LIFE IN HEAVEN – PART TWENTY-SIX
Saturday – October 20, 2018, Cheshvan 11, 5779
TIME FRAME FIVE
Ephesians 4:8 to 1 Thessalonians 4:16 – 17
JESUS BLOOD ON THE MERCY SEAT TO THE CATCHING AWAY
Greetings and welcome back to this thought provoking and hopefully faith building, and hope giving study of Life in Heaven. As you know I am currently teaching about the fifth time-frame and the topic of Pillars. There are seven pillars of Heaven and of the earth which governs or gives structure and order to each society. Each of us function within several of the pillars primarily and to a lesser degree in all of them.
Proverbs 9:1 (KJV)
1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
The seven pillars established by God, by Wisdom, are as follows; 1. Religion, 2. Government, 3. Media and Information, 4. Education and Science, 5. Business and Finance, 6. family, and 7. Arts and entertainment. Seven is the number of spiritual completions. I have already discussed the Religion Pillar and we are now dealing with the Governmental Pillar.
Government Pillar
We are citizens of Heaven and we must be continually cognizant of that fact which is our reality. In addition, we are seated in Heaven even now in Christ Jesus. We are not just represented in Heaven by the presence of Jesus at the right hand of the Father with our name in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Our spirit man is present within us and in Heaven even though we are unaware of that reality. In Quantum Physics there is a demonstrated concept of duality meaning that a physical thing can be in two separate locations at the same time. The Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 1:20 that we can better understand the spiritual by understanding the natural. Okay, now back to the Government Pillar.
Philippians 3:20 (ESV)
20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Ephesians 2:5-7 (HCSB)
5 made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!
6 Together with Christ Jesus He also raised us up and seated us in the heavens,
7 so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through ⌊His⌋ kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
He has made us citizens of the Kingdom of God and we have authority in Heaven and in earth so long as we speak what He speaks, do what He does, then and only then will He work through us. This is the way Jesus operated in the earth and it is the only thing that will work for us as well. Jesus gave us the Power of Attorney to use His name immediately prior to His ascension into Heaven.
Matthew 28:18-20 (KJV)
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
Jesus was given and currently has authority in Heaven and in the earth (verse 18). Have you thought about why He gave the authority that was regained by His victory in Hell back to us, His body, His people in the earth? In the beginning, the first chapter of Genesis, the Triune God (Elohim) gave all authority (dominion) to man and the Blessing (Power of God) to accomplish the will of God in the earth. Once that authority or dominion was given to mankind, God had no authority in the earth. Jesus regained the authority that man forfeited to the devil on the Day of Sin and Death. However, following the Resurrection, Christ Jesus is both all man and all God. As God He cannot exercise authority in the earth for that would violate the original will of God, God changes not. Now, back to the Matthew text above. When Jesus ascended to Heaven He reinstated mankind’s (body of Christ) authority to go, to teach all peoples, immersing them into the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. He is not talking about water baptism here. Jesus is talking about total immersion into and total subjection to the thoughts, the Words, the ways of the Father, and the Son, and the leadership of Holy Spirit. Jesus concludes this part of His departing instructions, which mirror the mandate spoken in Genesis chapters one and two, by telling them to teach their disciples to learn and do all that they do and all that Jesus did and more. He ends by assuring them that He will be with them until this world system ends which will be at the end of the Millennial Reign of Christ. That is not to say that He will abandon us at that time but at that time He will give us over to the Father.
1 Corinthians 15:24 (ESV)
24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
Until our next publication, confess the following passage and walk before Whom we have to do with great rejoicing and thanksgiving. This physical body is our humiliation but soon it will be no more for the glory of God and our eternal benefit.
John 14:1-4 (KJV)
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
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