“Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.” John 16:22.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I want to give you a whole new perspective and Jesus could not yet convey that at the Last Supper until He died for you and as you, I raised Him justified and you with Him as one, He breathed the Spirit into you, and He received the Holy Spirit from Me and poured Him on you who believe. You were clothed with power from on High. Why? I have redeemed you.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (wood, cross),” in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:13-14.
What is the joy that no one—not the devil, not people, not anyone—can take from you? YOU HAVE BEEN REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW.
This is huge. If you have been glossing over it, it is time you awakened unto righteousness and got far from oppression. When you know this you can live like Jesus did among you in the flesh for He walked free of the curse, being born from above from the imperishable seed of My Word. The devil tried to get a stronghold in him and take him captive as He had Adam but in Jesus he met his match. Jesus gave him no place. And neither should you. You have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus.
But let us go back to the words of Jesus wherein He told His followers about the joy that was about to come to them.
“A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me.” Some of His disciples then said to one another, “What is this thing He is telling us, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?” So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.” Jesus knew that they wished to question Him, and He said to them, “Are you deliberating together about this, that I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me, and again a little while, and you will see Me’? Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy. Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. John 16:16-22.
Let us go line by line to build this. First, Jesus had told them already while He was teaching them at prior times to the Last Supper the events that would take place.
He took the twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to Him, saying, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles. They will mock Him and spit on Him, and scourge Him and kill Him, and three days later He will rise again.” Mark 10:32-34.
Hence, “A little while, and you will no longer see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me.” A three-day separation, which to Me is a very little while. Remember, a thousand years are as a day to Me and a day as a thousand years. And that should be a clue to you about His second coming.
But the disciples did not understand about his death and resurrection, Peter had rebuked Him about it and then Jesus rebuked Peter. But even though in the gospel of Mark you see that Jesus told them three times about His death and resurrection, they just were not listening so as to take it in, in fact, they were busy rejecting any such idea.
They now wanted to question Him on this “little while,” but they did want to appear dumb either so they just discussed it among themselves without including Jesus. But Jesus, who is the way, the truth and the life, does not want you confused, so He undertook to enlighten them in a way that would support them in the test of their faith that the crucifixion would bring when their beloved and pure Teacher became sin for them and was beaten beyond recognition. No one at that point really understood how horribly sin had separated you from Me and the corruptible nature of your humanity, all flesh and a dead spirit. My Covenant, My Word planted in your soul and mouth, and the sacrifices of the Law of Moses had you covered and shielded you but they were not an eternal redemption. No one could enter Heaven at that point but were waiting for redemption in the bosom of Abraham, that is paradise, not the Kingdom of Heaven.
I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath. Ezekiel 31:16.
Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’ Luke 16:22-26.
At the time of Noah evil had taken over man to such an extent that you were unrecognizable from the way I first formed you and planned you to be. Every desire, every thought was evil. With his rejection of good and of love as it is in Me, and his submission to Satan, Adam became like his master and so did his descendants. Except for one man who learned of Me and wanted to walk with Me as Adam had and as Enoch had. He stood up against the curse to go back to the blessing I first spoke over mankind. And he turned the tide for all of you. And I blessed him and made a covenant with him and all creatures of the earth. Behold the rainbow, which is still around My throne.
In the garden of Eden I had made a promise to mankind and I was never going back on My Word. I prophesied the redeemer who would crush the devil’s authority and redeem you. The kinsman redeemer, who would redeem you from the slavery of sin and death and pay your judgment that you owed to Me: an eternal life for the eternal life you murdered by treason and treachery. It had to be given with eternal blood that would give you eternal redemption.
But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. Hebrews 9:11-12.
Adam’s sin was very serious. It was a mockery of his Maker for the traffic of a fallen angel who stole his identity and made him a slave to his flesh. Because of him, the curse entered the earth. What is the curse? Just read Deuteronomy 28:15-68. It is the opposite of the blessing. It is sickness (every form of it including mental, physical, and emotional), lack of good things (poverty and financial hardship, lack of provision and prosperity, a barren existence full of sweat and painful toil), and eternal death (the second death, absolute and eternal separation from Me and My Kingdom). It is caused by sin and is deadly. Avoid sin at all costs.
This was where you were but by joining with Me in Covenant the blessing came back to the earth with the blessing of Noah and with the blessing of Abraham. But it was limited to this life. But the eternal was on its way from the line of My friend Abraham who followed Me unreservedly in the midst of so much evil and idols.
The LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed? For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.” Genesis 18:17-19.
I led and taught those who would follow Me but it was only one when I called Abraham, but he did become a great nation who often wandered away from Me but because they had My Word there would be a few who would find it and treasure it, honor it and write it down with My Spirit upon them for the generations until in the fullness of time, the Word stepped off the page and took on your flesh and dwelt among you, took all your sins into His own eternal flesh and gave His eternal life in the flesh to pay your judgment to Me by the blood of eternal redemption.
You just don’t understand the enormity of what I redeemed you from.
What happened to Job in judgment when the devil founded his accusations and the hedge was removed, the blessing wall breeched, but Job had not been redeemed. You have been redeemed form the curse of the law. You can stand on redemption ground. Never before could man cast out the devil until Jesus came and won back your authority and gave you the power in His Name. You can rebuke Him because you have been redeemed and he cannot touch the redeemed. There is now no condemnation or judgment against the redeemed that can take them to hell. Once you have received Jesus as your Lord and believed I raised Him from the dead with all sins gone and your justification in place, you can stand on redemption ground.
But even Job knew of a redeemer to come.
“As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the dust. Even after my skin is struck off, yet from my body I shall see God; whom I myself shall behold, and whom my eyes will see and not another. My innermost being yearns for completion within me!” Job 19:25-27.
Now because you live in the age of grace and the Light is in the world you do not realize how deep the darkness was that Adam plunged this world into in his rejection and separation from the light of My Word, from the light of life, from his source and wellspring of life. He took all of mankind into the realm of darkness. But into that darkness I sent the Light of My Word. And there is a prophecy of a visitor who comes to Job and his friends that comes in from nowhere and leaves as mysteriously and ushers in My speaking with Job. Elihu, which means “He is God.” He speaks of fallen mankind about to die with eternal death.
“Then his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to those who bring death. If there is a messenger as mediator for him, one out of a thousand, to remind a man what is right for him, then let him be gracious to him, and say, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom’; let his flesh become fresher than in youth, let him return to the days of his youthful vigor! Then he will pray to God, and He will accept him, that he may see His face with joy, and He may restore His righteousness to man. He will sing to men and say, “I have sinned and perverted what is right, and it is not proper for me. He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit, and my life shall see the light.” Behold, God does all these oftentimes with men, to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.” Job 33:22-30.
You were perverted, wicked, lawless, but I rescued you from the power of darkness and translated you to the Kingdom of My Beloved Son who gave My righteousness back to man. The light of life. That is Jesus and that is My Word.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. John 1:1-5.
In Jesus, I took away your sins and forgave you but I did even more I REDEEMED YOU FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW!
Now as He is so are you in this world.
Jesus was not subject to the curse when He was born according to the flesh. He was not born of Adam’s seed, He was born of My Word from above in the virgin’s womb by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus lived as a born-again man as you are now.
Now answer Me in this, for you are to live as He did, you are redeemed, you can rebuke the curse. Was Jesus ever sick? No. Was Jesus ever broke or in lack? No. He multiplied supplies and turned water into wine. Did the devil approach Him as he had Adam with the same temptations in a new setting? Yes. What did Jesus do that Adam did not? He rebuked him and cast him out every time he showed up. He gave the devil no part in Him. Learn from Him and your souls will find rest for His yoke is easy and His burden light. It is the anointing and He is anointed with the oil of joy and so are you—a joy that no one can take from you. Your redemption is eternal. The devil’s burden is heavy and His yoke is tight but the anointing can lift the burden and destroy the yoke. You have been redeemed.
You have the light of life. You are redeemed. And that is pure joy that no one can take away. Redemption is done and is final but it is not yet fully complete until your body is also redeemed and glorified.
Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:50-58.
In the twinkling of an eye. Get the twinkle in your eye for all the world to see, the joy that no one can take from you. You are ready to be caught up, you are free from the curse, for whom the Son sets free is free indeed. Grace has saved you, grace has recreated you, and grace has raised you.
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind to be conformed to Jesus and NOT to the world and the evil one cannot touch you. You have been redeemed. Don’t put up with anything less.
I love you. If you understand you received My thoughts on the matter by My Spirit in you, with you, and on you. You are on redemption ground, for you have been redeemed, and anywhere you take your stand becomes redemption land, by the blood of the Lamb, and My wonderful plan.