The Blowing of Trumpets''
The Blowing of Trumpets
It may help us to point out God's goals in His plan of redemption. God's goals are twofold. First, to make man in God's image. This was the original Divine fiat. Next, and of supreme importance, to provide a house, a resting place for God.
Before a human being can be a resting place for God, he or she must be created in God's image.
Christian thinking has been corrupted. We view the plan of redemption as being primarily for our benefit. It is not. It is for God's benefit. Some of the heavenly creatures rebelled against God in ages past. This has caused God to be in a state of unrest, as He views the works of Satan in the creation. Therefore He is seeking a house in which He can find rest.
Heretofore God's Throne has been in the spirit world. Now God plans on bringing His Throne into the hearts of people who are in His image. It is as simple as that.
"Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" declares the Lord. "These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word." (Isaiah 66:1,2)
From the passage above we might conclude that God's house and resting place is composed of people who are humble and contrite in spirit.
They also must be victorious saints.
To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne. (Revelation 3:21)
The Throne of the Father and the Son are to be placed in the human heart. When the sin and self-will have been removed from us, we will be given the right to sit with the Father and the Son on the throne of our own heart.
Our heart now has become the very Throne of God!
We have become in God's image, by means of the removing of sin and self-will from us, and thus are eligible to be an integral part of the new Jerusalem, the dwelling place of God, which will be placed on the new earth.
We are speaking now of the spiritual fulfillment of the Blowing of Trumpets. It is interesting, isn't it, that the Blowing of Trumpets is the "Head of the Year." In the Jewish culture. It is New Year's Day.
So it is with us. It is the beginning of the Kingdom of God, the doing of God's will in the earth.
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. (Revelation 1:7)
Notice the expression: "Every eye shall see Him."
Such is the visible coming of Christ to the world.
But there is a "coming" in advance of the visible coming.
He first will come to His saints to prepare them for His visible coming. This coming is taking place now for those who are ready and willing for it to take place.
"Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them."
Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?"
Jesus replied, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them." (John 14:19-23)
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So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Hebrews 9:28)
"Unto them that look for him" certainly is different from "every eye shall see him" (Revelation 1:7)!
Those who will see Him in advance of the coming of Revelation 1:7 are the believers who are learning to live by His Life and are looking for Him, just as He lives by the Father's Life.
"Because I live, you also will live."
When we are living by the Life of Jesus, we become aware that Christ and the Father are two separate People, although in perfect union, and that They are desiring to make Their eternal home and resting place in us.
I have stated that Christ is coming to us in the spirit world to prepare us for His visible return, and that this is the spiritual fulfillment of the Blowing of Trumpets. I do not believe very many Christians are prepared for the visible return of Revelation 1:7.
Why is this? It is because we are filled with the sins of the flesh, and self-will. We are not in the image of God at this time. The next major move of God, which consists of the last three feasts will prepare us for the visible return of the Lord.
The King, the Lord Jesus, has come in the spirit realm, invisible to the people of the world, to declare war on the sin and self-will that dwell in the believers. Such is the spiritual fulfillment of the Blowing of Trumpets—the beginning of the doing of God's will in the earth. For this we pray, don't we.
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