Those who partake of God’s life by overcoming and hating the doctrines and deeds of the Nicolaitans (the priests/ministers ruling over the people in the church) unto the full measure are promised entrance into His kingdom. Yet they must follow on to a place in Him, the top of spiritual Mt. Zion, as when God said to Moses:
“…present thyself there to me in the top of the Mount.” Exodus 34:2
The top of the mount was Moses’ goal, and it is ours as well. And it seems impossible for us to take anyone else with us. We must be prepared to GO ALONE. Spiritual progress is not based on fellowship with people, but on FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR FATHER. A few others also will be going on to let the Lord stand on them at the top of the old threshing floor, the mount of Zion.
These are to be a remnant separated and made kingdom ministers who REAP in God’s great harvest. All of that remnant is being drawn up spiritually by the Father to the top of a mount where the Lord can STAND on them. Not one member of that remnant, the body of Christ, shall be missing, for the Father has determined to make it so. He, the Father of spirits, leads them all by His Spirit.
Wondrous things await the sons and daughters of God, things so wonderful they are not lawful, or even possible, for a man to utter. We do not know all that awaits us, but enough is known by revelation to wean us from earthly viewpoints pronounced and held as priorities in religious Christian fellowship. We are advanced in time to a kingdom age that fills our souls with awe and delight because of the extraordinary understanding and vision our Father gives to our spiritual mind. As Paul stated, God:
“…made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself: that in the dispensation of the fullness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him...that we should be to the praise of His glory...and...that in the ages to come He might show [display] the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 1:9-12; 2:7
We are now placed in a new dispensation in the unfolding of God's plan for the ages. This dispensation was yet future in Paul’s day when he pointed to it and to the comprehensive work of restoration God would do in it. Now it is upon us. After two thousand years of church history, this generation is being bestowed with a new day of power and glory. The world has never yet seen anything like what God, our Father, sets forth to transform the beliefs of saints so they know what they can be in Him.
We are preparing for the commencement of the Day of the Lord, the manifestation of God the Father in His many membered Son. God has been preparing His sons and daughters for the greatest symphony the world has ever heard. This is a symphony of divine wisdom, omnipotent power, leading to unconditional, unbounded love of holiness.
The voice of His Son will be the sound of this symphony. All the harmonious chords of God’s wisdom and divine nature are being struck out like lightning from the heavenly realms of God’s throne. This work is happening while, in the churches, it seems as if every man is tooting his own horn, playing his own little fiddle, sounding like everyone else yet being out of tune with Zion’s song, bringing a medley of discord.
God is fine-tuning the inner dealings deep within our lives. He is teaching us His ways and writing His laws in our hearts. He is bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ so He may establish His Kingdom by transforming our beings. Only the Father can write the Father’s name within our forehead. It takes a fellowship with our Father to have His nature written upon us, a divine recreating within each of us that responds to the spirit of truth. Our minds are now being renewed as changing viewpoints help us see and hear the truth taught by the Spirit of God deep within us.
Through the crucible of daily experiences, we see the dealings of God in tests and trials that teach us new spiritual perspectives. Fellowship with the Father grants more full understanding of His wisdom, as the Father gives much wisdom to His sons. Wisdom has weaned us from the milk of the word, where the carnal thinking of man has contaminated even the “sincere milk” of the Word.
Our Father uses REFINING FIRES to purge out of us any trusting in our own strength. Through trials, He is removing any confidence in fleshly ways and the undeveloped mentality of Christian “babyland”. As these daily fires consume our confusion, we are purged from a Babylonian religion cloaking of the spirit with raucous unsettling noise released from sons’ and daughters’ lives.
We declare that we are Kingdom people — those called to be sons and daughters of God. It’s with those called to grow up into the measure and stature of the fullness of Christ with whom we desire to partake of fellowship. We fellowship with the Father in greater works than that of the church age. We see God set up a King with a governing body to restore creation in every circumstance as reconciled to God.
Relatives and people ask, “Just who do you think you are?” It really makes no difference who we think we are, but it makes a great deal of difference what our heavenly Father thinks we should be! We know and understand that WE ARE APPREHENDED TO BE PRIESTS OF THE KINGDOM. Our ears have heard the sound of many trumpets and we cannot, dare not, settle for anything less. We must follow on to know Him in all of His glorious fullness.
God has many sons and daughters today who are not caught up in worldly events with prophecies of gloom and doom. They are not worried about the desperate needs everywhere, but are occupied with the Father’s will in bringing a new day to His people. These works are MERCIFUL works, straight from the throne of mercy, saying we are to declare that a commission is coming. And, it is not a burden of ourselves, as a people are hearing:
“I am setting you to be lights. I have ordained you to rise and be Saviours that stand on spiritual Mount Zion. I have made you to be my habitation. I am anointing you to become a priest in my kingdom, a priest who will administer the victory of the King, that of Jesus Christ’s full salvation over death, hell, and the grave to each and every one of My sons and daughters.” (P. Eby)
The Father is sending us forth to be BREAD OF A NEW FEAST, the Feast of Tabernacles, broken to feed the hungry multitudes. The Father is pouring out a Spirit of wisdom into our spirit. He is renewing our minds to truth by sending a surge of God’s life to cause rivers of spirit quickening to flow in bounteous rivers of Godlife. The flow of His spirit quickens our spiritual substance so that we do not seek out our own glory.
