Notice the passage below:
Notice the passage below:
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins." (Romans 11:25-27)
I wonder if the passage above is not saying the same thing, as Hebrews 11:40. When the firstfruits of the Royal Priesthood are standing on Mount Zion with the Lamb, they then will turn to the Jews. They will work with the elect of the Jews, the Gentiles sharing with the Jews the power of deliverance from sin that the Gentiles themselves are experiencing.
Thus the saying, "only together with us (the Christians) would they (the Jews) be made perfect (be delivered from the bondages of sin).
They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God. (Ezekiel 37:23)
In this manner the whole house of Israel, Jews and Gentiles, will be saved.
Next on the program, the army of saints and the army of angels will descend from Heaven and destroy the power of the wicked.
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. (Revelation 19:11)
After the wicked spirits have been rendered powerless, Christ will lead His Royal Priesthood and God's warrior angels against the wickedness in the peoples of the earth.
Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste—nothing escapes them. (Joel 2:3)
After the cleansing of the earth has been completed, the Lord Jesus and His victorious saints, holding the scepter of iron righteousness, will govern the nations of the earth for one thousand years.
So we see from these events, that are certain to take place according to God's Word, we have no need to be upset over the antics of evil men and women as they posture in the world today. Their time will come as certain as the sun rising in the morning, and their end is not enviable.
But all who obey and love the Lord Jesus will sing and dance in the heights of Zion though the world be in flames.
Driving home from church today (February 22, 2015) I saw, and still see as I sit at the computer, a multitude of people. They appear to be advancing up a grassy slope.
They are not in ranks, as in an army, just a great crowd of people, some children, some youths, some middle-aged, some elderly. Their faces are shining and happy, and I believe they are singing, though I do not hear anything.
They are being led, I believe, but I do not see the leader.
The Apostle Paul commanded us to set our hearts on heavenly things, not on the earth. I have been praying determinedly that God would show me some heavenly things so I could see them and keep my mind on them.
I prayed like this last night, but no answer came. But now that this vision is before me I think it may be the answer.
I had been thinking God would show me some aspect of Heaven, maybe a beautiful park, or deceased relatives, or Jesus at the right hand of the Father. Instead I am "seeing," not with my physical eyes but in my mind, a host of people walking joyously up a hill, or mountain.
What does this mean? Perhaps the attacks in Revelation, 19 and Joel, Two, while they are described in more dramatic terms, actually are ordinary people who have turned away from the world; have, through Christ put to death the urges to sin dwelling in the members of their body, and are promptly, completely, and cheerfully obedient to the Lord Jesus.
Maybe even today some of God's people, young and old, are beginning to press forward to victory over all disobedience to God. Do you think this is what I am seeing? Is the Lord saying that I should place my attention and hopes on victory over the evil in the world, and not on the present confusion?
Am I gazing upon the coming of the Royal Priesthood, do you suppose?