What am I missing? First of all, Elohim-Yisra'el is a Triunity (Genesis 1:1, 3:15; Deuteronomy 6:4-6, 18:15-22; Isaiah 43, 53; Psalm 112, John 8:58). Second, Y'shua-Hanotzri-V'melech-HaYehudim-HaBen was on earth, but didn't lose the title of YHVH-HaBen, even while not in Heaven. As HaBen-Ha'Adam and prior to the Resurrection, unless I'm wrong about this, Y'shua couldn't have been in two places at once; because in a human form, nobody can be physically in two places at once.
Third, Juan, for example, may be able to drink wine and bread; Trudy able to only drink wine, Trig to only eat bread, and Forrest to neither eat bread nor drink wine. The heart of taking communion is what is looked at (1 Samuel 16:7, Romans 14).
Hi GoyofYeshua;
Note that this........Phil. 3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For OUR CONVERSATION IS IN HEAVEN; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
is essentially the same thing Yeshua said to Nicodemus about where He was. We know that if this tabernacle were dissolved (this body of flesh) that we have another one, yes? We don't have to leave this one to get the other one, we ALREADY have the other one, it is the Lord Jesus Christ, who now has a many-membered glorified body which is in heaven/Spirit, if so be it we are baptized into the Spirit of Him that raised Christ Jesus from the dead, ie. the Holy Ghost.
To be absent from the body (of flesh) is to be present IN the L-rd. You didn't go anywhere, you were there all along, He never left you nor forsook you, but your understanding was darkened in that you couldn't see the kingdom.
If we are raised up into the HEAD, our conversation changes, which is why they said of Him, "never a man spake like this before." That's because a man wasn't speaking. Just as He had a physical body that was here in shoe leather, but His head was lifted up, into His true Head, the Father.
This is why the Spirit comes as the lifter of our head, ie. He lifts us up into the mind of Christ, which is OUR true Head. Then, because we have had a change of heart, out the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, Amen? But if we do not allow Him to come as the lifter of our head, then we continue to speak out the ministry of condemnation that ministers death to the hearer, ie. the letter that killeth. To be continued.....