JOURNEY OF FAITH
Day One Hundred Ninety-nine
WHY DO I EXIST
CHAPTER TWO
MY FATHER’S HOUSE
Friends & neighbors; brothers and sisters…
If you remember nothing else from the pages of “WHY DO I EXIST”…never forget this: GOD LOVES YOU.
God’s Love 4 U is…
Unconditional
Unfailing
Unchanging
Unending
Beloved…I love you because of Who I am…not as a response to who you are, or what you do, or what you refrain from doing. If only you would know in the depths of your soul, if only you would just fully embrace, the greatness of My Love I have lavished upon you…that the most intense desire of My heart is to gather you to Myself as one of My Own children, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. That is the depth of My love for you.
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A PLACE PREPARED FOR ME IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE
Abba Father…Your House encompasses the fathomless expanse of the Heavenly realms of Heaven…and I love the place where You live, Lord God Almighty…the place where Your Glory dwells! How lovely is Your House…the Heavenly realms of Your dwelling place, O Lord!
Blessed Jesus…You comforted Your Disciples…and through them all those down through the unfolding generations of time since Your creation of Adam who would become Your Disciples, with Your blessed assurance, “There are many homes and resting places in My Father’s House, where your soul will be continually at rest…peaceful and calm, tranquil and unruffled in the shadow of the Almighty, sheltered in the arms of My God. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And since I am going there to make ready a place for you, you can rest assured that I will come back to Personally take you to be together with Me where I am…that where I am you may also be.
So be comforted; don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. You believe in God; believe also in Me. I would not be telling you this if it were not so.” Your soul shall forever be satisfied, as with the richest of foods! You will feast on the abundance of My house, and I will give you drink from My River of delights…a River of unceasing glorious and rich eternal pleasures at My right hand!
So come, all you who are thirsty, come to the Waters; and you who have no money…come, buy, and eat! The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life!
ABIDING IN THE SPIRIT REALM
My beloved child…My House has many homes and resting-places that My Divine Son Jesus has Personally prepared for My children. It is the birth-right of all of My children to dwell here with Me in My House even now while still living on the face of this Earth…to abide here…to come home when your day’s responsibilities are finished, and share the evening meal together…to spend the evening hours together in fellowship. Then as night-time draws nigh, to close your eyes and drift off to sleep in My loving arms, safe and secure…to awaken in the early hours of the morning well before dawn to come to our trysting place here in the Garden of Paradise, just to be alone together to commune face to Face in sweet, intimate fellowship. Afterwards we will have breakfast together before your becoming engaged in the work-day of responsibilities and ministries I have given you…My plans, My purposes, My will I Myself have planned in advance for you to do.
Yes, beloved child of God…home is where you return to after the day’s work is done, where you spend the night. Home is a safe-house; no matter what storms of life may be raging…a fierce tempest whipping the waves into a tumultuous, churning turmoil…home is where you come where everything is peaceful and calm, tranquil and unruffled in the shadow of the Almighty, sheltered in your Father’s arms, where your soul rests in an unruffled child-like rest, completely undaunted by the swirling turmoil outside. Home is where you awaken in the morning just to spend time alone together with Me, just to commune face to Face as a man speaks with his friend. Home is where you experience My unconditional love…where you already have My acceptance, where you already have My approval, where you already have My affirmation, where you already have My affection.
MY HOME IN THE NEW JERUSALEM
One of the seven Presence- angels came and said to me [John], “Come…I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” He carried me away in the Spirit to a vast and lofty mountain, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God. It shone with the Glory of God, and its brilliance resembled a rare and precious jewel, like jasper, shining clear as crystal.
The twelve gates of the city were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, translucent as glass. I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its Temple. The city has no need of the sun nor the moon to give it light, for the Glory of God illuminates it, and the Lamb is its lamp.
Then the angel showed me the river of the Water of Life, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the Throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the Trees of Life with their twelve varieties of fruit, yielding each month their fresh crop. And the leaves of the Trees are for the healing of the nations.
And I heard a mighty voice from the Throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and He will live among them. They will be His people, and God Himself will dwell with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
Behold, I am coming quickly! My reward is with Me, and I will render to everyone according to what his work merits. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to enter through the gates into the city and eat the fruit from the Trees of Life.
