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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Seven Steps to the Rest of God, #11
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. (Hebrews 2:5)
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. (Hebrews 13:14)
The new Jerusalem is coming to the earth.
One of the most critical understandings being given to the churches of our day concerns the goal of the Christian redemption. The goal of the Christian redemption is not the attainment of Heaven as a dwelling place. This is not scriptural, and as long as we make going to Heaven our goal we will be hindered in our ability to enter the spiritual fulfillment of the last three feasts.
The goal of redemption is the establishing of the Kingdom, the rule of God. The redemption that is to come in the last days is the release of God's elect, and finally the nations of the earth, from the chains of Satan. The Kingdom comes by the destruction of the works of the devil.
God has promised, in the Old Testament and the New Testament, to come and destroy the works of Satan in the earth. This is the redemption of which the Scriptures speak. This is the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth. This is the goal, the salvation, the rest that is portrayed symbolically by the seven Levitical feasts.
The current move of the Spirit of God toward the Jews is of great significance. It is through the Jews and the city of Jerusalem that the Kingdom of God will come to the earth. In the last days the spiritual kingdom of the Christians will converge with natural Israel resulting in the spiritual rebirth, through Christ, of the Jews.
The convergence of spiritual Israel with natural Israel is seen in embryonic form as Christian people are being drawn today to the embattled people and land of Israel. The current desire of fervent Christians to assist natural Israel, and to become part of the land and people, foreshadows the coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth.
Being covered by the Passover blood, being born again, and being baptized with the Holy Spirit, do not make up the whole of the Christian redemption. Rather, these three aspects of Divine grace are the authority, power, and virtue that enable us to enter the process of salvation, that is, to be delivered from the person and works of Satan and to be brought into complete union with the Father through Christ.
To be in the rest of God (Hebrews 4:1) is to be free from every bit of Satan's influence and to be one with God through Jesus.
It is time today to "take the Kingdom," that is, to enter the rest prepared for God and us from the creation of the world.
To be continued.