Weekend Meditation--Re-establishing The Kingdom On Earth!!!!! PART 3

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We are walking in today: Weekend Meditation--Re-establishing The Kingdom On Earth!!!!! PART 3

Witness proclamation throughout the Bible:  H5674 'abar--to pass on, go on, pass on before, go in advance of, pass along, travel, advance

1 King 22:36 And there went H5674 a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.


The Torah testifies...............
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The prophets proclaim..................
  Ezra 10:7 And they made proclamation H5674 throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;

The writings bear witness...........................
2 Chronicles 30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation H5674 throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.

Ezra 10:7 And they made proclamation H5674 throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;

"He Lives with You and Will Be in You”
This brings us back to what Jesus told his followers about the Governor, the Spirit of the King: “He lives with you and will be in you.” Yeshua’s followers had seen the demonstration of the Governor’s power lived out in his life. The Governor’s works were manifested on the earth, but no other human being besides Yeshua had the Spirit living within. Jesus was promising the disciples that, through his sacrifice, the Governor would be coming back to live within them, also, just as had been promised since Genesis 3 when the rebellion occurred. This would not only align them with the nature and thinking of the kingdom, but it would also empower them to live it out just as Yeshua had lived it out on earth. Soon, the Governor would be taking up his official residence again in the citizens of the kingdom on earth, as the prophet Joel had foretold

The King-Son’s Ultimate Reason for Coming to Earth
After his resurrection, Yeshua told his disciples, “I am going to send you what my Father has promised.” The King-Son was restating the essential reason for his ministry. This next statement may shock a few people, but I believe it is vital for us to understand: the promise of the Father was not Yeshua’s sufferings, his death on Calvary, or even his resurrection. Over the centuries, the Christian church has emphasized these aspects of Yeshua’s ministry to the point that I believe the ultimate reason he endured them has been obscured.

Through the years, people—especially religious people—have changed the meaning of the Father’s promise to humanity. Christianity has become the celebration of what Yeshua did rather than a reception of the reason He did it. We have declared a message that Yeshua never gave. We’ve changed the promise into one of leaving this earth and going to heaven, when what we’re called to is restored dominion over the earth through the indwelling Spirit.The result is that we have worshipped Calvary, rather than benefiting from it. Yeshua’s sufferings, death, and resurrection were the means to an end—the reconciliation of humanity to the King, and, ultimately, the restoration of the Spirit to humanity. They were not ends in themselves. We’ve made the process the purpose. The promise of the Father was the reappointment of the Spirit as a result of these things. The entire reason for the King-Son’s coming into the world was to break the stronghold of HaSatan, destroy the grip of rebellion from human beings, and reconnect them to their King-Father so that the Governor could be restored to them.

The Spirit is what all human beings need in order to be realigned with the King and fulfill their purpose on earth. We should note that John the Baptist never emphasized the blood or death or resurrection of Yeshua. He emphasized the Holy Spirit, because John was expressing the specific reason for his coming: “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.” Humanity is not in need of a “religion.” We don’t need rituals and traditions. We need this promise of the Father to be a reality in our lives.

We must come to truly understand that the Holy Spirit is the heavenly government personified. He is the source of the power of the kingdom in our lives. The Old Testament experience of the priests and prophets was only a shadow of what was to come. At that time, the Holy Spirit couldn’t live in human beings; he could only be among them. But now, Yeshua was saying, “The Spirit of truth...lives with you and will be in you.”As I said earlier, every miracle of Yeshua, every healing, every act of dominion—whether it was walking on water, casting out demonic influences, or cleansing a leper—was not for entertainment or for making an impression; nor was it for the purpose of creating a religion or providing interesting material for preaching. These things were for the purpose of producing evidence to the world that the Spirit of the kingdom had returned to earth and would soon live within humanity again.

Just before Yeshua died, he gave his disciples many instructions, and these instructions had important information about the Governor. He was trying to tell them, in effect, “Everything I’m about to suffer is all because of my purposes concerning the Holy Spirit in your lives and in the lives of those who will believe in the future.” He told them, in essence, “I’m going to leave you, but don’t panic or worry. The Governor is going to come back; he will be with you forever, and he’ll never forsake you.” A striking illustration of the Governor’s return occurred at the moment of Yeshua’s death. The curtain in the temple separating the people from the Holy of Holies tore in two from top to bottom, signaling that Yeshua had made provision for human beings to be holy and receive the Spirit once more. The Spirit no longer had to be separated from them, dwelling only between the cherubim on a mercy seat that had been sprinkled with the blood of animals. Because of Yeshua’s ultimate blood sacrifice, the Spirit could once more be at home within human beings, giving them direct access to the King.

