Possessing the Land
Genesis 15:6 – Then Abraham believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness. And He said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess it.” He said, “O Lord GOD, how may I know that I will possess it?” The LORD answered… v18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land
Of course we see clearly in Scripture that the descendants of Abraham were not children of the FLESH but are children of the Spirit. This promise of possession of a special land was first given to Abraham and to those that would come from the seed of Isaac. The possession of this special land has nothing to do with the flesh or the natural world. Not all Israel is Israel yet all Israel shall inherit this land. You need to quit thinking about this land as the piece of earth called Israel in the middle east.
Moving beyond the “genesis” of this promise given to Abraham, the story of Moses leading Israel out Egypt, into the wilderness and eventually into the promised land is exactly what our Christian walk is supposed to be about as well. The application is simply amazing when you look at it carefully. I will make my first attempt at explaining this and will do this by walking you through Deuteronomy Chapter 8. The same message is in Exodus and Numbers and other places but this one chapter has a self-contained illustration of possessing the land.
Deuteronomy 8:1 All the commandments that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to give to your forefathers.
You see the promise of possessing the land was never about possessing a piece of earth over in the Middle East. It was always about possessing a spiritual land, a land of peace, flowing with milk and honey. The prerequisite or advance criteria for possessing this land is that WE OBEY God’s commandments. Any other way is the wrong way.
While I believe literally in the Old Testament stories, God is His foreknowledge, wisdom and mystery, played out history in a way that would serve to guide His true sheep until He came to take them all to our eternal home. We see in Hebrews a nice summation of what was promised to the father of all faith, Abraham.
Hebrews 11:10 By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;10for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. My post entitled What Abraham Really Believed will dwell more deeply on the promise but I reference it here as it is important to understand the promise God made to Abraham. Moses tells the Israelites about the journey, the walk they had been on and why they had been walking for so long.
Deut 8:2 You shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. To enter the promised land and possess it, we must first come through the wilderness. We live in a wilderness in this body and on this planet. We are aliens in a hostile land that is full of beasts and other predators that are out to devour us spiritually. God does this on purpose, to humble us as this WORD says and to test our hearts to see if we will actually keep His commandments.
If we do not humble ourselves and follow the Holy Spirit; and instead try to do it our way via the works of our flesh and cling to unbelief, we will never make it out of the wilderness. We will never have true peace and we will never enter the land of promise. Many are called but few our chosen. All the Israelites answered the call and left Egypt, which is a type in the Scriptures for the “world”. But very very few of them, successfully came through the furnace of fire and were sanctified and allowed to enter the promised land. This story was an example of our very walk today. Like the original Israelites, we are told very few will make it through the narrow gate and only the remnant will be saved.
We need to do more than just leave Egypt, we must cross over from the wilderness into the land of milk and honey. You see if we trust God, He will feed us just as He fed Moses’s people with manna from heaven. It was right here from Deut. 8 that Jesus quoted the Scriptures to Satan.
Deut 8:3 man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD. Jesus is the bread of life, but when we figure out another way or resort to rebellion like Korah did (See Numbers), we are destroyed and will die spiritually in the wilderness, never making it across the river. The Jordan river in the Book of Joshua, represents the enemy and is the divide between the promised land and the wilderness. Only by following the ARK (Jesus) will the waters part and allow us to pass through and possess the land that God promised those that make covenant with Him.
Moses tells the flock about the discipline of the LORD, which is the furnace of affliction that each of us must spend a lot of time in to prove our metal to God and pass His tests. As Jeremiah 6:27 tells us, God is a tester of metals and their quality, this is symbolic to our walk of holiness before Him. The first Adam failed this test, the second Adam, Jesus was fabulously victorious. We must follow Jesus and that is how we overcome and get across the river and possess the land of milk and honey. This is not a physical possession, it is a spiritual possession. Our hearts are the land, we are the temple of the living God.
Deut 8:5-6 Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. So if we respond to the Lord’s discipline and walk in His ways being led by His Spirit, we are told what to expect on the other side of the river.
