God's "fixin" to establish His Kingdom
Edie Chill, From a letter written to a friend ~ One of my
thoughts for today, Tuesday, March 12, 2013
In 2007, The Lord clearly told me
that the systems and the ways of man were failing. He further told me that it
would be a good thing, especially for His people, because they had come to
depend on the things of this world system and no longer looked to Him for their
sufficiency. As He unfolded this to me, I began to see this in my own life, and
I began to reject this way of thinking. Then, a little while later I heard this
phrase, “when the righteous are in authority, the people will rejoice", and I
began to receive an understanding of the righteous judgment of God. Our God has
a protective love for His Children, and that is the vengence and wrath that is
displayed against anything that comes against His beloved. In the ensuing years,
I have understood that all of God's wrath and [angry] judgment is directed
towards the work of the devil/enemy [not man, who is His beloved], but only HE,
as a skilled surgeon with a laser or a scalpel, can separate the disease from
the patient. If we, His servants, go about trying to do the separating without
His detailed and very specific instructions, we are likely to kill/destroy the
patient in the process.
[The works of the devil are, among other things, the
belief systems that have been spawned through the knowledge of good and evil
which have fostered a mindset of separation from God. The prophet who spoke as
an oracle of God, declaring that your sins have separated you from God, was
revealing that the sin IS a belief that tells you that you ARE separated from
God. When Adam believed that he was separated from God, that belief became his
reality; even though it was not the truth.]
I believe The Lord drops things
into my heart so that I will ask Him about it. I always think of what Ed Lauzon
said repeatedly, that God does not ask you a question because He does not know
the answer. Well, He puts questions in my heart because He wants me to ask Him
about it. It seems that the pattern has been that the question will come up and
I will ask, which is usually an assurance that He will answer, but not right now
because there are other things I need to know before I will be ready to hear His
answer on this matter. I have come to understand the process, and actually have
an attitude of excited anticipation when this happens. Along the way, someone
will say something, or I will read something, or a scripture verse will jump out
at me, or some other such thing will occur, and I will know this pertains to
that question; He is speaking through it; there will be a layering on towards
the answer. The question that is in the forefront of my focus lately is what
does the Kingdom of God look like when it manifests upon the earth? He is
"fixin" to establish HIS KINGDOM on this earth. Up to this point, the Kingdom of
God/Heaven has been contained within us, and only manifests when we release it
into situations. But, for the most part, we have NOT seen the Kingdom of God on
this earth. We have seen the corrupt kingdoms of the god of this world in
operation, manifesting injustice, greed, power struggles and enmity. Paul had
such a revelation of the Love of God for mankind that he declared that we no
longer know any man after the flesh. If we look at any man after the flesh, our
judgment of that man will be unrighteous. In light of the finished work of
Christ on the cross, we now see all men "in Christ", as God does, and judge all
men righteous. So the problem arises when men do not see themselves as "in
Christ", but see themselves separated from the covenant, alienated from the
promises of God, and their thoughts and behavior manifest it. The revelation of
Jesus Christ is God's plan to reveal the Christ in every man. Only when this
mindset is in the people who are in authority, the sons of God, who, as you say,
have been trained and conformed to His image [their thinking has been changed],
will we see the righteous rule with the rod of iron, subduing false, unrighteous
authority. I know this can only come about as His appointed judges see with His
eyes, and hear from Him and declare what He speaks. When Jesus spoke so harshly
to the leaders of Israel, it was because they had been entrusted with the
oracles of God and the care of the sheep, and they had corrupted His Word and
defiled His sheep with doctrines of demons and traditions of men. Jesus called
their teaching leaven, and told His disciples to beware of it. When Jesus told
them that their searching of the scriptures for "Life", was futile, because they
were missing the LIFE that was in the scriptures, which was HIM, we can see that
their error was in always putting the emphasis on themselves ~ what THEY must do
to be righteous. The same is true in the Christian [organized] Church today. The
emphasis being put on what man must do, rather than pointing all men to what
Jesus, The Christ has done. ALL of our focus should always be fixed on what HE
has done, for out of this revelation flows the response that we can do nothing
of ourselves, and HIS life flows through us to the glory to God. I have heard it
stated thusly: Passover corresponds to the outer court, where we come to the
realization that His blood was shed for us and our acceptance/righteousness is
of Him. Pentecost corresponds to the inner court/Holy Place, where we realize
that He wants to live His life through us. Tabernacles corresponds to the Most
Holy Place [within] where we understand that He is living His life as us. We are
the body, He is the Head/Lord of the body. Before this can become a reality in
our lives, we must hear the declaration from the Father, "This is my beloved son
in whom I am well pleased."
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