God told
Noah that he was perfect in his generation
and God called Job a perfect man.
God
has a standard of perfection that each generation needs to meet to be
in His
perfect will. God
has a perfect will
that He requires for each man and each generation.
God’s
perfect will for Noah was to be (at God’s
direction) a preacher of righteousness; warn of a coming flood; to
build an
ark; save a portion of every kind of animal and eight humans alive from
the
flood. Noah obeyed
God’s commands and
overcame the world; so God called him perfect.
Job was a
man of deep faith in God and hated
evil. God let the
devil go first after
his possessions than let him put Job in great pain; yet he remained
faithful he
overcame the devil and God called him perfect.
We do not
read in the Bible that Daniel was a perfect
man; but Daniel overcame the lions (a type of the flesh); so Daniel
overcame
the flesh.
Each of
these men Noah, Job, and Daniel did what God
had called them to do and so were perfect in their generation.
What is the
standard of perfection God requires of
this generation? In
Revelation 7 we read
that the winds of tribulation were not to blow till the 144,000 were
sealed in
their foreheads. In
Revelation 14: 1 we
read that the seal in their foreheads is the Father’s Name. In Revelation 22: 4 we see
all God’s servants
in the New Jerusalem will have the Father’s Name in their
foreheads.
What is the
Father’s seal the Father’s Name in their
foreheads? Romans
12 says, be not
conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your
minds. Transformed
in Romans 12 is the Greek word we
get our word metamorphoses from; this word is used to describe the new
birth in
another place; this transformation will put the Father’s
Nature in our minds.
Paul says in
Ephesians 4: 24 “Put on the new man who
after God is created in righteousness and true holiness”. Colossians 3: 10 says the
new man is renewed
in knowledge after the image of Him that created him.
The new man is our born again spirit we must
bring this same new birth into our souls; in the mean time keep putting
the
spirit man in charge.
We know when
we speak of God’s Name we are really
speaking of His Nature. When
we were
born again God’s Nature was put in our spirits giving our
spirits the Nature of
our Father. Every
seed brings forth
after its own kind. 11
Peter 1: 4 Peter
says, we are partakers of the Divine Nature.
1 John 3: 9 John says, that whosoever is born of God can
not sin for
God’s Seed (Nature) is in him and he can not sin; this refers
only to our
spirits as of today the soul and the body can and does still sin.
1 Peter 1: 3
speaks of our new birth in the past tense
referring to the new birth of our spirits; but in verse 23 he put the
new birth
in the on going present tense referring to our souls.
Peter speaks of the salvation of the soul in
almost all of 1 Peter 1.
1 Peter 1: 9
he says, “Receiving the end of your
Faith, even the salvation of your souls”.
1 Peter 1: 23 he says “Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the Word of God which liveth and abideth
forever”. We
see that (being born again) is in the on
going present tense meaning our souls must be saved little by little.
What is
inferred by these few of many, many verses is
that God’s mark in our foreheads is God’s Nature in
our minds (born again
souls). When our
souls are born again we
will not think any evil thoughts nor can we be tempted to; than our
souls will
have the same perfection as our spirits (the new man) already has
(righteousness and true holiness).
What than is
God’s requirement of perfection for this
generation? For the
First Fruit company
(the 144,000) must have born again souls before the tribulation can
begin if
God is going to have a people who can stand in the tribulation.
Jesus said
as He went to the cross, “Satan cometh and
hath nothing in me”; in the tribulation there must be a
people who can say,
“Satan cometh and hath nothing in me.
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