A DWELLING AND COLORFUL GOD

 

KNOWING the True God 

A Dwelling and Colorful God!

by

Keith Hunt

GOD WILL DWELL WITH MAN and THE GOD OF COLOR AND BEAUTY "And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying ... And I will dwell among the children of Israel...." (1 Kings 6:11,13). "I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever" (1 Kings 8:13). The Almighty Eternal God, who created everything in the universe out of nothing. The ONE who set the Galaxies in motion, who put our sun where it is in the Milky Way, the One who then created the earth not in chaos but in glory and beauty, and set it just the right distance from the sun. He who divided the land from the seas, the One who created all life that is on the earth, beneath the earth, above the earth in the skies, and in the depth of the seas. The Eternal One who numbers all the billions of stars, who calls them by name. The One who with the word of His mouth controls and rules the expanse of the expanding universe. This One who dwells in the splendor of the heavenly Jerusalem, He is able and willing to come and dwell with man. It was Solomon who was to build the "Temple of the Lord" and he did. And to this earthly Temple the Eternal One came in a cloud. He was willing to come to where man was dwelling. We have seen in past studies that God can if He desires, appear to man in the form of a man, to be seen of man, to walk and talk with man, to eat a meal with him, to even enter a debate with man, as He did with Abraham and Moses, to wrestle with man as He did with Jacob. Today it is the same. Jesus said that to serve the Father and the Son of God, then BOTH the Father and the Son would enter that person, would come and live WITHIN that individual, via the Holy Spirit. It's all there in the wonderful Gospel of John. Those who will acknowledge their sins, who will admit they are sinners, who will acknowledge the truths and righteousness of God, who will REPENT and turn to FOLLOW and live by every word of God, to them, the Father and the Son will come. Those who will open the door of their hearts and mind, will have both the Father and Son walk in and fellowship with them. The Father created puny, little mankind to be His literal children, to partake of His very nature, His very mind, and to inherit His glory and majesty. If you have not yet done so, you need to read my study called "The Christian's Destiny." You need to learn and know the mind-bending reason for why YOU are here. You need to understand the very purpose for which you were created. The Almighty Father WANTS to DWELL with His children. And one day He will in a very literal sense. He has told you it is so. Listen to what He says in Revelation 21:3-7. "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, 'Behold the tabernacle (tent of dwelling) of God is with men, AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM, AND BE THEIR GOD. AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES; AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER SORROW, NOR CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE PAIN: FOR THE FORMER THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY.' AND HE THAT SAT UPON THE THRONE SAID, 'I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END. I WILL GIVE UNTO HIM THAT IS ATHIRST OF THE FOUNTAIN OF WATER OF LIFE FREELY. HE THAT OVERCOMETH SHALL INHERIT ALL THINGS; AND I WILL BE HIS GOD, AND HE SHALL BE MY SON.'" This is how much the Father LOVES YOU, yes YOU! He wants you to be His very son. He wants to DWELL with you. If you will, He and Christ Jesus, will make their abode in YOU, and so eventually YOU can inherit eternal GLORY and live forever with the Father and be a part of the very FAMILY of God! GOD - THE LORD OF SPLENDOR AND COLOR! Some people of yesterday and today think God can only see and live in black and white. They think that "religion" of the true God must be in black and white, drab, colorless, void of any brightness of the universe. They form groups, pull away from society, dress in black and white, have no color in their lives, shut out all modern equipment. Somehow they believe looking and living this way is more "godly" - somehow more like what they consider a plain colorless God to be like. I'm not sure what they do with passages of the Bible that show a God vastly different than what their mind perceives Him to be. I honestly think they do not read the Bible from cover to cover, and certainly do not allow their children to read it all the way through. I would imagine they curtail immediately any son or daughter who would question their teaching as not being Biblical. Here in 1 Kings we read about Solomon building the Temple for God to dwell in. If you just read what is clearly stated in chapter 6, you will find the House of the Lord was anything but drab or colorless or black and white. It was overlaid with so much gold and magnificent carving of cherubim, palm trees, flowers, it should dazzle your mind. This Temple that Solomon built ... well no Temple for God, no Temple of any man for any so-called "god" was ever as SPLENDID AND RICH with pure gold, as the Temple built by Solomon. The picture of the heavenly Jerusalem coming down from God to the new earth, as given in Revelation 21,22, is mind-blowing for majesty and glory and color and pure riches. If anyone will take the time to view the DVDs from the "History Channel" of TV, their DVDs on the UNIVERSE series, they will see the MIGHTY COLORFUL MAJESTIC GLORY of the created universe by the Almighty God the Father and His Son Christ Jesus. If anyone will take the time to just open their eyes and see the colorful creation all around them, they will not be able to say God is black and white, colorless. He is a God of COLOR!! He is a God of MAJESTICNESS!! He is a God of PURITY such as gold, silver, diamonds, pearls!! He is a God of VARIETY!! Yes, Satan can corrupt anything. He can get people to worship gold, diamonds, money, and all things good can be perverted. God made the heavens and the earth of Genesis 1 and 2 in six days, and said what He had made was "good." Satan came along and started to pervert in many different ways all things created. It is Satan who perverts the mind of some into thinking God is a God of black and white, a colorless God, a drab God. You need to be set free from the ideas of men and Satan who is behind them. Look at the beautiful, varied, colorful creation around you, come to KNOW this side of the Lord. Come to see Him as He is, not as men think He is. Read ALL of His word. Know that He wants to DWELL with you. He wants to be your God and for you to be His very child! REJOICE AND AGAIN I SAY REJOICE!! ...................