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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Fullness of God, #5
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. (John 14:18)
Notice the above and then compare the following:
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)
Now compare John 14:3,18,23:
"I will come again, and receive you unto myself."
"I will come to you."
"We will come unto him."
We shall appear with the Lord in His historical, kingdom-wide coming to the world (I Thessalonians 4:17; Revelation 1:7) only if we previously have experienced His coming to us in the personal fulfillment of the last three feasts.
The Lord Jesus will appear to the individual believer before He reveals Himself to the world.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. (John 14:21)
How will Christ reveal Himself to the individual believer but not to the world?
Judas asked this question (verse 22), and the Lord Jesus answered him:
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)
The Scripture declares plainly that there is a coming of Christ (with the Father, who always dwells in Christ) to the individual believer, and also a kingdom-wide coming of Christ, at the last trumpet, to take to Himself His Kingdom (Revelation 11:15).
We believe that the personal fulfillments of the Blowing of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement already have begun. Those believers who are seeking the Lord with their whole heart are finding that God is judging them. Every thought, every word, every action is being tried by fire.
Every aspect of our personality that cannot survive the fire of God is being burned away and the new Life of Christ is being born in its stead.
The personal fulfillment of the Day of Atonement in us as an individual is the reconciling of us to God through Christ. Even though by faith we have applied the Passover blood of the cross, have repented and been baptized in water, have been born again, and have been baptized with the Holy Spirit, we still have not been reconciled perfectly to God's Person and will. The most superficial observation of the ranks of Christendom will demonstrate this fact.
Today the Lord Jesus is coming to us in the personal fulfillment of the Blowing of Trumpets for the purpose of announcing and commencing the reconciling of us to Himself (and to God) perfectly and completely. Christ alone is the Builder of the house of God ("on this rock I will build my church"). Jesus is coming to us to construct us as the house of God.
Christ is the true and only High Priest over the house of God. His attitude toward His churches is described in Revelation, Chapters One through Three.
As we read these three chapters carefully we can see that Christ is not entirely complimentary. He is looking at His churches with His eyes of fire, instructing us that He has not found our works perfect before God.
To be continued.