These are the true words of God.
"Then the angel said to me,"Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!" And he added, "These are the true words of God,"
At this I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, 'Don't do that I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For it is the Spirit of prophecy who bears testimony to Jesus."(Rev.19:9-10)
The Lord, the Word, came in human form and died on the cross for those who would go to eternal lakes of fire through death in Adam, so He raised them up and came into him as the Spirit of truth. Another Comforter is the Holy Spirit. When this truth comes to 1 John, it becomes true. It means that the Word becomes reality, or embodied, because it is permeated by the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
That is why it is said that the Son's words permeate into us. If it is not the Spirit of truth, the words of the bible are just lessons that require legal acts. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, the Spirit of truth. When the Spirit of truth comes, you will not reign with Jesus, but reign with Christ for a thousand years (Rev.20:4). You will be united with Christ, the head.
Those who died in Adam participated in the first resurrection to be raised again. (Rev.20:6) If there is only the resurrection of Jesus and there is no resurrection of himself by the Spirit of truth, it cannot be approach into the heaven. Resurrection means to stand straight toward the heaven.
Why do people not see straightly to the throne of heaven as one united with God through Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life? In the time of Kronos, do you just say that when your body dies, you will go to God, and are you just comforting yourself? It is because you did not receive the Spirit of truth, the testimony of Jesus. If the truth is not in him, how can we participate in the wedding feast of union with Christ? The Spirit of truth keeps the commandment to become one with Christ, the Word, so that Christ may be revealed in him (John 14:21).
To become one with Jesus Christ is to become one with the Word. Notice and follow the Lord's call as the shepherd in John 10. If you follow his death and resurrection, He gives you eternal life, and no one can snatch you out of His hand (John 10:28). Those who received the word of God (kinomai), those who became the word, are called gods (John 10:35).
How many people understand this saying like a cicada can't hear a cannon? Because they do not know this mystery, they have misinterpreted it, saying that it is the true word of God. No, those who are invited to the wedding of the Lamb are the word of God. When we become united with the Lord in the Spirit of truth and become one, the Lord becomes the second incarnation just as the Word become flesh (John 1:14).
Since the bride of the Lord has become one body and one spirit with the Lord, it is also united with the Word of the Lord, which is spirit and life. The problem is the liars who insist that the resurrection will also hapoen after death, and that Christ, one bread, one body, and one spirit will also happen after death. That is why the Lord laments that there are no people who have the Lord as their head.
If the tabernacle of Moses, Solomon's temple, and then our bodies are temples, it is very natural for God to be with us. As the Holy Spirit makes us one with Christ, we become Christos, plural. Just as the head and body are not separate, if the head is the Word, then the body is also the word. The time when the Holy Spirit works indwelling is the time when Christ becomes the living water, the time when the Word is embodied and becomes true to the children of God's glory through the truth, the time of Kairos.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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