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PREFACE:
This short booklet glances at The Bride of The
Lamb.
It reveals not only the glory of The Bride, but the fact that before anyone enters into Eternal Life, to a repose of eternal rest, that all judgments must be carried out.
On one hand we have the glories of God’s rewards
and the fulfillment to men who from creation have trusted in Him, and on the
other hand we have the fulfillment of unbelief.
One end as beautiful and to be desired the other so
ugly and to be greatly feared.
Such a great gap extends between God and man but it
can be crossed and this must be experienced in one’s lifetime.
God, the Father waits for all mankind who would
seek Him, and those who do so He will lead them to his son who is The Way to
God The Father and Eternal life.
To know the Father and the son : this is eternal
life.
To know the only One True God, the Father and Jesus
Christ whom He has sent in order that mankind can enter into The Eternal City,
as sons of God, co-heirs with Christ, and enjoy eternally the presence of God
and of His Son in the Bride.
Ephesians 1: 17
1 John 2: 24-25 John 17: 3
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THE BRIDE OF THE LAMB:
When we think of a Bride
we think of a wedding and who the bridegroom is. The guests and the attendants of the bride and of the groom dress
up especially to witness this once in a lifetime event. There is great expectation of beauty and
happiness and a looking forward to enjoy the prepared feast afterwards.
In our culture the bride
is to be in a white dress, and veiled. The white dress means virginity to indicate
that she has known no other. However in
our culture today the true meaning of being a Bride has generally been
disfigured which can be likened to the nation of Israel, as she became
spiritually polluted and God charged her of being a prostitute, guilty of
sexual immorality. God had made a
Covenant with Israel looking to them to display His Goodness to the then known
world. But they shed their blood by
their sacrifices to other gods who spiritually drank their blood, which was
offered to them.
Ezekiel 16 Deuteronomy 32 Exodus 34: 5-16 1 Kings 11: 29-39
Jeremiah 11: 12-17
Isaiah 1: 21-31
Who is the Bride of The Lamb? Many would suppose that it is the church. However like Israel she has become wayward by submitting particularly to the
Spirit of Babylon.
Babylon is spoken of as
being a woman but is actually a Nation
through and by whom the Spirit that energized the first Babylon of Daniel’s
time has continued down through the ages to affect the church, all over the
world, leaving glimpses of truth and light which have been distorted by error.
Zechariah chapter 5:
5-11 tells us how the Spirit of Babylon in the guise of a Woman of iniquity was
taken from Babylon in a leaden basket by two angels to a land that would become
a great Nation which would project with a spirit of Righteousness, the spirit
of Iniquity. Through and by this
Nation, the blood of the saints, those who bore the testimony of Jesus, have
drunk this spirit being deceived and
deluded by her effervescence
that appears to be righteousness.
They have gone willingly
into this darkness that Babylon perpetuates, which is a Nation drunk with her
power and by Spiritual espionage, she has successfully projected into all the
world, the gods of iniquity causing the church to offer sacrifices of their own
time and will as did Israel
Revelation 17: 5-6.
Revelation chapters 2
& 3, clearly display the bondages of the church, down to the end times and
Christ’s continual calls to the church to repent with promises for those who
do, which appears to have been generally ignored down through the generations
by those who have operated with the wisdom of the world, rather than that of
God Himself. Ephesians 1: 17
1 John 2: 15-17, Love not the world or the things
in the world…If anyone loves the world, the love of The Father is not in him. Babylon ensnares and causes mankind to
worship the Lord God, BUT THEY DO IT THEIR WAY: the way that pleases
Babylon.
Revelation 17: 3-6
& 17: 15-18 Deuteronomy 16: 21 &
17: 1-7 Deuteronomy 11:
26-28 Deuteronomy 4:15-24 Deuteronomy 12: 4-8 &
29-32** James 4: 1-10
THE CHURCH IS NOT THE
BRIDE!
God desires a Bride that
He alone has created, a composite Bride that will fulfill the true meaning of
the word bride.
The general assumption
which has been gleaned from interpretations of The Word of God is that
Ephesians 5: 25-33 speaks of Christ being the HEAD OF THE BODY the church and assumes that because headship has
been spoken of that it means that of a husband, and therefore of a bride. However, what Headship means in God’s view is
that it is ‘the one by whom we came into being’. E.g. God is the HEAD OF
CHRIST, Man is the head of woman, and Christ is the Head of the Church.
Headship is
responsibility and that is what Christ is over the church who are Sons of God,
Co - heirs with Christ,
but they are not his Bride.
Corinthians 11:
2-16 Ephesians 1: 22
Another assumption of the church as being the Bride
and Christ the Bridegroom is seen in the parable of THE TEN VIRGINS. Matthew 25: 1-13
While being a parable it is prophetic as are other parables
which speak of the Kingdom of Heaven, those who will be Baptized with Holy
Spirit, made to sit in the Heavenlies.
