Receiving The Kingdom (Part 5)

In Matthew 6:9-13 [NKJV], the LORD JESUS CHRIST instructs us to pray to the FATHER, declaring: “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” in the clear understanding that this will be so because “Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.”

The purpose of the Kingdom of GOD in this age is to manifest the FATHER’s will on the earth. The end product is the earth operating in the FATHER’s will – as it is in heaven [see Isa 11:1-10].

The prophetic intent of YHWH’s will, is to: (i) manifest the Kingdom, manifest the instruments of the Kingdom [the people of GOD equipped in CHRIST JESUS, by the HOLY SPIRIT to function as the Oracles of GOD (see 1 Peter 4:10-11) in the Kingdom reality of being priests, prophets and kings] and, manifest the institutions of the Kingdom [the prophetic and apostolic ‘hubs’ manifested throughout the Body of MASHIAH, being unveiled in every nation, operating from High Places in the Mount of the LORD under the shadow of the ALMIGHTY (see Isa 2:2-4; 4:4-6; 33:15-17)]; and, (ii) to destroy evil [see Rev 20:10-15], destroy the instruments of evil and, destroy the institutions of evil [see Isa 2:1-4, 12-22; Isa 24:1-6].

Revelation 11:15-19 [NASB] declares: < 15 Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.” 16 And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying, “We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign. 18 “And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” 19 And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm. >

The great outpouring of the HOLY SPIRIT that we are anticipating will energize and empower [from our inward parts] a tangible and verifiable Kingdom explosion [the reward of our faith in YHWH, through His SON]in us and amongst us [see Luke 17:20-21, NKJV+NASB]. As Prophet Rick Joyner writes: “Every great thing in Scripture was but the seed of what we will now see as a harvest. Even the first century church was but a seed of what the church will become.”

The Seed [the Seed of CHRIST prophetically rooted in the Seed of Abraham (by Promise) and, the Seed of CHRIST prophetically rooted in the Seed of David (in a functional intimacy of YESHUA as the BELOVED)] for all that will flow in, and through, the Body of MASHIAH will flow out of the prophetic Word we are holding on to in the Testimony of YESHUA [see Rev 19:10c], expecting [in a faith authored and finished by YESHUA] YHWH to actually perform His Word in us and amongst us [see Jer 1:11-12, NASB] and through us as we unfold as the Oracles of GOD placed in every conceivable human situation across the nations [see 1 Peter 4:11, NKJV].

In this outpouring there will be a knitting together of the Body of MASHIAH into apostolic and prophetic hubs in every part of the Body; each hub with a peculiar Kingdom mandate and perspective. And, each hub will be a composite extract of the Church, beyond denominational boundaries.

As Colossians 2:2-3 [NKJV] declares: < 2 that their [our] hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding [see Prov 9:10b], to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge [see Matt 13:11]. >

We will be knit together in love in circumcised hearts of flesh. In circumcised hearts of flesh we will operate both singularly and corporately in Mount Zion [the Mount of YHWH – see Gen 22:14, KJV+NASB] through the Blood of the LAMB and through the Veil of His Flesh [see Heb 10:19-20, NKJV]!

Disciples of YESHUA: understanding the times; uniting in prayer; knitted together in love actualized through the revelation of YESHUA as the BELOVED in our inward parts; operating by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS, in Spirit, Water and Blood [see 1 John 5:8,10a, NKJV; Rev 3:14b, NASB], in the Shabbat-Shalom of YHWH; will stand and operate in Kingdom realities unveiled in the Heights [see Isa 33:14-17], the High Places of Mount Zion [see Heb 12:22-24] where it will be seen and where it will be provided [see Gen 22:14, KJV+NKJV] by Oath of Covenant established in hearts of flesh [see Heb 7:28; Jer 1:11-12] circumcised by the SPIRIT to yield the fragrance of the BELOVED [see Rom 2:28-29; Deut 30:6; 2 Cor 2:14-17].

As Revelation 10:7 [NASB] declares: < 7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets. >

We need to choose to stand as a people consecrated to YHWH through prayer [see Isa 59:1-2]. We need to know how to operate by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS in a Shabbat-Shalom that will unveil our calling and peculiar gift mix in the Witness and Testimony of YESHUA.

We need to choose to be in a communion of the saints so that a necessary knitting together of our inward parts – in Spirit, Water and Blood – is achieved by the SPIRIT [see John 17:22-23].

The coming revival will be a Kingdom Explosion that will catapult the Body of MASHIAH out of the works of the flesh [flowing out of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil] into the works wrought in GOD [see John 3:21, NASB] unfolding as the fruit of the Tree of Life arising out of the Root of David, to give expression to the Offspring of David [see Rev 22:16; Ps 132:11].

As YESHUA declared [see John 14:12, NASB]: <12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. >

In the midst of trials and tribulations we will discover the greatness of YESHUA our King in our midst. As Acts 14:22c declares: < “Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.” >

 

Written By:

James Niles

www.thetabernacleschool.com

Receiving The Kingdom (Part 4)

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 remainwe 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

Receiving The Kingdom (Part 3)

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

Receiving The Kingdom (Part 2)

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

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Receiving The Kingdom (Part 1)

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

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Moving Into 2013

A cursory reading of the Book of Revelation in the context of YESHUA’s discourse in Matthew 24:3-33 tells us that we need to stand prepared for the uncertain times ahead of us.

The coming global revival – a “new” Pentecost – will position the Body of MASHIAH, as ministers of CHRIST, able to operate by the SPIRIT, in the Testimony of JESUS, in the times ahead that will bring this age to closure.

