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The Light of the Kingdom of Heaven

     God’s great lights which rule over the day and night (light and darkness)
     in the natural realm, gives us insight into the Spirit world for wisdom
     and understanding. 

    1 Corinthians 15:46  AMP
    But it is not the spiritual life which came first,
    but the physical and then the spiritual


    First the natural and then the spiritual:
   
God is Spirit.  God’s Divine, Spiritual, Unbegotten and Begotten Light
    rules over the Spiritual and Physical worlds of Light and Darkness. 

    In the scriptures, the Lord God of Heaven and Earth clarifies His mysteries
    in the Stature of the Lord Jesus Christ
because all of God’s Word
    is a revelation of His Son, the Savior of the World.

    Ephesian 4:13 (AMP)
    13 until we all reach oneness in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God,
    [growing spiritually] to become a mature believer, reaching to the measure
    of the fullness of Christ [manifesting His spiritual completeness and exercising
    our spiritual gifts in unity].

 
   
[Note: Both the Old Testament and the New Testament reveal the designed
     destiny for mankind.
The Tabernacle of Moses and the Advent of Jesus Christ
     displays 
the pattern of the Cross as God's plan for man.] 

     Exodus 25:9 (AMP)
     9 You shall construct it in accordance with everything that I am going to show you,
     as the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furniture.

    Luke 9:23 (AMP)

    And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to follow Me [as My disciple],
    he must deny himself
[set aside selfish interests], and take up his cross daily
    [expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come] and follow Me [believing
    in Me,conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps
    dying because of faith in Me].


    Searching God’s Word under the guidance and anointing of Holy Ghost causes growth
    in the Wisdom, Understanding and Knowledge of God’s great Principles and Mysteries
    of both Light and Darkness. In our searching, we find God’s Divine Purpose and Will.

    Romans 12:2 (AMP)
    2 And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values
    and customs], but be [a]transformed and progressively changed [as you mature
    spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical
    attitudes], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which
    is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you].


    There is a darkness which is separated from, yet, covers God's Light
    and it accomplishes the will and ways of God for which He purposes it.
   
The plague of darkness was God's most all embracing witness of all the witnesses
    given to Pharaoh and the Egyptians. 
    The darkness effected each person, in every way... spirit, soul and body.  

    [Note: Darkness is referenced 159 times in the Bible.]
   
    Exodus 10:21-23 (AMP) Darkness over the Land
    21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that darkness
    may come over the land of Egypt, a darkness which [is so awful that it] may be felt.”
    22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and for three days a thick darkness
    was all over the land of Egypt [no sun, no moon, no stars]. 23 The Egyptians could not
    see one another, nor did anyone leave his place for three days, but all the Israelites
    had [supernatural] light in their dwellings.


     Isaiah 45:6-7 (AMP)
    6 That people may know from the rising to the setting of the sun [the world over]
    That there is no one except Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other,
    7 The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing peace and creating disaster;
    I am the Lord who does all these things.
     
    [Note: Isaiah does not express that the darkness is of satanic manifestation.]

     James 1:17 (AMP)
    God is a Good God and there is no darkness found in Him.


    The Earth's Physical Calamity proceeds from the laws of God out of His design
    of the heavens and the earth in the creation.

    See also: Deuteronomy 28:15-45; 2 Peter 2:1-15   https://www.biblegateway.com
 
 
    All universal Laws were created by God. 
    Earthquakes, fire, wind, rain, flood
are regulated by the dynamics of universal
    physical laws of observable order.
 

   
God’s Design and Purpose for each Christian’s life is spiritual growth
    unto the measure of the Stature of the Fullness of Christ. 

    Ephesians. 4:13 (AMP)
    13 until we all reach oneness in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God,
    [growing spiritually] to become a mature believer, reaching to the measure
    of the fullness of Christ [manifesting His spiritual completeness and exercising
    our spiritual gifts in unity].

 
     Jesus is the Light!
     His Headship and His Body is His Light in the earth..
     The Light of Jesus Christ comes to fulfill all things by the Holy Spirit.

     He wants to fulfill Greater Things in us!

