The Kingdom of God!

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Chapter 20

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I told you in the last chapter that I would explain what the Lord said about the fact that we have entered the Third Day!

There is a Dimension we can enter into where we can cease from our labors and allow God to do His good pleasure through us. Not by might, nor by power, but by His Spirit! The Lord told Zerubbabel through the prophet Zechariah in Zech. 3:2,

"This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts."

The Third Dimension of Grace is the Third Day from the Cross and the Seventh Day from Adam! Jesus rose on the Third Day and God rested on the Seventh Day and both of these Days were Sabbath Days.

Peter said in 2 Peter 3:8, "A day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day."

Understanding this principle will unlock many scriptures to you. It has now been six thousand years since Adam and we are in the beginning of the seventh thousand-year period of time. Not only that but we are in the third thousand-year period of time since Jesus ascended.

According to Gods way of looking at time it has been Six Days since Adam and Two days since Jesus ascended. Therefore, we have entered into the Third Day since the ascension of Jesus and the Seventh Day since Adam. The importance of this is seen in the fact that both the Third Day and the Seventh Day were Sabbath days. The Sabbath Day is a spiritual principle that God wants every believer to enter into. God created for six days and on the seventh day, the Sabbath Day, He rested. In Hebrews chapters three and four we see that Jesus also entered into that rest and there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. God's people in this new age are going to cease from their own labors and enter into His rest.

The tabernacle of Moses is a shadow of things to come, even Christ. In the Outer Court, or the first dimension, you have a gate, an altar of sacrifice, and a laver of water. In the Holy Place or the second dimension you have a candlestick, shewbread, and an altar of incense. In the Most Holy Place or the Third Dimension is the ark of the covenant where the glory of the Lord was manifested. All of this is just a shadow of the cross. Every piece of furniture in the tabernacle represents a bleeding spot on the cross. His feet were like fine brass burned in the furnace and from His side flowed blood and water. This is the Outer Court or First Dimension. On the right hand He is the light of the world and on the left hand He is the bread of life and in His heart is worship and praise. This is the Holy Place or the Second Dimension. His head was crowned with glory and honor and the crown of thorns pierced His head. This is the Most Holy Place or The Third Dimension. Adam cannot enter into the presence of God and live. All that is not of God in us will be put to death. Paul said in 1 Cor. 3:11-14,

" For no other foundation can man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 
Now if any man builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abides which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."

When Jesus died on the cross, what caused the veil in the temple to be torn from the top to the bottom? Jesus died! He died to all of Himself. To all of His living works. When He was alive, He healed the sick, He raised the dead, and He set the captive free and then He died. He walked on water, He fed the multitudes, He opened the blind eyes and then He died.

You may have been in a glorious place, and you may have seen God work in various ways, and God may have worked miracles through you, but now you are going to die! Rev 14:13 says,

"And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."

We are coming into a place where the limited power that happened only in a small geographical area where Jesus was present, becomes magnified by the glory and power of His resurrection in us. The death of yourself will bring you into the resurrection power of the Lord Jesus Christ. David said in Psalm 22:3,

"But thou art holy, O thou that inhabits the praises of Israel."

Psalm 50:23 says;

"Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God."

If my conversation is ordered rightly, my lips will continually give Him the praise for all things. The writer of Hebrews said in Heb 13:15;

"By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name."

Glory is in the Third Dimension because this is where God dwells. Glory is the only atmosphere in which God will manifest His power and this is the reason why the angels are not released to help us. They have been assigned to help us but have been bound in heaven giving glory to God by praising Him to each other. They won't be released until the Lord receives glory in the earth. When we will give Him the glory by praising Him continually to each other, earth to earth, the angels will be released to work for us.

On the ark of the covenant there were two cherubim. One on each end facing each other and the mercy seat was between them. It was on the mercy seat the presence of God would appear as fire! Jesus said in Matt. 18:20,

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."

If we will only begin to praise Him for what He has done in our lives to one another, we will create the glory for Him to dwell in and it will flow out of this place and touch every man, woman and child in this valley. What is done in the heavenlies is not done on earth until you create the atmosphere in which God manifest power in the earth.

Jesus said in Mat 6:10;

"Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."

If we will only wake up and get into agreement with Jesus that His will be done on earth as it is in heaven, we will give Him the legal right to bring about His will on earth! If we will create the glory for His presence to dwell in then His will shall be done in the earth. God would rather hear one of His redeemed ones give Him praise than ten thousand angels. One of you can release a thousand of these angels. Two of you can release ten thousand. Three of you can release 100,000. And if four of you will praise Him you can release one million of His angels. Is it any wonder Satan doesn't want us to praise the Lord?

If you ever pass through the veil of flesh and enter the Third Dimension of Grace you will find that it is all God and you can rest from your labors. The bible says that in the Most Holy Place God is the light. In the First Dimension it is all man and in the Second Dimension it is man and God but if you ever inter into the Third Dimension it is all God. No one lights the candle in there and no one has to help God because He does it all by Himself. The reason that we still work for God is because we have not progressed into the final dimension of grace.

Jesus also said in Mat 18:19-20;

"Again, I say unto you, "That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."

There will I be in between them even as I appeared between the cherubim on the ark. If you read the story of the resurrection of the Lord in John 20:11-12,

"But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, and saw two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain."