I, Jesus, have sent My angel to announce these things to you in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star. The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let everyone who hears say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever desires, let him take the free gift of the Water of Life! Everyone who overcomes by means of their faith I will give the right to eat the fruit from the trees of life that grows in the Garden paradise of God.
Brethren…The washing of one’s robes and the keeping of one’s garments relates to this very attitude and habit of looking for the return of Christ as an imminent event. Brethren, as you hope to walk those golden streets, and eat of those immortal fruits, see to it that you have your garments clean and your loins girded about like unto men waiting for their Lord.
Revelation 22:1-21 [NIV; amplification in italics]
Then the angel showed me the river of the Water of Life, immortal and Divine, as clear as crystal, flowing direct from the Eternal Throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of every one of the great streets of the Holy City, solely for the exhaustless pleasure and blessedness of the celestial king-priests who occupy it! On each side of the river stood the tree of life, a species of tree bearing twelve different crops of fruit, yielding a new variety of its fruit each and every month, again solely for the unmeasured pleasure and blessedness of the immortal glorified saints who reside there! And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the peoples of the nations that inhabit the Earth below...for the preservation of their health, comfort, and Life-blessedness forever and ever. No longer will there ever be any penalty or curse resulting from sin and its consequences. The Throne of God and of the Lamb…a single Throne, shared with His glorified saints as He had promised, which is the seat and center of all the authority and power thenceforward put forth for the regulation and government of human affairs…will be in the City, and they shall reign to the ages of the ages! And His immortal and glorified servants will serve Him with a universal obedience and a loving devotion; no more sin, no more rebellion, no more forgetfulness or neglect of the claims or Word of the Eternal King. All life is permeated and transfigured with the most complete and happy accord with the Divine will, which then is done “on Earth as it is in Heaven.” They will see His Face, and they shall stand continually before Him, and His name will be on their foreheads as a token of their sublime office and consecration, and of an honor and blessedness of the highest degree. There will be no more night in this celestial home of the Lamb’s Bride. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God Himself will give them His glorious, ever abiding, light. And they will reign for ever and ever, holding dominion over the nations…all people, languages, and nations under the whole Heaven…and their kingdom is an everlasting kingdom that will never end!
The angel said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show His servants beforehand the things that must soon take place during the forthcoming administration of His role and reign on Earth, so that they may make proper and diligent preparations for His imminent return, and for their invitation to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” “Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book.”
I, John, am the one who heard and saw these wondrous, marvelous, things! And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. But he said to me, “Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers the prophets and of all who keep the words of this book! Worship God!”
Then, in solemn and strict command, he told me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, but rather record them and make them known, because the time is near! Though the words of this prophecy harden the hearts of the ungodly, and the wicked are only all the more indurated in their wickedness, yet, even so, let it so be; do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book! Let him who does wrong continue to do all the more wrong; let him who is vile continue to be all the more vile; let him who does right continue to do all the more right; and let him who is holy continue to be all the more holy.
Whatever the results, let it so be; but do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book!“
“Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with Me, and I will give to everyone according to, and in proportion to, what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.” “Blessed are those who wash their robes in the cleansing Blood of Jesus, and are careful to maintain their whiteness in constant expectation and readiness, eagerly watching and waiting for their summoning to the Marriage supper of the Lamb to which they have been invited, that in so doing they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the Holy City! For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope…the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for Himself a people that are His very Own, eager to do what is good. Now there is in store for us the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award us on that Day…and not only to us, but also to all who have longed for His appearing. Outside the Holy City, and sentenced to a living-death for all eternity in the lake of fire, are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.”
“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.” The Spirit and the Bride, with an intense longing and yearning emanating from the deepest, inmost recesses of their being for the Great Consummation of all things through the coming of Christ, continually say, “Come!” And let him who hears, in union and in fellowship with the Spirit and the Bride, also continually say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty for these Waters of Life, let him also come and join in fellowship with the Spirit and the Bride; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the Water of Life, to be appropriated solely and only by faith in Christ, by seizing hold upon His promises to His church, and by joining the cry of the Spirit, the yearning of the Bride, and the soul of all right hope, in looking for and hastening the coming of the Day of God, even the blessed Apocalypse of the Blessed Christ!
I, Jesus, solemnly warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this book.”
He who testifies to these things…even the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Himself…solemnly says, “Yes, I am coming soon.”
