Enoch lived sixty-five years and became the father of Methuselah. Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him. Genesis 5:21-24.
“I and the Father are one.” John 10:30.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God says:
Most people, even those dedicated to Me, put a line between us. They are not entirely open to Me or one with Me. It took Enoch walking with Me three hundred years of his three hundred and sixty-five years before he permitted Me to cross that line and open himself to our oneness so that he no longer kept that line of separation up. When that was crossed then we had oneness and intimacy of heart so that he could enter right into My bosom and the old Enoch (the “old man” as My apostle Paul called it) was no more. Newness of life that is life indeed.
The story of Enoch’s life is written in just four short lines but it is the simple story of every person’s life journey home to Me.
It is the intimacy of total openness between us where each knows the other, no more striving, arguing, division, begging, anger, or feeling like the other is holding back, but pure unity of goodness, purpose, power, and trust. Then we can truly share. It is then, abiding together in My Word, that you ask whatever you want and it is done for you. John 15:7.That is where Jesus walked. John 11:41-42. And it is also the place where you hear what I ask of you and you respond, like Abraham, “Behold, here I am,” and like Jesus, “To do your Will, O God, is my delight and your law is within My heart.” Psalm 40:8.
And Jesus explained this life of oneness as eternal life, even now, “This is eternal life, that they may KNOW You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You sent.” John 17:3.
When you and I come into total agreement, it is there I can reveal Myself to you and you can reveal yourself to Me. Jesus is the perfect example and teacher of this oneness, “The Father and I are one,” and He prayed that you too would enter into this oneness with Him. John 17:21.
In this intimacy we become friends, John 15:15, Exodus 33:11, spouses, Hosea 2:19, Isaiah 54:5, lovers, Song of Songs 5:16, partners, 1 Corinthians 1:9—we join in Covenant, Luke 22:20. And I am your Father and you are My beloved son. John 1:12; 1 John 4:17. On that day you have no more questions to ask that are left unanswered, for as soon as you call, I answer you and tell you great and mighty things you could not know. John 16:23, Jeremiah 33:3. I share My secrets with those who worship Me in Spirit and truth, I reveal My Covenant to them. Psalm 25:14. I open Myself to you as never before so you can see Me as I am. John 14:21, 23. And when I reveal Myself to you, you become like Me because you see Me as I am. 1 John 3:2. And this brings you into keeping yourself pure, unstained by what is going on in the worldly ones around you. 1 John 3:3.
The night before Jesus died for you and would return to Me, He prayed for everyone of you who would believe in Him by the Word of those who were there that night, and yet you too were there in His mind, for before you were formed in your mother’s womb, I knew you and called you by name, and Jesus said, “I have manifested Your Name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world; they were Yours and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me. I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom You have given Me; for they are Yours; and all things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We.” John 17:6-11.
Jesus prayed for you who believe to enter into the oneness He enjoyed with Me. He asked this on behalf of you who believe in Him, not for the worldly minded because a person walking only in the flesh does not accept the things of the Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. 1 Corinthians 2:14.
Jesus manifested My Name to you. You are not intimate with a person of whom you do not know their name and they are not intimate with you if they do not know your name, even if you know their name. I told Moses: “I will do this thing of which you have spoken, for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.” Exodus 33:17. I promised you in Psalm 91: “Because you have delighted in Me, therefore I will deliver you; I will set you on high, because you have known My name. You will call upon Me, and I will answer you; I will be with you in trouble; I will rescue you and honor you. With long life I will satisfy you and show you My salvation.” Psalm 91:14-16.
It has to do with each knowing the other by name. And in Covenant you take the name of the one who is the provider, the stronger one, and are under the wing of His protection. Boaz told Ruth that she had come to take refuge under My wings. And she received all her heart longed for.
I assured Moses in our intimacy, My presence shall go with you and I will give you rest. Exodus 33:14. In that oneness, striving and anxiety cease. My Spirit shall not strive with man forever because he is flesh. Genesis 6:3. And there you see the problem to total openness with Me, it is walking in the flesh that creates that line. Spirit begets spirit and flesh begets flesh. A life lived only in the five senses of the flesh and in worldly ways (the system of Babylon) will keep you in rebellion and lawlessness. It will make you hostile to Me without any reason to be. I told the Pharisees that I was offering them eternal life, newness of life, but they were unwilling to take that life. They preferred the glory that comes from men above the glory that comes from Me.
Moses had to remain in communication with Me, which he did quite avidly, in order to have intimacy. I tried to make the entire Israelite nation My priests and kings that would hear My voice and walk My ways, but they refused and told Moses to talk with Me and then tell them what I said. They put up a dividing line that they would not cross and would not let Me cross, and it kept them from crossing over into their promised land—their abundant place, their wealthy place, their place of rest. They saw My works but they never understood My ways. No oneness, no intimacy, instead they were always grumbling, complaining, and chiding Me, questioning My goodness.
Bickering, complaining, gossiping, disrespect, pull you out of our oneness. Jesus was like you in every way but never sinned. He was tempted in all the same ways you are but He refused to walk any other way than My way. And it made Him powerful and a Man of rest. Prince of Peace.
But He was meek and humble of heart. In His emptying of Himself to make Himself like you without utilizing His powers as God on earth, He told you, “The Father is greater than I.” And yet He is in the Spirit One God with Me filled with all the fullness of the Godhead. He honored Me. He told you that. When there is intimacy you must walk in understanding, respect, and hold each other in honor. I told you that I honor those who honor Me. Those who do not yell blasphemies at Me when trials come but turn to Me in trust, knowing I will fix it. Like Jesus at the tomb of Lazarus. He wept at what the devil had done, but He turned to Me in our intimacy and He knew I would give Him whatever He asked. John 15:7; Exodus 33:17. And I did. And I will do the same for you who honor Me, who honor My goodness, I hear your prayers, I hear your heart’s desires, and I honor them, just as you also hear Mine and honor Mine.
Jesus told you that when you love Him, you keep and honor His Word, and then that creates a love relationship of intimacy in which He reveals Himself to you. John 14:21. And when you see Him by revelation, you become like Him in manifestation of His grace, goodness, and nobility in your own life. And then you can say like Him, “If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.” John 10:37-38. Do your works that people see point to the intimacy that leads to oneness with Me? Oneness in honor, respect, purpose, trust, power, sharing of secrets making your words have authority—that is, Covenant. Spouses often begin to look alike if they are intimate for many years in loving relationship.
I love you. Will you let down the line and let Me in to dine with you? Will you open yourself to Me and let Me open Myself to you in trusting love? Will you believe in My goodness and that I am there for you? If so, all I have is yours and all you have is Mine. Covenant—the everlasting Covenant of love. My All is yours. Jesus showed you that.
Jesus said: “The Holy Spirit will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.” John 16:14-15.