The Feasts of the Lord.''
The Feasts of the Lord.
The journey of Israel from Egypt to Canaan.
The days of creation.
Each of the four types is divided into seven segments that correspond to the seven segments of the other three types.
The four major types reveal seven aspects of the Lord Jesus Christ, and also seven aspects of the growth to maturity of the individual believer, the Church, and the Kingdom of God.
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. (I Corinthians 10:11)
The Goal of Redemption. The goal of salvation is to bring human beings into the image of God and into complete, untroubled union with God through Christ.
Following this list of concepts we have listed sixteen roles and tasks for which salvation prepares us. There are several Divinely assigned roles for which man is being prepared.
The fulness of the Divinely ordained roles and functions are possible only to those who are in the moral image of Christ and who are in a state of complete, total oneness with the Father and the Son to the degree that they have become an essential, integral, eternally incorruptible part of the revelation of the Father to His creation.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Romans 8:29)
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (John 17:21)
Grace and Faith Versus the Law of Moses, not Versus Righteous Behavior. When the Apostle Paul contrasted faith and works he was not speaking of a profession of doctrinal belief versus godly behavior. Yet this interpretation of Paul has persisted mightily since the Reformation.
First of all, by "faith" Paul means a life lived in dependence on God, not a doctrinal position. The righteous shall live by faith means by humble dependence on God rather than by independence of thought and action (the American ideal).
By "works" Paul means the works of the Law of Moses, such as circumcision. He is not referring to honesty, faithfulness, and truthfulness.
We are justified by placing our faith in Christ and living in Him rather than by obeying the statutes of the Law of Moses.
This misunderstanding of Paul has destroyed the moral strength of the Christian churches.
A careful study of Romans and Galatians will reveal clearly that Paul is not seeking to turn people away from righteous behavior but from the works of the Law of Moses.
In other passages Paul insists that if we do not live righteously we will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (Romans 3:21)
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. (Romans 3:28)
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:21)
The Great Tribulation. The Bride of the Lamb must be without blemish. It is obvious that in the present hour the Bride is filled with division and blemishes of every sort.
During the closing days of the present age the Lord Jesus will give of His Glory to His Bride and also purify her in the fires of the great tribulation. The great tribulation will separate the Bride from the Christian organizations and purge her from sin and self-will until she comes up from the wilderness leaning on her Beloved.
In the Valley of Achor, the place of judgment, the Lord will minister to His Bride until she knows Him as her Husband.
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. (Isaiah 4:4)
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: (I Peter 4:12)
Image and Union. None of the Divinely ordained roles can be assigned fully to a believer until he or she has been conformed to the image of the Lord and has been brought into untroubled union with the Lord. Oneness with the Son in the Father is the highest attainment possible for the human being.
We have been predestined to be conformed to the image of Christ. However, image apart from union is not desirable. To be like Christ but not married to Christ could lead to the pride of Satan, who seeks to be like God but not part of God.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate {to be} conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Romans 8:29)
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:23)
Israel . God's Israel Is One. The Church is one, beginning with Abraham and Sarah. The olive tree is one.
The new covenant is not a change of the religion of Judaism to a new religion of Christianity. Both the old covenant and the new covenant are made with Israel. To participate in the new covenant a Gentile must become part of the Israel of God.
The Divine redemption is given as one progressive revelation of God to Man. Christianity is the giving of eternal, Divine Substance and Life to the Altar, the Lampstand, and the Booth of Judaism.
There is no Gentile church and no Jewish church. There is only the one new Man.
The Christian Church and the physical people and land of Israel are on a converging course. The form of Israel is on the earth. The spiritual nature of Israel is in Zion in Heaven, in righteous people made perfect. When Christ appears the spiritual nature of Zion will come to earthly Zion.
God in the last days will turn once more to physical Israel. All that the Prophets have declared will come to pass in fullness. Jerusalem will become the center of government of the world. All nations on the earth will come to Jerusalem to receive instruction from the Lord, who will be dwelling there. The eternal moral law of God will be enforced throughout the creation by the rod of iron, the strength of the Spirit of God.
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. (Isaiah 2:3)
And if ye {be} Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:29)
Joel's Army . After Antichrist, the False Prophet, and Satan have been defeated by the armies of saints and angels at Megiddo, led by the Lord Jesus Christ, the world still will be filled with the institutions established by Antichrist. Some of the people will be wicked. Others will be like Lot, attempting to behave righteously in the midst of wickedness. This is true even today.
Before Christ can establish His rule over the world, these institutions and the people who practice wickedness must be removed from the earth. For this reason, after the lords and demons of spiritual darkness are overthrown at the Battle of Armageddon, the Lord Jesus and His armies of saints and angels will go through the earth. They will assign the wicked to the Land of Darkness, and destroy the buildings and other works of civilization.
When the two armies have completed their mission, the nations will be ready for Christ and His saints to set up the numerous governments that will govern the people for one thousand years. The people will be taught the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew, Chapters Five through Seven). Every person who will not obey the Lord Jesus Christ will be assigned to a place of punishment.
The Sermon on the Mount is the Word that even today is going forth from "Jerusalem," from the Lord Jesus Christ. Such is the Law from Zion.
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. (Joel 2:3)
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:4)
The Judges of Men and Angels. The first creation, beginning with the angels, has risen in rebellion against the Lord God. God made man for the purpose of judging the rebels, both angelic and human. After the judgment has been completed it will be man's responsibility to govern the universe, both spiritual and physical, that God has created.
Next Part Man was created to be the throne of the Judge of Heaven.