Amen! Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God’s people. Amen! [Revelation 22:1-21]
MY BIRTH-RIGHT
Thank You, Blessed Jesus, for assuring me, “There are many homes and resting places in My Father’s House…the fathomless expanse of the Heavenly realms of Heaven. I am going there to prepare a place for you. I wouldn’t be telling you this if it were not true. So don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Trust in God with an unwavering child-like trust in this matter. Trust also in Me…for the Father and I are One in the Blessed Holy Trinity of our Triune Godhead…same in Substance, equal in Power and Glory. I assure you…I will be coming back to Personally take you to be together with Me where I am in My Father’s House upon the death of the perishable physical body in which your soul is now living…to dwell together with Us forever…throughout the endless unfolding ages of all eternity.”
Blessed Holy Spirit…
Thank You for welling up within me…where You abide as a continually flowing Fountain of Living Water…ever flowing, continually overflowing, spilling over, flooding my soul with torrents of Living Waters from Your River of Delights…a River of unceasing glorious and rich eternal pleasures at Your right Hand. Yes, Thank You for welling up within me, sweeping me up in the Spirit into the fathomless expanse of the Heavenly realms of Heaven…my Father’s House.
Abba Father…
I look forward upon awakening every morning…with a joyful expectation, an excited anticipation…to come to our trysting place here in Your House, swept up in the Spirit into the Garden of Paradise…just to be alone together with You, Father, and with You, Lord Jesus…
just to walk with You and talk with You in the cool of the early hours of the morning well before dawn, as You once walked with Adam in the Garden of Eden in the cool of the afternoon before his sin of disobedience against You…
just to commune with You face to Face as a man speaks with his friend, as You once spoke with Moses.
I love the House where You live…the fathomless expanse of the Heavenly realms of Heaven…the place where Your Glory dwells! On my bed as I drift off to sleep in Your loving arms at the approach of the night-hours, I will not fear ten thousand enemies drawn up against me on every side. No matter what storms of life may be raging…a fierce tempest whipping the waves into a tumultuous, churning, turmoil…beneath the surface, in the depths of God, there is peace in the midst of the storm; all is peaceful and calm, all is tranquil and unruffled. In the shadow of the Almighty, my soul is at rest in an unruffled child-like rest. My thoughts linger with You through the watches of the night…my soul yearns for You in the night; my spirit thirsts for You through the watches of the night; my soul clings to You, Your right Hand upholds me as I await the morning with its words of unfailing love; my spirit longs for You with a joyful expectation, an excited expectation, more than watchmen wait for the morning…more than watchmen who wait for the morning!
As You awaken me in the early hours of the morning well before dawn, clothed and in my right mind and in good health…still in Your loving arms…I spread out my hands to You, Father…my soul thirsts to know You, the One True Living God, continually ever more deeply and intimately, and to know You Blessed Jesus, the Eternal Divine Son of God…the Messiah Whom You had sent, Father…in that same deep and intimate personal relationship, as You pour ever more of Your Blessedness and Goodness into me…as You carry me away together with You in our living union of oneness in our Sacred Covenant relationship into the limitless depths of God and reveal to me…
- something more of Who You are;
- something more of the rich eternal treasures of the Heavenly realms;
- something more of those wondrous things God has prepared for those who love Him…even inexpressible things that words cannot describe…things so astounding they are beyond man’s capability to express in words…rich eternal treasures that no eye has ever seen, nor ear has heard, nor mind can ever imagine;
- something more in the Divine counsels of God…things hidden and beyond man’s scrutiny…of what You are purposing to do during these End Times on the face of this Earth…
as You continue transfiguring me by Your Holy Spirit to become ever more one with You, even as You are One with One Another in Your Blessed Holy Trinity…continually transforming me to become more and more like You, from one degree of glory to ever greater degrees of glory…that, as a mirror of the Almighty, I would reflect Your Glory to the created Universe.
You have given me fine, radiant linen to wear…dazzling and white…which are my righteous acts, my righteous deeds, which Your Holy Spirit alone works through me, with me, in me as I give Him free reign to do so…that my light would so shine before the souls of men that they may see in me, as a mirror of the Almighty, the God-ordained origin of the moral excellence being continually wrought in me by Your Holy Spirit…my praiseworthy, noble, righteous acts and good deeds which Thou hast wrought for them that trust in Thee before the sons of men…and thereby recognize, honor, praise, and glorify You, Father, in Heaven, for all You alone have done in the hearts of Men wholly surrendered unto You down through the unfolding generations of time since Your creation of Adam. Hallelujah!