Deut 8:7-9 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9a land where you will eat food without scarcity, in which you will not lack anything; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. The springs and brooks are the Holy Spirit that is given to those who OBEY God as the Scriptures tell us. True wisdom and understanding come from this bounty of food, there is no famine in this land. A key sign of the end are famines, and Jesus was not speaking about physical food. The true word of God will be perveted and twisted into deception, that is the delusion and the flood that I have spoke of a lot recently.
You see, possessing the land is not something we need to wait until Jesus comes back to possess. We possess this land right here and right now, if we are truly Born of God and are led by His Spirit. This is the first resurrection, the second is yet to come where we will inherit the heavenly city for eternal life.
Once we enter into this promised land here and now. We are warned to not rest on our laurels. Yes, Christians can fall away, eternal security and once saved always saved are doctrines of demons straight from the mouth of Satan. God does not change and Jesus is the same today as He was yesterday and will be forevermore. Do not be deceived and fall victim to pride that our enemy uses as a chief weapon of deception. God resists the proud and brings them low.
Deut 8:11-14 Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today; 12otherwise, …….. .then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. We are all born into bondage. We are born slaves to sin and our master is our flesh which is the nature of Satan. This is what we must die to, but we are warned time and time again to not fall from our steadfast position and make our calling and election sure.
Falling away from the truth is a horrible thing as Peter tells us we will be worse off than if we had never come to know God. Look at how Moses characterizes the journey the LORD brings us through that we overcome by the grace of God, IF we act upon that grace and choose righteousness.
Deut 8:15 He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint. The world is the dominion of Satan and his dark powers. Anyone who makes themselves a friend of the world is an enemy of God. If we submit ourselves to God and humble ourselves, He pours out His grace and that is how we are saved and overcome all these things. Despite the parched ground, we will never thirst.
We all need to understand, we don’t save ourselves. We can’t get to the promised land on our own initiative or strength. It is by grace that we are saved. God tells us why in the next passage.
Deut 8:16-17 In the wilderness He fed you manna which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do good for you in the end. Otherwise, you may say in your heart, ‘My power and the strength of my hand-made me this wealth.’ God is His great wisdom and plan, makes us look to Him alone to be fed. If we could feed ourselves, we would then think we can save ourselves and would boast in our great works. God saves everyone. This is where Paul gets the same truth and conveys to us in Ephesians that we are saved by grace, it is not by the works of our own hands. It is all Him all the time. Moses continued with the explanation.
Deut 8:18 But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. The covenant was that if we BELIEVED GOD, meaning that God would raise up a new man from our old dying flesh, that HE WOULD PERFORM IT. That is what Abraham believed as Genesis 15:4 attests. Most Christians believe IN GOD but they do not BELIEVE GOD and His Promise. They take matters into their own hands and try to do it their way, being religious but living and sowing in their flesh. This is the deception that has overtaken the Babylon Church of the end. The deception teaches us that believing in God is what is important and that obeying God is a works salvation. That have it totally backwards and upside down.
This chapter ends, with a stern warning from Moses about this error. We had best heed the Words of the Lord, spoken thru His prophets.
Deut 8:19-20 It shall come about if you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
This is the will of the Father, that we listen to His son, our Lord. Notice that these “believers” in God were told they would perish just as the pagan nations that did not believe in God. I will resist the temptation to go off and show this elsewhere but I will direct you to one verse where Paul made this quite clear as well.
1 Thess 1:8 The Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God AND to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
I realize the post did not really cover possessing the land in-depth. I hope to circle back to it in a deeper dive into the Scripture. So possessing the land is a metaphor for how we walk in the spirit of Christ. When we trust in God, believing in Him fully, we die to ourselves, we obey God’s commandments by following His Spirit. That is how we enter in this land of peace and rest, flowing with milk and honey. Jesus came to show us the way, to the land and how to possess it. Follow Him in truth and in Spirit and you will find it.
Jeremiah 30:3 For behold, days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah ‘ The LORD says, ‘I will also bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers and they shall possess it. My friends, this promise of returning to the land was not about the present country of Israel. It was a promise made to the children of Abraham. As I showed you earlier and as it spelled out in Galatians 4, and John 8, the children of Abraham are NOT children of the flesh. Natural and ancestral Jews have nothing to do with who the Israel of God is today. This is a huge deception that is making people blind to the prophecy signs that are all around us. Wake up.
