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