This “new” Pentecost [the latter rain revival] will come to a Church that actively seeks to prepare for it, even as the apostles and disciples of JESUS CHRIST prepared for it in Acts 1:14 (NASB), “These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer …”.

As YESHUA declared in John 14:12-15, < 12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. 13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. 15 “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. >

There will be a new realm of ministry in the Church. John 16:23-27 (NASB) reads: < 23 “In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. 24 “Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full [Neh 8:10]. 25 “These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly of the Father. 26 In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will request of the Father on your behalf; 27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. >

But there are issues we must deal with ….

The Prophetic Word In Season:

  • Isaiah 4:4 (NASB) declares: < 4 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and purged the bloodshed of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, 5 then the LORD will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy. 6 There will be a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain. >
  • Isaiah 52:6-12 (NASB) declares: < 6 Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.'” 7 How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, and says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” 8 Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, they shout joyfully together; for they will see with their own eyes when the LORD restores Zion. 9 Break forth, shout joyfully together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for the LORD has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem. 10 The LORD has bared His holy arm In the sight of all the nations, that all the ends of the earth may see the salvation of our God. 11 Depart, depart, go out from there, touch nothing unclean; Go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves, You who carry the vessels of the LORD. 12 But you will not go out in haste, Nor will you go as fugitives; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. >

 

Year-End Prayer Points:

 

  • Wash away the filth (bring these issues before the LORD: pride, lust, selfishness, greed, corruption, manipulation, self-absorption, materialism, offense, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, etc) …. pray by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS [see Rom 8:2], for a spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning [these are attributes of the Spirit of JESUS CHRIST – see Rev 1:14, “and His eyes [see also Rev 5:6] were like a flame of fire” and, Rev 1:19, When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man.”] to purge out of ourselves [praying by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS] our every filthiness and to ask GOD to remove every barrier between us and Himself [see Isa 59:1-2, 3-8]
  • So that GOD will position you (us) under His canopy to be a shelter, a shade from the heat and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain in the uncertain times ahead.
  • Then you will know His Name [John 16:23-27]
  • Then you will have the faith to hear and walk into the good news of restoration
  • Then you will be able to see the works of the LORD in times of trouble [John 14:12]
  • Proclaim/Live the Gospel: < “How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, and says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” >

We need to understand the prophetic Word that stands over us in these times ahead of us ….

The Prophetic Word For Our Times

  •    Hebrews 12:26-29 gives us a clear perspective of the times we live in: < 26 And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth [Matt 24:21-22], but also the heaven [Matt 24:29].” 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 [John 3:3,5; Luke 17:20-21], let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service [1 Peter 4:10-11] with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is a consuming fire. >
  •    Isaiah 43:18-21 (NASB) declares: < 18 “Do not call to mind the former things, or ponder things of the past. 19 Behold, I will do something new, now it will spring forth; will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. 20 The beasts of the field will glorify Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I have given waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people. 21 The people whom I formed for Myself will declare My praise.” >
  •    Isaiah 60:1-5 (NASB) declares: < 1 “Arise, shine; for your light has come, And the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. 2 “For behold, darkness will cover the earth And deep darkness the peoples; But the LORD will rise upon you And His glory will appear upon you. 3 “Nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising. 4 “Lift up your eyes round about and see; They all gather together, they come to you. Your sons will come from afar, And your daughters will be carried in the arms. 5 “Then you will see and be radiant, And your heart will thrill and rejoice; Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you, The wealth of the nations will come to you. >
  •    Isaiah 2:2-22 (NASB) declares: < 2 Now it will come about that In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains, and will be raised above the hills; and all the nations will stream to it. 3 and many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; that He may teach us concerning His ways and that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And He will judge between the nations, and will render decisions for many peoples; and they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war. 5 Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. 6 For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east, and they are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike bargains with the children of foreigners. 7 Their land has also been filled with silver and gold and there is no end to their treasures; their land has also been filled with horses and there is no end to their chariots. 8 Their land has also been filled with idols; they worship the work of their hands, that which their fingers have made. 9 So the common man has been humbled and the man of importance has been abased, but do not forgive them. 10 Enter the rock and hide in the dust from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty. 11 The proud look of man will be abased and the loftiness of man will be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. 12 For the LORD of hosts will have a day of reckoning against everyone who is proud and lofty and against everyone who is lifted up, that he may be abased. 13 And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up, against all the oaks of Bashan, 14 against all the lofty mountains, against all the hills that are lifted up, 15 against every high tower, against every fortified wall, 16 against all the ships of Tarshish and against all the beautiful craft. 17 The pride of man will be humbled and the loftiness of men will be abased; and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day, 18 but the idols will completely vanish. 19 Men will go into caves of the rocks and into holes of the ground before the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty, when He arises to make the earth tremble. 20 In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, 21 in order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs before the terror of the LORD and the splendor of His majesty, when He arises to make the earth tremble. 22 Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; for why should he be esteemed?
  •    Isaiah 32:1-20 (NASB) declares: < 1 Behold, a king will reign righteously and princes will rule justly. 2 Each will be like a refuge from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry country, like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land. 3 Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded, and the ears of those who hear will listen. [See Ps 110:3] 4 The mind of the hasty will discern the truth, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak clearly. 5 No longer will the fool be called noble, or the rogue be spoken of as generous. 6 For a fool speaks nonsense, and his heart inclines toward wickedness: to practice ungodliness and to speak error against the LORD, to keep the hungry person unsatisfied and to withhold drink from the thirsty. 7 As for a rogue, his weapons are evil; he devises wicked schemes to destroy the afflicted with slander, even though the needy one speaks what is right. 8 But the noble man devises noble plans; and by noble plans he stands. 9 Rise up, you women who are at ease, and hear my voice; give ear to My word, you complacent daughters. 10 Within a year and a few days you will be troubled, O complacent daughters; for the vintage is ended, and the fruit gathering will not come. 11 Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you complacent daughters; strip, undress and put sackcloth on your waist, 12 beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, 13 for the land of my people in which thorns and briars shall come up; yea, for all the joyful houses and for the jubilant city. 14 Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken. Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks; 15 Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is considered as a forest. 16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness and righteousness will abide in the fertile field. 17 And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the service of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever. 18 Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation, and in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places; 19 and it will hail when the forest comes down, and the city will be utterly laid low. 20 How blessed will you be, you who sow beside all waters [in the midst of both poisoned and sweetened waters], who let out freely the ox and the donkey. >
  •    Isaiah 33:6 (NASB) declares: < 6 And He will be the stability of your times, a wealth of salvation, wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is his treasure. >
  •    Isaiah 33:14-17 (NASB) declares: < 14 Sinners in Zion are terrified; Trembling has seized the godless. “Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning?” 15 He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, He who rejects unjust gain and shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe; He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil; 16 he will dwell on the heights, his refuge will be the impregnable rock; his bread will be given him, his water will be sure. 17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; they will behold a far-distant land. >
  •    In Matthew 24:3-31 (NASB), YESHUA declares: < 3 As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” 4 And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. 5 “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. 6 “You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. 7 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes [KJV: pestilences]. 8 “But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs. 9 “Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. 10 “At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. 11 “Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. 12 “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. 13 “But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. 14 “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. 15 “Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains. 17 “Whoever is on the housetop must not go down to get the things out that are in his house. 18 “Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak. 19 “But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 “But pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath. 21 For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. 22 “Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. 23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,‘ do not believe him. 24 “For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. 25 “Behold, I have told you in advance. 26 “So if they say to you, ‘Behold, He is in the wilderness,’ do not go out, or, ‘Behold, He is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe them. 27 “For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28 “Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. 29 But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 “And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. 31 “And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. >

