Charles H. Welch



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Pleroma
Genesis
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2 Peter 3 — ‘then-now-to come’ — spans the ages.
PLEROMA in N.T. generally ‘fulness’.
Goal of God = fulness.
Whole Bible contains PLEROMA.
Covers the Ages, not eternity.
1st. occurrence Matt. 9:16 — patch, filling of rent.
(Luke 5:36 — agree, symphony: opposite = vanity (Ecc. 7:14).
N.T. references given for later detailed study.
40 min. 4,4 MB
  Chart — begins and ends with God.
Beginning, God was all; ending, God All in All.
‘In the beginning’ see Jer. 2:3 — firstfruits; pledge of something to follow.
Christ not only in beginning, He was the beginning.
In all things He has pre-eminence.
Christ only, has the ‘fulness’ (Col. 1:19), types merely stopgaps, temporary fillings.
50 min. 5,9 MB
  Job 38 — ‘Where wast thou?’ In strength of Redeemer, whole plan of Ages.
Chart — gaps. God Who made plan, knew material.
Stability found in weakness, when acknowledging need of Redeemer.
Christ crucified in weakness.
God fills vessel, however weak.
Gaps in purposes not in God’s plan (examples).
Emphasis on Redemption above all other subjects.
48 min. 5,7 MB
  Isa. 40 when enemy moves, God moves.
Present limited creation mainly redemptive (sockets, curtain).
Gen. 1:2, Spirit ‘brooded’.
Work of 2nd day, firmament = expansion = tent = curtain, will pass away.
See two words ‘ouranos’ and ‘epouranios’ = more than one heaven.
2 Pet. 3 sums up story of limited heaven — look for new heaven.
Redemption runs all through. God means what He says.
49 min. 5,7 MB
  Heb. 1 & 2 (Psa. 8) — 1st & 2nd Adam related to angels — a little lower, but Christ now higher than.
Purpose of Ages like chessboard — God moves, enemy moves, to the last book.
Mighty power.
1st move — Gen. 1:26 — Adam, ‘type’ of fulness to come.
Study of angels important — earth battlefield since the beginning.
Lord coming with mighty angels — vengeance, restoration.
Chart shows steps to goal — Rev. 22.
Move, gap, counter move.
50 min. 5,9 MB
  2 Cor. 12 & 13. Close study of Psa. 8.
What is man?, clue to whole purpose.
God’s weakness stronger than men — Lord of all.
1st move: put man in garden, replenish (fill) the earth (flulness).
Satan not underrated, but Psa. 8:2 — babes v. strength — counter move ready, to ‘still’ enemy and avenger (meaning given).
Enmity (cf. Job).
Man when created, though weak, was crowned with glory and honour.
Paul— Eph. 3 higher still (1 Cor. 15).
Church which is His body, only company ‘the fulness of Him who fills all’.
51 min. 5,8 MB
  Consider place of Adam, Gen. 1 & 2.
Creation of man not haphazard — ‘purpose’ — ‘Let us make’.
Adam given dominion; replenish the earth = ‘pleroma’; figure, shadow (image).
Image, likeness, recurs in N.T. Adam specially created, humble but honoured by God.
All from Adam look to One in Whom all fuiness dwells.
One day to put on image of Him. Col. 3, church — image: Christ All and in All.
Final goal GOD All in All.
50 min. 5,3 MB
  Ezekiel 1.
Mysterious agency at work (see Rev. 4 to 6).
Adam saw cherubim ‘keeping’ the way of Tree of Life — grace turned him out, lest immortality of sinner.
Cherubim indicate dominion lost, preserved, restored.
God’s counter move to action of one who would be ‘like’ the Most High (Ezek. 28).
(Adam in Our likeness). Cherubim — likeness (Ezek. 10).
Gospels show four faces of Christ, including a man.
53 min. 6,7 MB
  2 Peter 2.
Sheep return (1 Pet. 2:25), sows return (2 Pet. 2:22), but Gospel not preached to bring sows to become sheep.
Devil’s seed in the earth — genealogies of Genesis, two seeds — devil’s cunning snare.
‘Sons of God’ = angels taking form of men — the enmity prophesied.
All flesh, but one man, Noah (as Moses).
Devil’s act vast, but one chess move stopped him.
Meaning of ‘ark’.
Adam, Noah — replenish.
56 min. 6,7 MB
  Gen. 13.
God shewed Abraham land after Lot left (v. 14).
Terah took Abram, to go, BUT ... (11:31).
Evil one’s move.
God Himself formed the earth to be inhabited: Satan moves: but Israel promised will fill the earth.
God chose when few — will become multitude.
Mercy and grace, not merit, that triumphs.
Abraham’s test followed by promise.
God spared not ... Satan ‘checkmated’.
52 min. 6,2 MB
  Psalms 32 and 51.
Key word — I acknowledge.
One theme through whole Bible, redeeming love.
Lamb of God prepared before Adam fell.
Reminders — cherubim, sockets, curtain: tabernacle — access.
Outside Eden, Antichrist moved, then God moved.
Abel brought also — two ways commence.
Instead of— Seth, Abraham, Judah: every Israelite lives in the light of this word.
Isaac spared.
Ark — refuge: pitch — appeasement: blood — Joseph, Word of God (Rev. 19:13) — redemption throughout.
48 min. 5,9 MB
Ephesians 4.
Ascension of Christ, (v. 10), necessary for PLEROMA.
Survey of book of Genesis — pedigrees, many, why? (3:15).
Stage planned — types, shadows — coming of Christ in ‘fulness of time’.
Vision for right time.
By one man — Adam: Noah: Abraham: one race, all families.
Gen. 15, iniquity of Amorites ‘fulfilled’ — spiritual Amorites not yet driven out.
Joseph — concerning his bones — looked for resurrection — PLEROMA.
50 min. 6,2 MB

 

 


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