Let us not seek any self-satisfying, self-deception concerning God. Let our
motive be the theological study and the pursuit of knowledge about God and
His will as revealed in scripture. May this be the mean by which we are drawn
closer to God. We can only know God by entering into a right relationship
with Him through Jesus Christ. If we are faithful, this will not be a
phenomenon that happens secretly, though unexpectedly, it will happen on
the plane of reality. We will have greater thoughts of God, showing great
boldness for God, and having great contentment in God. God is unchanging
in His truth, in His ways, and His purposes. So, the 2520 is purposed to have
God’s people “ready” as we meditate on the greatness of God, being guided
by the Holy Spirit. The world is digressing into a state of wicked evilness.
Conflict and moral decline are promoted. God’s people mindset is no longer
just contemplating the last days…we live as today is our last day. We have
a most beautiful pregnant message to give, but the labor pains of delivery will
increase in frequency and intensity. Prophecies are fulfilled in relation to the
first coming of Christ, the life of Christ, and in relation to His second
coming. God’s purpose and election confirms the gathering promised in the
2520 prophecy. Prophecy revealed that four great empires would emerge in
history: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Preceding these
historically were Egypt and Assyria, which figured largely in the history of
Israel before Babylon. In all, six world establishments were described in
history and prophecy. Yet we are told of eight. We now see America and the
U.N. And one that was, is still.
Another purpose and election of God is His plan for Israel. This began with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the twelve tribes descending from Jacob’s
twelve sons. Christ is restoring Israel spiritually. Our function in this time is
to reveal God’s sovereignty and infinite power, and as Israel we are to make
known God’s faithfulness, love, and righteousness, so the people of His
election may illustrate the grace of God. The 2520 prophecy presents God’s
people where they are. We are in the time of tabernacles. The gathering is a
call to come and worship the Lord, while corporately posturing together to
hear what the Spirit is saying to the people of God. It is a time of gathering
the family of God to move according to the Jesus' prayer in John 17 for unity
with one another and with Him. The warning to heed is to not let your feelings
stretch you so far from the truth that you are drawn out from the truth and left
scattered. To God, gathering is a purposeful and overt reversal of the
distressed situation brought on by disobedience. Upon seeing Israel's
changed or maybe we should say changing attitude - our repentance - God
reciprocates by calling us His elect.
Zechariah 3:1, 2
And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the
LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the LORD said
unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath
chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
This brand is us as we are allowed a glimpse into the temple court. It is our
daily moan as we are a sinner. But Christ quiets the accuser for he knows
that we are more than this. He makes the declaration in the form of a
question. Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? We are what he means
us to be…chosen. This is the gathering of the remnant souls rightly divided
by the truth of prophecy.
Isaiah 19
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall
come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and
the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. And I will set the Egyptians
against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and
every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom againstkingdom. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will
destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the
charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. And the
Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall
rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. And the waters shall fail
from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up. And they shall turn
the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up:
the reeds and flags shall wither. The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth
of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven
away, and be no more.The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast
angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters
shall languish. Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave
networks, shall be confounded. And they shall be broken in the purposes
thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish. Surely the princes of Zoan
are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish:
how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and
let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt. The
princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they
have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have
caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in
his vomit. Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail,
branch or rush, may do. In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it
shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of
hosts, which he shaketh over it. And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto
Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself,
because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined
against it. In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language
of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of
destruction. In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of
the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD. And it shall
be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt:
for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall
send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them. And the
LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in
that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto
the LORD, and perform it. And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite
and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated
of them, and shall heal them. In that day shall there be a highway out of
Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian
into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day
shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the
midst of the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be
Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine
inheritance.
Give prayerful consideration about the incredible importance of the things
that we're learning. Meditate on the value, the priceless value, the precious
value that we place on knowledge and what’s truth in every area of life. Now
know that nothing compares to knowing and understanding God. We must
stay very close to the text. Consider the importance of our spiritual
commitment to the covenant in resolving the following texts.
I John 2:7, 8
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment
which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which
ye have heard from the beginning. Again, a new commandment I write unto
you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and
the true light now shineth.
I write no new commandment unto you, a new commandment I write unto
you. Both are truth. As a people of God we are to reason truth from the
beginning. We were made to love one another as being of one blood, made
to dwell on the earth, as being God's offspring, and bearing His image. And
even in the state of sin because of God’s promised recovery, we are to love
one another as related to God our Maker, as always related to each other by
blood, and as involved together in the same hope. The law of love must be
conveyed with new obligations by the new Israel of God being the privileged
people, who are of the covenants and the adoption. We are constrained to
do this duty the more. The Old Testament covenant established promises
that look forward to fulfillment. The New Testament covenant shows how
Jesus Christ fulfills these covenant promises and what life should look like
for a people living in the law inaugurated in their hearts and minds.
Jeremiah 31:31-33
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with
the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the
covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand
to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake,
although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the
covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the
LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and
will be their God, and they shall be my people.