 

The Bride Of The LAMB

 

  •    Matthew 25:1-12 (NASB) reads: < 1   “Then the kingdom of heaven will be comparable to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2   “Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent. 3 “For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps. 5 “Now while the bridegroom was delaying, they all got drowsy and began to sleep. 6 “But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.7 “Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. 8      “The foolish said to the prudent, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 “But the prudent answered, ‘No, there will not be enough for us and you too; go instead to the dealers and buy some for yourselves.’ 10 “And while they were going away to make the purchase, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast; and the door was shut. 11 “Later the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open up for us.’ 12 “But he answered, ‘Truly I say to you, I do not know you.’ 13 “Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour. >
  •    Luke 12:35-37 reads: < 35 “Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit. 36 “Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks. 37 “Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them. >
  •    1 Corinthians 4:1 declares: < 1 Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants [ministers] of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. >
  •    Revelation 10:7 declares: < 7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached to His servants the prophets [Rev 19:10c]. >
  •    Revelation 11:15-19 declares: < 15 Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.” 16 And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying, “We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign. 18 “And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” 19 And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple …. . >
  •    Colossians 2:2-3 (KJV) declares: < That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 in whom [see Col 1:26-27] are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. >
  •    Revelation 14:1-5 (NASB) declares: < 1 Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand [Eph 2:13-22], having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps. 3 And they *sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth [Rom 5:9]. 4 These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste [Eph 5:25-27, 30; Titus 3:5-6; Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17-18a]. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb [James 1:17-18]. 5 And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless. >

  

By James Niles

www.thetabernacleschool.com

22/Dec/2012

   

Becoming A Bride For The LAMB (Part 5)

JESUS CHRIST, the LAMB of GOD, is actively pursuing a Bride for Himself from the midst of a fallen mankind that He has redeemed from the curse of sin and death [Gal 3:13; 1 Peter 1:18-19; Rom 8:2].

YESHUA is actively sanctifying and cleansing a ‘body of disciples[Matt 28:18-20] redeemed from the curse of sin and death, so that a Bride – holy and blameless – will stand before Him.

This Bride will be the product of His faith and love actualized [by grace in the inward parts of the Bride] through a washing of renewal and regeneration by the HOLY SPIRIT [Titus 3:5-7] with “the washing of water by the [Rhema] Word [Eph 5:26-27].

YESHUA’s faith establishes the Law [Rom 3:21-22, KJV; Rom 3:31] through the communication of the substance of His fullness [John 1:16-17, NASB/NKJV] into us; and, YESHUA’s love actualized in a heart of flesh fulfills the Law [Rom 13:14, 10; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV].

His faith and love, communicated and manifested through the Testimony of JESUS expressed in the finished work of the Cross, is being brought into being in His Bride, by the HOLY SPIRIT [John 16:14].

This communication of YESHUA’s fullness comes into being through a washing of renewal and regeneration by the HOLY SPIRIT [Titus 3:5-7]. This washing of renewal and regeneration unfolds through “the washing of water by the [Rhema] Word [Eph 5:26-27]unfolding a spotless and blameless Bride, in fulfillment of the Law [Rom 8:2] in a heart of YESHUA’s flesh [2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; Ex 31:18; 32:16].