    All forms of Light have their origin in the “Father of Lights.”
    Spiritual Zion is the "Divine City of Lights Community"...
    The New Jerusalem! 
   
Revelation 21:23  Amplified Version Holy Bible
    And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon to give light to it,
    for the splendor and radiance (glory) of God illuminate it,
    and the Lamb is its lamp.


     John, the Beloved, had a 3rd heaven experience.  In the spirit he saw a vision
     of the heavenly city in which God would dwell.... The Church, The Bride of Christ.

     Revelation 21:2  (KJV)
     And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God
     out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.


     *New Jerusalem is a spiritual city!

    God is Spirit... 
    God's Eternal City of Lights!  His Eternal Community is a spiritual community! 
    Heaven has come to earth by the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. 

    God abides in the City of Spiritually Born Again Believers... the Church...
    The Bride of Christ.. Christ's Body!

    Hebrews 12:22-23 AMP
    But rather, you have come to Mount Zion, even to the city of the living God,
    the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless multitudes of angels in festal gathering,
 
    And to the church (assembly) of the Firstborn who are registered [as citizens]
    in heaven, and to the God Who is Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous
    (the redeemed in heaven) who have been made perfect,


    *Forms of Light
     In the “physical heavens” realm, there are three forms of Light:
     • The light of the sun…
     • The light of the moon…
     • The light of the stars

     In the “physical soul” realm, there are four forms of Light:
     • The light of reason
     • The light of conscience
     • The light of learning
     • The light of understanding

     In the “spiritual” realm of Light, there are three forms of Light:
     • The Light of Revelation  (Truth)
     • The Light of Faith  (Life)
     • The Light of Wisdom and Knowledge  (Spirit)

     God, El-o-Heem, is the plural name of the infinite, incomprehensible, and
     Eternal Being, the Creator of all things: 
     God, The Blessed Holy Trinity; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
 
     El-o Heem preserves , governs, and guides everything by Almighty Power
     and Divine Wisdom.

    [Note: The God revealed in the Hebrew bible is an integration of several different
    cultural traditions in the ancient Middle East. As the tribes of Israel established
    themselves as a distinct culture among the peoples of Canaan, differing images
    of God were eventually integrated into the oral and written traditions that shaped
    the Old Testament.

    The Hebrew texts often refer to God by the Canaanite term Elohim (el-o-HEEM).
    It is based on the ancient Semitic root ‘el’ (ale) meaning ‘strong one.’
    This word was often used as a generic term for a god since the rise of civilization in
     Mesopotamia. It was also the proper name of the Canaanite high god El, the father
    of humanity and all creatures. He was the father of all the other gods (elohim)
    in the Canaanite pantheon and was the husband of Asherah, the mother goddess.
    In our English Bibles, both El and Elohim are translated as ‘God.’ (It is interesting
    to note that Jesus would have used the related Aramaic term alaha (ahl-ah-HAH)
    to speak of God. The Arabic Allah derives from the same Semitic root.)

    As the cultures mixed in the land of Canaan, the Hebrew people overlaid the Sinai
    tradition of a tribal god named Yahweh onto the established tradition of El, forming
    a creative combination of a deity who was not only a god of deliverance from slavery
    but was also the creator of the universe. As the stories of the two cultures merged,
    the different terms for God became somewhat interchangeable and are found throughout
    the Hebrew Bible.

    In Hebrew, the name Yahweh is spelled with consonants alone (reading from right to left)
    as יהוה (yod-hey-vav-hey). In English, it is rendered (from left to right) as YHWH.
    Because the name has only consonants in Hebrew and no vowels, the exact pronunciation
    is unsure. Today, it is commonly pronounced as Yahweh (YAH-way), although in prior
    centuries Jehovah was the more common usage because German scholars transliterated
    the Hebrew as JHVH. (In German, J sounds like Y and V sounds like W.)
    The origin and meaning of the name is disputed, but it may be associated with the Hebrew
     verb hayah, “to be.” Some scholars believe it is a shortened form of a word that means
    “he causes to be” or “he creates.”
     https://followingjesus.org/how-yahweh-met-elohim-and-created-the-world/


    *God is infinite, immutable Truth.
 