If we fail to reason with God, we enter upon a potential crisis of confidence
concerning the Word of God. The darkness of our prejudiced unconverted
minds, our deplorable ignorance of God and of Christ, is now past. Pretended
conversion is darkness. Scripture is not symbolic; God actually creates with
words. Let there be light…He spoke creation into existence to include also
that which He used to form man, and the substance of His faith manifested
into what we can now see. It is in the new covenant that with a clean and
recreated heart, a right spirit can be us. It is old as having been taught and
heard from the beginning. New, that in the true Light, we have grace and
virtue comformable to the Son of God. The deeper should our subjection be
to the commandments of our Lord. The first by obedience, the second by
purposed love. The Word of God has unlimited power. Each word is a power
filled with faith waiting for us to release it in our hearts and speak it with our
mouths. Faith is a divine sense that functions in the articulation of the word
or better stated…in the testimony of Jesus. And faith is most justified when
we infer this proposition – God loves me. It was sin that alienated us from
God. It is the faith of Jesus that apprehends the determination by reason
alone of our intense desire to dispose of all sin. By this is shown our
willingness to take great risks to decisively be solely purposed in the
overarching truth that unites the entire self to God. By this, our faith consists
in submission without evidence to the authority of the ideal that God is. And
our faith governs how we respond to His every word. Faith in God extends
beyond just taking God to be an authority, but it includes doing so. Faith is
the response to God being God. God tells Noah to build an ark. God tells
Abraham that he will make him the father of many nations and that his wife
Sarah will bear a son. God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. God tells
Moses to lead his people out of Egypt. God tells Moses’s people that there
will be manna to eat every day, and not to store any for the next day. God
tells Jonah to journey to Nineveh and tell the people that it will be destroyed
for its wickedness. God gives Samuel a vision about Eli’s family. God speaks
through the prophets and tells his people that bad things will happen if they
do not repent. God tells Hosea to marry Gomer. An angel of God tells Mary
she will bear a child. God says that Jesus is God’s beloved son. God says
that He has a peculiar people. And so forth. God’s story reveals that God is
truth and that following God’s commands has proven better than not doing
so. Evidence this - an old couple or a virgin will have a child, or that food will
appear in the desert every day except one, liberate unarmed people from a
nation with an army, take steps to sacrifice one’s son. And so, we have God’s
promise to save His people as the key component of God’s cosmic plan to
unite all things in His Word, in Christ. The Lord never promised to save all
those who can trace their beginning back to the first pair. He will save those
of His election according to His purpose. These children are those who trust
only in Christ for salvation.
God is continually moving and orchestrating our lives behind the scenes to
lead us to those discovery points in which He reveals His love and purpose
for us. He is the ultimate power and source of love. When we are certain of,
and compelled by God’s love for us, our faith becomes unstoppable. Our faith
in God grows when we discover how passionate and determined he is to be
in a relationship with us, and understand what it cost Him to make this
possible through the cross. This faith is what compels us to love others —
inspiring us to give our hearts, serve, and sacrifice to help others discover
and experience this same love and relationship with God.
Acts 17:26, 27
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of
the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds
of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel
after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.
God is continuously nearby, determining our very times, moving us to be
closer in proximity to discovering Him, and revealing His purpose to us.
Let us reason with the unconditional election and the invincible purpose
of God. This is a huge task in considering the truths of the 2520 prophecy. It
requires a mindful approach beyond the sense of feeling. The aim is simply
to understand and apply to our lives the reasoning secreted in the word of
God to be revealed to whom He chooses. We want to understand why God’s
purpose according to election stands. I exhort us to caress the weight of this
sentence. When God tells us why He does something as eternally
fundamental as unconditional election, He is giving us information about the
nature of ultimate reality — namely His reality — that is more foundational
and more important than all other human knowledge. Nothing is greater to
know under God, than why He does His most fundamental acts. And here is
one of these massively important sentences. We ask “why, God, do you do
this great work of unconditional election?” And God answers: “So that MY
purpose according to MY election would stand, not because of works but
because of ME who calls.”
What does the phrase “God’s purpose according to election” mean? It is
defining the purpose. What purpose? The according to election purpose. The
according to election purpose would be “the electing purpose.” In other
words, the purpose of God is in part defined by election. The purpose of God
that would not be what it is, if there were no election. The purpose that
consists largely in election. But what is it? How can we state God’s purpose
according to election — God’s electing purpose?
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to
them who are the called according to his purpose.
There is something behind that call, namely, God’s purpose, guiding whom
and how He calls. We are called “according to his purpose.” So, God’s
purpose has to do with guiding His saving work, in this case His calling.
II Timothy 1:8, 9
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his
prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the
power of God; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not
according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which
was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.
First, God’s purpose is eternal — before the world began. It doesn’t originate
or respond to anything. It is eternal. Second, God’s purpose is related to
Christ from all eternity. Christ is not an afterthought. God’s purpose was in
him and through him from all eternity. Third, God’s purpose is linked with
grace. It is a gracious purpose. It’s a purpose to exercise power to not sin.
There is a direct correlation between faith and power. The more faith we put
in God, the more we allow God to direct our lives, the more power and
blessing we’re going to have. Fourth, the purpose of God rules out works as
the basis of his saving call: He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not
according to our works, but according to his own purpose. His own purpose
is the basis of his call, not our works.
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