Month: January 2013

Hebrews 12:27-29 _[NASB] declares: < ²⁷ This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. ²⁸ Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; ²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire. >

Given the declaration that there will be a removing “of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain” we are in this series of articles on ‘Receiving the Kingdom’, addressing the issue of actually receiving the Kingdom of GOD so as to be able to function in the Kingdom in conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious terms!

Acts 17:28 _[NKJV] proclaims the all-encompassing reality that: < ²⁸ … in Him we live and move and have our being … >. And, the Kingdom of GOD is absolutely ‘of GOD’ – in whom we live, move and have our being.

The Kingdom of GOD unveils ‘the realities of GOD’ _{[everything that derives from YHWH]} that enable us to live, move and have our being in Him.

The capacity to live, move and having our being in YHWH ADONAI is the essential fabric of Kingdom reality that we want to come to actualize and take possession of – in conscious, sub-conscious and unconscious terms.

We actualize _{[see the evidence of]} and take possession of the realities of the Kingdom of GOD from our inward parts _{[see Luke 17:20-21, KJV]} – by faith.

Faith _{[in YESHUA]} facilitates the righteousness of GOD coming into operation in our hearts _{[see Rom 10:10; Matt 6:33]} through YESHUA _{[see John 17:6a; Heb 11:1, NKJV]} in what Scripture calls the Kingdom of the BELOVED SON _{[see Col 1:13, NASB]}.

The righteousness of GOD is what GOD does sovereignly in response to our faith in Him through YESHUA.

The Mystery of the Faith – specific to YHWH and His MESSIAH – unfolds the righteous works of GOD into our heart and into our lives _{[see 1 Tim 3:9; Rom 10:10]} in the fullness of YESHUA MASHIAH _{[see John 1:16-18, NASB+NKJV]}.

The Law declares that a man can know GOD in an intimacy; so as to actually come to love GOD with all of his heart, soul, mind and strength. This is the reality of YHWH that unveils to us through YESHUA _{[see John 17:6a, 26]} which positions us behind the veil of YESHUA’s flesh in the Mount of the LORD _{[see Heb 10:19-20, NKJV; 12:22-24]}.

In His manhood, YESHUA MASHIAH fulfilled this capacity – to love YHWH and be set apart unto YHWH. And, this is evidenced in His sacrifice, death and resurrection – on behalf of all mankind. In rising from the dead, by overcoming sin and death, we have clear evidence, by Testimony, that YESHUA fulfilled the demands of the Law on our behalf – perfectly and completely.

And, through the Testimony of YESHUA – communicated through His Spirit and His Life into us _{[see John 6:63]} by the HOLY SPIRIT _{[see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; John 17:26c]}, – we each stand justified by the steadfastness of our faith in Him _{[see Gal 3:22-27]} and, in our faith in all that YESHUA did for us _{[see Rom 5:9; 10:8-13]}.

Scripture also declares that in His resurrection, YESHUA’s Spirit was declared to be the Spirit of Holiness _{[see Rom 1:3-4, NASB].} In YESHUA’s Spirit being declared the Spirit of Holiness, the highest demand of the Law _{[see Lev 19:1-2]} was fulfilled. In this fulfillment YESHUA’s Spirit is declared in Scripture as being a life-giving Spirit _{[see 1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c]}.

In YESHUA’s life-giving Spirit is described the functional capacity to relate to GOD – in every aspect of life. In this manner of living we are purely and perfectly set apart unto YHWH.

It is the love for GOD – realized from YESHUA through the communication of His life-giving Spirit into us by the HOLY SPIRIT _{[see John 16:4c]} – that causes us to want to be set apart unto Him.

This relational and functional fabric of the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA is the absolute basis and expression of all Kingdom function _{[see John 14:6]}.

The capacity for us to love YHWH with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength flows out of MASHIAH YESHUA’s Spirit clothing our inward parts in a ‘fatness’ that is the inward anointing _{[see  Lev 3:3-5, NASB; Isaiah 10:27, NASB+NKJV]}.

