Genesis Lecture 4 (Division of Spirit 1)
Bible passage: Genesis 1:1
“ In the beginning God created heavens and the earth”
Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord.
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This is the 4th Session on Genesis. Previously, I explained how Original God became God the Trinity. The Original God existed in the whole Original Universe in the form of The Light that contained The Sound. Then, He cohered Himself as one Light at the vertex of the spiritual realm. Then He divided Himself into 3 who each one of them took on a spiritual man form. It is in this way that the Original God became God the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. They are an individual being, however their spiritual forms are a little bit different from each other. However, the Spirit in each remains that was separated from the same Original One Spirit.
Therefore, all three of them share one heart and one thought. Their ability and wisdom are also the same. And so, we call God "the Father", God "the Son", and God "the Holy Spirit" as "God the Trinity". I will now explain about the "Division of Spirit" that God the Trinity performs. When people are really busy, they say, "I wish I could have a clone of myself." Haven't you ever thought that it would be good if you had a clone of yourself?
If you could do it, how great it would be to do much more work ! Moreover, if you have to multitask at the same time, these thoughts become increasingly intense. Thanks to the well-developed communication technology, you are able to take care of many things on the computer. However, it is definitely less effective than that you visiting the location and taking care of the job personally. Sometimes, it’s necessary to be there in person. For example, your parents, who live far from you, desperately want to see you. In this case, actually visiting your parents is a much happier thing to them than your giving them a calling. Maybe you would like to clone yourself and let one of your part visit your parents, if you could. However, it is beyond the scope of man's ability.
That's why in case like this people usually say, "Even though I cannot be there physically, my heart is always there." Unlike man, however, God the Trinity can send their spiritual form wherever their heart goes. Moreover, they can do it at the same time, anywhere, anytime, anyplace, and whenever they want. It is possible because God the Trinity can infinitely divide their spirit into many. Such things are beyond our human imagination, but it’s possible to God. This 'Division of God the Trinity's Spirit" is what I'm going to talk about in this lecture.
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ. It was the inaugural division of the spirit when God cohered and divided Himself to 3. The concept of one light being divided into three doesn’t mean that one lump is divided into three pieces. It's more like creating two new lights from the original. You should correctly understand the First Division of the Spirit. Let's say, you have a document with a stamped seal, and you make 2 copies of it. Then, you now have 2 that are identical to the original one. But, are the 2 copies as valuable as the original one? Even though the content is the same, their validities are different. It is because there is only one original copy with a seal. Even though the 2 copies may have the mark of the seal, they do not have the validity. However, when God the Origin divided into God the Trinity, it was more like making 2 more identical clones of the original one. It doesn’t mean 2 copies that no have the validity. In other words, 2 more exact identical entities were made from the one original entity. That's why Philippians 2:6 says, "He (The Lord) existed in the form of God." It says our Lord is from God Himself, forming of God.
It means that the entity of the Jesus the Lord shares the same entity with the essence of the Original God. As does the entity of God the Holy Spirit. The occasion of the Original God dividing into God the Trinity has taken place once for all time before eternity and after all eternity. Dear brothers and sisters. The Dividing of the Spirit is like sharing the heart. The Original God divided His Heart, and put each divided heart in the form of God the Son and of God the Holy Spirit. How can a heart that is divided from God the Origin appear as an independent entity? Let's take an example of a man who can express what he has in his heart outwardly.
When he has hatred in his heart, he can express it through words, gestures, or actions. Despising or criticizing words, hardened face, aggressive actions are such means of expression. On the contrary, if he loves someone, his heart can also be revealed through words, face looks, or actions. He may confess his love in words, he may show bright smiles, or he may hold the other's hand, or hug them tenderly. Now, God can not only put what He has in His heart into actions, but He can also put it into a certain form. He can create a certain physical thing out of what He harbors in His heart. With this, God the Origin divided God the Son and God the Holy Spirit that have the perfect heart of God the Origin. From this moment on, God the Origin became God the Father.
I explained that God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, who are like Sons of God, have the perfect heart of God the Father. Not only their heart, but their ability and wisdom are also identical. Therefore, the ability that God the Father has, that is, to divide the Spirit, is also equally given to God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. God the Son and God the Holy Spirit can also infinitely divide their Spirit as many as they please. However, here division is each God Himself divided Himself to many. However, the 'Division of Spirit', which is forming and identical copy of entities from the Original Entity took place only once when God the Origin divided into God the Trinity. Please remember God the Origin becoming God the Trinity, called “the Division of the Spirit,” happened only once. However, the division of spirit here means an infinite number of divided entities of spirit. This can be done by each in God the Trinity.