    God is the center and heart of all creation; as such we are to seek the Kingdom of God
    and His Righteousness
and all these things shall be given to us.
  
    Light brings prosperity into our lives in every facet of life!

 
Image: Thru the Eyes of Wisdom
(Rev. 5:6)
     Out of His marvelous Light of Truth comes Wisdom and Knowledge and Understanding!

     Exodus 31:3 (AMP)
     3 I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and skill, in understanding
     and intelligence, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship,


    Godly wisdom comes from the Word and the Spirit.
     God gives wisdom to enable mankind to judge what are the best ends
     and the best means for attaining them based upon His Governmental Law of Light.

    Consider these scriptures as God's wisdom being transferred to us by the
    Voice of the Holy Spirit... God's Person in the earth declaring the Prophetic Word!

   *The Prophetic Voice of the Holy Spirit—
   Awakening the Church to Light, Life, and Divine Purpose

    Consider these Scriptures as the wisdom of God being transferred into us
    by the Voice of the Holy Spirit—God’s living Presence within the earth, declaring
    and illuminating the Prophetic Word!

    These passages reveal one glorious movement of the Holy Spirit: God calls us out
    of conformity, awakens us from spiritual sleep, renews the spirit of our minds, clothes us
    with the nature of Christ, and joins us together as His living and functioning Body.

    Romans 12:2 (AMP)
    “Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted
     to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire]
    renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove
    [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing
    which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].”

    Ephesians 5:8–14 (AMP)
    “For once you were darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children
    of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light]. For the fruit (the effect,
    the product) of the Light or the Spirit [consists] in every form of kindly goodness,
    uprightness of heart, and trueness of life. And try to learn [in your experience]
    what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable
    to Him]. Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises
    of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] expose and reprove
    and convict them. For it is a shame even to speak of or mention the things that
    [such people] practice in secret. But when anything is exposed and reproved by the light,
    it is made visible and clear; and where everything is visible and clear there is light.
    Therefore He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine
    (make day dawn) upon you and give you light.”

    Ephesians 4:15–16 (AMP)
    “Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth [in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly,
    living truly]. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him
    Who is the Head, [even] Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). For because of Him
    the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together
    by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part [with power adapted
    to its need] is working properly [in all its functions], grows to full maturity, building itself
    up in love.”

    Ephesians 4:17–21 (AMP)
    “So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence],
    that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness
    [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds.
    Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded.
    [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it;
    this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful
    blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the
     insensitiveness of their moral nature]. In their spiritual apathy they have become
    callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves [a prey]
    to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity
    [that their depraved desires may suggest and demand]. But you did not so learn Christ!
    Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as [all] Truth
    is in Jesus [embodied and personified in Him].”

    Ephesians 4:22–24 (AMP)
    “Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self]
    which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts
    and desires that spring from delusion; and be constantly renewed in the spirit of your
    mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], and put on the new nature
    (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, [Godlike] in true righteousness and holiness.”

    Transformation begins within! The world endeavors to shape life from the outside
    through its customs, pressures, fears, and shifting values. God works from the inside
    through His indwelling Spirit. He does not merely give us better information; He renews
    our understanding until we begin to recognize His will, perceive His purpose,
    and respond to life with the mind and character of Christ.

    This inward renewal produces an outward radiance. We were once darkness,
    but now we are Light in the Lord! We have not merely been brought near to the Light—
    we have become children native-born to the Light. Christ, the Daystar, has arisen
    within our hearts. His Light produces goodness, righteousness, sincerity, spiritual
    discernment, and lives that visibly demonstrate what is pleasing to the Lord.

    The command, “Awake, O sleeper,” is therefore more than a call to become conscious
    of surrounding darkness. It is the Voice of the Holy Spirit summoning the Church
    to arise into her God-given identity. Christ shines upon us so that He may also shine
    through us. His Light exposes darkness, but it does more than expose—it reveals
    the pathway into truth, restoration, freedom, and life.

