THE 3
GLORIES OF HEAVEN
The Gospel of the Kingdom
Moses' Tabernacle
Test Apostles:
"God's Delegated
leadership at the Doors"
When we study the details of Moses
Tabernacle and the interesting differences between the 3 Glories,
it's very important that we recognize that God has appointed different
leadership personages at each Glory. These personages are matched to
the work, life style, authority, and unique activities found in each
Glory. As part of this, God's method of communication with mankind
also varies with each Glory. Even having and knowing God's
"will" for your life can vary per your Tabernacle-Glory
position.
YESHUA God's only
begotten Son, and the Saviour of Mankind, stands as the only door that
The Father has provided, thru which "whosoever" may respond to
God's free offer and enter the Outer Court of His Eternal Kingdom.
John 3:16; 10:1,2,7,9; Rom 10:9,10. Yeshua's Kingdom teachings
completed what God began revealing to Ancient Israel ... starting with
the basic truths of Outer Court living per the 10 Commandments.
THE HOLY SPIRIT stands as
God's ordained personage thru whom repentant Believers may enter the 2nd
Glory of God's Kingdom. The 2nd Glory is a most highly productive
area of spiritual growth. It is the Glory wherein the Holy Spirit
educates, encourages, and admonishes, and wherein much more serious
testing can be expected to occur. This is the Glory wherein God
begins greatly utilizing His 5-fold ministries ... anointed Apostles and
Teachers being the most critically important. It is with the Holy
Spirit infilling that Judeo-Christianity takes on a new, supernatural
aspect of living for the Spirit-led Believers who apply themselves,
develop a much-needed spiritual maturity, and pursue the
"experiential" love-bonding relationship. Suggested
readings: click on "Running the Race", "The doctrines,
spiritual objectives, and beliefs ... ", and " "Rejected
by God".
THE ANOINTED APOSTLES of
this New Testament age are the fore-runners of God's eternal-Kingdom
"rulers." They are of the examples, and tested "overcomers"
of Rev. 2:26,27. The Apostles are critically more important than
post-reformation (1-Glory) theologians think them to be. Anointed
with respondsibility, authority, and power, their doctrines and works
can be the difference between "others" seeing and reaching the
goal ...VS... floundering as the non-Elect. When you think of
Apostles, think about the vast 3-Glory Kingdom ... think about the full
panorama of position, privilege, rewards, and honor now being offered to
the Believers, and that will be awarded among them ... think about God's
5-Fold Ministries and His Kingdom Protocols that will further guarantee
eternal happiness ... and think about the thoroughness of God in
preplanning all this.
The questions keep ringing in my
mind: "Just how really big is our God?" ... and "how
really big is the heaven that the Judeo-Christian scriptures speak
of?" The answer keeps returning: far greater than our 1517
Reformation Fathers understood or dared to think or write about ... an
immense and complex Kingdom of such varying degrees of wealth (1 Cor.
3:12-13) that must of necessity require "administration" that
meets all it's needs. Would God want or allow it to be
otherwise? As He "chooses" today ... God "will"
in His Glorious eternal Kingdom: administer righteousness with the
much-needed help of those to whom He awards "crowns."
They will function in their privileged and honored capacities.
Hence: the trials and testing of the Believers today ... the
testing-fires that reveal the proven love, loyalty, and conduct of those
who will be so eternally privileged. The over-simplified
questions: "are you going to heaven?" and "are you
saved?" were first spoken by Believers who failed to envision
the immenseness and complexity of God's glorious Kingdom, and His
selected method of administering to His Believers: Apostles, Prophets,
Evangelists, Shepherds, and Teachers.
A magnificent Kingdom lies before
us, but many remain crazy-glued to the back-row pews ... all of this
opportunity passing them by. Tragic? Not exactly. As I
said earlier: everyone gets tested! All in all ... it's the
fairest process ever.
