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By:Duane Stewart
Many spiritual conditions exist today that are fulfilling
the prophetic words uttered by the Old Testament prophets
as God moved upon them. These prophetic words announce
one such condition in Isa. 60:2a by declaring, “For
behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep
darkness the people …” Along with this warning of
spiritual darkness, existing as it does in these end-
times, we also see another prophetic word, but one of
promise. Isa. 60:2b, “…but the Lord will arise over you,
and His glory will be seen upon you”. In considering this
word “glory,” we can begin to receive an understanding as
to God’s stated purpose. The Hebrew word “chabod” speaks
of “honor and substance,” likewise a word meaning “glory,
honor, splendor, power, wealth, authority, magnificence,
fame, dignity, riches, and Excellency.” God’s glory is
not only His honor, renown, and majesty, but also His
visible splendor, such as it filled David’s tabernacle,
Solomon’s temple and as promised it will likewise fill
the earth through the filling of our earth (body) first.
Isa. 60:1, “Arise, shine; for your light has come! And
the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.”
As darkness prevails, in the eyes of the flesh man, the
task of manifesting His glory seems as if it were
impossible. While most of humanity at this time seems to
be prisoners to the eyes of the flesh, God has for
Himself a remnant people, those called the first fruits,
which, with clear eyes, see an open heaven that
pronounces the glory of the Lord has come. This remnant
has gained the heavenly knowledge that speaks to them the
unbiased truth of God. In hearing and knowing these
truths, a knowing gained by experience, they put their
whole being, spirit, soul, and body, into God’s hands.
Unto those who willingly lay down their lives in such a
manner, they know that God’s jealousy for His people will
continue until fulfillment. In this, God Speaks, Isa.
62:1-3, “For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, and
for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her
righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation
as a lamp that burns. The Gentiles shall see your
righteousness, and all kings your glory. You shall be
called by a new name [nature], which the mouth of the
Lord will name. You shall also be a crown of glory in the
hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your
God.”
Paul, the apostle, likewise speaks to us of a promised
light. Light meaning understanding that makes for a
coming out of the darkness of the flesh (death) realm
into an awakening of the spiritual things of the
heavenlies. The heavenlies are invisible to the eye of
the flesh, but a place of becoming unto those who come up
out of the sleep of the flesh man. Eph. 5:14, “Therefore
He [God] says, awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead
[flesh], and Christ will give you light.” If humankind
would begin to see past the things of the flesh realm
into the things of the heavenlies, I believe many would
willingly forsake the things of this world. For in seeing
the heavenlies, they would see the things that God has
prepared to offer them. Things beyond what they have so
desirously striven for in this world, things that can
never fulfill nor make complete in knowing the fullness
of life. Leaving behind the emptiness of worldly
knowledge, possessions, wealth and position would be
gladly yielded unto because in Christ comes the fullness
of joy.
1 Cor. 2:9 shares this truth, “But it is written: Eye has
not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart
of man the things which God has prepared for those who
love Him”. To truly see and hear Him is to love Him. A
love that influences the complete make-up of man as he
maintains a love relationship with God, as a new nature
begins to manifest itself as love; joy and peace become
the nature of his life. A life that manifest itself in
this same love, joy, and peace extending out from the
vessel and affecting all they meet. The results speak to
us even as God told Jeremiah in 1:10, “See, I have this
day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to
root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down,
to build and to plant.” Thus, bringing forth a presence
that affects, an affect that shall cover the globe as
this remnant stands upon their feet. This affects all
creation as God births a glorious new creation. Isa.
65:17, “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.”
A God that has purposed a new creation man is speaking.
Why is it that I as a human being, one that grew up in an
environment that made available the things of God, an
environment that taught about Him and participated in
gatherings about Him, could ever think I can become a
sharer in the glory of God? The reason why is that even
though I knew about Him at that time, I did not really
know Him, but one day I met the God of the scriptures.
One day I came into a knowing relationship with the God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. No longer was He just a God
of history who had given His son to become flesh and
blood for man, but now He became a God I actually began
to walk with, talk with and could now truly live with.
Coming into this relationship, I was able to break free
from all the invented doctrines of men, from religious
creeds and traditions passed down from ancestors. Now the
impossible became possible as this intimate relationship
became the help needed to do those things God desired. He
enables obedience to Him, as He desires to lead. Now,
instead of the difficulties of religious activity, He
places man’s feet upon a sure pathway that births His
holiness from within, never bound by carnal religious
laws again. Isa. 35:8, “A highway shall be there, and a
road and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness. The
unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for
others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool shall not
go astray”?