This is why Galatians 3:27 _[NASB] declares: < ²⁷ For all of you who were baptized into Christ _{[see Rom 6:3, NASB]} have clothed yourselves with Christ _{[see 2 Cor 4:16 +} ^{Lev 3:3-5} _{+ Phil 4:13 + Phil 4:19, KJV/NKJV]}. >

This is the Mystery of CHRIST unveiled _{[revealed in the specifics of the Epistle of CHRIST (see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV) within each one of us]}. The Mystery of CHRIST revealed in us is evidenced in ‘spiritualities’ _{[Greek: ‘pneumaticos’]} or ‘spiritual realities’- in us and amongst us that enable our Kingdom functions _{[see 1 Cor 2:9, 12-13, 14-15a NASB]}.

These spiritual realities [or, ‘spiritualities’] are derived from GOD who is SPIRIT; and, these spiritual realities [spiritualities] are expressions of the life-giving Spirit of YESHUA; given the fact that the fullness of YESHUA is to be the spiritual fabric that fills all-in-all _{[see Eph 1:23; Col 1:19-20]}.

This complex of spiritualities, is the revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST that Colossians 1:26-28 _[NASB] declares: < ²⁶ … the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints _{[see 1 Cor 2:9, 12-13, 14-15a NASB]}, ²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. ²⁸ We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. ²⁹ For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me. > See also Col 2:8-10, NASB.

Out of this revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST, Philippians 4:19 _[NKJV] declares: < ¹⁹ And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. >

Out of this revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST, Philippians 4:13 _[NKJV] declares: < ¹³ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. >

Out of this revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST, we can progress into actualizing the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven _{[see Eph 1:3-10]} that YESHUA speaks of in Matthew 13:11. YESHUA declares: < it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven >.

Out of this revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST, the Kingdom of GOD is also pointedly addressed _{[in terms of its prophetic implications]} as the Kingdom of the BELOVED SON _{[in Colossians 1:13, NASB]}. It is in the revelation of YESHUA as the BELOVED in a heart of flesh within us that all Kingdom function finds its development and fulfillment – in eternity.

The BELOVED is the unfolding revelation _{[the Mystery of CHRIST manifested to the saints]} of “the Only-Begotten” SON in the Bosom of the FATHER _{[see John 1:18, NKJV]}, into our inward parts and amongst us in our inward parts _{[see 2 Cor 4:6-7, 16, NKJV]} that is the fulfillment of the Prophets.

This is why Scripture declares that the Kingdom of GOD, the Kingdom of the BELOVED SON, is in us and amongst us _{[see Luke 17:20-21, NKJV + NASB]} as YESHUA is unfolded as ‘our Husband’ – the Well-BELOVED, in the Kingdom reality of Him being the High Priest _{[in whom we operate as priests because we are members of His Body]}, of Him being the Prophet _{[in whom we operate in the prophetic as members of His Body having the Oracles of GOD in our mouth (see 1 Peter 4:11)]} and, of Him being the King _{[in whom we operate as princes (see Isa  32:1-2) as members of His Body having the Authority that flows through the Witness of the Scepter of the King which is in us and amongst us (see Heb 1:8, NASB; Matt 28:18-20)] in Spirit, Water and Blood [see 1 John 5:10a,8, NKJV].}

And all this will flow in fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant _{[see Isa 9:6-7; Ps 89:3-4; Rev 3:7-9, 12; Rev 22:16]} in a Kingdom explosion that is imminent.

John 1:18 _[NKJV] reads: < ¹⁸ No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared _{[NASB: ‘explained’]} Him. >

The Dynamic of the Kingdom of Heaven is prophetically explained through two passages of Scripture. One passage involves Jacob _{[see Gen 28:13-17, 19a]}, whose name was changed to Israel; and, the other passage involves Nathanael, whom YESHUA called an Israelite _{[see Rom 2:28-29; Eph 2:14-18]} with ‘no-guile’ _{[see John 1:47; see also Matt 18:3-4]}.

YESHUA has declared that the fundamental requirements to being in the Kingdom of GOD is our being born again – described as being born of Water _{[see Eze 1:24; Rev 1:15c]} and SPIRIT _{[see 1 Cor 2:9-10; Rom 14:17]} – so as to see the Kingdom of GOD _{[see John 3:3, NASB]} and enter the Kingdom of GOD _{[see John 3:5, NASB]}.

