Glorifying God, Our Earth is Made Perfect
Thank you, Father, for creating us and for the many wonderful works being accomplished that manifest your glory. We praise your Holy Name and rejoice in these blessings you have bestowed upon your children.
We have been created and called to bring forth glory to God. This is the sole reason we exist and why the Lord bestows us the gifts and the many wonderful works that bring salvation. Our salvation glorifies God.
Isa 43:7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works [obedience is the glory], which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
The Father of whom are all things is called the Father of Glory, and the Lord by whom are all things is known as the King of Glory. Without the King, the power of the Holy Commandments ruling in our hearts, salvation is elusive, and so is the Father’s glory. But when the King of Glory comes, via His Promise, salvation comes, and the war with flesh is won.
Psa 24:8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Psa 24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Psa 24:10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
John’s baptism prepares us for the King to come with glory as we embrace the Gospel and wait as commanded for the Promise. The preparation phase cannot be skipped, as being washed with water of the Word comes first. The Bride of Christ is those who receive the Promise, and they are prepared and then told to watch and to pray until the Lord comes.
Mar 13:32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Mar 13:33 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Glory Springs forth from Judgment by the Living Word
When the King comes, judgment has fallen upon our house. Judgment comes through the Living Word, that is, chastening and making all things new on our third day. The glory of Christ is established within us and manifests salvation in very short order. The King of Glory is revealed in His Holy Temple.
Eze 39:21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
Eze 39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
When the Lord comes, His glory that is holiness dwells in the Promised Land and is seen on the earth, meaning in our actions and deeds.
Hab 2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Psa 19:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
With Christ and the Father sitting in our heavens, God’s righteousness is declared, and God’s glory shines from the inside to the outside. God’s enemies, our sins, are burned up, and all behold God’s glory.
Psa 97:3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
Psa 97:5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Psa 97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
When the Lord comes, everything in our lives is being made straight. All men see it in due time, it comes to pass, and the glory of the Lord is revealed to all flesh.
Isa 40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
Isa 40:5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Vessels Ordained and Prepared Unto Glory
Our first created vessel, the man Adam, is a vessel of dishonor and needs remaking, as the man of flesh cannot inherit the kingdom of God. The second vessel made, the new man from heaven, is made in the image of the Lord. This second vessel is created to bring honor and glory to God. It is by the remaking process that the power of God and the riches of His glory are made known to us who previously did not understand. It is all preordained for the chosen of God and is a gift to those on whom it is bestowed.
Rom 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Rom 9:22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Rom 9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
While we suffer many afflictions, they are light compared to the eternal weight of God’s glory. Therefore, we do not lose hope as this painful transition occurs. With the Living Christ in our temple, all our experiences become the grace of God, working to manifest God’s glory.
2Co 4:15 NKJV For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
2Co 4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
2Co 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
When the faith of Christ comes, we are justified in God’s eyes. Given this gift of His faith, we begin to rest in the peace of Jesus Christ. We know we are mere clay in the Potter’s hands. All the years of bondage and sweating, doing our own work to save ourselves, are over. Being justified by the gift of His faith, we believe and wait on the Lord to finish the work, following the lead of His indwelling Spirit, rejoicing in the hope of Glory still to be revealed.
Rom 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
The error we all make before the Promise comes is thinking it is up to us and our power to stop sinning. It is not up to us, as God works in us to will and to way according to His good pleasure. The Lord does a quick work in establishing us and strengthening us in the faith, so we begin to be perfected as our Father, now sitting in our heaven, is already perfect. We are being remade into a true son of God, that is the Father’s glory.
Mat 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Christ dies for us while we are yet sinners. Christ does not wait for us to clean ourselves up before He comes; He is the one who causes us to repent, and is the one who comes to clean us and to make us perfect. It is always I will say the Lord.
Eze 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
Isa 49:3 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
Our glorification is about His namesake and His glory, never our own.
Isa 48:11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.
Eze 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Both baptisms, John’s of the water and the latter of Christ by the Spirit, are the Lord’s Work. Every aspect of salvation is His work, even when our progress is hindered or nonexistent. Every step a man takes is ordered by the Lord working all things. Apart from Christ, we can do nothing. Every breath we take, every thought, every deed; there are no exclusions to what the Lord is not working. Our being, our existence, is in the Lord, and as a result, He is always near.
Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
When Christ comes, we are set free from the law of the accusing and excusing carnal mind and enter into the promised rest of Christ. The Spirit of the Living God, the King of Glory, is now doing the work of salvation. Christ’s coming to us has set us free by the perfect law of liberty, the law of Christ that is our measure of His faith. Now, we are led by the Holy Spirit, being born again of water and the Spirit. We see immediate changes wrought by God’s Spirit as we become His Glory. The purpose for our creation and election is now being accomplished right on time.
2Co 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2Co 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Glory Always is Seen in Power
Salvation has come to our house, and while we still have struggles, abiding in weak flesh, we overcome as we have access to the throne of grace of the Living God living in our hearts. The suffering is not over, as we suffer to cease from sin. With the love of God now in our hearts, the power of obedience works mightily. The Glory of the Father and the King of Glory is always seen with Power. It is not our power; it is the Divine Power of the Living Commandments, the Gospel that lives in us. In due time, more and more glory of the Lord is being manifested.
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
God’s Glory is seen in Power when the enemies of God, our sins, are dashed to pieces.
Exo 15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
When the Promise rests upon us, God’s Power is working within the kingdom of God. Obeying Christ in a dark world, we are evil spoken of by those bound by their carnal mind, yet happy are we as the Spirit of Glory rests on us and we walk in obedience, glorifying God.
1Pe 4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
The Resurrection of Christ Reveals the Glory
We fail to grasp the power and measure of the Lord’s majesty and greatly underestimate His absolute sovereignty in working of all things for the counsel of His will. We grow in this understanding as we mature in the faith. All the miracles performed by Christ were to reveal the glory of God. These events, all done in parables, show that our rising from the spiritually dead, being healed of blindness, deafness, and dumbness, and the casting out of many demons [lies], are all done to reveal the glory of the Father. It ties back to what was said at the beginning of this letter: we have been created to bring forth glory to God. The work of Jesus Christ and now His Christ, the elect in this age, is to bring that glory forward in those chosen to receive the Gospel. Let’s look at a few miracles, starting with the healing of the man born blind.
Joh 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Joh 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Joh 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
The work of the Father is to believe in Jesus Christ, whom the Father sent. It is the faith of Jesus Christ that reveals and declares the Father’s Glory. The ten lepers were cleansed, so the Glory of God would be declared, yet only one returned to do so.
Luk 17:17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?
Luk 17:18 There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
The Father’s Glory is revealed when we are given eyes to see, cleansed of our leprosy, and raised from spiritual death into newness of the Spirit.
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Our baptism of Christ plants us into the death of Christ and then raises us in the Spirit. This is the mystery of salvation, the power of God, and the act that declares the Glory of God. It fulfills the purpose for our being created.
Isa 46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Lastly, we have the resurrection of Lazarus, a parable showing that hearing the commandment to “arise and come forth” is the power of God raising us from the dead to reveal the glory of the Father in us.
Joh 11:3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Joh 11:4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
Jesus reminds Martha that He told her that if she believed, she should see God’s Glory. God’s Glory is revealed when Lazarus comes forth upon hearing the commandment. That is the Power of God through the commandments to raise men from the dead.
Joh 11:40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
Joh 11:41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
Joh 11:42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
Joh 11:43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
Joh 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
When Christ says “Come forth” or “Come up hither”, [Rev 11:12] we have received the Promise. We are commanded to rise from the spiritually dead and be loosed from the bondage of the law, which are the grave clothes that kept us abiding in spiritual death our whole lives. These mighty miracles and the raising of all men in their appointed time from the spiritually dead are to reveal the Glory of God. The glory of God had risen on Lazarus and does for us when we are called to come forth.
Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
The Lord’s Glory is Seen in a Cloud
The Lord and His Power and Glory are always coming and seen in a cloud. This is spiritual speak for Christ appearing in those who have become His witnesses when the Promise is received.
Luk 21:27 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
The Lord is no longer in flesh, as He now is Spirit and abides in the heavens of those redeemed from the earth. His coming is into the hearts and minds of His chosen Christ. This cloud of many witnesses is Jesus Christ, through whom the greater works are done right now in the lake of fire.
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
This cloud, individually and collectively, is the angel of the Lord, the elect, the saviours in whom the Lord comes, who leads Israel out of the world, through the wilderness, and into the Promised Land. Christ, the cloud leads Israel on the way and stands behind them to fight against the Egyptians [lusts of our flesh, see Exo 14].
Exo 16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.
