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ARCHIVE SPECIAL PROPHECY UPDATE NUMBER 189B

September 15, 2004

Tectonic Chaos – Chapter 13 – Shell of Salt from a Jordan Rift

If man’s sin Exceeds God’s Limits He judges it with his Creation

God Left us Multiple Examples of This from Genesis to Revelation.

I’m confident This generation is very close to reaching God’s Limit!

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One of the greatest jokes in the Bible to unbelieving scientists has long been the account of Lot’s wife becoming a pillar of salt.  However, in the running to and fro of man above the planet, across the planet, and in particular, below the planet’s surface, sufficient knowledge has come to light to understand the methodology God used to being the event to its final conclusion.

Daniel 12:4 – But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Genesis 19:23-26 – The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. [24] Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; [25] And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. [26] But his wife looked back from behind him, and she BECAME a pillar of salt. 

The “plain” to which the writer refers is the wide, flat rift valley fault at the southern end of the Dead Sea.  Sodom and Gomorrah, before their obliteration, sat directly over the fault (F2) on the southeastern side of the Dead Sea shore (See Birth Pang Archive Figures 24 and 27).  Examination of the geological substrata in this area is very interesting. The Bible gives a description which reflects that numerous shallow oil deposits existed in this zone prior to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Genesis 14:10 – And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

The vale of Siddim (valley of the fields) was the territory south of the land tongue which protrudes into the Dead Sea from its eastern side    (See Birth Pang Archive Figures 24 and 27).

The great cataclysm which destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah was followed by subsidence of all the vale of Siddim, and up until the last century it lay submerged beneath the southern end of the Dead Sea south of the land tongue of Lisan.  The “slime pits” were bitumen or asphalt pits.  The words for slime pits in Genesis 14:10 are the Hebrew words “chemar beer,” and represent a pit of bitumen that extended downward into the substrata of the earth.  Asphalt is a brown to black bituminous substance that is obtained as a residue in petroleum refining.  A great deal of the asphalt of ancient times came from the Dead Sea, which was also called Lacus Alphatites.  Asphalt is a mixture of hydrocarbons, in part oxygenated, the softer types generating toward petroleum.  When exposed to the air it hardens partly by oxidation and partly by evaporation.  There was once a large build-up of this petroleum based bituminous material surrounding the area of Sodom and Gomorrah, because the writer states that it was “full of slime pits.”  Even today an occasional chunk of asphalt will suddenly bob up to the top as a sulfur vent erupts on the sea floor of the Dead Sea.  There are, to this day, large sulfur springs that deposit heavy loads of sulfur over the Dead Sea flats in this area.  Here, in the hey-day of Sodom and Gomorrah, was a great subsurface powder keg of petroleum hydrocarbons and sulfur, just waiting for a giant match to ignite them. Another compound, sodium chloride, better known as salt, has always existed in the upper surface layers of this zone as vast block formations hundreds of feet thick.  So, here is the disaster, waiting for the God who formed it, to ignite it with what he put beneath the layers of salt, sulfur, and petroleum based material – thick deposits of salt immediately under the surface, petroleum hydrocarbons boiling up through cracks in the salt layers, and sulfur springs rippling into the salt zone both vertically and horizontally.  All this formation needed to trigger it was a vertical thrust of the igneous magma into the crack running through the Sodom-Gomorrah area (See Birth Pang Archive Figure 27).  As you can see on Figure 27, a vast molten sea of magma underlies the earth’s outer crust, and it is closer to the earth’s surface in this area than in many other parts of the world.  Numerous fumaroles occasionally release hot gasses and vapors to the surface from old volcanic vents that still extend deep into the underlying magma, bearing testimony that intense heat pockets exist just below the surface.

Zoar was not resting on top of the powder keg.  When Lot entered the safety zone to which God had directed him, then God pulled his tectonic trigger and completely destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.  I believe that God opened his Dead Sea Fault just enough to allow the fiery magma to push up through the vents of salt layers he had long saturated with sulfur and bitumen.  This touched off a tremendous chain of explosions that roared through the entire vale of Siddim.

