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The Holy Spirit in Heaven and EarthSoftcover O. Talmadge Spence Teaching on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit is desperately needed in the twenty-first century. The Charismatics have brought a proliferation of erroneous subjective materials to the Christian world, beginning in the 1950's. Their "prophets" have endorsed Romanism, the Ecumenical Movement and other Neo-Concepts, including Rock Music. Some have embraced the New Age Movement. The Holy Spirit in Heaven and Earth is indeed another view, a biblical view. The contemporary subjective existentialism is condemned, bringing a refreshing blessing from our Sovereign God and Lord in His work of the Holy Spirit in these last days. It is His work that is more important than ours. This book represents the need of the Holy Spirit in the lives of Christians in the times in which we live. It commences with Adam and Eve at the border of sin in the Garden and proceeds through the Bible to the border of heaven and the New Jerusalem City
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Excerpt from Chapter Eight

The Christian Faith is the only religion in the world that grants adequate knowledge and assurance from God in the times of seeming silence—in the material and physical circumstances of life. We want to enumerate some of the places in scripture where there seems to be silence on the part of God. You will recall that we have touched on this thought before in connection with the last days. Remember, this only seems to be silence on the part of God in these instances.

First, the Silence of God in the life of Jesus. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46b)

This verse, along with a number of other instances in the life of Jesus acknowledges a time when God was at a distance from the Son. Of course, we agree that Jesus was bearing our sins and the Father could not look on the accursed thing. But there were others times in Jesus’ life that the Father seemed to be silent! Times when Jesus was being hated. Times when Jesus was weary. Times when Jesus was being tempted. Times in Jesus’ sufferings as typified in the Meal Offering. Oh yes, the Father always came to His rescue, but there were seasons when the Father seemed silent.

Second, the Silence of God in the life of a godly man: "Behold, I go forward, but he (God) is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work (or, where He ordinarily worked), but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:…" (Job 23:8-9). This gives vivid portrayal of the seeming silence of God in the life of a righteous man.

Third, the Silence of God in the life and times of a sinner! "These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver" (Psalm 50:21-22). This acknowledges times, even in the life of a sinner, and in a time of sin, when it seems that God is silent.

What do these observations mean? They mean simply that there is wisdom and purpose in times of God’s silence and that there can be silence towards the Son of God, the saints of God, and the sinners of earth. Silence is like suffering in that neither of them, of themselves, is sin. It is the reason for God’s silence that determines whether there is sin or not. The fact of God’s silence in this universe may be universal at times. We cannot say that just because God is silent concerning a matter that He is dead or we are lost!



Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction

A Lonely Exodus in Sorrow
A Loving Excellence in Sorrow
Three Books Needed in Our Time
Creation: Physical and Spiritual
Other Relationships With the Holy Spirit

Chapter Two: Trinitarian Monotheism

Proceeding From the Father
Pagan Gods
Three Old Testament Interpretations
The Order of the Trinity
Creating and Recreating Life

Chapter Three: Two Creation Accounts in Genesis

The Natural Account
The Holy Spirit in the Natural Account
Time as a Part of the Natural
The Natural in the Universe and the Distinguished Earth
The Beginning vs. The Generations
Identified Familiar Objects
The Natural Man
The Dust and Herb of the Ground
Physical Law

Chapter Four: The Spiritual Account of Creation

The Herb of the Field and Human Responsibility
Man Became a Living Soul
The Second Natural Man
The Holy Spirit and the Spiritual
Three Trees, One River, Four Heads
Spiritual Law

Chapter Five: Original Sin in the Genesis Account of Creation

At the Unfallen Border of Sin
The Original Sinner and Original Sin
The Occult of Satan, A Spiritualistic World
Apostasy Came in the Aftermath of the First Great Awakening

Chapter Six: The Holy Spirit and the Holy Scriptures

The Authorized King James Version of the Bible
The Canon
The Text and the Interpretation of the Text
The Accommodation Theory
Two Points of Danger
The Translation Problem Illustrated and Solved
An Inerrant, Inspired Translation from Heaven to Earth

Chapter Seven: The Holy Spirit Phenomena

The Serpent
Lucifer
Adam, the Serpent, and Satan
Peculiar Phenomena
A Different Perspective
Further Differences of the Phenomena
Capacities for the Phenomenon
The Glossolalia
The Inundated Age
The End of the Age

Chapter Eight: The Holy Spirit and Suffering

Job in Uz; Ezekiel With the Captives
Three Ways to Study Suffering
Job's Friends
The Captives' Friend
Sufferer and Observer
His Mercy Endureth Forever
Luther's Theology of the Cross
A Good Suffering Distinguished
The Silence of God
The Profit of the Word in Suffering
A Good Suffering
Suffering as a Peculiar Phenomenon
The Hidden God

Chapter Nine: The Holy Spirit in the Decree of Love

The Origin of God's Purposes
The Foundation of the World
Love Not the World
The Indwelling Love of God
The Outgoing Love of God
The Love of God and the Lamb
First God's Love, Then God's Lamb
All Things Through the Love of God
The Catalyst of Theological Systems
The Revealed Text, Past; the Anointed Preacher, Present
When the Love of God Hardens
Kinds of Love
Hardening Revealed in the Holy Scriptures
God Hardens the Ruler and His Nation

Chapter Ten: The Holy Spirit in Worship

The Distinguishing Work of the Holy Spirit
Transcendence and Immanence
Form and Freedom in Worship
Architecture and Noah's Ark
Types of Worship and Holiness
The Place of Art in Worship
Seven Principles for Art in Worship
The Aesthetic Principles in Art Forms
Art Forms in Painting
An Encomium and a Eulogy

Chapter Eleven: The Holy Spirit Above the Altar

Peculiar Insights In and Out of Earthly Life
The Holy Spirit and Types
The Hovering Shekinah Glory
The Moving, Striving, Hovering Shekinah Glory
Reluctant to Leave, Desiring to Return

Chapter Twelve: The Holy Spirit in Heaven

The Holy Spirit in the Earth and the Heavens
The Heaven of Heavens
The Omnipresence of God
Observations of Omnipresence
The Unbelievable Dr. Billy Graham
Better Thoughts of Graham
Another Teaching of Billy Graham
Two Former Observations Made
Compassion in Spite of Untruth
Ten Enquiries in Response
A Parallel Spirit
Looking Back and On
The Lord Jesus in the Book of Revelation
The Holy Spirit in the Book of Revelation
Outline of the Holy Spirit in Revelation
The Holy Spirit's Transition to Heaven
The Holy Spirit in Heaven's Transport
The Holy Spirit in Heaven
The Healthing of the Holy Spirit
The Final Perfecting End of All Things