Also, this separation of spirit can be performed only by God the Trinity. Then, can we, creatures divide our spirit, too? No, we can’t. We sometimes experience our spirit is separated from our body, but our spirit cannot be divided. Human beings have spirit, and the heavenly host and angels, and even evil spirits are spiritual beings. A spiritual being refers to a being that has immortal attributes. The spiritual beings that belong to God, the heavenly host and angels, shine brightly. On the other hand, the evil spirits that belong to the darkness appear to be surrounded by dark black smoke. When your spiritual eyes are opened, you can see that people who are possessed by demons are surrounded by dark smoke. Therefore, it is possible to discern those who are possessed by demons or influenced by evil spirits. Evil spirits appear to be surrounded by black smoke It is in this way there are spiritual beings, but they cannot perform the division of spirit. It can be done only by God the Trinity.
It is because only God the Trinity has the ability to give form to what He thinks in His heart. From now on, I'm going to give you detailed explanation on the division of spirit that is done by each of God the Trinity. The division of spirit that I'll explain is "to divide many spirits that resemble the heart of each of God the Trinity." God the Trinity accomplishes the division of spirit and He sends his divided entity to where He is not to be. Say, God the Trinity wants to be in a certain place or to supervise with a certain purpose. Then, through the division of spirit, the heart of God becomes a divided entity, and goes to the place on behalf of Himself. In the days of the Old Testament God the Father Himself worked through the people of God.
For example, in Genesis 1:7, Genesis 26:2, Genesis 26:24 'the LORD' appeared before Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and talked to each one of them. These are the cases when a divided entity of God the Father, not God the Father Himself, came to the earth. Of course, sometimes, God the Father Himself came to the earth. For instance, Exodus 19:10-11 says, "The LORD also said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments; and let them be ready for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people." That's right, the Israelites did not see God. Only Moses could see God. In this way, if you want to stand before God, you must be sanctified and become holy.
We must diligently wash the linen and clean it before coming to God. Who do you stand in front of when you come to church? It is to stand before the God the Almighty. God is in the temple and is looking at you with eyes like flames, so you must come with a clean heart and wear a neat suit. When you go to a wedding or a party, you wear a suit or your dressiest clothes. When going to church, you should have to dress neatly. “The Lord said to Moses, ‘Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes and prepare themselves to wait for the third day.’” So make everything ready and wait for the third day. “For on the third day I, the LORD, will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people,” he said. And so the Israelites washed their garments for 2 days and sanctified themselves. Since holiness of heart is invisible to the eyes, washing clothes and bathing shows that one approaches God in purity. And if your heart is clen, your outward appearance will also be clean.
Early on the 3rd day, there was thunder and lightning flashing and a thick cloud covered the mountain. And Exodus 19:18 says, "Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently." When the original entity of the LORD God came down, special things like this took place. The LORD God showed only His back to Moses, as written in Exodus 33:23. The reason God didn't show His face is that, as written in Exodus 33:20, "No man can see God and live." Because "No man can see God and live.", God showed His back to people, even to Moses who was meeker than any other person on earth. As the original entity of the LORD God came to the earth, even Moses couldn't see His face. However, Moses could see the form of God the Father. Numbers 12:8 says, "With him I speak mouth to mouth, Even openly, and not in dark sayings, and he beholds the form of the LORD."
Moses was the humblest than all people on earth, and he was faithful in (God's) whole house. And thus, he could speak with the LORD God "mouth to mouth, even openly." (Numbers 12:8) By the way, among God the Trinity, when God the Father works, the terms, "the LORD," or "the LORD God" was used. It's a bit difficult because there are many different words and different meanings. Regardless of the original entity or a divided entity, it was the case when the subject of the work was God the Father. There are too many unfortunate cases of misunderstanding the Bible. God exists on his own. No one gave birth to God. He is simply He IS. The same goes for the Lord. Since the Lord is the very essence of God, there cannot be a mother for the Lord. Could the Virgin Mary be His mother?
In the Bible, there is not a single place where the Lord calls the Virgin Mary mother. When the Lord was crucified, He told John that the Virgin Mary was now John’s mother. John was next her at the time. In other words, the Lord asked John to take care of the Virgin Mary. The Lord always called her Virgin Mary "Woman" The Virgin Mary cannot be the mother of the Lord. In the Bible, on the part of her Lord's disciples, she is called the mother of the Lord. But the Lord never called her mother because she cannot be the Lord’s mother. What is a mother? Only when a child is born with his or her mother's eggs , she becomes the child's mother. The child’s father is the person who gave the child's sperm. The Lord was not born from a woman's egg, but was conceived by the Holy Spirit.
He was born only by using the body of the Virgin Mary. Therefore, the Lord does not have original sin because He was not born from an egg and a sperm. He was born without original sin So, the Lord satisfied the first condition of the Savior and did not commit any personal sins on this earth until He died on the cross. Because the Lord lived only according to the commandments of God and had neither original sin nor actual sin, only the blood of the Lord can atone for our sins. That is why the blood of the Lord is called the precious blood. If the Bible mentions "God" only, it means God the Trinity worked together. Genesis 1:1 says, "In the beginning, God created heavens and the earth." And, it is written that all the works of Creation in Genesis Chapter 1 was done by "God."
