Between Luke Ch 4 V1 to 13 and Luke Ch 4 v16-30 is a great division between darkness and light.
It is division that is eternal.
That this division is eternal is the strength and security of the Saints. Their discipleship and devotion unto the Lamb is not threatened at all by the powers of darkness, in that their destiny and destination are procured irrevocably and eternally.
Darkness cannot overcome the blood of the Lamb. And darkness, the devil and all demons will be sent consigned to hell, without any escape route an eternal place that is void of God, but is filled with the memories of all he had created and spoken: Let there be light and there was Color, beauty, birds in flight, singing whales and cats too.
Jesus as a man, overcame the whole system of deception that had formed through mans separation from his created purpose: The Worship of God. Cain had got to building a City, due to his loneliness and lack of faith in the provided sacrifice that opens the Fathers Heart. Cain fell when he could have conquered, God had spoken a word unto him of Sonship into the well beloved, a word that loves the brethren and unity of the Spirit.
But Jesus broke down the Jericho walls, the very first act as they crossed into the promised land. And Jesus overcame every empire and religious temple institution that had its security tied up with the arm of flesh and the enduring legacy of fallen man.
The industrial revolution, the world economic forum, Davos and a world plagued by earthquakes, floods and famine, & war and its rumors. All of these things cannot produced the light that is from God alone, it can not produce the worship of God for which man was made.
Jesus’s life, the light of it, overcame all these things not through demolishing every wall or every city or every society that may do some good. He overcame all things in respect to procuring an eternity for whomsoever will place all their security in the testimony of the Lamb: the Worship of God.
Heaven, eternity with God and his new creation will be a place that no eye nor ear has seen nor the heart conceived. It will be a place of pure love, that unlike this world will exponentially grow in Joy and the Worship of God. It will not be a Worship of God of industry. It will be the fullness of the security of being a part of Gods very own family. Heaven is more than we can imagine.
Jesus was rejected in his home town of Nazareth as his kingdom is not of this world.
Why was he rejected? Because their ears where closed to hearing the only building block of our home in heaven: You are my beloved Son, with you I am well pleased. Hearing this opens heavens door and the Joy of the Lord. He was baptized for my sins at Calvary so that I may hear this: I am your God & I am your Father – adopted into Gods family.
The ministry of the Spirit giving sight of the one who walked with man in the original home of paradise. Women, why are you weeping? Is not what was lost found and have I not procured it for all eternity.
Jesus as he was being rejected in his hometown Nazareth, spoke prophetically being the only Son through whom man can worship God, in truth again. Only Sonship can set you free, only the Son can free from captivity, from the walls and industry’s of all mans insecurity.
Speaking as the Son the full fulfillment of all Prophesy: But ‘IN’ TRUTH,
I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, ‘and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a women who was a widow.
‘And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian’.
(The people got fed when Elisha followed Elijah – Stephen was feeding people. The principle of discipleship is the Spiritual food we all need – this is the famine that is in the world – The Father & the Son).
Upon the mount of transfiguration there was Moses and Elijah with Jesus. Both Moses and Elijah had been taken up into heaven and eternity from the east side of the river Jordan. One had seen the hand of God write that which was written and the other had seen the fire of God consume the sacrifice and penetrate a response from the people concerning who the living God is. Both are with him within the promised land and upon the mount of transformation, the place from which the Father spake that hearing the true message of the Son brings true liberty.
What is written & the fire of Pentecost. Little wonder that every man heard testimony to all the wonderful works of God. Not human industry.
But he passing through their midst, he went away.
He was no longer at home there as they had rejected the prophetic ministry: Worship God ‘IN’ the truth of a Sons liberty: My God and My Father.
He went away, as he does, until he hears a response from are hearts to his Word: Blessed is he who comes in the NAME of the Lord. God is at HOME blessing the sons of promise, God only expects us to bless his name in the knowledge that through his name we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places – as sons.
Jesus called 12 apostles to follow him, so that he could send them all out to fish the sons of men. Jesus’s desire was that none should be lost through unbelief or lack of hearing that God had overcome all insecurity and founded a City that is eternal with a fountain of Joy that supplies exponentially.
Jesus got into Simons boat, and caught fish from the deep with his nets. Jesus raises men and women from the dead, no heart worship and response unto God, and he works such mighty miracles of tender love and care that he uses fishermen who have denied that he is the Christ with cursing and swearing to catch 3,000 on the day his Church is filled with the Promise of Sonship and procuring eternity.
He cleaned the leper. He responds to a question concerning the very divine WILL of God, can you cleanse the disease and pollution of all my stubborn willful sins from the fall.
The scribes and pharisees began to question? Who can forgive sins but God alone?
