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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Seven Steps to the Rest of God, #13
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. (John 14:18)
Obviously this is a coming of the Lord prior to His appearing in the clouds of heaven. A few verses before this (John 14:3) Jesus had said, "I will come again and receive you unto myself." Since the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of John emphasizes the spiritual fulfillment of the Levitical feast of Tabernacles and not the return of Christ with His saints and holy angels, it is our point of view that both John 14:3 and 14:18 are speaking of the coming of Christ to the individual saint. Neither verse is stressing Christ's worldwide appearing when "every eye shall see him."
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. (John 14:19)
The world will not see Christ prior to His appearing in the clouds of heaven. But the saints indeed shall see Him. As we press forward past the feast of Pentecost the Lord Jesus becomes increasingly real to us. It is time now for the Lord to appear to His saints in much greater clarity than has been our experience to this point.
Now is the hour for Christ to draw near to His Church and to be in and with His saints to a greater extent than we have believed would be our portion in the Church Age. We shall see Him. This is not merely a figure of speech referring to the eye of faith that we have exercised thus far in our discipleship.
At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (John 14:20)
The expression "in that day" occurs repeatedly in the Book of Isaiah and often refers to the Day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord will come first in the members of the Body of Christ and then visibly and tangibly to the nations of the earth.
"That day" is the day of the complete fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles. It is the point at which God and Christ are at rest in us and we in them. It is the marriage of the Lamb. The Day of the Lord, of the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles, is set forth poetically in the twelfth chapter of the Book of Isaiah.
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. (Isaiah 12:2)
Back now to the Words of Jesus:
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)
"Will manifest Myself to him."
Is this not a personal appearing of the Lord to us, taking place before the coming of Christ in the clouds of glory?
Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? (John 14:22)
To be continued.