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MISSING HIM

Let's look at feeling of loneliness or missing someone even in the midst of the happiest family and friends. I didn't know that a man can still have this feeling in the midst of the third heavens, among the holy and glorious angels, spirits, with love, friends, families and the Father Himself, all present in the heaven. John felt this so much that he wept in heaven because no man could take the Book from the One on the Throne and to open its seven seals.

This feeling of loneliness or missing someone in the midst of all love, comfort and abundance, is usually from the result of the Gap between the Creator and the creatures/created in communication and fellowship. It's like a vacuum of differences between the levels of God and of the creation. This gap or vacuum can only be filled by a Mediator between God and the Creation: One who is both in the levels of God and in the levels to relate with creation particularly, as a Son of man, at the same time. This is the role and importance of the Son of man, the Lord Jesus Christ — The Word of God.

In the heavens, there are great angels and mighty beings created and made to minister directly to the Father in His Presence. But mankind from our levels will be needing a helper, just as Adam needed a helper suitable for him while dwelling in the presence of God in paradise. The Helper I speak of is not one that would be under us for us to lead and bond with beings under us or to help us work like Eve to Adam; rather, the Helper I speak of is One that will be above us but with us to lead and bond with Beings both above and under us – to help us bond. The Son of Man is this Helper and Companion we seek/need.

Martha said to Him, “If You'd been here, my brother would not have died.” The Samaritan woman said to Him, “I perceive You are a Prophet, but One (more than a prophet) who is Messiah called Christ is coming (as we all wait and long for Him inspite of all prophets and priests around). When He comes He will tell us all things.” Can you imagine what she was expecting the Christ they were hoping for to do for them? — She didn't say when Messiah comes He will destroy all our enemies with Holy Ghost fire, give us salvation and prosperity, etc. Rather she said, when the Messiah comes He will show or tell us all things. That was what she was seeking from the Messiah, and that was the message she preached to all men to convince them that Jesus is the Christ, by telling them “He told me everything I ever did.” They were not seeking a Messiah for healing, prosperity, miracles, business breakthroughs, breaking curses, or saving them from sin — Those looking for the Messiah just to learn all things from Him followed her, and believed (without miracles/signs) when they heard Him for themselves, that He truly was the Messiah that must came.

Mary Magdalene cried because she missed Him even in the presence of Angels from heaven: Angels of heaven cannot fully fill the void of missing the Messiah and Son of man, the Lord Jesus Christ. As soon as Mary heard Him call her by name, she realized He's the One, and shouted, “Rabboni!”

How do I illustrate to you that heaven with God the Father, Holy Angels, Stars, Saints and Prophets, but minus the Lord Jesus Christ the Messiah and Son of God or Son of man, at some point feels like missing someone so much that one's heart may even ache or break into weeping as John felt?

Listen, I don't how Muslims supposedly will enjoy the garden or paradise that Mohammad promised them with just 70/75 virgins and still not be disconnect. But I tell you, heaven or earth will not satisfy any man without the Lord Jesus Christ with him and he with Him. He's the real satisfaction, sense and reality of heaven. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself feels so about the Father, but we feel so about Him. The New Heaven and New Earth with have the Tabernacle of the Father and the Lamb (Son) dwelling with mankind forever. When this comes, the Lord Jesus Christ will not have any occasion to leave men with a reason He wants to go to the Father: For when He's present with the Father in the old world, He was absent from men who also needed Him as He needed His Father. Behold in New Creation, the Father, the Lamb and Saints, abide.

Now, John was in the third heaven in Revelation 4 and 5, saw the Ancient of Days who lives Forever, but he did not earlier see the Lord Jesus Christ sitted at His Right Hand. Instead, he saw twenty four thrones with twenty four Elders, saw four Beasts or Cherubim around the Throne of He who Lives Forever, and myriads of Angels and Choirs, but yet he did not see the Son of man in that heaven, not even an empty Throne nor one sitted at the Father's Right Hand. He even saw seven flames as the seven Spirits of God, but did not bother looking for the Son of man in that glorious Revelation of God and the Heavens. Then a need or problem came up in the heaven. It was a need for someone to take the Scroll / Book from the hand of the One who sits on the Throne and Lives Forever. No one in the entire heaven and earth could solve that need: one would think only here on earth do needs arise, and when it's difficult for men they look up to those in heaven for help; but John was shocked that when no one in the entire heaven was found able to do that task, the heavens began look at the earth and seas and beneath the earth for anyone who can, but found none anywhere. So, John wept bitterly, for having needs on earth is bitter if no one there can fix it, but having needs in heaven is even more bitter and painful than having them on earth without solution. Poverty in heaven is worse feeling than poverty on earth, and yet the poorest in heaven is richer than the richest on earth.