Are you at peace? Are you at rest in your spirit? Are you satisfied deep in your heart? If not I encourage you to seek the face of the Living God. You need to lay down the works of your hands and let God come do what He has purposed for your life. He doesn’t want you to be religious, He wants your heart and submission to His will and not yours. Take refuge in Him, that is the only way to possess the land that was promised.
Isaiah 57:13 But he who takes refuge in Me will inherit the land and will possess My holy mountain
Sing aloud unto the Lord!!!!
Rejoice in the Lord. Seeking always to please Him.
Placing the welfare of others above our own.
For as Christ walked so should we.
Servant to all………………….yet had made the world.
Enduring all suffering , knowing the glory which is to be revealed.
Sing a song of Praise with much thanksgiving.
Be blessed.
Nice job on the article Pete. I hadnt read this one yet.
Thank you Charles, this is a very good explanation of “the kingdom within”. I can see this. My hope is that others will begin to see this also.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be;
but we know that, when he shall appear( at His coming…………behold he comes quickly, and His coming draws nigh), we shall be like Him( new bodies……..heavenly bodies , free of the evils of this flesh) , for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that has this hope in Him purifies himself , even as He is pure.
Praise the Lord , yes……………Praise the Lord.
They longed for His day. They knew……………to depart and be with Christ is far better.
Yet prayed the Fathers will be done. And edified the church by the power, which comes not from man…………..but from God.
FOr with man these things are impossible…………But with God………..all things are possible.
A new heart given…………….new desires………heavenly……..not earthy………….for this world passes away………………and only God endures……………and those of Him…….by His Grace, His salvation. As once told long ago………………..In Christ all things are possible………..to those who believe. Peoples fight ………………earnestly contend for the true faith which was deliverd long ago to the Church……….the body of believers…………..the Family of God………..in spirit. All made one in Christ. GRACE.
Now let us be faithful stewards of this grace freely given us. Free for us, but the price paid……..by the only One who knew no sin………..yet became sin………….that all sins be forgiven………….and rose again for our justification. That now we are new creatures, looking for Him, His appearing in that day. And our hopes, trust , treasures.. and affections be set above in Him, in the heafenlies………..In Christ………….seated at the right hand of the Father…………..and one day soon………..shall come quickly for His Bride, His body……….whose body we are if we hold fast this confidence , hope, in Him, until the end.
For the end of our faiht………….is salvation.
Blessed be the name of the Lord…………Praise His holy Name.
@Charles Thank you for sharing this. I am going back to read in Joshua tonight. The spiritual application of the historical revelation is quite profound. We must search things out and take it all to God per Jeremiah 33.3, but this consistency in the battle of flesh vs spirit, good vs evil and the kingdom’s within is pretty amazing. Let him who has ears to hear hear and eyes to see, see. In God’s timing, the Spirit will awaken more and more. My post here was only skin deep into the spiritual kingdom and battle in bringing about God’s will which is our sanctification.
1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure
Thanks brother Charles for the very helpful understanding, revealed by the Holy Ghost.
John 19:34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
After Jesus Spirit had been commended to God, his sleeping body (the 2nd Adam) was pierced and the life giving fluids come from his right side which create the bride of Christ. As you pointed out Charles this same thing took place in the garden when Adam fell into a deep sleep and his side was opened up to create the woman (Eve) who was the mother of all living. The believers on a collective layer are the bride of Christ, the church which is formed out of Christ from the water and blood which flowed from His side. This bride is spotless and in His image..
Acts ch 2 -37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
what shall we do? This is the same thing Nicodemus was asking Jesus.
38 Then Peter said unto them,1 Repent,–This curtails a godly repentance and not a worldly repentance. Most churches teach a worldly repentance, which lasts for but a season. This can be linked to the 1st false prophet Simon the sorcerer in Acts ch 8, their were 2 churches in that story the apostate, and the real (apostle Phillip).
and be 2 baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, (the blood)—
and ye shall 3 receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (the water)
1 The beginning is a conscience fear of God, and answering the call to repentance and 2 being baptized in the blood of Christ for the remission of sins. (the blood) Which is believing in Christ for the remission of sin. as you said Charles; “is only half of the born again process” “This simply gets you in a position to now “SEE” the kingdom of God or the spiritual reality of the Kingdom of God within you”.. Just like the children of Israel coming out of Egypt after Passover, and placed the lambs blood over the door. likewise are those who accept Christ’s blood sacrifice for the remission of sins.
Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost
Acts ch 8-5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
6 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
8 And there was great joy in that city.
9 But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
10 To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
11 And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.
12 But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
This vs 12 is the blood which is the baptism for the remission of sin. (Hebrews placing the lambs blood over their door)
13 Then Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.
14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:
When word got back to the present church head quarters in Jerusalem (James the son of Alphaeus was the overseerer of that church) They sent 2 witnesses (Peter, John) to Samaria to see if they had received the gift of the Holy Ghost.
15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
They had not yet received the water.
17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
The water flows with abundance and increases in the spirit man who has the faith of a mustard seed, and the flesh man decreases. Then as the Spirit brings moisture to the new creature who is being formed in Christs image. 2 Peter 2 Peter 1-5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
Agape
Bill
Pete,
Thank you for your insights regarding this article, and all the things that you do. What God reveals is like a well made stew, that we ‘all” can eat from . God bless, Jer33:3
Conquering our internal Land
I love hearing his truth; we become in Christ, men and women who will not settle for a lie, because we now know that his truth within us, will make us free.
When we hear Jesus saying that he did not come to bring peace, but a sword, I can’t help but think of Joshua (shadow of Christ) and the children of Israel in the Promised Land.
The “sword” that Jesus has brought us, is the sword of the spirit, which is the WORD of God. Joshua and the children of Israel in the “Promised Land,”had an exterior physical sword (a shadow) as an example of the spiritual Sword of Gods WORD, within the “faithful” believer.
The Pharisees with their Babylonian, self made approach to God, couldn’t provide a sword (WORD), and his disciples couldn’t provide this interior sword.
Only Jesus can provide an internal sword that cuts away and removes our internal son of perdition, and destroys him by the brightness of his coming. Christ Jesus only, is this one of a kind internal sword that can destroy the old nature through faith in his WORD: this happens when Gods WORD enters our Kingdom Within, he then becomes our “sword of the spirit”.
There were two people within the (one taken, one left behind) the children of Israel, when they first begun their 40 year internal walk in their own spiritual wilderness.
There was this spiritual man within who needed to fully emerge, by complete obedience in Gods WORD, and there was this other man dark man (son of perdition) who had his own “self” made approach (Babylon) to God, which could not gain victory or inherit the Promised Land (Kingdom Within).
This corporate man in the wilderness had to march around physically, until the interior flesh man of that held them in bondage, was purged from their spirit or Kingdom Within.
Israel’s true spiritual reality of the taking of the Promised Land (within them) from the godless interior son of perdition, had already taken place before they crossed or as they “emerged’ on the other side the Jordan River. The Jordan River is a place of life for the spirit, and death for the son of perdition or old nature. Those waters from the Jordan River were backed up all the way to the city of Adam, where sin originated from.
The baptisms by John and other scriptures point to this river being a place of life for the born again spirit of man, and death for the old nature, the interior son of perdition.
This story of Joshua (Shadow of Jesus, head) and the children of Israel (shadow of the “body” of born again believers) taking the Promised Land, is a shadow of the internal spiritual battle within our spirit, for Gods WORD to rule and reign in our Kingdom within.
This story is a shadow, of what the believer must go through within our internal/ eternal spirit, with the sword of the spirit, which is the WORD of God: it must bring into submission by faith in Gods WORD, this interior godless Babylonian son of perdition of self will, and destroy it totally.
Jesus says: I am the “WAY”, we must follow the WAY, and the correct WAY is by filling ourselves up with the truth of Gods WORD, and being obedient to it. That’s why God says that obedience is greater than sacrifice.
We must realize that this internal flesh man of self stands in the WAY of our eternal inheritance: he must be destroyed by bringing Gods WORD as Lord and ruler upon the thrones of our hearts, so that we can inherit the Promised Land (The KINGDOM WITHIN).