Many Spirit-filled Believers who
earlier began the love-bonding, will find themselves receiving the
Father's "approval", as a result of the Apostles
"works", in combination with those of the Father. 1 Cor
12:6. Many will discover that God speaks with unveiled clarity to
those who love, honor, and keep His OT and NT commandments, and
patterns. But now, in these end-days, as the Prudent Virgins
approach the 3rd Glory door, the battle is not over. The enemy
dogs us at almost every step. And, the first steps of previous
great spiritual advances have been misled and hindered by many of
"men's doctrines". And although "men's
doctrines" will always abound, it is the serious and careful
"hearer" and "doer" who tests, and learns to
recognize God's voice, and high-level truth, and side-step "old
wives tales" and the thousands of well-rehearsed, but
miss-the-mark-teachings. Everyone who "pursues the
prize" has the respondsibility to test all things: doctrine,
revelation, and the Gifts & Settings claimed by any person ... that
we protect ourselves from all forms of deception, as we advance into the
Father's presence, and then 'remain' standing. Those who become
the Elect, are those who refuse to be deceived. And, thankfully,
the goal is very attainable, but not to the insincere, unloving,
rebellious, and faint-of-heart.
TOTAL HEALING Since
I'm on the subject of maturity and experiencing all that God has for us,
I must tell you my view of non-spiritual healing. I sincerely
believe in the medical and mental health professions, in addition to
medicine, specialists, clinics, and hospitals. I know that God
uses them all. I also know the reality of miracle healing and
spiritual deliverance. Problems aren't always easily identified,
and the smart person should be open to professional / qualified answers
and cures, as well as God's provisions.
How to Recognize God's Apostles
Because God's delegated apostles are the key to
building 'the assemblies of the elect", it becomes vitally important that the
believers know the scriptural qualifications and works of a true apostle.
These identifications are given that the believers
can differentiate between the true apostle and the false. The Son of Man
commended the assembly at Ephesus (Rev. 2:2) for their testing of those who claimed to be
apostles. Men who claim apostleship are to be tested, because the true ones can, in
obedience to God, lay the foundation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the 5-fold
apostolic settings, and declare the full purposes of God.
False apostles, on the other hand, will not
understand and promote God's full purposes. They will promote Babylon's message and
thereby prevent their assemblies from coming into maturity and God's fullest eternal
rewards.
God's last great call to the World ... "the Gospel of the Kingdom"
... the complete Gospel that will also enable the "bride" to
make herself ready ... will not and can not be restored
without God's Set-In Apostle(s). This is God's preferential method ...
imparting His "Gifts" and "Settings" thru an Apostle.
Paul called it laying a foundation (1 Cor. 3:10,11). Thru these
supernatural Gifts, God conveys His directives, knowledge, and power ...
all for His purposes of furthering our spiritual growth and advancing His
Kingdom. And they're as necessary today as in the 1st century ... because
the complete Gospel still offers us basic entry into His 3-Glory Kingdom,
in addition to very desirable advancement within it. And, it is at this
point of advancement within the 2nd Glory that the Gifts of the Holy
Spirit enter the picture. 1 Cor. 9:24-27; 2 Cor. 9:6; Phil. 3:11-16; 2 Pet.
1:10, 11; 2 Jn. 8,9; Rev. 2 & 3; Rev. 21:7,8; Rev. 22:10-21
God decides if, and
to whom, He will impart a Gift, and which one. These Gifts are not
laying dormant within the believers and merely need to be aroused, as is
commonly taught. And these Gifts are not to be confused with human talents
and abilities. God reveals thru the
Gifts, in combination with the love-bonding, worship, testing and election
of the Believers who correctly run and finish the race. 1 Cor. 14:12,
25; Eph. 4:11-16; Col. 3:1-25; Heb. 12:5-8; Rom. 16:10; 1 Cor. 11:19; 2 Cor.
