Be The Hands and Feet

A Short Introduction in Memory of Watchman Nee

Notable here, that G-d raise up special men in every generation. Why? Because as a literary mo, I understand that the way in which something is written makes it more or less understandable, especially to the average person. Does that make the person unworthy? No, I say, actually that is the very attitude we should be striving against. Truth should be easily understood in order to help everyone.

Something else, that the Watchman was taught by the LORD Himself is special. That is so that no one would be able to claim him or say he belonged to any group or denomination or anything else like that. Apostles and Prophets are taught in this way.

They breakdown Watchman Nee’s Statement of Faith into 12 parts:
1. Concerning GOD
II. Concerning the eternal plan or economy of GOD
III. Concerning the Incarnation of GOD
IV. Concerning the Christ
V. Concerning the Dath of Christ
VI. Concerning the Resurrection of Christ
VII. Concerning the Eternal Life
VIII. Concerning the SPIRIT
IX. Concerning Christ’s Redemption and GODs Salvation
X. Concerning the Believers
XI. Concerning the Church
XII. Concerning the New Jerusalem

I. CONCERNING GOD

He pointed out that God is eternal, self-existing, ever- existing, having no beginning or ending, and complete and perfect in every sense. God is triune; in His Godhead, He is the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The Father is the source, the Son is the expression, and the Spirit is the application. God the Son is the embodiment of God the Father, while God the Spirit is the reality of God the Son, applying the Triune God to those who believe into God the Son. God is also holy and righteous. Holiness refers to God’s inward nature, while righteousness refers to God’s outward acts. God is love and light. Love is the element of His inward nature, while light is the element of His outward expression. This God possesses extraordinary wisdom and accomplishes superlative works.

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At this point, I’d like to propose a different understanding of the Trinity. We have swung the other way, with the advent of a ‘wicked’ generation of homosexuals, transgender, families with female heads, eunuchs, etc. This sexual ‘confusion’ points to the fact that the teaching on sexuality is at hand to be modified and needs to be understood in a new way. May we say, the Trinity is:

Father, Mother, and Son.

The central figure is the Son, our LORD Jesus Christ. The roles of the Trinity requires more in depth study. The Son is beloved by all, and is our Way to the Father and Mother. God is holy and righteous. But, my understanding of holiness and righteousness is different. The Scriptures personify ‘virtues’ such as wisdom, knowledge, and my point is that righteousness is a Person, namely the Almighty Son. Often, what the Trinity wants done is carried out by the Son, He is the Doer of Right. Holiness, in my understanding is not only spiritual and moral cleanness, but is a setting apart of the person to the Person of the Trinity. Holy is akin to Whole or Wholy, it is be devoted and special to the LORD.

I’m not showing off or being proud, but my grasp of English, my generation, progressively allows me to understand things in a new way, but the goal is to help people move closer to GOD and eventually realize their sonship or daughtership in GOD through the LORD Jesus Christ. Why not through Buddha or some other Ascended Master? My current take on that is why? If you want to get on the road to the Trinity, to GOD, why not learn from the best? And the best is the LORD Jesus, because I believe He was not only the Prophet, He was the incarnation of THE SON of GOD, the third person of the Trinity.

II. CONCERNING
THE ETERNAL PLAN (ECONOMY) OF GOD

He pointed out that this God who possesses extraordinary wisdom and accomplishes superlative works has a good pleasure according to His heart’s desire, which is to gain a group of men who would become one with Him, sharing the same life, the same living, the same move, and the same work as His, that He may express Himself in glory through them. Therefore, in eternity past He purposed in Himself an eternal plan (economy). In this plan God the Son was to be the centrality and universality that He would have the preeminence in all things. For this reason He also created the universe, with all the myriads of items therein, in order that He might create in it a tripartite man—composed of a spirit, a soul, and a body—as a vessel to receive Him and express Him. God would enter into man’s spirit as the Spirit and regenerate man, thus producing His many sons, who share His life and nature, and the many members of Christ the Son, who constitute His organic Body as His corporate expression, so that the Triune God through this expression would have an ultimate expression in fullness for eternity.