On the ark of the covenant there was one angel on the head of the mercy seat and one angel at the foot of the mercy seat and between them was where the Lord would appear! When the two angels begin to cry Holy, Holy is the Lord almighty, Jesus was resurrected! When we face one another and give praise to the Lord, He appears in the midst of us! That's when the gifts of the Holy Spirit begin to manifest in the presence of the praise of the Lords people! 

You may ask, "Well, David, we have praised God in the past which created glory for Him and we have seen very little happen. Yes, I agree and this bothered me also when I received the revelation of this truth until I begin to see the answer. The reason that the praise we came into when we were baptized in the Holy Spirit has produced so little results is that it was done in the Second Dimension.

We have been laboring, struggling, and trying to make it happen. In the Third Dimension, we will come into a place where we will die to our works. We will die to our ingenuity. We will also die to our way of getting it done. When we finally come to the realization that God has a way of doing it greater and more powerful than we have ever been able to do it and if we ever come to the place where we realize that we are not smart enough, not talented enough and that we are not powerful enough. If we will ever come into a place where we simply get into order and give Him the Praise and atmosphere that flows from the throne of God, He will manifest His power. He will do it through us all by Himself.

As long as you can build the church, He is going to let you. As long as you can work for God, He is going to let you do it. As long as you think you can do it, you're going to have to do it.

Jesus said in Mat 7:22:

"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in your name have cast out devils? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity."

But if you ever come to a place where you will say that I am willing to die to all of that and just rest in the Lord and let Him have His way with me, He will move in your life above your wildest expectations.

To those of you who have an ear to hear, you might want to consider the following!

 

John saw an angel of the Lord do this in Rev. 20:1-6,

"And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years."

He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years."

Since a day with the Lord is a thousand years, this would mean that the devil would be bound for a day!

It has been Two Days since the cross and Five Days since Adam. Since around 2000 we have been entering the Third Day from the cross and the Seventh Day from Adam. Since both of these Days were Sabbath Days, this is the time period that the Church will enter into the Third Day and rest from all our labors to establish the Kingdom of God!

 

This does not mean that we will not be doing anything but it means that all that we will do will be God doing it through us! Peter said after he and John prayed for the lame man in Acts 3:12, and 3:16,

 

"You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why do you look so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?" 

 

"By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus' name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see."

 

The Lord said in Zech. 4:6,

 

"It's not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts."

 

What John saw in Rev. 20:1-6 would also mean that the angel of the Lord will soon come and bind the dragon during this Third Day because it is a Sabbath Day! Thus, the prophecy that Joel spoke about will be free to be poured out on all flesh and the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea! Joel 2:28, Hab. 2:14

This is why there is so much turmoil going on in the earth and in the spirit realm! Satan knows that something is up and is unleashing all his kingdom to stop or delay what is about to happen. This is a day of the Lord revealing all the corruption that is in our nation and He will soon bind the old serpent and dragon and set the body of Christ free in this Third Day of the Lord!

You must understand that He will do this through the Church! This is why He is shaking the Church and telling us to raise up and declare His will be done on the earth! Jesus is the head of the Church which is His spiritual body here on this earth and He will bind the devil through His body! Paul said in Eph. 3:10-11, (NIV),

"His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord."

If all of the body of Christ was awake and knew how to wage war in the spiritual realm, this would happen very quickly!

However, there is a remnant of the Church all over the world that is fasting and praying and declaring the Word of The Lord and the gates of hell will not prevail against them! Praise the Lord!

Here is a rhema word from the Lord by Kent Christmas,

For the next four years, The Church is going to shine in the United States of America as the noonday sun and evil will be exposed completely as darkness.   I am going to expose men who have shrouded themselves in righteousness but they have the heart of a wolf.  I am ripping the cover off and I will show those who are Holy and those who are Righteous," saith God.  "There are many, even believers, who are asking in this hour, 'Why is this happening to our nation?  Why has this gripped our homes?'  I didn't create this virus, says God, or the fear that has gripped the earth, but I AM going to use it for My Purpose and My Glory!"  "Know this, saith God, the enemy may create something that's evil, but I, Thy God, in a moment, can speak a Word, and turn it around and send it back where it came from.  This virus is not the end of this nation, but America has become drunk on pleasure and I am sobering her up," says the Lord.  

"I have raised up The United States for My Glory to be a carrier of The Gospel and a light unto nations.  I never intended for her to outlaw My Book, outlaw prayer, to legalize homosexuality and to kill the seed of the womb of my women. I am now recovering this nation and though men have said, 'no, no, no,' I, The Lord say, 'Yes, Yes, Yes!!'   For such a time as this', saith The Lord, 'It is an hour which The Church is going to shine bright', saith God. 'Though it may be night time", saith God, "Know this, that I am God.  I birthed this nation for the glory of God and I will not allow the enemy to come in and bury her in sin.  It does not matter what man says.  It matters what My Word says!  Heaven and earth shall pass away but The Word of God lives and abides forever!"

So many Christians are in the same stage of their growth in the Lord as the Christians were in Heb. 5:11-14, (NIV)

"We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil."

And in Heb. 6:1-3, (NIV)

"Therefore, let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about cleansing rites, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And God permitting, we will do so."

The reason for this is because pastors don't teach the word and practice what the word says! Other churches major in salvation and never teach the deeper things of The Kingdom of God! Many churches deny the power of the Gospel that Paul taught!

This is why there is such a shaking going on in so many churches! God's people are hungering for a real display of the power of the Holy Spirit! Praise the Lord for the remnant!