Genesis Chapter 18

I found the following chapters to be of interest, when the Lord appears to Abraham he appears as “three men”…

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And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
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And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

First to note is that he appears as three men, so there is some reference to the Trinity there, but even more curious is that the Lord can appear as a person if he chooses to, such that you could have a conversation with him and not know that it wasn’t a regular human being. This also is something that happens when an angel of the Lord appears. They are often not described as an obvious angel, translucent or glowing white; my impression is that an angel would appear to one as an “unusual person” who was just suddenly in the right place at the right time..." The impression the Bible delivers is that the person who is talking to an angel of the Lord is unaware that its an angel. As above, Abrham acts as though its just three men that appeared or speaking to him as a prophet, not God himself.

Maybe the Lord or an angel of the Lord has appeared to you already. Maybe you have had a conversation with him and didn't know it.

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As I read I might post some bible verses that stand out to me as interesting. Last night it was this one:

Chapter 12

1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee:


This stood out to me as a being a command to take up the Way. A command to Work. You have to leave your old life behind and go to the land that God will show you. Roughly speaking "to get thee out of thy country" means to leave your ordinary states, the state that you live in all the time, your level of being. "To leave thy kindred" again means to leave the ordinary cycle of states and many I's. To leave your father's house really means to leave the devil, as for fallen man that is his house. You have to be willing to let all that go, to leave it, and go to a new country.

Simon of Australia