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The plan seems to be that GOD create everything in order to have an expression of Himself in it. That just never fully resonated with me. My revelation was that we are spirit beings. We are sons and daughter of the Most High. Not on the level of the SON, but sons and daughters, and we are the spirits of Man (men and women). I don’t know the entire plan, but the earth as we know it, is in a sea of darkness. We have seen this with our own eyes via telescopes. The vast, seemingly infinte universe is a deep space of dark salted with galaxies, solar systems, and planets. But in the first account of creation, there actually exists a divide, and beyond the divide is the realm of the Angels; a realm of light not dark, and at the top of the realm of Angels is a throne room of that world and this. Is there another realm beyond that one? According to other sources, yes. But that is blowing my mind right now.

The reason we are living in a dark place, is that this place is very, very, very far away from the Source of Light and Everything – the Trinity. In Jewish writings, they say there is beyond the Trinity, but it is totally incomprehensible to us. The Trinity may be thought of as the Face of GOD, it is what can be known to us from the Infinite Sea of Divine the Jewish call Ein Sof.

But back to who.wat we are – we are the sons and daughters of the only True Creator 3 in 1 GOD, created before the creation of the Angelic and Human and Lower Spiritual worlds. Yes before. We were created before the Angels, and that is why, and I humbly say this, many of the Angels are our servants as the book of Hebrews in the Holy Bible says this to be so. When we return to the Father and Mother, we will be in a very different place, a perfect place. We’re just here to live a good life and help this level of creation and all in it. We are to grow and to make this level of creation a better place to ‘fight’ against what ‘evil’ would do to it and itself. And if you understand this, we are a ladder as the LORD said for the lower spirits to ascend to the Angelic realms. As they serve us and work with us, they can once again regain their elevated position in the Angelic realms. It works the other way too. So we must always be sensitive to what is going on in the Angelic realms.

Since we have limited capacity to understand, and we don’t seem to remember what transpired previous to our births here on earth, I deduce that we should just focus on living our best lives in the here and now. Always doing our best to help others and ever searching to grow closer to our Heavenly Father, Mother, and Brother – the LORD Jesus Christ.

III. CONCERNING THE INCARNATION OF GOD

He pointed out that at the time of creation God did not put Himself into man to let man share His life and nature. It was four thousand years later that He in God the Son, through the Spirit entering the flesh of a virgin, was conceived as a man with both the divine nature and the human nature—a God-man who is the complete God as well as the perfect man. Thus, He brought God into man, and within human flesh, He lived a human life on earth, expressing God by living out all of God’s attributes through His human virtues.

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Um, that the LORD Jesus is/was the Incarnation of the SON, there can be no doubt. But, allow me to propose at few new ideas. Why did the LORD incarnate at that time? Mainly ‘to provide for the remission of sins’. Here is where I get crazy. Do I believe that the SON incarnated ever at any other time? Yes, of course, why not, He is GOD after all, and is Sovereign. Sin and guilt is a big problem in the psyche of a person. Understood at the intellectual and soul level, it is worth really meditating about personhood.

IV. CONCERNING CHRIST

He pointed out that the Second of the Divine Trinity was made Christ by God in eternity past. This One is God’s Anointed. In time, He came to accomplish the eternal plan (economy) which God had purposed for the expression of Himself. God desires that this Christ, His embodiment, be the centrality and universality in His eternal plan and that He would have the preeminence over all things in both creation and redemption, transcending all things. This Christ whom He established emptied Himself, laying aside the form of God and taking the form of a slave, and was found in fashion as a man, living a humble human life on earth. At the end of His human life, this Christ of God went to the cross, accomplished God’s eternal redemption for us, the sinners, and released God’s eternal life. He also resurrected from the dead and was transformed from God’s only begotten Son to God’s firstborn Son. Furthermore, in resurrection He became the life-giving Spirit to enter into the believers, making them God’s new creation and His members, constituting His Body. He became the life, the element, and the Head of the Body. In this way the Triune God has obtained a corporate expression in this universe. In the coming kingdom He will be King and will reign with the overcoming saints over the coming world. Later, in the new heaven and new earth, He will be the centrality and universality of the New Jerusalem and will be the mutual dwelling place of God and man to be the full expression of the Triune God in eternity.

