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WORSHIP GOD!

WORSHIP GOD!. COURSE PLAN. I- Worship BEFORE Creation II- Worship AFTER humanity joined it 1. In the Old Testament time 2. What did change after Jesus first coming? 3. In the early church gatherings III- Worship in the future season. Hebrews 1:6.

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WORSHIP GOD!

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  1. WORSHIP GOD!

  2. COURSE PLAN • I- Worship BEFORE Creation • II- Worship AFTER humanity joined it • 1. In the Old Testament time • 2. What did change after Jesus first coming? • 3. In the early church gatherings • III- Worship in the future season

  3. Hebrews 1:6 And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, He says, "Let all God's angels worship him."

  4. Revelation 14:7 He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.“

  5. WORSHIP IN HEAVEN There was a time when worship was perfect, immaculate, and spotless throughout the universe.

  6. Worship during Creation • 4 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand. •  5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? •  6 On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone- 7 while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? (Job 28:4-7)

  7. Perfect Heavenly Harmony There was perfect harmony of music, singing and playing of instruments as the angels sang together and shouted with joy.

  8. Time of Joy • That was a time of joy and expectation about the creation of the world and of the human being. • Angels shouted for joy at every act of God’s creation. • That was the way to participate in God’s creation.

  9. Worship before Creation • Worship before the creation of Humanity was based on God’s glory, holiness, mighty power and sovereignty • There was no need for sacrifice, because man had not been created and had not sinned yet

  10. The highest heaven where God lives coexists with the earth

  11. The Heaven of Heavens Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens belong to the Lord your God, the earth also, with all that is in it and on it. (Deuteronomy 10:14) But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, the heavens and heaven of heavens cannot contain You; how much less this house that I have built? (1 Kings 8:27)

  12. The Highest Heaven • But who is able to build Him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain Him? Who am I to build Him a house, except as a place to burn incense in worship before Him? (2 Chronicles 2:6) • Praise Him, you highest heavens and you waters above the heavens! (Ps. 148:4)

  13. The Highest heaven You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you. (Nehemiah 9:6)

  14. The Height of Heaven • Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are! (Job 22:12)

  15. The Third Heaven • I know about one of Christ's followers who was taken up into the third heaven fourteen years ago. I don't know if the man was still in his body when it happened, but God certainly knows. (2 Corinthians 12:2)

  16. Heaven Open 54When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. 55But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. 56"Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." (Acts 7:54-56)

  17. Open Heaven • 16As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. 17And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.“ (Mat. 3:16-17)

  18. Open Heavens • 1 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. (Ezekiel 1:1)

  19. Worship Set Up in Heaven  “ You were the seal of perfection,       Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.        13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;       Every precious stone was your covering:       The sardius, topaz, and diamond,       Beryl, onyx, and jasper,       Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.       The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes       Was prepared for you on the day you were created.        14 “ You were the anointed cherub who covers;       I established you;       You were on the holy mountain of God;       You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. (Ezekiel 28:12-14)

  20. Ez. 28: Amplified Bible • 12You are the full measure and pattern of exactness [giving the finishing touch to all that constitutes completeness], full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. • 13You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the carnelian, topaz, jasper, chrysolite, beryl, onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and your settings and your sockets and engravings were wrought in gold. On the day that you were created they were prepared. 14You were the anointed cherub that covers with overshadowing [wings], and I set you so. You were upon the holy mountain of God; you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire [like the paved work of gleaming sapphire stone upon which the God of Israel walked on Mount Sinai].

  21. Ez. 28: Amplified Bible • 15You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created until iniquity and guilt were found in you. • 16Through the abundance of your commerce you were filled with lawlessness and violence, and you sinned; therefore I cast you out as a profane thing from the mountain of God and the guardian cherub drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire. • 17Your heart was proud and lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground.

