Symposium—The Transcendence of the Bride of Jesus Christ
*N.B.: Music by J.S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, opening chorus, See, the Bridegroom cometh
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates used a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking penetrating, revelatory, and psychologically probing questions. The Greeks called this form, Dialectic – starting from a thesis or question, then discussing ideas and moving back and forth between points-of-view to determine how well ideas stand up to critical review with the ultimate principle of the dialogue being Veritas – Truth.
“And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.”
~ Matthew 25:6
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Socrates
Publius {precocious student of Socrates}
Jesus Christ {the Groom}
The Church {the Bride of Christ}
Prologue to the Bride of Jesus Christ = The Church
Socrates: We must understand that the world we live in is controlled by Satan including all media, education, the Academy, institutions, organizations, courts, economic systems, politics, secret societies (Mystery religion and cults), Wall Street, Q-Street, business, economics, medicine and governments of men. The Apostle Paul made this clear in 2 Corinthians 4:4: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. Satan is not original. He is not a creator like God and Jesus. He is an imitator. He only perverts and destroys what is godly and good to deceive the naïve and the eternally lost souls. For example, God’s number of perfection = 7; the number of the Antichrist which shall rule over all mankind in the last days = 666, according to Revelation 13:18.
Publius: Why Socrates, with your legendary wisdom and knowledge, didn’t you (and by extension, the famous ancient Greek Schools of Philosophy), not believe in the redemptive blood of Jesus for the salvation of your souls?
Socrates: Good question, Publius. First, I was born about 470 years before the advent of Jesus Christ, and though Jesus often appeared in the Old Testament narrative, we viewed the keepers of the Scriptures, i.e., (Israel or the Jews), of pedestrian or provincial intellect, and thus inferior to the Greeks which were viewed as superior to all humanity and the masters of human reason (i.e. philosophy).
Secondly and ironically, I was born about 470 B.C. and died in 399 B.C., one year into the 4th century B.C. and thus at the same time as when the Prophet Malachi wrote what would become the last book of the Old Testament. Thus, during the advent or Golden Age of Greek philosophy with Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Alexander the Great, whose legendary conquests (336 BC. – 323 BC.) spread Greek philosophy to most of the civilized world over the next 2,500 years.
During this period of human history (400 B.C. – the Advent of Jesus Christ) God was virtually silent as the Golden Age of Greek philosophy was born. It was as if God was standing back and saying to humanity—“You think your wisdom and knowledge can save or redeem mankind? . . . Let’s see.” History demonstrates repeatedly that Human wisdom only brings injustice, racism, famine, pestilence, perpetual wars, and death. But God brought Humanity: life on earth, eternal life through the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ who died on the cross for the sins of the whole world. In fact, the entire Bible can be understood as a marriage between Jesus Christ (the groom) and the Church (the bride of Christ). Indeed, Christ will soon come for his virgin bride the Church, which must be without spot or impurity. The Question of Ultimate Concern is Will you be ready when the Bridegroom knocks on the door for his Bride?
The Transcendence of the Bride by Peniel Eternal
{Video Transcript by Peniel Eternal}
Jesus Christ: Yeshua Transcendence and Mysteries revealed. This message is particularly for the Bride as the Father is wanting you to know that now is the time to be completely surrendered; completely surrendered and committed to him. No more distractions. He is so close. Elohim speaks. I AM Everlasting to Everlasting. I AM He who has no beginning and has no end – Limitless and infinite, Eternal and Sovereign. I desire that you would deepen your understanding of the compilation of your experiences here in this lifetime. I will bring you to the point which I will call the Eternal moment of now.
When my word teaches you that you are to “abide in me,” there is a deeper understanding to that which I desire for you to learn. When you abide in me and I in you there is only that Spirit in love as the center of my heart in the moment of now. Time is only existent in your construct here and is linearly moving in a progression from point to point with an understanding of a past the time of now and a future. When you truly come to me in unity, your spirit is drawn back into harmony with my Spirit, and you will have the understanding that I, we exist outside of the parameters that this world operates from.
Publius: Wow! Jesus. . . Wow! I have never heard a sermon like this. A sermon of Holy Ghost power where the Preacher tells the Congregation that Christ dying for our sins, even the sins of the world, is in the context of Christ now preparing His Kingdom of Heaven for a grand celebration and will soon come back again to receive his bride (the Church).
Socrates: Indeed, dear Publius, it is a tragedy that the Church today doesn’t understand it’s central role in the Grand narrative of Humanity—that Christ is inextricably married to His beloved Church, and will come back to claim His bride, who must be chaste, holy, a virgin whose wedding robes are pure white – without spot or wrinkle, because they are washed in the blood of the lamb of God, Jesus Christ the Redeemer.
Jesus Christ: With me, in me, there is no past, present or future… there is only the moment of now. As I am Eternal – No Beginning No End. In this realm, too much emphasis is placed on either the past or the future and most miss a crucial mystery of who I really am. Meditate deeply on this and I will reveal my truth to your spirit as it has been before you all along. All that is permitted in this life that comprises your journey back into intimacy with me is designed to bring to your awareness that all that matters to me is your response to everything.
