God’s Kingdom has come. How should we live? I list below statements of our bestowed character and relationship with God, the riches that have been richly provided to us from our Heavenly Father. He is Faithful and True!
These truths are not listed in any particular order of importance, as all are important before God.
This is how we should think, worship, pray and thank, and bless. This is how we should abide and abound, and fellowship with God and one another.
This is your inheritance. “The just shall live by faith.”
The Garden of Eden has been restored to God’s sons and daughters in God’s Son. It has been fully opened and remains so forevermore.
“And he showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, flowing out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of the street on either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His servants will serve Him; they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. And there will no longer be night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illuminate them; and they will reign to the ages of the ages.”
Jesus through John
“The wolf will dwell with the lamb. The leopard will lie down with the young goat.
The calf and the young lion and the fatling will be together; and a little boy will lead them.
The cow and the bear will graze, their young will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child will play by the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child will put his hand in the viper’s den. They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain.
For the earth will be full of the knowledge of Jahveh as the waters cover the sea.
And there shall be in that day a Root of Jesse Who shall stand as a banner to the people.
For the Gentiles shall seek Him, and His resting place will be glorious.”
Isaiah
“They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will be streaming to the goodness of Jahveh;
for wheat, for new wine, and oil, for the young of the flock and herd.
And their life will be like a well-watered garden, and they will never sorrow in anything.”
Jeremiah
Glory to God in the Highest, Who has manifested His tabernacle with us eternally!
Hallelujah, for we ever behold His face!
Jesus through John and Matthew
Hallelujah, for the Prince of the Dark Power of the air has been thrown down to the Lake of Fire, and now we abide in the clouds in the air with the Lord Jesus forevermore!
Jesus through John and Paul
Glory to God in the Highest, for we wear the garland-crown of righteousness in this Day Age, all of us who love His appearance!
Paul
Ours is the blessing in God’s Day-Age Reign: Holy salt, holy light, holy mustard, holy leaven, and holy fire. Holiness to Jahveh!
Jesus through His apostles
We are His Kingdom of Priests, and members of His body. To our God be the majesty and splendor of the garments of Glory and Beauty; the regal attire of our Great High Priest Jesus, Who is according to the order of Melchizedek; without beginning of days or end of life, Whose Name is the Word of God, and Who brings forth from His bosom the Urim and Thummim, the lights and perfections, the yes and no of God!
The author of Hebrews fulfilling Moses the prophet who prophesied of the greater prophet Christ Jesus
This is yours:
The majestic glory. The fullness of the image of God, keen and swift vision, aggressive victory, strength and might, unity and oneness, holiness and reverence, speed and straightness, full-knowledge, full-understanding and full-wisdom, uprightness, steadfastness and fixity, zeal, forgiveness and judgment, dominion in heaven, dominion in earth, the Voice of God, and the ever-abounding and ever-abiding work of love! I have just listed the attributes of the highest created beings of heaven, the Living Creatures; also known as the Cherubim of Glory. All angelic creatures of the realm of heaven live, but it is these who have received the title “the Living Creatures” as they super-abundantly bear in themselves the very motifs of the life of God. They are the very living laws of God, created and privileged as being the immediate Throne-beings of Jahveh. They are His chariot. They bear His Glory in all Holiness, Mercy, and Judgment. The other name of these composite Living Creatures, who are indeed one in and under the Lord, are the Cherubim of Glory; from “Cherub”: which is singularly applied to the working ox and the Hebrew plural “im”: more than one, per se. The churches’ and artistic notion of cherubs being winged chubby babies of innocence and purity only (accidentally) got the innocent and pure aspects right. Far from the winged baby representation, these are the grandest, highest, most majestic, and awesome created beings in the realm of heaven!
How is it that this is yours? We have been given this inheritance. We’ve already covered the fact that God has made His tent to dwell among us, and, accordingly, He dwells in His tent with us. The tent spoken of is the tabernacle-proper, the original tent that God pitched among His redeemed for fellowship with them. As such, it represented Him then as it still does now. By heavenly design and command, it was composed of ten curtains made with finely woven linen of blue, purple, and scarlet thread. Furthermore, these curtains were embroidered throughout with cherubim. All that is represented here, the fire (the singular color of which is seen in the three interwoven colors) and the Living Creatures reveal the motifs, the standards, and Spirit of Jahveh with us in Jesus.
Jesus through Ezekiel, Isaiah, and John
Paul affirms: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He set forth in Him, regarding His plan for the administration of the fullness of the times, to bring all things together in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him we also have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things in accordance with the plan of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in the Christ would be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise, Who is the guarantee of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.” - Our inheritance has come! It is no less than the summing up of all things in heaven and on earth in the glory of the oneness of Christ!
During the close of the sixth decade of the first century AD, in the only book that Jesus wrote, he said through His secretary (aka amanuensis) John, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. Let the one who does wrong still do wrong, and the one who is filthy still be filthy; and let the one who is righteous still practice righteousness, and the one who is holy still keep himself holy.
Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to reward each one as his work deserves. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life, and may enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral persons, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.”
Amen! Hallelujah! Glory to God in the highest!
This is how we should live!