All of us have been given access to receiving the Kingdom and choosing to operate in the Kingdom – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS in a freedom and liberty from the Law of Sin and Death _{[see Rom 8:2, 1-4]}.

YESHUA upholds all things by the Rhema Word of His Power _{[see Heb 1:3b, NASB]} which carries the prophetic potential to actually work mightily in us and amongst us _{[see Col 1:29; Eph 3:20]}.

The inward reality of being without guile _{[see Isa 66:2; Matt 18:3-4]}, manifested through the Fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT, in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, is the prophetic key to us standing in the Kingdom, in the heavenly places _{[see Eph 1:3-10]}. This is the Passover actualized in the Mount of the LORD.

The prophetic Key to this Passover into the secret Place of the Most High GOD, is the Key of David _{[see Acts 13:22c]} that describes the spiritual state of the Witness we choose to carry _{[see 1 John 5:10a, NKJV]}. Amen!

 

Written By:

James Niles

www.thetabernacleschool.com

The Kingdom of GOD is within us and it is amongst us _{[see Luke 17:20-21, KJV+NASB]}. We can function _{[potentially in every reality of life]} in the Kingdom of GOD – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS _{[see Romans 8:2, 1-4]}.

Functioning in the Kingdom of GOD – by the SPIRIT in CHRIST JESUS, actualizes the freedom and liberty _{[from the Law of Sin and Death (see Rom 8:2c)]} that YHWH has predestined – to manifest, grow and develop – in us _{[individually]} and amongst us _{[corporately]}.

The freedom and liberty from the Law of Sin and Death operates by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – in the Witness of Spirit, Water and Blood _{[see 1 John 5:10a+8, NKJV]} – through the Veil of YESHUA’s flesh _{[see Heb 10:19-20, NKJV]}.

The Veil of YESHUA’s flesh is opened – by circumcision – in and through the heart of flesh that the HOLY SPIRIT is developing in us _{[see Eze 36:26; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]}. This circumcised heart of flesh is the pure heart that YHWH is creating so that we will each see GOD _{[see Matt 5:8]}.

The Veil of YESHUA’s flesh – being opened – is a circumcision progressively developed in a _{[in an increasingly circumcised]} heart of flesh _{[see Eze 36:26; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]}.

Our circumcision _{[see Rom 2:28-29; Phil 3:3; Col 2:11; Deut 30:6; Matt 5:8]} opens the specifics in which we progressively function in the Name of JESUS (YESHUA) – by the HOLY SPIRIT. And each reality that we appropriate by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS progressively opens the Veil of His flesh in us _{[see Heb 10:19-20, NKJV]} so that we actualize functional realities – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – behind the Veil in the Mount of YHWH.

These Kingdom realities stand by Covenant Word perfected and completed in us.

Our circumcision unveils YESHUA as our BELOVED _{[see Deut 30:6]} – in a heart of flesh that is the Epistle of CHRIST in us; and, we will as a consequence of the BELOVED alive in us, in a circumcised heart of flesh _{[see Ps 24:3-4; 15:1-2]}, increasingly grow to operate in the Kingdom of the BELOVED SON _{[see Col 1:13, NASB]}.

Freedom and liberty from the Law of Sin and Death is the atmosphere of the Kingdom opened in us by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS. This is the “spiritual air” _{[Hebrew: ‘ruach’ meaning the ‘breath’ of GOD; Greek: ‘pneumaticos’ meaning the ‘spiritual’ atmospheres of GOD derived realities – see 1 Cor 2:9,12-13]} we breathe _{[and live in]} that facilitates the dynamic of Kingdom function.

It is this spiritual atmosphere in our inward parts that we stand and operate in the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH. The Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH in our inward parts defines the spiritual state we actualize in the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets _{[see Matt 5:17; John 14:27; John 14:23]} through a heart of flesh _{[see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]}.

The circumcised heart of flesh that YHWH is developing in us progressively stands at some level of a Shabbat-Shalom in our inward parts. In this Shabbat-Shalom realized we can clearly ascertain that we are operating behind the Veil in the Mount of the LORD _{[see Gen 22:14; Isa 33:15-17]}.