Scripture tells us that through His willing sacrifice, YESHUA became the LAMB that takes away the sins of the world [John 1:26-36; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV; 2 Cor 5:21].

All four Gospels describe the LAMB’s sacrifice in fulfillment of what is written in the Law [see Leviticus 1-7, 23; Numbers 28-29] and the Prophets [see Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53].

Hebrews 10:4-23 [NASB] points to YESHUA’s atoning sacrifice in the following words: < 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, But a body You have prepared for Me; 6 In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have taken no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of Me) To do Your will, O God.'” 8 After saying above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You have not desired, nor have You taken pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the Law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second. 10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time onward until His enemies be made a footstool for His feet. 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying, 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws upon their heart, And on their mind I will write them,” He then says, 17 “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.

19 Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place [KJV/NKJV: ‘enter the holiest’] by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful >.

The Book of Hebrews points to four realities in which YESHUA actively ministers to us so that we can become a spotless and blameless Bride:

i.        In Hebrews 3:1, YESHUA is proclaimed as the Apostle and High Priest of our confession

ii.        In Hebrews 7:25, YESHUA is proclaimed as the One who ever lives to intercede for us

iii.        In Hebrews 9:15, YESHUA is proclaimed to be the Mediator of the New Covenant

iv.        In Hebrews 12:2, YESHUA is proclaimed as the Author and Perfecter of our faith.

Ephesians 5:25-32 points to the highest purpose of YESHUA’s ministry, the active pursuit and creation [Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17-18a] of His Bride: < 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. >

We need a revelation of this passage from Ephesians to be manifested in a circumcised heart of flesh in our inner man. From this passage, we can understand [see Heb 11:3a; Prov 9:10b, NASB] several things that are necessary ingredients to us becoming a Bride for the LAMB. These ingredients are GOD-given realities [revealed realities – Deut 29:29; Mark 4:22] that we should actively pursue in prayer [asking, seeking and knocking, by the SPIRIT; see Luke 11:9-13] with a view to actualizing [through His substance actualized] an understanding [that comes about in substance through faith authored and finished by YESHUA; see Heb 11:3a; 12:2a] that knows the HOLY ONE [see Prov 9:10b, NASB]:

The First Revelation

The first revelation we need to receive and develop in our inward parts is the reality that YESHUA loves the Church and gave Himself for her.

YESHUA’s gift of Himself [communicating His fullness – John 1:16-17, NASB/NKJV] to us is the exclusive basis to becoming His Bride. It follows that what YESHUA has given us we must receive and actualize in a heart of flesh. The result is a GOD-given understanding that knows the HOLY ONE.

This knowing comes out of the substance of YESHUA actualized by faith in Him [Heb 11:1, KJV/NKJV] – through the grace that YHWH has chosen to lavish us with [see John 1:16-17, NASB; Eph 2:8-10; 1:4-8, NASB]. This knowing in substance is given through a heart of His flesh [2 Cor 3:3, NKJV].

This heart of flesh carries the Covenant that YHWH has given through the gift of the SON. This heart of flesh is of the fullness of the SON, manifested in a heart of flesh that is the exclusive work of the HOLY SPIRIT. This heart of flesh will one day be consecrated into a Marriage Union, where two hearts become one flesh.

We need the FATHER to give us a Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, so that we each receive (from the FATHER’s Heart) this “inexplicable” reality [which is the Mystery] of CHRIST’s love for us. Ephesians 3:19 [NASB] declares that the Mystery of CHRIST’s love surpasses our knowledge forms and is the conduit by which we actualize the fullness of GOD in the Temple of our being [see John 14:23; Rev 21:9-11, 23]: < 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. >

We actualize YESHUA’s love by the SPIRIT’s work in our inward parts [see John 16:14; 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]. This work in our inward parts, that revolves around the creation of a circumcised heart of [YESHUA’s] flesh [John 6:51], involves prayer by the SPIRIT that objectively pursues the revelation of the BELOVED [see Eph 1:17-23].

The revelation of the BELOVED from the FATHER’s Heart is the only means by which we develop and grow to become the Tabernacle of David [the Dwelling Place of YESHUA, the BELOVED].

The Tabernacle of David takes form in us and amongst us in the Root of David [as we are rooted in YESHUA, the BELOVED; Rev 22:16], as the Offspring of David [as we grow and develop as the fruit of YESHUA’s Body – see Ps 132:11-12, 7-18], having the Key of David [the Key of YESHUA, the BELOVED, in which stand the Keys of the Kingdom; see Matt 16:17-19; Rev 3:7-10], so that the Horn of David [see Ps 137:17, 11-17; the glory of YESHUA the BELOVED] will arise in us and amongst us, as we each unfold as the Dwelling Place of the BELOVED, giving us a dwelling place of rest [Ps 46:10-11] and refuge [Ps 91:1-2, 9], where we grow and develop [Gen 22:14; Ps 24:3-5; Ps 15:1-2] to become the Bride of the LAMB.

