentecost when the Church was born. The greatest lesson in all this is one that has been repeated constantly throughout the history of God\u2019s Church and it all began with Adam and Eve.<\/p>\n