    This transformation is never intended to remain an isolated, private experience.
    The renewed believer is joined to a renewed people. Christ is the Head, and every
    believer is a divinely supplied member of His Body. Each person has been given grace,
    ability, responsibility, and a place of service. As every part responds to Christ
    and functions properly, the whole Body grows toward spiritual maturity and builds
    itself up in love.

    God wants us to work properly in all the functions of the Gospel.
    This work is not produced merely by human organization; it proceeds from living
    union with Christ. We speak the truth in love, deal truthfully, live truthfully, and grow
    together into the spiritual stature of the One who is our Head. Love becomes
    the atmosphere in which truth is expressed, gifts are exercised, relationships
    are strengthened, and Kingdom purpose is fulfilled.

   The same Light that renews the individual also sends the Church into her field
    of responsibility. When we observe the spiritual pattern of Jesus sending His forerunners,
    we understand that every believer has a place in the advancing work of His Kingdom.
    We bear responsibility for the local work, the regional work, the national work, and the
    international work of the Church. These are not separate ambitions; they are widening
    circles of one divine mission!

    The local work gives the believer a place to serve faithfully.
    The regional work joins congregations and ministries in shared purpose.
    The national work carries the testimony of Christ into the life and conscience of a people.
    The international work reveals that the Gospel recognizes no human boundary, because
    Jesus Christ is Lord over every tribe, language, people, and nation.

    What delight there is in this revelation!
    We are not struggling to create light from within ourselves.
    Christ is already shining!
    We are not attempting to manufacture a new identity.
    The new nature has already been created in the image of God!
    We are not disconnected individuals searching for significance.
    We are living members of the Body of Christ,  joined together and supplied by Him!

    *The Voice of the Holy Spirit is therefore calling:

    Awake from spiritual sleep.
    Arise from the limitations of the former life.
    Receive continual renewal in the spirit of your mind.
    Walk as a child native-born to the Light.
    Lovingly express the Truth embodied in Jesus.
    Take your place within the functioning Body of Christ.
    Carry His Light from the local field into the nations.

    *Native-Born to the Light

    Ephesians 4:23–24 (AMP)
    “And be continually renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh, untarnished
    mental and spiritual attitude], and put on the new self [the regenerated and renewed
    nature], created in God’s image, [godlike] in the righteousness and holiness of the truth
    [living in a way that expresses to God your gratitude for your salvation].”

    To receive continual renewal in the spirit of the mind is to allow the living Presence
    of Christ to transform the inward atmosphere from which our thoughts, attitudes,
    words, and decisions arise. This renewal is not a single emotional experience,
    nor is it merely the accumulation of biblical information. It is the ongoing work
    of Holy Spirit, cleansing the mind of former patterns and bringing the believer’s
    understanding into harmony with the mind of Christ.

   The renewed mind no longer receives its identity from yesterday’s failures,
    earthly limitations, wounded memories, or the confusion of the world.
    It receives its understanding from the indwelling Christ. The Holy Spirit continually
    lifts the believer’s thoughts out of darkness, fear, condemnation, and spiritual dullness
    and brings them into the clarity of divine truth. Renewal therefore becomes the daily
    unveiling of the new creation already established within us through our Union with Christ.

    Romans 12:2 (AMP)
    “And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values
    and customs], but be transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually]
    by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes],
    so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good
    and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you].”

   The renewed mind learns to see from the position of redemption rather than from
    the perspective of defeat. It perceives circumstances through the faithfulness of God,
    interprets adversity through the victory of Christ, and responds to people through
    the love of the Father. As the mind is continually renewed, the believer becomes
    increasingly conscious of who Christ is, what He has accomplished, and who
    we have become in Him.

    This is not the renovation of the old nature; it is the expression of the new nature.
    God is not merely improving the person we were—He is revealing the person created
    in Christ Jesus. Continual renewal removes everything that obscures that reality,
    allowing the character, wisdom, peace, and righteousness of Christ to become visible
    through our lives.

    Ephesians 5:8–10 (AMP)
    “For once you were darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children
    of Light [live as those who are native-born to the Light] (for the fruit [the effect,
    the result] of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying
    to learn [by experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [and letting your lifestyles
    be examples of what is most acceptable to Him—your behavior expressing gratitude
    to God for your salvation].”