The Horn of David, speaks of the glory of the inward anointing [the life-giving Spirit of JESUS CHRIST – see 1 Cor 15:45 + Phil 1:19c] that communicates the strength, the power and the authority of YESHUA as we actualize the reality of Him as our BELOVED in our inward parts. The Horn of David is the unction of Kingdom Government that a Bride is predestined to stand in:

i.       2 Cor 5:21 [NKJV] declares: < 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. > YESHUA became sin on our behalf so that in Him and through Him we might [actualize in our being the fullness of JESUS CHRIST (John 1:16, NASB/NKJV/KJV) and] become the righteousness of YHWH [through what we progressively actualize of the substance and witness of JESUS CHRIST].

ii.    Isa 53:4-7 [NASB] declares: < 4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. 6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth; like a lamb that is led to slaughter, and like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, so He did not open His mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? > All the issues afflicting our inward parts [our spiritual condition] have been dealt with by Him [in Him and through Him]. And, we can actualize this freedom from sin and death and come to love YESHUA as the be all and end all of our lives, our BELOVED.

 iii.    Ephesians 1:3-11, 22-23 [NASB] declares some of the awesome and incredible outcomes that YHWH has predestined for us – in CHRIST JESUS: < 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 …. 22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. >

 

The Second Revelation

The second revelation that we need is the reality of YESHUA sanctifying and cleansing His Bride with the washing of water by the Word (Gk: Rhema).

This washing [which takes place as we pray and worship by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS (Rom 8:2, 1-4, NKJV)] is the work of the HOLY SPIRIT who washes in a washing of renewal and regeneration [Titus 3:5-7] through the water of the Rhema Word [Eph 5:17]. The HOLY SPIRIT, whom the FATHER has poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, washes us [renews and regenerates us] with water by the Word in the power that works within us [Eph 3:20] in renewal and regeneration [which manifests and operates as power is energized by the HOLY SPIRIT, in the Witness of Spirit, Water and Blood within us] in order to build us and to accomplish with us, exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think. Prayer by the SPIRIT always involves thought flows in our heart [Matt 5:8; Ps 24:3-4; 15:1-2; Prov 21:1-2].

i.        Titus 3:5-7 [NASB] reads: < 5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. >

ii.        In this washing of renewal and regeneration, through the Water with the Word, a Bride unfolds spotless, without wrinkle, holy and, without blemish (perfect). This Bride, which is in its entirety the product of YESHUA’s faith and love, is predestined to stand in glory, in the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets [Luke 24:44-45; Matt 5:17; Rev 21:9-11].

iii.    2 Cor 4:6-7 [NKJV] declares: < 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. >

iv.        Revelation 21:9-11 [NKJV] declares: < 9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God [Col 1:26-27; Eph 3:19]. Her light [John 8:12] was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. >

 

The Third Revelation

The third revelation we need to come to grips with is that in this fulfillment, the Bride is a construct of YESHUA’s flesh and His bones.

Just as bones give structure to the human body, YESHUA’s bones give structure to the form of His Bride. And, YESHUA’s bones speak of His faith authored and perfected into the Bride [Heb 12:2a] that stands as a living and growing Body of His flesh and His bones.

His faith authored and perfected within us enables to be positioned and to walk into all that the FATHER has predestined for the Bride. His flesh is the Word become flesh, in His Testimony – His Words [see John 6:63; Luke 21:33] – established in hearts of flesh that are of His fullness [John 1:16-17, NKJV/NASB/KJV] which, unfolds us as peculiar Epistles of CHRIST [2 Cor 3:3, NKJV] that are of His flesh. Hearts of flesh speak of covenant relationship [Covenant intimacy] with YHWH through YESHUA that unveils each one of us as peculiar Epistles of CHRIST. In the near future this covenant relationship [intimacy] will be consecrated in a Marriage Union [where the two will become one flesh].

We are prepared as a Bride through hearts [that are of His flesh] being circumcised to carry the Name that is above every other name [Luke 2:21; Rom 2:28-29; Phil 2:9, 5-11]. This is the Name of our Husband.

In the name of YESHUA, through the functional dynamic of His Witness [1 John 5:10a, 7-8, NKJV] and His Testimony [Rev 19:10c], alive within us, by the HOLY SPIRIT [Rom 8:2, 1-4], the Bride will do the works of YHWH [John 14:12-14; 16:23-28], in the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.

In the unveiling of the Bride in a Marriage Union, the Mystery of CHRIST [Col 1:26-28] will be brought into its highest fulfillment.

In the unveiling of the Bride, the Ministry of JESUS CHRIST will come into its predestined purpose of actualizing the stewardship of the Mysteries of GOD, from the inward parts of the Bride [1 Cor 4:1; 2 Cor 3:6, 4:6-7; Eph 1:9-11; 3:9-11] in a unity of being in oneness. As Ephesians 4:4-6 declares: < 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. >

We are perfected and completed in the fullness of JESUS CHRIST as we learn to live and function [in thought, word, deed and relationship] – by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS [as noted in Rom 8:2, 1-4].

The Bride of the LAMB is being wooed to carry the Name of Her Husband; whose Name is above every other Name!

There is no higher honor that the Church can actualize than the honor of carrying the revealed, testimonial reality of the Name of YESHUA MASHIAH in a circumcised heart that is entirely of His flesh!

Unfolding the testimonial reality of the Name in a Bride – through a heart of MASHIAH YESHUA’s Flesh – is the highest purpose of the Scripture.

In John 17:6a, 26, [NASB] YESHUA MASHIAH declares: < 6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world … 26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” >

The creative revelation of YESHUA MASHIAH in us [Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17; John 1:16-17, NKJV/NASB] is at the heart of the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets in our inward parts – both formatively [in our being created in CHRIST JESUS] and functionally [as we progressively learn how to function by the HOLY SPIRIT, in and through the fullness of CHRIST JESUS actualized in our inward parts, as noted in 2 Cor 4:16, 6-7, NKJV].

GBU in and by and through YESHUA’s love manifested, perfected and completed in you! Amen!

