40:22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
APPEARANCES
What does ‘Pure Love’ look like?
It is hard to define but easy enough to see in action!
In this blog is Part 1 of two parts introducing the subject of ‘Pure Love’ and it’s ‘counterpart’ – ‘Corruption’!
As with attraction to a ‘man’ or ‘woman’, or even to any physical thing we choose in this life to align ourselves with, purchase, or connect to, the ‘Outward Beauty or Attractiveness often seems to take a large place in our decision making!
Though this is an important element, as we find much satisfaction from what we immediately rest our eyes on, the most important quality of a product is more than ‘skin deep’.
Perusing this subject we will start from the Outer, more shallow, yet still important aspect of Life, and then, later on, delve into the ‘Deeper, more important qualilty!’
Let us Begin:
APPEARANCES
WHAT MESSAGE ARE WE SENDING BY HOW WE APPEAR?
THE CLOTHES WE WEAR?
THE HOUSES WE LIVE IN?
THE VEHICLES WE DRIVE?
HOW CLEAN WE ARE?
GOD?
Psalms 104:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; THOU ART CLOTHED WITH HONOUR AND MAJESTY.
104:2 WHO COVEREST [THYSELF] WITH LIGHT AS [WITH] A GARMENT: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Daniel 7:9 I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment [was] white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne [was like] the fiery flame, [and] his wheels [as] burning fire.
7:10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
Revelation 1:12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
1:13 And IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS [ONE] LIKE UNTO THE SON OF MAN, CLOTHED WITH A GARMENT DOWN TO THE FOOT, AND GIRT ABOUT THE PAPS WITH A GOLDEN GIRDLE.
ANGELS?
Mark 16:5 And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a YOUNG MAN SITTING ON THE RIGHT SIDE, CLOTHED IN A LONG WHITE GARMENT; and they were affrighted.
16:6 And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
APPROPRIATENESS?
Matthew 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he SAW THERE A MAN WHICH HAD NOT ON A WEDDING GARMENT:
22:12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
Acts 12:8 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.
John 21:7 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. NOW WHEN SIMON PETER HEARD THAT IT WAS THE LORD, HE GIRT [HIS] FISHER’S COAT [UNTO HIM], (FOR HE WAS NAKED,) AND DID CAST HIMSELF INTO THE SEA.
CONFUSION?
Deuteronomy 22:5 THE WOMAN SHALL NOT WEAR THAT WHICH PERTAINETH UNTO A MAN, NEITHER SHALL A MAN PUT ON A WOMAN’S GARMENT: FOR ALL THAT DO SO [ARE] ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD THY GOD.
STRAIGHTFORWARD HONESTY, PURITY AND HELPFULNESS?
Ezekiel 18:5 BUT IF A MAN BE JUST, AND DO THAT WHICH IS LAWFUL AND RIGHT,
18:6 [And] hath not eaten upon the mountains, NEITHER HATH LIFTED UP HIS EYES TO THE IDOLS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, NEITHER HATH DEFILED HIS NEIGHBOUR’S WIFE, NEITHER HATH COME NEAR TO A MENSTRUOUS WOMAN,
18:7 AND HATH NOT OPPRESSED ANY, [BUT] HATH RESTORED TO THE DEBTOR HIS PLEDGE, HATH SPOILED NONE BY VIOLENCE, HATH GIVEN HIS BREAD TO THE HUNGRY, AND HATH COVERED THE NAKED WITH A GARMENT;
PROMISCUITY AND NAKEDNESS?
Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and THEY KNEW THAT THEY [WERE] NAKED; AND THEY SEWED FIG LEAVES TOGETHER, AND MADE THEMSELVES APRONS.
3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
3:9 AND THE LORD GOD CALLED UNTO ADAM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHERE [ART] THOU?
3:10 AND HE SAID, I HEARD THY VOICE IN THE GARDEN, AND I WAS AFRAID, BECAUSE I [WAS] NAKED; AND I HID MYSELF.
NAKEDNESS
1 Timothy 2:9 IN LIKE MANNER ALSO, THAT WOMEN ADORN THEMSELVES IN MODEST APPAREL, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
2:10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Revelation 3:18 I COUNSEL THEE TO BUY OF ME GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE, THAT THOU MAYEST BE RICH; AND WHITE RAIMENT, THAT THOU MAYEST BE CLOTHED, AND [THAT] THE SHAME OF THY NAKEDNESS DO NOT APPEAR; AND ANOINT THINE EYES WITH EYESALVE, THAT THOU MAYEST SEE.
GENESIS 3:21 UNTO ADAM ALSO AND TO HIS WIFE DID THE LORD GOD MAKE COATS OF SKINS, AND CLOTHED THEM.
LEVITICUS 18:6 NONE OF YOU SHALL APPROACH TO ANY THAT IS NEAR OF KIN TO HIM, TO UNCOVER [THEIR] NAKEDNESS: I [AM] THE LORD.
Exodus 28:42 AND THOU SHALT MAKE THEM LINEN BREECHES TO COVER THEIR NAKEDNESS; FROM THE LOINS EVEN UNTO THE THIGHS THEY SHALL REACH:
28:43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy [place]; that they bear not iniquity, and die: [it shall be] a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
Isaiah 6:1 IN THE YEAR THAT KING UZZIAH DIED I SAW ALSO THE LORD SITTING UPON A THRONE, HIGH AND LIFTED UP, AND HIS TRAIN FILLED THE TEMPLE.
