Christ on the Father`s Throne.
When the Lord ascended to glory after His resurrection, He went to the Father`s throne. This is above the created order.
`when he (Christ) had purged our sins,
sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,...`
(Heb. 1: 3)
There He sat at the Father`s right hand building His Body of believers till it was time to move to His own throne. He has promised that these overcomers will be with Him on His own Throne.
`To him who overcomes
I will grant to sit with me on my throne,
as I also overcame
and sat down with my Father on His throne.`
(Rev. 3: 21)
Christ comes for the Overcomers.
In the Father`s timing, the Lord Jesus Christ will leave the Father`s throne and come for the Overcomers, His Body. He will descend from heaven to the air and draw His people to Himself.
`For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of an archangel, and the trumpet of God.
The dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.`
(1 Thess. 4: 16 & 17)
Those `caught up` will be changed: corruption will put on incorruption and mortal will put on immortality. Then together the Lord and the Overcomers go through the atmospheric heaven, (1) and then the universal heavens, (2) till finally they come to the angelic realm, (the third heaven).
`After these things I looked, a door standing open in heaven.
And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying,
“Come up here,
and I will show you things which must take place after this.”
(Rev. 4: 1)
(Note: John is representative of the Body of Christ there.)
What an invitation!
What do we see?
When the Lord ascended to glory after His resurrection, He went to the Father`s throne. This is above the created order.
`when he (Christ) had purged our sins,
sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,...`
(Heb. 1: 3)
There He sat at the Father`s right hand building His Body of believers till it was time to move to His own throne. He has promised that these overcomers will be with Him on His own Throne.
`To him who overcomes
I will grant to sit with me on my throne,
as I also overcame
and sat down with my Father on His throne.`
(Rev. 3: 21)
Christ comes for the Overcomers.
In the Father`s timing, the Lord Jesus Christ will leave the Father`s throne and come for the Overcomers, His Body. He will descend from heaven to the air and draw His people to Himself.
`For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,
with the voice of an archangel, and the trumpet of God.
The dead in Christ will rise first.
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.`
(1 Thess. 4: 16 & 17)
Those `caught up` will be changed: corruption will put on incorruption and mortal will put on immortality. Then together the Lord and the Overcomers go through the atmospheric heaven, (1) and then the universal heavens, (2) till finally they come to the angelic realm, (the third heaven).
`After these things I looked, a door standing open in heaven.
And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying,
“Come up here,
and I will show you things which must take place after this.”
(Rev. 4: 1)
(Note: John is representative of the Body of Christ there.)
What an invitation!
What do we see?
