The power of reenactments is alive on planet earth. When it comes to secular historical things, this is often to be admired. However, when it comes to spiritual things, this is an unmitigated disaster.
In natural, secular things reenactments find real force as inspirational, instructive, and entertaining. Take, for instance, reenactments of the colonial period of American history. If you’ve ever gone to one, the sights, the sounds, the props, and the food are often spot on. You “feel” as if you are there. Consider, though, the bursting of the bubble of such a reenactment in this illustration: you are at a reenactment of George Washington mustering his troops for battle. All is going well according to accurate history, but right in the middle of the episode the character playing George Washington gets a call on his cell phone that his son has just suffered a severe injury at home and his wife needs him to meet them at the hospital ASAP! The bubble bursts and the event is put into realistic perspective; the George Washington character gets into his car and rushes to the hospital. The time-locked reenactment vanishes in the light of reality!
I wish things could be so set in reality in the spiritual world like this event shows that they are in the natural world. Alas!, because we are in the spiritual realm of Christianity everything is, by “nature”, set in a different category. It is up to the participants in this realm to judge the reality of the events they are participating in. It is precisely because the things which with we have to do are spiritual that everyone is in the same category of spiritual discernment. Are things true to the Word of God, or are they false reenactments? Are they in the present real realm of the Holy Spirit of Jesus, or are they in the false, time-locked reenactment world of the past history of Jesus?
Just because we see legitimate events of scriptural history does not mean that our interpretation of that history makes it legitimate to “live” in those events today. As examples, take healing the sick and raising the dead. These were real events in the Holy Spirit in the last days of the Law of Moses, the days of the coming and endorsements of the Messiah, Jesus. It does not matter how much anyone wishes to have these things alive on planet earth today, that desire does not make it so. Even a large group of like-minded people cannot make current what God had fulfilled in His Son.
In reality, false interpretations are often no more than spiritual reenactments of the times of the Bible. As such, they are time-locked events. Because they are of a spiritual nature, they are enduring. That endurance, however, and the strong wishing that it were so, does not make false interpretations true. In the realm of spiritual things, we all stand on the same footing in our requirement to properly interpret the things of God. He is glorified in the proper interpretation of His Word issuing into the holy life of following Jesus.
Glory to God in the highest!