10:18, 13:5-7; 2 Tim. 2:15; James 1:12; 1 Pet 1:6, 7
God is well-organized. Among His
many perfect talents, He is an organizer. The Gifts of the Spirit are also
organized and used per their intended purposes. Example: the 'healing and revealing' Gifts that take place during an Evangelists Miracle
Crusade are different, and are for a different purpose, than the dreams,
visions, prophecies, and words that are given to 'runners,' and those who
have attained to the Father's "approval." At the Crusade
it's a 'proof to the world.' To the fervently pursuing believers
it's God's encouragements and help to encourage and warn and cheer-us-on
to 'run faster' unto Him. To an "approved" son or daughter
it's directives and in-depth revelations of His eternal Kingdom.
And, if the 5-fold
ministries are working together as they should, the Evangelist would turn
to a "tried" Apostle (Rev. 2:2) to hear the complete
Gospel. But since there haven't been any around (or they didn't look
for one), today's church ... everyone, including Evangelists ... continues
to preach "the One-Glory Gospel of the
16th Century". We have unquestioningly accepted
"last-years-models" (1517 & 1906) as the finalized Gospel,
not realizing that God is still in the process of sequentially restoring
His 3-Glory Kingdom, and that one Glory still remains to be
revealed. And compounding our failure-to-test problem, we've also
believed the lie that God phased-out His Set-In Apostles. But then
again, what need has the One Glory Gospel for Apostles? If we don't
understand the significance of Moses Tabernacle ... the Floor Plan of
Heaven ... neither will we understand the significance of Apostles and the
"Foundation" of the Gifts and Settings.
Click on our gold button
"Prophecy Dreams" to view examples of what Apostolically-Founded
members typically receive thru the Gifts (2 Cor. 12:12). But a Court
Christian would receive none of this ... they being without the Holy
Spirit. Note also, the Trinity functions differently in each Glory (1 Cor.
12:4-6), although for the same purpose ... the edification and growth of
the saints, and advancing His Kingdom. There is a lot more to
be said, but for the sake of brevity I'll stop here, for now.
The Qualifications and Works of an
Apostle
as Taught in the Letters of the 1st Century Apostles
He claims his setting as an apostle,
based on a direct call from God. Rom. 1:1; I Cor. 1:1; Gal. 1:1; Eph. 1:1; I Tim. 1:1;
Titus 1:1
He testifies to having seen the Lord.
I Cor. 9:1
He has "freedom" in
Christ. I Cor. 9:1
He will speak the oracles of God.
He will be in contact with God and will speak in accordance to what he knows to be
from God. I Cor. 2:4-13
He proclaims the complete gospel; the
Gospel of the Kingdom. Salvation through Yeshua/Jesus Christ ... and then...
the opportunity to avail ourselves of eternal riches and honor in the
kingdom of our loving and generous God ... IF... we correctly respond to His Holy
Spirit "Invitation", and attain to His "approval". John
3:16-18; Rom. 10:9-10; Eph. 2:8-10; Matt. 13:3-23,33; 1 Cor. 3:10-15; Eph.
1:18; Matt. 22:14; Acts 19:2; John 1:12; 2 Peter 1:10-11; Phil. 3:10-15; Heb. 12:5-8; 1 John
2:12-14; II Cor. 10:18; 2 Tim. 2:15; 1 Cor. 11:18-19; Matt. 25:1-13; Rev. 3:16, 22:11
He gives the Holy Spirit through
laying-on-of-hands. Acts 8:18, 19:6
He gives the gifts of the Holy Spirit
through the laying-on-of-hands. Acts 19:6; Rom. 1:11; 2 Tim. 1:6
He has the sign of an apostle:
A gift-using assembly that is growing into maturity. I Cor. 1:4-7, 3:10, 9:2;
12:28; II Cor.
12:12
He has the Lord's authority to
protect the elect assemblies. I Cor. 5:3-5; II Cor. 10:8, 13:2
He has the Lord's confirmation of his
setting, to those who ask. Rev. 2:2
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