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com

Becoming A Bride For The LAMB (Part 4)

In prior articles, we have said that the revelation of JESUS CHRIST as the BELOVED, unfolds in a heart of flesh [2 Cor 3:3; NKJV; Eze 36:26]. This revelation of the BELOVED has Davidic roots [see Acts 13:22b].

The heart of flesh that gives expression to the BELOVED is progressively circumcised by the HOLY SPIRIT [Rom 2:29] in fulfillment of the Law [Deut 30:6; Col 2:9-15].

This progressive fulfillment unfolds as the fullness of CHRIST JESUS is perfected and completed in us [John 1:16-17, NKJV/NASB; Gal 4:19] in a circumcised heart of flesh.

As we have said before a circumcised heart positions us to be a Bride for the LAMB.

A circumcised heart of flesh unfolds as we are perfected and completed in the fullness of JESUS CHRIST, as we learn to live and function [in thought, word, deed and relationship] – by the HOLY SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS [see Rom 8:2, 1-4] in an intimacy that knows YESHUA.

In the fullness of JESUS CHRIST revealed in a heart of flesh we develop the capacity to carry the Name of YESHUA.

It is fascinating to note that the Name YESHUA was given after the MESSIAH was circumcised. Luke 2:21 reads: < 21 And when eight days were completed for the circumcision of the Child, His name was called JESUS, the name given by the angel before He was conceived in the womb. >

Pointedly Romans 2:28-29 declares: < 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh. 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God. >

The heart of YESHUA MASHIAH was circumcised in fulfillment of the Law [see Deut 30:6] in His death and resurrection. And, everything in YESHUA’s life was vindicated by YHWH when He was raised from the dead. Indeed as Romans 2:29c declares, YESHUA’s praise was not from men but was entirely from YHWH.

Philippians 2:5-11 declares that YESHUA, in being obedient to the point of death on the Cross, was bestowed with a Name above every other name: < 5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. >

The Bride of the LAMB is being wooed to carry the Name that is above every other Name! We are called to carry the Name that is above every other Name, in a circumcised heart of flesh, in which we know, and are able to see, YESHUA as the BELOVED.

We are called to carry the Name so that we can function in the Name.

There is no higher honor that the Church can actualize than the honor of carrying the revealed, testimonial reality of the Name of YESHUA MASHIAH in a circumcised heart that is entirely of His flesh!

In the reality of a circumcised heart of His flesh, YESHUA stands as the BELOVED in us, and amongst us.

This testimonial reality of the Name [see John 17:6a, 26] is to be perfected and completed into a heart of flesh; and this testimonial reality of the Name is prophetically called a Morning Star [2 Peter 1:19].

As Morning Stars we are blessed to be a blessing in YESHUA’s Name.

This Morning Star arising out of a heart of flesh will unfold as the Root of David and the Offspring of David [Rev 22:16] are developed and brought into being within us, by the HOLY SPIRIT [John 16:14].

The Root of David and the Offspring of David are prophetic manifestations of the Name – in intimacy, as we are rooted in the BELOVED, and become the Offspring of the BELOVED, who wants to be our Husband.

Unfolding the testimonial reality of the Name in a Bride – through a heart of MASHIAH YESHUA’s Flesh – is the highest purpose of the Scripture.

In John 17:6a, 26, [NASB] YESHUA MASHIAH declares: < 6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world … 26 and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.” >

The creative revelation of YESHUA MASHIAH in us [Eph 2:10; 2 Cor 5:17; John 1:16-17, NKJV/NASB] is at the heart of the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets in our inward parts – both formatively [in our being created in CHRIST JESUS] and functionally [as we progressively learn how to function by the HOLY SPIRIT, in and through the fullness of CHRIST JESUS actualized in our inward parts, as noted in 2 Cor 4:16, 6-7, NKJV].

Ephesians 1:17-23 [NASB] declares: < 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him [YESHUA – as defined in a heart of His flesh formed in us as noted in John 6:51 and 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV]. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened [manifested in the Light of Life as noted in John 8:12b and 2 Cor 4:6-7, NKJV], so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance [see Col 1:26-28] in the saints, 19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power [which is the power meant to work within us as noted in Eph 3:20b] toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might 20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. >

The eyes of our heart being enlightened, as we are rooted in the BELOVED and develop as the Offspring of the BELOVED, is the state of being that is at the heart of both the apostolic and the prophetic formation of the Bride of the LAMB.

The Prophetic is proclaimed in 2 Peter 1:19, < 19 So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. >

The Apostolic is proclaimed in Isaiah 60:3-5, < 3 “Nations will come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising. 4 “Lift up your eyes round about and see; They all gather together, they come to you. Your sons will come from afar, And your daughters will be carried in the arms. 5 “Then you will see and be radiant, And your heart will thrill and rejoice; Because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you, The wealth of the nations will come to you. >

The fulfillment of the Apostolic and the Prophetic, which is the living proclamation of the Law and the Prophets fulfilled, is proclaimed in Rev 21:22-26, < 22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 And the city [see Rev 21:9-11, NKJV] has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it [see 2 Cor 4:6-7, NKJV], and its lamp is the Lamb [see 2 Peter 1:19; Rev 19:10c]. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. 25 In the daytime (for there will be no night there) its gates will never be closed; 26 and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it >.

What YHWH is developing within us – in power, manifested out of the strength of the FATHERs Might – is in fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant [Ps 89:2-4, 20-37].

The Bride has Davidic roots. The Bride is rooted in the BELOVED and the Bride is the Offspring of David, the Body of His flesh, loved and nourished by YESHUA, so that we can come forth as YESHUA’s Bride [see Eph 5:28-30, NKJV].

