{"id":5600,"date":"2021-03-12T00:03:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T00:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2021-01-29T04:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T04:10:46","slug":"another-coffee-break-supernatural-mathematics-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/another-coffee-break-supernatural-mathematics-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER COFFEE BREAK: SUPERNATURAL MATHEMATICS Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element fusion-image-align-center in-legacy-container\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><div class=\"imageframe-align-center\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"457\" height=\"307\" title=\"defaultblog1\" src=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-2006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1-400x269.jpg 400w, https:\/\/regnersmorningcoffee.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/defaultblog1.jpg 457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1105px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;background:white'><span style='font-size:27.0pt;font-family:\"Arial\",\"sans-serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";color:#747474'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:27.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\r\ncolor:#984806'>SUPERNATURAL MATHEMATICS<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:26.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\r\ncolor:#984806'>Part 5<\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal'>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'>March 12, 2021<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.0pt;text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\r\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'>We got started last week on this\r\nlook at the number, 12, and the significance it plays in the picture of the New\r\nJerusalem.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The New Jerusalem, of course,\r\nis the portrayal of the Bride of Christ John saw and wrote about in Revelation\r\n21.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Because the number 12 has such\r\nsignificance as a metaphor for the completed Bride, the Bride who has gone\r\nthrough the fire, been tested, and overcame all in order to become the\r\nCounterpart and Other Self of the Lord Jesus Christ, we see all of the other\r\nintricacies of this number unfold before us.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.0pt;text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#984806;\r\nmso-themecolor:accent6;mso-themeshade:128'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Last\r\nweek, we said that the New Jerusalem does not only consist of Jews.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Representing the call to, and gathering from,\r\nthe nations are the twelve foundation stones, and on them the names of the\r\ntwelve apostles who made up that first Ekklesia.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\r\ndual groups of 144,000 represent the two Brides \u2013 now made One.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The significance of the number, 144, is that\r\nit is 12 X 12; that is, a finished, a completed, a fully tested and tried\r\npeople.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The work of the Paraklete in\r\nEkklesia has been accomplished.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The time\r\nof Ekklesia has come to an end, and the finished Bride has been joined to her\r\nBridegroom.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>If\r\nyou will recall the vision of Zechariah, he saw the Golden Candlestick between\r\ntwo olive trees.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>When he asked the angel\r\nof the Lord what the two olive trees represented, the angel replied, <\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000;\r\nmso-bidi-font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>\u201cThese are the two\r\nanointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.\u201d<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>(Zechariah 4:14)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>While\r\nI recognize that there are other explanations and interpretations of these two\r\n\u201canointed ones,\u201d I am convinced that they represent the two segments of the\r\ncompleted and anointed Bride.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The two\r\nolive trees are the source of the olive oil used in the Golden\r\nCandlestick.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The Golden Candlestick was\r\nalways representative of the flame of love burning night and day for the\r\nBridegroom.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>In\r\nZechariah\u2019s vision, there is only one candlestick \u2013 not two.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The flame of the Bride is one.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>But it burns out of the oil from two source\r\nolive trees: the Bride taken from <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region\r\n w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>, and the Bride taken from\r\namong the nations of the earth.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The\r\nolive is metaphoric of the crushing process which takes place during Ekklesia\r\nas the Bride is prepared.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>A\r\ncorollary to this picture is the evidence of the two witnesses who appeared\r\nwith Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span>Peter, James and John saw Moses and Elijah.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Moses is representative of the Law, and the\r\nBride of Law.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Elijah typifies the Spirit,\r\nand the Bride of the Spirit.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>John\r\nwitnesses this in two other sets of measurements.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The city is 12,000 furlongs (roughly a\r\ndistance of 1,500 miles) long, 12,000 furlongs wide and 12,000 furlongs\r\nhigh.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Thus you have the twelve\r\nmultiplied by a thousand in triplicate.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span>It is a square of twelve.