THE LORD’S INVITATION
Friends & neighbors; brothers and sisters…
The Lord Jesus is calling; inviting: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me! Let him drink who believes in Me…ever coming, ever drinking, continually satisfied! The Water I give will become a fountain within you, welling up, flooding your soul with torrents of Living Water…ever flowing, continually overflowing, spilling over! No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry! No one who believes and trusts in Me shall ever again thirst! You will feast on the abundance of My House, and I will give you drink from My River of Delights…a River of unceasing glorious and rich eternal pleasures at My right hand…eternal pleasures at My right hand beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations…rich eternal treasures that no eye has ever seen, nor ear heard, nor has entered into the heart of Man to ever begin to imagine, what wondrous things God has prepared for those who love Him…a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness nevermore to cease!”
Come…whoever is thirsty, let him come and take the free gift of the Water of Life! Come…all you who are thirsty, come to the Waters; come, buy and eat, without money and without cost! The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the Water of Life!
Wherefore brethren, having now boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the Blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us…a new and living way to God through the veil, that is to say, through the veil of His flesh…let us then without further hesitation or delay draw nigh in fullness of faith; here let us continually abide in the fullness of faith. [Heb 10:19-20, 22] Those who abide in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Brethren…this is the birth-right of the children of the Most High God! This is the cry of a heart that has fully embraced and appropriated as its own my birth-right…secured on my behalf by Your Blood, Blessed Jesus…abiding continually and unceasingly in the Holy of Holies in the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father…abiding in the shelter of the Most High and finding rest in the shadow of the Almighty!
THE WAY TO MY FATHER’S HOUSE
Friends…I have told you plainly and made the way to My Father’s House crystal-clear to you: I alone am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one goes to the Father but through Me. The ONLY WAY to the Father is through Me.
Just as I said to Martha…the sister of Lazarus, whom I had raised from the dead…”I Myself am the Resurrection and the Life. Anyone who lives their life believing in Me, though dying a physical death like everyone else, will never actually die at all but will rise to an eternal life together with Me in Heaven. Do you believe this?”
Yes, Lord, Martha replied, I do believe that You are Christ the Messiah, the Son of God, Whom God promised was to come into the world, fulfilling Your promised coming the world has long awaited.
Just as I told Nicodemus…a member of the Jewish ruling council: “I tell you the truth, unless one is born again, he cannot be in God’s Kingdom.”
How can a grown man be born again, Nicodemus asked? He certainly cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time!
Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, no one can ever enter the Kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at My saying, ‘You must be born again.'”
God Himself has given this testimony concerning His Son: I have granted you eternal life, and this life is given through union with My Divine Son Jesus.
Whoever is joined together with My Son in a living union of oneness possesses that life;
whoever is NOT joined together with My Son in a living union of oneness
does NOT possess that life.
I have written this to you so that you who place your trust in Christ My Son will know, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that you do now indeed have eternal life.
CALL OF THE SPIRIT
Beloved…FOR YOU THIS MAY BE THE LAST CALL.
Today…right now…if you hear His voice calling you, don’t harden your heart and walk away for another time, ignoring His invitation. God’s free gift of eternal life is available to you to consciously and deliberately choose to receive only while you are still living. Death seals your eternal destiny…
- whether Heaven by virtue of having accepted His offer of the free gift of eternal life, or
- Hell by virtue of having ignored [as you clearly know, if you ignore receiving the gift, you don’t have it] or out-right rejected His offer.
Beloved…”let My Holy Spirit open your heart, and receive God’s gift in the depths of your being…now…not another time…tonight, let something in your heart respond to His call.”
If you have never been born again,
or you are not sure whether you have been born again,
or you have been living your life as a lukewarm Christian and would now like to recommit your life and enter into a deep and intimate relationship with Christ Jesus in preparation for the soon coming marriage supper of the Lamb…
then I counsel you to get alone with God, read the solemn marriage vows presented below you must make to become the bride of Christ and thereby be born-again, and with sincerity of heart from within the depths of your being, acknowledge before God, “I DO.”
MARRIAGE VOWS
SPIRITUAL BRIDE OF CHRIST
- Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Divine Son in the Triune God, the Lamb of God Who came into this world to become the One only, all-sufficient, atoning sacrifice through His death on a cross and subsequent resurrection, thereby securing forgiveness for your sins and restoring your relationship with God that had been severed by sin?
