God’s desire, revealed
through the prayer which Jesus spoke as a pattern for
the disciples, it establishes for us His will and
purpose in setting up His kingdom. This kingdom,
originating in heaven (the invisible spiritual realm)
shall likewise have a further fulfillment in the earth
(the visible) realm. Matt. 6:10, “Your
kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in
heaven”. This scripture is
revealing to us, as it speaks of the consummation
concerning a kingdom rulership, does affect humanity’s
lives in the now. Pointing to a time when the earth
becomes so at one with the God of heaven, that the
heavenly realm manifest itself in the earth realm. This
speaks of a kingdom government which becomes the nature
of a people who become the visible manifestation of that
kingdom and its way-of-life. The question asked, who
qualifies and where does this qualifying begin when
scriptures declare that all have sinned and come short
of God’s glory?
With always coming up
short being the position of each person, it is God alone
who can and does bring forth the qualifier. 1 Cor.
6:9-11, “Do you not know that the
unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do
not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters,
nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revelers,
nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the
Lord Jesus and by the
Spirit of our God”.
Where will such a
sanctified people come from? It is God, through His Son
and the indwelling sent Holy Spirit that has been
progressively preparing such a people. It is within them
that He is making up His true pure church. These people
not only receive the seed of the Son, but from that seed
within they birth the Christ life nature, becoming a
many member offspring that shall establish His kingdom.
These many member vessels are that which Jeremiah speaks
of when speaking of a woman birthing such a man.
Jeremiah 31:22, “How long will you gad
about, O you backsliding daughter? For the Lord has
created a new thing in the earth. A woman shall
encompass a man”.
Note that the condition
of this daughter is one in a backslidden condition, but
now a “new thing” woman that is subject to change. This
change results in a people spiritually growing to become
likened into a woman that again desires to become the
spouse of her one true husband. This change will instill
within her a desire to bring forth the birthing of a
child. The “man” spoken of in this scripture is not just
any man, but “man” as used here is a word meaning “a
champion, hero, warrior, a mighty man; a man in all his
strength; a man of strength or bravery”.
This also speaks of a
union between the woman and a man of strength, of
purity, holiness and righteousness (Christ Jesus) and a
birthing of a like kind man-child, a many member body
called the true body of Christ. In the New Testament,
this same backsliding daughter is the apostate church. A
church, that for the most part, was and is backslidden
from the powerhouse church that came out of the
upper-room on the day of Pentecost. However, a church
with promise, one that reveals a time in God when true
repentance shall again ascend before the Lord. Herein,
reconciliation shall produce the birthing of a man-child
born out of the women (the church). This birthed
man-child people will establish God’s kingdom in the
earth. Hosea 6:1-2, “Come, and let us return
to the Lord; for He has torn, but He will heal us;
He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two
days [2000 years] He
will revive us; on the third day He will raise us
up, that we may live in His sight”.
In God’s calendar, He
speaks often of the seventh month. The seventh month is
also a time for one of God’s established feast called
the Feast of Tabernacles. This feast is a time of
harvesting, fulfilling and restoration. In a prophecy
through Haggai God speaks of a restored glory that would
surpass any glory of a former time. (Read Haggai 2:1-9)
with Haggai 2:9 declaring, “The
glory of this latter temple shall be greater than
the former, says the Lord of Hosts. And in this
place, I will give peace, says the Lord of Host”. In
this context (verse 8) God declares that the silver and
gold are His. Here the attention given to silver speaks
of God’s available redemption from the sin nature while
gold is speaking of God’s divine nature resurrecting
from within the redeemed man. Therefore, we behold a God
who, from Himself, shall bring forth such a redeemed
people. These become the manifested divine nature of God
as a “many member man” moving in God’s glorious
presence.
In considering the
prophet Samuel, he was one born during a time when the
glory of God was departing from the children of Israel
because of sin that dwelt in the camp. The temple at
Shiloh was desecrated and the priesthood was corrupt and
immoral. During this time a certain man named Elkanah,
whose name means, “God has possessed”, had two wives.
One wife had birthed children while the other wife was
barren. From this setting, we can receive understanding
of two distinct orders that were at work concerning the
two women. One wife produced children that speak of
sons, which did not seek wholly after the things of God.