Eph. 2: 6
The oil for their lamps is speaking of God’s Spirit with which we are
encouraged to be “continually filled”
in order to fulfill our calling of God by His Spirit on us daily in order to be seen as a faithful servant.
The Five Virgins who did
not do this were out of touch with The Spirit of God the Father who is over
all, in all and through all, who are Baptized with Holy Spirit of God the
Father.
This neglect grieves
God’s Spirit, causing dryness by having no awareness of needing God and all
that He is. They have a lamp but do not realize how it is intended to work.
Ephesians 5:18 1 John 1: 7-10 Ephesians 4: 5-6
It is important to note
that The Ten Virgins in Matthew 25 is a warning of Christ’s judgment,
of those In Christ which will take place before the end of the
Tribulation. We can see the signs of
the return of Christ in Matthew 24; and it will not be as a bridegroom.
It is no surprise that
Jesus after speaking of the Ten Virgins, goes on to speak of the Servant who
had the problem of assumption. The faithless servant believed he knew his
master as many believe that they know God but failed to do and to be what God
expected of His servants. Matthew 25:
14. It is in this ‘fault line’ that
many of the church are believing that they will attend the Wedding of The Lamb.
They believe they already have eternal
life; whereas we shall not know this until
Christ judges the church.
Matthew 7: 21-23 highlights the spirit of this
presumption, and its judgment, as does the Parable of the Wedding Feast, Matthew 22: 1-14.
The presumptuous man was
astounded to find that he could not
partake of the wedding feast because he lacked the wedding garment, and was
astounded at the strong judgment for his neglect when being thrown into outer
darkness.
There will be many
Christians who are believing, all is well, especially those who are baptized
with Holy Spirit, will be astounded when
what they assumed, because of their presumption, is insufficient to enter
Eternal Life, because they have not trusted in God the Father as God alone and
were not prepared to do His will and works.
They will be astounded to know that we do not just
enter Eternal Life when our lives are finished but with Christ and those who do
inherit Eternal Life the qualified partakers
of the Wedding Feast, there is a lot of work to be done before this
happens.
Revelation 19: 7-8
FOR THE BRIDE TO COME, ALL WARS MUST CEASE, ALL
GOD’S ENEMIES, MUST BE FINALLY DEALT WITH. FOR GOD WOULD MAKE ALL THINGS NEW, FOR HIS GIVING OF THE BRIDE T0
THE LAMB. WHEN
ALL IS COMPLETED.
ALL DISPENSATIONS
AND JUDGMENTS OF EACH PARTICULAR ONE.
ALL OF CHRIST’S WORK GIVEN BY GOD TO DO.
ALL JUDGMENTS OF MAN, NATIONS AND GOD’S SPIRITUAL
ENEMIES.
ALL OF GOD’S DISPENSATIONS REVEAL GOD’S LOVE AND MERCY, WISDOM AND
ORDER IN REGARD TO MAN’S SALVATION, BY
REVEALING HIMSELF PROGRESSIVELY WHILE DECLARING HIS BINDING CONDITIONS OF
SALVATION SPECIFICALLY FOR EACH
DISPENSATION WHICH WILL PASS AND BE JUDGED.
1. GOD’S DISPENSATION FROM ADAM TO MOSES
2. GOD’S DISPENSATION FROM MOSES TO THE WORK OF THE
CROSS / PENTECOST.
3. GOD’S DISPENSATION FROM CROSS / PENTECOST TO THE
1 000 YEARS REIGN.
4. GOD’S DISPENSATION OF THE 1 000 YEARS REIGN TO
THE END OF EARTH AND HEAVEN.
ALL JUDGMENTS ARE TO BE COMPLETED OF ALL MEN IN ALL
DISPENSATIONS.
2 Thessalonians 1: 5-12
1Thessalonians 4: 16
THE JUDGEMENTS AND DISPENSATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS
FROM ADAM TO MOSES Romans 5: 14
These men believed God and did His will. Abraham and God entered a covenant relationship,
the sign being physical circumcision. (In
the Dispensation from the cross to the end, the covenant relationship with God
will be the Spiritual circumcision.)
Genesis 15 & 17 Jeremiah 9: 25 Romans 2: 29.
JUDGMENT IS COMPLETED for the righteous OF THIS FIRST DISPENSATION who
when they died were placed in Paradise. God raised them at the death of Jesus and they
went with him as he returned to heaven which previously was closed. They became the spiritual foundation of
God’s Spiritual Temple with Christ as its Cornerstone. Their reward is to be realized to enter the
city that they looked for.
THE JUDGMENTS OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS FROM ADAM TO
MOSES.
The unrighteous of this
dispensation were placed in Hades and await the Judgment of Hades itself which
will be at the very end.
Ezekiel Chaps.
40-47 Daniel 9: 4-11& 18-19 Daniel 10: 11 John 3: 13 Hebrews
9: 24
Ephesians 4:7-10 Ephesians 2: 18-22 Revelation 20:11-15 Matthew 27: 51-53
Hebrews 11: 40 Hebrews 13: 15
THE JUDGEMENTS AND DISPENSATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS
FROM MOSES TO THE CROSS.