It is to indicate that the Creation was not done by God the Father alone, but by God the Trinity together. Of course, it was God the Father who took the lead in Creation. However, God the Son and the God the Holy Spirit also accomplished the works of Creation along with God the Father. As seen in Chapter 1 of Genesis, God said, “After our image,” that is, it is expressed in plural rather than singular, because the Trinity God conducted the creation. John 1:10 says, "the world was made through Him, who is Jesus Christ, God the Son who came to the earth." It says “the world was made through Him,” Since God the Son also has the power of creation, when He came to the earth as Jesus, He manifested many works of creation.
For example, without the power of creation, reviving Lazarus, who had been dead for 4 days, could not have taken place. Think about that Lazarus has been three days since the burial, and the body is rotting and smelling. The Lord’s done to raise Lazarus from the dead. This means that all dead cells, nerve tissue, and decayed flesh must be made new. The Lord creates his all organs new. Transcending space and time, anything is possible to the Lord to heal the patient with power of creation by only His word. In addition, non-living things such as the wind and waves obeyed the word of Jesus, and it also proves that Jesus was the Creator. Likewise, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit accomplished the works of Creation together with God the Father.
However, Genesis 2:4 says, "This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven." Previously, the bible says clearly that God the Trinity worked together on the Creation. Then, why does the Bible here say that the LORD God made earth and heaven? It is just a difference in the point of view. Genesis Chapter 1 and 2 are not different. Genesis Chapter 1 writes about the Creation as God the Trinity being the subject, but Chapter 2, as God the Father being the subject. This comes out differently depending on where the subject is described.
It also implies that, even though the Creation was managed by God the Trinity together, it was God the Father who took the leading role. Say, three brothers established a company. They agreed that they share the company equally, and that they discuss the running of the company together, but that the eldest take the role of the CEO. Now, if someone asks a question, "Who owns this company?" the answer may vary depending on the point of view of those giving the answers. Some may say all three brothers own the company, but others may say the company belongs to the eldest brother. Now, both the answers are correct. Since 3 brothers founded and have run the company together, the company belongs to all of them. However, since the eldest brother is the CEO, it can be said that it is his company as well.
By the same token, it is true that the works of Creation were done by God the Trinity together, and it is also true that God the Father managed all the Creation since He took the leading role. If you read the Bible remembering this fact, you can understand many things. You can also understand why the Bible uses the term, "God" here, but "the LORD God" there. Besides, there are other terms in the Bible; they are "the Spirit of God," and "the Spirit of the LORD." If such terms are used, then most of time, it is the case when God or the LORD God worked through a divided entity. Then, what is difference between the Spirit of God in Old Testament and New Testament Have you ever wondered why the Holy Spirit has different names? If this can be clearly distinguished, it will be a strength to the servants and workers of the Lord. Some churches still pray in the name of the Father, Son, and the Spirit of God.
However, the Holy Spirit is a title in the Old Testament, and the Holy Spirit is in the New Testament. We need to know why the name of the Holy Spirit is different in the Old Testament and the New Testament. We really need to know right away. We now pray in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In this era, we must call God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Trinity. Then, I will explain later when the Holy Spirit was called The Spirit of God. Now, even when divided entities are working, their names are different according to their roles. In addition to the 'Spirit of the LORD", there are more names for the divided entity of God the Father, There is a reason why each name is different when He is called the heart of God, the Spirit of God. They are "the Spirit of glory" as in 1 Peter 4:14. "the spirit of wisdom" as in Exodus 28:3, "the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning" as in Isaiah 4:4, and "the seven spirits of God" as in the Revelation. I will also explain about the roles of each in great detail later.
It may feel too difficult now, but I will let you know it step by step. So far, I've explained how God the Father works as in the form of a divided entity. Dear brothers and sisters. Not only God the Father, but God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are also able to perform the division of spirit that allows for separation of an infinite number of divided entities. Now, let's take a look how God the Son works through the divided entities. God the Son also has His own original entity. Through the division of spirit, He also sends His divided entity where He wants to be. Since God the Son came to this earth as Jesus and became Christ (the Messiah), we call God the Son, "the Lord."
