DIVINE PROTOCOLS

1. God is INVISIBLE and having no form that we may comprehend, established PROTOCOLS to regulate His relationship with man. The primary ground of God's engagement with man was His PROMISE to make us in His own IMAGE and LIKENESS, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and LET THEM HAVE DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" [Genesis 1:26] The PROMISE to make us in His own IMAGE and LIKENESS devolves mandate of DOMINION over the works of His hand to man. Nonetheless, it is no longer news that man's trajectory to excellent DOMINION was obstructed by SIN in Eden, "For ALL HAVE SINNED, and come short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23] Intrusion of SIN necessitated new rules of appointment with God, DIVINE PROTOCOLS, for every one that shall approach the ALMIGHTY, "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for HE THAT COMETH TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him"  [Hebrews 11:6]

2. For avoidance of doubts, God is known to all men by INSTINCT; every culture celebrates Him in one form or another, "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being UNDERSTOOD by the things that are made, even his ETERNAL POWER and GODHEAD; so that they are without excuse" [Romans 1:20] INSTINCT is an asset but without UNDERSTANDING equals IGNORANCE. INSTINCT tells you there is God but not who HE IS, falling short of the first rule of DIVINE PROTOCOLS; the IDENTITY of God. All we know of God by natural faculties with best intentions and sincerity, more often than not relapses into idolatory. For the purpose afore stated in Genesis 1:26, God initiated DIVINE PROTOCOLS, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners SPAKE IN TIME PAST UNTO THE FATHERS BY THE PROPHETS, Hath in these last days SPOKEN UNTO US BY HIS SON, ..." [Hebrews 1:1-3] Appointment of PROPHETS/MESSENGERS dislodged foolishness of idolatory and presented God as KING and righteous JUDGE. Functional PROTOCOLS of access were established but were not perfect, as illustrated by Moses's experience, "... I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And I will take away mine hand, and THOU SHALT SEE MY BACK PARTS: but my face shall not be seen" [Exodus 33:22-23]

3. Whereas God spoke through PROPHETS none of them knew Him as HE IS. Expectedly, they and their hearers fell short of the principal canon of DIVINE PROTOCOLS; who GOD IS. In due season, the FATHER revealed the "EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON", Hebrews 1:3, in the SON, "For IN HIM DWELLETH ALL THE FULNESS OF THE GODHEAD bodily" [Colossians 2:9] in the SON, JESUS CHRIST, we have God in the form we can comprehend, we know His NAME and who HE IS,  "... no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the SON WILL REVEAL HIM" [Luke 10:22] This is the GOOD NEWS preached in the NAME of JESUS CHRIST, all DIVINE PROTOCOLS required for conformity to God's IMAGE are fulfilled in Him, "For whom he did foreknow, he also did PREDESTINATE TO be CONFORMED to the IMAGE OF HIS SON, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren" [Romans 8:29] Though there be many pretenders in the world, in JESUS alone is the PROMISE made in Genesis 1:26 fulfilled. I present the same GOSPEL to you as preached by faithful men in all languages, "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to BECOME THE SONS OF GOD, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" [John 1:12-13]

4. JESUS CHRIST indeed came and gave us understanding of heavenly dimensions of Genesis 1:26, "That they ALL MAY BE ONE; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be ONE IN US: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. ... I in them, and thou in me, that they may be MADE PERFECT IN ONE; ..." [ John 17:21,23] As many as have received JESUS are ONE BODY, His earthly embassy. It does not end here, we shall be made PERFECT in ONE in the fulness of the SON of God, "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; for WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS" [1 John 3:2] CHRIST'S appearance is imminent, we shall be TRANSLATED to be like Him and shall SEE Him as HE IS. All PROTOCOLS thus observed, we shall be JOINED to Him at the MARRIAGE SUPPER of the LAMB, "And he saith unto me, Write, BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE CALLED UNTO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God"  [Revelation 19:9] Beloved, I charge you to confirm your nvitation and preparations for the MARRIAGE SUPPER. To the rest, IGNORANCE is no excuse, REPENT and receive JESUS today, the "... times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to REPENT" [Acts 17:30]