My question there was, “Where did the Lord Jesus Christ go or came from, when it's said no one in heaven, earth and sea, was worthy or able to do the task?” Was He in heaven, on earth, and under the earth or in the sea, etc., when no one was found worthy to take and open the Book from the Father?

I will re-ask these questions again but after the main Bible verse in Red:

[Daniel 7:13 BSB] — "In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence."

[Daniel 7:13 LG] — "I beheld in the night vision, and behold, One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven, and He came to the Ancient of Days, and was brought near to Him."

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In this Main Bible verse in Red, for you to understand my teaching, replace the word “coming” with “ascending” in your mind while you re-read the Bible verse again.

Question:
♡1♡ — Lord Jesus Christ, where were You coming from in this Daniel's vision and where have You been, if not sitted at the Father's Right Hand?

Answer:
The Lord Jesus Christ said this about His coming with clouds:

[Mark 14:61-62 BSB] — "But Jesus remained silent and made no reply. Again the high priest questioned Him, “Are You the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?” “I am,” said Jesus, “and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”"

This coming with the clouds of heaven is two-ways traffic for the Lord Jesus:

**A** The one you saw in the main Bible verse in Red is a “Bottom-Top” coming with the clouds, which is simply called “His Ascension to the Father (Ancient of Days)” and;

**B** The one you saw in the next Bible reference is a “Top-Bottom” coming with the clouds, which is simply called “His Second Coming.”

My point here is that, the Angels told the Apostles who saw the Lord Jesus ascending, saying, “The same way/manner you see Him ascend, so shall He come again.” This applies also to similar vehicles He used, which are, Clouds.

[Acts 1:11] —"“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”"

So, if the Lord Jesus promised to come with the clouds of heaven after sitting on the Right Hand of Power, it means, He must ascend with the clouds in order to return with the clouds as He had gone.

From the perspective of the main Bible verse in Red, Daniel was seeing from where the Apostles stopped seeing in the day He ascended: they stopped seeing Him when the clouds disappeared Him, but Daniel in vision centuries earlier was seeing Him coming with the clouds or ascending with the clouds. This was before He began the phase of sitting on the Father's Right Hand. Don't forget thrones were set already when He ascended with the clouds.

Question:
♡2♡ — Lord Jesus Christ, Where did You go or came from, when it's said no one in heaven, earth and sea, was worthy or able to do the task in Revelation 5?” Were You in heaven, on earth, and under the earth or in the sea, etc., when no one was found worthy to take and open the Book from the Father? If You were in any of these places I mentioned, how were You not counted among the saying, no one was worthy to take the scroll or open its seven seals and yet, You were not sitted at the Father's Right Hand then for John to see You. I remember how early in the morning You sneaked away into a solitary place to pray, and Your Disciples sought for You like Mary and Joseph sought for You at age 12, only that this time the disciples did not find You in the temple but found You in a solitary place praying. And when they found You, they said to You, “All men are looking for You.” [Mark 1:35-37]

You, O Lord, are the Savior; and yet You do hide Yourself: Why?

[Isaiah 45:15 BSB] — "Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior."

Just explain to us how or where You hid Yourself when no one was found worthy to take the Scroll or open its seven seals in Revelation 5, especially before John wept as Mary Magdalene had wept at your Tomb, not seeing You.

Answer:
Hid you say? I would not say the Lord Jesus Christ was hiding, but I would rather say the Lord Jesus Christ was in a state or form that those who counted or searched did not consider to reckon with. That was the state of His being Slain or for a layman, He was in the state or form He was when He's crucified and died. You have said and heard the Angels questioned why those seekers searched for the Living among the dead, and that He (the Lord is not there but risen from the dead). But not searching for the living among the dead has made the Lamb (Jesus) to appear not seen or invisible because the Lamb appeared in the state, form or appearance He was when He was slain.

[Revelation 5:3-7 BSB] — "But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it. And I began to weep bitterly, because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it. Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed to open the scroll and its seven seals.” Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And He came and took the scroll from the right hand of the One seated on the throne."

You see, sometimes it appears He's hiding, but He's just where those looking for Him do not consider to search. Mary and Joseph sought for Him three days, but didn’t consider earlier looking first for Him at His Father's Business. Some are looking for Him outside but He's being inside them. Some looking for Him in big churches, programs and fellowships, while He's available for them among the poor and miserable people in some locality. So do men miss. Thus, every tribe will weep for missing Him when He comes with clouds:

[Revelation 1:7] — "Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him— even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will weep because of Him. So shall it be! Amen."

You will weep the more if you keep on missing Him without knowing Him. “Don't asked, Lord when did we see You sick, in prison, hungry, naked, poor and did not minister to You?” Like the goats in Matthew 25.

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