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Writings of Tony and Theresa Messano
REMOVING THE PLATE If we want to find out how something is made, we must first unscrew the plate cover and we will find all the gears and components that make up everything and anything, that is, more specifically the spirit, soul and body, or any illness that may effect it. Remembering the scripture "for every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God." (Heb.3:4) We will recognize men are not capable of producing or manifesting anything on their own merits. We are not magicians taking rabbits out of hats or pulling anything out of the thin air. We know that all things come from God and that He created the night and the darkness and they both are alike to Him. (refer to Psalm 139:12, Gen. 1:5, Isaiah 45:7) The plate cover just mentioned is the veil of the flesh or the veil of human arrogance, as subtle as it may be, blinding us from the truth that God is All in All. In order to come up out of any bondage, illness or delusion, is to recognize the Father of creation in the midst of it or acknowledge that God is the source of it all. 1Cor. 8:6 "Yet for us there is one God, the Father of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live." Isaiah 45:7 "I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I the Lord do all these things." Remember that all things were created for His purpose or in other words His glory. When we fail to recognize Him in the midst we then gravitate out further and further to the extreme edges of darkness or gnashing of teeth, creating a larger and larger gap/void between the darkness and the light. As we move closer to the midst of knowing that God is all in all or when we acknowledge God in all our ways, we surrender the duality idea of believing that anything is outside the reach of the Father and to also sacrifice the belief that we ourselves created anything without the Father's assistance. The duality then begins to diminish and the darkness and the light become alike to Us and we enter into the high realm of Oneness. This is how the Father can take what appears to be separation between himself and Adam/creation and turn it into reconciliation. SEPARATION, WHERE DID IT COME FROM? Separation came from the mind of the Father because men, angels, spirits or animals of any kind cannot create anything completely on their own merits. Separation in it's highest form has always been oneness! When we take the plate cover off of separation, we find out how it works. Gen. 3:22 Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us." But duality and separation cause a type of amnesia or mistaken identity. We find unbelief working there telling "Man" that he is not one with the Father. We find a great void between Man and his Maker. This is what Moses discovered when he drew near the darkness of God (Exodus 20:21) That darkness was in his own being as well as in the world, but indeed God gave Moses the treasures of darkness (Isaiah 45:3) as so He did with Jesus in an even higher realm when Jesus cried out, "Father, Father, why have you forsaken Me." This darkness that Jesus experienced was even greater because it took in the entire curse given to humanity. This darkness touched the lowest and most desolate points of the abyss. It is said in the scriptures "Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thank God for Christ Jesus." But a lack of faith in the One or the finished work recognizes no reconciliation, no joining of the duality. Romans 10:6-8 But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, "Do not say in your heart, 'who will ascend into heaven?' " (That is, to bring Christ down from above) or, " 'who will descend into the abyss?' " (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we preach). God has done all these things from the beginning because He has always been All in All. He is the knowledge of good and evil. There is only one authority, one power and only one God. So as we leave the realm of duality, and by removing the plate cover or veil off the works of men, we will find the Father and that He has never been separate from His creation. Creation has been allowed to believe that we have been separate from Him who subjected it. Rom. 8:20 For the creation was subjected to futility not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Why? Why was the creation subjected to futility? The answer is to give us the experience of being a "creator" of our own; independently performing works apart from the source. This is what the parable of the "prodigal son" actually depicts. CREATION IS THE PRODIGAL SON After squandering his father's inheritance, the prodigal son finds himself dining with the pigs in the outer darkness and separation, until he is allowed to wake up and realize that he could return to his father's house. It's then that he passes through the darkness and finds a great light shining within himself that he has never seen or understood before. He is delighted to know that he has never been separated from his father and that he is still a son to the Master of the house. Now the command is given, "kill the fatted calf!" This calf is you and I in our not awakened and sleeping state, fattened by the tree of the knowledge of good and evil obtained through our journey. But this rejoicing and celebrating drove the prodigal son's brother, the one that has not experience separation from his father, to jealousy. This is what the law, Ten Commandments is designed to do. As the brother of the prodigal son said, "You have never thrown a party of this measure for me!" And what was the father's response, he said, "You're always with me, everything I have is already yours. We don't come into a true appreciation of this unless we have been separated by experiencing the light and the darkness. Gen. 3:22 "Behold, man has become like One of Us and now unless he eat from the tree of life (or the One) he will live forever!" The tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of Life are found in the midst of your garden. To first eat of it's fruit you are on the way out, but directly after your fatted calf has been killed, you are on your way back to partake of the Oneness "the tree of life" both trees become One just as everything else