We can also operate and function corporately in this Shabbat-Shalom; and, see the Kingdom manifest on the earth in our midst! This is why the Tabernacle of David _{[the Tabernacle of the BELOVED]} is being rebuilt in our midst _{[see Acts 15:16-18; 13:33-39]}.

As we are progressively knitted together in love _{[see Col 2:2-3, NKJV]} – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS – we will see Kingdom reality _{[the Kingdom dynamic]} manifest at the speed of thought and intent in us and in our midst, as the Mystery of GOD, both of the FATHER and the SON, becomes reality _{[the functional Kingdom dynamic]} in us and amongst us _{[see Rev 10:7; Col 2:2-3, NKJV]}.

[Note: There will be two mutually exclusive spiritual scenarios _{[or, ‘spiritualities’ or spiritual atmospheres]} on the earth: (i) Realities revealing the Mystery of GOD _{[see Rev 10:7; Col 2:2-3, NKJV]} and the Mysteries of the Kingdom _{[see Matt 13:11]} that unfold through the revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST in the inward parts _{[Col 1:26-28]}; and, (ii) Realities that will come into place that deny the FATHER and the SON _{[see 1 John 2:22]} – the Mystery of Lawlessness, that will manifest the anti-CHRIST “with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved” _{(see 2 Thess 2:7-12)}].

The Veil of YESHUA’s flesh develops in the abiding through the Covenant Word made flesh in our heart – by the HOLY SPIRIT. The Covenant Word is revealed into our heart and it is perfected through the walk of faith in our lives and in our ministry functions. Our functional capacities develop in thought, word, deed and relationships – as we ‘walk the talk’ of the Gospel of the Kingdom _{[see Matt 4:23]}.

All of the Word that is perfected and completed into the heart of flesh that YHWH is creating in us, stands in a circumcision _{[uniquely and progressively defined in a circumcised heart of flesh]} that defines our Kingdom function(s) and Kingdom position(s).

We function in the Kingdom by standing behind the Veil at two spiritual levels prophetically foreshadowed in the Tabernacle of Moses:

(i) Entering the Holy Place through a persevering hope on the LORD JESUS CHRIST that anchors our soul behind the Veil _{[see Heb 6:19-20, 11-20]}. This is the fulfillment of the first veil in the Tabernacle of Moses.

(ii) Entering the Holiest by the Blood of JESUS, through a new and living Way through the Veil that is His flesh _{[see Heb 10:19-20, NKJV]}. This is the fulfillment of the second veil in the Tabernacle of Moses.

The New Covenant proclaims what YHWH has predestined for us in Mount Zion, access to the Seat of the Government of the Kingdom of GOD, through a new and living Way through the Veil of YESHUA’s flesh. Hebrews 12:22-24 _[NASB] reads: < ²² But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, ²³ to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, ²⁴ to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. >

As YESHUA declared the Kingdom is within us and amongst us. And we access the Kingdom through a circumcised heart of flesh. Amen!

 

Written By:

James Niles

www.thetabernacleschool.com

Navigating the times ahead of us, involves us receiving and actualizing capacities of function in the Kingdom of GOD – both personally and corporately.

The access to the Kingdom of GOD is within us _{[see Luke 17:20-21, KJV]} in our inward parts _{[see 2 Cor 4:16]}. This access is made available in us, in the Witness of JESUS CHRIST _{[see 1 John 5:10a, NKJV; John 10:9, 1-2]} – in Spirit, Water and Blood _{[see 1 John 5:8, NKJV]} – alive within us by the HOLY SPIRIT _{[see John 16:14; Rom 8:2; Rev 3:14b]}.

This Witness of JESUS CHRIST in us, is accessed by the HOLY SPIRIT _{[see John 16:14-15]}; and, this Witness is declared to be “the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD _{[see Rev 3:14b, NASB; Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17-18a]}!”

