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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Inner Kingdom, #6
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. (John 14:21)
There are two comings of the Lord in the last days. One coming of the Lord Jesus is to the dedicated saint (John 14:21). It is the appearing of Christ in the saint.
There is no scriptural support, in either the Old Testament or the New Testament, for a "secret rapture" as currently taught. But there are Old Testament types and New Testament direct teaching that speak of the appearing of Christ to the faithful saint in an inner, spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles.
The manifestation of Christ to the saint but not to the world is taught clearly in the fourteenth chapter of the Book of John, is portrayed in the Levitical feast of Tabernacles, and is spoken of by the Hebrew Prophets (Malachi 3:1).
The other coming is that of Christ, and His saints in whom He is dwelling, in visible glory to the nations of the earth. In that Day every eye will behold Him. Then the world will know that the Father has sent Christ and that the Father loves the saints as He loves Christ.
The nations will behold Christ, and God in Him, in the saints.
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. (II Thessalonians 1:10)
The saint to whom Christ is revealing Himself from within is being filled with the fullness of the love of God. He is being drawn upward with increasing strength, although sometimes he feels weak and helpless and that God is far from him. The Christian discipleship still is a battle against the forces of darkness and death. God still is testing him and stretching him so he can attain the fullness of his inheritance.
But the Day Star is rising in his heart and the Day of the Lord is dawning for him.
The entering of Christ and the Father into the believer is a powerful, eternal experience. It grows increasingly powerful as the saint learns to live by Christ as Christ lives by the Father. The Spirit of God is his life and comfort. The Word of God becomes his necessary food. The pull of Heaven on him becomes stronger than the attractions of the world.
How wonderful it is that God offers such revelation and power during the period that Christians are being tempted and oppressed by the supreme efforts of Hell, by the most insidious and perverse devices that fallen angels are able to manufacture! Darkness abounds but God's grace increasingly abounds during the Laodicean period.
Soon it will be impossible for most people, even many believers in Christ, to resist temptation—particularly physical lust. Lawlessness will be the normal environment. In that hour only those who are filled with the Spirit of Christ will be able to serve the Lord with a pure heart. Those who are holy will remain holy. Those who are filthy will remain filthy. The way of the Lord shall be made straight.
To be continued.