Winona Conference Part 3 – Two Mysteries, Two Kinds of Christians

One day, one non-day, God created again. Now, where is He going to create this time? He’s got to create within Himself. This time, He creates within the eternals, and He creates something so wholly different from that realm. Nobody could have imagined this. He created something visible. Incredibly, it had a beginning and an end. Now that’s mind-boggling. It wasn’t eternal. It began and it ended. It started here and ended here. You could measure. It had length, breadth, height, and depth. It may look big to you; it looked awfully small to the angels. Oh, they could cover one end of it to the other in just that long.

God created this realm. He filled it with the stars…this other heaven…this heaven that is a picture of the heavens. All sorts of things. And then He made the Earth. And then He shaped it, and He made the oceans, and the continents. And then He made the herbs to grow, and life came. And it was a visible life. To think of a life that you could see. Life had always been unseeable. This is really a lowlife. It’s the visible little things; little herbs. And then little fish. And then birds that fly. And then animals. Now I want you to understand something. That the angels are more or less captured to their realm. Can you understand? And the animals are captured in their realm. The animals can’t see the angels, and I doubt the angels are all that concerned about the animals. They are such insignificant things from the eternal view. And they have been made of this earth, from this earth, for this earth. And the others are native to the other realm. What is the habitat of those animals? Earth. What is the habitat of the angels? The spiritual realm.

Now, God does something very, very unusual. He goes over to some red dirt. Now, you say in Hebrew, red dirt. You say, A-dam. That’s how you say red dirt. A-dam. And He began to mold the red dirt into what was obviously superior to all creatures that would be confined to this habitat. And He makes this glorious, magnificent, majestic creature who lies there still, full in length, yet not born.

Now, God comes down to this place where He has molded this creature, and all the angels are watching. And they know that He’s going to touch this man and make him live. They have probably figured out that He’ll have dominion over this realm, just as the archangels take care of the other realm. God leans down over the man, and then He stops. And the angels are mystified. They can’t understand why He stopped. And there in their presence, the creating Lord lifts up off the earth, goes past the cloud, up into the sky, beyond the skies, through that portal that separates one realm from the other, and goes back into the invisible creation.

And stands now in the invisible realm. And there’s something that’s in that realm. Real wind. Real air. Real pneuma. And the living God stands in the midst of that glorious realm, and He does this. And then He descends back to the portal, down to the skies, down through the clouds, down upon the earth. And He steps before the red clay, fashioned so magnificently, and He does this. And He blows the wind of the other realm into this creature. And the wind of the other realm goes into his nostrils, and they quiver. The angels watch the sparkling, rolling light of wind as it sparkles down into the depths of his being. And then rests somewhere deep down in most beings and pulsates. They see this creature begin to glow, and the glow spreads throughout his entire body. He quivers. He blinks. He turns slightly to his side and then stands erect.

And the angels are speechless. They stand dumbfounded. They do not know what to think of this creature, for he is not like any other creature. They are utterly mystified. Do you understand? He doesn’t belong to the spiritual realm. And he doesn’t belong to this realm. He’s a half breed. One of the angels says, He’s part of my realm. And one of the cows says, “Mooo.” Interpretation: He’s part of our realm.

He is made out of the dearth of earth but has within him the wind of the heaven blown into him by the very breathing of God. And he stands, and he looks about, and he sees the cattle. He sees the birds. He sees the trees, looks about, and sees the angels; here is a visible creature who can see the invisible. Here is a seeing creature who can see the unseen, and he can look and see the other realm. He walks over to one of the angels and says, “Michael, I presume?” He turns to another and says, “Gabriel, I presume.” And Gabriel looks at him and says, “Well, I never saw anything visible that could see something invisible.” Do you see him now? Will you take a really good look at him? Really, really good look at him. He is a child of two worlds. Even God can’t say that; God belongs to that realm. Cows belong to this realm.

Here, a creature with both realms in him. He has a body like a cow. He has a soul like a puppy dog. He has a spirit like an angel. Let’s turn that around. He has a spirit like an angel, and a soul and a body-like creatures of this realm. He is spirit, soul, and body. Do you follow me? He is spirit, soul, and body. An ancient order that was afterward long forgotten. Spirit, soul, and body. So, God made the earth and the other realm, but this man needed a habitat. He needed a habitat. Now, where are you going to put him? Are you going to put him in heaven? Or are you going to put him on earth? You can’t put him on Earth because that’s not his habitat. You can’t put him in heaven. That’s not his habitat.

He’s got a problem. Where are you going to put him? And what shall his habitat be? This is a problem. We’ve got a man without a home. We’ve got one of God’s creatures without a home. The angels are very bright. The man glows softly. He’s covered, clothed, in light. You know where God put him? He put him in an interface. He put him in a place where there is not one realm or another, but where two realms meet and overlap. Where the spiritual realm and the physical realm…the invisible realm and the visible realm…the realm without dimension and the realm with dimension. The realm without mass and the realm with mass. The realm without space and without time, and the realm with space and with time touch, and then overlap.

And where is this unique, incredible place? It is the place of the habitat of this glorious, glorious, by creation called creature. Did you get that? By creation. Creature. The place of his habitat is called the Garden of Eden. Half of this realm and half of the other; having touched it is of neither, and it is of both. The angels can play there, and man is there, and God is there. What an incredible place. It is a habitat that matches the man. As sure as the heavens match God, the garden matches the man. Are you clear? Be clear. There is a habitat, a place for this man. The subject tonight is the spiritual community of the believer. The place for Adam is the garden.

He can pet a cow, talk to an angel. What a creature! Say praise the Lord. That’s wonderful. Well, he really enjoys this new existence, this time of conscience, for a while, but he gets to itching where you can’t scratch. He gets lonely. He gets lonely. And he notices the lion has the lioness, the tiger the tigress, two monkeys, two eagles, the eagle, and the female eagle. Everything is in twos. And he looks around. And he sees the chimpanzee, and he gets sick to his stomach. He sees an orangutan, and he almost throws up. Is that the closest thing there is to me? And he and the Lord have a long talk. And I want you to remember this –

He’s in God’s image, and they are all that there is who have nobody. Angels are neuter; they have one another. All the creatures have a mate. God is without a mate, and man is without a mate. And man is in the image of God…and man is in the image of God…and man is in the image of his God. And finally, God reveals something to him. He will have to fall asleep if he is to have a mate, into a deep, death-like sleep. Now I ask you to give me your full consideration. Here is the man sleeping, a deep, deep sleep. And brothers and sisters, behold a mystery. Here is the most incredible mystery that angels had ever seen or could have conceived of. Do you know what it is? It is this –