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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Ruler, #13
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, (Philippians 3:8)
Speaking precisely, it is never the rule of the saints, it is the rule of God in Christ in the saints. This is the true Kingdom of God.
Until we are incorporated into and become an integral part of the Life and Flowing of the one Godhead, we are competing against the Glory of God. It is not what we are and do that is so important, it is that we become one in Christ in God that is of supreme importance.
Notice the oneness of Christ—Head and Body—in the installation of the Kingdom of God on the earth, as described in the seventh chapter of the Book of Daniel:
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. (Daniel 7:13)
Who is the One like the Son of man to whom is given dominion, glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples of the earth should serve him?
Beyond all doubt, the one like the Son of man is none other than our Lord Jesus Christ.
For any other person to attempt to seize such glory would be blasphemous. Christ, and Christ alone, is King of all kings and Lord of all lords.
Daniel asked for the interpretation of the vision (Daniel 7:16). He requested "the truth of all this."
Three times the messenger of God gave the interpretation to Daniel.
"But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom" (7:18).
". . . judgment was given to the saints of the most High" (7:22).
"And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High" (7:27).
Christ alone is King of kings and Lord of lords. But the interpretation given is that the one like the Son of man is "the saints of the most High," "the people of the saints of the most High."
In Daniel, Chapter Seven there is the basis for the highest glory; there also is the basis for the darkest delusion.
The Lord's people today, in the manner in which they respond to the current spiritual opportunities, are partaking of the glory or partaking of the delusion.
If the current spiritual opportunities and revelation bring us into perfect union with God through Christ, so Christ is formed in us and is abiding in us and then we will partake of the Glory of God.
If the current spiritual opportunities and revelation become the means through which we are able to "do great things for God," then we are in danger of falling into the snare of the devil. Satan himself desires to be like the most High and to exercise power and authority in the earth.
The closer the High Priest of Israel came to the Mercy Seat the greater the danger became that he would be slain because of his presumption. The priest was drawing near to the Glory of Israel, but also to his own destruction if he for one moment should forget that he was nothing more than the dust of the ground.
To be continued.