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I now understand that GOD wanted a presence here at this level of creation. Yes, if that is what is meant by expression of Himself, I feel a coming together of ideas. People don’t realize how special it is to follow the Christ. GOD the SON is really looking for a ‘elite’ group of people to follow Him and do special works for Him. Many will be called but few chosen. Many will reach salvation but much fewer will really follow Him wholeheartedly. We are all spirits, sons and daughters of the Elohim, the Trinity. This life can be seen as school. We don’t need to feel bad if lessons need to be repeated, because of eternity. The Buddhist idea of reincarnation is true. It is the repetition of the basic lessons needed to graduate from this level of existence. So, in the Christian understanding, the LORD Jesus provides us the Way to break out of the ‘prison’ (Christian viewpoint) of incarnating and reincarnating and we go to Heaven, which is the next level, the better life. But, we must be careful to polarize, dualize, and basically put down those who are not advancing quickly. They seem slow or failures, but we don’t really understand the plan. G-d may have them exactly where They want him or her. For example, someone in prison may be falsely accused (like father Joseph son of Jacob son of Issac son of Abraham) to be placed in some dark place to help someone there. Do you understand?

Many things cannot be fully grasped, and that is the challenge of those who really want to know and understand. Even something like Love, the Love of G-d, also called Agape, is not fully grasped. Many people know not what Love is. The Bible gives descriptions of Love. It is something we need to profess love for, commit to its Way, and practice it throughout our lives. In a similar way, knowledge, spiritual knowledge, esoteric knowledge, is not truly understood, but it flows through us, it does change us, but the point is that the ‘light’ of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding is not to be hoarded, but is to be shone upon and shared with all who would seek it. Things get confusing, but then it is when you are trying to contain the knowledge within our tiny little minds. That is another reason, we need the LORD, for when we are joined to Him, we are joined to the very Spirit of GOD, which is the ‘medium’ by which all on the side of GOD are joined.

Who is the Christ? He is the SON, but He is also Jesus, or Yeshua bar Joseph. Jesus was a man who lived on this earth two thousand years ago. After He resurrected, He took His place in the Heavens as High Priest. Is He the SON, yes! Is He also someone else, yes. Personhood gets confusing. I have no answer on how this is done, but that it is. The SON, lives in all, in everything, and I venture to say, in His Purity, He exists infinitely faraway, but the King of the World and possibly the entire Universe is and will be our LORD and KING Yeshua, Yeshua bar Joseph, Yeshua of Nazareth.

V. CONCERNING THE DEATH OF CHRIST

He pointed out that the death of Christ was not a death of martyrdom, but a vicarious death on behalf of us, the sinners, which bears many significances: (1) to remove our sins, (2) to crucify the flesh for us, thus terminating the old man, (3) to destroy Satan who has the power of death, (4) to judge the world under Satan, (5) to annul the ordinances which separated us, (6) to satisfy all the requirements of righteousness, holiness, and glory which God had placed on us, the sinners, and (7) to release God’s eternal life from within Himself for us.

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I like that.

VI. CONCERNING THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

He pointed out that Christ’s resurrection was a resurrection of His whole being from the dead, including His body, by God through the divine Spirit within Christ. Such a resurrection made Him, the only begotten Son of God, the firstborn Son of God with both the divine nature and the human nature. His resurrection also transformed Him into a life-giving Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the reality of life, who enters into His believers to regenerate them, to bring their humanity into divinity, to make them God’s many sons, His many brothers, and His members who constitute His mysterious Body as His organism for the expression of Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God. The reality of this resurrection, which is the Holy Spirit, the reality of life, has become the overcoming power in the life of His believers and will become the infinite power which will resurrect them from the dead and will transform and redeem their bodies.

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The resurrection of the Christ was significant, and maybe we should meditate upon that. By His resurrection, He showed us what is possible, like former holy people – Enoch, the Melchizedek, and Elijah and several others who died not, but ascended into Heaven. But more than not dying, He was resurrected, which shows to me that He greater accepted of all. One who died, is acceptable to GOD, to serve in His Heaven Temple, and He tasted death for all. If you understand, having died, to the sensibilities is not the greatest thing. It is like a bad mark. But, that bad mark, He took upon Himself, is doing so, He identifies with regular people, and opens the way for them to the Highest Positions of the Next World, the main thing is closeness with Him. A holy person cannot die. Someone like the LORD Jesus should not have died, but He did, because I believe it was the requirement of the ‘evil’. After ‘evil’ had their way with the LORD Jesus, then they beheld what happened next. They never really knew Who He Is/Was. But, even in death, the Spirit of the LORD Jesus descended to the deepest reaches of this world, to preach in three days what must have taken an eternity. GOD, the Trinity, has installed their King in the Heavens and the Earth and below, and His Name is Jesus or Yeshua. Everyone loves Him and needs Him whether they admit it or not, but one day every tongue will confess Him as LORD and bow down before Him. That just means that He came as a lowly servant, but one day, very soon, All will know Him as their Ruler and Gentle Master,