In Ezekiel’s vision of the cherubim, the holy angels of the Lord appeared in a cloud, likened to the bow seen back in Noah’s days. The Glory of the Lord seen in them is the glory of the risen Christ who lives in them as they are children of the resurrection and now the angels of God.
Eze 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
The angels of the Lord are the children of the resurrection, as the parables of Matthew 22:30 and Luke 20:36 show. In turn, the angels become shepherds, ministers, and teachers, also called cherubim and seraphim. Glory is always in view when an angel is spoken about. It is not the angel’s glory, but the Lord’s glory dwelling in them. The symbolism of this means they are obeying the Lord, being Holy as their Father is Holy, and this is the manifestation of the Glory of the Father.
Eze 10:4 Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’S glory.
The parable of the Ascension shows Christ appearing in two witnesses, the two angels who stood nearby and instructed the disciples on how Christ would return to them. Christ ascended into a cloud they could not see physically; it was out of their sight.
Act 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Act 1:10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Act 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Christ returns the same way, coming in a way He is not recognized, being out of sight. Christ comes in His glory, which dwells inside the Holy Angels, who are the resurrected Christ in this world and have been since Pentecost.
Mat 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Angels of the Lord ascend and descend the ladder into heaven, communing with the Living Christ and bringing messages of good tidings, the Gospel, to those to whom they are sent. Their earth is lighted with the Glory of God.
Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with His glory.
Great is the mystery of godliness now being revealed to the saints. The Living Christ is being received into glory in all those who share a like-minded faith of Jesus Christ.
The Throne of Glory
When the Promise comes, we sit in the throne room in our hearts with Christ and the Father. This is the hope of glory we tarry for in Jerusalem until it comes. Our appointed time comes to follow Christ and be born again of the Spirit [regenerated], becoming one with Christ and the Father. Then we sit in the throne of glory, constantly bathed in the power of the Living Word of Commandments.
Mat 19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Isaiah’s vision of the throne room confirms the theme of the resurrected Christ manifesting God’s glory. This event, a parable, confirms how the Baptism of Christ, the Promise, comes by way of God’s angels. Those with the Promise, the resurrected Christ in them, have an earth full of the Lord’s glory.
Isa 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
Isa 6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Isa 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Seraphim is another term for angel, such as a cherubim, and even children of the resurrection. It is those who have received the Promise of the Lord who, in turn, are used to give it to others. The same Hebrew word for Seraphim [H8314] is used when Moses made a serpent [seraphim] and set it on a pole to stay the plague of serpents. Seraphim is spiritual speak for the resurrected Christ in us becoming a living sacrifice for the Lord. When we look to the resurrected Christ, the living commandments in us, we live, and the plague of the many serpents [carnal mind] is stopped [See Numbers 21].
A seraphim in the throne room comes to Isaiah and spreads the fire from the altar, which is the Living Gospel of Commandments that brings the baptism of Christ to those brought into the throne room. Those living commandments of fire purge our sins and bring salvation to every man.
Isa 6:6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
Isa 6:7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
The change happens in an instant, in a twinkling of an eye. Those given these coals of living fire have received the Gospel. The Gospel has now been put on their lips, and they are then sent to preach it and spread it some more.
Isa 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Receiving a Crown of Glory
Receiving the mind of Christ is the crown we are given. Having the same mind as Christ has us thinking and doing the Holy Commandments with all of our heart, mind, and soul. This is the first commandment on which everything else is based. When the Promise comes, the chief Shepherd has appeared, and we receive His crown of glory that fades not away.
1Pe 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
At the end of the race, we are given to run in these clay vessels, then we receive the fullness of the crown. Paul wrote about finishing his course and getting the crown because he had kept his faith. All who love Christ appearing in them are set to receive the same crown.
2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
2Ti 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
We are faithful to death, crucifying the lust of the flesh, before the crown of life comes. This is how we are completely saved from our sins and made perfect. We run the race to obtain the prize of the incorruptible mind of Christ.
Rev 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
The will of God, not man’s will, determines to whom and the timing of when Christ in us, the hope of glory, comes. Those ordained to receive the Father’s glory in this age are predestinated before the world was formed. It is all the work of God and none of our own. Yet our justification and subsequent glorification with the King’s of Glory is guaranteed. It is Promised.
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Rom 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
We have much to be thankful for and to look forward as the Lord finishes the good work He started. God’s glory IS BEING revealed in us; that is the reason for our existence and our creation.
1Pe 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1Pe 5:11 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
We pray that all the brethren receive this blessing of the Lord and encourage everyone to continue to be prepared and to watch.