Three “Kingdom” functional capacities flow out of our Davidic roots, in the form of the Davidic Kingdom Anointings: (i) the Priestly; (ii) the Prophetic; and, (iii) the Kingly.

These Kingdom functional capacities are progressive functional expressions of the Apostolic and the Prophetic bequeathed to the Body of MASHIAH, the Church that is fashioned out of His flesh and bones (see Eph 5:30, NKJV) – in fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.

The prophet Isaiah [in Isa 9:6-7] proclaims some 300 years after David’s death and some 700 years before the advent of MESSIAH, that the MESSIAH, the Son of David, will be established on the throne of David: < 6 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. 7 There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts [YHWH-SABBAOTH] will accomplish this. >

David prophesied of the cosmic dimensions of YESHUA’s position and authority that Ephesians 1:18-23 describes, in Psalm 110:1-2, < 1 The LORD [YHWH] says to my Lord [Adon]: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” 2 The LORD will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion [see Heb 12:22-24], saying, “Rule in the midst of Your enemies [Rev 11:15-17].” >

David also prophesied about a Bride’s response to MESSIAH the King in Psalm 110:3, < 3 Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power [John 17:26c; Eph 3:20, 19-21; John 14:12-15]; in holy array, from the womb of the dawn [2 Peter 1:19; Ps 24:3-10; 2 Cor 4:6-7], Your youth are to You as the dew [Ex 16:13c-14; understand that the Manna in the wilderness manifested when the Dew evaporated; John 6:48-51]. >

David also prophesied about the Bride being a priesthood of the Order of Melchizedek in Psalm 110:4, < 4 The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.” >

Everything that unveils the Prophetic and the Kingly is entirely dependent [see Matt 7:21-23] on us being willing to be a Priesthood of the Order of Melchizedek.

Only a priesthood, with Davidic Roots, will have the capacity to connect with YHWH from its inward parts – by the SPIRIT, in CHRIST JESUS [Rom 8:2, 1-4, NKJV]; so as to be set free from the Law of Sin and Death.

Everything in the Law of CHRIST, His Commandments, can only be observed [obeyed] as we put on CHRIST, and walk by the SPIRIT, in a progressive circumcision of the heart. So, the Bride is a priesthood that understands the change of Law [see Heb 7:11-12, 28] that has taken place and, is able to put on CHRIST and walk in His commandments by the SPIRIT, in a pure heart that is of YESHUA’s flesh.

There are two pointers to the formation of the Bride from Romans 13:14 and Galatians 5:16 respectively:

  • 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
  • 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

To be a Bride we must function in our lives and ministries out of our priesthood that sanctifies us as the dwelling places of YHWH (see Ps 84:1-2). Only as the Dew evaporates will the Manna to feed the nations manifest in hearts of His flesh!

GBU in and by and through YESHUA’s love manifested, perfected and completed in you! Amen!

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com

Becoming A Bride For The LAMB (Part 3)

We have said that the Bride will come forth in the understanding that we must, as the Body of CHRIST, be knit together in love.

This knitting together in love will come about in an actualization of the love of MASHIAH YESHUA for His Body, in our inward parts. Our love for one another will flow out of the actuality of YESHUA’s love manifested in us.

1 John 4:9 [YLT] declares that the manifestation of the love of GOD in us is through the gift of the only begotten SON: < 9 In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son – the only begotten – hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him >.

John 1:16 [NASB] declares: < 16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. >

John 3:16 [NKJV] declares that the love of GOD is communicated into us in the only begotten SON – through our faith in YESHUA MASHIAH: < 16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. >

This love in us is a manifestation that is of YESHUA’s flesh! [See John 6:51].

Ephesians 5:29-30 [NKJV] reads: < 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. >

Prophetically speaking, YESHUA’s love is actualized in a heart of [His] flesh.

Ezekiel 36: 25-27 [NKJV] speaks of this heart of flesh that unfolds after YHWH has given us a new heart and a new spirit: < 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. >

This heart of flesh is called the Epistle of CHRIST in 2 Corinthians 3:3 [NKJV]. This Epistle in a heart of flesh is uniquely engineered in us by YHWH: < 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. >

We need to pray and worship by the SPIRIT for the love of YESHUA to be manifested (see John 16:14b) in a heart of flesh as often as we remember! “Remember Me”, He said!

As Ephesians 3:20 declares, YHWH will give us exceedingly abundantly, beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us.

This heart of flesh represents the essential reality in which YHWH communicates the fulfillment of the Law into our being. And, this comes about as the reality of YESHUA’s love is progressively realized in us and, expressed through us – from a heart that YHWH is creating (see Ps 51:10).

Love actualized from GOD in a heart of flesh [through prayer and worship in the SPIRIT] and, expressed in our daily living, is the fulfillment of the Law [1 John 4:9, NKJV; Rom 13:8, NKJV].

A heart of flesh, that is 100% the work of YHWH, prophetically flows out of Exodus 31:18 and 32:16, which declare: < 18 And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God. 16 Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tablets. >

Now the basis of the fulfillment of the Law is the Covenant that YHWH progressively brings into being, in a living heart of YESHUA’s flesh, in us. The flesh of the LAMB forms the construct of Covenant in us. And, this Covenant, witnessed in the Blood of the LAMB, is the Word of the Oath that forms Blood Covenant.

The Word of the Oath is of YESHUA’s flesh, manifested in a heart of flesh – as Blood Covenant uniquely engineered by YHWH – within each one of us.

