Ever
Hear of the Descended Master?
In many eastern
religions, there are “ascended Masters”.
According to Wikipedia:
“In the Ascended Master Teachings, Ascended Masters are believed
to be spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans, but who have undergone
a series of spiritual transformations originally called initiations.”
Some of these are listed as : Buddha, Zoroaster, Confucius, a couple of Saints, Merlin, Melchizedek, and Mary
Magdalene – most lists also include Christ
Jesus.
This is not a complete list, and there might be lists
with different ones on them.
Millions of people across the world believe in one or
more of these ascended masters.
Then I thought one day:
there is also a “Descended master”!
That would be one who came down, not one
who started here on earth.
*Some 2000 years ago,
Yeshua was talking with Nicodemus – a Pharisee and ruler of the Jews; and was telling
him that he must be “born again”…
John 3:8 "The wind
blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it
comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
9 Nicodemus
answered and said to Him, "How can these things be?" 10 Jesus
answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know
these things? 11 "Most assuredly, I say to you, we speak what We know and
testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness.
12 "If I have
told you earthly things and you do not believe; how will you believe if
I tell you heavenly things?”
*Now listen to
what He says -
John 3:13 "No one has ascended to heaven
but He who came down from heaven,
that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
(14 "And as
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up, 15 "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
eternal life.”)
John 6:32 Then Jesus said
to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread
from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33
"For the bread of God is He
who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
John 6:38 "For I have come down from heaven,
not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.”
John 6:41 The Jews then
complained about Him, because He said, "I am the bread which came down from heaven."
42 And they said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and
mother we know? How is it then that He
says, 'I have come down from heaven'?"
John 6:51 "I am the living bread which came down from
heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread
that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the
world."
John 6:58 "This is the
bread which came down from heaven--not as your fathers ate the manna and
are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever."
John 6:60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said,
"This is a hard saying; who can understand it?"61 When Jesus knew in
Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, "Does
this offend you? 62 "What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?
*He also said this -
John 16:25 "These things I have spoken to you in
figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you
in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.
26 "In that day you will ask in My name,
and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you; 27 "for the
Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
28 "I came forth from the Father and have come
into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father."
29 His disciples
said to Him, "See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of
speech! 30 "Now we are sure that You know all things and have no need that
anyone should question You. By this we
believe that You came forth from God."
*On the day that he arose from the grave –
John 20:1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the
tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away
from the tomb.
John 20:11 But Mary stood outside by the tomb
weeping, and as she wept, she stooped down and looked into the tomb. 12 And she
saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet,
where the body of Jesus had lain. 13 Then they said to her, "Woman, why are
you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my
Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him."
14 Now when she had said this, she turned
around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. 15
Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you
seeking?" She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, "Sir,
if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take
Him away."
16 Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She
turned and said to Him, "Rabboni!" (which is to say, Teacher).
John 20:17 Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to
Me, for I have not yet ascended to My
Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your
God.'"
*Later that same day Yeshua appeared to his
disciples -
Luke 24:36 Now as they said these things, Jesus
Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, "Peace to you."
37 But they were
terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. 38 And He said to them, "Why are you
troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 "Behold My hands and My
feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh
and bones as you see I have."
40 When He had
said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.
41 But while they still did not believe for
joy, and marveled, He said to them, "Have you any food here?" 42 So
they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 And He took it
and ate in their presence.
Luke 24:50 And He led them out as far as Bethany, and
He lifted up His hands and blessed them. 51 Now it came to pass, while He
blessed them, that He was parted from
them and carried up into heaven.
Acts 1:9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him
out of their sight.
10 And while they
looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by
them in white apparel,
11 who also said,
"Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same
Jesus, who was taken up from you into
heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven."
*In Mark we are told this -
Mark 16:19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to
them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
*Now let’s look at the Book of Revelation.
Revelation 1:7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and
every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the
earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.
12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke
with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands, 13 and in the midst
of the seven lampstands One like the Son
of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest
with a golden band.
14 His head and
hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;
15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as
the sound of many waters;
16 He had in His right hand seven stars, out
of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun
shining in its strength.
Revelation 1:17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as
dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.
18 “I am He who
lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have
the keys of Hades and of Death. 19 “Write the things which you have seen, and
the things which are, and the things which will take place after this.
He is no longer
Descended. He Ascended to Heaven and is
seated at the right hand of God. Just
listen to the way John describes Him – Wow!
Compiled by G.E. Walker April
2019
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