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In the Bible beauty is often spoken of in a spiritual way as contrasted to physical beauty. Christ the Anointed Messiah being the ultimate essence of spiritual beauty. Beauty at times in the gospel also typifies the true child of God. Note what Psalm 27 says about the beauty of the LORD:
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.- Psalm 27:4-6.
Knowing that our trust is altogether in the LORD and nothing else is a beautiful thing that is spiritually pleasant. We rest all our entire hope upon Him. We comfort every fear and affliction as we just lean back on His everlasting and almighty arms. We worship Him in beauty and fear Him at all times:
O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth. - Psalm 96:9.
Christ came and freed His people; He exaltes the afflicted with His grace:
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. - Isaiah 61:1-3.
Christ came for the brokenhearted and He who is true to His promises teaches us in Psalm 51 that He will not despise a broken heart. This is a humble heart which He draws from above; it is not in our control. Neither is it for us to dare and think we can understand such things fully; we just do what we are taught in the word then perhaps we may begin just a bit to understand some of the many, many spiritual mysteries. This is the nature of the new birth. We are born of grace not works, yet works are written upon our hearts by the LORD before the foundation of the world, serving as evidence one has been born from above:
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. - Ephesians 2:8-10.
All mankind will either ended up worshipping the beauty of Christ in truth or the beast of false worship. When we die we are either saved or unsaved. There is no "purgatory" as the catholics teach where one suffers for a little while before going to heaven. There is no evidence whatsoever to support this in the Bible. Jesus said many are called, but few are chosen. Now note how beauty spiritually is used in negative ways:
And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. - Lamentations 1:6-9.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? - Matthew 23:27-33.
In the last days, there will be many types of false worship. In the world there will be much greed and selfishness. But Christians can rest assured in the fact that it's not as the world so often pairs itself as rich vs. poor; male vs. female; this race vs. that race vs. another race; young vs. old; and so on and so forth. I believe it's about good vs. evil. How wonderful would the world be if everyone was a true believer? Many distresses and afflictions may arise as we carry our crosses, but we can take very much comfort in knowing that in the end good will eventually triumph over evil. Therefore put on your spiritual makeup and let your beauty and radience in Christ shine forth!:
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. - Revelation 19:11-21.
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