The Goal of the King
The King’s desire to restore the Holy Spirit to humanity, therefore, is what made the entire redemptive program of Yeshua HaMaschiach was necessary. The principle goal and primary purpose of Yeshua’s coming into the world was to deliver the Governor of heaven to the colony of earth. Everything else was a means to that end. He didn’t come to bring us to heaven. He came to bring heaven to earth. This is why our Master Teacher taught us to pray, in what we call The Lord’s Prayer, that the King-Father’s influence, will, intent, and laws be done on earth—the colony—as they are in heaven—the home country.

The Roman Empire as a Type of the Heavenly Kingdom
The best time in history for the concept of the heavenly kingdom to be fully communicated to the inhabitants of earth was during the time of the Roman Empire, and this is a major reason why the King-Son, the Messiah, was born at that time. It was not a random choice by the King; it was the perfect time. Paul wrote, When the time had fully come, The Most High sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, the Most High sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, the Most High has made you also an heir.

The structure and functioning of the Roman Empire (though not its moral nature) at the time of Yeshua served as a type of the kingdom of heaven. For those living under its rule in Palestine, the analogy would have been obvious. Caesar was the emperor or king in Rome, and he was a type of the heavenly King. Caesar sent Pilate to be his procurator or governor over the region of Judea, to oversee it and create the culture of the Roman Empire there. Similarly, Yeshua said that when he returned to the Father, the Governor would be released to earth, enabling the inhabitants to fulfill the will of the King on earth once more, making it into a replica of the kingdom of heaven. Yeshua told his disciples, “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me,” and “I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

Political concepts familiar to the people of the time were present for them to come to understand that Yeshua was talking about the return of the Governor to earth to enable them to fulfill the will and work of the kingdom of heaven. Interestingly, Yeshua’s enemies recognized that his message was about a kingdom, not a “religion.” This kingdom demanded full loyalty to the King-Father through the King-Son. Because Yeshua’s enemies did not want to submit to the authority of the heavenly government, they sought to kill him. They told Pilate that Yeshua was a threat to the political order of the day, saying, “ We have no king but Caesar.” In this way, they pressured Pilate into choosing between killing an innocent man and appearing to support a king other than Caesar. He caved to the pressure and allowed Yeshua to be crucified. He was responsible for his choice, even though Yeshua’s death was part of the heavenly restoration plan. Every person essentially faces the same choice. Allegiance to the kingdom of heaven does not allow for any person or anything to take the place of the King.

The Release and Reception of the Governor
After the King-Son’s life on earth, a process unfolded by which the Governor was given to his followers. First, of course, the Holy Spirit dwelled within the body of Yeshua—the first human being to have the Spirit within him since Adam and Eve. When Yeshua died on the stake, eyewitness and disciple John recorded that he “gave up his spirit.” Although this term can be a description for taking one’s last breath, I believe it also has a deeper significance here. The Greek word for “give up” means to “yield up.” Therefore, I think this term means that Yeshua also released the Holy Spirit back to the Father in heaven at his death.

When Yeshua was resurrected, he was raised by the power of the Spirit, and the Spirit again dwelled in him. Paul wrote, “And if the Spirit of him who raised Yeshua from the dead is living in you, he who raised HaMaschiach from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.” Just as the King-Son was raised from death by the Spirit, and the Spirit dwelled in him, those who enter the kingdom through the King-Son’s sacrifice will also receive the Spirit.

At Yeshua’s resurrection, then, the Spirit was now poised to return to humanity and rescue lives that had lived in rebellion, confusion, and despair under the kingdom of darkness. Just as the Spirit brought life out of emptiness and order from chaos at the creation of the earth, he would transform the earth once more into a colony of heaven through the return of the kingdom in the lives of its citizens.
Shema selah it is high time the we return to the goals and intentions of the Most High, our King, our Abba for the earth to operate as they do in heaven!!!