We must go through the Promised Land with the sword of the spirit (Gods WORD) and destroy this son of perdition, with the brightness of his coming, in every aspect of our lives.
We may suffer setbacks in our march through our internal kingdom within, but we must fight the good fight by taking up our cross daily, and never give up hope. We must continue to fill our kingdom within, with his WORD of Faith, striving always to go forward in obedience, and allow Christ to construct a mansion of oneness within us, as King and Lord.
We need to look at the story of Anchan in the book of Joshua, and how the children of Israel were told not to take any possessions from Jericho (a type of Babylon) after their victory.
Anchan took Gold, and a “BABYLONIAN GARMENT” against Gods command, and buried these “ temporal things” down in the” EARTH”( within him), inside of his “TENT”( spirit) or “dwelling place”
I know some of you are following what is going on here, with the internal application of what Anchan did. He in essence, exercised his own” self will” ( Babylon) , over Gods WORD, which is the age old battle that first started back in the Garden of Eden: it is the same old repeated story, just different players. A Babylonian garment of self will, provides no protection, only the seamless garment of oneness in Gods WORD, can give us that protection in oneness.
Anchan although, was still part of this corporate spiritual man going forth in the promised land ( KINGDOM WITHIN ), but he was now like an infectious life threatening disease within this corporate body of believers; it is that way with things of self that enter into our kingdom or spirit, when they are not in submission to Gods WORD.
The next time this corporate body of believers, represented in the children of Israel went forward into battle, they got themselves a good ole country tail whipping!
They had to stop what they were doing and “ASK GOD” why they hadn’t been victorious, and what had kept them from victory in battle. I hope you are getting the internal aspect of what happens, when self will gains ascendency over Gods WORD in our lives, and what the outcome will “always “be. That’s when Jer: 33:3 should kick in, and we call unto the Father to show us what is wrong within our hearts or our internal kingdom, that keeps us from victory. When this departure from Gods Word happens in our Kingdom Within, it spiritually removes God from the throne of our hearts, and reseats the son of perdition, the old nature, as Lord and ruler. Many uncommitted believers keep rotating Christ, and the son of perdition, back and forth upon the throne of their hearts; it is so that their own self will can gain ascendency because of their lack of faith in Gods WORD, which puts them in a spiritually luk warm position, to be spewed from the mouth of God.
Friends, if we have a “desire’ to serve God, lets stop and ask why we possibly are not victorious in our spiritual battles, an accusatory finger should be pointing at the internal man of self, the son of perdition, who gets revived every time we exercise our will over Gods.
My friends, he is not a giant in our internal land, if we can truly see him for what he is: Joshua and Caleb (men of faith), saw in their faithful obedient eyes, just how puny this godless flesh man really was, as did David, when he killed Goliath.
Achan, who allowed this godless son of perdition to set upon the throne of his heart, was killed by Joshua (shadow of Jesus, THE WORD), his children (seed) were killed, and his Wife was killed (can’t reproduce), everything he owned was destroyed.
Joshua (shadow of Jesus) by his “WORD” ordered him and his family killed (TAKEN AWAY) and all the temporal things that he held in regard were destroyed, his progression in the “kingdom within’ had been stopped, by exercisising his will over Gods.
This had to happen, because when Gods WORD by faith is not manifested from the inside out, we will fail in our “ self made” attempts to conquer the Promised Land or kingdom within: because the internal spiritual coming of Gods WORD (Christ’s presence) as Lord and ruler was not seated on the throne of our heart. Jesus said that a little leaven, leavens the whole lump, sin cannot be in the believer as Lord and ruler, nor can it be in the body of Christ. This vivid external shadow of Joshua and the children of Israel is a true spiritual reflection of our own “Kingdom Within”. We don’t even have to get up off of our couches to fight this battle, because it is internal.
After self will in the person of Anchan was destroyed; this body of believers was able to go on from one victory to another, after the man of self had been removed from the PROMISED LAND or KINGDOM WITHIN: so it is also within the spirit of man.
Look at the scriptures in Joshua, when it talks about the five kings who had banded together (Five senses, intellect) against Joshua, who was a shadow of Gods Word: after their “armies” were defeated, they had fled, and were trying to “hide” in a cave in the “EARTH” (Within our earthen bodies). This is an outward example of not allowing our senses, or sense knowledge to gain ascendency over faith in Gods WORD.
