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The Daily Word of Righteousness
One New Man, #4
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:3)
The context of John 14:3 suggests that the coming mentioned here is not the return of the Lord Jesus in the clouds of glory with His saints and holy angels. Rather, this is a personal coming of the Lord to His disciple in fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:34). It is the King coming to wage war against His enemies (Psalms 24:8), to cleanse the living stones of Zion from the love of the world, the love of sin, and the love of self-will (Malachi 3:1-3), and then to dwell with the Father in us for eternity (John 14:23).
In this sense, the Lord is preparing a place for us in ourselves—that we might dwell in peace in our own personality with the Father and the Son. In order to prepare a place for us in the eternal House of God, the Lord Jesus went to the cross, and then into Heaven with His own blood to make an atonement for us. Now, through the Holy Spirit, He is preparing a place for us in ourselves so we may live with God in God's rest in our own person.
The Lord is standing at each door, at the entrance to the personality of each member of the elect. He is knocking. If anyone hears His voice and opens the door, the Lord will enter and dine with that person on the Lord's own body and blood; for it is in sharing the body and blood of God's Passover Lamb that we are married to the Lamb.
The Lord comes to one individual. He is building His Church. He is forming one living stone at a time.
Jesus is receiving us to Himself. He is opening the way into the Most Holy Place in Himself so we may be with Him where He is. The Lord Jesus always has been and always will be in the Bosom of the Father, in the Holiest of all. In order to be with Him where He is we must cooperate with Him as He cleanses us from all worldliness, all sin, and all self-seeking (II Corinthians 6:17).
Jesus Himself is the Way to the Father.
Until we have been cleansed from all sin and self-seeking we are unable to rest with Jesus in the Bosom of the Father. The King, Jesus, has come today to cleanse us from all that is not in harmony with God's Nature. It is the marriage of the Lamb, the Day of Reconciliation, of Atonement that is taking place (Leviticus 23:27).
The judgment of the world has commenced. It has begun in the personalities of those who are close to God and will continue until the conclusion of the thousand-year Kingdom Age. When all the creation has been brought into subjection to Jesus, then will Jesus Himself be subject to God so God may be All in all of the creation (I Corinthians 15:28).
To be continued.