“After these things I looked, and this is what I saw: a vast multitude which no one could count, [gathered] from every nation and from all the tribes and peoples and languages [of the earth], standing before the throne and before the Lamb (Christ), dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands;”
Heaven is intensely belonging together in Christ.
Standing alone becomes unbearable to us. Not being together brings grief to all as community and oneness is key.
Hell is being disconnected.
We will not survive the next season if we are not together as one. It is what as the body we are called to be with Christ as the head.
It may cost us to embrace others into our lives and bless them. It is necessary to change the assumptions that it is ‘I’ to that of ‘our, us, we,’
Individualism is a far cry from what God wants His people to be. God can meet all our needs in any given time but not as disconnected. We have to care and relate to one another as human beings and equals.
God is and always has been in communion and community right from His creation in Genesis.
“Then God said, “Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth.” So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
We all carry part of who God is. We cannot be emotionally removed from our brothers and sisters. We are United in His kingdom.
“Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true [supreme and sovereign] God, and [in the same manner know] Jesus [as the] Christ whom You have sent.”
“They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.”
Our proximity to Christ demands emotional relationship with each other as we are one in Him.
If we cannot host each other whatever the cost we cannot host Christ. God’s heart is abundantly generous.
Our responsibility is not just for ourselves but for all we are connected within expanding like ripples on the water to nations.
Not just for now but for future generations too.
It is not ok now to lack wisdom or understanding or remain in waiting for others to fulfil responsibilities. It is corporately securing strategies of warfare for a common good.
The illustration shows multitudes from every tribe and nation before the throne dressed in white and waving palms. Emanating light that pushes back the darkness.
Four Scriptures that come to mind:
“After these things I looked, and this is what I saw: a vast multitude which no one could count, [gathered] from every nation and from all the tribes and peoples and languages [of the earth], standing before the throne and before the Lamb (Christ), dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands;” Revelation 7:9 AMP
“Then God said, “Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth.” So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:26-27 AMP
“Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true [supreme and sovereign] God, and [in the same manner know] Jesus [as the] Christ whom You have sent.” John 17:3 AMP
“They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.” John 17:16 AMP
The song Praise The King. Corey Voss
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