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God is our Father. The earth is our home. We must accept this message of God in unquestioned childlike faith (Matthew 18:3-4).
As newborn babes, we are introduced to God, our Father, and to our home, the earth. Our Father gives us the rules we are to abide by. These are simply the irrefutable facts. We grow up in the security of knowing this and there is no question in our minds that this is just the way it is – until we grow older and the influences of others plant the seeds of doubt within us by convincing us that simple basic faith isn’t as exciting as wandering away from our security. They tell us there is something more out there other than what God has allowed us to have. This is how the serpent convinced Eve to do what God had told her not to do.
Exactly as Jesus warned, until we unequivocally, in childlike faith, return to the realization that nothing is more important than pleasing God, our Father, we are setting ourselves up for a lot of pain, misery and grief. We search the rest of our lives to find a way back to the peace of mind and happiness we once had in our innocence of this childhood security.
Throughout the process of our growth and development we are fed with the milk of God’s word to us. We learn that there are certain rules we are expected to live by. This is the literal Word of God. Our Father is always willing to provide our needs and forgive us when we ask.
A parent’s love is parallel to the love of God, our Father. A parent’s natural protective instinct tells him that when a child is born, he will from this time on be subjected to wild beasts wanting only to prevent him from enjoying happiness and praising the Lord who created him.
A certain degree of rebellion and lack of respect is a part of human nature. Into each of us is born an era of rebellion when we try to walk away from God, described in Isaiah 1:2. However unintentional it may be, we all try to run away from God like Jonah did. Through Israel’s example, we see on an individual basis the need to follow that which we know is right and return to the Lord – or suffer the consequences. We have to get dirtied up a little before we can come clean.
When false beliefs and wickedness assault individual lives, they break down families. When they invade enough families, complete cities are broken down. When enough cities are broken down by corruption and immorality, the entire nation soon breaks and falls.
Eventually the entire earth will become infected with these contagious diseases of hatred, greed, perversion, lack of appreciation – and will become an entirely negative establishment. These are the evil spirits of wickedness. They cannot be physically seen.
This is the darkness of sin. This darkness will completely cover the earth and it is already well on its way. While there is still some light left, it is up to us to do our part in making our tiny section of the world a little better place to live. This light must shine in our individual lives and homes, providing a small haven of security amidst an ever-darkening world.
On this earth, our family is the most important thing we possess. Our family is built-in love. This is the same love God has for us because he is our heavenly Father.
God is the Father who provides our home, the earth. Christ is the Son. New Jerusalem is the bride of the Son. We are the children of God, the brethren of Christ by adoption. Jesus said that whoever does the will of the Father is part of His family (Matthew 12:50) and will enjoy the final family reunion together with Him forever.
In the early Old Testament scriptures, the husbands represent the nations of the newly forming earth while the wives represent the cities of these nations. Men could take many wives, just as a nation is composed of several cities. The children born represent the population of these cities. Adam allegorically portrays the nation of Israel while his wife, Eve, represents Jerusalem, the capital city.
Woman was taken out of man. Jerusalem was taken out of the nation of Israel and was intended to be the virtuous wife who would teach the little cities of the nation the truth of God. But the woman turned out to be not so perfect after all; therefore the man was also affected. Since Jerusalem rejected the truth, the entire nation has been affected.
New Jerusalem will be the bride of Christ. Christ represents the perfect spiritual state of this union – the faith, the mindset, of God’s chosen nation. The description of the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31:10 describes the physical state of intended perfection, the good works, of Jerusalem, the righteous wife. Together, this perfect, spiritual state of mind of faith and love, and the perfect, physical state of good works, will be joined together to create the ultimate marriage union in the kingdom.
Each believer will constitute his part of this union of the body of Christ in the kingdom. Every tiny cell and corpuscle in the Church is a vital part of its completed body just as each cell in the human body works in harmony with the others in each individual physical body.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ (I Corinthians 12:12). The head of the body is Christ, is set on high awaiting unification with the remainder of the body, His church (Ephesians 1:20-23).
That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him (Ephesians 1:10).
The love of Christ for His church is unlimited and boundless and will never end. Every member of Christ’s final church is a part of this body that will make up the kingdom. Accepting Christ makes us one together with Him, and part of this union. That is why He has been set on high, first given the position of preeminence while the remainder of the body continues to form in the earth, the womb.
Once all segments of the entire body are completely formed, we will be joined with the head at the rapture. We will return to the earth together as one single unit – with Christ over all and above all.
Christ is the head of this ultimate and perfect family of God, the final body of believers. The heart of this body will be New Jerusalem from which the gospel of Christ, the life-blood, will flow to every living corpuscle in the system.
The fullness of the body when it is completed is described in I Thessalonians 4:17. The child born of this union will be perfect and entire, washed and purified in complete innocence. After the birth pangs of Israel’s tribulation, the cord is cut asunder and the birth process will be complete. At Armageddon, the cord is cut. Those clinging to the cords of vanity will be cast away, and the heart, New Jerusalem, can begin pumping on its own.
God is true and sincere love. Sin is destruction, a wasted one night stand designed to kill true love. That is its only purpose and its only intent.
The image in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream prophetically describes the history of the world governments of this earth, as the angel explained to Daniel. It included four segments: The head, breast and arms, belly and thighs, legs and feet.
Christ will be head of the eternal Government. The breast and arms are those who accept Him by hearing the Word of God. The belly and thighs are those who accept once they see the Word of God actually come to pass, and the legs and feet are those who will not accept the truth until they feel it.
The ten toes will be destroyed. This is evident in the straight hooves of brass depicted in Ezekiel 1:7. The toes no longer exist. The final ten-toe confederacy, the ten kings of Revelation 17:12-14, must be destroyed at Armageddon before complete perfection is achieved. We will be made perfect together at this time when all travailing is over. The newborn baby will be pure and spotless and this perfect child can then be presented to the Father.
In this final, eternal Government, we will all be of one mind, one language and one truth: One God, one faith and one baptism. In this manner we can give praise to God with one consent, working harmoniously together in that perfectly run body, in the perfectly run household, in the perfectly run city, in the perfectly run nation, on the perfectly run earth.
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