25.3 All Creation
© 2017 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. – Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Romans 8:19 & 21).
In our use of the Tabernacle of Moses as a framework for understanding the full meaning of our New Testament Covenant with God, I am placing the camp of Israel all around that Tabernacle court as signifying this critical line of that Covenant regarding our role towards all creation. We come out with Father through the Veil for the sake of His Church. We together as the Church come out with Father through the Gate for the sake of all creation.
To Him Are All Things. I really like what we just saw about the word “epiphany.” Two of the words for Jesus’ “return” are epiphany and apocalypse. We now realize that they are speaking of the same thing, but in slightly different ways. Parousia means – present in Person here and now. Epiphany means – turn on the lights to see what IS true already. Apocalypse means – take off the cover to see what IS true already.
Here is the Word of the Covenant regarding all creation. …Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God… (2 Corinthians 5). – For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things (Romans 11:36).
Into Glorious Liberty. Creation is delivered INTO the glorious liberty of the children of God. It is obvious, as we pass through the Gate together with Father and one another, that Romans 8:19-21, placed in Purpose as the ninth most important verse in the Bible, must fit here. Then we look at our outline and see that we have two more sessions – “Full Covenant Sons” and “The Inheritance.”
The glorious liberty of the sons of God is established in our lives in all fulness first, before creation has something into which it can be delivered. And right now we are learning to walk AS IF all of that is already true before we see it with our eyes.
As If We Are. For that reason, our present view in the remainder of the course content will be AS IF our physical bodies are already incorruptible and immortal. Let’s do our very best to keep that mind as the rule over our thinking through this lesson and the next two sessions.
The primary quality we “now” possess is 100% in-tune-ness with Father AND with one another. We see all things together, AND we see all things through Father’s Heart and Father’s eyes. This is how Jesus walked, even in a body of mortal flesh. – I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me (John 5:30).
We Walk as Jesus Walked. You see, Jesus’ action of “not seeking MY own will” was NOT a labor of performance, but the CONFIDENCE of faith. Jesus KNEW that the Father filled His will with the Father’s will. “I can do nothing of Myself” meant that Jesus never spun His own “self-story” as someone separate from His Father.
We walk just as Jesus walked – in absolute and unrestrained confidence in God in us reconciling the world to Himself. And we walk together.
My heart is full. For twelve years, now, I have been laboring to call forth the Community of my heart. And now, the fruit is returning back to me as many of you are hearing the call of the Lord Jesus in the direction of Community. It is finally real.
We Are the Gate Together. We can live as scattered individuals inside the Holiest, and connected only through the Spirit, most certainly – and always and forever. BUT – there is no such thing as stepping forth as the Veil, the very flesh of the appearance of Father except we do it together. The witness of Christ is the Church.
We are the Veil together; we are the Door together; and we are the Gate together. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them (Matthew 18:20). And IN Jesus is Father IN us and Jesus IN us IN Father.
It is not good for man or God to be alone.
His Same Kind. Let’s follow that thought just a bit further before coming back to creation set free. Look at God’s clear declaration of intent, right from the beginning, before any sin had marred anything. It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him (Genesis 2:18).
Here is what God really means by these words. It is not good that Jesus, the Word made flesh, should be alone; I will make Him a Church of His same Kind (Romans 8:29). A fully successful Christian Church as all the fulness of Jesus expressed through her right now in this age, right here on this earth – God’s set-forth Purpose.
Rivers of Spirit. What is happening as we, now incorruptible and immortal, look at all creation through Father’s eyes? Rivers of living water are flowing out of us – as they always have been, yes, but now people are noticing – big time. Rivers of Spirit flowing out from us together.
Now, as these Rivers flow out from us, they impact heaven and earth at the same time. Earth cannot be healed except healing comes to heaven. Heaven cannot be healed except healing comes to earth, for they are one thing.. Yet all healing does not come to all instantaneously, for God does not force His knowledge on anyone. Rather, this impact of healing goes from day to day, from glory to glory.
Hades Will Not Endure. Why is it that no Hades could possibly endure forever? Because we will not allow it.
In every specific instance, we will say, together and with Father, Here am I, send me. – And the gates of Hades will not keep us out. And we will knock on the door of every encasement of Gehenna until each one cracks it open, just a little bit. And then we will love those who are suffering in the torment of their own false story of self-accusation, just as Jesus loves us, until they pause, just long enough, for Father to make Himself known to them as He is.
Hell will not endure because we choose against it. Hell is passing away, as God so clearly states.
The Covenant Terms. But that is Kingdom; here we want to know Covenant. What are the Covenant terms regarding our view towards all creation as we are immortal, the visible appearance of Father? And remember, “WE” means family in all that family could possibly mean inside of purity and goodness.
That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus – And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all (Ephesians 1:7 & 22-23). – In whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit (Ephesians 2:22).
By the Church. The fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God (full Symmorphy) might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. – To Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen (Ephesians 3:9-11 & 21).
We have proven out that “glory in the Church” means life laid-down and love-poured out, sharing Heart with God, Father’s Heart revealed as our own hearts. Then the primary verses from Romans 8 and 1 Corinthians 15, as well as the clear statement of Covenant..
God All in All. …The glory which shall be revealed in us. – Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Romans 8:18 & 21). – For all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them (Hebrews 8:11). – Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all (1 Corinthians 15:28).
These are twelve specific verses, all from Paul and Hebrews. Go back and read through them again, “imagining” yourself to be incorruptible and immortal, utterly as one with Father and with each other as the family of God. And remember that Paul’s gospel RULES – absolutely – over all other things found in the Bible.
The Entire Cosmos. And in reading through these verses of Covenant, we are not considering anything behind us in the setting forth of our path into God and God’s path out through us before this moment of being the Gate, Father made visible. Now, we look at all creation, the entire cosmos, entirely by Covenant.
In this moment, God has everything He entered into Covenant with us to obtain for Himself – a Body, His outward appearance, God seen and known by all. In this moment, we together have everything we entered into Covenant with God to obtain for ourselves – Life – sharing Hheart with God.
Be Reconciled to God. And here is what we see, the only thing we see, by Covenant. Behold, I make all things new (Revelation 21:5). – Behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has …given us the ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:17-18).
And because we have rescued every one of these verses from the false skeleton of Nicene Christianity, we know exactly what they mean by their place in God’s wondrous order.
And has committed to us the word of reconciliation – Be reconciled to God (2 Corinthians 5:19-20 – reduced). This is our ministry, Christ in our mouth, towards all creation, one member at a time – Be reconciled to God.