Therefore, if the bible uses the term, "the spirit of the Lord," the spirit of Christ," or "the spirit of Jesus," it is good to say that these terms are used to refer to the divided entities of the Lord. In addition, "the Spirit of holiness" as in Roman 1:4 is also a divided entity of the Lord. According to a situation and a role at the given moment, the name of the divided entity becomes different. How helpful will it be if you know these things and read the Bible? All the divided entities of the Lord resemble the original entity of the Lord exactly. However, those who have spiritual eyes can sometimes see the Lord hung on the cross, or the Lord wearing a crown of thorns. The Lord accomplishes the division of spirit in order to give special grace and understanding according to the situation. If He divides His Spirit while thinking in His heart of the moment when He was suffering on the cross, the divided entity appears with that look.
If you can remember this kind of division of spirit of the Lord, you can understand many things from the bible. For example, in Matthew 18:20, Jesus says, "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst." Even at this moment on the earth, there may be many places where people gather in the name of Jesus Christ. How many places of worship are there in this world? There are also many places where two or three people gather to pray in the name of the Lord. The Lord clearly says that where two or three gather together in My name, there Am I among them. When you two or three gather together to pray, who will come? It is one of His spirits that the Lord divides Himself to. Even at this very moment, there are probably many places where two or three people are gathered together and praying in the name of the Lord.
It may be well over thousands or tens of thousands. How can the Lord be in such many places? Through the division of spirit, the divided entities of the Lord can be everywhere all at the same time. The original entity of the Lord is in Heaven. In this way, One of the divided entities of the Lord stays where the Lord’s heart goes. If what the Bible says is true, the Lord Himself will not go everywhere in person. Since there is only one Lord, the His original entity, how can He be in so many places at the same time? That's why He sends His divided entities. And, They are totally the same with the Lord when your spiritual eyes are open. The Lord is in heaven and His divided entities work in this way. The time that the Lord's original entity will come down to this earth is when the Millennium Kingdom begins (after the 7 Year Wedding banquet is over.) The Lord, the original entity of the Lord, will descend in the air and after the 7-year wedding feast, He will come to the earth when beginning the Millennium Kingdom.
Do you know what I mean? When He comes down to this earth before this, it is the divided entity of the Lord. Now, how will the Lord go to all the places where people gather in the name of the Lord and be with them? Let's say a couple of people gather in the name of the Lord, and give a worship service or praise together. It will be reported to the Lord by angels. As the Lord looks down at the praying people, He becomes delighted. It is because they worship in spirit and truth, pray properly according to the will of the Lord, and sing praises to the Lord from the depths of their hearts. Then, the Lord comes to have a thought in His heart, "I want to be with them."
Then, such a heart of the Lord becomes a divided entity that is in the same form of the Lord, and goes to that place. Let’s say two or three of you are gathered together to pray and praise. But the Lord may or may not be with you. The Lord will be with you only when you believe in and fear God, believe in and fear our Lord, and pray and praise Him. Even if more than 100 of you gather, if the praise and prayers are not offered with faith and love, but are done with fleshly thoughts and hearts, the Lord is not with you. He will be with you when you truly fear, praise, and pray to God and the Lord from your inner heart. In this way, the Lord can be in the midst of where people gather in the name of the Lord. It is done exactly according to the Bible.
Jesus didn't say meaning for it to be a figure of speech. An actual entity divided out from the Lord proceeds from Him. Where the Lord puts His heart, the Lord can be with us in spirit no matter where it is. The spirit of the Lord will be with people as appropriate, give answers to them as well as blessing. He works for those who need to repent so that they can repent. The Lord is searching over the earth from heaven even at this moment. No matter where a person may be who desperately searches and earnestly seeks the Lord, the Lord sends His spirit there, to the person. However, the Lord does not join in the presence with people just because they gather together and ask the Lord to be with them. When those who truly love the Lord gather together with a (unified) and longing heart for the Lord and seek for the Lord, the Lord is with them in spirit.
If you pray with all your heart and attend meetings, God will answer to your prayers quickly. Another example of the Lord's division of spirit is found in Mark 16:20. It says, "And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them, and confirmed the word by the signs that followed." After the resurrection of the Lord, the disciples that were remaining diligently preached the Gospel. At this time, the Lord was with them, and confirmed the gospel is true by showing signs. This moment, the Spirit of the Lord, which is the divided entity of the Lord, was with His disciples. Even though it was a divided entity, as the spirit of the Lord was together, signs also followed like this. When signs follow, definitively outstanding works also follow.
The lame come to walk, the blind come to see, and the deaf come to hear. But there is a clue here. When you believe with your heart. The Lord also worked when the need believed in Him. When Peter lifted up a lame man and when the Lord lifted up a paralytic, the friends of the patient believed in Him and carried the patient on a stretcher. He saw their faith and worked. The doubter asks, “Why doesn’t it work for me?” But the Lord sees your faith and works. So, the Lord showed people evidence and testified His words so that they could believe.
As the spirit of the Lord is together with them, such signs and wonders follow, and various works of God's power are also manifested. Let me wrap it up today. I will explain about the division of the Holy Spirit.
