Beloved, let us see how interested Paul was about this subject of the Day of the Lord. "But you brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. You are the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." 1 Thess.5:4, 5.
Notice, we are not in darkness--that that day should overtake you--you are not without God the Father. You are in the day time - Light consciousness! You are the children of the light, sons of light in a darkened world. We are sons of light in the day of the Lord. We can rejoice in this, that we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
To see that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night, it takes us out of the night time and brings us into day light. Darkness is of time, light is eternal. We are not talking about sun, moon and stars. Christ shines in our life as the lightning shines from the east unto the west, so shall the coming of the Son of man be. He shines in us and we begin to see those things which were in darkness, now they are made manifest to us.
"And the city (New Jerusalem which we the redeemed are) had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it; and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by DAY: for there shall be no night there." Rev. 21:23-25. Beloved, that speaks of the Lord's day-Day of the Lord, for He is the light, and in us there is "no night." We "have no need of the sun and the moon."
"His servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God gives them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever." Rev. 22:3-5. Here it is no longer they that live, but Him. didn't Jesus say, "He that loses his life (soul life) for my sake shall find it?" Matt. 10:39.
It is no longer them but Him, even as Paul, their old identity has vanished. Gal.2:20. And they are clothed in the light of the illuminate Father and lamb. He is our New Day garment of brightness, that no mere man can approach unto. 1 Tim. 6:16. The day of the Lord is not a time slot. It is not a date on the calendar, or anything you can read on anybody's "time chart." They will mislead people, for they have put everything into the past or the future. When Christ and Father is LIGHT TODAY. "Today is the day of salvation, now is the accepted time."
The day of vengeance speaks of enlightenment, not darkness. if it was what most declare as vengeance, it would be a dark day. Many are seeing great darkness, but I am seeing great light. the day of the vengeance of our God is: The vindication of the Father's promises unto His people. It is the inner radiation of the Father radiating out through His messengers, bringing illumination of the "word and spirit" that has through the beast nature in man,
lain as "dead in the street of the great city, which is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." Rev.11:7. Do you believe that our Lord has been crucified by devilish doctrines of men, and the divisions of Christianity, and that, since His death at Calvary?
"I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God." Rev.15:1. "And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven last plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
And one of the four living creatures gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials (bowls) full of the wrath of God, who lives for ever." Rev.15:6, 7. "And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials (bowls) of the wrath of God upon the earth." Rev.16:1.
Now, beloved, this is being fulfilled within you and I today, and in the body of Christ everywhere by revelation light. We are all dispenser's of the great truth that Christ is. These angel messengers are clothed in"pure white linen" and are living, completed (seven) messengers of God. Rev. 19:8. They are girded about the breasts with golden girdles, or girded with divinity. We see the vials are also golden, or having God's nature and character. Golden girdle about the breast bespeaks the substance and essence of El Shaddi the "breasted One" Who revealed Himself to Abraham. Gen.17:1, Acts 7:2. He is the One who nurtures and sustains His chosen from within. These messengers dispense the same from the heavens within them. There is life substance of Deity from the seven (completed) messengers, they have the "full counsel of God." They are Truthsayers, not doomsayers.
Women and men "as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus" Gal.4:14 are coming into possession of Mount Zion as David and his men did. 2 Sam.5: 6-8, "The king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants...which said to David, Except you take away the blind and the lame, you shall not come in here: thinking, David cannot come in here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion: the same is the city of David. And David said that day, Whoever goes up to the water shaft (water tunnel), and smites the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house."
So except we "smite the blind and the lame" inhabitants in the body of Christ, how can we completely possess the Jerusalem and Zion the "City of the Great King?" As David hated (detested) lameness and blindness," so are we to. And we smite it where ever the Greater David, Jesus the Great King leads us to such conditions. It is not the people he hated, it was the condition. The blind and lame are those who cannot see the revelation Father is giving today, and can't walk out His Word. So Father is moving to replace the 'blind and lame" from the "high places' of teaching His people error. Through illumination by the 'spirit and word" people are delivered from darkness into light in Christ Jesus and His great kingdom.
The Father's dealings are in mercy, and those who represent Him also will be tender and merciful. "Mercy triumphs over judgment." James 2:13. The resurrected Lord resides within, making you a witness of His resurrection and ascension. And you in Him become what He is to multitudes. The Lord's body is the continuation of Himself in the earth. This revelation of Christ is giving spirit to king and pauper alike. It is bringing them to the same level in Father's economy in spirit. This word is penetrating desert and jungle, islands and nations. The shed blood of its martyrs cannot turn it aside from its predestined course. Ridicule is fading before its anointed thrust. it ignores the sword and authorities that martyr its elete messengers. The divine truth of this Word and anointing is doing a marvelous work of transformation on great and small. And the old paths of the wilderness are done away. "You shall be called: The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in." Is.58:12
In His presence more is done for us in moment than we could gain in fifty years of study. The same fire that destroys the sinner is the same fire that purifies the saint. Father is summoning His sons to come up into new dimensions saying, "Behold, I make all things new." Rev.21:5. There is a new day mode of expression that the Father has set guidelines for spiritual functioning. To be able to function in this day, one must have on the new day garments of truth, one cannot sew the new onto the old, it will tear it apart. Paul put it so aptly: "Stand therefore having your loins girded about with truth." Eph.6:14.
A new day has opened to us in the spirit, and we are bidden of Father to this new plane that gives new life in our observance of His appearing within Now. The new truth is a radical move in light of orthodox teaching of Jesus coming to physically catch the saints up to a far away heaven. The kingdom of heaven is not a place afar off, but of consciousness of intimate union with the King of heaven in inward illumination where all is illumined seeing, where all becomes living and operative in the Spirit.
Brothers and sisters, when you look at one another you are looking at one who has been crucified and risen. The saint sees the genesis of themselves in The "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." Rev.13:8. Jesus death was the sovereign purpose of the Father for all creation. The birthright of your new life give you the prerogative of identification with Christ Jesus in death, burial, resurrection and ascension, and sitting with Him in heavenly places. Christ's coming is invisible, and has occurred in His own. John 14:23. Out of the throne of Father within you flows an unremitting river of life as clear as crystal for you to minister to multitudes. Rev.22:1.
To be continued.
Love and hugs, Scott
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