6:2 ABOVE IT STOOD THE SERAPHIMS: EACH ONE HAD SIX WINGS; WITH TWAIN HE COVERED HIS FACE, AND WITH TWAIN HE COVERED HIS FEET, AND WITH TWAIN HE DID FLY.
6:3 AND ONE CRIED UNTO ANOTHER, AND SAID, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, [IS] THE LORD OF HOSTS: THE WHOLE EARTH [IS] FULL OF HIS GLORY.
Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
1:22 AND OF SOME HAVE COMPASSION, MAKING A DIFFERENCE:
1:23 AND OTHERS SAVE WITH FEAR, PULLING [THEM] OUT OF THE FIRE; HATING EVEN THE GARMENT SPOTTED BY THE FLESH.
Revelation 17:4 AND THE WOMAN WAS ARRAYED IN PURPLE AND SCARLET COLOUR, AND DECKED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES AND PEARLS, HAVING A GOLDEN CUP IN HER HAND FULL OF ABOMINATIONS AND FILTHINESS OF HER FORNICATION:
17:5 AND UPON HER FOREHEAD [WAS] A NAME WRITTEN, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
RESPECTFUL MODESTY?
1 Timothy 2:9 IN LIKE MANNER ALSO, THAT WOMEN ADORN THEMSELVES IN MODEST APPAREL, WITH SHAMEFACEDNESS AND SOBRIETY; NOT WITH BROIDED HAIR, OR GOLD, OR PEARLS, OR COSTLY ARRAY;
2:10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Matthew 11:7 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
11:8 BUT WHAT WENT YE OUT FOR TO SEE? A MAN CLOTHED IN SOFT RAIMENT? BEHOLD, THEY THAT WEAR SOFT [CLOTHING] ARE IN KINGS’ HOUSES.
11:9 BUT WHAT WENT YE OUT FOR TO SEE? A PROPHET? YEA, I SAY UNTO YOU, AND MORE THAN A PROPHET.
3:4 AND THE SAME JOHN HAD HIS RAIMENT OF CAMEL’S HAIR, AND A LEATHERN GIRDLE ABOUT HIS LOINS; AND HIS MEAT WAS LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY.
Matthew 27:35 AND THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, AND PARTED HIS GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS: THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHET, THEY PARTED MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND UPON MY VESTURE DID THEY CAST LOTS.
MARK 15:24 AND WHEN THEY HAD CRUCIFIED HIM, THEY PARTED HIS GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS UPON THEM, WHAT EVERY MAN SHOULD TAKE.
15:25 AND IT WAS THE THIRD HOUR, AND THEY CRUCIFIED HIM.
Romans 1:16 FOR I AM NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST: FOR IT IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
CLEANLINESS
Leviticus 6:27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and WHEN THERE IS SPRINKLED OF THE BLOOD THEREOF UPON ANY GARMENT, THOU SHALT WASH THAT WHEREON IT WAS SPRINKLED IN THE HOLY PLACE.
13:51 And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: IF THE PLAGUE BE SPREAD IN THE GARMENT, EITHER IN THE WARP, OR IN THE WOOF, OR IN A SKIN, [OR] IN ANY WORK THAT IS MADE OF SKIN; THE PLAGUE [IS] A FRETTING LEPROSY; IT [IS] UNCLEAN.
13:52 HE SHALL THEREFORE BURN THAT GARMENT, whether warp or woof, in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it [is] a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.
15:16 AND IF ANY MAN’S SEED OF COPULATION GO OUT FROM HIM, THEN HE SHALL WASH ALL HIS FLESH IN WATER, AND BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVEN.
15:17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:19 AND IF A WOMAN HAVE AN ISSUE, [AND] HER ISSUE IN HER FLESH BE BLOOD, SHE SHALL BE PUT APART SEVEN DAYS: AND WHOSOEVER TOUCHETH HER SHALL BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVEN.
15:20 AND EVERY THING THAT SHE LIETH UPON IN HER SEPARATION SHALL BE UNCLEAN: EVERY THING ALSO THAT SHE SITTETH UPON SHALL BE UNCLEAN.
15:21 AND WHOSOEVER TOUCHETH HER BED SHALL WASH HIS CLOTHES, AND BATHE [HIMSELF] IN WATER, AND BE UNCLEAN UNTIL THE EVEN.
CONVERSION?
Luke 8:27 AND WHEN HE WENT FORTH TO LAND, THERE MET HIM OUT OF THE CITY A CERTAIN MAN, WHICH HAD DEVILS LONG TIME, AND WARE NO CLOTHES, NEITHER ABODE IN [ANY] HOUSE, BUT IN THE TOMBS.
8:35 THEN THEY WENT OUT TO SEE WHAT WAS DONE; AND CAME TO JESUS, AND FOUND THE MAN, OUT OF WHOM THE DEVILS WERE DEPARTED, SITTING AT THE FEET OF JESUS, CLOTHED, AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND:
MARK 5:15 AND THEY COME TO JESUS, AND SEE HIM THAT WAS POSSESSED WITH THE DEVIL, AND HAD THE LEGION, SITTING, AND CLOTHED, AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND:
OUR HEART?
1 SAMUEL 16:7 ..FOR MAN LOOKETH ON THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT THE LORD LOOKETH ON THE HEART.
