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AWAITING THE FINAL REST – PART 1
WAR, RAPTURE, 2ND ADVENT JESUS,
MILLENNIAL, THEN A FINAL KINGDOM
GOD CAME IN A 1ST ADVENT MANGER
JESUS & HIS KINGDOM WAS REJECTED
WAR IS COMING AFTER --- LEAVES
WHICH FINALLY ENDS AT ARMAGEDDON
WHEN GOD COMES TO END FINAL BATTLE
AND ESTABLISH HIS MILLENNIAL KINGDOM
WHERE A NEW HEAVENS AND EARTH REMAIN
BEFORE HIM AS THE FUTURE NEW JERUSALEM
November 6, 2014
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Isaiah 66:22 – For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.
ISAIAH 66:1 – Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the
earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? And
where is the place of my rest?
The Lord addresses Israel, and pre-addresses his query by reminding
Israel of the size of a building it would take to contain his person and
kingdom. The point is that they cannot build such a building. But it is
also a stark reminder God does not need a building in which to dwell.
Where could you put such a building?
When Isaiah wrote this, Solomon’s temple was in full blossom in
Jerusalem, so Israel had a beautiful temple for a place to worship. God
reminds them in 66:1,2 that He is much greater than his temple, and that
they are not worshipping the building, but the One whose Spirit
indwells it.
ISAIAH 66:2 – For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Romans 2:28,29 – For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is
that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: [29] But he is a Jew,
which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the
spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
This is the type of man God has always sought to worship him in spirit and in truth.
There was only one man, absolutely perfect in having these
characteristics from birth to death in sinless flesh, and that man was
Jesus Christ, God himself in perfect flesh. He alone was qualified to
present himself, his body and his blood, as the total one-time offering
for the sins of all who would accept him as their offering.
Solomon’s temple, which “had been” built by human hands made by the hand
of God, was indeed a thing of beauty, but its ordinances and sacrifices
all pointed as figures, types, or symbols of an anointed man, whom God
looked to as a man worthy of being indwelled by God in all his fullness,
the God-man, Christ Jesus.
Luke 2:52 – And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
Philippians 2:5-12 – Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus: [6] Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God: [7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him
the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And
being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross. [9] Wherefore God also hath
highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10]
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things under the earth; [11] And that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father.
II Corinthians 5:19 – To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Ephesians 2:22 – In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Israelis were placing their faith in the stone temple and animal
sacrifices rather than the mercy and grace of God’s Spirit indwelling
it, and not in his promised Seed of Genesis 3:15 who was some 700 years
in the future when Isaiah wrote his Book.
ISAIAH 66:2,3 – For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. [3] He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
Psalm 51:15-17 – O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew
forth thy praise. [16] For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I
give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering [17] The sacrifices of
God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt
not despise.
The temple ordinances and sacrifices meant nothing, and were not
accepted, unless they came from a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart.
Jesus spoke John 5:39-41 to those Jews who rejected him as the Messiah. (John 5:18)
John 5:39-41 – Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have
eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. [40] And ye will
not come to me, that ye might have life. [41] I receive not honour from
men.
God’s own people rejected him in the days of the prophets who warned
them of the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities that were coming on them
for their evil conduct. God chose their delusions and brought their
fears upon them as a consequence of their actions. Jesus, as the Prophet
described by Moses, also told the generation of his day of the
consequences of their actions in rejecting him.
Matthew 23:27-39–Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. [28] Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. [29] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, [30] And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. [31] Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. [32] Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. [33] Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? [34] Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: [35] That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. [36] Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. [37] O Jerusalem, Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! [38] Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.[39] For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Romans 2:29 – But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.