We can read about how they were “brought up” out of the “EARTH’ by Joshua ( shadow of Jesus, Gods Word ) from their hiding place , and how “his men” put their foot on their necks which symbolizes victory/ ruler ship over the senses and intellect (tree of knowledge) by faith in Gods WORD.
We could go into further detail of these things, but let us realize through all these writings that the flesh guy in our internal land has to be removed by faith in Gods WORD. He has to be removed or “Taken Away” so that we can come into his rest and inheritance, that only faith in Gods WORD can bring. Jesus said that heaven and earth shall pass away, but my Words shall never pass away. This is our chance to put as much of Gods WORD inside of us, and operate on it by obedience, so that we can become eternal in oneness with him. These fleshly bodies are our tickets or springboard into the heavens to be seated with Christ; we must simply take up our cross and follow him daily. Let us not loose sight of this internal battlefield within. God bless, Jer. 33:3
Seeing and Entering the Kingdom Within
I pray that the people reading this article can have the spiritual eyesight to truly understand, because, this may be a last chance to spiritually leave this earthen realm and be seated with Christ in the heavens. I write the following not as someone who has all the answers, or to see my beliefs go forward, but out of concern and compassion, in regards to spiritual life threatening awareness of the following issue. It is another opportunity to “see” this internal, spiritual kingdom of God within, so that you can “enter” into it. Christ the WORD, who is present within the spirits of his sons and daughters as Lord, and are seated with him in the heavens (although few in number), ruling and reigning with him in this spiritual internal second coming, in their spiritual “Kingdom Within”. They now have “seen” this spiritual internal kingdom that Christ has given his life to restore, and have “entered” by faith in his WORD. These Sons and daughters have rejected the things of this earth, and the things in it, and have been transformed spiritually (Born again): they have entered into his rest and inheritance by Christ’s blood, and also by the brightness of his WORD coming within their spirits. But very few people are “seeing” this internal / eternal “Kingdom within”, so they cannot “enter” in. The extended hands of those sons and daughters of God, who are now seated with Christ in heavenly places, have been slapped away spiritually, by earthly outer court “children” who focus on this literal earth. Preference has been given to earthly “eve of destruction” messages, endless Shakespearean quotations of scripture, and current world events that are focused on a literal earth, instead of the internal spiritual one. You have become Baal worshipers (sun worshippers) spiritually, because you are still focusing your attention on the natural light that this earth provides, in relation to your outer court , 30 fold, spiritual condition.Everytime you focus on this natural world, and its events, instead of the internal spiritual condition and kingship of Gods WORD within you, his jealously and wrath are invoked, because you are spiritually turning your back away from his internal spiritual temple within, in preference for a natural external light of this world. There are outer court “children” in the spiritual realm, who are being bounced upon the intellectual, sense knowledge knee’s of worldly focused prophetic scholars, who are not seeing the spiritual intent of Gods WORD: they have the outer court children giggling and laughing as their focus is on a literal world. Jesus never focused on world politics, Roman ruler ship of Israel, moon phases, etc, he came to cleanse our internal Kingdom of sin with his blood (spirit), and fill it with living “waters” of life (his WORD, His PRESENCE), bringing the spiritual reality of his coming into our “kingdom within” FIRST. When Nicodemus was told by Jesus, that he must be born of “spirit” and “water”, in order to “enter” into the kingdom of God, he did not understand. People today, still do not understand thousands of years latter, because what he said to Nicodemus has to be spiritually discerned, the born again process is internal. When Jesus was pierced in his side on the cross, water and blood flowed onto / into the earth. The spiritual symbolism of this is that his blood was for the cleansing of our sins, and the ‘water” is the WORD: it symbolizes Christ’s presence coming into our earthen bodies or kingdom within for regeneration. These life giving fluids from his side create the bride of Christ, just like Adam whose side was opened up to create Eve; this was a shadow of this spiritual reality. The children of Israel upon experiencing Passover, which was a shadow of the spiritual reality of accepting the lambs blood (remission of sins), could now “SEE” the Promised Land, when pharaoh released them from “captivity”( bondage of sin), but, they were not yet ready to “ENTER” into this Kingdom or promised