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Seek First The Kingdom of God

The kingdom of God is unseen, a spiritual kingdom. Much like the kingdom of darkness. You can not see Satan with your physical eyes, but you see his works. Every murder, killing, drug ring, fraud, deceit, war, and act of bloodshed is a work of the kingdom of darkness.

The people asked Jesus when the kingdom of God would appear. He said, The kingdom will not come with observation. The kingdom is in you, Luke 17:21

You cannot serve two masters

Matthew 6:24, you cannot serve two masters

God is the legal owner of the earth and all that is in it, and they who live on earth.

The beast system is designed to be the answer to all of your needs. They say, you will own nothing and be happy, the truth is your God given birthright is to exercise dominion over creation.

Battles are raging over your future, particularly Social Security and Health Care, which are about control and manipulation. It is the stripping away of your resources.

God’s resources are unlimited. The gift of God is LIFE, John 4:10

HE is the One who multiplies your gold and silver and all that you have, Deuteronomy 8:1-20.

“But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is that giveth thee POWER to get wealth, THAT HE MAY ESTABLISH his COVENANT which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.” Deuteronomy 8:18.

God promises us so much more, unlimited power.  LIFE, true wealth, not based on the man-beast system but based on Jesus, the Lamb of God.

If you have a problem understanding this, look at Revelation 22:1-2. The river coming out of the throne is the power that God offers. It is based on a covenant, backed by the throne of God, based on the covenant power of the sacrifice, the Lamb of God.

The demystifying of life will be one of the greatest revelations of the generations alive on earth.

The Beast System

The beast system is plunging many people into a deep, dark hole.

Jesus said, in Matthew 6:33, Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all those other things shall be added to you.

The issue of righteousness

Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. What about righteousness? It is not based on works of righteousness. It’s about faith, walking by faith. Abraham believed in God, what God promised, and God counted his faith as righteousness, a legally binding right to what was promised.

Without faith it is impossible to please God, Hebrews 11:6

Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God, much like paper dollars, cryptocurrency, and gold are the currencies of man’s system.

The kingdom of God

The kingdom of God is a government. Adam was the first steward of creation, sold out the family inheritance to the devil. It’s comparable to being the owner of your own castle. And squatters moved in, changed the locks, and take possession of your property. Meantime, you paid the lights, gas, phone, food, taxes, and maintenance on the castle.

In Luke 10, Jesus the harvest is great but the laborers are few. Pray the LORD of Harvest sent workers into his field. This harvest is a recasting of the original vision for creation. Jesus sent out his disciples to preach the kingdom of God. They were to heal the sick and declare to the kingdom of God is come near to you.

The disciples returned with much joy and told Jesus, even the devils are subject us through your name, Luke 10:17

Then Jesus said, “I saw Satan as lightening fall from heaven.”

Prophetic picture of the Garden of Eden

Ezkiel 47:1-12

In Ezekiel 47:1-12, a prophetic image of the temple and a river flowing from it is presented. Wherever the river went, there was much fruit. The fishing trade exploded. On the banks of the river were many trees whose fruit shall be for meat and leaf for medicine.

Just as in the Garden of Eden, the river carried Life to water the garden and became four rivers that flowed into the earth.

God planted the garden and the trees. He planted two special trees. One for sacrifice and the other tree is for eternal tree

Adam used the leaves of the tree as bandages to heal the wounds that began to break out. Adam’s body began to decay after he ate the forbidden fruit.

Hebrews 8, says it is the tent that Lord pitched and not man.

Revelation 22:1-2, This time the river comes out of the throne of God and the Lamb. The river waters the tree of life, which bears fruit. And the leaves are for the healing of the nations.

Connecting the river to the Sacrifice

In all three places the river is connected to the place of worsip, to the sacrifice. This is how God created the system and process.

Our bodies are called the temple of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 3:16, “Know ye not that your body is the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”

1 Corinthians 6:15, know ye know that body are members of Christ

1 Corinthians 6:19, “What? know ye not body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”

We are born again by His Spirit. Critical that we know how to conduct ourselves as far as the gift of life is concerned.

Must Be Born Again to see the kingdom of God

“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3

Three places where the authority of God is manifested. The earth and fullness of it belong to God. He gave human beings stewardship responsibility over it.

First

God planted a garden eastward in the city of Eden. He planted two trees. A river came out of Eden to water the garden, and it became four rivers that flowed into the earth.

Second

The Heavenly places. God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places, Ephesians 1:3.

The heavenly place is where Adam dressed the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Jesus is now in this place serving as a High priest.

“Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens: a ministry of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.” Hebrews 8:1-2

God pitched this tent when he planted the garden eastward in Eden

Third

The paradise of God is prophetic picture of the Garden of Eden. It is uncovered.

“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and either side of the river, was the tree of life…” Revelation 22:1-2

Why the prophetic image of the Lamb? The first sacrifice was fruit. The last sacrifice is the Lamb of God.

What is the significance of the Lamb? What is God saying by putting the Lamb on the throne?

The Lamb is connected with LIFE

Jesus said, the Father hath life in himself and he has given the Son to have life in himself, John 5:26

LIFE is the infinite power source. He upholds all things by the word of his power.

It flows out of the throne of God and the Lamb.

Romans 1:20 God’s eternal power can be understood by the things that are seen.

