"And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming."
The spirit of iniquity is presented as a mystery. Mystery of the divine Will was in the fulness of God and dwelt in his Son. It explained "After our image" while "After our likeness" we have in the expression, "And, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven,"Jesus Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. So how the Spirit has arranged the Word become flesh explains the mystery. The Law delineates the Ancient of days and the Law of the Spirit is visually put together as a collage as it were, and with more explicitly in the inaugural vision of St John. Similarly we find the mystic union of Christ with his bride the Church in the Song of the Songs, For example, "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon."(The Song.4:11) Each part of the body carry aspects that can be spiritually understood. The sum of parts do not make up the sum which is the mystery of Love, a facet of divine Holiness. Similarly we can deconstruct the Wicked or the beast in terms of his body parts, "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority."(Re.13:2). But sum of parts do not explain the law of sin without the Law which is the Word.The law of sin is the tares in the Parable that is entirely a world apart.
Coming back to the Ancient of days, " and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool", and what does his hair tell us? In the beginning was the Word. Judgment aspect of the Word explains," his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire."(v.9)
"And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming."
The spirit of iniquity is presented as a mystery. Mystery of the divine Will was in the fulness of God and dwelt in his Son. It explained "After our image" while "After our likeness" we have in the expression, "And, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven,"Jesus Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. So how the Spirit has arranged the Word become flesh explains the mystery. The Law delineates the Ancient of days and the Law of the Spirit is visually put together as a collage as it were, and with more explicitly in the inaugural vision of St John. Similarly we find the mystic union of Christ with his bride the Church in the Song of the Songs, For example, "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon."(The Song.4:11) Each part of the body carry aspects that can be spiritually understood. The sum of parts do not make up the sum which is the mystery of Love, a facet of divine Holiness. Similarly we can deconstruct the Wicked or the beast in terms of his body parts, "And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority."(Re.13:2). But sum of parts do not explain the law of sin without the Law which is the Word.The law of sin is the tares in the Parable that is entirely a world apart.
Coming back to the Ancient of days, " and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool", and what does his hair tell us? In the beginning was the Word. Judgment aspect of the Word explains," his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire."(v.9)
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