I would now like to show you the Bride, the Wife of Christ, Her that is perfected according to the Will and Pleasure of the Father and the Son. I am now giving you something living what I received directly from the Lord Jesus Christ. I will also give you a plenty of quotes and plenty of references because it is necessary, but I am giving to you something living from Christ Himself because the Bride and Wife of Christ is Someone enormously precious, unusually unique Who is living the Life of Christ.
She is the Dove (Song of Sol. 6:9). She is the Overcomer of Philadelphia (Rev. 3:12). She is the “Manchild” that is taken directly to the Throne of God (Rev. 12:5). She IS the Holy City of New Jerusalem descending from Heaven from God (Rev. 21:9-10).
I was brought to realize that at the time of the New (Third) Creation, which is described in chapter 21 of the Book of Revelation, the number “seven“ does not appear any more. It represents a “temporary” spiritual perfection where God is, as it were, “added” to His Creation. God as the Highest is number one, but God as Creator is number three: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (in Genesis 1:26 God says: “Let us make man…”). Hence, God the Creator (3) plus the number of His Creation (4) is equal to seven (7). Similarly, God as the Highest (1) plus the number of a sinful man (6) is also equal seven (7). God is like “added” to His Creation. Therefore, starting from chapter 21 of the Book of Revelation, number “seven” does not appear any more. Everywhere, there is number “twelve” (12), which is the “eternal” spiritual perfection. In other words, God is here, as it were, “multiplied” or united with His Creation, that is, 3×4=12. The equation 1+6=7 does not apply any more since God never unites with a sinful man. How God “unites” with the Bride and Wife of Christ is shown quite clearly in the Book of Revelation, and here I have five points:
(1) She (the Bride) is now completely perfected having (owing) the Glory of God (Rev. 21:11), having the LORD GOD Almighty and the Lamb, Who is CHRIST, WHO ARE the Temple in Her (Rev. 21:22), and having their Thrones, which are now also in Her (Rev. 22:3);
(2) She is now perfectly separated, which means, sanctified, from all evil and darkness by a perfect wall, which is 144 cubits = 12×12 (Rev 21:17-27);
(3) She is now perfectly governed by the Perfect Election of God (12 gates with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, those elected – Rev. 21:12);
(4) She is now perfectly governed and founded on the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ and His Word (12 foundations with the names of the twelve Apostles – Rev. 21:14) I would like to mention at this place that these foundations were also garnished with twelve manner of precious stones (Rev. 21:19,20 / 1Cor. 3:12,13);
(5) She is now perfectly Holy, perfectly Righteous, perfectly Truthful and also 1,000 times governed by eternal perfection in every way and direction (12,000 furlongs by Rev. 21:16 = 1,000×12 furlongs in width, length and height; Eph. 3:18 + 5:27).
The work of God and our own cooperation with Him in fear and trembling has been concluded (Phil. 2:12,13).All the fruit has been perfected. There is nothing left that needs to be finished or perfected. All the work of the Holy Spirit in cooperation with us has been concluded and finished! (Rev. 21:6).
The last truth and revelation, which I would like to share with you is the following:
I remember quite well my starting Christian years, what was preached to us, what we were taught and what we believed. For us, the “Pentecostals”, the majority of it was wonderful. With all that speaking in tongues and prophesying, we all believed that we were the “peak of Christianity”. We were also asked to imagine ourselves “walking on those golden streets of New Jerusalem” being dressed in white, happy, singing and praising the Lord. We tried to imagine such a picture and it caused that at least some of us became happy singing to the Lord. At that time though, none of us knew the spiritual Reality, so none of us realized that it will be just the Overcomers that will be “walking on those golden streets”. Also, we were not able to imagine that not all Pentecostals were perfect Overcomers. Maybe not all Catholics, but Pentecostals… such an imagination were for us absolutely impossible.
The truth, however, is again very simple and I want all true servants and disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ to consider this truth in their heart, mind and spirit as follows.
6) Please, read again chapters 2. and 3. of the Book of Revelation and realize that the Lord promises something only “TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES”! We, who are here, already know this truth for some time, but not everybody knows this truth. Let us not forget that we are recording this for the believers, which are outside of this Mission.
The Lord commands “repentance” to all the churches except Smyrna, which is the suffering church and to which the Crown of Life is promised (Rev 2:10), and Philadelphia, which is the loving church and which the Crown of Life already has (Rev. 3:11). Despite this fact, these believers must also overcome and be perfected in order to get the promises of the Lord. Finally, Rev. 21:7 repeats again that only “he that overcomes will inherit all things” promised by the Lord. Those that will not overcome, the fearful, unbelieving, the abominable, all liars, etc., will inherit nothing! They will receive their part in the lake, which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death (Rev. 21:8 + Rev. 20:14-15).
7) I repeat again and not only to the disciples and the servants of the Lord, but to the whole Church, concerning the rapture of the Church and the destiny of those that believed but did not overcome. The truth, as I see it through the Spirit of God and as I believe, is the following:
a) The Church in general will be raptured at the END of the Tribulation Period, which means, at the last, seventh trumpet (1Cor. 15:50-54/ Rev. 11:15+18) just before the wrath of God, represented by the seven vials, is poured on the earth (Rev. 16:1). This rapture of the Church is also called the “first resurrection“ and “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power” (Rev. 20:6).
b) But not the whole Church will be resurrected and raptured even at this seventh trumpet in order to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and rule with Christ and this despite the Word in 1Cor. 15:51, where it says: “…but we shall all be changed”. But here the word “all” means “all those that overcame, and are transformed and carry His Heavenly Image”, which is clear from verses 48 and 49.
Among those not taken, not raptured, will also be such as, for example, the non-overcomers from the church of Smyrna, which will be hurt by the second death (Rev. 2:11). In general, these not taken will also be those not prepared (Mt. 25:10-12). Included are also all those disciples and servants of Christ, which have not overcome, did not open their heart to the Lord (Rev. 3:5,20) and who thus never knew the Lord, and He never knew them (Mt. 7:21-23). All such workers of iniquity „children of the Kingdom” (workers of iniquity), who were supposed to enter in „shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth” (Mt. 8:12). All the unprofitable servants shall follow them (Mt. 25: 30). None of those shall take part in the first resurrection because they “lived not again until the thousand years were finished” (Rev. 20:5). That does NOT mean that they must be swallowed up by the second death; they might be hurt by it, but they will escape it if their names are yet found in the Book of Life (Rev. 20:5,11-15).
Before I conclude this point, I must state a fact, which all those deceived preachers, pastors, prophets, bishops and other leaders in the Church should realize and believe. In this point, we do not speak about pagans, but about born-again Christians, baptized or not baptized. And there are many disciples and servants in the Church, many preachers and pastors and evangelists, and prophets, and bishops, and teachers and leaders in the Church, which „shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Mt. 8:12). THEY WILL REMAIN UNDER THE GRACE OF CHRIST since they have not lost their lives as yet, either were already swallowed by the second death, but Christ keeps giving them OPPORTUNITIES – chances, which is GRACE. So that they might wake up from their pride and arrogance and stupidity and humble themselves before Him and open their hearts to Him and receive HIS GRACE UNDER WHICH THEY ARE, BUT WHICH IS NOT IN THEM! Because GOD RESISTS THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE UNTO THE HUMBLE (Jam. 4:6b). That’s why that CROSS from Matthew 16:24 will NOT BYPASS THEM!… though they ignore it and try to bypass it. They do not want to hear about it and never preach it or explain it to any believer. They will be judged for that!
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To be continued next week
brother Hanola
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