- Do you now solemnly vow before God to give yourself to be the bride of Christ, receiving Jesus the Christ into your life in a spiritual marriage, promising to honor and obey Him as both Lord over your life and Savior of your soul?
- To be joined inseparably together with Him in a Sacred Covenant relationship…an Eternal living union of oneness through the new life to be conceived in you by the Holy Spirit…
- To have and to hold Him, above all others and above all else this world has to offer, as the choicest, most precious treasure of your heart…
- To love and to cherish Him, above all others and above all else this world has to offer, reserving for Him alone your sweetest, most tender affections…
- For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, all the days of your life, until death of this body brings you to be together with Him in Heaven for all eternity.
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This is what the Most Holy, Most High, Triune God declares:
No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him. [Matt 24:36-39, 42-44]
“Behold”, says the Lord Jesus in His last warning for the last opportunity offered to mankind to be among His redeemed, “I come for the last time like a thief in the night to gather those who would be among the elect! Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, in watchfulness, prayer and readiness for the summons when it comes, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed, eternally without remedy.”
PREPARE YOURSELF
We are in the Last Days; time is moving very quickly, and we are drawing near! And so, my brothers and sisters, first of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ He promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of Creation.”
Son of man, you’ve heard that proverb they quote in Israel: Time passes, and prophecies come to nothing. Tell the people, This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will put an end to this proverb, and you will soon stop quoting it. Now give them this new proverb to replace the old one: The time has come for every prophecy of Mine to be fulfilled! [2 Peter 3:3-4, 10-12, 14, 17; 1 John 3:3; 1 Peter 1:14-16; Ezek 12:22-23]
God is calling a holy remnant to Himself…to personal revival…a holy remnant of His children who will not bow down, who will not shrink back, who will not compromise, who will remain steadfast and immovable in their commitment to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes. God’s holy remnant is called to a life of obedience and suffering, self-sacrifice and self-denial…to walk along the path that Christ Jesus dedicated for us, and to follow in His footsteps as our Forerunner. You cannot become part of My holy remnant without being willing to sacrifice your desire for anyone & all others, and for anything & all else this world has to offer. Obedience is what characterizes the life of My child…obedience continually and unceasingly day and night. You are called to a life of obedience. Obedience is better than sacrifice; rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as evil as worshiping idols. [1 Sam 15:22,23]
Wherefore brethren, having now boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the Blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us…a new and living way to God through the veil, that is to say, through the veil of His flesh…let us then without further hesitation or delay draw nigh in fullness of faith; here let us continually abide in the fullness of faith. [Heb 10:19-20, 22] Those who abide in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Arise My bride, and prepare to see My Face
Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.
Then the angel said to me, “Write this down: Blessed are those summoned to the marriage banquet of the Lamb…all true believers who are members of His Universal Church. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with Power and great Glory. And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect…God’s holy people…from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.” And he said to me further, “These are the True Words of God.” [Rev 19:9]
Blessed Jesus…I rejoice and shout triumphantly for joy! I celebrate and ascribe to You glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb draws near, and Your bride, the Universal Church and each of her members, has been preparing herself and has made herself ready! [Rev 19:7] Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! For our Lord God, Sovereign All-Ruler, reigns! Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him Glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready. The finest linen, dazzling and white, was given her to wear. Then the angel said to me, “Write: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage banquet of the Lamb!” [John…Rev 19:6-9; Luke 14:15-23]
The washing of one’s robes and the keeping of one’s garments relates to this very attitude and habit of looking for the return of Christ as an imminent event. Brethren, as you hope to walk those golden streets, and eat of those immortal fruits, see to it that you have your garments clean and your loins girded about like unto men waiting for their Lord. [Seiss…Rev 21:9-22:5]
Then the king said to his servants, “The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.” So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding garment. “Friend,” he asked, “How did you come in here without putting on the appropriate wedding garment?” The man was speechless. Then the king told the attendants, “Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are invited and summoned, but few are chosen.” [Matt 22:8-14]
ENDURE TO THE END
Behold, I am coming quickly. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will deprive you of your crown. Everyone who overcomes by means of their faith…
I will make a pillar in the Sanctuary of My God. Never again will you leave it. I will write on you the name of My God and you will be a citizen in the city of My God…the new Jerusalem…which will come down out of Heaven from My God; I will also write on you My Own new name.
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