THE
MANIFESTATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN US
in types and shadows
MATT 25: THE KINGDOM TRILOGY, PART 3a, GRADUATION
06-21-20
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God is Thought. The brightness of our revelations depends
upon the correctness of our
doctrines, our building blocks, our Godly Thoughts laid
one upon
another, ascending into the mind of Christ.
MATT 25: THE KINGDOM TRILOGY
(STUDENT TRAINING FOR AN
ETERNITY OF WORK)
Part 1 (Matt
25:1-13) Kingdom
Education, Part 2 (Matt 25:14-30) Kingdom Works,
Part 3
(Matt 25:31-46) Kingdom Graduation
KINGDOM GRADUATION
(2 Thes 1:7-12)
And to
you who are troubled [Gk: suffer tribulation] rest
with
us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed
[Gk: disclosure:
manifested, revelation /// to take off the cover, disclosed] from
heaven [where is Heaven?] [1] with his mighty angels
[the
original innocent angels plus the resurrected saints (angels)], In
flaming fire taking vengeance [Gk: revenge:
punishment]
on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel
[Gk:
good message] of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished
with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the
glory
of his power [Gk: might]; When he shall come to be glorified
in his saints [2], and to be admired in all them
that
believe (because our testimony among you was believed
[i.e.,
proven]) in that day [because it was then
manifested]
[3]. Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God
would
count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good
pleasure
of his goodness, and the work [the results] of faith
[Gk: belief] with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ
may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace [4]
of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1.
(Luke
17:20,21) And when he was demanded of the
Pharisees, when
the kingdom of God [a term spoken by Jesus synonymous in
meaning with
the kingdom of heaven] [a] should come, he answered
them and
said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation [Gk:
inspection,
ocular evidence]: Neither shall they say, Lo [Gk: see]
here!
or, lo [Gk: see] there! for, behold [understand],
the kingdom of God is within [Gk: inside]
you.
[or, it may be more emphatically read as God is within you]
a.
(Matt
19:23) Then said Jesus unto his
disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter
into the kingdom of
heaven. (Matt 19:24) And again
I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
b.
Commentary:
“the kingdom of
heaven” is a term found exclusively
in the gospel of Matthew 33x. The term “the kingdom of God”
has the same meaning
and is found in all four gospels and the
epistles 70x. Jesus used the two terms interchangeably in Matthew
19:23,24.
2.
(Rom
8:18) For I reckon that
the sufferings [Gk: hardship or pain] of this
present time
are not worthy to be compared with the glory [of God]
which
shall be revealed [to take off the cover: disclosed]
in
us. [2 Thes 1:7,10 (2x),12]
3.
(Judg
7:16-22) And he
divided the three hundred men into three companies [symbolic
of each
being under a member of the Trinity, but thinking/acting “as one man”
Judg 6:16],
and he put a trumpet [symbolizing the voice of God, the
Bible, Jesus
Christ] in every man's hand [Heb: power], with empty
pitchers [of clay symbolizing our bodies], and lamps [flaming
torches symbolizing the Holy Spirit] within [inside]
the
pitchers. And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise:
and,
behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I
do, so
shall ye do. When I blow with a trumpet [the voice of God],
I and
all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every
side of
all the camp, and say, The sword [a double-edged
symbol of the
logos/rhema Bible] of the LORD, and of Gideon. So
Gideon, and
the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp
in the
beginning of the middle watch [about 10:00 pm]; and
they had but
newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets [1x],
and
brake the pitchers that were in their hands. And the three
companies
blew the trumpets [2x], and brake the pitchers,
and
held the lamps in their left hands [symbolizing the
Holy Spirit],
and the trumpets in their right hands [symbolizing
Jesus Christ]
[both hands together symbolize the Bible] to blow
withal [the
voice of God]: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of
Gideon.
And they [the Israelites] stood every man in his
place
round about the camp: and all the [unsaved] host
ran,
and cried, and fled [“Resist the devil, and he
will flee
from you”]. And the three hundred blew the trumpets [3x],
and the LORD set every [Midianite - Heb: brawling,
contentious, discord, strife] man's sword against his fellow
[i.e., in the blinding frenzy of fear they killed each other]
[as the
nations are doing even now], even throughout all
the
host [120,000 unsaved Midianite warriors died in
their own darkness
(no light) of that night]: and the [remaining]
host
[of 15,000 unsaved Midianite warriors] fled to Bethshittah
[Heb: house of acacia] in Zererath [Heb: piercing,
puncture],
and to the border of Abelmeholah [Heb: meadow of dancing],
unto
Tabbath [(meaning unknown)].
BLOW YE THE TRUMPET
(Joel 2:1,2)
Blow ye
the trumpet [the voice of the Lord] in Zion,
and sound
an alarm [Heb: fig. split the ears (with sound)] in
my
holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble [Heb:
quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear): be afraid,
quake]:
for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; (Joel
2:2) [FOR SOME PERSONS] A day of darkness [Heb:
dark; fig.
misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness] [“and
darkness
was on the face of the deep” Gen 1:2] and of gloominess [Heb:
misfortune], a day of clouds [Heb: nimbus or
thunder
clouds] and of thick darkness [Heb: gloom (as of
a
lowering sky) /// drooping clouds, drop down], [AND FOR OTHER
PERSONS] as
the morning [Heb: dawn] spread upon the mountains:
a
great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the
like,
neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of
many
generations [i.e., even to the end of the 1,000 year
Millennium].
(Joel 2:3-6)
A fire
devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the
land is as
the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a
desolate
wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance
of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen,
so shall
they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall
they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth
the
stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Before their
face the people shall be much pained [Heb: to twist or
whirl, to
writhe in pain: dance]: all faces shall gather blackness.
(Joel 2:7-9)
They shall
run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of
war;
and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall
not break
their ranks: Neither shall one thrust another; they shall
walk every
one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they
shall
not be wounded. They shall run to and fro in the city; they
shall
run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses;
they shall
enter in at the windows like a thief.
(Joel 2:10,11)
The earth
shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the
sun
and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
And
the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp
[Heb:
army] is very great: for he is strong [Heb:
powerful: mighty] that executeth [Heb: does:
performs,
uses] his [God’s] word: for the
day of the
LORD is great [for some] and very terrible
[for
others]; and who can abide [live through] it?
Amen