Greetings to all lovers of truth:
Many doctrines are expounded today by preachers of so-called Christianity about the Kingdom age. One of these doctrines is called premillennialist. Those who believe in this doctrine usually believe in a secret rapture to heaven before the Kingdom age begins. The doctrine of the rapture is from tartaros hell. Some religious institutions adhere to "postmillenialism. They believe the rapture or the resurrection and glorification takes place after the utopia of God. Others embrace A - millennialism, or no Kingdom age at all. But as you have read in this series, the resurrection takes place before the Kingdom age begins, and in the Kingdom and dominion of God upon this earth judicial authority will be exercised by the saints.
Micah the prophet revealed that "the "mountain of the house of the Lord" will be established in the tops of the mountains and hills, and the people shall flow into it to worship the Lord and live in peace and harmony for a thousand years. Here we see the theocratic government of God is defined as the "mountain", or the "stone" that destroyed and conquered the nations of the earth by the spoken word of God. The house of God, sits on this mountain with absolute authority and power as kings and priests to establish the law of God as the moral standard for the natural people that will repopulate the nations after the last battle with the armies of the antichrish, and rule them with a "rod of iron."
"The throne of his glory" is Jesus Christ, his Spirit of truth and liberty residing with preeminence in the minds and lives of his people before and after their glorification. This expressed truth reveals that the collective universal church is the heavenly sanctuary, and Christ is the High Priest making intercession for us, and empowering us to pray to him in omnipresence as the Father.
Also, the saints are the tabernacle of God, or the temple of God, the church. And they are built upon the foundation of the doctrine of the apostles, and of course Jesus Christ is the chief corner stone. (Heb.8:1-2) Therefore, Almighty God in and through his people will create the Kingdom age atmosphere that will wipe away all the tears from the eyes of natural Israel. And there shall be no more death, pain, crying and sorrow because the former things and conditions of the sixth day we are living in now have passed away, and they will learn war no more. The Lord, the author and finisher of our faith, said it was completed. Amen.
In Isaiah 2:2-4, and Rev.21.9-11, We see the perfect and glorious church without sin and iniquity completed under the "voice of the archangel ministry", and now glorified. The church has just finished being judged, not for salvation, but for rewards for their faithfulness to Christ and his faith at the "Judgment Seat of Christ", The people-city is glowing with the radiance of Christ's righteousness, nature and gifts." John said he saw the great City, holy Jerusalem descending from God out of heaven to be established on top of the mountain of God. Descending from God out of heaven actually indicates the reality the people of God called New Jerusalem was designed and formed in the mind of God before the universe was created, and this is where John saw it come from. There is no place called heaven in the religious traditional sense and perception. The word heaven denotes the omnipresent residence of the Spirit of God.
This magnificent city is expressed in the vision as being four-square and the massive walls were great and high. There was three gates of pearl with an angel standing at each of the three gates on each wall which denote the twelve patriarchs of Israel. On each of the twelve gates of pearl was the name of a tribe of Israel. The walls represent all the Israelis saved in the church dispensation. The walls of the city had twelve foundations which depict the twelve apostles of the church. The measurement of the city was calculated to be twelve thousand furlongs or 1200 miles high, 1200 miles wide, and 1200 miles long. That is true, if 12 furlongs equal a mile. The physical dimensions of the city actually mean nothing at all, because the city is simply a physical representation of spiritual reality.
The wall measured 144 cubits, and this measurement defines the 144,000 Israelis save and added to the church after the gospel returns to Israel in the "second coming of Jesus Christ in the Son of Man ministry." The street of the city was pure gold and transparent as glass. The gold defines the divine nature and character of Jesus Christ. John said he saw no temple in the city because the city is the temple of God that resides in it. The city had no need of the sun or the moon to shine and give it light through the senses, because the saints are in a glorified state and they have the glorified vision of God in Christ.
The glorified saints from Adam to the church dispensation were not in the church but, they shall enter the Kingdom age in a class under the church or holy Jerusalem, and participate in the theocratic government of God and help rule the planet in the mountain of God. And since salvation is of the Jews, you can understand how the Gentile elect were saved and glorified, and as kings of the earth they shall bring their glory and honor into this glorious city of God because their names were wrote in the Lambs book of eternal life, and consequently they are part and parcel with the city.
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Yours in Christ~ ~ Gene Austin
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