Gods Laws and
Commandments were to be kept with a pure heart, not religiously.
They knew God dwelt
amongst them and depended on the established priesthood for their hope as they
performed God’s regulations and stipulations of sacrifice and circumcision, by
the presence of the Tabernacle and its contents and The Temple and its contents
which centralized God’s presence by symbols to those of Israel and any
proselytes.
Men of that time from
Moses, Joshua, Jeremiah, Daniel, when they died God judged them to be righteous to enter Paradise. They were raised with those from Adam to
Moses’ Dispensation by God and taken by Christ through the opened heaven, to become the spiritual foundation of His Spiritual Temple with Christ as the
Cornerstone.
Romans 5: 20 Hebrews 9: 24-28 Ephesians 4: 7-10 Eph. 2:18-22 Matthew 27: 51-53 Genesis
17 : 9-14 Leviticus Chaps. 1 - 7
THE JUDGMENTS OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS in the dispensation from Moses to the Cross.
They will be placed in
Hades joining those from the times of
Adam to Moses.
They all continue to
wait until Hades and Death itself will
be cast into The Lake of Fire.
Christ went and preached
to them during his time in the
underworld. The emptied Paradise,
Christ established to be his Spiritual
kingdom as a spiritual ‘holding place’ for believers in him who are yet
to decide concerning Baptism with Holy Spirit and for those who die without
Baptism with Holy Spirit. They will
enter the reality of this kingdom until their judgment by God, at the very end.
Scripture tells us John the Baptist
would possibly be the last of the dispensation of Adam to the Cross to enter
Paradise and the first to be raised up from it.
The thief on the cross
whom Jesus said would be with him in paradise would be the first of the
dispensation of the cross to the very end, to enter Christ’s Kingdom.
Revelation 20:
13-15 1 Peter 3: 18-20 Titus 1: 16 Colossians 1: 13-14 Matthew 13: 37-42
GOD’S FINAL JUDGMENT OF THOSE FROM ADAM TO THE
CROSS.
God’s plan for the Holy
Ones taken out of the dispensation of Adam to Moses and from Moses to the time
of the cross is that together with those
of the church who inherit eternal Life, that together they will rule with
Christ for the 1 000 years and when all judgments are complete, together they
will enter the City of God which is the Bride of The Lamb who is prepared by
God. The city they look and wait for.
Hebrews 11: 39-40 13: 14
Revelation 20: 4-6 Isaiah 52:
7-10
THE JUDGMENTS IN THE DISPENSATION FROM THE CROSS TO
THE END AS DETERMINED BY GOD.
Here in a man’s lifetime
HE MUST appropriate the
judgments of God to be accepted by God.
What a man chooses shall STAND
against him or for him, in order to be chosen because they did the will of God
the Father. This relates especially to
those who have believed in the cross and in the work of the baptism with Holy
Spirit. When
one knows this work of God and Christ by faith, his obligation to God is to do
His Will if that man would know Eternal Life.
The responsibility lies on each individual who will
be responsible for his own actions. The father is not responsible for the sins of the
son nor the son for his father’s sins.
HOW IS JUDGMENT IN THIS DISPENSATION ACCOMPLISHED?
Man can appropriate by
faith, the work of the cross, knowing the work of the BLOOD in the Guilt Offering and of The Sin Offering, one
sacrifice for two spiritual works.
The Guilt Offering
exonerates past sins, man’s spirit is
made alive by Christ’s spirit and are placed in Christ’s kingdom by God which
is in the courts of the spiritual Temple of God but not the Sanctuaries.
Isaiah 53: 10 Romans 8: 3 Matthew 13: 37-42
Romans 8: 10 Colossians 1:
13-14 Galatians 4: 6
They have not yet come to God the Father, John 14: 6
is still unfulfilled. They are still in
the realm of Death as they have on them the Body of sin. This is why Jesus said that a man is
condemned until he appropriates by faith
Christ’s work as
Baptiser with Holy Spirit.
Romans 8: 10
Romans 6: 6 Mark 16:
13-18 John 1: 29-33 Acts 2: 31-36
It is when the believer asks for The Baptism that
the work of the Sin Offering becomes operative, and the believer knows
spiritually an Instantaneous Spiritual Process which must take place in order
to be baptized with Holy Spirit.
For a believer in Christ’s kingdom, to be baptized with
Holy Spirit, FIRST the work in The Sin Offering has to take place in order
for the believer to be spiritually crucified with Christ, baptized into Death,
raised out of it by God who THEN gives
the believer to Christ who Baptizes with Holy Spirit. God then baptizes the believer into the
spiritual Body of Christ, where all those Baptized are placed by God.