Genesis 22:14 _[NASB] pointedly speaks to us in the context of YESHUA’s sacrifice: < ¹³ Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son. ¹⁴ Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the LORD it will be provided.” > _{[KJV reads: “In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen”]}

Scripture points to several realities that open to our heart:

• In Psalm 24:3-4 _[NASB] David prophetically points to an ascent into the Mount of the LORD with our heart: < ³ Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD ^[YHWH]? And who may stand in His holy place? ⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully. >
• In Psalm 15:1-2 _[NASB] David prophetically points to the reality of being able to abide in the Mount of the LORD ^[YHWH]: < ¹ O LORD ^[YHWH], who may abide in Your tent? Who may dwell on Your holy hill? ² He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart. >
• Hebrews 12:22-24 _[NASB] declares an ascent for the church of the first-born _{[see also Col 1:15 where YESHUA is called the first-born of all creation]} enrolled in heaven, being available to us in pre-destined terms _{[“you have come to Mount Zion”]}: < ²² But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, ²³ to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, ²⁴ and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel. >
• Hebrews 6:19-20 _[NASB] points to us being actually anchored behind the veil, based on our hope in GOD through JESUS CHRIST: < ¹⁹ This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, ²⁰ where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest _{[see Heb 3:1]} forever according to the order of Melchizedek. > 1 John 3:3 tells us that hope in JESUS CHRIST purifies us so that we are pure as YESHUA is pure!
• Hebrews 10:19-20 _[NKJV] points to a new and living way being opened to us through the Veil of YESHUA’s flesh. There is a heart of YESHUA’s flesh _{[see Matthew 5:8]} being progressively developed in us _{[see Eze 36:26; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]}. The Veil of YESHUA’s flesh opens according to the evidence of our faith in Him _{[The evidence of our faith will be of the substance of YESHUA’s Witness/Testimony; and, please be reminded that the Testimony of JESUS is the Spirit of Prophecy]}: < ¹⁹ Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, ²¹ and having a High Priest over the house of God, ²² let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. >

The heart is the centerpiece of Kingdom function because the heart carries the co-mingled expressions of our spirit and our soul _{[see Heb 4:12]}. Our spirit and our soul are mutually exclusive centers of consciousness in our inward man. What our soul and spirit express are co-mingled in our heart. Hence the necessity of us having to deal with the issues that impact our character and nature. Hence the crucial importance of the Fruits of the HOLY SPIRIT, because they set us free from the yoke of lawlessness [see Gal 5:22-23 in the context of Matt 7:23, 21-23].

Our spirit, expresses capacities of function in the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST _{[1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c]} so that we do all things through CHRIST who strengthens us _{[see Phil 4:13]}.

Our soul, is being perfected and completed in the character, nature and personality of JESUS CHRIST _{[which is the fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT – see Gal 5:22-23].} The fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT enables us to progressively function in the character, nature and personality of JESUS CHRIST.

So our heart co-mingles function _{[in CHRIST JESUS, in the measure of His Spirit we have actualized]} with the character, nature and personality _{[of CHRIST JESUS, in the measure of His Nature, Character and Personality actualized]}. And, our heart is the fundamental basis of all Kingdom function and operation _{[see Matt 5:8]}.

This is why Kingdom function stands opened by the Blood of JESUS [see Rom 5:9], through faith and a clear conscience _{[see 1 Tim 3:9; Heb 9:14]}, in a new and living way, through the veil, of His flesh _{[see Heb 10:19-20]}.

The veil of His flesh is opened _{[actually ‘cut open’ by the Sword of the SPIRIT, through the revealed Word]} in our heart. The veil of His flesh is opened through the progressive circumcision of our heart of flesh by the HOLY SPIRIT _{[see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV + Rom 2:29]}.

In this manner we can stand before the ALMIGHTY and walk before Him in holiness and in blamelessness _{[see Gen 17:1-7]}, and actualize ‘anything’ in the Name of YESHUA _{[see John 14:12-14; John 15:7-8, 16; John 16:23-27]}.

This is the Kingdom dynamic opened in us by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, so that we actualize what the FATHER has predestined for us in the only BELOVED SON. Amen!

Romans 14:17 reads: < ¹⁷ for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. > Amen!
 

Written By:

James Niles

www.thetabernacleschool.com

Hebrews 12:26-29 _(NASB) reads: < ²⁶ And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” ²⁷ This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. ²⁸ Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; ²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire. >

The prophetic key to our navigating the times ahead of us is for us each to receive the Kingdom of GOD – which cannot be shaken.