  22. The worship in the highest heaven before creation of humanity • Lucifer was the worship leader meaning that worship was an important activity in the highest heaven; it was an organized activity; there were choirs of angels and there was a worship leader. • He was created for that purpose: to organize the worship to God in the holy mountain of God • He was anointed by God for that ministry

  23. Wisdom for Worship • God shared with him from His own wisdom to do the task he was supposed to do; this wisdom certainly included all the music tones and key notes; harmony; sounds; instruments playing; and everything else that was part of a worship that pleased God. • God implanted in him the wisdom to please God in worship to exalt His Name above every Name; • The Father had to share from His own heart and intimacy with him so that he could play the right cords and sing the right songs

  24. Instruments & Garments • Instruments and equipments engraved in gold were created for him alone in the day he was created • He was a perfect creation of God for that end • He dressed up with jewels and stones • He walked in the midst of the fiery stones (he had communion with the Holy Spirit) • He was the anointed cherub that covers with overshadowing [wings],

  25. Established Ministry • He was established by God as such in the Holy Mountain of God • He walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire [like the paved work of gleaming sapphire stone upon which the God of Israel walked on Mount Sinai) • He was so beautiful and perfect that he became proud and his wisdom was corrupted because of his splendor and he was expelled from the highest heavens

  26. 2nd CLASS

  27. WHO WAS PART OF IT? • Angels: archangels, cherubim, and seraphim worshipped God together in unison under the leadership of lucifer, the “star of the morning” • He was the covering cherub who was created to be worship leader of the universe. • Millions and millions of angels worshipped God in heaven.

  28. Lucifer (Day Star) 12 “ How you are fallen from heaven,       O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground,       You who weakened the nations!        13 For you have said in your heart:       ‘ I will ascend into heaven,       I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;       I will also sit on the mount of the congregation       On the farthest sides of the north;        14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,       I will be like the Most High.’        15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,       To the lowest depths of the Pit.

  29. The Congregation of God • He was called “the son of the morning” • God’s throne is on the north of the highest heavens over a mountain called the “holy mountain of God” • The congregation of God met there for council meetings and lucifer had free access to that area of the highest heaven

  30. Lucifer FIVE WILLS • His mistake: he didn’t say I WILL IF YOU WILL • He didn’t involve his creator because he had ambitions to equal and eclipse his creator • God’s answer: YOU WILL NOT; YOU WILL BE THRUST DOWN;

  31. Angel of light • And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 2 Cor. 11:14

  32. Now in the Highest Heaven • Satan has been removed from the highest heaven where God dwells. • But he has not yet been removed from the heavens below the highest realm, the heavenly places. • It is from there that he opposes God and His people. He established his little throne on that region, where he receives the worship from those who worship idols and images out of their ignorance • He does not lead worship in heaven anymore, instead, he tries to block our worship to God, and tries to get as much worship as he can from where he can get some.

  33. Now in the Highest Heaven • When the children of God worship GOD, the worship has to go through the heavenly realms where satan lives. • He has to hear it, he hates it, and he cannot do anything about it. It is the most annoying thing to him. • He cannot do anything about the worship of the angels going on in the highest heaven. • He tries to come against the worship coming from earth from those saved by Jesus Christ.

  34. Now in the Highest Heaven In the highest heaven where the Throne of God is, worship is still spotless and perfect.

  35. Glimpses of Heavenly Worship • The Scriptures provide glimpses of heavenly worship. There are reports of it in Isaiah 6, and Revelations 4, 5 and 11. • It was upon this heavenly worship that the worship of God on earth was patterned. Exodus 25 through 27 provides detailed information about the nature of temple worship, including the physical structure of the temple and its dimensions, instructions for the Ark to be built, the internal decoration of the Tabernacle, details of the priests' vestments, the use of incense, the presence of an altar, the daily offerings, the use of anointing oil, and the use of images.

  36. Isaiah 6 •  1IN THE year that King Uzziah died, [in a vision] I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and the skirts of His train filled the [most holy part of the] temple. 2Above Him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two [each] covered his [own] face, and with two [each] covered his feet, and with two [each] flew. 3And one cried to another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory! 4And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone and ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts! Then flew one of the seraphim [heavenly beings] to me, having a live coal in his hand which he had taken with tongs from off the altar;

  37. Isaiah’s Vision • There is a temple and a high throne where God is seated and lifted up • He has a train that fills part of the Temple • The seraphim above Him cry out to each other that GOD IS HOLY; they exalt His holiness and His glory that fills all the earth. • The foundations of the thresholds shook as they worshipped God and the house was filled with smoke. • Isaiah saw God as a King and as the Lord of Hosts