Galatians 3: 14 Acts 1: 4-5 John 14: 13-23
Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2:
9-13
Romans 2: 29 Matthew 13: 47-50 Colossians 1: 28 1 Cor. 12: 13-18
Matthew 15: 13
STRONG JUDGMENTS ARE TO BE ACCOMPLISHED IN THIS
LIFE TIME :
THE BODY OF SIN AND DEATH, ALL SINS FORGIVEN, DELIVERANCE
FROM THE DEATH REALM, BY
SPIRITUAL CIRCUMCISIION OF THE BODY OF SIN, with the confirmation by
GOD HIMSELF TESTIFYING THAT THIS WORK HAS BEEN COMPLETED BY SPEAKING THROUGH
THE BELIEVER BY HIS SPIRIT DECLARING ‘JESUS IS LORD’.
Romans 6:6 Romans 2: 29 John 1: 33 Acts 2:
33 Romans 8: 10-11
Colossians 1: 27-28 John 15: 26 1 Corinthians 12: 3-18
THE NEW POSITION: As a son of God and co-heir with
Christ: one is given entrance into the Sanctuaries of The Temple, seated in The
Heavenlies, and where one can know God and all the fullness of His Work,
because we dwell in His Spirit and He in us.
The believers ‘In Christ’, the spiritual body,
where all those who are Baptized with Holy Spirit are placed by God, are to be
consistent partakers of God’s New Covenant which is to enjoy God the Father’s
fullness and the work of His seven Spirits and His names as Healer, Deliverer,
Provider…
It is only those In
Christ who can partake of The New Covenant.
Those In Christ are those in the
Spiritual Body of Christ and not the
person of Christ.
Romans 8: 17 Ephesians 2: 6 Ephesians 4: 5-6 John
14: 23 1Corinthians 12: 18
Colossians 1: 28 Matthew 13:
47- 50 Ephesians 3: 14-19 Revelation
1: 4 & 4: 5
John 14: 17 Romans 1: 4 Romans 8: 1-2 Romans
8: 17 Hebrews 10: 29 Eph. 1: 17 1 Peter 4:
14 Matthew 13: 52 John 16: 23-28 Hebrews 8:10-12 & 10: 14-18 Hebrews 6: 1-11
NB. WARNING Of those who continue to trust in Jesus as God, God has said ,
“You are not to
come near to serve Me or come near any of My Holy things or My most Holy
Offerings.” The result is NOT to know
the will of God which is the criteria to inherit eternal life, nor the
blessings of God’s New Covenant Promises.
John 16: 12-15
& 23-28 Ezekiel 44: 10-14 Isaiah 22: 20-25
THE FINAL JUDGMENT OF THE CHURCH: THOSE IN CHRIST,
BY CHRIST.
Matthew 13: 47-50 Colossians 1: 28 1Corinthians 12:18
Their final Judgment
will be carried out by Christ, near the end of The Tribulation.
As sons of God co-heirs
with Christ the condition of inheritance will be by having done the will of The
Father, which they will find unable to
do while believing and trusting in Jesus as God. Judgment is inescapable.
If a son of God is
judged to inherit, they will become a part of Christ’s army for the putting
down of the Beasts. They will rule and
reign with Christ for1 000 years as kings and priests, after all this is completed,
they with Christ will meet the Bride.
Those ‘In Christ’, the
church, when they physically die go to where God is and realize the physical
reality of being in the Heavens. They
will remain until Christ calls them for judgment, with those who are physically
alive at the time of Christ’s coming for the Church.
The penalty of the
disobedient believers of the church will be carried out by Christ’s Angels throwing
them into The Fiery Furnace where there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
Mark 13: 14-27 Ezekiel 44: 10-14 Isaiah 22: 20-25 Mathew 7: 21-23
Revelation 19:11 - 20: 6
Hebrews 12: 22-28 Matthew 13:
47-50
THE JUDGMENT OF THOSE IN CHRIST’S KINGDOM WHO ARE
NOT THE CHURCH BY GOD THE FATHER.
Those with Christ’s
Spirit only, are not In Christ until
baptized with Holy Spirit of God.
They
have not been raised out of the Death Realm because they have not known the
work of Romans 6: 3-14 and of Colossians 2: 9-13 - and therefore differ from
those who are In Christ because they have known this work and have been
baptized with Holy Spirit, by Christ and placed in the Body, where only those
of the church are.
Their judgment will be
by God Himself, after the 1 000 years reign.
When they die, they will go to where it is determined by Christ to await their
final Judgment by Christ’s Angels and God Himself who will decide who is to
be cast into Outer Darkness or into The Fiery Furnace.
Galatians 4: 6 Colossians 1: 13 Matthew 13: 37-42
Revelation 20: 11-12 Romans 8:
10 not
11. Colossians 1: 27 not 28 Mark 16: 14-18 ***
THE WORLD’S JUDGMENT WILL BE BY GOD; at the same
time He judges those in Christ’s Kingdom.
The world are those whose names are not written in
THE BOOK OF LIFE.