VII. CONCERNING THE ETERNAL LIFE

He pointed out that the eternal life described in the Bible is God’s uncreated life, which is eternal both in time and in nature, perfect, and without any blemish. This eternal life of God swallows up and overcomes death and is also the indestructible life. This life of God is also the Triune God Himself as life to those who believe into His Son. By this life we become God-men, those who are joined to God and who possess both humanity and divinity.

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That’s great.

VIII. CONCERNING THE SPIRIT

He pointed out that the Spirit is the application of the Triune God. The Spirit reaches those who have believed into and received God the Son. The Spirit applies to them God the Father who is in God the Son. He is the Spirit of life and the reality of life; He is also the life-giving Spirit, dispensing life to those who believe into the Son. As such, He is the regenerating Spirit who regenerates the believers with the life of God the Father in God the Son, making them the children of God. He then becomes the indwelling Spirit within them as the reality of all things. He is the renewing Spirit who renews the man of the old creation into God’s new creation with God’s eternally new and never-aging life. He is also the sanctifying Spirit who separates and sanctifies the believers with God’s sanctifying nature. He is the transforming Spirit who transforms them with the life element of Christ into His image. He is the firstfruits, the foretaste, of God as the eternal portion of those who have believed into the Son. He is the Spirit of power poured out on the believers of the Son as the authority for their work. He is the reality of the Triune God, the reality of Christ, the reality of all the truths, and the reality of the resurrection of Christ. Only by receiving Him will a man possess the Triune God, the truths, Christ, and the resurrection of Christ.

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There are many spirits,

IX. CONCERNING CHRIST’S REDEMPTION
AND GOD’S SALVATION

He pointed out that the redemption of Christ was accomplished through His vicarious and redemptive death for the sinners. When we the sinners receive this redemption, we are forgiven, cleansed, justified, and reconciled to God. Based on Christ’s redemption, God in His salvation forgives, cleanses, justifies, reconciles, and regenerates us through Christ’s resurrection and renews, separates, and sanctifies us through His Spirit. Furthermore, the Spirit transforms us through the life-element of the pneumatic Christ, conforming us to the image of God’s firstborn Son, Christ, and finally glorifying us with the divine glory into which Christ has entered.

This salvation which God accomplished through Christ’s death and resurrection and through the Holy Spirit’s work of regeneration, renewing, separation, sanctification, transformation, conformation, and glorification is different from the reward which God will give to the believers at the time of Christ’s coming. God’s salvation is based on grace, which is different from the law, and is not based on man’s works according to the law. God’s reward is based on the overcoming life which believers in Christ live out after they are redeemed and saved, and this reward is through faith, by Christ’s resurrection life, and by the life-giving power of the Holy Spirit. This reward is also based on the work, in Christ and by the Holy Spirit, of the building up of the church, the Body of Christ, which accomplishes God’s eternal plan (economy). God’s salvation is eternal; it includes saving us from our past sins, our present bondage of sin, and our temptations and failures into the ultimate enjoyment and full taste of the Triune God with all His riches in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and the new earth. God’s reward is dispensational and is limited to our reigning and obtaining glory together with Christ in the millennial kingdom during the manifestation of the kingdom.

