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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Blow the Trumpet in Zion, #13
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. (John 14:23)
"We will come." This is not the coming of the Lord in the clouds of heaven but is an individual coming to the disciple in order to make of him a tabernacle, an abode (a "mansion," in archaic usage) for the Father and the Son.
The Day of the Lord rises in the heart of the conquering Christian:
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: (II Peter 1:19)
There is a personal day of the Lord, a personal Presence of Christ, that comes to the believer who is keeping Christ's Word (John 14:23). The personal revelation, or coming, of Christ is announced by the trumpet of the Lord "blowing" in our heart. The King comes, we pass through the cleansing of the spiritual fulfillments of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement, and then the Father and the Son settle down to rest in us in fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles.
Christ appears during the last days, the time of the church of Laodicea, and expresses His desire to enter the saint:
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20)
If we open the door, Christ enters and establishes the Throne of God in us. The spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles makes of us the holy city, the new Jerusalem, the eternal Throne of God and of the Lamb. We sit with Christ in His throne as He sits with His Father in His throne—in our heart.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (Revelation 3:21)
When the rule of God, the Kingdom of God, has been established in our heart, the Day of the Lord, the Kingdom Age, has come to pass in us. When the holy remnant, the firstfruits of the Body of Christ, has become the Throne of God, Christ will appear in the clouds of heaven, bringing with Him the entire company of the firstfruits—those who stand with Him on Mount Zion.
It is the worldwide appearing of Christ—Head and Body—that results in the Kingdom Age in the earth. The Kingdom Age comes in Christ and His Body. Therefore it is useless to discuss the possibility of the Lord's return until the firstfruits have grown to maturity and are in union with the Head and with one another.
The worldwide appearing of Christ will occur at the sounding of the last trumpet (Revelation 11:15). The coming (parousia ) of the Lord will include the first resurrection, of which Paul speaks in Philippians 3:11 and I Corinthians 15:52. It is the Day of the Lord: the return of Christ to the earth and the revealing of the sons of God (Romans 8:28-30; Colossians 3:4).
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (I Corinthians 15:52)
To be continued.