One’s name can be
blotted out of the book of Life, but
those in The Book of The Lamb are those whom Christ has judged to inherit Eternal life
Revelation 3: 5 Revelation 17: 8 Revelation 13: 8 Revelation 20 : 15
THE JUDGMENT OF THOSE IN THE
1000 YEARS REIGN OF CHRIST.
We believe that these two last judgments, of those in Christ’s spiritual kingdom and those of
the world, are to be carried out when those from the 1 000 years reign, who
will be judged according to how they were loyal to Christ: how much did they
love him and obey his commandments?
It will be as if the
Dispensations of time will go into a full circle to when God the
Father’s expectation of all men was to obey
Him, and were credited as righteous if they did so, as in the days of
Adam to Moses. In the 1 000 years
reign, it will be obedience to Christ, whom man is to obey in the face of God
the Father, when the Mount of God’s temple will be established for Christ’s
reign for one thousand years. This will
pass away with the old heavens, when in the New Heavens and Earth, God’s
Eternal city will be established.
John 14: 13-17
Acts 1: 4-5 Revelation 20:
4-6 2 Corinthians 5: 10 1 Timothy 4: 8
Isaiah 2: 1-5
Revelation Chaps 20 & 21
THE FINAL JUDGMENT OF GOD’S SPIRITUAL ENEMIES IS
YET TO COME
It can be imagined that
heaven at this time is blissful, a place of wonder, and it is with amazement
that we are made to sit in the
heavenlies through Baptism with Holy Spirit.
We soon learn that it is
a place of warfare, in fact a realm
where spiritual rulers, principalities
and powers and powers of darkness do as they please. There are many who are believed in as gods. Their power to operate is due to man’s
adoration and even sacrifice, and will operate according to their name.
The gods Israel worshipped, Baal, Molech, Ashtoreth, were of the
nations that were their enemies. God’s
angels were constantly warring with these spirits of the gods as they pursed
Israel in order to make her captive. An
example of this is seen in Daniel Chapter 10 when the One we know as Jesus, who
was then The Angel of the Lord, could not immediately come to Daniel when he
called, because he was dealing with the spirits over Persia, who defeated the
power of the nation of Babylon of Daniel’s
time.
Today we have moon and
sun worshippers which causes blatant easy possessions by spirits as the
worshippers open themselves right up to ‘whatever’, and the church has
been affected and influenced by many of
these gods but in particular the spirit of Belial, which is binding the church
from any discussion to view repentance on trusting in Jesus as God.
It is a lawless Realm
and to them the people of the earth are like a supper. Believers are to wrestle with, rebuke and
bind these spiritual enemies, and consigned them under the feet of Jesus, “In
the Name of Jesus”, because these forces know that they are submitting to God
whom they know to be all powerful
through those who are sons of God, who by using the ‘name of Jesus’, as a
rebuke causes them to tremble.
God’s spiritual enemies
would rather keep out of the way of God and those who knowledgably use ‘the
name of Jesus’, which is the authority given to Sons of God, co heirs with
Christ.
It
is to be remembered that in dealing with evil spirits apart from Satan, the believer
can deal with them in the Name of Jesus.
When dealing with Satan himself, we continually submit ourselves to God
first of all, and the devil will flee from us.
It is for the believer to remember that spiritual discernment is required to know the difference and it is
by faith in God the Father alone that we have His power to overcome. 1 John 5: 1-5
All spirits that are
bound under the feet of Christ will be judged with those unbound at the time of
Satan’s final judgment when Hades and Death and all who are in it will be cast
into the Lake of Fire, with all those whose names are not written The Book of
Life.
Ephesians 2: 6 Matthew 13:47-50 Romans 8: 17
Ephesians 6:10-18 John 16:
23-28
Acts 2 : 36 James 4: 7 Jeremiah 11: 12-17
Exodus 34: 5-16 Deuteronomy
32:
Psalm 34: 7 Psalm 25 : 41 1Kings 11: 33**
Revelation 20: 11-15
THE JUDGMENTOF WICKED ANGELS.
The angels of Genesis 6
have been partly judged by God, as they already await their final judgment in
chains in outer darkness. Jude 1:
6 1 Peter 3: 18-20 2 Peter 2: 4
Satan who was an angel
was cast out of God’s presence, from his work as a guardian cherub in Eden on
The Holy Mount of God, where He was seen as blameless until wickedness was
found in him. Ezekiel. 28: 13-19
He and the angels during
the time from Adam to Noah were obviously working together and gained
acceptance from mankind, having the power to entice and to excite the
imagination of man with the delights of the flesh which have continued and will
do so until the ultimate and Final Judgment of all God’s enemies.
While the above angels
were bound and await final judgment, it would appear that Satan has a free
reign, according to the extent that God allows, [His visit to Job Chaps. 1 &
2] and whoever chooses to obey, God or the Father of Lies, the Devil. Satan was the spirit who energized the King
of Tyre and the powers of Babylon.
While they have been mighty Nations, they and their spirit will meet
their doom.