    To be native-born to the Light means that Light is now the believer’s spiritual homeland.
    We were not merely invited to visit the Light occasionally; through the new birth,
    we were born into it. Light is the realm of our new citizenship, the environment of our
    spiritual life, and the nature of the Christ who dwells within us.

    A person who is native-born to a country naturally learns its language, customs, values,
    and manner of life. In the same way, those born of God are learning the language of faith,
    the customs of love, the values of the Kingdom, and the ways of righteousness.
    We are being taught by the Holy Spirit to live naturally in the spiritual environment
    into which grace has brought us.

    Colossians 1:13 (AMP)
    “For He has rescued us and has drawn us to Himself from the dominion of darkness,
    and has transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.”

    The believer does not stand between two kingdoms, uncertain of where he belongs.
    God has already delivered us from the authority of darkness and transferred us
    into the Kingdom of His beloved Son. Darkness may attempt to influence our thinking,
    but it no longer possesses the covenantal right to define us.
    We belong to the Kingdom of Light!

    Jesus Christ is not merely the One who points toward the Light—He is the Light.
    Therefore, to walk in the Light is to walk in conscious fellowship and living union
    with Him. His truth illuminates our understanding. His life supplies our strength.
    His Spirit directs our steps. His love becomes the atmosphere in which we relate
    to others.

    John 8:12 (AMP)
    “Once more Jesus addressed the crowd. He said, ‘I am the Light of the world.
    He who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.’”

    The Light of Christ is the Light of Life. It does more than expose what is wrong;
    it imparts the life by which righteousness can be lived. Divine Light reveals, heals,
    restores, directs, and transforms. It brings hidden things into truth—not to destroy
    the believer with condemnation, but to liberate the believer through grace.

    Walking as a child native-born to the Light means living openly before God,
    without disguise, pretense, or fear. It means allowing His truth to penetrate
    every inward chamber and His love to govern every outward expression.
    Where the Light reigns, deception loses its hiding place, bitterness loses
    its justification, and fear loses its authority.

    The fruit of this Light is goodness, righteousness, and truth. Goodness reveals
    the generous heart of God. Righteousness expresses His divine order.
    Truth manifests the reality of Christ without hypocrisy or distortion.
    These qualities are not religious decorations placed upon the believer from the outside;
    they are the inward fruit of the Light growing and becoming visible.

    2 Corinthians 4:6 (AMP)
    “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ is the One who has shone
    in our hearts to give us the Light of the knowledge of the glory and majesty of God
    [clearly revealed] in the face of Christ.”

    The same God who commanded light to shine at creation has spoken His Light
    into our hearts! We are therefore children of a new creation. The Light within us
    is not borrowed from the world, produced by human intelligence, or extinguished
    by adverse circumstances. It proceeds from the glory of God revealed in Jesus Christ.

    Receive, therefore, continual renewal in the spirit of your mind. Let the Holy Spirit
    refresh your vision, cleanse your thoughts, and restore your consciousness of Christ’s
    indwelling Presence. Refuse to interpret your life through the shadows of what you once
    were. You have been born from above, transferred into the Kingdom of the Son,
    and made a dwelling place for the Light of God.

    Walk as one who belongs in the Light—as one born of the Light, taught by the Light,
    sustained by the Light, and sent forth to reveal the Light. Let the Light of Truth
    govern your mind, the Light of Life animate your being, and the Light of Holy Spirit
    shine through your daily conduct.

    You are not struggling to find your way into the Light. In Christ, you have been brought
    into it. The Light is now your homeland, your inheritance, and your abiding spiritual
    atmosphere. Therefore, arise each day with a renewed mind and walk confidently
    as a beloved child—native-born to the Light!

    This is the joyful progression of Kingdom life: renewed minds, transformed lives,
    awakened hearts, functioning members, a maturing Church, and the Light of Jesus Christ
    advancing through His people!

    The Daystar has risen within our hearts, and a new day has dawned—
    not merely around us, but within us!!

     Acts 1:8 (AMP)
     8 But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit
    has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea
    and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.

 

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