The explosions weakened the upper crust and great fiery swirls of pyroclastic materials were blasted high into the heavens.  The writer describes it vividly by stating, “brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.” 

But what of Lot’s wife – how did she become a “pillar of salt?”  First of all, she disobeyed God, and remained in the disaster zone – “But his wife looked back from behind him.”  When Lot was safely inside Zoar, his wife was still standing in the danger zone “looking back.”  This tells us why she became a pillar of salt – she disobeyed God!  Now, let us explore how “she became a pillar of salt.”  She observed the great vents of fire that went up into the heavens from the chain reaction, but before she could clear the danger zone a blanket of of pyroclastic material from the eruption rained down on her – and yes, you guessed it – the pyroclastic material was composed of hot, liquid, pryochemical salt.  She actually “BECAME a pillar of salt,” exactly as the Word of God proclaims.

This sort of thing is not unheard of – pyroclastic materials of the local area covered the residents of Pompeii in 79 A.D. – They were actually encased, in perfect body form, by pyroclastic materials of the local area called “rapilli” that were thrown into the heavens by the eruption of Vesuvius.  They became pillars of rapilli rather than pillars of salt.  The Italian Florelli devised a method of making casts of the former residents by pouring plaster into the rapilli shell coverings.  When the material rained down from heaven the residents of Pompeii were in the danger zone.  I am convinced the same thing happened to Lot’s wife.  The residents of Pompeii did not become “pillars of salt” only because the upper layers of the crust in their area were not composed of salt layers.

As the sulfur and petroleum based substances continue to burn both externally and internally, a great deal of the valley mass went up in smoke.  Additionally, the salt blocks fused into more compressed strata and the limestone layers gradually shrank after the initial ignition by magma.  This chain of events caused a further local subsidence of the graben valley floor.  As it gradually sank below the level of the Dead Sea to the north of it, its murky water flowed slowly southward across the area like a great smothering blanket over the smoking valley, and much of what remains today of this great holocaust lies hidden beneath the shallow waters of the southern Dead Sea.

Please do not believe I am trying to “explain away” a miracle.  God does as he wills with his own creation.  I simple believe this is what God did.  The sight that met Abraham’s view the morning after Lot’s wife became a pillar of salt, is a flawless description of a local opening of the tectonic plate along the Dead Sea Fault.

Genesis 19:26-28 – But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. [27] And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord: [28] And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

I believe God opened the Dead Sea Fault in a small local area to cause the terrifying picture Abraham witnessed in the aftermath of the cataclysm.  I am convinced that God will once again open this fault in the last 1260 days of the tribulation period.  But this time it will not be local – the opening will stretch from the southern tip of the Dead Sea via the land of Idumea to the northern extension of the Red Sea into the Gulf of Eilat or Aqaba (See Birth Pang Archive Figure 23).  I believe the prophet Isaiah saw this happening in his vision of destruction in Idumea during the tribulation period (See latter part of Chapter 11).

Isaiah 34:9,10 – And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. [10] It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

JUDGMENT CAME ON NOAH’S GENERATION.  ITS COMING ON THIS ONE

Luke 17:26-30 – And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. [27] They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. [28] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; [29] But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. [30] Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

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God made all things and uses them as He wills to fulfill His Prophecies – Part 1

December 5, 2013

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When man’s sin exceeds God’s limits God judges it using his own Creation

God has left us many examples of this from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21

(“The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until Now.”)

I’m confident that today’s generation is very close to reaching God’s Limit!

Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

John 1:1-3 – In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] The same was in the beginning with God. [3] All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 10:30 – I and my Father are one.

John 14:3-9 –  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. [4] And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. [5] Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? [6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. [7] If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. [8] Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. [9] Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

GOD LEFT US EXAMPLES OF JUDGMENT IF EVIL EXCEEDS LIMITS

Genesis 6:11-13 – The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. [12] And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. [13] And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I WILL DESTROY THEM WITH THE EARTH.

GOD USED TECTONIC PLATE MOVEMENTS TO FLOOD THE EARTH!