land because Gods WORD of faith was not “IN” them. :his presence of faith “within them” would come 40 years latter when Gods WORD had permeated/ flooded out, the godless interior flesh man in their wilderness, that was the true spiritual removal of this son of perdition from the promised land or “Kingdom Within” . Acceptance of the sacrificial Lambs blood is the SPIRIT part of what Jesus told Nicodemus, concerning being born again ( ye must be born of “spirit” and water). This simply gets you in a position to “SEE” the Promised Land or the spiritual reality of the “Kingdom Within”, mans spirit. This SPIRIT part, is believing in Christ for the remission of sin, which is only half of the born again process: just like the children of Israel coming out of Egypt after Passover, so are those who accept Christ’s blood sacrifice for the remission of sins. That just gets us in a position to “SEE” the kingdom of heaven “Within You”, after receiving the blood of the lamb for a sin sacrifice; it does not allow you to “ENTER” the promised land or Kingdom at this point, because faith in his WORD must next come spiritually “within” you, in order to defeat the godless flesh man within your land, the son of perdition. Now for the WATER part that Jesus told Nicodemus about, so that the kingdom of Heaven that is” within you” can be “ENTERED”. The only way our interior “Kingdom Within” can be entered and conquered is by Gods WORD, which is the second half, the “WATER” part, that completes the born again process. Christ’s spiritual second coming to the spirit of man, or kingdom within, is the “WATER” portion of what Jesus told Nicodemus.The “water” is the spiritual WORD of God, regarding Christ’s conversation with Nicodemus.Here are some of the numerous examples of the WATER being Gods WORD: The WATER is the WORD in the flood of Noah that killed the godless flesh men, the WATER is the WORD that killed the godless Egyptians in the Red Sea, The WATER is the WORD when John Baptized in the Jordan River, it is a shadow of Gods WORD coming into our earthen bodies and bringing life to the spirit, and death to the man of perdition or old nature. In 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, Gods WORD, Christ, the brightness, comes into our spirit and consumes this flesh man, the son of perdition. For those who are focused on a physical Jesus returning to a natural earth, and have not brought Gods WORD by faith into your spirit, you have not experienced this second half of the born again process and are only “seeing” this Kingdom: his literal coming at this point, will mean spiritual disaster for you when it comes, without this complete regeneration process taking place ‘within you”. Are you feeling uncomfortable over these words, you who are in the outer court, who can only “see” the kingdom, you are half baked, neither cold nor hot, I hope your interior spiritual earth is reeling and rocking back and forth at this point.: I hope you see your earth being shaken spiritually, like you “see” this literal shaking of this natural earth that you focus on, to the point where you wake up to this spiritual reality. Most outer court children who are reading this, are near sighted, they do not know that they are in a spiritual wilderness, they think someone else is being described in these writings; you are always thinking the “Promised Land” is in the future, just like in waiting for Jesus to appear physically once again. God in the flesh has already died, so that you can have his appearance within you TODAY, within your spiritually cleansed temple or “KINGDOM WITHIN”. Your spirit has been cleansed by his blood already, if you have accepted him as a sin sacrifice; all you have to do now is add WATER within, for your spiritual growth, within your spirit or “garden”. Come into this 60 fold relationship as a son or daughter, by faith in his WORD, it will bring you into the Fathers protective arms. Christ’s internal coming, the living waters of life that flow from the throne of God will make him the “Gardner” of your heart, as Mary supposed him to be after his resurrection. If he is taken inside, he will weed out this godless son of perdition from within your garden, by faith in his WORD, simply leaving no room for him. Born of “SPIRIT”, in regards to Jesus conversation with Nicodemus, equates to being cleansed by his sacrificial blood and being able to” see” the KINGDOM WITHIN (Passover lamb is the starting point spiritually), and then born of WATER, is his internal presence or spiritual second coming, in allowing his WORD as LORD and ruler of your kingdom within. Can there be any doubt that this is being born again, because those that have experienced this full process are seated in the heavens with him, and can attest to it. When you do this, you enter into his rest, this spiritual seventh day has come to your spirit or kingdom within. At this point in your spiritual walk, you have inherited the kingdom fruits; you eat from this spiritual table that has been prepared for you in the presence of your enemies. You may