God's "eagles" will be looking for the slain Lamb.
God's "eagles" will be looking for the slain Lamb.
Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. (Job 39:30)
Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together. (Luke 17:37,37)
The Father's name is written on their foreheads, because they always, in every situation, do His perfect will. It is interesting to note that the followers of Antichrist also have a mark written in their forehead, revealing that they do the will of Antichrist.
The grace-babies have been taught that they do not have to do the Father's will because they have been saved by "grace." Imagine! They certainly are not competent to set up a Kingdom on the earth in which the will of God is performed at all times, in every circumstance!
The sound from Heaven is that of the seven thunders mentioned in the tenth chapter of the Book of Revelation. It is the fullness of Divine power that will be given to the witnesses of Chapter Eleven—the Lamb and His victorious saints.
The power of the seven thunders will be withheld from the saints until they have learned to die to their own will and do the will of the Father. No person can govern the nations until Christ, the Day Star, is living in him or her. The Father will have no one but Christ, and those who are living by the Life of Christ, governing His creatures.
The roar of rushing waters and the loud peal of thunder will be like the sound of harps. It is difficult for me to imagine how the roar of rushing water and the loud peal of thunder could sound like a harp. But it is in the Bible, so I know it is true. There must be a relationship between music and power. Perhaps the power of God is assembled by music and somehow is harmonious.
These perfected believers are given a new song to sing in the Holy of Holies. It is the song of those who are married to the Lamb and live on His body and blood. His Life and their life have become totally one. Believers of whom such union is not true cannot learn the song.
They have been redeemed from the earth. I think this means they are saints who have endured many years of tribulation. No doubt there are people in Heaven who have been saved a very short time. Perhaps it is true that those whom God has foreordained to be among the firstfruits of the governing priesthood have had the character formed in them that results from the battering that occurs during the course of a lifetime on the earth.
I believe that the virginity mentioned here is not referring to a physical state. Marriage is honorable, the Bible proclaims.
Rather I think the reference is to an unclean addiction to some aspect of our life, an affection that is greater than our love for the Lord. An idol, in other words. It can be a person, or thing, or circumstance. We can tell if we have an idol by asking ourselves if we could cheerfully give up the person, or thing, or circumstance if Christ asked for it.
If not, our possession is unclean. It is an idol.
Our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ must be one-on-one. We cannot permit any person, thing, or circumstance to be placed before the Lord Jesus. He will have all that we are!
Even today the true candidates for the "catching up" follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They do not expect Him to follow them wherever they go. Much of Christian work is performed by people who are not hearing from the Lord. They expect the Lamb to follow them wherever they go. They pray that Christ will bless their work. Such are not qualified to be resurrected and caught up to the Lord when He appears.
The truth is, those who will govern with Christ are with Christ in God now, prepared to govern the nations. This is revealed in the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation.
The Church is in travail in the present hour, as the rulers are being formed in the victorious saints. As soon as a new ruler is formed in us he is caught up spiritually, not bodily, to sit on the Throne, in preparation for his or her descent to the earth with the Lord Jesus Christ.
But she gave birth to a Son—a male who is going to shepherd all nations with an iron scepter—and her child was caught up to God and to His throne. (Revelation 12:5—Holman)
My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you. (Galatians 4:19—NIV)
They were purchased from among the ranks of mankind. Now they are a firstfruits to God and the Lamb. The observance of Firstfruits is the third of the seven feasts of the Lord. A sheaf of barley is waved before the priest, which sanctifies the entire harvest.
The firstfruits of any harvest is the best of the produce, as anyone knows who has eaten the first reaping of string beans.
There is no lie in them. To have no lie in us is to be blameless and in the image of God. There is no spiritual darkness in them. They have been weighed on the balance and found to be priceless in the sight of God. They along with the Lord Jesus are forever on the Bosom of God—as close to the Father as it is possible to get.
Such is the firstfruits of the Royal Priesthood, the Christians who will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air when He appears.
The remainder of the Church, of the Royal Priesthood, will be sanctified in God's sight by the firstfruits. The remainder of the Church must wait and be perfected in Heaven before they can return to the new earth as the dwelling place of God and the Lamb, which will take place after the final resurrection and judgment.
I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands.
They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.
Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. (Revelation 20:4-6)
So the Year of Jubilee has begun. It had to begin sometime, didn't it? It is a season for dancing and singing as David's Tabernacle is being restored.
The Ark will be placed in the tent in Jerusalem, to speak in a figure. Therefore the Day of Atonement can be celebrated in our time. In fact, the trumpet of the Jubilee is sounded on the Day of Atonement.
Every member of the Church is to return to his or her original inheritance, which is to be in the image of God and to have fellowship with God.
We are created in the image of God as, in line with the working of the Day of Atonement, our sins are forgiven and then completely removed from us. This, in turn, will prepare the way for the spiritual fulfillment of the seventh celebration, the feast of Tabernacles.
In the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles, Christ will be formed in us. Then the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit will dwell in Their Fullness in that which has been formed in us.
Having had sin and self-will removed from us, and the Fullness of God dwelling in us, we now will be in the image of God, and God can find rest in us.
Come, celebrate the Jubilee with us. The entire plan of redemption will have been completed when we press forward to the full apprehension of the next major move of redemption.
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
And to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:16-19)
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. (Revelation 22:13)
What the Lord Jesus has begun in you He shall finish in glory. But you must turn away from your trust in the world and seek to be obedient to the Lord at all times; in every circumstance!