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Then\r\nJohn sees as the wall of the city is measured, 144 cubits thick.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Again he is shown the completion of the work\r\nof the Paraklete in Ekklesia as the city is protected by a barrier measuring 12\r\nX 12 cubits (roughly 216 feet) in thickness.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span>That barrier is the work of the Holy Spirit in the erection, the\r\nbuilding, and the fortification and complete protection wrought in the realm of\r\nthe spirit within the Bride.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\r\npicture of the city with its measurements, the makeup of the foundations in\r\ntwelve specific precious stones, and the representation of the gates in pearls,\r\nall depict a finished, a glorified, a united people \u2013 all grafted and\r\nintegrated together -- made One with Jesus Christ.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The study of the New Jerusalem is a study of\r\nthe completed Bride.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>There\r\nis no more Bride of Flesh or a Bride of Law, separated from the Bride of\r\nSpirit, or the Bride of Love.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Jesus\r\nChrist has reconciled all to Himself.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>By\r\nthis, I do not mean that the flesh and the Law can coexist with the Spirit and\r\nlove.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>They can not!<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>This is not a picture of the Bride of flesh\r\ncontinuing to serve the flesh, or the Bride of Law continuing in her bondage to\r\nthe Law.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Jesus was the end \u2013 the\r\ncompletion of the Law.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>He was its\r\nobjective!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Jesus, however, has made it\r\npossible, and is making it possible, for the those who have served the Law and\r\nthe flesh to have one more opportunity to reject them and overcome by the\r\nSpirit.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\r\nNew Jerusalem is that finished and prepared people, no longer divided by the\r\nLaw from relationship with the Bridegroom, and subservient to the flesh.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Flesh and Law, Love and Spirit have been\r\nreconciled together in and through Jesus Christ.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Do\r\nyou see it?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Do you see what the Lord is\r\ndoing among us?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Do you see why you have\r\nbeen going through the trials and afflictions which never seem to end?<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Do you see the objective of Jesus Christ, our\r\nBridegroom?<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Do you see the two Brides,\r\nmade One?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>If\r\nyou do, then you see what John was permitted to see in the Spirit!<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>If you do, you are seeing the Brightness of\r\nthe Lamb, the Glory of the Father, the surpassing greatness of His Love toward\r\nus.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>It has all been wrought because it\r\nis the will of the Father, the desire of the Son, and the purpose of the Holy\r\nSpirit.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>That will, that desire, that\r\npurpose are all summed up in Jesus Christ\u2019s inheritance in us!<\/span><span\r\nlang=EN style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\r\nTale of Two Brides really is just one tale.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Consider\r\nthis.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Jesus\r\nChrist has never had two plans.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>He has\r\nnever had a plan \u201cA,\u201d or a plan \u201cB\u201d if the first plan did not work.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region\r\n w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> was not Plan \u201cA.\u201d<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Neither was the \u201cWhosoever Will Bride\u201d an\r\nalternative to <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>When\r\nthe first words of Creation were spoken, Jesus knew, as did the Father and the\r\nHoly Spirit, that there was only one plan for one Bride and Counterpart.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Adam\r\nand Eve were not Israelites.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Contrary to\r\nthe opinion of some, Abraham and Isaac were not of the House of Israel, and\r\nthey were not Jews.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>They were simply the\r\nforebears.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>(I\u2019m not trying to shock\r\nyou.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>I just want you to see past <st1:place\r\nw:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>\r\nto the reality of the Bridegroom\u2019s call.)<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span>God\u2019s purpose was never to call Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and then --\r\nif their descendants missed the boat \u2013 choose an alternative.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Abraham\r\nwas the father of the Bride.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span>Period!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>He was the father of\r\nIsaac, and the<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>grandfather of Jacob,\r\nfrom whom descended the twelve tribes of <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region\r\n w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>He was also the father of those who walk by\r\nfaith.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\r\nfact that <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>\r\nfollowed after false gods and missed out so drastically in understanding the\r\npurposes of the Lord did not suddenly make them social outcasts in God\u2019s\r\nsight.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Neither did the Lord make a big\r\nmistake in choosing <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>It has never been a case of Jew versus\r\nGentile, or Hebrew versus Heathen.