Satan is the main
catalyst, as the one who challenged God and is the champion representing the
‘opposing forces’ of evil. He was cast
out of Eden, the earth, and of heaven, but for some reason in his arrogant mind
he believes with all the embellishments of the evil forces that are against God
and His Goodness and Righteousness, that he can still win. What
God has planned will take place: all shall be cast into the Lake of Fire along
with all other self appointed gods.
I am far from blaming these spiritual powers for
the complete downfall of mankind because mankind lost their sensitivity to what
they knew to be right and fell into sensuality and so they indulged themselves
into every kind of impurity with the continual lust for more.
Genesis Chapters 2 -5 Revelation 20: 15 Psalm 32: 1 Revelation 12 Isaiah
14: 13-17 Ezekiel 28: 13-19 John 12: 30-32 2 Corinthians 11: 13-15
Matthew 25: 41
THE JUDGMENT OF BABYLON:
Ezekiel 21: 18-27 Ezekiel 37: 21
Revelation Chaps 8 & 17
Zechariah 5: 5-11 Jeremiah 50 –
51.
The earthly Babylon knew
judgment, but the Spirits that energized her have continued on to this very day
to be manifested in a particular nation. Its influence is upon the whole earth and in particular the church. Revelation 17: 1-6
Revelation 8 describes
the plan and work of Revelation 17: 15-18 which is the manufactured judgment by
men, upon the nation known as Babylon and God will put into their hearts to do
this. This judgment by man upon this nation will be before the Beasts come to
power and is not to be confused with God’s Judgment in Revelation 16: 16-21 in
which we see God’s final judgment of her as a nation, in the form of a Gigantic
earthquake, giving to her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of His wrath
which will take place before Christ’s 1
000 year reign.
All mankind who depended
upon Babylon’s spirit will be devastated, and they will curse God. Revelation 18.
It
is after this event that the
heavenly onlookers who have known judgment by Christ explode with excitement as
they see a chief enemy of God and His people being destroyed but they are not
mindful of all that they and Christ have yet to do. They believe that all is ready for The Wedding Feast of
The Lamb, as Babylon, as a Nation is destroyed.
The
Nation will be destroyed, but not her
spirit, and will not be until God’s final judgment, at the very end, after the
1000 years reign when the Wedding Feast will be very close to taking place. It is after that Babylon is destroyed
that Christ with those who inherit will carry out judgments upon the False
Prophet, the Anti Christ and the nations God has prophesied about, and then he
will begin to reign for 1000 years.
Satan is released at the
end of the 1000 years and then the full force of God’s spiritual enemies, with
Satan, will entice nations to rebel and to come against the Campsite of The
Lord. Gog and Magog [Russia] are the
named leaders. God will destroy all by fire from heaven and God’s Throne
will come down to judge the world, the
spiritual kingdom of Christ, and those of the 1000 years and all God’s
spiritual enemies.
THEN will the wedding of The Bride and Bridegroom
take place.
Revelation 19: 11-20 : 15 Luke 20: 34-36
AT LAST WHEN ALL IS COMPLETED, CHRIST WILL MEET HIS
BRIDE:
THE BRIDE OF EXTRAORDINARY BEAUTY, BEYOND
DESCRIPTION.
THOSE WHO WILL INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE WILL ENTER
AFTER HIM.
CHRIST WILL BE EXALTED TO YET A HIGHER GLORY BY GOD
WHO IS PLEASED WITH HIS SON AND WILL
GIVE HIM THE NEW JERUSALEM THE CITY OF GOD, AS HIS BRIDE. WHICH HAS BEEN GOD’S ETERNAL FOCUS, TO FILL THE UNIVERSE.
A CITY HE WILL CREATE FOR THE ETERNAL AGES AND
THOSE WHO WILL DWELL WITH HIM SHALL KNOW ITS DELIGHTS FOR EVER AND FOREVER
AMEN.
IT IS THE CITY THAT WILL BE THE BRIDE OF THE LAMB
OF GOD.
THE HOLY CITY, THE NEW JERUSALEM COMPETELY NEW, NO
RENOVATIONS. Revelation 21: 9-27 Ephesians 4: 7-10
The Bride is a city of indescribable beauty and
glory. A city that man has not defiled.
It will be clothed with fine linen which speaks of being
the righteous acts of the saints, like a sash of glory, which will cover The
City. Revelation 19: 7- 9
Just as the prayers of the saints are gathered and
will be used as judgment upon the earth, so are the righteous acts of those
doing God’s will, are collected and like a cloud of great glory will cover this
glorious city. Christ will enter with
those who as kings and priests in the 1 000 years reign will bring their glory
into the City.
Revelation 8: 3-5 Revelation 21: 24
THE LAMB OF GOD.
Why is the emphasis on the Bridegroom as being The
Lamb rather than the Bride of Christ?
This is because The Lamb speaks of The Son of Man and his willing
obedience that he gave to His Father.
He was not anointed for obedience as he was for the work as Christ.
As a man his willing, intricate relationship with his God and Father to the carrying
out of God’s purposes for mankind to know God’s salvation through him as The
Lamb of God, was his absolute willing obedience, to his God.
