HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND WHAT JOHN MUST HAVE FELT WHEN HE SAW THE RISEN CHRIST ? . JOHN WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE THAT LEANED AFFECTIONATELY ON JESUS AT THE TABLE . NOW JOHN IS EXILED ON PATMOS AND THE RISEN JESUS APPEARS:
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; . CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT ?
[15] And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. . THIS IS THE SAME MAN WHO WALKED AND TALKED WITH THEM EVERYDAY . . . !!!
[16] And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
[17] And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
Revelation 1:14-17 KJV
JOHN, THE YOUNGEST, CLOSEST DISCIPLE, NEVER EVEN FATHOMED HIS LORD AND SAVIOR WITHOUT THE TRAPPINGS OF THE FLESH. HOW COULD HE HAVE ? . THE FLESH WAS RIGHT THERE, COVERING, AS IT WERE, THE REAL JESUS !!! … NOW JESUS TOLD HIM:
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am ALIVE FOR EVERMORE, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Revelation 1:18 KJV
RIGHT NOW WE LIVE IN A CORRUPTIBLE BODY AND OUR PHYSICAL SENSES CANNOT FEEL THE SPIRITUAL REALITY.
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
2 Corinthians 5:16 KJV
WE CAN SEE IN THE SPIRIT IF WE LOOK BEYOND WHAT THE HUMAN, MATERIAL SENSES TELL US, RIGOROUSLY DENY THE CARNAL MIND’S HIDEOUS LIMITATIONS, AND SEE . . .
Therefore if any man be in Christ (BORN AGAIN), he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV
WHEN JESUS TOLD JOHN – ON THAT LONELY ISLE OF PATMOS – TO “WRITE”, THANK GOD THAT HE OBEYED !!
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. [54] So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1 Corinthians 15:53-54 KJV
It’s all quite mind-boggling!! Without a mortal body, Jesus was enormous, with eyes of flame and stars in his hands with a voice like Niagara Falls: this wasn’t a dream, vision or divination. Imagine stuffing all of that plus infinity itself into a human body!!!!!
I’m convinced that we believers who spend a great deal of time in the spirit see and hear and know a lot of often indescribable things which escape the average nay-sayer. rjs
