THE SALVATION EVENT ITSELF:
COMING
OUT OF PRISON (thrice told)
05-03-20 This message may be
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God is Thought. The brightness
of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our
doctrines, our building blocks, our Godly Thoughts laid
one upon
another, ascending into the mind of Christ.
(Isa
61:1) The [Holy] Spirit
of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed
me [Heb:
to rub with oil: paint] to preach good tidings [Heb:
(rosy, fig. cheerful); to announce (glad news): tell good tidings]
unto
the meek [Heb: depressed (of pride): gentle, saintly:
humble,
lowly]; he hath sent me to bind up [Heb: heal]
the
brokenhearted [Heb: crushed, hurting minds], to
proclaim
[Heb: to call out to: cry unto] liberty [Heb:
freedom]
[i.e., escape] to the captives, and the opening of
the prison
[Heb: opening (of a dungeon), jail delivery (fig. salvation from
sin)]
to them that are bound [Heb: yoked or hitched; fastened
to]
[chained to sin];
1.
prison
= Dict: 1. a place
where persons are confined. 2. a building, usually with cells, where
convicted
criminals are confined or where accused persons are held while awaiting
a
trial.
2.
Commentary:
All angels are
spirits (Psa 104:4; Heb 1:7). All spirits are angels. You are confined
in a
prison. You are a spirit, a fallen angel. You are not your body.
You
live inside (within) your body. Your body is a prison (a place of
confinement
for criminals). You are a criminal from God. You will be loosed
(released) to come
out of your body one day very soon. [3]
a.
(Psa
104:4) [God] Who
maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
b.
(Heb
1:7) And of the angels
he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a
flame of
fire.
3.
(Eccl
12:7) Then shall the
dust return to the earth as it was [Gen
2:7]:
and the spirit shall return unto God who gave
it. [One
cannot “return” to a place where he/she has never been]
THE APOSTLES COMING OUT OF PRISON (lit. &
fig.)
(Acts
5:14-16) And believers were the more added to the Lord,
multitudes both of men and women.) Insomuch that they brought forth the
sick
into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the
least the
shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. There
came also a
multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick
folks, and them which were vexed [Gk: harassed]
[greatly
troubled] with unclean spirits [fallen angels]:
and
they were healed [Gk: fig. adored God] [in
thankfulness] every one.
(Acts
5:17-20) Then the high priest
rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the
Sadducees,)
and were filled with indignation [Gk: jealousy],
And laid
their hands on the apostles [Gk: (who had
miraculous powers):
messengers], and put them in the common [Gk:
public]
prison. But the angel of the Lord by night opened
the prison
doors, and brought them forth, and said, Go, stand and speak
in
the temple to the people all the words [Gk: rhema;
revelations] of this life.
(Acts
5:21-23) And when they [the apostles] heard that,
they entered
into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But [meanwhile]
the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the
council together, and all the senate of the children of
Israel, and
sent [armed men] to the prison to have them
[the
apostles] brought. But when the officers came [to the
prison],
and found them [the apostles] not in the prison,
they
returned, and told, Saying, The prison truly found we shut
with all
safety [Gk: security], and the [armed]
keepers
[Gk: watchers or sentries] standing without [Gk:
out
(side, of doors)] before the doors: but when we had
opened, we
found no man within.
PETER COMING OUT OF PRISON (lit. & fig.)
(Acts
12:5-11) Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was
made without
ceasing of [by] the church unto God for him. And
when Herod
[Gk: appearance, shape, sight] would have brought him
forth, the
same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound
with
two chains [Gk: fetters, manacles: bonds]: and the
keepers [guards
standing] before the door kept the prison [secure].
And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a
light shined
[Gk: radiated brilliancy] in the prison: and he
smote
[Gk: knocked (gently)] Peter on the side, and raised
him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains
[Gk:
fetters, manacles: bonds] fell off from his hands. And
the angel
said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals.
And so he
did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and
follow
me. And he went out, and followed him; and wist
[Gk:
perceived] not that it was true which was done by the
angel; but
thought he saw a vision. When they were past the first and the
second ward
[Gk: guard], they came unto the iron gate that
leadeth
unto the city; which opened to them of his [its] own
accord: and they went out, and passed on through one
street; and
forthwith the angel departed from him. And when Peter was
come to
himself [i.e., to his right mind], he said, Now I
know of
a surety [Gk: truly], that the Lord hath sent
his angel,
and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all
the
expectation of the people of the Jews.
EVERYONE COMING OUT OF PRISON (lit. &
fig.)
(Acts
16:23-25) And when they [the
rulers, politicians] had laid many stripes [whip
lashes]
upon them [Paul and Silas], they cast them into
prison,
charging the jailor [Gk: keeper (the warden) of the
prison]
to keep them safely [Gk: securely]: Who, having received
[accepted
upon pain of death] such a charge, thrust [Gk:
threw]
them into the inner [maximum security] prison,
and
made [locked] their feet fast [Gk: secure]
in
the stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang
praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them [i.e.,
were
ministered to by the words of Paul and Silas].
(Acts
16:26-29) And suddenly there was a great earthquake,
so that the
foundations [Gk: the substructures of a building] [by
analogy, the sub-consciousnesses of the incarcerated inmates] of
the
prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were
opened,
and every one's bands [Gk: schackles] were
loosed.
And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing
the
prison doors open [and that all the common prisoners had
escaped],
he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing
that the [politically important] prisoners [of
the inner maximum security prison] had been fled. But Paul
cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for
we are
all here. Then he [the warden] called for a light,
and
sprang in [Gk: rushed in], and came trembling, and
fell
down [prostrate in submissive humility] before
Paul and
Silas,
(Acts
16:30-33) And brought them out [to his own house],
and said, Sirs,
what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord
Jesus
Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And
they
[Paul and Silas] spake unto him [the
warden]
the word [Gk: logos] of the Lord, and
to all
that were in his house. And he [Paul] took them
[to
a stream of running water] the same hour of the night,
and washed
their stripes [he taught them to repent of their sins; to
think
differently]; and [he, the warden] was
baptized
[in the stream of running water], he [the warden]
and
all his [house], straightway.
(Acts
16:34) And when he [the warden] had brought them [back]
into his house, he set meat [Gk: food] before
them, and
rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
GOD THE LORD (summation)
(Isa
42:5-7) Thus saith God the LORD,
he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread
forth the
earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath [Gen
2:7] unto the people upon it, and spirit [Eccl
12:7]
to them that walk therein: I the LORD have called thee in
righteousness, and
will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant
of the
people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to
bring
out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in
darkness out of
the prison house.
Amen