Her children seemed to be content in living after the
norm of the rebellious or carnal lifestyles of much of
the Israelites. She was a wife, while representing her
husband; she was one that caused turmoil and pain. This
wife was willing to produce offspring, which were not
offspring of completeness and fullness, but rather sons
of complacency and carnal mindedness.
Is this not the same
condition which exists in much of the Christian
Community today? Meanwhile, the barren wife was one that
longed to bring forth, not just to have offspring, but
offspring of a double portion. This speaks of offspring
who are returned back to God for His use. In this she
travailed and groaned before God in that she might be
found worthy to bare such a son, a son that God would
raise up to restore Israel to a glory greater than its
former glory. Likewise, we have among us today a portion
of the church that also seeks God for offspring that
will usher in a glory, the glory of God’s promised
greater glory, which shall establish God’s kingdom on
the earth.
The systematic church
of today is likened unto Eli who was without vision or
any pure revelation of God’s word, they are a blind
people leading the blind. A people bowing down to
traditional mind-sets and carnal orders instead of
allowing the Holy Spirit to have leadership 1 Sam.
3:1, “Now the boy Samuel
ministered to the Lord before Eli, and the word of
the Lord was rare in those days; there was no
widespread revelation”. There was
no widespread revelation because sin was blocking the
revealing of God and His word. They, a people rebelling
against God, His order and His commandments. This is a
picture of much of the church today, a church that has
allowed carnality to permeate the functions and purpose
of the church’s existence. Nevertheless, even as God
rose up in Samuel who became a prophet and judge to
Israel, likewise God is raising up today through the
birthing of another son, a many member son, a man-child.
These many member sons shall and are in the process of
restoring the glory of God to the true church order that
is appearing. 1 Sam. 3:21, “Then
the Lord appeared again in Shiloh. For the Lord
revealed Himself to Samuel by the word of the Lord”.
With God’s number
twelve speaking to us of His divine government, this
number, as used in scripture, reveals for us the purpose
of His kingdom. A kingdom that shall be established
according to His divine governmental laws, His nature.
This birthed man-child is a many member son of a like
kind nature, a people who shall stand in God’s presence
to become His established order. In the book of
Revelation God reveals the end-time events that take
place in the establishing of His kingdom. (Read Rev.
12:1-17). Points of interest for this writing are that
the book of Revelation was written some seventy years
after the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord
Jesus Christ. In Rev. 1:19, we see that the events
revealed in the book were to take place after its
writing. “Write the things which
you have seen, and the things which are, and the
things which will take place after this”.
Now as we look at Rev.
12:1-2, our attention is directed to a woman, a birthing
and the number twelve. “Now a great sign
appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun,
with the moon under her feet, and on her head a
garland of twelve stars. Then being with child, she
cried out in labor and in pain to give birth”. This
picture speaks to us of the days of fulfillment in which
the church of today finds itself. Like Hannah, a portion
of the church is in travail, groaning in labor pains to
bring forth that son, that man-child which shall take
God’s people beyond the in-part mixture of half-truths
[I Cor. 13:9-10] that exist among much of today’s church
systems. In her travail, a child is being birthed which
is destined to rule, a rulership that shall establish an
order of victory. Rev. 12:5, “She
bore a male child who was to rule all nations with a
rod of iron. And her child was caught up to God and
His throne”.
This child, being male
speaks of being spiritual in nature, a people who shall
and are ascending into spiritual truths and realities
while becoming the visible manifestation of the body of
Christ upon the earth. A company of deliverers, which
feed truth to the world as judgment prevails to
establish God’s kingdom. Note with interest that the
woman has upon her head a garland of twelve stars. This
speaks to us of the place that the woman, the true
church, has matured unto in her desire to see God’s word
fulfilled. This is a place of worship and praise,
through travail, that establishes a new mind-set. This
mind-set reacts only to the divine government of God, a
coming into the place of complete obedience. Is not this
woman, which is the true church, washed and purified,
becoming ever watchful as God reveals Himself to her
today?