He raises the dead to bring glory to God through the total cleansing of a mans home. Harmony, is the peace of heavens holiness. Abraham guarding the entrance of his wife’s security for a message from heaven that can only bring great Joy. The promised Son, true liberty, what is written fulfilled the testimony of the fires sweet aroma unto heaven: It is Finished Father, I have yielded all into your hands as a sacrifice.
The WILL of God had been spoken and written down, and faithful Abraham now has sons in every nation and every family who hear the harmony shall be blessed by Gods divine order.
Jesus speaks the true words of prophesy: Elijah and Elisha!
At the junction of his initial rejection at Nazareth.
This must contain a prophetic blueprint that speaks into a place where he is welcomed and at HOME, a place in truth that comes from within God himself, a place we are welcomed, cleansed from are betrayals are washed away by water and the blood.
The promised land God had given to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Israel so that they had an enduring home.
Yet, Elijah comes to a King in Israel who is ruling a nation that has already been divided. Judea being an enduring legacy to the covenant promises unto his anointed shepherd King.
The women gave testimony to the prophetic ministry: ‘IN truth’ the Word of the Lord is a resurrected Son according to the Yes & Amen within Gods eternal division within his Son.
Her sin, are sin, the Church’s sin. The 12 apostles sins, denying and fleeing from their calling and destiny: Making disciples of the nations and every family.
1 Kings Ch 19 v21: If the Lord is God follow him – the prophetic ministry of discipleship.
Joshua crossed the Jordan after having served Moses in the ministry of the Worship of God.
The people did not answer him, not a word. Oh what an absence of understanding that which is written would put on flesh and walk with man again: Immanuel, the prophesy of a virgin pure in heart responding from her heart unto the harmony of heaven: Be it unto me according to thy WORD – Sonship the blueprint of the Father.
All the gods of mans warped, blind, captive and oppressed industry, all the flesh that had no rest, cutting and slashing due to darkness and not the discipleship of prophetic ministry: God shall provide himself a sacrifice, My Son – Behold, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the World.
The whole system that doesn’t see Gods light that positions us and prepares us and receives us and revives us for ETERNITY.
The James Webb camera will not discover that are earth does not get all its life from the fire of light that is constantly shinning from the Sun.
Elijah repaired the alter of the Lord. The Worship of God, through faith ‘IN’ the truth of all he has done, is a prophets ministry. A society may have thrown down the truth in which it was blessed abundantly, but God is able to repair when truth is heralded. A man is a man and a women is a women, sanity is healthy for every democracy.
Elijah took 12 stones, according to the 12 tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, ‘Israel shall be your name’.
And with these stones he built the alter in the name of the Lord.
Four jars full of water emptied into the trench, repeated three times. 12 jars of water.
The fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and licked up all the water. The passion and purity of Gods love was demonstrated to be the source that sustains all life on this earth since before and after time shall be.
Despite the peoples inability to answer even a word, God did this. God was showing every nation and family that his nature is not like fallen mans – he is a generous God who passionately wants to pour out the greatest blessing imaginable: The liberty and life of his Son, the truth concealed by mystery since before time began.
The lie of darkness is that God cannot speak into the darkness and void and create new life after his own kindness. But Boaz and King David knew that God was a passionate and abundant blesser. God makes jewels, treasure out of the darkness, visible through Gods word of truth.
I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me, so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.
The people respond with the truth of the Word: The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God.
Elijah prays 7 times and on the seventh time a small cloud like a mans hand rises from the sea, and soon the heavens are covered with darkness due to the coming rain.
At Calvary the sky was pitch black, but at Pentecost the fire fell. This sequence with Elijah is prophetic of the reversal of the fall that will start when the 120 come together in prayer with one accord.
Elijah despairs when Ahab whispers all that had happened to Jezebel. Elijah knows that the blessing of God was unto his image on the earth: Male and female, and so he despairs that the king is subservient to the deception of a serpent rather than proclaiming the end of 42months of famine.
The king had eaten, and the people would be getting an abundance of rain and then crops. But Elijah knew that unless the blueprint was according to the discipleship of heaven, the blessings would simply evaporate away. The nation would not be fulfilling its prophetic destiny – a light unto all the nations.
Elijah, just like the apostle John, needed an angel to strengthen him. And he went on that food for 40 days and nights.
Elijah responds verbatim and with repetition unto the Lords question of what are you doing here, my prophet who stands before me and has faithfully heralded my Word.
God would never have spoken creation into, be ‘in’ god, into being if he was somehow insecure and hadn’t a purpose to use the darkness for his own eternal purposes. Oh yes, Jesus is sovereign over all that is not of his nature and his perfect will cannot be thwarted in respect to eternity.
