What's Going On God? - Pt.2
By John Gavazzoni

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Our Lord Jesus was perfectly aligned with, and centrally integral to the relationship between eternity and time, between the eternal relationship and relational activity within the Godhead and its outworking within the eons. He declared the same by His authoritative claim that He only did those things that He saw His Father do.

You see, what's going on "down here" in time, in the eons, is that which has been loosed and bound "above" in eternity. Conventional translations have Jesus saying, "Whatsoever thou should bind on earth, shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou should loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven." Well, that's another example of what Jesus DIDN'T say. What He said, accurately translated, is, "Whatsoever thou should bind on earth, is that which has been bound in heaven . . . " etc.

That gives us a peek into the relationship between our present existential actuality and our eternal being within the Being that is the Primal Origin of all mankind. I finally learned, years ago thanks to the astounding patience of the Lord as He gave measured release of light to me out from within my darkness that one can only understand any truth, or determine if such and such is true, by seeing how, or if, the issue of one's inquiry exists within the Being of God.

We must understand what's going on eternally IN God, and thus what is the nature of the going on OF God, in order to understand the goings-on temporally in the earth. So we're back to the matter of the nonstatic quality of the Divine Nature.

Basically what's eternally going on IN God, and which works out as the going-on OF God, is love. Within God, LOVE'S GOING ON, and that love is conjugal, thus reproductive, so that the love that's going on IN God, becomes the ongoing procession of God becoming a Family - THE Family which constitutes the nature of all things.

God is love, so that's what's going on in God, and that really sums up the goings-on of God. Behold I show you a mystery: In order to super-intensify love's ongoing experience; in order for the Divine "orge" (the Divine passion) to be released to full flame, the Divine Nature, using the instrumentality of time's contrarian relationship to eternity, subjects the Persons of the Godhead to the experience of separation.

As the Persons of the Godhead proceed out from the Godhead's Being by the enjoyment of reproductive love, in creating the dimension of time, and by, necessarily being immanent to it, the Divine Nature, experiences a great gulf fixed, a separation (however we might define it) between eternal Being and eonian existence, causing a familial longing for reunion among, and within the all-inclusiveness of the Godhead. In eternity, the Oneness is undisturbed, but in time, the transcendent, but also immanent God, experiences separation.

If you're in touch with what's essentially going on in the eons---in touch, as it were, with yourself and your relationships, you might protest the above, and insist that what I've described is not the experience of God, it mankind's experience. Nay, Nay, it is mankind's experience BECAUSE it is God's experience. It is the experience of our being translated into eonian existence, because it is first and fundamentally God's experience.

That is at the heart of the Pauline revelation of co-identity with Christ, including co-suffering, co-crucifixion and co-resurrection and co-glorification. It has been said that "we are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." Well yes! But. Sorry brethren, but I have a theological yes, but compulsion and commission laid upon me.

More accurately, God is having the full experience of Divinity BY BECOMING humanity, and subjecting the same to futility as a contrarian catalyst for a complete self-realization. I hesitate to use that expression, "self-realization," for it brings to mind all kinds of (yet essentially similar) poor, wretched, blind and naked esoteric nonsense. But I refuse to let, the theologically-disabled steal a good expression, and corrupt it by the spin they put upon it.

It is the stuff of the fruit of God's loins, that is the stuff of the work of His hands. God creates out of what He births, so it is completely consistent for Paul to speak of Christ as the firstborn of all creation, and for Him to assert that all things were created IN Christ. Everything first existed in eternity as integral to the only begotten of the Father. The "things" that we see all about us in creation, traced to their Origin, must be understood as masterpiece extensions of the glory of the Son of His love.

All things shall be finally gathered together in Christ, for He is our Source. He is our Beginning and our End, the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last. The beginning of God's creation is not the first point in time When God eternally begat the Son, in Him, all things had their beginning.

Try this on for size: "The beginning," as in "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth," is a derivation choice of translation. Check with our brother, Dr. Strong, and you'll find that the Hebrew word translated as "beginning" is, to quote that distinguished scholar, "spec. firstfruit."

One of the earliest meanderings off the path of apostolic truth, was the idea that the Son of God was the first in the order of God's creation, making the origin of the Son of God a temporal origin. Today we are becoming acutely aware of the truth that divine sonship is by nature eternal. The Origin of the Son, is the eternality of the Father, so sharing that eternality, by eternal conception and birth, all things, though created in time, came forth out from His eternal sonship. As I've written and spoken so many times, that's why creation is awaiting the revealing of the sons of God.

Whence, goes the sons, so goes all creation. Having been given the glory that the Son had with the Father before the world began, and having suffered an experiential deprivation of that glory with the Son in the atmosphere of contrariety that pervades the eons, we, and with us, all creations are being returned to that glory in Christ, but the process will super-intensify the love that's going on in God, and the on-goings of God. Go to part three.

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