Notice also that this
woman is clothed with the sun, with the moon under her
feet. This speaks to us of the positioning of herself
through spiritual maturity. This puts her in the place
where she is removed from all carnal coverings and
through spiritual maturity submits herself unto the Holy
Spirit alone. This speaks of a cleansing, which is the
results of complete obedience to God’s revealed word. In
this place of obedience, she spiritually ascends to a
place where the moon is under her feet. Now the moon is
a type of the soulish carnal woman church, the harlot. A
church that can only receive light as it comes from the
sun (Christ) while having no light within herself. With
the moon typing the soulish carnal church it becomes
subject to the same deceptions that Eve yielded herself
to, high ideals and intellectual knowledge that promotes
self above God. But note, that this pure woman has put
the moon under her feet, meaning that she has gained
victory over and conquered all that is at fault in the
moon church. In this victory, she has become worthy to
become pregnant with the child of God’s choosing, a many
member son who is destined to establish the kingdom of
God in the earth.
(Please read Luke
8:40-56). Jesus, the first born of many sons is God’s
seed planted that shall bring forth a first-fruits
like-kind people. These receiving one’s become the
remnant that shall fulfill God’s word in manifesting and
establishing His kingdom. In recognizing that the life
in the seed planted shall again appear in the life of
the harvest (first – the first-fruits). In the context
of Luke 8:40-56 we see the manner of life imparted unto
and manifested through the true church. First, the
number twelve appears again. The daughter of Jairus,
being about twelve years of age that was dying. In
addition, we see a woman being sick with a flow of blood
for twelve years and then along came Jesus, who is the
expression of God’s divine government. Why is the number
twelve repeated, except to witness and point us to the
fact that God’s divine government was making an
appearance. A government purposed by God to heal the
nations as His kingdom appears and is manifest.
First note the woman, a
type of a church system, which has had a sickness, a
sickness that causes life to flow from her. In this, we
see a sickness of death that the carnal man and his
in-part ministries cannot heal, but one which the divine
government of God stops immediately as she touches His
glory. This is an order, which not only heals the flow
of death but also restores that which had been lost.
Does not the word declare, “The glory of the latter
house shall be greater than the former”?
Today there exist a
church system which has not lived up to its purposed
potential. Meanwhile there is a people who are even now
pushing their way through the crowd of complacency,
doctrines of devils, carnal minded traditions, and
intellectual philosophies, all that which subtracts from
the truth of God’s word. Thus, the need for the people
to touch Him who is the way and truth, the God life.
These are not allowing the old orders of religion to
separate them from God’s presence, but in their sickness
and groaning, they desire to touch Him.
Now let us also note
the twelve-year-old daughter of Jairus who received the
word that his sick daughter is now dead. This speaks of
an immature dying people of carnal religious knowledge
only, who walk in step with the religions of the death
realm. This reveals that much of the church systems of
today are dead or in the process of dying, becoming one
that is dead without any hope. However, along came the
divine government of God. A government free from the
thoughts and intents of earthly-minded men. This
daughter also speaks of another part of the church
systems of today. While having all the appearances of
being dead, she is not dead, but only sleeping. A
sleeping condition, which envelopes the church, but one
to be visited by God’s divine government wherein she
shall awaken. This we are beginning to see and hear as a
word of restoration is returning the spirit of life into
a sleeping church. A sleeping church that shall arise to
shine forth with the life and light of God’s glory
throughout the earth. Isa. 60:1,” Arise, shine, for
your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is
raised upon you”.
Thus,
God’s kingdom is an order of His government that
fulfills all He has purposed from before the
foundation of the world. As this government appears
through a people, a first-fruits man-child company,
the true church shall arise until seen in all her
destined glory. What is it that this awaken church has
need of as God’s government begins to manifest? Luke
8:55, “Then her spirit
returned, and she arose immediately. And He
commanded that she be given something to eat”. The
invitation is given, and his people are to eat His
flesh and drink His blood which speaks of His life.
Therefore, this is the only food that is profitable to
His body. God’s people are those who eat and manifest
His life as promised unto all who will come to Him. It
is only by being in Him that we might have life and
His life more abundantly. John 10:10b, “I [Jesus] have
come that they may have life and that they may have
it more abundantly”. His
kingdom is come. Therefore, receive, arise and become,
for His kingdom is upon us to bring redemption to a
groaning world.