Jesus Christ has been and continues to be the
focus, the centre of God’s purposes for mankind to come to God. It is The Lamb, AS A MAN, that Jesus reversed the effects of Adam’s sin as he
became the Second Adam in whom God was pleased. He was lifted up, which was the beginning for any man who
responded to the cross.
It will be a city of
eternal testimony of the work of The Lamb and those who would believe upon him
and in turn would please and serve God and be used by God in His acts of
righteousness with mankind and God’s Spiritual enemies.
John 3: 16
Ephesians 3:10-12 John 1:
29-33 Matthew 3: 11-12 John 6: 29
Philippians 2: 6-11 Romans 10: 9
Hebrews 5: 1-10
THE CITY WILL COME OUT FROM THE NEW HEAVENS.
The present heavens are full of God’s enemies. It is polluted. We who sit in the heavenlies are at war. As
sons of God we are to wrestle principalities and powers, rulers of dark places
who move at will on the earth, and in the heavens.
Ephesians 6: 10-18 Ephesians 3: 10-12 Job Chaps 1&2
THE CITY WILL REST ON THE NEW EARTH. The present one groans and waits for
deliverance. The land is polluted by
the sin of man; their murders and adulteries, which will ultimately bring about
their end. This polluted land of ours
today is the prime reason for our
environmental problems, currently being experienced.
Romans 8: 17-25 Numbers 35: 33 2 Chronicles 7: 14
Isaiah 1: 21-26
WE ARE TO HAVE A NEW JERUSALEM.
The spiritual Ezekiel’s Temple of God in the
Spiritual Jerusalem in which we now sit
will pass away. All the spiritual exits and the entrances from the world to God Himself, will no longer
be needed as all Judgments and Dispensations will pass away and will be
replaced with the New Jerusalem, the
Holy City which is prepared by God for His Son to be his Bride.
There will be no Temple and no priests. The present temple its sanctuaries and
courts will be emptied of its spiritual occupants, because the church, dead or
alive, and those in Christ’s Kingdom, dead or alive, will have been judged.
Just as Paradise was emptied at the time of the cross to
make way for those who would believe in the work of the cross, so Paradise will
pass away, with the Kingdom of Christ and the Kingdom of Heaven, when a New
Earth and a New Heaven come into being, for the purpose of the New Jerusalem, a city The Bride of The Lamb.
Ezekiel Chaps. 40-47 Hebrews 12: 22-24
2 Samuel 22: 7
THIS IS THE CITY INTO WHICH: Christ who was the Angel of the Lord, God’s chief messenger, will enter, all his works
complete.
He came as the Son of
Man, and died as God’s Lamb, was raised and exalted by God to be Christ and
Lord, and will judge the church. As
king for 1000 years, he will rule over the earth. Its centre will be Zion and he shall rule over mankind who had
seen God’s dealing with mankind on The Day of The Lord, when God will shake the
earth.
It will be at the end of
Christ’s Reign, when God will use fire
upon His enemies, and they will know
their final judgment before God’s Throne.
Isaiah 2: 6-22 Revelation 19: 11-20
Revelation 16: 17-21
Revelation 20 : 11-15
When this has been
completed then Christ will be manifested as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords
in the Peace of God and not in the contention of men in the City. Is this the name of Christ that no one
knows but himself which shall surely be revealed in all its glory, in this
City. He will be The Lamp in the City ; the eyes of God, for God.
Luke 11: 33-36 2 Samuel 22: 29 Revelation 19: 11–16
Revelation 3: 11-12
1 Kings 11: 34-36
THIS IS THE CITY
That those of mankind
called the Holy ones who believed God before heaven was opened by the work of the cross will enter at last. They waited in Paradise and were raised out to be the
foundation of God’s spiritual Temple in the open heavens. They will rule with Christ for 1000 years
and help to put down God’s enemies. Their names will be honoured as those being The Gates to the City, through
which they will enter at last.
The church today does
not realize the full extent of the work of these Holy Ones and what their love
and service to God their Father has meant to all mankind, to know such a great
salvation.
Isaiah 52: 7-10 Matthew 27:51-53 Ephesians 2: 8-22 John 3: 13 Hebrews 9: 24
Hebrews 13: 14 Hebrews 11: 40
Romans 15: 8
‘For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of The Jews on behalf
of God’s Truth to confirm the promises made to the Patriarchs, so that the
Gentiles may glorify God for His Mercy’…
Romans 15: 9-13
THIS IS THE CITY :
Where all mankind who
repented towards God and believed in Jesus as The Lamb, and as the Son of God will enter if they have
known his full work as Christ and Lord. If like Jesus they do God’s will as
living stones in God’s Spiritual
Ezekiel’s Temple in the Heavenlies.
They shall enter the
city as Sons of God, and will be
installed, eternally in total fulfillment of what they are in God’s sight. As sons of God co-heirs with Christ, they
shall share his inheritance as this is Christ’s will for them.