Hebrews 7:28 speaks of the Oath of YHWH that forms Blood Covenant: < 28 For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law [in the actuality of the Law having been fulfilled in and by JESUS CHRIST – Matt 5:17], appoints the Son who has been perfected forever. >

The Covenant, actualized in a growing heart of flesh, is the love of YHWH actualized through JESUS CHRIST. It is the love of YHWH because the heart of flesh is entirely of JESUS CHRIST – of His Flesh, as the only Begotten SON, in the bosom of the FATHER (John 1:18)!

The HOLY SPIRIT circumcises our heart of flesh so that we will actualize the capacity to love YHWH with all of our heart and soul – in fulfillment of the Law, as prophesied by Moses the Law-giver.

  • Deut 30:6 [NKJV] points to this: < 6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live. … 8 And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and do all His commandments which I command you today. >
  • Rom 2:29 [NKJV] reads: < 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter ….. >
  • Col 2:11-15 [NKJV] reads: < 11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh [the fallen flesh of our carnality], by the circumcision of Christ [YESHUA’s Heart was circumcised in His death and resurrection, in fulfillment of the Law; and we appropriate the fulfillment in YESHUA’s Testimony by faith; hence our justification by faith in YESHUA], 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us [thus qualifying us under the Law for a Marriage], which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. >

The circumcision of our heart qualifies us to enter into a Marriage Covenant with the LAMB, where two hearts will become one flesh! This one flesh binding tie will be in His Flesh!

In the Abrahamic Covenant, circumcision was the evidence of the Covenant (see Gen 17:11). Hence, in the New Covenant our circumcision by the SPIRIT is the evidence of Covenant. And, the evidence of our circumcision – as evidenced in a love for GOD through JESUS CHRIST [see Deut 30:6] – qualifies us for a Marriage. And, this is so, because we are circumcised in a heart that is of His flesh!

Colossians 2:2b [NKJV] tells us that our circumcision [which will also express us as members one of another] will be evidenced in our hearts < being knit together [as the Body of MASHIAH that YESHUA has justified by His love for us] in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ >.

The Marriage Union of the LAMB and His Bride takes place when the two are in a position to become “one flesh” [see Eph 5:30-32, NKJV]. Our circumcised heart that loves GOD, qualifies us for a Marriage with the LAMB.

In this reality of a circumcised heart of His flesh, YESHUA is addressed as ‘David’ – the ‘Well Beloved’, Our Husband!

All of our hearts must be a construct of YESHUA’s own flesh [see 2 Cor 3:3, NKJV] for us to qualify as His Bride.

The formation of our hearts in the flesh of the LAMB fulfills the Davidic Covenant that has the prophetic intent of unveiling each one of us as: < a man after My [YHWH’s] own heart, who will do all My [YHWH’s] will > [Acts 13:22c].

2 Corinthians 4:6-7, [NKJV] proclaims the highest reality of this Light of Life [see John 8:12] being manifested in us, in the following terms: < 6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us >.

For all this to come into fulfillment we must be objectively willing to pursue the reality of being knit together in love, as the Body of MASHIAH, through a heart of YESHUA’s flesh. The prophetic implications of this knitting together are simply astonishing!

We must pursue this knitting together, in order to realize the essential prophetic ingredient to the Mystery of GOD – YESHUA’s flesh – being perfected and finished through a one flesh tie in a Bride:< 2 that their [our] hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom [that defines every application of the Word of GOD that YHWH Fulfills prophetically – see Jer 1:11-12] and knowledge [that opens in revelatory insights manifested in a people prophetically sealed to be a Bride for the LAMB]. >

As John 1:16-17 [NASB] declares: < 16 For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. 17 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. > Amen!

And we are talking of grace realized in an astonishing plane of functional prophetic reality!

We are writing these articles so that you will be convinced that by a faith authored and finished by JESUS CHRIST, in a circumcised heart of flesh – grace upon grace – you can and will, by the SPIRIT, be a Bride.

Please be reminded once more that we will not become a Bride by practice of the Law; we will only be a Bride if we put on CHRIST and actualize the fulfillment of the Law in and through His substance and witness arising in a circumcised heart of YESHUA’s flesh – by grace through faith.

It will be impossible to become a Bride by practice of the Law. Because our righteousnesses are defined in the Prophets as filthy rags (Isa 64:6).

We become a Bride by grace, manifested and developed in the substance of the fullness of JESUS CHRIST, predestined over our lives [see John 1:16-17, NASB/NKJV/KJV].

We will become a Bride, grace upon grace – by the ministry of the HOLY SPIRIT [see John 16:14, 13-15] as YESHUA intercedes for His wife [see Heb 7:25c] even as He washes Her by the Washing with the Water of the Word [see Eph 5:25-27]! Isn’t this an incredible reality to walk into by grace, through faith in YESHUA MASHIAH.

For all this to come forth we must objectively reject legalism. People shut under the Law will never understand the power of YHWH’s love given to us by the SPIRIT, in the only begotten SON who is in the bosom of the FATHER (John 1:18).

As Romans 3:19-28, [NKJV] reads:

< 19 Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

20 Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets [in fulfilled terms in the Testimony of JESUS – see Matt 5:17; Rev 19:10c],

22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ [KJV: faith of Jesus Christ!], to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith.

28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. >

 GBU in and by and through YESHUA’s love manifested, perfected and completed in you – in a heart of His flesh! Amen!

Written By: James Niles

The Tabernacle School of Ministry

www.TheTabernacleSchool.com