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<blockquote data-quote="oikonomia" data-source="post: 77601126" data-attributes="member: 446265"><p>He spent 40 days training them to live by His invisible presence. He trained them to realize</p><p>that though they often could not see Him He was still with them. This transition had to be made crystal clear to the twelve</p><p>apostles and to others with them.</p><p></p><p> Over the course of 40 days then He would appear in thier midst and then hide Himself as if to vanish.</p><p> He did not "go away." He took weeks to accustom them to this new relationship.</p><p></p><p> He breathed Himself into them with the symbolic act of blowing His breath into them.</p><p> When He enacted this act in the divine and mystical realm Jesus as the life giving Spirit entered into them.</p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and while the doors were shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them, Peace be to you.</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><strong>And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples therefore rejoiced at seeing the Lord.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"><strong>Then Jesus said to them again, Peace be to you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.</strong></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">And when He had said this, He breathed into <em>them</em> and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. (John 20:19-22)</span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">He trained them to deeply realize that it was expedient for them that this new inward presence was just Himself.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">These were the things of the kingdom of God that He spoke to them for a period of 40 days.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">And they got well trained to the point nothing now could desuade them of the truth of His indwelling living.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">So they were able to give their lives for the gospel even to death.</span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">Until the day on which He was taken up, after He had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He chose;</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(184, 49, 47)">To whom also He presented Himself alive after His suffering by many irrefutable proofs, appearing to them through <em>a period of</em> forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God. (Acts 1:2,3)</span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oikonomia, post: 77601126, member: 446265"] He spent 40 days training them to live by His invisible presence. He trained them to realize that though they often could not see Him He was still with them. This transition had to be made crystal clear to the twelve apostles and to others with them. Over the course of 40 days then He would appear in thier midst and then hide Himself as if to vanish. He did not "go away." He took weeks to accustom them to this new relationship. He breathed Himself into them with the symbolic act of blowing His breath into them. When He enacted this act in the divine and mystical realm Jesus as the life giving Spirit entered into them. [B][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and while the doors were shut where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them, Peace be to you.[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][B]And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. The disciples therefore rejoiced at seeing the Lord. Then Jesus said to them again, Peace be to you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.[/B][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]And when He had said this, He breathed into [I]them[/I] and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. (John 20:19-22)[/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]He trained them to deeply realize that it was expedient for them that this new inward presence was just Himself. These were the things of the kingdom of God that He spoke to them for a period of 40 days. And they got well trained to the point nothing now could desuade them of the truth of His indwelling living. So they were able to give their lives for the gospel even to death.[/COLOR] [B][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Until the day on which He was taken up, after He had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom He chose; To whom also He presented Himself alive after His suffering by many irrefutable proofs, appearing to them through [I]a period of[/I] forty days and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God. (Acts 1:2,3)[/COLOR][/B] [/QUOTE]
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