Genesis 7:11,12 – In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. [12] And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

GOD ALWAYS ADVISED MAN OF JUDGMENT BEFORE IT APPEARED

MANKIND ONCE AGAIN FACES JUDGMENT AS EVIL ACCELERATES

EARTH WILL SOON BE VISITED BY TECTONIC PLATE MOVEMENTS

Isaiah 29:6 – Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. Revelation 6:14c – And every mountain and island were moved out of their places. Isaiah 26:20 to 27:1 – Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. [21] For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain. [1] In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Revelation 12:3-14 – And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. [4] And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. [5] And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. [6] And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. [7] And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, [8] And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. [9] And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. [10] And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. [11] And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. [12] Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. [13] And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. [14] And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Revelation 6:12 – And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

Revelation 16:18 –  And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

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A Correlation Of Gentile Age End Time Prophecies 

In Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 ———Part 1

THE EVENTS PRIOR TO THE SECOND ADVENT OF JESUS

Teachings of Jesus just before he was arrested and then crucified

December 4, 2013

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The Olivet Discourse by Jesus is found in Luke, Mark, and Matthew.  I have read hundreds of expositions of the discourse by many different men.  I can truthfully say, without reservations or hesitation, that many positions are held on the discourse and wide differences do indeed exist between them.  Some believe it was all fulfilled by 73 A.D., some say most of it was fulfilled by 73 A.D., and some say most of it is yet to be fulfilled.  Some say it only applies to the Jews, and some say it applies to both Jew and Gentile

In this exposition I will attempt to weave a pattern based on all three discourses, with the account of Luke serving as the basic document to explain Matthew and Mark’s accounts.

Matthew 24:1,2 – And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. [2] And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

His statement shocked the first church members to the depths of their souls.  They had been required from their teens to annually come to this temple for the three Feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles.  It represented all that was holy to them, and many times they had met as a local church in its courtyards to worship God in the presence of their head, Jesus Christ.  So, it is very easy to understand why, as soon as they were alone, they would be certain to ask him to elaborate on his shocking proclamation.  They asked him a three-part question.

Matthew 24:3 – And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

Question Number 1 – When shall these things be?  When will the temple be leveled?  Question Number 2 – And what shall be the sign of thy coming?  What things can we look for to let us know that you are soon to establish your kingdom?

Question Number 3 – And what shall be the sign of the end of the world (this age)?  What things can we look for to let us know this age of Gentile domination is drawing to a close?

Christ began by telling them of two common things that would precede the leveling of the Temple Mount.  They were to see many claiming to be the Messiah who could deliver them from the Romans, and there would be many rumors of wars within, and all around the periphery of, the borders of the great Roman Empire.  This is precisely what happened from his crucifixion to 135 A.D., by which time Hadrian had placed the final touches on the prior leveling of the Temple Mount and the city of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 A.D.

Matthew 24:4-6 – And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. [5] For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. [6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, BUT THE END IS NOT YET.

Mark 13:7 – And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; BUT THE END SHALL NOT BE YET.

Luke 21:9 – But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; BUT THE END IS NOT BY AND BY.

Jesus clearly told them not to use these two things as the signs that were to mark his answers to questions two and three.  These things would mark the period up to the last gasp of Jerusalem as a Jewish city, when it was given a new Roman name by Hadrian.  Referring to question three, he stated very clearly: “but the end (of the age) is not yet, but the end (of the age) shall not be yet, but the end (of the age) is not by and by.”  And even though he told them, and us, not to use these two things to mark his coming and the end of this age of the Gentiles, they are the very things we have repeatedly used right up to the present time.  We have always had false messiahs and rumors of wars in all the ages since the cross and, while Scripture indicates false messiahs are to increase at the end, they should not be used as the prime reason to teach the coming of Jesus and the end of this Gentile age is rapidly approaching.  So, just what should we use?  I will cover this in Part 2 of this Series, Lord willing.

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The Godhead Redeemed Believers by Seed’s Payment in Blood, Flesh, and Life

Part 1

December 3, 2013

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One God fulfilled the 3 offices of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Believers don’t have a precise date of the Year of the Son’s Birth.

