What is the Purpose of This Post?
When asking Father the above question…He responded with the following list. It is not complete…this is merely the list He chose at this time. He is the teacher, and He educates in His time and at His pace. I am His student and I follow His leading. USED TO DRIVE ME NUTSO! I want things in completion and RIGHT NOW! Just saying. I am a big girl now and not as sassy with Him about His ways versus mine. It is called maturity. I needed it. More yet to come. 🤨
His List of Purposes…
- To call the Bride of Christ into the deep with Him.
- To develop your spiritual eyes to see deeper. To see Him.
- To develop your spiritual ears to hear. To hear Him speaking. To discern His voice from all other voices.
- To reflect on the truths found both in the shallow end and the deep.
- To gain insight…wisdom, knowledge, discernment, and understanding.
For starters…let’s discuss existence. We must first lay a foundation here.
We exist in two realms that are always interacting…intertwined…24/7. It makes me think of the hippie’s motto of Coexist. They are looking at it from the perspective of living in peace, love, and unity though…we will discuss that later. However, let me just interject this here…it is foolish to believe you can live in peace, love, and unity with the enemy. Never going to happen. That is the truth. Read the end of the Bible…Revelation. We see how this all plays out in the end. The only people who will get the privilege to live in unity is the Bride of Christ being unified by His Spirit. Peace, love, and unity are works of His Spirit…not works of the flesh of man. Nor are they works of our enemy.
The following is a list of a variety of titles that you can reflect on when looking at the two separate realms of existence. Again…this list is not complete either…it is a number of them off the top of my head…specific ones that I use while meditating on TRUTH.
The Two Realms
| Earthly | Heavenly (Includes Hell) |
| Physical | Spiritual |
| Physical | Metaphysical |
| Natural | Supernatural |
| Flesh | Spirit |
| Seen | Unseen |
| Holy Place | The Most Holy Place |
| Temporary Home | Permanent/Eternal Home |
| Sand | Rock |
| Shallow | Deep |
| Appearances (man’s my “truths”) | Reality (Father’s Truth) |
One Type of Reflection
In the picture of Tonto drinking water out of the pond, you will see his reflection in the water. I see many of Father’s truths in that picture. Here is one…we are to reflect. Meaning we are to reflect upon or meditate on the things we see and hear. Father tells us to test every spirit, right? We are to NOT take someone’s word for it…we are supposed to search out…seek the TRUTH for ourselves. Then…allow His Spirit…to confirm or deny that “truth.” He will show us and tell us by His Spirit if a “truth” is true or false. This is what discernment is in simple form. KNOWING through His Spirit if something is true or false.
In the end, we all will be held accountable whether or not we sought Him for the truth or if we sought out and believed the “my truths” of the flesh of man…and/or the enemy. The enemy is a liar who spews out of his mouth…lies and deception. You must reflect on…meditate…exercise the mind of your Spirit man…to separate the lies from the truth. Because discernment is a work of His Spirit…you must co-labor with His Spirit to find and stand on…His truth.
Questions for you…what voice are you listening to? Yours? Man’s? The enemies…demons? Or His Spirit?
What voice are you following? Who is leading you? Where are they leading you? What path are they on?
Are you following SELF? Leaning on your foolish understanding? Are you leaning on the foolish understanding of your neighbors? Those roads lead to Hell.
Seen Versus the Unseen
I love the title the seen realm versus the unseen realm. Every word forms a picture in my mind. I think and see in picture format. Being a visual learner and thinker, I see images and words always. As a result, the choices of words are important to me because I want strong visual images in my mind to aid in my learning and understanding of His concepts in this world.
When you reflect on the featured image of Tonto, my German Shepherd, you will see his legs in the water. Many people in today’s society would look at that image and stop when they saw Tonto’s reflection. However, I wonder what is UNDER the water. What is on the other side…THROUGH the reflection. I want to go deeper into what I see, know, and understand. This image portrays a beautiful truth to me…there is a whole other world to explore…if only I had eyes to see that deeply…to see through.
The Second Type of Reflection
When I look at Tonto’s reflection, I also see the truth that we are called to reflect Christ’s image. I will discuss this in detail as this site progresses. For now, I want to take a slight slant on this truth.
Everything in the seen realm is a representation of something in the unseen realm. You can use these words to meditate on when reflecting on this further.
- Representation of
- Image of
- Picture of
- Shadow of
- Pattern of
- Symbol of
- Copy of
- Reflection of
Examples always help me when needing understanding. Let me give you one that is a crazy good example of the seen realm versus the unseen realm and how they interact with one another. It also aids in the understanding of how things, people, situations, and concepts in the seen realm…are a picture of things in the unseen realm. Watch the episode from Star Trek Voyager…season four…The Scientific Method. This paints a wonderful picture of how the two realms exist in time together 24/7.