Elijah, hadn’t fully grasped the prophetic ministry: Behold, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the darkness of the human heart and writes a new name of love, a blessing to share with others – the ministry of discipleship: Worship the Lamb, your sins are washed away.
Go, Go into all the world and preach and share with others the Lamb, whoes blood opens the doorway into eternity. The Fourth side being the ground from whence man was formed, the true passover Lamb, the foundation of all eternity.
What are you doing here my prophet, Go and worship God, the fire had come down in response to the Word of God given to the prophet, would God not have mighty wonders to share with every nation and family, after his provided sacrifice had fulfilled what had been written. Sharing with others is part and parcel of that which has been written and spoken prophetically: Be fruitful and multiple the original word of blessing. Discipleship is sharing the grace of God with others.
Jesus came into this world to make his Father known.
Elijah places his mantle upon Elisha according to the Word of prophesy.
It was the mantle of the lamb, the Word of God that would become flesh and died to reconcile a lost people in darkness with his Father IN heaven.
They walked together and talked and Elisha saw his mentor carried into heaven.
He crosses the Jordan and the Cross of Jesus Christ, as Joshua attests, is not passive but mighty IN GOD to the pulling down of strongholds of all mans industry, unto a life of obedience under discipleship to the prophetic ministry ‘Go, and share with others what God has done for me he can do for you’.
Elisha is with 12 yoke of oxen, and it is through Elisha whom the people finally get fed. Ahab had eaten, and Elijah had been fed with angelic bread from heaven. The reversal of lies and condemnation, Jesus passed through the wilderness for 40 days that we might know for sure his kingdom is established through the truth of the Sons liberty: Freedom indeed, not works and insecurity.
12 – 7 (Stephen serving Elijahs tables – next generation, multiplication)- 12: The people fed, discipleship the apostles knowing that the Word of God had no partiality & Paul establishing the apostles creed as the only foundation, ensuring the gentiles where accepted as sons of covenanted liberty: Every nation and family – Started through Peter and a foreign military leader, Cornelius but extended out through the ‘Go’ in God unto 12 elders in Ephesus – All Asia hearing the truth of the Son of liberty.
Jesus prophetically focusses on Elijah and Elisha as it is the blueprint of blessing that opens the harmony in heaven. Discipleship, In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
1 Kings Ch 18 v31: This is what the Church is all about. Gods nature. Israel shall be your name. Encounter and transformation through the living God.
The Word of the Lord – the nature of the Lord.
Israel shall be your name – nature.
Israel & God are intrinsically linked through the covenant promises in which it is impossible for God to lie.
Revelation Ch 21 v9 – Ch 22 v21.
Then came one of the seven angels.
V12: 12 gates, 12 angels and on the gates the 12 names of the sons of Israel where inscribed – that which had been written was being more clearly seen to be from the hands that can only share LIFE & LIFE more abundantly, after his own kind, kindness. The sure mercies of Gods bright and eternal rays.
v14: 12 foundations, and on them the 12 names of the apostles of the Lamb.
The apostles are before the walls in the structure, as Jesus is before John in the realm of the eternal and the Spirit. And they are foundations as they were taught the truth by the Lamb, the one who was the perfect alter of sacrifice who Worshipped in Spirit and truth: Father, Into your hands I commit my Spirit.
12,000 x 3 the dimensions of the City.
The gates of the City where 12 pearls, with names of the tribes of Israel inscribed on them. Perhaps what had formed them in the darkness had been hollowed away, removed for eternity. Like the hands which had formed man, he had taken all their sins further away, the ever expanding gap between the division of east and west, your past and future in the Joy of the Lords risen and ascended Light.
The 12 names of Israel. The God of covenant is the only entrance. The God of the book of life. The people of the book, Mr Ten Boom would say. Yes the foundations must be those discipled by the one who taught them about all that was written the fulfillment of prophesy, but God is ever faithful to his promise unto his friend Abraham, who gave us the blueprint when he obeyed the Word of the Lord and spoke unto all the ages as a Prophet and friend of God, sharing with all humanity the secret of eternity: God has provided himself a lamb for the burnt offering.
Abraham was Gods friend as he could share with him his SON. The liberty of a risen and ascended life. ‘In’ truth.
God has provided a response for the lack of life within the hearts of men: Pentecost is a creative expression of the language of heaven. That fire, that fell, shows the extravagant nature of the lamb. An eternal love that cannot be quenched is waiting to pour out his grace unto an age that that has lost its knowledge of left and right through a lack of discipleship.
7 followed by many 12’s. But the 12’s surround the 7, in every direction we look.
7 is 4 + 3.
12 is 3 multiplied by 4. The triune Gods love, flowing a river glorious to the four corners, a mighty mysterious wonderful miracle of life.