But Believers are Eternally Thankful Christ gave his Life for Them.

Believers Don’t have a Precise Year for the Rapture at His Coming.

We are thankful Christ comes for Believers at the 1^st Resurrection.

And Believers Rejoice that Christ fulfilled his Office in the Godhead

As a God-man Seed in sinless human flesh and blood offered for Sin

John 19:34,35 – But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water. [35] And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.

I Corinthians 15:45 – And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a QUICKENING spirit.

THIS IS THE GODHEAD OF THE ONE GOD FULFILLING THE 3 OFFICES

INVOLVED IN THE REDEMPTION OF MAN AND OF ALL HIS CREATION

Genesis 1:26a–And God said, Let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness:

Adam was made by the Godhead in the image of the blood flowing, earth becoming image and likeness.  The Godhead knew it would be necessary to make & occupy the sinless seed of Mary in the Bethlehem Manger.

Genesis 3:15 – And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and HER SEED; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Colossians 2:1-10 – For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; [2] That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; [3] In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. [4] And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words. [5] For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. [6] As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: [7] Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. [8] Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. [9] FOR IN HIM DWELLETH ALL THE FULNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY.  [10] And ye are COMPLETE in him, which is THE HEAD OF ALL PRINCIPALITY AND POWER:

Matthew 28:18 – And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH.

Ephesians 6:10-12 – Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, AND IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT.  [11] Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. [12] For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Matthew 28:19-20 – Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, BAPTIZING them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20] Teaching them to observe ALL THINGS whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Christ’s local church has power (authority) to BAPTIZE in the name of the Godhead, which is the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which are the offices fulfilled by the sinless second Adam, Jesus Christ, who is NOW the one God.

Acts 4:12 – Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we MUST be saved.

Christ’s local Church has God’s authority to administer Communion (the Lord’s Supper) as his Word directs.

I Corinthians 11:1,2 – Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.  [2] Now I praise you, brethren, THAT YE REMEMBER ME in all things, AND KEEP THE ORDINANCES As, as I delivered them to you.

Acts 2:41,42 – Then they that gladly received his word were BAPTIZED: and the same day there were added unto THEM about three thousand souls. [42] And THEY CONTINUED STEDFASTLY IN THE APOSTLES’ DOCTRINE and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

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A Message from God to Believing Hearts in End Time Troubles

Part 1

December 2, 2013

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John 14:1 – LET NOT your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

John 10:30,31 – I and my Father are one. [31] Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.

 “Let” or “Let Not” is the Message based on the “hope” in I Corinthians 13:13

I Corinthians 13:13 – And now abideth faith, HOPE, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

  “Hope” grows out of saving faith by knowing the promises of God through learning them by continuing in the Word and “letting” Him build up your soul’s “love” for Him and for HIs “little flock” assemblies that teach His Word in spirit and in truth.

Believers – “Let” the Spirit have His Way in your Saved Heart

Believers – “Let Not” Satan have His Way in your Flesh

A Christian “Lets” God’s heart love light shine through flesh

John 4:24 – God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

One cannot worship God in spirit and in truth unless he has come to God through the Son. 

Matthew 11:28 – Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden from their and I will give you rest.

Salvation is the rest from a heavy burden of sin the lost fear from a fear of Hell due to God’s condemnation. 

John 5:24 – Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

Matthew 11:29 – Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

After salvation, as you yield to His power pull in the other side of this double yoke, one learns about Jesus and, as one does, he or she learns about themselves.  This is what changes us as Jesus works in our hearts for that purpose.  

Philippians 2:13 – For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

John 14:1-11 – LET NOT your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. [2] In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. [4] And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. [5] Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? [6] Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. [7] If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. [8] Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. [9] Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? [10] Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. [11] Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

Colossians 2:9,10 – For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. [10] And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

John 17:13-23 – And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. [14] I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. [15] I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. [16] They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. [17] Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. [18] As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. [19] And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. [20] Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; [21] That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. [22] And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: [23] I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Luke 8:15,16 – But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.  [16] No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

Matthew 5:15,16 –  Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. [16] Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.