say because of your lack of spiritual eyesight, go away Charles with your false doctrine, you are judging us, you think that you are holier than Christ himself, give us the numerous chariots of security from Egypt, most all dispute your words, go away! Give us those who provide no resistance that agree with us, and say amen in affirmation. This man has a sword, he takes away our false peace, he has revealed and cut and sliced at our internal godless man of perdition, who was hidden in our ‘Kingdom within”: you say “leave us, or I will say that your teachings are false, and correct you with my literal revelations of Gods WORD. Friends, Charles fails on occasion, but Christ never fails, that’s why it is so important to bring his presence within us to its fullest degree, so are failures become less and less as he increases. Oh outer court sun worshippers, who see with a the natural light the things of God that must be spiritually discerned, you are once again looking for my physical presence, instead of the reality of my spiritual coming within you. You Look at this shadow called earth, and not at the spiritual realities within, that I have given my life for ;you try to predict my coming with natural eyes focused on this temporal world, this shadow, as the false prophets have done, ye spiritually blind leaders of the blind. It is time to leave this natural world spiritually, flee from the unprotected region of the outer court, into the Temple of my protection, where my presence radiates from. Stop basking in this natural earthly light in the outer court; bring his presence into your Kingdom within, so that you NOW can be seated with him in the heavens. If you are in this spiritual condition internally, and are satisfied, and reject his spiritual coming within your kingdom as heresy, then you cannot ‘ENTER” into the kingdom, because you are not born again. The cry goes out, many are called, but few are chosen, will it be you who are selected? It is so simple, but yet so hard to understand what has been written. It is so simple that it can be summed up in this scripture, Lean not upon thine own understanding (Tree of carnal sense knowledge), but trust in the Lord (Tree of eternal life, Gods WORD, his presence within you), it is your choice. You cannot approach God through intellectual understandings , sense knowledge, or have his presence in your Kingdom / spirit, ruling as Lord in this regard , you can only have it through bringing his “spiritual coming’ by faith in his eternal WORD within the temple of your body, after your sins have been forgiven. What has been written is not popular, because it challenges traditions and false doctrines: but if this spiritual kingdom is simply “seen” and not “entered “into, it would be like running a race and quitting half way through, and the prize of eternal life had not been obtained. If the race is finished, it will create that born again spirit or “kingdom within” that Jesus told Nicodemus about. Christ was resurrected “on” this earth some 2000 years ago, is he’ now” raised by faith”, inside your’ kingdom within”? The time is “now”, to have faith in his WORD the size of a mustard seed, so that mountains of doubt, unbelief, religious pride, traditions can be removed. “NOW” faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. You must ask yourself, am I satisfied with being neither hot nor cold, double minded, trying to serve two masters, focusing in on the gloom and doom of an exterior world, looking for Christ to appear without, instead of within, to his fullest possible level spiritually? Jesus said that heaven and earth shall pass away, but my WORDS shall never pass away, have you become eternal by filling yourself by faith in his WORD? Friends, we understand that we must perform our half of the covenant, in regards to” dying to self” in order to come into eternal life with him: it is also this way in regard to the born again process, he has already provided a blood sacrifice, now it is our obligation to bring his eternal WORD by faith into our “kingdom within” so that we can become eternal. This portion of bringing Gods WORD into their internal Kingdom was not completed within the “children” of Israel, which caused them to die in the wilderness. They did not bring his WORD of faith into their internal kingdom that would have destroyed the interior godless man of perdition. This hidden man in our land needs to be flooded out with faith in Gods WORD. God says he has set before us blessings and curses this day, he says choose life, by bringing the brightness of his coming into your internal “Kingdom Within”: it will remove all darkness inwardly by the true spiritual reality of his coming within your kingdom. Let us here also his WORDS, “Lazarus come forth” within our “Kingdom Within” by removing the hardness of our hearts, and the traditions of men. Let Christ enter in by faith, to build the spiritual mansion that he desires to construct within your kingdom, there are many. Bring his Word into your KINGDOM WITHIN” today, before it is too late.
Jer. 33:3