Symbols Of The Somaton-Oneness When With God
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Each body of each of the sealed people is the somaton sacrificed for the message. When we suffer persecution in our bodies we are joined together becoming one Body and Bread.
Jesus is well-known for sharing His Last Supper meal with His disciples. We partake in this meal unto this very day, remembering Him. But the meal means more to those of us who are sealed.
When they were eating the Last Supper Jesus took the Bread, blessed and gave thanks, and broke the Bread. He gave it to His disciples. "Take! Eat!" Jesus said, "This is my Body."
The symbolism of the Last Supper is much more meaningful to those of us who are sealed than it is to others. The Bread was made by grinding grains of wheat into flour, making dough, and baking it.
The grinding of the grains of wheat happens when the message of the Seal is opposed. At times we suffer persecution since our message is from God Himself. Whatever is from God and of God will always be opposed by some.
First the grains of wheat are the message of the Seal which is ground down by the opposition. Then we ourselves are persecuted so we become those ground grains of wheat.
Both we and the message become the flour of the nourishing Bread in remembrance of Jesus. This is how we become part of the Body of Jesus. We are honored to suffer persecution and thus become His Body.
And once Jesus took the cup He gave thanks and gave it to His disciples saying, "All of you drink of this! For this is my blood, the blood of the New Covenant, the one about many, poured out for forgiveness of sins."
Jesus is the true Vine and we are the branches. He shed His Blood on the Cross so our sins would be forgiven. When we shed our blood as sealed we also become branches of the Vine.
When we are sealed Jesus puts us under His feet. We were once enemies of God but now He has subdued us. When we are put under His feet we become a grape under the feet of the Vintner.
We are crushed under the feet of Jesus so we may become like Him. We become branches of the Vine and we become sealed. He has not persecuted us--His love has brought us into subjection.
And when we shed our own blood under the feet of Jesus we also have the power to forgive sins. When we forgive others God too will forgive them. Other men often do not forgive because they don’t know us and don’t know God.
We are fermented into the Wine of the Last Supper. The fermentation process is dying daily with Him living in us. First we are put under the feet of Jesus. We lay our lives down this one time. Then our daily death following it is the inner death of our old hearts.
Each of our bodies is the somaton we sacrifice for believing the message of the Seal. We will be persecuted for believing. First the message is opposed and then we are persecuted.
We begin as the individual somaton and when we are ground to powder we are mixed together until we join as one in the Bread--in one Body. We were once separate but now we are sealed and have fellowship.
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