Dearly Beloved,
As
glorious as angels are, it is not given to them to inherit the image/likeness
of God, THE DIVINE THINGS OF GOD, so when Lucifer lusted after it, he
fell, sold his vision to angels of the first and second heaven and corrupted
some thereby!
Isa. 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of
the clouds (i.e. above where other cherubs like him dwelleth); I will be LIKE
the most High
(i.e. Satan once lusted for the Wisdom/Authority/Thronic
Meek Life that resides within God, The Kingdom Life which only
believers are called to seek by understanding Matt. 11:29/2 Cor. 4:6).
Ps.
17:15
As for me, I will
behold thy face in righteousness: I
shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy
likeness
The
first man, Adam, despite the outwardly glorious estate in which he was made
also fell short of the calling to the weighty fellowship and knowledge of
eternal life which was the secrets of the likes of Apostle John (1Jn.1:1-3). It
therefore took the second and last Adam, Christ Jesus, who thoroughly
fellowshipped with Eternal Life, to please God fully and thereby inherit
Eternal Life, The Divine Life resident in God.
Jn. 17:3 And this
is life eternal, that they might know
thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.(i.e. All that Jesus used the first 30 years of his
earthly ministry to acquire was the Knowledge
of The Father & thereby, he possessed the life resident in the Father -
Eternal Life. You and I can only possess eternal life if we graduate
from BELIEVING IN ETERNAL LIFE to KNOWING ETERNAL LIFE!
Christ later
began downloading measures of eternal life to Paul from the experience of Acts 9
to the encounter documented in Acts. 26:16. The apostles of the lamb who gave
Apostle Paul a right hand of fellowship (Gal. 2:9), likewise received access to
Knowledge of that Eternal life, which is the knowledge of Truth.
Prior
to then, the disciples of Christ remained APOSTLES OF
THE MILK OF THE WORD as seen through the exploits of Acts chapters 2 to 17
but after tarrying with the teachings
of Apostle Paul, they became APOSTLES OF THE MEAT OF THE WORD as
seen in their epistles, which remain the gateway to understanding the synoptic
gospels (the books of Matthew to John), the law and the prophets.
We all have control and are responsible
for our actions, but we have no control
over the consequences of our actions or inaction and one area where
believers grieve the Lord for decades is by their response to the issue of
seeking and understanding eternal life. A little understanding of Rev. 7/17
& 21:4 should provoke us to live
contrary to how we do today and the following is an attempt to shed light on
how grave this issue is
Rev. 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes….. (question: ‘would overcomers like the Apostles have tears
that would need to be wiped away’)
I perceive that one
of the reasons why God would have to wipe the tears of many believers
who make heaven in the day
which Paul made reference of in 2Tim.4:8,
which would take place before the unveiling of the new heaven
and earth is
because of the shocking realization and grief of a Belated
Knowledge That They Didn’t Fellowship With The Divine Things Of God In The Days
Of Their Flesh. The pain of such
people would be that they didn’t embrace the tough carnal life
shedding ministry of The Tree of Life like Adam didn’t. They didn’t
nurse a hunger/thirst for righteousness and therefore weren’t filled while on
earth (Jn.7:37) with God’s Divine Things/Blessings. They would have to
wait for the world to come to begin the syllabus of Drinking of the
fountain of the water of life and EATING of the tree of life (Rev.
21:6) while this very provision, the epistle meals, was available for them
on earth (Jn.4:14) but was despised.
When
we can’t disown the carnal life (self) like we are called to, we would ultimately treat the issue of their birthright in
God, spiritual inheritance like Esau! Such believers won’t be worthy of
the Lord because he
won’t be able to intimately unveil himself to such (Matt. 7:21-23)! Believers
who lived with the goal of ‘MAKING IT TO
HEAVEN’ and not ‘ENTERING INTO THE KINGDOM’, cant obey the commandment of Rev. 12:11,
would preserve their carnal lives and become strangers to the throne, though in
heaven! They therefore can’t be a
part of the bride of Christ, the company called the Heavenly Jerusalem/City of
God - Rev. 21:2/10. They won’t
be qualified to be a part of the overcomers
rewarded with glory mentioned in Rev. 21:7…….THEY ONLY UNDERSTOOD THE
DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF REWARD BUT NOT THE BIBLICAL ONE WHICH IS EXTREMELY
UNFATHOMABLE TO MANY, INCLUDING MYSELF!
2 Tim. 4:7 I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up
for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall
give me at that day: and not to me
only, but unto all them also that love
his appearing (an appearance that would save our souls– Titus 2:13/Heb.
9:28) .i.e. Paul completed the syllabus of understanding eternal life.
He fought daily to overcome the world’s resolve to fill the soul with a
pseudo-fulfillment that’s contrary to the infilling via eating and drinking of
revealed kingdom truths
Rev. 21:7 He that
overcometh (BY HIS SPIRITUAL WALK ON EARTH) shall inherit All Things (of
God); and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Beloved, if after 5 years of beginning
the faith, the messages you hear year-in-year-out is not confronting what men
call ‘My Life’ and is not gradually shedding light on the subject of Eternal
Life (which is the divine life we received in our Human Spirit at new birth but
are clueless about), you are being unknowingly cheated! Please prayerfully
consider the fountain you drink from.
Though
Satan is the prince/ruler of this world, he doesn’t understand eternal life. When Apostle John saw in the
Spirit, his amazing exploits in Babylon over kingdoms and souls (Rev. 17), he
wondered with great admiration, yet this same fallen cherub, Satan, who fabricated the
software driving this world is the terrible being God has called us to overcome
so we can Inherit Eternal Life! The question now is ‘WHEN WOULD WE BEGIN THE
NEEDED CARNAL LIFE SHREDDING JOURNEY?
We must
not be deceived, for God is not mocked by the attitude of believers and
ministers to the true Christian faith! We can only reap eternal life by sowing to the Spirit (Gal.6:7). God already
has a company of few witnesses who disobeyed Satan by completing
their course of salvation and we are already without excuse. God remains The
Wisest Investor of all generations and he awaits excellent, much and precious Fruits of Eternal Life! Isa.4:2/Jn.
15:5/James 5:7
May
we all find grace to understand our enemies (Eph. 6:12) like the Lord and his
apostles did, for only then would we understand how to overcome the obstacles
to accessing THE DIVINE THINGS OF GOD and ultimately LAY HOLD ETERNAL LIFE WITH OUR SOUL, not our human spirit like we did at new birth.
Bless You!
