Passover Meditation #26 for the Lenten Season 2012

~  ~  ~  The Door of the Cross ~  ~  ~

And everyone

living and believing into ME+

shall not ever die,

forever.

Do you believe this ?

John 11:26 Green's Greek Interlinear

WHAT ?  

We all know Christians who have died and have seen their lifeless body of clay at a funeral. We have witnessed those lifeless forms, so dearly beloved, being lowered into the ground and buried.

Didn't they die ?

NO.

NOT IF THEY WERE TRUE CHRISTIANS.

They simply left this location, leaving behind their vessels of clay which had CONTAINED and limited them to this earth, just like JESUS left HIS+ tired Body on the Cross.  A company of angels escorted them (Luke 16:22) through this demon-infested atmosphere and into the Presence of The LORD in the Heavenlies.

NO.

They didn't die.

They merely shed their lifeless, under-the-curse Adamic, earthly form .... but only for a season... just like JESUS left His+ Adamic Body for a short season.  Of course, their season is longer than 3 days and 3 nights, but nonetheless, it is only for a season ... if they did not die in their sins, without JESUS, without hope. 

Then, BEHOLD! Their earthly body will come forth out of the grave --- be it in ocean, earth, or ashes, it matters not to The LORD of Creation --- INTACT, HEALTHY, STRONG, BEAUTIFUL, and GLORIFIED like unto His+ Body !  

For our citizenship

is in Heaven,

from where

we also wait

for a SAVIOR+,

The LORD JESUS CHRIST,

WHO+ will transform

our body of humiliation,

for it to be conformed 

 to His+  Glorious Body,

according to the working

of His+ Power,

even to subject all things

to HIMSELF+.

Philippians 3: 20, 21 

When does this glorious event occur ?

As HE+ is returning to earth

with His+ Heavenly Armies

... and...

with the Company of Saints in Heaven,

the Saints' glorified bodies

will suddenly arise,

uniting

with their living spirits and souls. 

BLINK !

In a moment, a twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet... this change will occur.

After that --- also in a moment -- we who are "alive" yet upon this earth will be transformed and join the resurrected Saints and Our LORD ,

meeting HIM+ in the air as HE+ is returning to reclaim this earth from satan.

HE+ will destroy the darkness that covers the earth with the brightness of His+ Appearing.

What manner of CHRISTIANS then ought we to be ?

Passover Meditation #9 for the Lenten Season 2012

~ ~ ~ The Door of the Cross ~ ~ ~

No-one is able

to come to ME+

if not The FATHER WHO sent ME+ draw him,

and I+ , 

I+

will raise him up

in the Last Day.

Green's Greek Interlinear

The LAST DAY:  Three times has The LORD mentioned the LAST DAY in these verses... so it must be an Important Day ! The Last Day is found in Revelation 19:11 ... the day of the Coming of The LORD,  The Faithful and True ONE+ , coming upon a white horse.

HE+ treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty GOD, the King+ of kings and LORD+ of lords. The armies of the Heavenly Host  come with HIM+ from Heaven. 

Immediately, the saints are gathered together, " in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye" to meet HIM+ in the air as HE+ is returning to earth. ( See I Thess. 4:14-17 and 1 Cor. 15:51,52 ).

War rages

and the enemies of CHRIST

will lose !

. 
For 1,000 years the devil, satan himself, will be bound and shut up into the bottomless pit.

The First Resurrection ( Rev. 20:4-6, see Passover Meditation #8 ) occurs at this great Last Day... as the resurrected, glorified, blessed, and holy saints reign with CHRIST on earth for 1,000 years.

 

+  +  +

Draw us, O HOLY FATHER Who art in HEAVEN, to Thy SON+ JESUS, through every contingency -- both good and bad --- that touches our lives. Draw us, O HEAVENLY FATHER, through Thy enormous love and tenderness for every living soul, ever closer to Thy HOLY SON+ JESUS that we may be counted worthy to obtain this First Resurrection.

We ask this in the Name of Our Great Redeemer, The LORD JESUS CHRIST, O FATHER. Amen.