There is, nevertheless, great wealth and much heavenly glory for all who fulfill the word of God. We never lose or come up short as we submit to the Father's wonderful plans and purposes affecting the lives of every man or woman ever born. The Father’s thoughts toward each son and daughter are that there is a course, a race, a work, a divine plan to be unfolded and fulfilled in us.
To this end we have been birthed spiritually for a purpose being worked out in His people. Grace is coming from the throne to reveal what God has given, and indeed will give, to all who seek His abiding power to tabernacle within as our abiding Father.
Never forget that men and women born of God can be victorious and can achieve something transcendental, something more spiritual than remaining babes in Christ. God is actively drawing people, possessing them, changing their lives as He raises them with His indwelling in order to make them fit into the place of His choosing. He has chosen to bring us all to the the New Jerusalem order where we are spiritually quickened by the law of life that is in Christ Jesus. Even today we can hear His voice without hardened hearts.
Babes in Christ get all sentimental and starry-eyed over the provisions of earthly prosperity, such as healings, miracles and blessings. They have become like little children who cannot do much, but oh, how they love to receive things. Gifts mean everything to them. How excited a child gets over a shiny bike, a new doll, the latest toy, or a little spending money. Children know their parents will supply all of their needs and often ask, even beg, for things they want.
There is nothing wrong with that, that is just how children are. The state of children is a perfect picture and true condition of many Christians today. Even in the early church, babes in Christ, filled with knowledge that puffs them up, began to fight among each other saying, “I am of Paul, I am of Apollos, I am of Peter.” Paul chastised the Corinthians, saying:
“And I, brethren, could not speak to you as spiritual but as to fleshly, as to minors [babes] in Christ. Milk I give you to drink, not solid food, for not as yet were you able. Still, not even now are you able, for you are still fleshly, for where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man? For whenever anyone may be saying, ‘I indeed, am of Paul.’ yet another, ‘I, of Apollos,’ will he not be fleshly?” I Corinthians 3:4-5 Concordant
Children pride themselves in who shall be the greatest. Children want to know “What am I going to get out of all this?” Children like to play adult, imagining that they possess much more than they actually do, that they’ve attained a stature far beyond their experience. Yet God has not purposed that we be children in this hour. He is clearly drawing us to a maturity as sons and daughters who hear His voice, doing what God Fathers in us to do.
He is reverencing and truly giving place in His sons. We cannot OUTGIVE God in glory, but we are challenged to have glory to give:
"And I perceived, and 'lo'! the Lambkin standing on mount Zion, and with It a hundred forty-four thousand, having Its name and lts Father's name written on their foreheads, And I hear a sound out of heaven as the sound of many waters and as the sound of loud thunder, and the sound which I hear is as lyre singers, playing, on their lyres. And they are singing a new song, before the throne and before the four animals and before the elders.
And not one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousand, who have been bought from the earth. These are they who were not polluted with women, for they are celibates. These are those who are following the Lambkin wherever It should be going. These are bought from mankind, a first fruit to God and the Lambkin. And in their mouth falsehood was not found, for they are flawless.
And I perceived another messenger flying in midheaven, having an eonian evangel to bring to those situated on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people, saying with a loud voice, ‘Be ye afraid of God [have reverence] and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judging came; and worship the Maker of heaven and the land and the sea and the springs of water.’" Revelation 14:1-8 concordant
The hour of His judgment has surely come upon some in His house, for the sake of MATURITY. We are the ones who are waiting on the mount for any remaining changes that need come to us. Smyrna overcomers were and are now risen over the testing inner fires of the SECOND DEATH that is restoring our inner spiritual mind.
Our heavenly Father has been restoring Christians to that level by quickening our spirit to His Life and Light. He is actively connecting us by His Spirit to accept the purifying process of God's dealings with sons and daughters. These Sons accept discipline, giving homage in worship ONLY when the image of the firstborn Son is found. We walk in His LIGHT until we are changed into the same image:
"That which we have seen and heard we are reporting to you also, that you too may be having fellowship with us, and yet this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. And these things we are writing, that our joy may be full. And this is the message which we have heard from Him and are informing you, that God is light, and darkness in Him there is none.
If we should be saying that we are having fellowship with the Father and should be walking in darkness [hating our brethren], we are lying and are not doing the truth. Yet if we should be walking in the light as He is in the light, we are having fellowship with the Father, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, is cleansing us from every sin." I John 1:3-7 concordant
Our fellowship is also with the Father and with his Son:
"Beloved, now are we children of God, and it was not as yet manifested what we shall be. We are aware that, if He should be manifested, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him according as He is. And everyone who has this expectation in Him is purifying himself, according as He is pure." I John 3:2-3 concordant
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”