UNION TO THE KINGDOM GLORY OF GOD
THE VISIONS OF THE THRONE AND RIVER
Part 5

April 29, 2009
Mike Blume




  Scripture Text:

 
Psalms 110:1 KJV  <A Psalm of David.> The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

  Message:

 

The Holy Ghost in the earth is the WHOLE EARTH FILLED WITH HIS GLORY!

Recall Ezekiel saw river come from TEMPLE.

Revelation 21:22 KJV  And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

THERE IT IS AGAIN:  God AND the Lamb.

John said Isaiah saw THIS GLORY OF JESUS in Isa 6.
  • That glory was then ready to fill the earth.
  • So Holy Ghost outpouring is JESUS being poured out -- HIS GLORY.
This throne is in a city that is foursquare, with length, height and breadth as long as each other. 

Revelation 21:16 KJV  And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

The only other place that was cube shaped was the holiest of holies in which the ark of the covenant sat.

1 Kings 6:20 KJV  And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.

And from the throne comes a river of life.
  • This river is associated with ministering to a woman at a well in John 4.
  • Jesus spoke of rivers of living water.
  • He said He could give it to her.
  • And this river flows from the throne of the combination of God and the Lamb.
  • Ministry flows from this combination.

John 14:12 KJV  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

Notice Jesus associated greater works IN OUR LIVES with going to the Father, which was fulfilled when He sat down on the throne with the Father.
  • So, His seating on the throne has to do with feats that we can accomplish.
  • We are tied into His seating on the throne.
  • Going to the Father simply refers to sitting on the throne with the Father.

Doing something in this world is was it emphasized.
  • The Kingdom message is that we must do something in this world.
  • And our view of prophecy is so vital because most views promote an escapist mentality.
  • "Get us out of this world."
  • "Raise red heifers so the end will come when high priests are again ordained to offer sacrifices so as to cause temple sacrifice to begin and recommence the 70th week of Daniel."

Jesus prayed we remain in the world and be kept while in it.
  • Paul decided that it was better to remain with the church than to be absent from his mortal body to be present with the Lord.
  • And futurism concentrates on getting out of the world.

Something must happen.

Christ was raised to the throne so we would do greater works.
  • Think about it -- His seating there would cause us to do greater works.
  • We're connected to Him and He is on the throne.
  • His power is connected to us.
  • We can do great feats because His power on that throne is connected to us.
  • We're in atonement with Him.

And not only was Christ said to be seated there, but we were raised with Him and seated with Him over all powers.
  • Christ's presence there stands for our presence there, too.
  • So it is a picture of MANKIND redeemed and in union to God.
  • And it all focuses on what the ark represents -- the throne of God.
  • Wherever He is, we are.

We became inseparably united to Him in union at the point of when He died.


The Kingdom is represented by the fact that we need union to God through Christ and then sit on the throne and minister to the world.
  • We need to believe in our connection to Christ who is on the throne, and thereby believe Him for greater works to come forth from our lives.
  • The ark shows the throne and atonement, the two elements stressed in the Kingdom.
  • Man must unite to God in true atonement.
  • We must UNDERSTAND or SEE this to benefit from the Kingdom position we have in Christ

This is the message of Romans 6.
  • Religion taught Paul to try his human best to work for God.
  • The goal was good works.
  • But Paul failed every time.
  • He learned that he lacked the key of union to God in order to truly be able to work.

And Paul said this must be first KNOWN, then RECKONED to oneself and then we must finally act on that and present ourselves to God.

KNOWING means UNDERSTANDING.
  • We have to SEE this truth.
  • SEEING THIS will lead to reckoning to be true about us, which will bring action.
  • YIELD BODIES AS INSTRUMENTS TO DO SOMETHING

Doing everything through effort of solely using flesh sees us fail and not progress.

God wants to rip off the top of the ceiling of our progress by granting a revelation of Kingdom Seating with Christ concerning union to Him and experience what atonement truly achieved for us to experience.

The two trees show the difference.

John 6:57 KJV  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

LIKE FRUIT OF LIFE.

HOW WE LIVE

This is living by this Life.
  • The reason Paul spoke as one failing, to teach what and what not to do, in Romans 7 was because he described failing by living through human life alone.
  • You can have the life of God in you but not live by it.
  • Living by the Lord's life takes some understanding and learning.
  • You cannot do it without having been taught how.

Notice that Jesus said we eat Him so as to live by Him.
  • This means that eating the fruit of Life represents living by Jesus.
  • If we have not learned to live by Jesus, then we have never actually feasted on the fruit of Life.
  • Living by our natural man and natural mind is eating of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Paul concentrated so much upon good and evil and acquiring that knowledge in order to live right, that he was eating fo the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
  • Paul said he did not know evil and sin except but by the law.
  • This is the knowledge of evil.
  • Adam did not know he was naked until he ate of the forbidden fruit.

When the word goes into our hearts, we will not sin.

Psalms 119:11 KJV  Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

ARK HAD LAW INSIDE.

Hebrews 8:7-12 KJV  For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.  (8)  For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:  (9)  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.  (10)  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:  (11)  And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.  (12)  For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

This is the SEED OF THE WORD entering into the HEART (NOT BRAIN) of a person so as to reproduce GOOD WORKS like fruit from a branch and children from a wife.
  • Both the seed of a man and the sap from a tree's vine causes LIFE to enter the believer.
  • LIFE is not knowledge.
  • It is not living.

The ark had the LAW placed within itself.

This is like the heart of man where Jesus rules.
  • The throne is the heart of man.
  • It has God's law in it.
  • It shows the thought of the law written in the heart.

It also had a branch inside that thrived after being dead, and represented high priesthood.
  • HE IS VINE AND WE BRANCHES.
  • This is resurrection, as well as the branch concept of receiving life from the vine.
  • Moses learned the lesson of being branches when he saw the bush burning with fire and the bush not being consumed.
  • Man will run and not be weary and walk and not faint if he can learn to live by another life.
  • MOSES BURNT OUT.
  • Wait on the Lord and do not run on ahead on our own independence.
  • Youth finally do faint.
  • But relying on the LIFE of God is waiting on the Lord, so we never faint and get weary, since we're empowered by divine steam... eternal life that does not die nor get tired.

The veil on the holiest and the ark with cherubims GAZING at the mercyseat emphasized UNDERSTANDING since the cherubims were there with eyes all over them.

Kingdom realm.
  • Most holy place.
  • Garden Room.
  • Wings as eagles are attached to the cherubims.

Manna in the ark shows the principle as well.
  • Jesus said He was manna from heaven.
  • In the same chapter he spoke of eating his flesh and drinking his blood.
  • Same chapter he multiplied bread and fishes.
  • Christ is multiplied.
  • More union understanding.
  • Through His cross He is multiplied.

He emphasized having everlasting life in John 6.

John 6:53 says without his blood we have no life in us.

John 6:49-53 KJV  Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.  (50)  This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.  (51)  I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.  (52)  The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?  (53)  Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.


ALL THAT IS IN THE ARK - the symbol of KINGDOM REVELATION




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