Why is it that so many seem to miss this promised glory
when God Himself has prepared a way for all called to
come? Something has gone wrong. The light in the temples
of man seems to have gone out. Could it be that much of
the church world has followed the example’s given by the
children of Israel, in forsaking God by following after
the gods of the world about them? Could it be that the
church world, like Israel’s King Hezekiah, after being
used to restore revival to the children of Israel, he
opened up the house of Israel for the king of Babylon to
come in. (Read 2 Kings 20:12-19). Likewise, the carnal
church of today has opened its doors for the spirit of
Babylon to come in and plunder the House of the Lord.
Babylon is free to plunder because their primary interest
is in numbers, riches and fame, which causes the church
to incorporate the ways of Babylon into their arena, into
their services. This spirit causes death to permeate the
structure of their economical, social, political, and
religious causes. In this, God, even as with Hezekiah, is
not pleased with this carnal church, so He speaks forth
His counsel. Rev. 3:17-18, “Because you say, I am rich,
have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not
know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and
naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the
fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you
may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not
be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that
you may see”. Likewise, the prophet Isaiah received from
the Lord, a word to correct a like situation that also
exists among the religious groups of today. Isa. 29:13,
“Therefore the Lord said: Inasmuch as these people draw
near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but
have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear
toward Me is taught by the commandment of men”.
However, praise be to God, for there is an antidote to
the sins of the flesh that has been making prisoners of
the people. When Jesus approached the Samaritan women at
the well, He opened up for us the availability of being a
success in the things that God has promised us. This
truth, concerning water to drink, releases for us the
spiritual counterpart to natural water. That is, when you
become thirsty, you may drink. By observing, the water
and knowing about it alone will never quench the thirst.
Nevertheless, when you drink the living water, within you
it becomes an everlasting well leading up to everlasting
life. (Read John 4:1-24). John 4:13-14, “Jesus answered
and said to her, whosoever drinks of the water [natural]
will thirst again, but whosoever drinks of the water that
I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I
shall give him will become in him a fountain of water
springing up into everlasting life.” Does this not speak
of an indwelling relationship that far exceeds a
religious knowledge about religious practices that men
have instituted to meet their own personal agenda’s?
Believing on the God of the scriptures is more than
simple head knowledge; it is knowledge gained through
walking with Him in spirit and in truth. This
relationship results from allowing the promised Holy
Spirit a dwelling place within the soul of man to
institute a God-like nature that begins to flow out from
within like a river. John 7:37-38, “…Jesus saying, if
anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He who
believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his
heart will Flow Rivers of living water.”
Friends, God made available to us an ample supply. All
that we have needed is in Him. Times and seasons in God
determine, according to God’s plan, that which He
releases from Himself. We then should consider the time,
the season in which we live. A certain day of God is upon
us and the fullness of times is come. The day of being
prepared to enter into the land has come. Therefore, we
hear God proclaim like a trumpet. Rev. 21:6-7, “And He
said to me, it is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the
water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes
shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he
shall be my son.” The church has passed through the last
decades of time learning about the revealed Alpha
manifestations of God, while now, in this day, He is
uncovering and revealing His Omega manifestations that
His sons might appear in the fullness of His promises.
While the enemy of God has been allowed freedom to steal,
kill and destroy, because carnal religion has open a door
for him, a people are now closing that door while opening
up their hearts door to the Christ of all life, life
which is abundant life. John 10:10, “The thief does not
come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I
[Jesus] have come that they may have life and that they
may have it more abundantly.”
In receiving this abundant life, a key to all the riches
of Christ glory is given. Obedience to His commandments
manifests the fruits of knowing Him. In knowing Him
through love, the love of God perfected in us that we
might be a member of that which becomes His all-in-all. 1
John 2:3-5, “Now by this we know that we know Him, if we
keep His commandments. He, who says, I know Him, and does
not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is
not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of
God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in
Him.” This word “perfected” completes it all as its
meaning stands out for us. “To complete, accomplish,
carry through to the end, bring to a successful
conclusion, reach a goal, fulfill. In an ethical and
spiritual sense, the word signifies a bringing to
maturity, a perfecting.” In this, we can be enlightened
to stand in our place, to be that for which God wants us
to be. To this, we say, amen and amen.
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Topic: "Live The Word - Be Fulfilled"