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>From\r\nthe beginning of time, Adam and Eve, Shem and his wife, Abraham and Sarah,\r\nJacob and Rachel and Leah, Judah and Tamar (the Canaanite), Salmon and Rahab\r\n(the Jebusite), Boaz and Ruth (the Moabite) Joshua and his wife, Caleb and his\r\nwife, David and Bathsheba (the Hittite), Esther and Xerxes (the Persian king)\r\nand a slew of others too numerous to recount, were incorporated into a single\r\nplan, together with those of every generation since the time that Jesus Christ appeared\r\nin person.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Adam\r\nand Eve were the first picture of the Bride in the earth.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Shem and his wife were the second.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Isaac and Jacob were the third.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region\r\n w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> \u2013 the twelve tribes -- was\r\nthe fourth.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The \u201cWhosoever Will\u201d people\r\nare the fifth.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Along\r\nthe way, the Lord incorporated into <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:country-region\r\n w:st=\"on\">Israel<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> those whose walk of faith\r\nand perseverance, love and overcoming exemplified His heart for a single people\r\ndrawn from every nation on earth.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The\r\npicture of Tamar the Canaanite girl, Rahab the Jebusite harlot, and Ruth the\r\nMidianite who descended from Lot, Abraham\u2019s nephew, is a<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>picture of those from condemned nations and\r\naccursed lifestyles being incorporated into the Bride because of the remarkable\r\nfaith demonstrated in the face of death.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\r\n<\/span>In them is the most dramatic demonstration of the opportunity Jesus\r\nChrist has made \u2013 and is making \u2013 for the Bride of flesh to overcome by faith.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Tamar,\r\nRahab, and Ruth were (ex-) citizens of those nations who had been judged,\r\nrejected and cursed by the Lord because of their sins of the flesh and their\r\nsins of the spirit.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Yet these three\r\nwomen were incorporated not only into the Bride, but into the direct lineage of\r\nJesus Christ because of their stupendous demonstrations of faith in God in the face\r\nof certain death.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>That\r\nwhich occurred on the day of Pentecost was a follow-up to Tamar, to Rahab, to\r\nRuth, to Esther.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>On that day, there were\r\ngathered together some seventeen different peoples or nationalities or ethnic\r\ngroups, all of whom heard the praise and glorifying of Jesus Christ in their\r\nlanguages as they were uttered by the 120 gathered together in the upper\r\nroom.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Suddenly the Bride began to exist\r\nas Jew and Gentile, Israelite and Arab, bond and free, male and female without\r\nany regard for race, nationality or sex.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>From\r\nthat time to this, there has only been one Bride in the earth.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Even though we all know that there is a very\r\nunique calling going forth among the Jews around the world, and an incredible\r\nresponse taking place even as this letter goes forth, it is happening only because\r\nthey are being rejoined to Jesus Christ as a direct product of His everlasting\r\nCovenant.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>The\r\ngifts \u2013 which represent His dowry to the Bride \u2013 and His calling of that Bride\r\nare without repentance.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Even though we\r\nhave seen what appears to be the processing of two, there really is only one\r\nBride.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The two parts of the Bride have\r\nbecome one.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Jesus\r\nChrist <i>is<\/i> receiving His inheritance!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span lang=EN style='font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-ansi-language:EN'>Let me wrap up this discussion\r\nwith a portion of a poem that I wrote for my wife on Christmas of 1995.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>It puts things in perspective.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:red'>BRIDEGROOM\r\nand BRIDE<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:black'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>That\r\nwonderful day, those years ago,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Lord brought a bride -- a counterpart;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Eons\r\nhad passed, it seemed, while incomplete:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>This\r\nwas a day designed to fill the heart.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Destined\r\nfrom the beginning, an Eve to be:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>The\r\npicture of perfection, grace like a dove,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>She\r\ncame from the cry of a being in need:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>The\r\nLord Jesus Christ, who sought for His love.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Flowing\r\nin beauty, filled with desire,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Her\r\nwhole being spoke, \"I love you!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>I'm\r\nyours!\"<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Adam's\r\nvery essence leaped as he saw<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>God's\r\ngift to him, his delight, his concours.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Then\r\nas the years turned into millennia<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>A new\r\ncry was heard, a cry in the earth:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>A cry\r\nfor completeness with <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>She\r\nwho'd be His,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>A\r\nyearning which most surely would be brought to the birth.