  38. Revelation 4 • 1AFTER THIS I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice which I had heard addressing me like [the calling of] a war trumpet said, Come up here, and I will show you what must take place in the future.  2At once I came under the [Holy] Spirit's power, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with One seated on the throne! 3And He Who sat there appeared like [the crystalline brightness of] jasper and [the fiery] sardius, and encircling the throne there was a halo that looked like [a rainbow of] emerald. 4Twenty-four other thrones surrounded the throne, and seated on these thrones were twenty-four elders (the members of the heavenly Sanhedrin), arrayed in white clothing, with crowns of gold upon their heads. 5Out from the throne came flashes of lightning and rumblings and peals of thunder, and in front of the throne seven blazing torches burned, which are the seven Spirits of God [the sevenfold Holy Spirit];

  39. Revelation 4 •     6And in front of the throne there was also what looked like a transparent glassy sea, as if of crystal. And around the throne, in the center at each side of the throne, were four living creatures (beings) who were full of eyes in front and behind [with intelligence as to what is before and at the rear of them]. •     7The first living creature (being) was like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature had the face of a man, and the fourth living creature [was] like a flying eagle. •     8And the four living creatures, individually having six wings, were full of eyes all over and within [underneath their wings]; and day and night they never stop saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty (Omnipotent), Who was and Who is and Who is to come.

  40. Revelation 4 •     9And whenever the living creatures offer glory and honor and thanksgiving to Him Who sits on the throne, Who lives forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities), •     10The twenty-four elders the members of the heavenly Sanhedrin) fall prostrate before Him Who is sitting on the throne, and they worship Him Who lives forever and ever; and they throw down their crowns before the throne, crying out, •     11Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and dominion, for You created all things; by Your will they were [brought into being] and were created.

  41. Revelation 5 • 8And when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders [of the heavenly Sanhedrin] prostrated themselves before the Lamb. Each was holding a harp, and they had golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God's people (the saints). • 9And [now] they sing a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the scroll and to break the seals that are on it, for You were slain (sacrificed), and with Your blood You purchased men unto God from every tribe and language and people and nation.   

  42. Revelation 5 •     10And You have made them a kingdom (royal race) and priests to our God, and they shall reign [as kings] over the earth! •     11Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels on every side of the throne and of the living creatures and the elders [of the heavenly Sanhedrin], and they numbered ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, •     12Saying in a loud voice, deserving is the Lamb, Who was sacrificed, to receive all the power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and majesty (glory, splendor) and blessing!

  43. Revelation 11 • 15The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:    "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,       and he will reign for ever and ever." 16And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17saying:    "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,       the One who is and who was,    because you have taken your great power       and have begun to reign.

  44. Revelation 11  18The nations were angry; and your wrath has come.    The time has come for judging the dead,       and for rewarding your servants the prophets    and your saints and those who reverence your name,       both small and great—    and for destroying those who destroy the earth."  19Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.

  45. THE SOUNDS OF HEAVEN • How are they? • What did the prophets and apostles hear? • Moses heard thunders • Jacob heard angels singing • David heard songs and harp playing • Miriam heard tambourines and dancing • Joshua heard trumpets

  46. THE SOUNDS OF HEAVEN • Apostles heard trumpets, harps, lightning, flashes, wind, thunder, incense, earthquake sound, loud voices, many angels shouting, crying out, kneeling and falling prostrated before the Lord • The major themes of their worship to God in heaven are: His holiness, His might power, His glory, His Sovereignty

  47. HEAVENLY WORSHIP • SOUNDS OF HEAVEN PRODUCED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE RECOGNIZED IN HEAVEN AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD IS REVEALED WHEN THAT HAPPENS. • SOUNDS OF HEAVEN RELEASE REALMS OF THE GLORY OF GOD INTO THE EARTH.

  48. Implications for Worship • What does the knowledge of the worship in pre-creation heaven reveal to us about GOD? • And about the way we should worship Him?

  49. WORSHIP GOD 3RD CLASS

  50. II- Worship AFTER humanity joined it • 1. What did change in the Old Testament time? • 2. What did change after Jesus first coming? • 3. How was it in the early church gatherings?

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