Appendix two
Wonderful Counselor - Everlasting Father
Can you see this wonderful counselor, and everlasting father ... we have in Messiah?
Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh,
set a man over the congregation. (Numbers 27:16)
In whose hand [is] the soul of every living thing,
and the breath of all mankind.
(Job 12:10)
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect,
[in whom] my soul delighteth;
I have put my spirit upon him:
he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed shall he not break,
and the smoking flax shall he not quench:
he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
He shall not fail nor be discouraged,
till he have set judgment in the earth:
and the isles shall wait for his law.
Thus saith God the LORD,
he that created the heavens, and stretched them out;
he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it;
he that giveth breath unto the people upon it,
and spirit to them that walk therein:
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness,
and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee,
and give thee for a covenant of the people,
for a light of the Gentiles;
To open the blind eyes,
to bring out the prisoners from the prison,
[and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. (Isaiah 42:1 to 8 )
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name [is] Holy;
I dwell in the high and holy [place],
with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble,
and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth:
for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls [which] I have made.
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him:
I hid me, and was wroth,
and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him:
I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
I create the fruit of the lips;
Peace, peace to [him that is] far off, and to [him that is] near,
saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
But the wicked [are] like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest,
whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
[There is] no peace, saith my God, to the wicked. (Isaiah 57:15 to 21)
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression,
and the house of Jacob their sins. (Isaiah 58:1)
Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock!
the sword [shall be] upon his arm, and upon his right eye:
his arm shall be clean dried up,
and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. (Zechariah 11:17)
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again. (John 3:6,7)
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not,
how shall ye believe, if I tell you [of] heavenly things? (John 3:12)
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world;
but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned:
but he that believeth not is condemned already,
because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than light,
because their deeds were evil.
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light,
that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
(John 3:14 to 21)
For this cause I bow my knees unto
the Father of our Lord Jesus Messiah,
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory,
to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
That Messiah may dwell in your hearts by faith;
that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints
what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Messiah, which passeth knowledge,
that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above
all that we ask or think,
according to the power that worketh in us,
Unto him [be] glory in the church by Messiah Jesus
throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. (Ephesians 3:14 to 21)
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you
that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
With all lowliness and meekness,
with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
[There is] one body, and one Spirit,
even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
One God and Father of all,
who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all.
But unto every one of us is given grace
according to the measure of the gift of Messiah. (Ephesians 4:1 to 7)
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us],
and we gave [them] reverence:
shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits,
and live?
For they verily for a few days chastened [us] after their own pleasure;
but he for [our] profit, that [we] might be partakers of his holiness.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down,
and the feeble knees;
And make straight paths for your feet,
lest that which is lame be turned out of the way;
but let it rather be healed.
Follow peace with all [men], and holiness,
without which no man shall see the Lord:
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God;
lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you],
and thereby many be defiled;
Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau,
who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
For ye know how that afterward,
when he would have inherited the blessing,
he was rejected:
for he found no place of repentance,
though he sought it carefully with tears.
For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched,
and that burned with fire,
nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words;
which [voice] they that heard intreated
that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
(For they could not endure that which was commanded,
And if so much as a beast touch the mountain,
it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
And so terrible was the sight, [that] Moses said,
I exceedingly fear and quake:)
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn,
which are written in heaven,
and to God the Judge of all,
and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
and to the blood of sprinkling,
that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh.
For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth,
much more [shall not] we [escape],
if we turn away from him that [speaketh] from heaven:
Whose voice then shook the earth:
but now he hath promised, saying,
Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made,
that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably
with reverence and godly fear:
For our God [is] a consuming fire. (Hebrews 12:9 to 29)
Let brotherly love continue.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers:
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them;
[and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled:
but whoremongers [fornicators and porno lovers] and adulterers
God will judge.
[Let your] conversation [i.e. life] [be] without covetousness;
[and be] content with such things as ye have:
for he hath said,
I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
So that we may boldly say,
The Lord [is] my helper,
and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. (Hebrews 13:1 to 6)
SO YES, ... NOW, ... MAY HE, OUR WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, OUR FAITHFUL FRIEND, OUR EVERLASTING FATHER, ... MAY HE EVEN NOW TURN THE HEARTS OF THE FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN, AND THE HEARTS OF THE CHILDREN TO THEIR FATHERS, ... BEFORE HE COMES. AMEN. (Malachi 4:6).
