Being Established in the Present Truth
2nd Peter 1:1-12 1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness (Ephesians 1:3), through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to (1) virtue knowledge; 6And to (2) knowledge temperance; and to (3) temperance patience; and to (4) patience godliness; 7And to (5) godliness brotherly kindness; and to (6) brotherly kindness (7) charity. 8For 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. 9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: 11For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
2nd Chronicles 20:14-20 14Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation; 15And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s. 16To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. 17Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still (Ephesians 6:13) and see (Ephesians 1:18) the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you. 18And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshiping the LORD. 19And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high. 20And they rose early in the morning and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Present Truth is NOW Truth
We must be established in present truth, NOW, To Day. Those that have believed in the Lord shall be established and shall enter into His rest (Hebrews 4:3) The Law of Moses (John 1:17) which is past truth did not provide this rest. The 1st Century apostolic doctrine which is past truth did not provide this rest (Acts 2:43). We are to be established in 21st Century truth and doctrine which is being revealed To Day! …His going forth is as the morning (the seventh day has no evening Genesis 2:1-4) and He is coming unto us (with clouds Revelation 1:7 and in clouds 1st Thessalonians 4:17 & Jude 12) as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth (Hosea 6:3). Allegorically the rain is His doctrine, the doctrine of Christ (Deuteronomy 32:2a & Hebrews 6:1) being made available to His 21st Century sheep that they may believe the LORD their God! Those that believe His prophets will receive His speech that shall distil as the dew (present truth for you personally), as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: (Deuteronomy 32:2b). When we allow the allegory of the scriptures and not the letter of the scriptures to minister His life to us our eyes are not only opened but that we may know the hope of His calling – to be conformed to His image (Romans 8:28). This is the 3rd Day since Jesus, the last Adam when he raises us up to live in His sight even as He was raised and lives in His Father’s sight.
This is third day of the last Adam going forth and His coming overlaps and coincides with the seventh day since the first adam was driven forth from the garden. The first adam cannot enter into the seventh day because of His unbelief. On the seventh day God ended His work but the first adam did not enter into that rest. The first adam hardened his heart after hearing the command not to eat of the serpent’s tree. Will we hearken to the command to eat of the tree of Life as His voice goes forth To day, the seventh day from the first adam and the third day from the beginning of the (new) creation (man) of God Revelation 3:14b?
Hebrews 4:4-7 4For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David (Psalm 95), To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
We, the people of His pasture (Psalm 23 & Psalm 95:7) are being raised up in this the seventh day. To Day is the last day of the 1st adam! from the last adam also known as the third day from Jesus
The Bible is a living book. All of it, every jot and every tittle surges with life. When we have the eyes of our understanding opened (Ephesians 1:15-23) we will see Him (Head & body) as He IS throughout the living word. He is Christ the Head and you are Christ the body! If you believe that the prophecy of the scriptures are fulfilled and completed then you can no longer receive a living NOW word from the Spirit nor be led by the Spirit nor be placed (adopted) as a son of God! If your spiritual eyes are opened and you see your destiny written in the volume of the book (Psalm 40:7; Hebrews 10:7), then we are one with Christ (Head & body) and one with His purposes (Ephesians 1:3-5 & Romans 8:29)!
The Book of the Revelation (unveiling; disclosing) of Jesus Christ (Head & body) is a NOW word written to every generation of Adam’s race. Adam’s race do not know they have been reconciled to God. Adam’s race does not know …what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world (Adam’s race) knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure (1st John 3:1-3).
The Day of the Lord
The Day of the Lord is not a date on the calendar awaiting fulfillment! It was and it is and it shall be (Revelation 1:4) continuously fulfilled as He comes in you and to you. Since His ascension opened the Heavens you and I may dwell in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day even as John (Revelation 1:10). This Day can be your To Day (Hebrews 3:7-19 & 4:1-8) to enter into rest which is available for you to dwell and live in NOW; if you are willing and obedient to His voice and harden not your heart!
As He appears in and to you, He shall be seen in His temple, which temple you are you are (1st Corinthians 6:19-20). Your temple shall be purified as He appears and you see Him as He IS. Paul wrote about this event that must take place in His body which is His temple, corporately and individually in every generation.
2nd Thessalonians 2:3-8 3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first and that man of sin (1st Adam) be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God (2nd Corinthians 10:3-6), or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God (which temple you are), shewing himself that he is God. 5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time (the Father’s appointed time for each individual in every generation). 7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he (Holy Spirit) who now letteth will let, until he (man of sin) be taken out of the way. 8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming (the purification):
This is the revelation of Jesus Christ; the Head and the body!!! It is this truth that John was revealing when he wrote these words that the Holy Spirit had given him …shall shortly come to pass and the time is at hand in Revelation 1:1-3. As the eyes of your understanding are opened to this passage as a present NOW truth written to prepare you your purification becomes a reality that has been accomplished on His cross, in His tomb, in His resurrection and in His ascension!!!
Loving Kindness to you and yours from the Father
Carroll & Margaret Sanders