Acts 20: 21 John 17: 3 John 1: 29- 33 Acts 1: 4-5 John 14: 13-23
Ezekiel 46: 16-18 Hebrews 12:
22-24 Matthew 7: 21-23 1 Peter 2: 2-5 Ephesians 2: 18-22 1
John 2: 24-25
THIS IS THE CITY
The angels will dwell with those in the city. They
will oversee the Gates into the City. Their help given to believers from the time of
creation may not be completely appreciated but understanding of their serious
involvement for God with man is seen in their participation on the earth from
creation until God’s judgment upon the earth.
The whole book of Revelation reveals this very strongly.
It is to be remembered
that God has His Angels and that Christ has his angels. Their actions reveal their love and honour
for God and His Lamb and their disgust of those who would disobey God’s
Word. They will reveal strong aversion
and anger to those in Christ’s Kingdom who fail to obey Christ and his command
to be baptized, and not realizing God’s great salvation that would deliver them
from The Death Realm and not be condemned with it.
They will also be the
‘gatherers’ of the elect at the time when Christ will judge the church, sorting
out first those who continued to do evil.
The angels will throw them into the Fiery Furnace, along with those of
Christ’s Kingdom, who continued in evil.
The others in Christ’s kingdom who will be judged justly as to their
faith shall not know eternal life in
the Eternal City but will receive mercy and be placed into Outer Darkness, for
eternity.
Matthew 13: 37-42 Matthew 13: 47-50
Mark 13:24-27 John 14: 13-23
Acts 1: 4-5
Mark 16: 14-18
Christ, the Holy Ones, those In Christ, and those
of the 1000 years who inherit, together in the City, will be rewarded by being
remembered by the Living God as all dispensations are named and placed in
positions of authority and substance.
All will enter a City prepared by God, as a father
would prepare a daughter for marriage, in the midst of great joy.
GOD’S WORK COMPLETED
From the time of a closed heaven, due to Adam’s sin, God
revealed a way to Himself, which has been traversed by all these men.
While there have been differences in God’s Dispensations, they all called for
men to believe and trust in Him and to do His will.
God prepared spiritual places, from creation to serve
and accommodate mankind in holding places, until their Final Judgment,
according to their different categories, and dispensations.
Paradise, Hades, Christ’s Kingdom, the Kingdom of
Heaven, all of which manifest and confirm God’s set exits and entrances for
man’s progress to Himself shall pass away.
What shall remain are places of eternal judgment, the fiery furnace, the
outer darkness and the lake of fire which will be potent in their reality.
Paradise and the present realm of the kingdom of
heaven however glorious will pale in comparison to the coming glory of The New
City, The Bride of The Lamb.
Revelation 20: 11-15 Revelation 21.
ALL DISPENSATIONS WITH THEIR DIFFERENT CONDITIONS
AND METHODS
WILL PASS AWAY. IN THE NEW JERUSALEM, THE ETERNAL CITY THERE WILL BE NO
DISPENSATIONS BECAUSE ALL WHO ARE THERE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE THERE. ALL HAVE BEEN JUSTIFIED AND HAVE JUSTIFIED,
THEY HAVE FULFILLED THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO GOD AND HE TO THEM AS THEY DID HIS
WILL. ALL THE WAY TO GOD SET BY EXITS AND ENTRANCES SHALL NOT
BE IN THE ETERNAL CITY BECAUSE
ALL WILL BE FOUND RIGHTEOUS IN GOD’S AND CHRIST’S
EYES.
CHRIST WILL RECEIVE HIS BRIDE,THE CITY, LIKE AN EMBRACE THE TOTAL PICTURE OF GOD’S
WORK WITH MANKIND AND MANKIND’S WORK WITH HIM, WILL BE SEEN: THE PROMISE OF AN
ETERNITY WITH HIM AND CHRIST THAT IS CONTINUALLY TO BE UNVEILED. NO WARS NO SORROW NO DEFILEMENTS OF SIN BUT
EVERLASTING JOY AS WE PRAISE OUR GOD AND HIS LAMB, AS WE WILL ENTER THE CITY.
1 Corinthians 2: 9-10 Revelation Chapters : 21 - 22
Is there still a question ? Why is the Bride a city? WHY NOT!
Babylon is seen as a woman, Israel is seen as a
daughter, and both are Nations.
THE BRIDE OF THE LAMB IS THE HOLY CITY THE NEW
JERUSALEM
CHRIST THE BRIDEGROOM OUR
GLORIOUS EXAMPLE.
Revelation 21: 7 1 John 5: 1-5
THIS
IS ETERNAL LIFE.
John 17: 3
1 John 2: 23 -25
JESUS’ PROMISE TO THOSE CALLED THE CHURCH, THOSE IN
CHRIST:
THE PROMISE OF A CITY, IS CONDITIONAL.
Revelation 3: 11-12 1Timothy 4: 8 1 John
5: 1-5 1 John 2: 24-25
“I am coming soon.
Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.
Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the
temple of my God and the of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which is
coming down out of heaven from my God;
and I will also write on him my new name.”