does when we recognize it's origins! Once the plate cover is removed we can sit at His table and dine with Him! yours truly, Anthony Messano SEPARATION BECOMES ONENESS "I Am all in all," "I go before all things"... To become like God you must first eat from the serpent's tree. To have eternal life man must eat from the tree of Jesus Christ (LIFE). The definition of Sabachthani is stated in the metaphysical bible dictionary by Charles Fillmore: Sabachthani (Gk. fr. Cheld.) - thou has forsaken me; thou hast left me; (to what) hast thou surrendered me? (Why) hast thou forsaken me? How does the Father take abandonment and separation and turn it into a oneness and a completeness? This is done because it has always been Oneness and completeness in it's highest form. And by understanding this you will also come to understand that your destiny has been fulfilled. You pass through the veil of separation that has allowed the delusion to take place. You die with the serpent on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You have created a personal experience within the Father, in truth the Father has allowed us to have this experience which He has designed for Us. But we live it, only knowing in part (just as Paul said) .We believe that we are designing this experience for ourselves.(refer to psalm 139:15),and (Rom.8:29-30) You have become like Him, in that, you experience being a creator in what appears to be separate from He who created you. You were allowed to believe that what you created came solely from yourself. It almost seems like we've become a god unto our own self, a law unto our selves, unto our own being, this is ant-christ, and for a time it seems that everything we have made and created came out of another god separate from the One God. But when we truly acknowledge God as God we see all of these delusions quickly fade away. Heb. 3:4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. We cannot even create a sickness without being connected to the Father at some lower level. Also when we come to understand that there is no such thing as disobedience we will come into a divine relationship with the Father (to the pure all things are pure). Adam and Eve could do nothing that the Father has not allowed them to do. But without this understanding guilt and shame come forth. Even guilt and shame could not be created unless the Father goes before it and is in the midst of it. ( I go before all things ) When we can see and realize that Father is in the midst of these things we are then finding the way back home, the way back to oneness. All that fear and hatred did was cause division and drought. All that disobedience and neglecting to believe that we were sons of God did was to cause a greater division. But in the highest form of that division is a oneness because all things come from God. When we come up and see the truth within the statement "I come not to destroy, but to fulfill" we will enter into fulfillment. In the word Sabachthani, we find the root idea of loosening setting free; letting alone and forsaking our secondary developments. The real root idea of the word expresses the cutting loose of bondage, or freeing from slavery. meta. Angels,(fr. gr. meaning messengers), have no understanding within their beings of the knowledge of good and evil. They cannot completely identify with the Creator in this aspect. Neither do they have an understanding of creating, destroying, free will or disobedience. Angels are what they have been made to be. What has caused us to become higher than the angels is from the eating of the tree of duality. In one respect God has upgraded or rewarded us for being disobedient. Truly, in the highest respect, there is no disobedience in living, dying and being reborn, these experiences reveal more of the deeper natures of the eternal Father. We identify with Him, through Christ, to a much greater measure than an angel or a servant to the law of Moses. CALL NO MAN COMMON OR UNCLEAN God has, in the first day created the light and the darkness. He created the appearance of disobedience, abandonment, fear, etc. etc... and knows all of these actions. Through you and I, He has become the separation and at the same moment the FULFILLMENT and ONENESS of it. "I go before all things", "I Am in all things", for every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God." Peter says, in Acts. 10:28 "God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean." Peter is not judging by outward appearance. Peter has joined the elect in that, "To the pure all things are pure." When we see the knowledge of good and evil (crucified or fulfilled or finished in Us) we can then recognize God the Father in ALL things. We can then be awakened to the truth that we have been set free from any and all bondage's of the flesh. This is the reason Jesus canceled and blotted out wiped away the hand writing of requirements and ordinances that was against us nailing them to His cross. WHY ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD HERE? Does God know all things? Did Jesus become a curse so that we no longer would be cursed? Did Jesus not say, "If you have seen me, you've seen the Father?" Jesus also said that He and the Father are One. King David said, "If I ascend into heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in hell, behold you are there.(Pslam 139:8) God experiences everything through His creation and the only difference between God and man is that God knows that He is in it. Col. 1:20-22 And by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you Holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight. What do you think you are doing as the Children of God? We are expanding the image of God through the darkness, through the light, and as we find our way home through this veil of darkness, that Christ, that Father, that Eternal One is glorified through our trials and tribulations, through our ignorance, through our awareness, through our sleeping and awakening. He becomes glorified because He reconciles all back to Himself. That is, all the glorification, all the true identification, all of the praise of understanding the truth is credited to the One! Yours truly, ANTHONY MESSANO
Living in the Now
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