The Examples
Seven of Nine is a picture of the Bride of Christ. She has implants that allow the doctor to give her the ears to hear and the eyes to see into the other realm. She sees the aliens/enemy that no one else can see.
The doctor is an example of Father…Christ…and Holy Spirit. Father as our healer, because of Christ, through His Spirit…gives the Bride the ability to see and hear. He is the intelligent one who KNOWS the Bride needs to be equipped with the truth to fight the enemy who hides in secret.
The aliens…are pictures of the enemy. Demons are angels that went rogue. Fallen angels who work for their leader…the father of lies and deception. The one who brings our souls death.
The crew is a picture of the people in this world who don’t have eyes to see or ears to hear what is happening on the other side…into the deep. It wasn’t until they were equipped with the truth…that the crew could fight back against the enemy and prevail.
See the picture? Christ’s Bride can’t fight the enemy unless she is equipped with the TRUTH.
I strongly encourage you to watch this episode. It is a POWERFUL depiction of…picture of…a reflection of many truths related to Christ and His Bride. It will help your eyes to see, your ears to hear, your mind to understand…if you have a heart to KNOW the truth.
The Veil That Separates
Between the two realms…is a veil. Think of it like blinders that cover your eyes.
If you get the opportunity to watch this particular episode on Star Trek Voyager…you will see the wall that separates the two realms is there. The ability to see through or to NOT see-through the wall…the veil…is dependent on His gifting TO you…the Bride. Those aliens…aka…the enemies were walking around interacting with the crew the whole time. The crew just didn’t have eyes to see them…although the SIGNS of their presence were always there.
It is the same in our world today. You are always interacting with your enemies…in the seen realm and the unseen realm. To see them, you need to see with the eyes of your spirit man…His Spirit in you. You need Him…His Spirit. Without Him…you are blind. You are the blind leading the blind…including yourself…and you are being led by the blind…those around you who don’t have the eyes to see the truth.
Do you see the picture? When a person is blinded to the truth…they blindly follow leaders who are also blind. They are led by the blind…and they also lead the blind. In the world today, man is walking around in this thick fog of deception. They don’t have eyes to see where they are being led to. Scary.
Man is drunk on the Kool-Aid this world has served up.
The Holy Place…and the Most Holy Place
In Hebrews, we are told the tabernacle Moses and the Israelites erected was a picture of the tabernacle in the heavenly realm. Moses’s Tabernacle was temporary. A temporary place to commune with Father. The permanent place…the eternal place of worship, communion, and connection is located on the other side of the veil…in Heaven. The heavenly realm…the supernatural realm we can’t see with our natural eyes…the eyes of man…the eyes of our flesh.
Just like the tabernacle was a picture of the TRUE tabernacle in Heaven…EVERYthing in this realm is a picture of something in the heavenly realm. EVERY SINGLE THING.
Communication
One reason Father created…designed the physical realm to reflect the spiritual realm is to communicate with us. He is talking. Always talking. He never shuts up. Really. This is truth. 😳
He uses what He has made for us here…to show us…Him. To teach us and give us an understanding of Him. He is communicating His truths to us 24/7. It all depends on whether you are listening to His voice…or someone else’s voice.
The pictures He gives us…are a gift so we can understand what He is saying to us. He tells us that His ways and thoughts are not like man’s. He speaks in a multitude of ways…but one way He speaks is by the examples all around us. Your experiences in this life…are like a very deep well that He can dip out water…truth…for you so you can drink from His river of life that runs below it.
Spiritual understanding is rooted in understanding the natural realm.
Christ wants to be intimate with His Bride. He wants to show Himself to Her.
Homework
Would you consider asking Him to open up your spiritual eyes to see…your spiritual ears to hear…to give you a heart to know…and a mind to understand the truths He is speaking to you daily…24/7?
Building a life on the sand…is shallow…temporary…and it is foolish. Would you consider building your life on the truth…His truth…Him…the Rock? Do you want to go deep and see what is underneath the surface? Beyond the veil that separates the world you see here, from the world that is eternal? If so, accept His hand in marriage. Christ has proposed to you. He wants to marry you and live with you for eternity as a unified Husband and Wife. If you accept His hand in marriage, as a gift of the betrothal covenant, Father will seal your heart (the engagement ring…a sign of His love) with His Spirit who will work with you to prepare your heart and mind for your wedding day.
Some things for you to reflect on!