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X. CONCERNING THE BELIEVERS

He pointed out that the believers in Christ were created by the Triune God according to His image as tripartite men with a spirit, a soul, and a body to be God’s vessel for containing Him, expressing Him, representing Him, and reigning for Him over all creation. At the time of creation, God did not put His life and nature into man; He only created a spirit in man so that man could receive with his spirit the pneumatic God into him as life. But man fell under Satan’s temptation. He did not obey God’s commandment; rather, he was corrupted by Satan, bearing Satan’s evil nature and being constituted a sinner. Because of this, God Himself became a man and put on the flesh of fallen man. This man’s name was Jesus Christ, who in His flesh died for man and redeemed man from his sins, thus terminating the sinner himself together with Satan, the world, and the old creation. After His death, His whole being was resurrected, and in resurrection He was transformed into a life-giving Spirit. As such, He enters into the sinners who believe in and receive Him and becomes one with them, thus regenerating them to become God’s children and His members, making them one with Himself, and constituting them His organic Body, which is the church, His fullness as His corporate expression.

These sinners who believe into Jesus Christ are called the Christians, the followers of Christ, those related to Christ. They were of God’s old creation but have become God’s new creation through regeneration by believing into Christ, possessing God’s life and nature, walking by God’s life and His Spirit, and living and working for God. They are being built up together in spirit to become the church of God, which is God’s house, the Body of Christ and the fullness of Christ, and are waiting for Christ’s return, at which time He will rapture them, transform them, and receive them into His glory to be with Him forever. Those among them who after their salvation are willing to live an overcoming life by the overcoming life of Christ and by the resurrection power in the Holy Spirit, who will participate in the work of accomplishing God’s plan (economy), and who will ripen first before His coming again, will receive His reward to enter into the millennium, to be co-kings with Him, and to rule over the world. Those among them who are not ripened in this way will receive His discipline in the millennial kingdom so that they will ripen. Hence, they will be constituted elements of the New Jerusalem, and after the millennium in the new heaven and new earth, they will participate together with those believers who ripened first in the ultimate blessing and enjoyment of God’s salvation in the New Jerusalem for eternity.

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XI. CONCERNING THE CHURCH

I wholeheartedly agree, the Church are those that belong to Christ, mostly Gentiles, at this point. There are different people, ranks, groups, a great variety of differences and diversity. But, the point is that they are to achieve His work and help Him in His rule of this plane or level of existence.

XII. CONCERNING THE NEW JERUSALEM

Finally, he also pointed out that the ultimate revelation of the Bible, the New Jerusalem, is constituted of all the redeemed ones in the Old and the New Testament. It is the tabernacle of the Triune God, the habitation of God with man in eternity. It is also the bride of Christ who is the embodiment of the Triune God, His beloved spouse in eternity. This holy city is also God’s Holy of Holies, with the same one dimension in height, length, and breadth. It is constituted of God and the Lamb to be the serving place and dwelling of all God’s redeemed. It is constituted of: (1) God the Father, the source of the Triune God, as its essence, like the transparent pure gold; (2) God the Son, the expression of the Triune God, as its entrance in His redeeming death and His life-dispensing resurrection, like the beautiful pearl; and (3) God the Spirit, the application of the Triune God, as her walls and foundations, through the Spirit’s transformation in the believers, like the glorious precious stones. She is thus constituted by the Triune God to be the ultimate consummation of God with the redeemed, regenerated, and transformed tripartite man, in which He and man become one as His corporate expression and manifestation in eternity. In this city the Lamb is the lamp, shining forth God’s glory, and in the midst of this city there is the throne of administration of God and the Lamb, from which flows a river of water of life, clear as crystal. This river flows in the middle of a spiral street, which encircles the whole city and reaches the twelve gates at the circumference of the city, nourishing the entire city. On either side of this river grows the tree of life, with new fruits every month, supplying the entire city. In this way, the holy city, the New Jerusalem, is the culmination of the union between the Triune God and His redeemed tripartite man; it is filled with the glory of the Triune God and expresses His fullness in eternity. It is also full of the supply of the Triune God to His redeemed in His redemption, so that they can have a full enjoyment and a full taste of all that the redeeming Triune God is, has done, and has attained. All this is a summary of the divine revelation which Brother Nee saw and conveyed to us.

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The New Jerusalem is it figurative, symbolic, or literal, maybe all. But the New Jerusalem, is ruler by Christ, it is from where He rules the world. This holy city is not like other cities, and it does not replace all other cities. It is where the best, most holy, those who belong to the Christ have their residence or one of their residences and their citizenship in Zion. When the New Jerusalem is, the whole world system would be gone, and the entire world will although still not be perfect, will be much better.