Why did God put the image of a lamb on the throne?

“For every house is builded by some man; BUT HE THAT BUILT ALL THINGS is GOD.” Hebrews 3:4

He never wanted Adam to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

He never want Adam to know good or evil. They were created to know his glory. They had eyes for him.

Go back to the Garden of Eden, God planted two trees in the midst of the Garden. One for sacrifice and one for reward.

He chose to be served with a fruit sacrifice.

He chose trees as a source. He chose the tree for the crucifixion. He chose the tree as a method to give life in paradise

Life

Many people will grieve because they missed this one GIFT, they could have been healed and delivered but they had more faith in the world’s system of things than the immeasurable gift of life.

They have no revelation of life. John 4:10 & 14, it is a well of living water.

John 7:38, rivers of living water flowing out of your innermost being.

1 John 1:1-2, the Word of Life, which is simply saying the message of life

All of these scriptures are prophetic images of the Garden of Eden.

The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is life.

The Passover Lamb

Behold the Lamb of God

Jesus said This is my body, which was given for you, Luke 22:19

JESUS said, This is my blood which was shed for you, Luke 22:20

In the days of Moses, when God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, He gave them the Passover Lamb; they were to roast the lamb and eat it. They were to take its blood and apply it to the doorpost and lintel.

When the judgment began, everyone who was under the protection of the blood escaped a tremendous slaughter. The death angel went into every house and killed every firstborn in Egypt.

The Beast System

There is coming a similar judgment upon the beast system. Egypt slaughtered the firstborn in the days of the Pharaohs. The beast system has been behind the slaughter of the children of God. 100,000 Christians have been murdered in Nigeria by Islamist extremists in our day.

God says, in Isaiah 47:7-9 fulfilled Revelation 18:7-8 , the Queen of Heaven will suffer the loss of children in sudden destruction.

In Revelation 14:15-20, He talks about people being thrown into the winepress, as angels sever the wicked from among the righteous.

But everyone who under the protection of the blood of the Lamb will escape this judgment.

Are you ready? Do you have the right sacrifice?

The Visitation

The first visitation recorded occurred in Genesis 3, when God came to meet with Adam at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

It probably wasn’t the first time God visited Adam. Adam was responsible for preparing a sacrifice of worship.

Adam was hiding in the Garden because judgment had exposed his bad decision to eat the forbidden fruit.

The Visitation in the Days of Jesus

We know based on scripture that God came to earth. He came to the temple, and the leadership wasn’t ready to receive him.

John 1:1 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.“

John 1:2 “The same was in the beginning with God.”

John 1:3 “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”

John 1:14 “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”

In Luke 19:41-44, God had come to the temple to fulfill the covenant promises he had made to Abraham. But he weeps over Jerusalem because they missed the hour of their visitation.

He said, If they had known the things that belong to their peace! In other words there are things that accompany salvation. There were promises that are now hidden from them.

God is stretching out his hand in these final days

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

God, the Word, who was with God, becomes the sacrifice. What he offers is his life as a sacrifice.

He commits the sacrifice into our hands in the form of communion. He tells us to eat his flesh and drink his blood. He gives bread and a cup as substitutes.

Life is an infinite power source. God breathed life into Adam in the beginning, as recorded in Genesis 2:7.

God is coming again to make a visitation; this time, he is coming to receive a people to himself. Jesus said, the Father seeks for those who worship in spirit and truth.

Will you be ready?

The Sacrifice

First given to Adam. The sacrifice was the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

God chose to be worshipped with a fruit offering

After the fall, Adam was given the blood sacrifice of an animal.

Cain offered the wrong sacrifice and was rejected

Abel offered up the proper sacrifice and was accepted.

Noah offered up the proper sacrifice, and God was pleased and he lifted a crippling curse off the earth, Genesis 8:20-22

Aaron’s sons burned the wrong sacrifice and were burned alive, Leviticus 10:1-3

David’s servant, Uzzah, touched the ark and was struck dead, 2nd Samuel 6:6-8

The priest in the book of Malachi, who offered broken, lame, diseased sacrifices, was cursed, Malachi 1:6-11

Lamb of God

The Lamb of God our sacrifice. We are told to eat his flesh and drink his blood as part of our sacrifice.

We have been made participants of Christ

Just as Adam served God by making a presentation of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we serve God in serving our sacrifice, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.

Jesus said,

“If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.” John 12:26

Behold the Lamb of God

Adam had two responsibilities as far as the Garden of Eden is concerned: dress and keep it.

God planted two types of trees in the Garden of Eden, utility and service.

Tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

Adam was given the special privilege of dressing the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was a service tree. He was instructed not to eat from that tree because the fruit causes death.

Adam was chosen out of all creation to worship God this way, by offering a sacrifice of worship, and minister to him through this service.

What we failed to understand about the sacrifice

It is the way, means, and method God CHOSE to be served

How God views sacrifice. JOHN 3:16

God so love the world that he gave his only begotten Son to be the sacrifice

John testified of him, “Behold the Lamb of God”

After Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, God raised him and seated him at his own right.

Revelation 22:1-2, the prophetic image of the meaning of the sacrifice is revealed as: the Lamb of God seated on the throne of God.

That’s how much sacrifice meant to God

He seated the sacrifice, the Lamb, on his throne