12 Old placed upon the 12 New. But it is the Sabbath man, the words spoken upon the cross that have created a new heaven and a new earth. ‘In’ the beginning Gods Word is eternal truth, God has shared all of himself even his beloved Son – the truth shall set a fallen world free.
The first verse in the Bible has 7 words – in the original text
Hashamayim – ‘Everything’. His hands create new beginnings the infinity of the new, formed out of the darkness through his Glorious Light.
Jesus it is written made seven statements or rather cry’s during his fulfillment of being Gods provided sacrifice. Surely, within them the truth in God is multiplied.
Jesus was rejected in his hometown, Nazareth. The very place that the baton was being passed unto that generation. The ministry that sets oppressed free, opens eyes and brings the greatest liberty. Discipleship is the essence of all ministry. In truth Elijah and then Elisha, it is the very foundation, discipleship.
The baton of discipleship: The Father & the Son.
Discipleship: One to another – Father & Son – Old and New. It is the very sound action of life – Receiving from the source, built up together.
If they had received him in Nazareth they would have had their eyes and ears opened to the Fathers Love – to that which had written on stone becoming alive in a new heart with love for God flowing back to God from the throne.
Jesus is the true treasure and Jewel that was an eternal division & irritant (Pearl) to darkness that produced pearls for all eternity.
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- Old concealed: Elijah and Elisha – 12 stones for each tribe, x7 prays and x 12 Elisha feeds the people.
Discipleship is what feeds a family, a community and a nation and the nations.
2. New – Jesus revealed it: ‘In truth’ Elijah & Elisha. In his home time, the very place discipleship unto his Father should have been occurring.
3. Acts – 12 apostles outworked after Pentecost (after the alter and the Fire – discipleship), after the teachings of Jesus and his prayer life, that returns not void. The people are fed discipleship without partiality to widows and gentiles too – the unity of the saints the One: Lord, baptism, faith and body. Stephen passing on the baton of sacrifice unto Paul who appointed 12 elders in Ephesus to fulfill the ‘Go’ in God unto the four corners of the earth: All Asia hearing the Word of the Lord – Not forbidden when the mystery of divine order is revealed in truth.
4. Revelation, the last book written, things still to come, a perfect symmetry and harmony.
John to the seven Churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne.
Then came one of the seven angels, not with a plague, but with a word of revelation, to impart understanding concerning the finished purpose of God: ‘Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb’
This is the product of discipleship: Jesus is the Word of love the fruits of the Spirit for multiplication within his Church unified. Being fruitful and multiplying in the blessing of God can only happen through receiving the Word from the beginning.
Old and New joined perfectly together through the unity of the lamb that was slain. Discipleship, through the Son unto the Father is the very structure of eternity: It is the Alpha and Omega since before time began.
By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.
Note:
After Wednesday night meeting. During the night the Lord brought Luke Ch 4 v25-27 into my thoughts. And I worked backwards and then forwards into those things to come – the last things written. The final book the full Revelation of Jesus Christ.
The Archbishop of Canterbury gave the commendation at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral on Monday (19.09.22).
Justin Welby delivered the final prayers at the service at Westminster Abbey, which entrusted the soul of the deceased to God and included the familiar line: ““Go forth, O Christian soul, from this world”.
He read: “Let us commend to the mercy of God, our maker and redeemer, the soul of Elizabeth, our late Queen.
“Heavenly Father, King of kings, Lord and giver of life, who of thy grace in creation didst form mankind in thine own image, and in thy great love offerest us life eternal in Christ Jesus; claiming the promises of thy most blessed Son, we entrust the soul of Elizabeth, our sister here departed, to thy merciful keeping, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, when Christ shall be all in all; who died and rose again to save us, and now liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, in glory for ever. Amen.
“Go forth, O Christian soul, from this world, in the name of God the Father almighty, who created thee; in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who suffered for thee; in the name of the Holy Spirit, who was poured out upon thee and anointed thee. In communion with all the blessed saints, and aided by the angels and archangels and all the armies of the heavenly host, may thy portion this day be in peace, and thy dwelling in the heavenly Jerusalem. Amen.”
The choir then sang the next anthem, which like many other musical interludes during the service, had been composed especially for the service.
They sang: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Alleluia! Amen.”
I shared audibly with my mum some of the threads from this post on Sunday and she didn’t understand it at all. So after the beloved Queens funeral, I said to her ‘See the new Jerusalem’, and she just turned to me and said ‘I’m just glad that I’m in the bride of Christ’. Well we will often not be understood but I took it as a prophetic affirmation of it all having been in the Spirit a prayer meeting and word having not returned void.
Pic below is notes scribed during morning worship Sunday locally.
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