GATHERED BY HIS NAME

1. God is INVISIBLE, His DIVINE NATURE is without form or shape that may be seen or discerned; if anyone thinks otherwise, it is idolatory, "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the GODHEAD is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device" [Acts 17:29] The primal revelation of the INVISIBLE God to the works of His hand was His WORD, by which He brought ALL THINGS into existence both seen and unseen, "IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, and the Word was with God, and THE WORD WAS GOD. ... ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM; and without him was not any thing made that was made" [John 1:1,3] The SPOKEN WORD was the ground and frame of God's relationship with Adam and Eve, "And the LORD God COMMANDED THE MAN, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" [Genesis 2:16-17] The fellowship fell apart due to man's DISOBEDIENCE but God opened the door of RECONCILIATION before they were thrown out of Eden, "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make COATS OF SKINS, and CLOTHED THEM" [Genesis 3:21]
2. In Eden, Adam and Eve had no reason to call on God or request His NAME; He visited and they knew Him by VOICE, "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 ..." [Genesis 3:8] "COATS OF SKINS" in Genesis 3:21, was a paradigm shift, a new protocol of engagement; men now to seek God. Animals were killed for "SKINS" and blood shed for "COVERING" of SIN [Levittus 17:11] No sooner the new arrangement was put in place, Abel was killed and Cain's progeny filled the earth with false prosperity [Genesis 4:8-22] The birth of Seth symbolized a REVIVAL,, "And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began MEN BEGAN TO CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD" [Genesis 4:26] His NAME, through the ages remains the ABIDING PLACE of the RIGHTEOUS, "The NAME OF THE LORD is a STRONG TOWER  the RIGHTEOUS RUNNETH INTO IT, and is SAFE" [Proverbs 18:10]  it is ONE NAME, "THE NAME OF THE LORD", the ONE TRUE GOD who in Egypt revealed Himself to Moses, "... they shall say to me, WHAT IS HIS NAME? what shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. ... this is my MEMORIAL UNTO ALL GENERATIONS" [Exodus 3:13-15] 
3. I AM THAT I AM, meaning, I AM WHO I SAY I AM is the testimony of the SELF-EXISTING; the anchor of FAITH in those who have not seen God but BELIEVE who HE SAYS HE IS, "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] Israel called Him JEHOVAH, taking consonants from I AM THAT I AM, adding their own vowels in fear of the 3rd Commandment but fell short of God's ETERNAL PURPOSE, "And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the MYSTERY, which from the beginning of the world hath been HID IN GOD, who created all things by Jesus Christ: According to the ETERNAL PURPOSE which he purposed in CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD: ... Of WHOM THE WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH IS NAMED" [Ephesians 3: 9,11&15] The MYSTERY is the PURPOSE of God to "UNVEIL" Himself in JESUS CHRIST and GATHER "ALL THINGS" in Him and by His NAME, "Having made known unto us the MYSTERY OF HIS WILL, ... That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might GATHER TOGETHER IN ONE ALL THINGS IN CHRIST, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him" [Ephesians 1:9-10] JESUS CHRIST is God uniting the GODHEAD and His NAME in ONE, all other names miss the mark [Philippians 2:10-11]
4. The night has been long and the "GATHERING" so close but those summoned are fast ASLEEP; illustrated by the PARABLE of TEN VIRGINS, "While the bridegroom tarried, they ALL SLUMBERED AND SLEPT. And at midnight there was A CRY MADE, Behold, the BRIDEGROOM COMETH; go ye out to meet him" [Matthew 25:5-6] JESUS CHRIST is the BRIDEGROOM, His NAME is the CRY made at "MIDNIGHT" to REVIVE and GATHER the harvest of the CHURCH, "And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to AWAKE OUT OF SLEEP: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed" [Romans 13:11] This is the GREAT REVIVAL spoken by JESUS in Matthew 24:14, a great outpouring of the HOLY GHOST, the LATTER RAIN. JESUS CHRIST shall be witnessed in all nations, then shall we be GATHERED to Him, as many as are established in His NAME, "And it shall come to pass, that WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED" [Acts 2:21] The SEED was sown at PENTECOST as His disciples came together in PRAYER in the UPPER ROOM. The Lord, likewise, has called us to PRAY for the LATTER RAIN, "ASK YE OF THE LORD RAIN IN THE TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field" [Zechariah 10:1]

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