"To Whom is the Arm of the Lord Revealed?" - by Pastor Doug Riggs

by John Mark on 04/21/24

This message was originally recorded June 18, 2014. I originally titled it as the second part to "God's Pattern for our Conformity to the Image of Christ", but opted to change it to this which is the theme throughout the message.

My notes:

To Israel, God said, "I will redeem you with an outstretched arm". Doug makes the comment, "It takes the supreme effort of the Lord to bring in redemption, not only from Egypt, but to make a way for the children of Israel to come in to their possession - that is, their inheritance." This applies to our redemption and what it takes for us to come in to our possession, the unsearchable riches in Christ.

"How is the arm of the Lord revealed? Well the measure of which this Christ is formed in you and me, and the measure in which we are brought into conformity with His death will be the measure in which the arm of the Lord is revealed in us, and then, ultimately, through us."

In my listening to this message I learned something I hadn't heard before. Doug was talking about Satan's attempt to wage war against the Lord and to keep Him from returning. Speaking of hybrids (i.e.: Nephilim), I understood him to say that when they are killed (this happens in countless rituals to empower the earthly rulers and those in society that obtain much wealth and power), a demon is released, and these are not numbered in the third of the angels that fell when Lucifer rebelled. Angels are not demons; demons are the disembodied spirits of the hybrids. Those locked up in Tartarus are those demon spirits from the hybrids that were killed in Noah's flood. Today there are so many more than what are there.

We see in the scriptures that God will crush Satan under our feet (Romans 16:20 cp Hebrews 10:13). "He first has to be under our feet before God will do the crushing. It's our responsibility to come to the place of being above. When we are above, and he is below, then the God of peace will crush Satan under our feet. But the people above will only be overcomers... a Philadelphian company."

"What we are by nature in Adam has affinity with Satan. Conformity to His (Christ's) death is the strategic purpose of God in our being delivered from what we are by nature and into that which represents His image."

Link to today's audio: https://dougriggs.s3.amazonaws.com/Assemblies/6-18-14+Wed__Assembly.mp3

Recommended resource: "The Spirit's Law of Life" by T. Austin-Sparks https://www.austin-sparks.net/english/books/spirits_law_of_life_the.html

The Arm of the Lord
https://www.austin-sparks.net/english/books/arm_of_the_lord_the.html

Maranatha!

John Mark

...hereby committing this unto the providential care of the enthroned Head of the Church; whose Name is blessed forevermore, Yeshua Mashiach - Jesus Christ!

 

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