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The Daily Word of Righteousness
It Is Time To Move Forward, #7
In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2—NIV)
In God's house, which is Christ, there are many abiding places. Jesus said, "Abide in me." We are to live always in Christ. He is our Home. When Christ is our Home, then God is dwelling in us and we are dwelling in the house of the Lord forever.
This is the spiritual fulfillment of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles, and is the next step after the Pentecostal experience, Pentecost being the celebration that precedes the feast of Tabernacles.
These are the promises that have been made to us while we plod through the wilderness of the world. We older Christians know how faithfully God keeps His promises. The promises shall not cease as we approach the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth.
We are moving toward a new day. We are approaching the land of promise, the place of milk and honey that was set before us when we left Egypt.
As we said previously, the three areas of inheritance and the means of obtaining all three are found in the Psalm that follows the one we have been discussing.
Notice how it begins. This is very significant:
The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; (Psalms 24:1—NIV)
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:14—NIV)
It has been so long since the original Gospel of the Kingdom has been preached Christians have forgotten that Jesus Christ is coming to rule as King of kings and Lord of lords on the earth.
The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord. How often do we hear this preached? Perhaps not often enough. Isn't it true that the Gospel of the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth has been changed into the catching up of the Church into Heaven? Yet there is no Scripture anywhere in the Bible that states the Church will be caught up into Heaven.
We go to Heaven by dying. The purpose of the resurrection from the dead is not to bring us to Heaven but to make it possible for us to live once again on the earth. When I teach this simple, scriptural, reasonable fact it sometime causes the believers to stagger about in bewilderment! Isn't that amazing?
The earth and everything in it belong to God. He made it all in the first place and He has no intention whatever of turning over His creation to Satan and the wicked. It is the meek who will inherit the earth, not the wicked.
The nations of the earth and the earth itself are the inheritance of the Lord Jesus. We are coheirs with Him. He shall be crowned King on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and from there His government shall extend to the furthest limits of earth and the heavens. The Church has been created to be His counterpart, His glory who will reveal Him throughout the creation.
We do not always think about inheriting people. But except for God Himself, people are the only treasure worth inheriting. To inherit things can never satisfy us. We were made to be the Throne of God, the hand of God extended to every saved creature. Nothing else—absolutely nothing else—shall ever satisfy and fulfill us.
To be continued.