Your past is gone and does not define you and your future is not definitive because you have the freedom to choose in every moment. I measure your hearts in every moment of now. As you act, speak, and move in one direction or another, I offer you the opportunity in every moment to walk with me in the Spirit, stepping outside the confines of this limited existence. You have been with me since the first thought I had, a view of my creation and I have always held the outcome. Do you comprehend what this means?
Publius: When Jesus said, “I offer you the opportunity in every moment to walk with me in the Spirit, stepping outside the confines of this limited existence,” how can pagans, even people of ancient Greece with their vaunted and iconic pantheon of philosophies and philosophers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Diogenes, Sophocles, etc., who have worshipped pagan gods of stone. How can mere pagans, even intellectual pagans like the Greek philosophers, walk with Christ in the Spirit and accept the blood sacrifice on the cross for the remission of their sins? This type of faith-thinking is contrary to the Greek Weltanschauung (worldview), is it not?
Socrates: Indeed, the Apostle Paul in the book of Romans, chapter 1 is directed formal thesis on this very question – How can the pagans who have worshipped idols for generations know about the true and living God through Jesus Christ? Paul’s answer is that the pagan nations are all without excuse because they have creation as their witness and using deductive reasoning, they can deduce that nothing cannot come from nothing, therefore creation had to have a creator who was holy. And since God is holy, He cannot abide anything that is unholy in His presence, thus from the beginning a redeemer would be needed to save the world from their sins. That redeemer is Jesus Christ the Lord.
Jesus Christ: I am most concerned with your response now the state of and condition of your heart now at this moment because this moment is all you have. It is time for my people to transcend the limitations that the enemy has placed on you, and come to the understanding that the door is open unto you, to my kingdom, and to all I am. Fulfilling your purpose here is Awakening to the knowledge of who you are in me, for when you perform this paradigm shift, your very molecular structure is altered and that of all things around you.
I have spoken previously of revealing the deeper things of my father and for you who truly and deeply desire truth and whose spiritual eyes are open, all shall be revealed. You were sent here to demonstrate kingdom on earth bringing all back into harmony which is my original design. Walking in this awareness here alters realties; there is unmatched power and authority given to those who understand and take possession of their adding to my kingdom.
Publius: During this present Age of Technology, particularly the ubiquity of social media and how much time the young people especially give to social media per day, yet Jesus in the above passage stated, “I am most concerned with your response now, the state of and condition of your heart now at this moment because this moment is all you have.” How can we juxtapose the immediacy of “Now” with society’s need to put off what is necessary, imperative, and eternally important for that which is fleeting, worldly, and unimportant things of “Tomorrow”?
Socrates: Indeed, social media has beguiled this present world as Satan beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden, thus people will always put off until tomorrow what should be done today. This is a modern-day Tragedy, for regarding the imperative for all Humanity to get saved, Christ said through the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 6:2 – (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) And in Hebrews 3:15 (New Living Translation) Paul said, remember what it says: “Today when you hear His voice, don’t harden your hearts as Israel did when they rebelled.”
And finally, most Christians know that one of the most important verses in the Bible is John 3:16—
However, most people aren’t familiar with the singular importance of the following verse, John 3:17—
Jesus Christ: Each and every moment you choose to walk as Sons and Daughters claiming your positions in me, you transcend – Glory begets Glory as you rise into an ever-expanding awareness of your journey in me, into love itself. This love never ceases but expands and grows as you are drawn in deeper, and deeper into me, into I AM. My heart’s desire now is for you to come to this understanding for as my heirs my Kings and my priests, we are going to set this world ablaze with a glory and anointing that has never been known.
You are an essential part in establishing and anchoring my presence here in these final hours before my return for you. There is much, much more I wish to reveal to you in time as I am compressing here will become what you understand to be shorter and shorter, so do not wait for a word from another concerning my in-time Revelations, but rather come to me in the secret place. Put aside all you are able to in order to come into my presence and I will instruct you and teach you all things pertaining to my design and the great love I have for you, for all my children.
Do not hesitate to come to me quickly for the hour which has been foretold of is upon you to run into the depths of Love itself, for it is in doing so I will provide all your answers.
The Church: Jesus, in Matthew 25 preaches a sermon on the 10 Virgins. In the Parable of the Ten Virgins, the 5 wise virgins watching for the coming of the bridegroom (Jesus) kept their lamps all night lit with oil (symbolic of the Holy Ghost), but the other 5 foolish virgins did not have enough oil and so remained in darkness, symbolized by the cares of this world, and therefore could not see the Bridegroom when he came suddenly, as a thief in the night for his bride, the Church.
Publius: Now I see why the story of Christianity is the love story of Jesus Christ coming back again to receive his holy bride, the church and when Jesus stated above that, “This love never ceases but expands and grows as you are drawn in deeper and deeper into me, into I AM,” it demonstrates that that Jesus’s death on the cross was an eternal love for his bride, the Church which can never be broken.
Socrates: Indeed, for the redemption of all mankind, throughout all the Ages to be encapsulated in a grand marriage ceremony between Christ and the Church is indeed a mystery. The Apostle Paul said as much in 1 Corinthians 15:51-52—
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