By receiving the Kingdom: we can live in the government, economy and spheres of influence of the Kingdom that opens to us, through creative processes of our salvation – in CHRIST JESUS _{[see Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17-18a]} by the HOLY SPIRIT _{[see Rom 8:2]}.

While things on the earth have been shaken and will continue to be shaken, until the return of the LORD JESUS CHRIST to establish the Kingdom of GOD on earth, we the Body of CHRIST have been given the capacity to receive the Kingdom of GOD and be able to operate in the Kingdom of GOD.

YESHUA declares that the reality of the Kingdom of GOD is opened in our inward parts _{[see Luke 17:20-21, NKJV]} and it stands in our midst _{[see Luke 17:20-21, NASB]}.

There are personal and corporate realities to function in the Kingdom of GOD. The corporate flows out of the personal.

In Matthew 13:10-17, JESUS the MESSIAH declares that the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven have been opened to us who have persevered by faith to receive and actualize the seeing eye and the hearing ear from GOD _{[see Prov 20:12, NASB]}: < ¹⁰ And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?” ¹¹ He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given _{[see Luke 11:9-13]}. ¹² For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him _{[see Mark 4:20-25; 13-25]}. ¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand _{[see Hebrews 11:6, 3a; Rom 10:17, NKJV]}. ¹⁴ And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘ Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; ¹⁵ For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’ ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; ¹⁷ for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. >

We receive the Kingdom of GOD through a new birth. YESHUA declares _{[in John 3:3, NASB]} : < ³ Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” >

We are also called to enter the Kingdom of GOD and to operate _{[see Matt 21:43]} in the Kingdom through our birth in water and the SPIRIT.

In John 3:5 _[NASB], YESHUA declares: < ⁵ Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. >

The reality of the Kingdom of GOD, which YESHUA declared as being in us and amongst us, stands in something called ‘the Witness’ that we have received in and through the new birth.

1 John 5:10a, _[NKJV] declares: < ¹⁰ He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself. > The Witness arises in the functional dynamic of a new spirit and a new heart that we have received in and through a new birth _{[see Eze 36:26]}.

The Witness we receive through the new birth is described as being Spirit, Water and Blood _{[in 1 John 5:8 NKJV; John 19:30, 34]}. This is the Witness of JESUS CHRIST that connects us each to Him – both singularly and collectively; and, defines us as a functioning Body of MESSIAH.

We are born again in the Seed of the Word of GOD _{[see 1 Peter 1:23]}, opened in us as the Seed of CHRIST _{[see Gal 3:16]}.

In the Seed of CHRIST is embedded – by promise through faith _{[the seed of faith – see Matt 17:20; see also 2 Cor 1:20]} – the prophetic foreshadowing proclaimed in the Seed of Abraham _{[see Gen 22:16-18]} and the Seed of David _{[see Ps 89:3-4; 34-37, NKJV]}.

In the implanted Seed of the Word, germinated into a new spirit and a new heart _{[see Eze 36:26]}, Colossians 1:13 _[NASB] declares: < ¹³ For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. >

The reference to the Kingdom of GOD as the Kingdom of the BELOVED SON points to both the Abrahamic root _{[see Gen 22:14; Ps 24:3-4; 15:1-2]} and the Davidic root _{[see Isaiah 9:6-7]} of the Kingdom of GOD, in and through the BELOVED _{[see Matt 3:17; 17:5]}.

As Ephesians 1:3-14 _[NASB] declares: < ³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love ⁵ He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, ⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. ⁷ In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace ⁸ which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight ⁹ He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him ¹⁰ with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him ¹¹ also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, ¹² to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. ¹³ 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 promise, ¹⁴ who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory. >

This is the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD _{[see Rev 3:14b, NASB]} that stands in us and amongst us – in the BELOVED, in Spirit, Water and Blood – so that we operate from heavenly places that stand in the Kingdom of Heaven and navigate the times, while positioned in the secret place of the MOST HIGH GOD _{[see Ps 24:3-4 + Ps 15:1-2 = Ps 91:1 = Gen 22:14 = Eph 1:3-6]}, under the shadow of the ALMIGHTY _{[see Ps 91:1]}. Amen!

 

James Niles

www.thetabernacleschool.com