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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Four Aspects of the Kingdom of God, #4
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. (Leviticus 23:24)
The fifth feast, the blowing of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah, announces the new year of the Jews. To the Christian, the blowing of Trumpets marks the beginning of the Kingdom of God—the doing of God's will in the earth.
The Day of Atonement, the sixth feast, is the first phase of the marriage of the Lamb. Our personality is being reconciled to God by the crucifying of our adamic personality, and the raising into life of a new creation that is still we ourselves but now filled with the Life of Christ.
The feast of Tabernacles, the seventh and last feast, is the second phase of the marriage of the Lamb. The Father and the Son enter us in perfect, complete union so that we are one in Them as They are One.
The royal priesthood of the Kingdom of God is the eternal tabernacle of God, the Bride of the Lamb. The saints of the royal priesthood will see the Face of God and will rule over the works of God's hands forever.
We must beware of overemphasizing the external aspect of the Kingdom of God, such as a place or Paradise to which we can go. The Kingdom of God is not a change of where we are but of what and who we are. The Kingdom of Heaven is not a change in location but a change in us. The Kingdom is not a saving of what we are but a slow, painful transformation of what we are.
The Kingdom of God is not the bringing of forgiven people to the spirit realm to live forever but the bringing of transformed personalities in transformed bodies to a new earth to live here forever—in a new world filled with righteousness.
The Kingdom of God, then, is the Lord Jesus coming to us individually with the sound of the trumpet, seeking out His enemies and removing them from our personality. The way is made straight in our hearts for the establishing of the Throne of God. We are becoming the Ark of the Covenant, the place of God's eternal glory. Out from our heart will proceed the law of God to govern the nations, and the waters of eternal life to make the nations alive in God.
To be continued.