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span style='font-size:\r\n14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>This\r\nsecond Adam then went to the cross<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>To\r\nbuy back a people in captivity,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>Created for Him;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Pierced\r\nwith a sword thrust into His side,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>He\r\nforesaw the future -- love filled to the brim.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>The\r\nprocess began, a people in fire:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>A\r\nBride in the making, a Bride to abide;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Years\r\nagain became millennia,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span>But to Jesus \u2018twas irrelevant:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>He\r\nsaw to the day they\u2019d sit at His side.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span style='font-size:\r\n14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><span\r\nstyle='mso-tab-count:3'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>A\r\npeople came forth -- a people who loved -<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>A\r\npeople who overcame all to say,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>\"I\r\nlove you, My Lord!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Your\r\nonoma I take;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>All\r\nthat I am, or ever will be, is yours for eternity, going forth from this\r\nday.\"<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span style='font-size:\r\n14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>The\r\ncreator of all, the Lord Jesus Christ,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Now\r\nmade complete -- having been joined to His Bride --<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>Sees\r\ndestiny unfold, eternity resume,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>His\r\ncry has been answered, <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>His\r\nlove's at His side.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span style='font-size:\r\n14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>The\r\nfuture unfolds, a thousand years of time,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>The\r\nthrone of the heavens, <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>a new\r\nonoma presides;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>The\r\npast is behind, the cry is fulfilled;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>The\r\nneed has been met,<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:.25in;line-height:normal;mso-pagination:none'><b><i><span\r\nstyle='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#006600'>In\r\nBridegroom and Bride.<\/span><\/i><\/b><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:lime'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Know this<\/span><\/b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>: <\/span><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Bernard MT Condensed\",\"serif\";color:#C00000;mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nbold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>\u201cthat He who began a good work in you will\r\nperfect and complete it up to and until the day of Jesus Christ!\u201d<\/span><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>(Philippians 1:6,\r\nmy translation)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>It\r\nis happening!<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>He is doing it!<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The work of perfecting and completing\r\ncontinues so long as we continue wholeheartedly responding to everything He\r\nsays, does and requires in us!<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'>Let\r\nus go on to the finishing!<\/span><\/b><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";mso-ansi-language:EN'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.0pt;text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:\r\nnormal'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\nmso-bidi-font-family:Arial'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:1.0pt;text-indent:22.5pt;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:#002060'>In case you are missing out on real fellowship in an environment\r\nof Ekklesia, ourSunday worship gatherings are available by conference call \u2013\r\nusually at about 10:30AM Pacific.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>That\r\nconference number is <\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:red'>(712) 770-4160<\/span><\/b><b><span\r\nstyle='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#002060'>, and\r\nthe access code is <\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:red'>308640#.<\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:\r\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#002060'><span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>We are now making these gatherings available on\r\nvideo usingZOOM.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>If you wish to\r\nparticipate by video on ZOOM, our login ID is 835-926-513.<span\r\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>If you miss the live voice-onlycall, you can\r\ndial <\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";\r\ncolor:red'>(712) 770-4169<\/span><\/b><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt;\r\nfont-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\";color:#002060'>, enter the same access code\r\nand listen in later.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>The video call, of\r\ncourse, is not recorded \u2013 not yet, anyway.<\/span><\/b><span style='font-size:\r\n13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:2.0pt;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\nnormal;mso-pagination:none'><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",\"serif\"'><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal 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