In our epic 100th episode of Tales of Glory, Shift happens! We welcome Meagan and Abby from the podcast The Shift. Yes, you read that right; we have guests! We dive into conversations on "Practicing His Presence" and what our personal interior prayer life walks with Jesus look like—lots of spiritual wisdom from our guests in learning to hear from God. We share stories from early spiritual development. We'll glean great spiritual direction from two outstanding ministers passionate about pulling souls from dark places.
Words That Work - mentioned in the podcast for street ministry.
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I hope you enjoyed our guests! It was an amazing time and I am grateful for Abby and Meagan being on the podcast. Have questions? Ask in the comments below or over on our Facebook page - A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare.
In Tales of Glory Episode 99, we dive into A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 03. What is spiritual authority, and why do we have it? How is the Great Commission tethered to our spiritual authority? We will examine what was unique about Jesus taking authority over unclean spirits in Mark 1. How is spiritual authority in Jesus tied to casting out unclean spirits, healing the sick, and raising the dead? If we have spiritual authority, why do we need the empowerment of the Holy Spirit? How do we use the charismas recorded by Apostle Paul in spiritual warfare? We look at these exciting topics in episode 99 of Tales of Glory!
Words That Work - mentioned in the podcast for street ministry.
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In Tales of Glory Episode 98, we dive into A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare, Chapter 02 - Part DEUX. We are in the second part of a two-part episode and go through Chapter 2 of A Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare. I will present the material in Genesis 1-3 from the perspective of theology and research 14 years after I wrote the book. I will also present the case for the three falls in the book of Genesis. We are very familiar with the one in Genesis 3. But there are two more, and these events define the angelology and demonology in the Septuagint and the Hebrew texts. This episode of Tales of Glory has some exciting material as we continue through the book on our podcast workshop and equipping.
Joel Kline provided some excellent feedback to this episode. I believe Joel was commenting on Genesis 3:8.
8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Great info!
I have a copy of Kingdom Prologue. These are excellent references cited by Joel.
Thank you, Joel!
There are two published sources, Kingdom Prologue (1993/ 2000 2nd print edition) and Images of the Spirit (1980), books from Meredith G Kline that go into depth on his studies of Gen 3:8-13. There is about 10 pages in chapter 4 of Images of the Spirit that take a deeper dive into the broader context of this judgement seen in Eden. I'll scan and email you these pages from the Images of the Spirit book, but for those interested in a shorter synopsis, I'll write out a portion from Kingdom Prologue here in this comment from Chapter 5, Section 2 "Judgement Day which can be found on pages 128-129 of the 2000 print edition. ::
Chapter 5 part 2 "Judgement Day "God had brought Satan to the judgement tree to be damned. To man had been assigned the awesome role of standing at God's viceregent at the place of judgement and consigning the great adversary to perdition. Man, however, had utterly failed in his messianic mission. He had declared good to be evil and evil to be good. He had broken his covenant with God and made league with the devil. But 'be not deceived; God is not mocked; and whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting' (Galations 6:7,8) ((this was obviously the passage Jesus read to the former african witch doctor in his dream that you've shared about before)) The Lord God therefore came to the place of judgement in Eden to enter into a covenant lawsuit with his offending vassals. Moreover, Satan was not to escape through man's malfeasance. It was also the purpose of the Lord's judicial appearance that he should himself pronounce the devil's doom".
"Another factor, all important, affected the particular character of the judicial sentences imposed on both man and Satan. According to the principle of justice expressed in the creational covenant the rebellious human vassals might have been consigned then and there to God's eternal wrath along with the devil. But the Metapolis mission (the great commission) was not to be aborted before human history had scarcely started. In eternal covenant with the Son, the Father in heaven had decreed that a new mankind should be redeemed out of fallen mankind and emerge at the consummation of redemptive history as God's holy temple, New Jerusalem. To make room for this history of redemption, this execution of final judgement against men and demons must be postponed until a later hour. God's judgement on the covenant-breakers in Eden did not, therefore, assume the form of a final total curse, nor did his condemnation of Satan have the effect of casting him at once into the lake of fire prepared for him and his angels".
A. Parousia of the Glory-Spirit
1. The Spirit of the Day "Adapting the mode of his self-revelation to the judicial purpose of his coming the Lord approached the judgement site in the awesome glory of his theophanic Presence. So he ever comes on the day of judgement, the day of the Lord, the day of the covenant servants' accounting before the Face of the Lord. It is that kind of fearful advent that is reported in Genesis 3:8
"The key phrase describing God's approach through the garden, traditionally translated 'in the cool of the day,' should be rendered (instead) 'as the Spirit of the day.' "Spirit" here denotes the theophanic Glory, as it does in Genesis 1:2 and elsewhere in Scripture. And "the day" has the connotation it often has in the prophets' forecasts of the great coming judgement (cf also Judges 11:27 and 1 Cor 4:3). Here in Genesis 3:8 is the original day of the Lord which served as the prototypal mold in which subsequent pictures of other days of the Lord were cast. Such a day is one of divine epiphany. The final day is preeminently the day of our Lord's parousia, the day of his presence as the personal revelation of the Glory with the clouds and angels of heaven. Significantly, "panim", face or presence, one of the biblical designations of the Glory-Spirit, is referred to in Genesis 3:8, and accordingly what is depicted there is nothing less than the primal parousia. On the original day of the Lord in Eden, God's parousia-advent was in the theophanic mode of "the Spirit (Presence) of the day (of judgement)".
"Trumpeting the advent of the divine Presence -- at Sinai, at Pentecost, at the parousia of Jesus, at every day of the Lord -- is the fearful sound of the voice of the Lord, the thunderclap of the approaching theophanic storm-chariot. It was by precisely this arresting signal that the primal parousia was heralded. Alarmed by this sound of God's coming (v 8a), the man and his wife sought escape (of all places) in the area of the judgement tree (v 8b).
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